Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2368 CWSA 01⧸29⧸24

00:00:00.000 Good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of human civilization.

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00:00:54.600 So good.

00:00:58.940 What is today's date?

00:01:00.580 Everybody's telling me I put the wrong date on my comic today.

00:01:03.560 But I think I got it right on the second try.

00:01:06.760 People don't believe me when I say I have a...

00:01:12.040 Oh, Monday the 29th.

00:01:15.300 Yeah, I got the wrong date on the calendar again.

00:01:18.240 Did I?

00:01:20.500 No, I thought I got it right.

00:01:21.720 All right, anyway.

00:01:22.240 We got a show to do.

00:01:25.300 Does anybody have this situation now that's already starting with me?

00:01:29.340 I'll be doing something that I always have to do,

00:01:32.600 such as posting my comic in the morning.

00:01:35.520 By the way, if you didn't know, Dilbert never stopped.

00:01:38.880 It's just behind the locals' paywall and also on X.

00:01:42.920 You can subscribe to it there.

00:01:44.780 It's here every day.

00:01:45.460 It's very naughty.

00:01:46.240 Today's especially naughty.

00:01:48.200 By the way, if you didn't get today's Dilbert and it didn't make sense,

00:01:51.560 think naughtier.

00:01:54.320 If you put your mind in a really naughty space, the comic will make sense.

00:01:59.660 That's your tip for the day.

00:02:02.080 All right.

00:02:02.420 If you think the future involves AI doing everything for you,

00:02:09.520 I feel like there's going to be a separation.

00:02:14.320 The dumb people in society are going to do whatever the AI tells them

00:02:18.540 because the AI is smarter than them.

00:02:21.080 So I believe there will be a point where the AI actually tells their owner how to vote.

00:02:25.640 Like, actually, literally.

00:02:28.860 I think there will be a point where people below a certain level of,

00:02:32.860 I'm going to say intelligence,

00:02:34.720 or at least below a certain level of paying attention to the world,

00:02:38.200 they're going to wait until election day,

00:02:39.900 and they're going to ask their robot what they should vote for.

00:02:42.020 And the robot will say, you know, well, knowing you

00:02:45.200 and all the things that you want to accomplish in life

00:02:48.360 and knowing the candidates, I think you should vote for this one.

00:02:52.140 And then the people below that level of intelligence,

00:02:55.060 or just paying attention,

00:02:57.800 are just going to go with the robots.

00:03:00.000 But there's going to be a separation.

00:03:01.680 There will be another group of people,

00:03:03.600 and I hope I'm in it,

00:03:05.480 but I don't know for sure,

00:03:06.560 in which we will be working with the AI and the robots

00:03:11.240 in some kind of a collaborative situation.

00:03:15.540 So, for example,

00:03:17.120 I've wanted to upgrade the quality of my videos,

00:03:22.480 specifically making clips.

00:03:24.720 And I wanted to, you know, add captions and stuff like that.

00:03:27.900 And so I did some research,

00:03:29.400 and I said, what AI will do all these things I want to do

00:03:31.840 to fix up my videos,

00:03:33.980 you know, to get rid of imperfections

00:03:35.560 and improve the sound and add some captions

00:03:38.480 and, you know, find the good parts

00:03:41.440 and add some timestamps.

00:03:42.680 There's a whole bunch of stuff you want to do.

00:03:44.820 Turns out there is no such thing

00:03:46.680 as one app that does all those things.

00:03:49.340 So you end up doing something like research.

00:03:52.540 So, for example,

00:03:53.960 if I want to add timestamps

00:03:56.540 to my video I'm making right now,

00:03:59.240 I can only do it with YouTube

00:04:03.740 because it knows to find the transcript,

00:04:06.660 and then there's an app called Instant Chapters,

00:04:09.620 but it only works after YouTube generates the transcript,

00:04:13.400 which doesn't happen for several hours,

00:04:15.720 but it could be delayed,

00:04:16.940 it could be, you know, many more hours.

00:04:19.140 So you have this situation

00:04:20.520 where AI can't close the gap

00:04:23.560 between what you want to do

00:04:25.720 and what it can do.

00:04:27.520 So you still need a human being to figure out

00:04:29.940 it's going to take,

00:04:31.120 I think in my case,

00:04:32.140 maybe six different AI apps

00:04:34.120 to just make a clip.

00:04:36.860 Now, it would work really well

00:04:39.400 because the apps are excellent,

00:04:43.320 but take a look at the app created by Descript.

00:04:48.160 So it's going around today.

00:04:49.880 It's kind of viral.

00:04:50.440 So my clip that got taken out of my larger show

00:04:53.800 the other day in which I,

00:04:55.980 yes, I already did the simultaneous sip.

00:04:58.260 Can you shut up about it?

00:05:01.280 If you missed the sip,

00:05:02.620 it's just because you're late.

00:05:04.440 Okay?

00:05:05.440 You could all stop talking about it.

00:05:08.420 All right.

00:05:10.500 Anyway, so there's an app called Descript

00:05:12.580 that added the captions.

00:05:14.300 Take a look at it on my video clip

00:05:16.540 in which I'm saying that Vivek

00:05:19.160 is the obvious choice

00:05:20.120 for vice president for Trump.

00:05:22.860 And you'll like the,

00:05:24.880 you might like the video itself.

00:05:26.280 It looks like it's going slightly viral.

00:05:28.740 People seem to like it a lot.

00:05:30.580 But look at the technology.

00:05:32.420 Just look at how the captions are added

00:05:34.220 and you can see that, you know,

00:05:36.200 nobody's going to do it without AI in the future.

00:05:39.460 All right.

00:05:40.360 Here's the least surprising thing in the world.

00:05:43.360 Can you believe it?

00:05:44.220 That Taylor Swift's boyfriend's team

00:05:47.380 is going to get to the Super Bowl?

00:05:50.100 Huh.

00:05:51.080 Nobody saw that coming.

00:05:53.060 Taylor Swift, the person that everybody thinks

00:05:56.200 might be part of some giant Democrat influence campaign

00:06:00.860 because she's so popular

00:06:02.400 and now she likes the Chiefs

00:06:04.540 and she's very, very Democrat at the moment.

00:06:09.840 How many of you think that that game was fixed?

00:06:14.220 Meaning that there was something going on

00:06:16.680 that's bigger than football

00:06:17.900 that needs Taylor Swift to be part of the Super Bowl

00:06:22.200 because we're already hearing that Joe Biden

00:06:24.720 wants to use a Taylor Swift strategy

00:06:27.880 to get her to endorse him,

00:06:30.780 maybe at the Super Bowl or something crazy.

00:06:33.080 and none of it feels real, does it?

00:06:38.480 But everything else in the world is so fake

00:06:41.180 and so rigged

00:06:42.040 that even something like football,

00:06:45.440 which I've always assumed was pretty straight,

00:06:48.540 I don't believe it this time.

00:06:51.260 Now, I'm not going to make an accusation

00:06:53.260 because then you get sued.

00:06:54.960 I'm not going to say the game was rigged.

00:06:56.820 I'm just going to say that in today's environment,

00:07:00.660 that was a pretty big coincidence.

00:07:03.500 Pretty big coincidence

00:07:04.740 that Taylor Swift picked the guy who got 11 catches.

00:07:10.280 He got 11 catches.

00:07:12.540 Do you think they were looking for him a little extra hard

00:07:14.660 because he's Taylor's boyfriend?

00:07:16.700 And maybe, you can't tell.

00:07:21.220 You know, he's also a star.

00:07:23.100 He's also a star,

00:07:24.240 so it could also have happened completely naturally.

00:07:28.520 Yeah.

00:07:31.720 Anyway, so we'll keep an eye on that.

00:07:34.240 If it is rigged,

00:07:35.800 you would expect the Chiefs to beat

00:07:38.080 the 49ers in the Super Bowl.

00:07:41.660 So the Niners made it.

00:07:42.680 So far, my technique of picking the winner by the mascot

00:07:47.240 is working out well.

00:07:48.760 I hear other people have used that technique as well,

00:07:51.200 but I've been doing it for 25 years or so in newspapers.

00:07:56.280 Newspapers used to ask me before the Super Bowl

00:07:59.100 who I thought was going to win

00:08:00.340 just because they like asking some celebrity types.

00:08:04.360 And I had a pretty good record just picking the mascots.

00:08:07.820 But now what happens when the Chiefs and the 49ers meet?

00:08:11.280 Hmm.

00:08:11.760 This one's ambiguous

00:08:13.060 because a Chief has a spear

00:08:15.300 or a bow and arrow

00:08:17.300 and a 49er would just have a shovel.

00:08:21.840 So normally,

00:08:22.980 normally I'm going to say spear beats shovel.

00:08:27.380 Or pick, oh, pickaxe.

00:08:28.760 Oh, pick, a dynamite.

00:08:31.200 Okay, now it's getting,

00:08:32.500 now it's getting interesting.

00:08:34.380 It might be a spear versus dynamite.

00:08:36.340 Rifle, okay.

00:08:37.820 There you go.

00:08:39.340 Yes.

00:08:39.660 If you looked at them as individuals,

00:08:43.040 one Chief might get lucky with a spear and beat one 49er.

00:08:47.620 But if you look at the arc of history,

00:08:50.880 the Chiefs didn't do as well as the 49ers.

00:08:53.640 So, I would say the big picture supports the 49ers winning,

00:08:58.340 unless it's rigged.

00:09:01.620 No, it's not rigged.

00:09:03.600 Enjoy your Super Bowl and pretend that it all happened naturally.

00:09:07.120 I don't know if it's rigged.

00:09:08.920 I'll tell you,

00:09:09.660 I have a persuasion theory as well.

00:09:14.660 The Super Bowl doesn't need to be rigged

00:09:16.960 if all the players think that it would be better

00:09:19.960 if Taylor Swift had more exposure with the NFL.

00:09:24.400 Because imagine what that does for future viewership of the NFL.

00:09:30.780 Even if you're on the team that's trying to win the Super Bowl,

00:09:33.300 which seems like that would be the highest goal for you,

00:09:36.320 there's probably a little bit of your brain that says,

00:09:38.440 you know what?

00:09:39.960 Weirdly, it would be better if we lost,

00:09:41.960 because then NFL does better,

00:09:44.020 and then they have more money,

00:09:45.040 and then I get paid more.

00:09:46.620 Maybe.

00:09:46.920 So, there is a weird incentive structure there.

00:09:53.120 I think both Jack Posobiec and Vivek

00:09:57.160 have both said that the Super Bowl looks a little bit suspicious.

00:10:02.560 But Jack points out that Taylor Swift

00:10:05.400 was no fan of the Soros family

00:10:07.480 because they bought her entire music rights,

00:10:09.940 and without asking her permission,

00:10:11.420 they owned all their music.

00:10:13.140 But I guess she got around that

00:10:14.680 by re-recording a lot of stuff.

00:10:16.920 And then she came out as super liberal in 2020,

00:10:20.000 as Jack points out.

00:10:21.760 And Vivek posted something that suggested

00:10:25.260 just a little bit of a coincidence,

00:10:27.300 just a little bit of a coincidence,

00:10:28.760 that Taylor is getting so lucky

00:10:31.920 in her choice of boyfriends.

00:10:34.560 It looks like it's intentional.

00:10:36.900 But I won't make that accusation.

00:10:39.460 I'll just say every bit of it looks like that.

00:10:43.180 And, in fact, the New York Times is saying

00:10:45.240 that Biden is going to pursue a Taylor Swift strategy

00:10:49.380 of getting her to endorse him if possible.

00:10:53.500 Imagine being Taylor Swift and having that pressure

00:10:55.660 that this million-year-old man wants you to endorse him.

00:11:00.140 All right.

00:11:00.440 How rigged is everything in the world?

00:11:05.240 Well, the Amuse account on X tells us that the...

00:11:10.820 You know the E.G. and Carroll trial

00:11:13.140 when Trump was found liable?

00:11:16.240 $83 million he's supposed to pay her.

00:11:19.280 Did you know that the judge in the case

00:11:21.540 was the mentor of the prosecutor?

00:11:26.220 Just let that sink in for a moment.

00:11:30.800 The judge in the case of Trump,

00:11:33.160 in the E.G. and Carroll case,

00:11:34.780 the judge was the longtime mentor

00:11:37.720 of the prosecutor.

00:11:42.700 That's insane.

00:11:44.740 Yeah.

00:11:45.580 And apparently that wasn't disclosed.

00:11:48.360 How in the world is that considered anything like justice?

00:11:52.120 Clearly not.

00:11:53.000 Now, and how did we get to this point

00:11:55.580 before we found out?

00:11:58.820 Remember I told you that the only thing

00:12:00.740 you need to know to understand the world is who?

00:12:04.660 If the news is telling you what happened,

00:12:07.320 you don't know anything.

00:12:09.580 This is a really important rule.

00:12:11.720 I'll hold this with you every time you watch the news.

00:12:14.020 If the news is telling you what happened,

00:12:16.820 which is what they typically do,

00:12:18.420 that's not news.

00:12:20.140 That's literally nothing.

00:12:21.480 Well, it's a little bit.

00:12:25.060 But what you really need to know

00:12:26.280 is who the players are.

00:12:27.960 Because once you know the players,

00:12:29.880 then you understand the what.

00:12:32.680 The what by itself is brainwashing and propaganda.

00:12:37.820 The who tells you everything, right?

00:12:41.460 So this trial, if you knew what happened,

00:12:44.300 there was a case, there was a result,

00:12:46.940 that's all you knew.

00:12:48.540 Don't you think it would be important

00:12:50.820 to know that the judge was literally

00:12:52.460 the mentor of the prosecutor?

00:12:55.160 You don't think that's giving you

00:12:56.680 a little bit of insight

00:12:57.620 about what might be going on here?

00:12:59.720 Definitely not justice.

00:13:01.580 Now, that doesn't mean that, you know,

00:13:03.000 Trump is innocent of anything he's charged up.

00:13:05.060 That's a separate question.

00:13:06.520 But you can say for sure

00:13:08.020 it wasn't a fair trial.

00:13:10.640 Well, that much you can say for sure

00:13:13.200 just based on the relationship.

00:13:16.660 All right.

00:13:17.120 This next category I'm going to call

00:13:18.940 the blackification of Trump.

00:13:21.860 The blackification.

00:13:22.820 I believe that the longer Trump

00:13:27.040 is abused by the justice system,

00:13:29.500 the more support he's going to get

00:13:31.780 from black men.

00:13:33.700 Women, different situation.

00:13:36.200 But we saw that Snoop Dogg

00:13:38.040 said he had nothing but love and respect for him

00:13:40.460 because Trump pardoned his Death Row co-founder,

00:13:44.260 the publishing company,

00:13:45.660 music publishing company,

00:13:47.180 Death Row co-founder.

00:13:48.280 And we saw that

00:13:52.040 Charlemagne, the god,

00:13:55.640 was saying that he's getting a lot of calls

00:13:57.700 from his community, as he would call it,

00:14:00.880 saying, what's up with this border?

00:14:02.860 Which is an indirect way

00:14:04.520 of being more Trump than Biden.

00:14:08.020 And interesting, Chris Cuomo posted,

00:14:12.460 based on the Snoop Dogg story,

00:14:15.360 and he posted this.

00:14:16.600 He said, as Snoop goes, so goes the country.

00:14:19.580 Or is this an example of

00:14:21.180 what should be painfully clear at this point?

00:14:23.900 People aren't going to just like

00:14:25.400 or dislike a leader

00:14:26.360 because the media and the players

00:14:27.680 in the game tell them to.

00:14:29.140 At the end of the day,

00:14:30.340 it comes down to self-interest.

00:14:32.280 These days, perceived self-protection.

00:14:36.840 Perceived self-protection.

00:14:38.460 Who do you think

00:14:41.180 Chris Cuomo

00:14:43.060 is supporting

00:14:44.760 when he says

00:14:45.660 people need to realize

00:14:47.200 they have to vote

00:14:47.960 for their self-protection?

00:14:53.180 It's not pro-Trump,

00:14:55.060 but it's not anti-Trump,

00:14:57.900 if you know what I mean.

00:15:00.500 And I've told you,

00:15:02.060 I've hinted at this before,

00:15:03.640 but Chris Cuomo

00:15:04.900 is not the CNN Chris Cuomo.

00:15:07.140 CNN Chris Cuomo

00:15:09.340 might have been

00:15:10.260 more of an invention.

00:15:12.820 Human being Chris Cuomo,

00:15:14.840 I think you'd find

00:15:15.840 a lot to agree with.

00:15:17.440 That's all I'm going to say about that.

00:15:20.940 But not only that,

00:15:22.520 but the number one

00:15:23.440 black hip-hop artist

00:15:25.740 in the world

00:15:26.400 is amazingly a strong

00:15:28.840 Trump supporter.

00:15:30.480 who is it?

00:15:34.080 Ben Shapiro.

00:15:35.280 Ben Shapiro.

00:15:36.220 He's the number one black...

00:15:38.180 Wait, hold on.

00:15:40.220 Oh, he's not black.

00:15:41.740 Ben Shapiro.

00:15:43.160 But he is the number one

00:15:44.540 hip-hop artist

00:15:45.480 along with an actual

00:15:46.860 hip-hop artist.

00:15:48.520 They got the number one

00:15:49.660 hip-hop...

00:15:50.480 Tom McDonald.

00:15:53.820 Is that the...

00:15:54.320 Who's the artist?

00:15:57.480 Tom McDonald,

00:15:58.520 somebody says.

00:15:59.040 Is that the name?

00:16:02.400 Anyway.

00:16:03.500 So, there you go.

00:16:05.780 So, it looks like

00:16:06.480 hip-hop has turned

00:16:07.480 strongly pro-Trump.

00:16:09.700 So, UFC is pro-Trump.

00:16:12.160 Even The Rock

00:16:13.180 recently mentioned...

00:16:15.160 You know,

00:16:15.360 did you see

00:16:15.840 the crowd reaction

00:16:16.980 to Trump?

00:16:18.060 And when The Rock

00:16:18.940 said it,

00:16:20.040 it wasn't pro-Trump

00:16:21.080 or anti-Trump,

00:16:22.260 but it definitely

00:16:23.740 wasn't anti-Trump.

00:16:24.820 So, you're seeing

00:16:26.340 a whole bunch

00:16:27.900 of people

00:16:28.420 that you didn't

00:16:29.360 necessarily expect

00:16:31.040 to be a little bit

00:16:33.260 more open-minded

00:16:34.160 about Trump.

00:16:38.420 Well, Lindsey Graham

00:16:39.600 wants to bomb Iran.

00:16:42.400 That's what I call

00:16:43.420 perpetual news.

00:16:45.460 Let me read the news

00:16:46.680 that hasn't changed

00:16:47.740 in 20 years.

00:16:48.560 The Pope

00:16:50.660 is speaking out

00:16:51.580 against war.

00:16:52.960 Oh, didn't see

00:16:53.600 that coming.

00:16:55.100 Lindsey Graham

00:16:55.940 wants to bomb Iran.

00:16:57.320 Oh, another surprise.

00:16:59.000 There's two surprises.

00:17:00.060 I didn't see

00:17:00.540 either one of those

00:17:01.220 coming.

00:17:01.760 Did you?

00:17:02.900 That's your news.

00:17:04.480 That's the news.

00:17:06.020 Well, here's a

00:17:07.000 counterpoint

00:17:07.520 from David Sachs.

00:17:08.560 Sachs.

00:17:09.760 Now, I'm going

00:17:10.620 to tie this

00:17:11.200 together later

00:17:11.980 with another story.

00:17:14.120 So, David Sachs,

00:17:15.180 Sachs, as you know,

00:17:16.760 one of the

00:17:17.420 PayPal founders

00:17:19.280 along with Elon Musk,

00:17:21.580 along with Peter Thiel,

00:17:23.520 and along with

00:17:24.440 Reid Hoffman

00:17:25.380 and a few others.

00:17:29.240 Now, when David Sachs

00:17:31.360 gives you an opinion

00:17:32.140 online,

00:17:33.320 I'm going to read it to you.

00:17:34.420 I think I'll just read

00:17:35.460 his whole opinion

00:17:36.200 because I want you

00:17:37.680 to see how clear it is.

00:17:40.400 Right?

00:17:40.860 You don't have to

00:17:41.420 agree with it.

00:17:42.560 It just has to be clear.

00:17:44.380 Just watch how

00:17:45.260 well expressed it is,

00:17:46.960 and then later

00:17:47.680 I'm going to compare

00:17:48.440 it to something else.

00:17:49.960 Right?

00:17:50.380 So, you don't have to,

00:17:51.320 you know, focus too much

00:17:52.240 on the argument.

00:17:52.880 Just see how clear it is,

00:17:54.320 and then we're going

00:17:55.400 to compare that

00:17:56.120 to something later.

00:17:57.820 All right, so David Sachs

00:17:58.720 says, it feels good

00:17:59.520 in the moment

00:17:59.900 for high heads

00:18:00.620 to call for retaliation,

00:18:01.920 talking about Iran,

00:18:03.340 because Iran's proxies

00:18:05.020 killed some Americans

00:18:06.680 in Syria,

00:18:08.400 which I didn't even know

00:18:09.460 we had any there.

00:18:10.800 But I should have.

00:18:12.100 I should have.

00:18:13.140 So, retaliation,

00:18:14.720 we have to think through

00:18:15.680 the second order

00:18:16.280 consequences.

00:18:17.560 All right, so here's

00:18:18.320 what we need to think

00:18:19.940 through if we were

00:18:21.460 to attack Iran.

00:18:22.320 The U.S. only has

00:18:23.200 about 4,000 Tomahawk

00:18:24.600 missiles in its inventory.

00:18:26.300 We can do about

00:18:27.100 a week of shock and awe.

00:18:29.060 Then what?

00:18:30.400 Are we going to send

00:18:31.680 in ground troops?

00:18:33.820 Iran's territory is vast,

00:18:35.280 its forces are decentralized,

00:18:37.080 and enough of its infrastructure

00:18:38.440 is underground by now.

00:18:40.600 It will also be supplied

00:18:41.700 by China and Russia.

00:18:43.580 In retaliation,

00:18:44.500 our highly exposed bases

00:18:45.480 in Syria and Iraq,

00:18:46.800 which neocons refused

00:18:48.100 to remove,

00:18:48.640 leading to this strategy,

00:18:49.940 will likely come

00:18:50.780 under a heavy fire.

00:18:52.180 In fact,

00:18:52.580 our troops there

00:18:53.140 are setting ducks.

00:18:54.520 Our carrier groups

00:18:55.360 could even be targets.

00:18:57.000 America will take

00:18:57.840 meaningful casualties.

00:18:59.580 Meanwhile,

00:19:00.000 the Strait of Hormuz

00:19:00.960 could be closed,

00:19:02.320 compounding the situation

00:19:03.260 in the Red Sea,

00:19:03.860 causing a global oil shock.

00:19:05.760 Assuming Iran wants

00:19:06.640 to continue the war,

00:19:07.580 we'll have no exit strategy.

00:19:09.500 Regime change will fail.

00:19:11.420 We'll be stuck

00:19:12.080 in a new forever war.

00:19:13.720 In fact,

00:19:14.120 there's a decent chance

00:19:15.060 that we get run

00:19:15.920 out of the Middle East.

00:19:19.440 Now,

00:19:20.260 you could disagree with that.

00:19:23.220 You know,

00:19:23.540 there's always room

00:19:24.900 for disagreement

00:19:25.560 in these big

00:19:26.220 international affairs,

00:19:27.540 because a lot of it

00:19:28.460 is conjecture

00:19:29.560 and assumptions

00:19:30.300 and stuff like that.

00:19:32.140 But would you agree

00:19:33.140 with my statement

00:19:33.860 that this is really clear?

00:19:37.260 Will you give me that,

00:19:39.780 even if you disagree with it?

00:19:41.360 That it's very clear.

00:19:43.140 All right.

00:19:43.740 Later,

00:19:44.260 we're going to talk about

00:19:44.980 something that makes

00:19:45.720 less sense.

00:19:46.980 That's why I like

00:19:47.700 to put this up

00:19:48.380 as contrast.

00:19:49.560 So the contrast is

00:19:50.540 that there's a founding member

00:19:52.140 of PayPal,

00:19:55.620 all geniuses,

00:19:56.800 basically,

00:19:57.740 you know,

00:19:58.060 with Musk and Teal,

00:19:59.760 et cetera,

00:20:00.300 and sure enough,

00:20:01.260 they act like

00:20:01.880 really smart people.

00:20:04.680 All right.

00:20:05.340 So just hold that

00:20:06.080 in your mind for a while.

00:20:07.160 I'm not going to give you

00:20:08.000 an opinion except that,

00:20:09.720 well,

00:20:09.840 I will give you an opinion.

00:20:11.800 I don't know of any wars

00:20:13.180 we get into

00:20:13.840 and then we win

00:20:14.580 and then we leave.

00:20:16.080 It's like that's

00:20:16.700 not a thing anymore.

00:20:18.240 So whatever we do

00:20:19.200 about Iran,

00:20:21.120 we're going to have

00:20:21.660 to find something else.

00:20:23.780 We're just going to have

00:20:24.620 to find some other way.

00:20:27.360 Now,

00:20:27.640 you could argue

00:20:28.300 maybe Trump

00:20:29.860 had it right.

00:20:31.060 Just starving them

00:20:31.860 economically

00:20:32.480 would make them

00:20:33.240 concentrate on survival

00:20:34.580 over,

00:20:35.120 you know,

00:20:36.640 getting cocky.

00:20:39.540 Maybe.

00:20:40.320 I'm not sure

00:20:41.000 there's any good result here.

00:20:44.680 All right.

00:20:45.260 Here's your persuasion

00:20:46.100 lesson for the day.

00:20:48.380 Here's your payoff

00:20:49.280 for watching me.

00:20:51.240 I like to make sure

00:20:52.160 there's at least

00:20:52.640 one thing you hear

00:20:53.480 on my show

00:20:54.020 that you won't hear

00:20:54.600 anywhere else.

00:20:55.260 So here's your one thing

00:20:56.680 you're not going to hear

00:20:57.240 anywhere else.

00:20:59.000 If you're new to me,

00:21:00.460 I'm a trained hypnotist

00:21:01.920 and so when I talk

00:21:02.700 about persuasion,

00:21:03.720 I'm not guessing.

00:21:05.840 You've heard

00:21:06.600 in the news

00:21:07.880 the Democrats

00:21:08.700 refer to Trump

00:21:09.720 as the chaos candidate.

00:21:13.040 And the word chaos,

00:21:14.320 they try to work

00:21:15.100 into every opinion.

00:21:17.000 So if they have

00:21:17.660 an opinion about

00:21:18.720 Ukraine,

00:21:20.160 they'll say,

00:21:20.820 oh,

00:21:21.640 Trump this or that

00:21:22.680 and chaos.

00:21:24.400 And his opinion

00:21:26.100 on this is chaos.

00:21:27.200 And they just insert

00:21:27.980 chaos everywhere.

00:21:30.560 That,

00:21:31.480 ladies and gentlemen,

00:21:32.040 is not an organic word.

00:21:35.180 Do you remember

00:21:36.080 any other candidate

00:21:37.260 who was accused

00:21:38.500 of chaos?

00:21:39.980 I don't.

00:21:42.660 Chaos is like dark.

00:21:44.700 Do you remember

00:21:45.120 in 2016,

00:21:46.500 the first time

00:21:47.220 all the Democrats

00:21:48.020 in unison,

00:21:49.980 they all started saying

00:21:50.820 that Trump's,

00:21:51.720 they said his speech

00:21:53.580 at the convention

00:21:54.420 was dark

00:21:55.100 and it was obvious

00:21:56.800 that the memo

00:21:57.440 had gone out.

00:21:58.900 Now at the time,

00:21:59.740 if you don't remember

00:22:00.320 this story,

00:22:01.060 I had called out

00:22:01.880 that probably

00:22:03.180 that word dark

00:22:04.420 is such a,

00:22:06.420 such a professionally

00:22:07.880 chosen word

00:22:08.940 that they probably

00:22:10.080 had some help

00:22:10.860 from a professional

00:22:12.080 persuader

00:22:12.620 and I thought

00:22:13.720 it was Cialdini,

00:22:15.880 the author of

00:22:16.640 Influence

00:22:17.300 and Persuasion.

00:22:18.720 Now he was asked

00:22:20.700 by some people

00:22:21.460 who heard me

00:22:22.400 say that

00:22:22.980 and he refused

00:22:24.640 to,

00:22:26.260 he said no comment

00:22:27.800 when asked

00:22:28.300 if he was helping

00:22:29.060 the,

00:22:30.680 at the time

00:22:31.540 of the Hillary campaign.

00:22:33.580 So no comment

00:22:34.460 generally is,

00:22:35.400 you know,

00:22:35.620 in that context

00:22:36.420 would be considered

00:22:37.220 a confirmation

00:22:38.280 that he was.

00:22:39.040 And indeed

00:22:39.400 he helped Obama.

00:22:41.100 So if you were

00:22:41.840 the brilliant

00:22:42.820 persuasion mind

00:22:43.860 behind helping Obama,

00:22:46.000 it makes sense

00:22:46.980 that Clinton

00:22:47.820 may have used

00:22:49.360 you as well.

00:22:50.420 So we have

00:22:51.160 pretty good

00:22:52.000 information

00:22:53.120 that the word

00:22:53.920 dark

00:22:54.360 was chosen

00:22:55.080 by the

00:22:55.840 most professional

00:22:56.980 people.

00:22:58.440 But what about

00:22:59.280 chaos?

00:23:00.820 It's used

00:23:01.700 exactly the same.

00:23:02.960 It's a catch-all.

00:23:04.480 And chaos

00:23:04.960 is specifically

00:23:06.520 meant to scare

00:23:07.480 senior citizens.

00:23:09.320 Do you know

00:23:09.700 who's not afraid

00:23:10.520 of chaos?

00:23:11.800 Young people.

00:23:13.760 So the Democrats

00:23:14.800 have a lot

00:23:15.420 of young people

00:23:16.080 and, you know,

00:23:17.640 but they don't care

00:23:18.200 about that word

00:23:18.780 one way or the other.

00:23:20.360 But the old people

00:23:21.360 are really scared

00:23:22.100 about chaos.

00:23:23.440 And the old people

00:23:24.400 are more likely

00:23:25.000 to vote for Trump.

00:23:27.400 So chaos

00:23:28.200 is a really good word

00:23:29.680 to work into

00:23:30.340 every sentence

00:23:30.940 and it has

00:23:31.540 no specific

00:23:32.600 requirements.

00:23:35.080 You know,

00:23:35.260 there's no

00:23:36.140 objective standard

00:23:37.740 for what is chaos

00:23:38.780 and what is not,

00:23:40.140 which also makes it good.

00:23:42.000 So here's what

00:23:42.840 you need to know

00:23:43.320 about it.

00:23:43.640 This is an engineered

00:23:44.540 word every time

00:23:45.520 you hear it,

00:23:46.400 especially in the media.

00:23:47.840 If you see a media

00:23:49.100 report in which

00:23:50.540 they use the word

00:23:51.300 chaos,

00:23:52.420 that's propaganda

00:23:54.320 because it's

00:23:56.820 an indefinable

00:23:57.800 scare word.

00:23:59.280 An indefinable

00:24:00.320 scare word

00:24:01.040 is always propaganda.

00:24:02.780 Always.

00:24:04.360 Now,

00:24:05.440 the word chaos

00:24:06.420 is being used

00:24:07.020 exactly the way

00:24:07.840 the Clinton-Gore

00:24:08.960 campaign

00:24:09.580 back in 1990,

00:24:12.120 whatever it was.

00:24:12.740 When did Clinton-Gore

00:24:14.380 run for re-election

00:24:15.360 against,

00:24:16.980 what's his name?

00:24:20.240 96,

00:24:20.960 I think.

00:24:21.520 96 was the

00:24:22.440 re-election campaign,

00:24:23.400 yeah.

00:24:24.100 So do you remember

00:24:24.960 when Gore

00:24:26.220 started saying

00:24:27.000 that a trickle-down

00:24:28.500 economics

00:24:29.060 was risky?

00:24:30.800 It was a risky scheme

00:24:32.020 and then,

00:24:33.380 yeah,

00:24:33.680 it was against

00:24:34.020 Bob Dole

00:24:34.560 because Bob Dole

00:24:35.420 was pushing

00:24:36.060 trickle-down economics

00:24:37.520 with Kemp

00:24:38.320 as his running mate.

00:24:39.140 And Clinton-Gore

00:24:41.300 just crushed that

00:24:42.700 by saying

00:24:43.640 it was too risky.

00:24:45.140 It might work,

00:24:46.420 but it's risky.

00:24:47.260 Why would you do

00:24:47.840 something risky

00:24:48.500 when the economy

00:24:49.380 is going well?

00:24:51.000 Risky,

00:24:51.600 risky,

00:24:51.980 risky.

00:24:52.780 Do you know

00:24:53.360 where the risky

00:24:53.980 word came from?

00:24:55.920 Does anybody

00:24:56.400 know the answer

00:24:56.980 to that?

00:24:57.980 Because risky,

00:24:59.800 chaos,

00:25:01.440 dark,

00:25:02.620 those are all

00:25:03.440 professional words.

00:25:05.080 Yeah,

00:25:05.280 the average pundit

00:25:06.480 doesn't come up

00:25:07.180 with that.

00:25:08.600 Let me tell you

00:25:09.400 who came up

00:25:09.880 with risky

00:25:10.600 for Clinton-Gore.

00:25:12.680 That was me.

00:25:16.620 True story.

00:25:18.160 Yeah,

00:25:18.380 I was working

00:25:18.960 with the campaign.

00:25:20.860 I mean,

00:25:21.520 unofficially,

00:25:22.100 I was working

00:25:22.500 with him.

00:25:23.220 So I had a connection

00:25:24.240 in the campaign

00:25:25.040 and they asked me

00:25:27.000 specifically

00:25:27.620 about the debate

00:25:32.060 where Gore used it

00:25:33.600 and I told them,

00:25:34.480 say it's risky

00:25:35.140 because it'll scare

00:25:35.920 the old people

00:25:36.600 because nobody

00:25:37.780 knows if trickle-down

00:25:41.260 works or doesn't

00:25:42.100 work.

00:25:42.820 But they do know

00:25:43.600 it's different

00:25:44.120 so they'll believe

00:25:45.420 it's risky

00:25:45.960 and that pretty

00:25:48.040 much got them

00:25:49.880 elected.

00:25:51.780 Now,

00:25:52.580 do you think

00:25:53.740 that persuasion

00:25:54.540 is powerful?

00:25:56.900 It's very powerful.

00:25:58.780 Yeah,

00:25:59.060 if you pick the

00:25:59.760 right word,

00:26:00.220 it changes the world.

00:26:01.660 Now,

00:26:01.880 by the way,

00:26:02.320 they would deny

00:26:02.940 this story.

00:26:03.520 So if you go

00:26:04.760 to fact-check it,

00:26:06.120 don't expect it

00:26:07.000 to be fact-checked.

00:26:08.900 That's not how

00:26:09.700 any of this works.

00:26:11.420 Yeah,

00:26:11.660 nobody's gonna

00:26:12.140 confirm that.

00:26:15.380 All right.

00:26:17.980 And by the way,

00:26:18.840 I thought the Clinton-Gore

00:26:19.880 administration

00:26:20.420 was successful.

00:26:23.120 Remember,

00:26:23.700 I've told you

00:26:24.160 that I'm not

00:26:24.720 in the camp

00:26:26.000 for anybody

00:26:26.760 in particular.

00:26:27.340 I just liked

00:26:28.520 Clinton because

00:26:29.340 he was somewhere

00:26:29.860 in the middle.

00:26:31.020 I like middle

00:26:31.980 presidents

00:26:32.600 for most of the times.

00:26:34.160 At the moment,

00:26:34.740 I don't like

00:26:35.220 a middle president.

00:26:36.840 At the moment,

00:26:37.460 I want a Trump

00:26:38.400 president because

00:26:39.100 that seems to be

00:26:40.600 more,

00:26:41.800 I don't know,

00:26:42.160 it seems more

00:26:42.740 on point to

00:26:43.400 our current

00:26:43.860 problems.

00:26:45.060 You need a

00:26:45.780 bigger,

00:26:47.180 bolder thing.

00:26:48.620 Whereas I thought

00:26:49.260 Clinton-Gore

00:26:50.140 were more

00:26:52.020 right down the

00:26:52.580 middle,

00:26:53.500 just try to reach

00:26:54.180 some middle

00:26:54.560 point.

00:26:55.040 And I thought

00:26:55.420 that was the

00:26:55.880 right solution

00:26:56.780 at that time.

00:26:59.120 Did we get

00:26:59.640 the glitch?

00:27:02.460 Did we get

00:27:02.940 a 34-minute glitch?

00:27:05.260 Looks like

00:27:05.800 we might have

00:27:06.160 lost some comments

00:27:06.940 when that happened.

00:27:08.580 Did we lose

00:27:09.100 some comments?

00:27:10.860 Yeah.

00:27:12.160 I'm going to

00:27:12.600 fire up my

00:27:13.240 other device

00:27:14.020 which will show

00:27:15.060 me your comments

00:27:15.820 on the locals

00:27:16.940 platform.

00:27:20.060 This works

00:27:20.840 every time.

00:27:21.560 All right,

00:27:26.040 you're back.

00:27:29.140 All right,

00:27:29.980 did you see

00:27:32.580 the visual

00:27:33.820 persuasion

00:27:34.580 that the New

00:27:35.280 York Post

00:27:35.720 ran with

00:27:36.440 Trump?

00:27:41.140 Oh,

00:27:41.720 that's not

00:27:42.100 working,

00:27:42.620 interestingly.

00:27:43.640 Is locals

00:27:44.320 down?

00:27:46.100 I guess I

00:27:46.880 can't ask you.

00:27:47.560 If there's

00:27:48.760 somebody who

00:27:49.460 is on

00:27:51.300 locals who

00:27:51.880 also has

00:27:52.400 my phone

00:27:53.760 number,

00:27:54.600 could you

00:27:54.920 text me

00:27:55.420 and tell me

00:27:55.860 if locals

00:27:56.380 is completely

00:27:56.980 down?

00:27:57.520 Because I

00:27:57.800 can't see

00:27:58.140 it on my

00:27:58.480 other device.

00:28:00.440 But we'll

00:28:00.800 keep going

00:28:01.200 because we

00:28:01.480 got three

00:28:01.980 platforms that

00:28:03.200 are definitely

00:28:03.580 live.

00:28:05.460 But let me

00:28:06.040 show you

00:28:06.600 a photo

00:28:08.240 that the

00:28:09.720 New York

00:28:10.240 Post

00:28:11.760 decided was

00:28:12.920 a good

00:28:13.280 photo of

00:28:14.080 Trump.

00:28:14.460 So now

00:28:17.800 the photo

00:28:18.480 people,

00:28:19.040 the people

00:28:19.360 who picked

00:28:19.720 the photos,

00:28:21.440 they're often

00:28:23.240 separate from

00:28:23.860 the writers.

00:28:25.820 So look

00:28:26.700 at the

00:28:27.000 photo that

00:28:29.300 was chosen.

00:28:30.140 I'll show

00:28:30.500 you on both

00:28:31.200 platforms.

00:28:32.220 That's a

00:28:32.660 photo that

00:28:33.080 was chosen

00:28:33.500 for a

00:28:33.940 generic

00:28:34.280 story.

00:28:37.100 The New

00:28:37.580 York Post

00:28:38.000 thought of

00:28:38.520 all the

00:28:38.900 photos in

00:28:39.640 the world

00:28:40.000 of Trump,

00:28:41.000 infinite

00:28:41.520 photos,

00:28:43.100 that that

00:28:43.560 photo,

00:28:44.460 was one

00:28:45.000 for a

00:28:45.800 generic

00:28:46.180 story.

00:28:47.380 Remember,

00:28:47.800 it had

00:28:47.920 nothing to

00:28:48.360 do with

00:28:48.640 what he's

00:28:49.060 motioning

00:28:50.060 or any

00:28:50.340 of that.

00:28:51.280 It's just

00:28:51.680 a generic

00:28:52.180 story,

00:28:52.840 and they

00:28:53.280 ran that

00:28:53.680 photo.

00:28:55.160 Whoever

00:28:55.520 chooses the

00:28:56.780 photos

00:28:57.280 really has

00:29:00.520 way more

00:29:00.940 power than

00:29:02.540 they should.

00:29:04.160 It's

00:29:04.680 working.

00:29:05.180 Okay,

00:29:05.500 thanks.

00:29:07.400 Thank you.

00:29:08.480 Got confirmation

00:29:09.200 that Locals

00:29:09.720 is working.

00:29:12.080 I'll make

00:29:12.760 sure comments

00:29:13.400 come back

00:29:13.820 on.

00:29:14.460 All right,

00:29:16.460 they'll come

00:29:16.980 back in a

00:29:17.420 minute.

00:29:19.280 All right,

00:29:20.560 let's talk

00:29:22.060 about Biden's

00:29:22.660 brain.

00:29:23.940 So his

00:29:24.400 latest

00:29:24.860 mashed potato

00:29:25.800 brain,

00:29:26.580 somebody used

00:29:27.460 that phrase,

00:29:28.040 I like it.

00:29:29.300 He actually

00:29:30.100 called Trump

00:29:30.920 the sitting

00:29:31.640 president.

00:29:36.640 Did you

00:29:37.300 see what he

00:29:37.760 recently said

00:29:38.440 about this

00:29:39.040 is Biden?

00:29:39.980 He wants

00:29:40.460 to see the

00:29:42.300 economy crash

00:29:43.060 this year.

00:29:43.440 a sitting

00:29:44.200 president.

00:29:46.960 Do you

00:29:47.520 think Trump

00:29:48.040 wants to

00:29:48.540 see the

00:29:48.900 economy crash

00:29:49.700 this year?

00:29:52.260 No.

00:29:53.460 But it

00:29:54.100 would be

00:29:54.360 good for

00:29:54.840 his re-election.

00:29:57.000 Do you

00:29:57.340 think that's

00:29:57.720 an accurate

00:29:58.200 statement of

00:29:58.880 what Trump's

00:29:59.660 inner thoughts

00:30:00.300 are?

00:30:00.840 Oh,

00:30:01.220 I'd like to

00:30:02.100 see America

00:30:02.640 go down the

00:30:03.240 drain so I

00:30:03.840 can get

00:30:04.100 elected.

00:30:04.380 I doubt

00:30:05.580 it.

00:30:06.380 I doubt

00:30:06.820 it.

00:30:10.700 And then

00:30:11.300 he led

00:30:12.120 us in

00:30:12.420 a prayer

00:30:12.820 and he

00:30:14.620 said,

00:30:15.580 as they

00:30:16.920 say in

00:30:17.260 my faith,

00:30:17.840 this is

00:30:18.160 Biden,

00:30:18.840 as they

00:30:19.140 say in

00:30:19.400 my faith,

00:30:20.280 bless me

00:30:20.700 Father,

00:30:21.480 for I

00:30:21.900 mean,

00:30:22.380 come on

00:30:22.720 man.

00:30:25.180 Now,

00:30:25.780 if you

00:30:26.260 don't mind,

00:30:26.760 I'm not

00:30:27.300 really a

00:30:28.880 religious

00:30:29.200 person,

00:30:29.720 but I

00:30:31.160 do feel

00:30:31.540 inspired

00:30:31.980 today to

00:30:33.180 lead you

00:30:33.660 in prayer.

00:30:35.120 If you

00:30:35.680 don't mind,

00:30:36.420 could you

00:30:36.700 just bow

00:30:37.280 your head,

00:30:37.660 I'd like to

00:30:38.120 lead you

00:30:38.720 in a Biden

00:30:39.200 prayer.

00:30:40.520 Everybody,

00:30:41.740 pray with

00:30:42.200 me.

00:30:43.780 As they

00:30:44.400 say in

00:30:44.700 my faith,

00:30:46.160 bless me

00:30:46.580 Father,

00:30:47.780 I mean,

00:30:48.640 come on

00:30:49.000 man.

00:30:50.860 Amen.

00:30:52.920 Amen to

00:30:53.620 that.

00:30:54.760 Come on

00:30:55.200 man.

00:30:57.240 So,

00:30:57.840 Biden's

00:30:58.180 brain is

00:30:58.520 working just

00:30:59.000 great.

00:30:59.720 Meanwhile,

00:31:00.340 CNN is

00:31:00.920 dying.

00:31:01.560 Over in

00:31:02.040 the Philippines,

00:31:02.720 they closed

00:31:03.180 their operations,

00:31:04.820 CNN did.

00:31:06.340 I don't

00:31:06.680 know if

00:31:06.920 it's the

00:31:07.220 beginning of

00:31:07.760 their global

00:31:09.140 media destruction,

00:31:10.740 but I

00:31:12.160 feel like a

00:31:13.200 lot of the

00:31:13.500 stories about

00:31:14.120 things I

00:31:14.720 don't like

00:31:15.180 are dying.

00:31:16.620 Biden's

00:31:17.160 dying,

00:31:17.860 CNN's

00:31:18.380 dying,

00:31:20.280 DEI is

00:31:21.060 dying,

00:31:21.620 CRT is

00:31:22.180 dying,

00:31:23.700 ESG is

00:31:24.280 dying,

00:31:26.820 China's

00:31:27.480 dying.

00:31:27.800 so I'm

00:31:29.240 having a

00:31:29.600 good year,

00:31:29.980 all the

00:31:30.200 things I

00:31:30.500 don't like

00:31:30.820 are dying.

00:31:33.020 Speaking of

00:31:33.740 Mayorkas,

00:31:34.860 Alejandro

00:31:35.460 Mayorkas,

00:31:36.740 let me ask

00:31:37.420 you this,

00:31:38.440 what's up

00:31:39.080 with him?

00:31:40.440 Why is it

00:31:41.120 that we have

00:31:41.620 a person

00:31:42.080 whose job

00:31:42.640 it is to

00:31:43.120 guard the

00:31:43.600 country,

00:31:44.320 who's doing

00:31:44.860 literally the

00:31:45.620 opposite,

00:31:46.980 and we

00:31:47.740 don't know

00:31:48.120 why?

00:31:49.740 Does that

00:31:50.260 bother you

00:31:50.600 at all?

00:31:52.740 Mayorkas,

00:31:53.220 I'm

00:31:55.020 pretty sure

00:31:55.660 you can

00:31:56.080 figure out

00:31:56.560 a way to

00:31:56.940 close that

00:31:57.460 border,

00:31:57.900 even though

00:31:58.240 you're not

00:31:58.540 the president,

00:31:59.380 you can

00:31:59.640 probably work

00:32:00.140 with him,

00:32:01.040 probably figure

00:32:01.600 that out,

00:32:02.600 but he

00:32:02.960 seems

00:32:03.260 aggressively

00:32:04.120 uninterested

00:32:05.000 in fixing

00:32:06.460 the border

00:32:07.040 in a way

00:32:09.560 that's

00:32:09.840 surprising.

00:32:11.240 What would

00:32:11.600 be your

00:32:12.080 assumption

00:32:12.520 about somebody

00:32:13.640 whose job

00:32:14.600 performance is

00:32:15.420 the opposite

00:32:16.000 of what his

00:32:16.640 job would

00:32:17.100 require,

00:32:17.940 and you

00:32:18.740 don't quite

00:32:19.240 know why?

00:32:20.960 How would

00:32:21.500 you explain

00:32:21.980 it?

00:32:23.220 I explain

00:32:23.820 it by

00:32:24.540 outside

00:32:25.040 influence,

00:32:27.400 meaning that

00:32:27.980 he's not

00:32:28.420 his own

00:32:28.740 man.

00:32:30.100 Could be

00:32:30.620 just that

00:32:31.160 he's bowing

00:32:33.160 to the

00:32:33.520 Democrats

00:32:34.000 and he

00:32:34.340 has to

00:32:34.600 say dumb

00:32:34.980 things to

00:32:35.520 make them

00:32:35.980 happy,

00:32:37.040 but don't

00:32:38.980 you assume

00:32:39.460 that there's

00:32:40.000 something sinister

00:32:41.200 behind him?

00:32:43.300 It just

00:32:43.980 feels like

00:32:44.460 there's

00:32:44.720 something

00:32:44.960 there.

00:32:48.100 That's

00:32:48.460 really the

00:32:49.060 only thing

00:32:49.380 I have to

00:32:49.700 say about

00:32:50.080 it,

00:32:50.860 but I

00:32:51.280 have the

00:32:51.520 same

00:32:51.700 feeling

00:32:51.920 about

00:32:52.140 Soros.

00:32:53.220 How do

00:32:54.700 you explain

00:32:55.200 all the

00:32:55.780 things that

00:32:56.300 Soros does

00:32:57.220 because they

00:32:58.240 seem to be

00:32:58.760 100% designed

00:32:59.960 to be bad

00:33:00.620 for the

00:33:00.940 country?

00:33:01.880 And it's

00:33:02.220 all different

00:33:02.720 things.

00:33:03.960 If he did

00:33:04.640 one thing

00:33:05.140 I didn't

00:33:05.500 like,

00:33:06.960 then I'd

00:33:07.400 say,

00:33:07.700 oh,

00:33:08.260 he and I

00:33:08.720 have a

00:33:09.020 different

00:33:09.260 opinion

00:33:09.960 about what's

00:33:11.140 good for

00:33:11.480 the country.

00:33:12.320 But if you

00:33:12.960 do a whole

00:33:13.520 range of

00:33:14.540 funding,

00:33:15.460 and every

00:33:16.120 single one

00:33:16.800 seems clearly

00:33:17.800 bad for the

00:33:18.460 country,

00:33:19.320 what are you

00:33:20.160 going to

00:33:20.360 conclude about

00:33:21.000 that?

00:33:22.000 Well,

00:33:22.560 you could

00:33:22.900 conclude that

00:33:23.700 the Soros

00:33:24.560 family is

00:33:25.100 evil.

00:33:26.320 And that's

00:33:26.680 what other

00:33:27.000 people conclude.

00:33:27.920 I don't

00:33:28.380 believe that.

00:33:30.040 Because it'd

00:33:30.600 be too weird

00:33:31.180 that the

00:33:31.580 father and

00:33:32.060 the son

00:33:32.540 shared this

00:33:33.960 evil,

00:33:34.800 and the

00:33:35.120 whole organization

00:33:35.860 shared it,

00:33:36.840 and it would

00:33:37.540 be too weird.

00:33:38.660 I don't

00:33:38.980 believe that.

00:33:39.960 I believe that

00:33:40.800 it's more

00:33:41.440 likely that the

00:33:42.620 people who

00:33:43.060 act opposite

00:33:43.880 of what seems

00:33:44.840 like a person

00:33:45.520 should act

00:33:46.160 are probably

00:33:47.280 blackmailed or

00:33:49.000 bribed or in

00:33:50.820 some other way

00:33:51.480 beholden to

00:33:52.220 somebody, or

00:33:53.000 they're under

00:33:53.360 duress in some

00:33:54.280 way.

00:33:55.120 So I think

00:33:55.700 that the

00:33:56.220 Soroses are

00:33:57.060 not the top

00:33:57.740 of their

00:33:58.260 pile.

00:33:59.500 I think that

00:34:00.080 somebody has

00:34:00.900 blackmail on

00:34:02.720 the Soros

00:34:03.260 family.

00:34:04.980 I can't think

00:34:06.340 of any other

00:34:06.820 way to explain

00:34:07.580 observation.

00:34:09.640 So that

00:34:10.200 doesn't mean

00:34:10.600 it's true.

00:34:11.280 I don't have

00:34:11.700 any facts.

00:34:12.840 I don't have

00:34:13.160 any evidence.

00:34:14.080 But if

00:34:15.680 somebody acts

00:34:16.340 exactly like

00:34:17.260 they're under

00:34:17.820 duress, what

00:34:19.840 are you going

00:34:20.120 to assume?

00:34:21.020 If it's just

00:34:21.820 once, you'd

00:34:22.440 say, well, I

00:34:23.000 guess I'm just

00:34:23.920 confused.

00:34:24.920 But if it's

00:34:25.520 all day long,

00:34:26.600 every day for

00:34:27.360 years, I'm

00:34:29.680 going to assume

00:34:30.160 that there's

00:34:30.580 somebody who

00:34:30.940 wants to

00:34:31.260 destroy the

00:34:31.920 country who's

00:34:32.660 pushing them

00:34:33.880 in ways we

00:34:34.420 don't understand.

00:34:36.940 Here's some

00:34:37.560 more stupid

00:34:38.020 fake news

00:34:38.600 about Russia.

00:34:41.960 So somebody

00:34:43.240 named,

00:34:44.080 David Frum,

00:34:46.420 and remember

00:34:46.940 I keep

00:34:47.500 telling you,

00:34:47.920 you have to

00:34:48.260 know the

00:34:48.540 players.

00:34:49.900 It doesn't

00:34:50.380 help you to

00:34:50.840 know what

00:34:51.400 happened.

00:34:52.560 It only helps

00:34:53.620 you to know

00:34:54.100 who was behind

00:34:54.900 it.

00:34:55.500 That's the

00:34:56.280 news.

00:34:57.360 So David

00:34:57.800 Frum is

00:34:58.380 someone that,

00:34:59.180 if you didn't

00:34:59.600 know, would

00:35:00.720 be one of the

00:35:01.420 least credible

00:35:02.320 people on the

00:35:03.080 whole planet.

00:35:04.760 I don't need

00:35:05.520 to go into the

00:35:06.080 details, but in

00:35:07.420 the history of

00:35:07.980 politics, you

00:35:08.720 would have to

00:35:10.540 look pretty hard

00:35:11.300 to find somebody

00:35:12.720 with lower

00:35:13.200 credibility.

00:35:14.080 He's part of

00:35:15.200 the propaganda

00:35:15.960 part of the

00:35:16.440 world.

00:35:17.420 And he

00:35:17.660 writes in

00:35:18.160 The Atlantic.

00:35:19.920 Do you know

00:35:20.620 The Atlantic?

00:35:21.860 If you said to

00:35:22.780 yourself, what

00:35:23.620 happened?

00:35:24.260 Oh, there's a

00:35:25.240 major publication

00:35:26.040 with a story, you

00:35:27.360 wouldn't know

00:35:27.700 anything.

00:35:28.540 If you knew The

00:35:29.200 Atlantic is

00:35:29.760 basically just a

00:35:30.680 Democrat tool for

00:35:31.860 insulting Republicans,

00:35:34.100 it's not anything

00:35:35.080 like a publication.

00:35:36.360 It's just a

00:35:37.000 political tool at

00:35:38.040 this point.

00:35:38.440 So if you knew

00:35:40.040 that Frum is the

00:35:41.420 least credible

00:35:42.060 person in the

00:35:42.760 world and The

00:35:43.320 Atlantic is the

00:35:44.120 least credible

00:35:44.740 publication, then

00:35:46.440 does that make

00:35:47.140 this story sound

00:35:48.040 more understandable?

00:35:50.960 That Frum is

00:35:52.540 writing that as

00:35:53.180 Trump has neared

00:35:53.900 renomination, his

00:35:56.860 party, especially in

00:35:57.880 the House of

00:35:58.260 Representatives, has

00:35:59.700 surrendered to his

00:36:00.600 pro-Putin pressure.

00:36:01.600 Oh, big surprise.

00:36:04.580 The two least

00:36:05.500 credible entities,

00:36:06.660 David Frum and

00:36:07.660 The Atlantic, are

00:36:08.820 writing that Trump

00:36:10.140 is pro-Putin during

00:36:12.440 an election year.

00:36:14.560 Now, imagine if you

00:36:15.960 didn't follow the

00:36:16.800 news and you

00:36:18.100 didn't know the

00:36:18.700 players.

00:36:19.880 You didn't know

00:36:20.520 that The Atlantic is

00:36:21.540 not to be trusted and

00:36:22.660 you didn't know that

00:36:23.220 David Frum is a

00:36:24.680 propagandist.

00:36:26.140 You would read

00:36:26.800 this and you'd

00:36:27.260 think, oh, this is

00:36:28.220 kind of scary.

00:36:29.860 This little Putin

00:36:30.720 but if you know

00:36:32.260 the players, it's

00:36:33.460 just sort of funny

00:36:34.220 because it's just

00:36:36.180 so right in your

00:36:36.780 face how fake it

00:36:37.780 is.

00:36:38.780 When I read it, I

00:36:39.960 just laughed.

00:36:41.100 Really?

00:36:41.560 The Atlantic?

00:36:42.300 David Frum?

00:36:43.580 Now, here's my

00:36:44.460 favorite mystery,

00:36:46.220 Reid Hoffman.

00:36:48.060 So we know that

00:36:48.960 Reid Hoffman, or

00:36:49.760 reportedly, maybe

00:36:51.700 you shouldn't trust

00:36:52.660 any news, but

00:36:54.120 reportedly, Reid

00:36:55.320 Hoffman is the

00:36:56.200 person who funded

00:36:57.460 the Archie and

00:36:58.440 Carroll suit.

00:36:59.460 Do you think he

00:37:00.920 did that because

00:37:02.280 he really wants

00:37:03.300 women to be heard

00:37:04.240 and he cares about

00:37:05.160 me too, and it's

00:37:06.840 justice and he's

00:37:08.120 helping this victim?

00:37:10.420 Does it feel like

00:37:11.340 that's probably what's

00:37:12.020 driving him?

00:37:13.920 I don't know.

00:37:14.660 There are a lot of

00:37:15.120 victims out there.

00:37:16.400 It's funny he picked

00:37:17.080 this one.

00:37:18.260 So that seems a

00:37:19.040 little just purely

00:37:20.820 political, some way

00:37:21.860 to hurt Trump.

00:37:22.420 Then also, Reid Hoffman

00:37:28.480 was a big funder of

00:37:31.760 Nikki Haley, which is

00:37:34.060 weird because he's a

00:37:35.080 Democrat, and why

00:37:36.500 would you fund a

00:37:38.620 Republican who even

00:37:40.180 the Republicans have

00:37:41.160 some trouble with?

00:37:42.760 None of that makes

00:37:43.460 sense, does it?

00:37:44.920 So if you were one of

00:37:47.240 the PayPal geniuses,

00:37:48.700 literally a billionaire,

00:37:50.740 literally a genius, and

00:37:53.460 three out of four of

00:37:55.180 the ones you can name

00:37:56.120 who are in PayPal are

00:37:57.900 clearly on the same

00:37:59.320 side of things, which I

00:38:00.660 wouldn't call Republican.

00:38:02.740 I don't think that's

00:38:04.320 what's going on.

00:38:05.480 I don't think that Musk or

00:38:08.560 Sachs or Thiel are pro-

00:38:11.380 Republican.

00:38:12.420 That's just not the way I

00:38:13.420 take them.

00:38:14.360 I take them as pro-

00:38:16.560 make sense.

00:38:18.200 Make sense of it.

00:38:19.580 Make sense of the

00:38:20.280 border.

00:38:21.460 Is that a Republican

00:38:22.520 thing?

00:38:23.320 Or is that just everybody

00:38:24.440 looking at it and going,

00:38:25.500 can you make some sense

00:38:26.640 of this?

00:38:27.640 Can you close that

00:38:28.680 thing?

00:38:29.940 That's not a Republican

00:38:31.220 opinion.

00:38:31.680 The fact that we

00:38:32.860 imagine it is, it's

00:38:33.860 just crazy.

00:38:34.900 That's just a logical

00:38:36.020 opinion.

00:38:37.380 So why would it that

00:38:38.260 Reid Hoffman, who's as

00:38:41.040 smart as them, as well

00:38:42.400 informed as them, would

00:38:44.720 be so on the opposite

00:38:46.100 side?

00:38:48.380 And I'm going to say

00:38:49.700 that whenever you see a

00:38:50.580 mystery like this, it's

00:38:52.780 probably outside

00:38:53.420 influence.

00:38:55.560 So I don't know what

00:38:57.320 nature, but it looks like

00:38:58.300 blackmail.

00:38:58.800 So I would assume that

00:39:00.780 all the billionaires who

00:39:02.620 are doing things that we

00:39:03.660 don't understand are just

00:39:05.820 blackmail.

00:39:07.840 Now, I don't have proof of

00:39:09.380 that, but as a working

00:39:11.600 assumption, almost everything

00:39:13.080 in our government seems

00:39:14.060 blackmail related.

00:39:15.940 Like everybody has some kind

00:39:17.300 of influence or pressure or

00:39:19.120 bribery or knows something.

00:39:21.540 And I feel like our whole,

00:39:22.840 that we live in a blackmail-ocracy.

00:39:24.780 We know that Epstein was a big

00:39:27.140 old blackmailer.

00:39:28.160 We know that Reid Hoffman once

00:39:30.120 went to the island.

00:39:31.040 There's no evidence, no claim

00:39:33.500 whatsoever that he did

00:39:34.380 anything improper.

00:39:37.780 Because there are a lot of

00:39:38.600 people who went to the island,

00:39:39.660 they didn't all do anything

00:39:40.760 improper.

00:39:42.420 So, and also, I'm not sure I

00:39:44.600 believe he necessarily went

00:39:45.940 there.

00:39:46.460 All the stuff about who was on

00:39:48.180 the Epstein list, I don't know

00:39:50.240 that that's true.

00:39:50.860 So, if you see a name on a list,

00:39:53.840 whether it's Reid Hoffman or

00:39:54.740 anything, don't assume it's

00:39:55.780 true.

00:39:56.520 And don't assume that they did

00:39:57.680 anything other than there was

00:40:00.060 somebody who had a common

00:40:00.840 interest and they'll, that's

00:40:02.840 not unusual that people to get

00:40:04.140 together if they have a common

00:40:05.020 interest.

00:40:07.240 But, given that we know Epstein

00:40:08.900 was a major blackmail operation

00:40:10.960 and then we see people who are

00:40:12.840 acting in ways that don't seem to

00:40:14.840 make sense for their own best

00:40:16.280 interest or the country, to me,

00:40:19.940 the most logical assumption is

00:40:21.700 some kind of influence.

00:40:24.780 No, I don't think it's mental

00:40:26.000 illness.

00:40:27.220 Not in their case.

00:40:28.540 I mean, there's a lot of TDS,

00:40:29.720 but I don't think Soros has TDS.

00:40:32.580 I doubt Reid Hoffman has TDS.

00:40:35.040 There's something else going on.

00:40:36.160 What about Mark Cuban?

00:40:39.300 He's a mystery, too.

00:40:40.400 Another billionaire mystery.

00:40:42.000 So, he's all in on DEI and

00:40:44.200 diversity.

00:40:45.480 But watching him debate this in

00:40:47.540 public is getting kind of

00:40:48.560 hilarious because his argument

00:40:50.440 keeps getting smaller and

00:40:51.760 smaller because he's trying to

00:40:53.560 find a way to publicly support

00:40:57.080 discrimination.

00:40:58.840 He's trying to support racial

00:41:00.700 discrimination against white

00:41:02.120 people, but make an argument for

00:41:04.200 it.

00:41:05.080 So, here's where he retreated all

00:41:07.060 the way to today.

00:41:08.760 So, he was posting, I guess he

00:41:10.000 was arguing with the rabbit

00:41:11.420 account.

00:41:13.340 He said, hypothetically, all right,

00:41:15.480 you have 30 white male employees

00:41:17.560 and you want to improve, you think

00:41:20.520 you can improve your profitability

00:41:23.300 if instead of having 30 white male

00:41:26.480 employees, if you had at least a

00:41:28.540 black woman, you might get more

00:41:30.160 perspective.

00:41:31.360 You get a diverse perspective and

00:41:33.520 that could help your company.

00:41:34.980 So, he says, are you okay with hiring

00:41:37.200 the black woman?

00:41:38.260 Or would you call that racial

00:41:40.100 discrimination?

00:41:40.840 Let me ask you.

00:41:42.920 You got 30 white male employees

00:41:45.820 and maybe not because you

00:41:48.140 discriminated, it just turned out

00:41:50.100 that way.

00:41:50.820 So, let's just use that as our

00:41:52.200 hypothetical example.

00:41:54.120 And then you say to yourself, you

00:41:55.260 know, I think I could do better work

00:41:57.180 if I had a black woman because she

00:42:00.260 brings some diverse perspective.

00:42:03.120 Is that racial discrimination?

00:42:08.580 Of course it is.

00:42:10.120 By definition.

00:42:11.600 That's exactly what it is.

00:42:13.060 But the question is, should it be

00:42:14.220 okay?

00:42:15.500 Should that very narrowly specific

00:42:17.800 thing where you don't have diverse

00:42:20.600 perspectives but you know you could

00:42:22.800 add it, why do you think you would

00:42:26.760 get the useful diverse perspective

00:42:29.400 from a black woman but not from one

00:42:31.840 of the 30 guys who's already there?

00:42:34.560 What, none of the 30 guys know

00:42:36.420 any black people?

00:42:37.600 They don't have any insight

00:42:39.720 whatsoever into that world?

00:42:41.760 They couldn't ask somebody?

00:42:43.540 No, it's just discrimination.

00:42:46.200 Would it work?

00:42:47.680 Maybe.

00:42:48.940 Is that ever a reason for racial

00:42:51.060 discrimination?

00:42:52.900 Nope.

00:42:55.080 So, I think the argument is, if it

00:42:57.380 could make your company better and

00:42:59.740 you weren't doing it for racial

00:43:01.220 reasons, would it be okay?

00:43:04.860 It could make you more profitable

00:43:06.120 and you're not doing it because

00:43:08.060 you're a racist.

00:43:09.240 You're doing it just to make

00:43:10.800 yourself more profitable.

00:43:12.600 No, it's not okay.

00:43:14.120 That's just racism.

00:43:16.660 Just racism.

00:43:17.980 We don't do that.

00:43:19.300 So, why would Mark Cuban be in

00:43:21.220 favor of something that is so hard

00:43:24.800 to defend?

00:43:25.280 My guess is that he runs businesses

00:43:29.960 that have a lot of diversity in

00:43:31.340 them.

00:43:32.040 And that's the end of the story.

00:43:34.080 If you were the leader of a bunch

00:43:35.660 of companies that really, really

00:43:37.060 value diversity, and you had a lot

00:43:39.040 of diversity, then I would say, yeah,

00:43:42.640 as the leader, you probably want to

00:43:45.640 take into account that the people

00:43:48.540 you lead have this opinion, and

00:43:50.680 supporting them actually makes sense

00:43:52.240 from a business perspective.

00:43:54.540 From other perspectives, you could be

00:43:56.580 mad at it.

00:43:57.200 But it makes perfect sense that if you're

00:43:59.180 a leader of a bunch of diverse people

00:44:00.840 who like diversity, you should be

00:44:02.660 pro-diversity.

00:44:03.240 I think I would be, too, if you put me

00:44:06.120 in the same situation.

00:44:07.740 I'd probably say what he says.

00:44:10.120 Because there would be a lot of, I

00:44:12.560 think there would just be a lot of

00:44:13.440 pressure to support the people that

00:44:14.960 you work with.

00:44:17.340 I think we all understand that.

00:44:21.180 But let me try Mark's, let's try Mark's

00:44:26.980 example.

00:44:27.500 It's very narrow.

00:44:28.880 So let's say you had a basketball team

00:44:30.660 that had only black players on it.

00:44:33.240 And you said to yourself, if we added a

00:44:35.560 white player, we might get some white

00:44:37.220 perspective.

00:44:39.580 Because what if the basketball players

00:44:41.960 are bringing a black perspective to the

00:44:44.060 game?

00:44:44.900 And I'm blind to it because I'm white.

00:44:46.980 So I don't see it.

00:44:48.600 But shouldn't I add a white basketball

00:44:51.140 player who is maybe not as strong as

00:44:54.140 the rest to get that extra perspective?

00:44:59.360 I don't need to answer the question.

00:45:01.180 But I'm pretty sure a basketball team is

00:45:03.840 just picking the best shooters and blockers.

00:45:07.500 Anyway.

00:45:09.800 Putin's going to run again.

00:45:10.900 It looks like he's running for re-election.

00:45:14.700 So the Russia Election Commission is formally

00:45:16.780 registered him for a March election.

00:45:19.780 You know what?

00:45:20.260 I don't like to go out on a limb and make

00:45:22.840 predictions about politics because, you

00:45:25.540 know, a lot could happen.

00:45:26.900 But Putin running for re-election in Russia?

00:45:32.180 I'm going to say I like his chances.

00:45:35.420 I'm going to say I like his chances.

00:45:38.420 I don't know.

00:45:39.520 I'm just going to put myself out there,

00:45:41.160 take a risk.

00:45:42.440 Sometimes you've got to take a risk.

00:45:43.760 I like his chances.

00:45:46.880 Nancy Pelosi is suggesting that we should look

00:45:50.920 into the pro-Palestinian protests because they

00:45:53.080 have a connection to, can you guess?

00:45:56.120 Anybody want to take a guess?

00:45:58.000 Nancy Pelosi, the pro-Palestinian protesters,

00:46:01.660 they might be influenced by somebody from the outside

00:46:06.060 who could be, could it be, could it be Putin?

00:46:10.600 Yes.

00:46:12.840 That is what she's suggesting.

00:46:15.040 Is there evidence?

00:46:17.800 No.

00:46:19.840 But it's an election year.

00:46:22.160 So I'm sure we're going to blame Putin for everything.

00:46:27.220 All right.

00:46:28.320 Here's some fake news about Trump.

00:46:30.980 Surprise.

00:46:31.380 So you've heard the story,

00:46:34.800 and even the GOP lawmakers are believing the story,

00:46:38.400 that Trump is telling people,

00:46:41.560 even his Republican friends,

00:46:43.700 that he doesn't want a border deal

00:46:45.740 because he'd rather run on the issue.

00:46:48.760 Does that sound true to you?

00:46:50.840 Does it sound true

00:46:51.840 that Trump doesn't want to solve the border issue

00:46:55.260 with a bill?

00:46:56.900 He doesn't want to solve it

00:46:58.660 with the legislation that's being proposed.

00:47:00.460 But he wants to run on it instead.

00:47:05.500 All right.

00:47:05.880 So here's what they told us.

00:47:07.200 They said,

00:47:08.240 Trump doesn't want Biden to have a border bill victory.

00:47:11.540 Does that sound true?

00:47:13.300 Trump doesn't want Biden to have a border bill victory.

00:47:17.780 Yeah, of course.

00:47:19.580 Because Biden could run on it.

00:47:23.320 Now, I think that's true.

00:47:24.640 Second part is,

00:47:25.800 does Trump want to run on the issue?

00:47:28.320 Of course.

00:47:28.840 Well, who wouldn't?

00:47:31.400 It's the biggest issue.

00:47:34.680 Well, are we surprised that he wants to run on

00:47:36.560 the biggest issue in the country?

00:47:39.060 No.

00:47:39.840 But what's missing from it?

00:47:42.460 Have you spotted it?

00:47:43.760 Have you spotted the brainwashing propaganda?

00:47:46.580 There's something missing from the story.

00:47:49.180 So the parts they tell us,

00:47:50.760 and this was in The Hill, I think,

00:47:52.360 that he doesn't want Biden to have a legislative victory on the border and that he wants to run on the issue.

00:48:01.920 I think both of those sound true.

00:48:04.120 But here's what's left out.

00:48:07.260 Does Trump think the border bill is good?

00:48:13.640 Isn't that the most important part of the story?

00:48:16.160 Because if Trump thinks the border bill is good and he still wants to kill it so that he can win an election,

00:48:22.340 well, fuck him, I wouldn't support that.

00:48:25.840 Would you?

00:48:26.820 Who would support that?

00:48:28.020 I don't know any Republican who would support that.

00:48:29.980 But isn't the important part of the story,

00:48:34.000 is the legislation being considered making things better or worse?

00:48:39.020 My understanding is it codifies an untenable situation.

00:48:44.080 In other words, it lets in so many people, legally,

00:48:47.460 that we'd still have a huge problem.

00:48:50.220 It wouldn't solve the problem.

00:48:51.260 It would reduce it a little at best.

00:48:54.180 Yeah.

00:48:54.300 So if Trump is against a terrible legislation attempt,

00:49:00.540 and given that he wouldn't want that to be signed under any condition,

00:49:04.060 no matter who was president,

00:49:06.060 is it fair to say that Trump doesn't want Biden to have a border bill victory

00:49:10.180 and that Trump wants to run on the issue?

00:49:12.880 Both true.

00:49:14.800 But if you leave out that the border bill is garbage,

00:49:18.400 it looks like he's just being a jerk.

00:49:20.260 If you know that the border bill makes things worse, not better,

00:49:24.960 then you say, well, of course he wants to run on the issue.

00:49:27.800 Of course he doesn't want Biden to have success passing a bad bill.

00:49:32.940 Like, who exactly is fooled by this?

00:49:37.340 How many of you were fooled by this story,

00:49:39.700 and you didn't realize the part left out is that Trump doesn't like the bill?

00:49:45.180 I'll bet a few of you.

00:49:46.140 I'll bet that even got a lot of Republicans.

00:49:47.760 And it's just so obviously propaganda.

00:49:54.060 Well, here's some fun over in Gaza.

00:49:57.260 Two words you don't think you'll ever hear together.

00:50:00.180 But so it turns out that Al Jazeera is reporting this.

00:50:04.140 Now, if you didn't know,

00:50:06.220 Al Jazeera is considered one of the most reliable news outlets.

00:50:13.600 Were you aware of that?

00:50:14.860 That people who pay attention call Al Jazeera one of the most reliable,

00:50:20.240 but with the exception of Israel stuff.

00:50:24.360 If Al Jazeera is reporting on Israel,

00:50:27.440 that's not necessarily where they're going to be objective.

00:50:31.840 But on other stuff, if it has nothing to do with Israel,

00:50:34.360 they're actually considered a good news source by a lot of people.

00:50:38.000 I'm not agreeing with that.

00:50:39.520 I'm just telling you that serious people think it's a good news source,

00:50:44.000 except about the Middle East.

00:50:47.620 But they're reporting that several members of the Israeli government

00:50:51.680 are on the same side as far-right people

00:50:55.680 who want to resettle Gaza

00:50:57.840 and make it basically an Israeli settlement,

00:51:02.960 just never give it back to the Palestinians.

00:51:05.200 Are you surprised?

00:51:08.500 Are you surprised?

00:51:12.020 Yeah.

00:51:12.760 I don't see how this wouldn't happen.

00:51:16.440 It seems like terrible timing.

00:51:18.560 If I were these right-wing people,

00:51:20.780 I'm not sure I would be doing this in public

00:51:23.300 during the middle of a hot war.

00:51:25.540 That feels like a bad idea.

00:51:27.940 So I'm a little suspicious how much of this is true news,

00:51:32.860 given the source.

00:51:35.920 But I wouldn't be surprised if people are pushing

00:51:38.240 to keep Gaza an Israeli outpost or settlement, I guess.

00:51:44.700 In the long run, I think that's what's going to happen.

00:51:49.060 All right.

00:51:49.760 Here's a Civil War update on Texas versus the rest of the country.

00:51:54.020 I predicted that I told you that men

00:51:58.020 are always fighting wars in their head.

00:52:01.420 So even if nobody's punching or shooting,

00:52:03.520 we're always at war,

00:52:04.960 sort of a continuous state of what if this,

00:52:07.780 could I beat this person?

00:52:09.460 What if somebody comes in here with a gun?

00:52:11.200 What do I do?

00:52:11.740 We're always thinking how to defend ourselves.

00:52:14.740 It's just natural.

00:52:15.440 So I predicted that the men

00:52:22.040 who were going to protect the Texas border

00:52:24.380 would prevail over Biden,

00:52:26.440 and that Biden couldn't overrule them.

00:52:28.240 It would just be too politically dangerous.

00:52:30.900 And that the Texans have decided

00:52:33.260 that they're going to close the border,

00:52:35.740 which is different from wanting it closed

00:52:38.040 and different from complaining

00:52:40.940 and different from proposing a way to close it.

00:52:44.240 Those are all wants.

00:52:47.160 Texas apparently has decided.

00:52:49.640 And once you've decided,

00:52:51.580 then you will do whatever it takes.

00:52:54.620 And if the Biden administration wants to stop Texas,

00:52:58.560 they're going to have to use violence at this point.

00:53:02.240 And I don't see any way that that makes sense

00:53:04.160 in an election year, especially.

00:53:05.620 So to me, it was obvious that Texas would win this battle

00:53:10.680 in the limited sense that the government

00:53:13.720 is not going to take down their wire fence,

00:53:15.720 at least during the election year.

00:53:17.580 So it looks like that's where it's headed.

00:53:19.600 Can't be sure yet.

00:53:20.880 But I think the wire is going to stay up.

00:53:24.220 However, in Rasmussen reports,

00:53:27.500 the 69% of likely U.S. voters

00:53:29.360 support Texas erecting their own barriers.

00:53:32.340 Now, slightly less, 55% agree with the quote

00:53:38.160 that Clay Higgins said,

00:53:45.000 the feds are staging a civil war

00:53:46.780 and Texas should stand their ground.

00:53:49.120 55% of the likely voters

00:53:52.080 say Texas should stand its ground

00:53:55.020 basically even if it's violent.

00:53:58.440 Imagine being the president

00:54:01.860 trying to solve this problem

00:54:03.880 and 55% of the electorate

00:54:06.960 says if it comes to violence,

00:54:09.440 they don't say that directly,

00:54:10.900 but that's how I interpret it,

00:54:13.300 that if it comes to violence,

00:54:15.300 they're going to back the state

00:54:16.600 over the federal government.

00:54:19.200 And if I haven't said it directly,

00:54:20.920 I'll say it right now.

00:54:22.100 If it comes to violence,

00:54:24.000 I'm going to back Texas

00:54:25.260 over the federal government.

00:54:26.400 I don't want to be any ambiguity about that.

00:54:31.260 Texas over the federal government

00:54:33.160 on the border issue.

00:54:34.720 Now, I'm not looking for Texas

00:54:36.120 to secede from the union.

00:54:38.020 That's not my first choice.

00:54:40.500 But if the bullets start flying,

00:54:42.720 I'm on Texas' side, period,

00:54:45.960 because they're in the right.

00:54:48.060 That's just the way it has to be.

00:54:50.660 And with that understanding,

00:54:52.760 I believe that at least the men

00:54:55.220 in the administration are going

00:54:56.600 to assess the situation

00:54:58.440 exactly as I just did,

00:55:00.340 and they're going to say,

00:55:01.300 we could use our bullets,

00:55:03.020 and we could start locking people up

00:55:04.840 like the governor,

00:55:05.920 but if we do,

00:55:07.240 it's going to get really wet,

00:55:08.760 and it's not going to be good for us.

00:55:10.600 So I think that's,

00:55:11.900 I think Texas is heading for

00:55:13.620 something like, you know,

00:55:16.080 a temporary victory on the border.

00:55:18.760 Now, of course,

00:55:19.420 that will just push people

00:55:20.400 to other border openings,

00:55:21.620 so it won't do much

00:55:22.560 for the overall immigration,

00:55:25.280 except it will create a model

00:55:27.240 where other states

00:55:29.040 could emulate it.

00:55:30.940 Obviously, California won't.

00:55:32.960 So as long as California is open,

00:55:35.860 you know,

00:55:36.140 everybody can get in

00:55:37.080 if they want to.

00:55:39.740 All right, so the other thing is,

00:55:42.760 there's this,

00:55:43.820 I haven't heard too much about it,

00:55:45.640 but the trucker protest.

00:55:47.980 Apparently, there's going to be

00:55:48.960 an American version

00:55:49.940 of the Canadian truckers,

00:55:51.380 but maybe some of the Canadian truckers

00:55:52.920 are helping,

00:55:54.080 and I don't know how big it is

00:55:55.840 or how organized it is

00:55:57.060 or who organized it,

00:55:58.120 but I'm a little bit suspicious about it

00:56:00.900 because it feels a little bit like a trap.

00:56:04.500 I'm worried that the truckers

00:56:06.400 are just putting a target on their backs

00:56:08.260 like the January 6th people did

00:56:09.960 and that what the Democrats really want

00:56:12.660 is some violence

00:56:14.080 from some right-leaning people.

00:56:17.620 That would be their

00:56:18.540 orgasmic, perfect situation.

00:56:21.260 Oh, can we get some violence going

00:56:23.020 from people who like Trump?

00:56:25.420 So I would worry

00:56:26.520 that the trucker thing

00:56:27.640 is not as organic

00:56:29.120 and grassroots as it looks.

00:56:32.280 There might be something behind it

00:56:34.280 that's a malign influence,

00:56:36.840 so I'd be concerned about that.

00:56:39.880 And under today's environment,

00:56:42.660 I don't think I would protest anything

00:56:45.200 unless you were down

00:56:47.500 to win at all costs.

00:56:51.560 And usually protests

00:56:52.640 are not a win at all costs

00:56:54.000 because all costs includes,

00:56:55.460 you know, all costs.

00:56:58.320 Generally, our protests

00:56:59.240 are about talking

00:57:00.060 and we want a political solution.

00:57:02.960 So in our current environment,

00:57:05.540 protesting for a political solution

00:57:07.640 is just painting a target on your back

00:57:10.220 because we don't have free speech

00:57:11.480 the way we used to.

00:57:12.660 Now you've got a jail.

00:57:14.800 We've got jails that got

00:57:16.340 quite a few political protesters in it

00:57:18.500 called the January 6th people.

00:57:20.340 Now, of course,

00:57:21.440 if you're a Democrat

00:57:22.500 and you're a fucking idiot

00:57:23.860 and you wandered into this live stream,

00:57:25.760 you're saying,

00:57:26.520 but, but, Scott,

00:57:27.840 but, but,

00:57:28.400 they committed some crimes.

00:57:31.020 I'm sorry they did this to you.

00:57:33.200 I really am.

00:57:34.120 I'm genuinely,

00:57:35.720 I look at the Democrats as victims,

00:57:38.660 to be so brainwashed

00:57:40.760 into thinking that,

00:57:43.160 you know,

00:57:43.520 either all the people in jail

00:57:45.020 committed an actual crime.

00:57:47.420 How could you think that?

00:57:49.160 Of course there were some crimes

00:57:50.640 and those people

00:57:51.460 will deal with the justice system

00:57:53.420 as they should.

00:57:54.640 But no,

00:57:56.020 the January 6th jailings

00:57:57.740 are not legitimate.

00:58:00.080 They're political.

00:58:01.520 Purely political.

00:58:02.720 Yeah.

00:58:03.320 And,

00:58:03.920 and we do have

00:58:05.380 a potential solution to it.

00:58:08.080 And I'll,

00:58:08.720 I've said this before,

00:58:09.560 but I'll say it again.

00:58:11.240 I would support Trump

00:58:12.800 if every one of his policies

00:58:14.660 were wrong,

00:58:15.860 but he supported

00:58:17.220 pardons for the jailed people,

00:58:19.840 including,

00:58:20.480 you know,

00:58:21.140 Peter Navarro.

00:58:22.860 If he just said that,

00:58:24.380 I'd say,

00:58:24.860 okay,

00:58:25.140 the first thing we have to fix

00:58:26.440 is free speech.

00:58:28.160 So fix that.

00:58:29.880 Get the,

00:58:30.120 get the free speech

00:58:30.980 protesters in a jail.

00:58:32.420 And I'd say Navarro too.

00:58:34.120 I don't think he's

00:58:35.000 legitimately charged.

00:58:36.060 Now,

00:58:37.100 when I say legitimate,

00:58:38.040 I don't mean that there isn't

00:58:39.120 some technical violation.

00:58:40.580 I just mean it wouldn't be,

00:58:41.680 it wouldn't be addressed

00:58:42.640 the same way.

00:58:44.060 Yeah.

00:58:44.260 They're more like hostages.

00:58:45.360 You're right.

00:58:47.320 So I probably would have

00:58:48.680 supported

00:58:49.480 whoever was a Republican candidate,

00:58:51.700 Levesque or Trump

00:58:52.480 or whoever it was,

00:58:53.620 who would just pardon them.

00:58:54.840 Because you got to fix

00:58:55.960 free speech first.

00:58:57.860 That's first.

00:58:59.500 If you don't get that,

00:59:00.680 everything else is

00:59:01.480 unfixable.

00:59:03.640 So,

00:59:04.720 yeah,

00:59:04.940 policies are a bonus

00:59:06.040 if you like Trump's policies.

00:59:07.660 I'm not even sure

00:59:08.540 I'll ever argue them.

00:59:10.540 I mean,

00:59:11.160 immigration is obvious,

00:59:12.220 so I'll argue that one.

00:59:13.420 But I don't know

00:59:14.340 what to do in Ukraine.

00:59:15.800 Not really.

00:59:17.000 I don't know what to do

00:59:17.760 anywhere else.

00:59:18.460 Not really.

00:59:19.040 I'm not sure anybody does.

00:59:20.800 But,

00:59:21.300 if we could get you

00:59:22.480 that one thing,

00:59:23.700 just the one thing,

00:59:24.640 we have to reverse

00:59:25.480 the January 6th hoax.

00:59:27.800 Because the January 6th hoax

00:59:29.340 is maybe the worst thing

00:59:31.160 that I've ever seen

00:59:32.100 happen to the country.

00:59:35.480 You know,

00:59:35.740 violence,

00:59:36.260 of course,

00:59:36.520 always looks worse.

00:59:37.380 But in the,

00:59:38.640 in terms of the Republic,

00:59:41.660 I think even McCarthyism

00:59:43.880 maybe wasn't as bad

00:59:45.800 as January 6th.

00:59:47.620 Not the attack,

00:59:48.760 the hoax of it.

00:59:50.300 The attack was,

00:59:51.800 you know,

00:59:52.400 had some violence

00:59:53.160 and that's bad.

00:59:54.160 But what was worse

00:59:55.260 was that it was treated

00:59:56.040 as an insurrection

00:59:57.500 when it clearly

00:59:58.280 was a protest

00:59:59.080 to protect the country,

01:00:00.220 and not overthrow it.

01:00:04.740 Somebody,

01:00:05.300 somebody says,

01:00:06.140 you looked at Al Jazeera

01:00:07.400 and the first article

01:00:08.260 was about climate change

01:00:09.480 in Sierra Leone.

01:00:12.640 All right.

01:00:17.400 Razor wire can be easily

01:00:18.880 mended with bailing wire.

01:00:20.320 Is that true?

01:00:22.840 Maybe it is.

01:00:24.380 You can fix it

01:00:25.100 with razor wire, too.

01:00:27.820 All right,

01:00:28.280 ladies and gentlemen,

01:00:29.060 this concludes

01:00:29.720 the best short

01:00:31.540 live stream

01:00:32.100 you're going to see today.

01:00:33.600 Hope you learned

01:00:34.160 something about persuasion.

01:00:36.680 That's always my goal,

01:00:37.940 to make you smarter

01:00:38.740 than watching regular news.

01:00:40.860 And I'm going to say

01:00:41.840 bye now

01:00:42.360 to the three platforms.

01:00:47.540 I'm going to say

01:00:48.400 bye to YouTube,

01:00:50.060 Rumble,

01:00:50.800 and the X platform.

01:00:53.340 Thanks for joining.

01:00:54.700 And we'll see you again tomorrow

01:00:56.060 for another amazing

01:00:57.340 live stream.

01:00:58.520 Thank you for joining us.

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