Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2369 CWSA 01⧸30⧸24

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

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00:00:43.420 Go.

00:00:47.380 Oh, that's so good.

00:00:48.920 So good.

00:00:51.920 Possibly one of the best ever.

00:00:55.360 Well, I got lots of stories today, so I'm going to breeze right through them.

00:00:58.920 Today we got a theme.

00:01:00.540 The show's always better when there's a theme.

00:01:02.460 You're going to like it.

00:01:03.940 But first, the weather.

00:01:05.940 So yesterday was 72 degrees in Northern California, where I live.

00:01:10.360 Today I think it's going to be about 68 or so, the high.

00:01:15.380 And, you know, when I was a kid, we used to call this Indian summer.

00:01:20.140 Some people complain and say, no, it's only Indian summer if it's in the autumn.

00:01:24.020 But I'm telling you what we called it.

00:01:27.360 I'm not saying what you called it.

00:01:31.080 Where I grew up, if it was winter and it was unseasonably warm, especially in January,

00:01:37.040 we'd call it Indian summer.

00:01:39.680 But, of course, that was racist. 0.79

00:01:41.800 Super racist.

00:01:42.680 It's not Indian summer. 0.99

00:01:45.980 If anything, it's Native American summer.

00:01:48.780 But apparently we were racist back then and didn't know it.

00:01:53.140 But we were also scientifically illiterate.

00:01:56.600 Because what I thought was just a normal thing,

00:02:00.060 whereas sometimes it gets warmer in the summer, or the winter, I mean,

00:02:03.200 it's no longer called Indian summer.

00:02:06.500 It's called, checking notes, climate change.

00:02:10.340 Climate change.

00:02:12.260 So if you have a warm day, like every other winter in your entire life,

00:02:18.180 now it's called climate change.

00:02:20.840 So remember that.

00:02:23.240 Here's a little update on AI.

00:02:24.820 I am going to be your guinea pig who represents a citizen who is not a technical expert

00:02:32.900 trying to use AI as a normal person.

00:02:37.600 So far, not quite as easy as you dope.

00:02:43.040 So I spend much of the day using an app called Descript.

00:02:48.480 So it's like description, but without the I-O-N at the end.

00:02:52.660 And it's really powerful.

00:02:53.980 It does a whole bunch of things to your videos.

00:02:55.840 So it can replace words that you got wrong with your own voice, which is amazing.

00:03:01.340 It can get rid of your ahs and ums.

00:03:03.620 It can compress it.

00:03:05.260 It just does like, I don't know, maybe 10 different things

00:03:08.560 that you would very much want your video to be able to do.

00:03:13.380 So I spent a few hours yesterday trying to learn it.

00:03:16.480 And my first take is, I think the AI apps have rushed interfaces.

00:03:21.280 Meaning that I think a lot of people were trying to get the technology to market pretty fast,

00:03:27.640 which makes sense, because it's sort of a gold rush.

00:03:30.160 And I think the interface quality, the user interface, maybe needs a little work.

00:03:37.480 So for example, using Descript, it does all those things.

00:03:40.500 It really does have a lot of power.

00:03:41.740 But if you were trying to do what I was trying to do, which is take a live video that I create

00:03:48.120 in the morning like this, and then within a few hours, add timestamps and get rid of the

00:03:54.700 imperfections and improve the quality and do all the things it can do, it would kind of

00:03:59.380 take you all day.

00:04:00.200 Now, if the app worked really fast and did everything you thought it would do and it was easy to use and

00:04:08.080 all that, you know, it would probably take half an hour, something like that.

00:04:13.740 But getting through the interface and getting through the bugs, it's really hard to crawl through it.

00:04:21.540 So I don't think it's quite there for an average user.

00:04:25.320 You know, I'm probably an above average user for my age, you know, age adjusted.

00:04:32.080 And it's too hard to use.

00:04:35.080 It's actually too hard to use for, I would say, 70 to 80% of the public.

00:04:43.720 Now, I will use it, and I can use it, and I'll spend a few more days to know how to use it properly.

00:04:49.600 But I don't know that it will ever work fast enough that I can turn my live video into something

00:04:55.900 while it's still relevant the same day.

00:04:58.580 We'll see.

00:04:59.520 I'll keep you informed.

00:05:02.640 But I can tell you just playing with it that the few things it does are just mind-boggling.

00:05:07.880 I just have to learn how to get through the interface.

00:05:10.040 It's kind of tough.

00:05:11.640 Neuralink, you know Elon Musk's product that puts a little chip in your skull?

00:05:17.380 Well, the first human brain implant has happened, and it's too early to know if it worked.

00:05:24.320 But the idea, I think, is for people who are paralyzed, if I'm correct.

00:05:28.800 I think the first use is paralyzed people trying to get control of their bodies,

00:05:33.180 and there was some early indication it might be the early stage of beginning to work.

00:05:38.500 But that was not why I mentioned it.

00:05:41.140 I feel like Elon Musk is a one-man Overton window.

00:05:44.680 He has so many different businesses, and they're all relevant to something that's happening in the news,

00:05:52.700 that no matter what he's doing in one business, if he wants to change the topic,

00:05:56.960 he can just make some news in his other business.

00:06:00.820 Oh, you don't like something about his electric cars?

00:06:03.540 Well, I just put a chip in somebody's head.

00:06:06.300 Oh, you don't like something he's doing in space?

00:06:09.000 He just puts satellites up to put internet to everywhere, including war zones.

00:06:15.040 He's like a one-man Overton window.

00:06:16.720 He can actually control the news by his own news.

00:06:21.740 He can divert you from anything he doesn't want you to think about just by what he's doing today.

00:06:29.060 It's the damnedest power.

00:06:30.460 Anyway, so Ilan Omar, who came from Somalia, is trying to correct people. 0.58

00:06:40.820 And in a post, she says,

00:06:42.620 FYI, Somali people are called Somalis, not Somalians.

00:06:49.060 If you're going to talk about us, at least try to get the ethnicity right. 0.98

00:06:53.060 Thank you.

00:06:53.520 All right, so there are Somalese, not Somalians. 0.71

00:06:59.100 But then I have a question.

00:07:01.420 What is a Somalier? 0.99

00:07:05.140 Now, I don't know the answer to that, but somebody suggested it's some kind of a wine pirate.

00:07:11.860 Or it's somebody who helps you pick the alcohol that will make you forget Somalia. 0.90

00:07:18.320 I think it's one of those things.

00:07:19.660 We don't know.

00:07:20.140 But while we're trying to figure out the world, and Michael Malice is helping us with a new acronym.

00:07:26.820 You've heard of DINCs, right?

00:07:29.320 Dual Income No Kids, that they call a DINK. 1.00

00:07:33.880 And there are other little funny things like that.

00:07:38.700 But Michael Malice has a new one for affluent white female liberals. 1.00

00:07:44.180 A-W-F-L. 1.00

00:07:45.820 He calls them awfuls.

00:07:47.380 A-W-F-Ls. 1.00

00:07:48.780 So the awfuls are the suburban moms who have this collective mental illness. 1.00

00:07:54.760 And Michael Malice was on trigonometry recently. 0.99

00:07:57.940 And he said about the awfuls, he said, for them, having a trans kid is like winning the lottery.

00:08:03.460 I've been laughing about that for two days. 0.98

00:08:09.420 For the awfuls, having a trans kid is like winning the lottery. 1.00

00:08:15.180 Because it's all about their attention and their awesomeness and some kind of thing. 0.97

00:08:21.340 Anyway.

00:08:25.580 The awfuls.

00:08:27.160 Now, how important is it that this group of people gets a nickname, like the Karens or the awfuls?

00:08:33.960 It's the sort of thing that, if it caught on, could really actually change society.

00:08:39.660 Yeah.

00:08:40.140 You wouldn't want to be an awful.

00:08:42.640 It's actually a really powerful frame.

00:08:46.240 So Michael Malice knows how to do this stuff.

00:08:48.560 So pay attention to him.

00:08:49.520 Well, apparently, the so-called trucker convoy is on its way to help Texas reinforce the border.

00:08:57.780 Now, one estimate by an organizer, Craig Hudgens, is that they might have 40,000 truckers.

00:09:05.140 40,000.

00:09:07.100 And so I quickly did some math.

00:09:09.660 And I said to myself, how long is a truck, a tractor and trailer?

00:09:15.000 The answer is about 53 feet.

00:09:17.560 So if you took 40,000 trucks and you put them end to end, it would be over 2 million miles of trucks.

00:09:28.520 No, not miles.

00:09:30.600 2 million feet.

00:09:32.060 It would be over 2 million feet of trucks.

00:09:35.240 Which would be approximately 400 miles of trucks.

00:09:41.740 How long is the border itself?

00:09:43.520 Like 2,200 miles?

00:09:44.920 They're bringing 400 miles of trucks.

00:09:49.460 Just leave them there.

00:09:51.500 You're about 20% done with the job.

00:09:53.560 Just leave the trucks. 0.81

00:09:54.880 Just put a little barbed wire on top, maybe underneath a little bit.

00:09:57.960 And you're done.

00:09:59.820 So we'll see what happens there.

00:10:01.540 I worry about the truckers being, you know, doxxed and being debanked.

00:10:05.920 And by the way, to the writers at Saturday Night Live, debanked.

00:10:12.960 It's a real word in the real world.

00:10:17.560 All right.

00:10:18.220 Getting to my theme of the day.

00:10:20.460 Axios, which is allegedly a news organization, marginally, put together sort of a, I guess it'd be an article,

00:10:31.440 about people they call the techno-optimists, because they couldn't figure out what to call them.

00:10:37.560 And they are the so-called high-tech, often rich people, and I guess their universe.

00:10:47.240 People who are changing politics.

00:10:49.820 And here are the names that they put on the list.

00:10:51.760 Barry Weiss and Nellie Bowles, who apparently are married, but they're sort of in this alternative news universe

00:11:00.760 that they're trying to call the techno-optimists.

00:11:03.700 Now, the names that they mention in this universe, just listen to these names and see what they have in common.

00:11:09.920 Joe Rogan.

00:11:11.520 Bill Ackman, hedge fund guy.

00:11:14.300 Elon Musk.

00:11:15.840 David Sachs.

00:11:17.280 Mark Andreessen.

00:11:18.140 Ben Horowitz.

00:11:19.260 Matt Taibbi.

00:11:20.160 Glenn Greenwald.

00:11:22.160 Lex Friedman.

00:11:24.080 And the other people on the All In podcast.

00:11:28.340 What do they have in common?

00:11:30.760 Well, according to Axios, they're the techno-optimists.

00:11:35.580 And they're gaining political power because more and more people are sort of watching them.

00:11:42.840 But here's some other interesting things they have in common.

00:11:46.060 Many of them seem to have started as Democrats.

00:11:53.360 So Joe Rogan was actually just recently saying he used to be deep blue, but California went crazy, so he couldn't stick with it anymore.

00:12:06.040 And so Joe Rogan was out.

00:12:07.760 Bill Ackman was Democrat until, well, he's still a Democrat.

00:12:11.020 But when Harvard went all DEI crazy, he kind of got woke, or he woke up, I guess.

00:12:21.620 Elon Musk was always a Democrat, but now he's more about what works.

00:12:26.740 I don't know about David Sachs, but I don't see him as a lifetime Republican.

00:12:33.100 I don't know what he is.

00:12:34.140 Probably independent.

00:12:36.240 Then you got Mark Andreessen, Ben Horowitz, big hedge fund guys.

00:12:40.500 Then you got Matt Taibbi, Democrat.

00:12:44.420 Glenn Greenwald, lifetime Democrat.

00:12:49.080 Now, don't you think that they should have mentioned somewhere in the article how many of these came from Democrat worlds that they escaped? 1.00

00:12:59.780 I feel like you guys, some of you are such assholes, honestly. 0.99

00:13:07.380 You couldn't get through this without yelling Jews. 1.00

00:13:11.900 A lot of Jews in that list, people are telling me in the comments. 0.99

00:13:17.060 Suspicious bunch of Jews. 1.00

00:13:19.340 Is there anything you can't see that way?

00:13:22.420 Because, you know, almost all the news is about successful people.

00:13:27.300 Almost all of the news has at least one rich, political, successful person.

00:13:34.460 Right?

00:13:34.920 There's going to be a lot of Jews in there.

00:13:37.380 Do you think you can handle that?

00:13:41.800 It doesn't always have to be about your worldwide global Jewish conspiracy. 0.99

00:13:47.300 Not every single fucking story. 0.99

00:13:50.220 Sometimes you can let it rest. 0.99

00:13:52.840 This would be one of those times.

00:13:54.780 Just let it rest.

00:13:56.980 Jesus.

00:13:58.780 Anyway.

00:13:59.080 So, here's what I think they got wrong in the story.

00:14:03.560 But they're close.

00:14:04.460 They're sniffing in the right place.

00:14:06.200 These techno-optimists are not, that's not what unites them.

00:14:10.440 Here's what unites the techno-optimists, as they call them.

00:14:14.020 They're all dads.

00:14:15.620 I think.

00:14:16.360 I don't know that for sure.

00:14:19.320 But I think every one of them is literally a father.

00:14:23.060 And I think that's what actually binds them together, is that they're seeing that there's a tremendous failure on the part of the elected people, the people in charge.

00:14:35.040 And I think it's not, the reason it doesn't look political, like you can't sort out who's a Democrat, who's a Republican, and this group of people.

00:14:43.720 The reason you can't sort it out is that that's not the organizing principle.

00:14:48.220 Right?

00:14:48.360 The organizing principle is that they're mostly dads.

00:14:53.920 Now, there are two married women who are married to each other on the list. 1.00

00:15:00.240 And I don't know if they plan to have any children, but they're fairly, I don't think they've been married that long.

00:15:10.960 But anyway, the point is, people with kids seems like people with kids.

00:15:15.380 So, and I don't know if they figured out who the, they also left out, and I think this is important, a whole bunch of independent journalists who I'm quite sure are the ones influencing this group.

00:15:32.020 So, what Axios is getting a little bit right, but they're missing at least half of the story, is that these are a group of people who are being influenced also by something.

00:15:43.280 They're not just the people who are influencing others, they're also being influenced.

00:15:49.180 And the people that they're being influenced by are lesser famous.

00:15:52.680 You know, a lot of the independent, you know, journalists that I tweet all the time.

00:15:59.300 So, I think that part of the story is missing, the growth of the independent journalists.

00:16:03.440 All right, so here's my theme of the day.

00:16:07.240 What would cause the rise of all these internet dads?

00:16:10.720 What is it that all these people, these so-called techno-optimists, what got them interested in speaking out in politics more than they ever have?

00:16:21.480 What's different?

00:16:22.660 Well, part of it, as Axios points out, the podcasting world is bigger, and that gives a whole new, you know, power network.

00:16:30.240 So, that's part of it, but let's look at some other things that are happening in the world that might have activated the internet dads.

00:16:38.980 Let's see if there's anything happening in the world that you might look at and say, uh-oh, it looks like that's not going to take care of itself.

00:16:47.320 It looks like maybe I need to get involved here.

00:16:50.720 I didn't really want to be.

00:16:51.840 I'd rather just do my techno stuff, but maybe I need to get involved.

00:16:55.980 Let's look at a few things.

00:16:57.040 Gavin Newsom reminds us that the economy is booming, inflation is cooling, and, oh, my God, is the economy looking good.

00:17:06.380 If you were a member of the economy and you talk to anybody who's, you know, younger than 65 and doesn't have a fortune already, they're going to tell you that they don't feel like the economy is good.

00:17:23.340 I do understand that some of the numbers are looking positive, but that doesn't seem to be working out in people's actual life experience.

00:17:31.260 If you're young, buying a house looks largely impossible.

00:17:36.900 So could it be that people are realizing they've been gaslit on this economy situation?

00:17:46.720 Do they believe that President Biden delivered them the good economy, or are they saying, hey, I feel like our government is lying to us?

00:17:55.900 Hmm.

00:17:56.080 So what exactly did Biden do to improve the economy?

00:18:01.040 Go.

00:18:02.260 Tell me in the comments all the things you're aware of that Biden did that specifically helped the economy.

00:18:09.700 Go.

00:18:11.360 I can't think of anything.

00:18:13.860 I know the Fed lowered interest rates, but the Fed operates independently somewhat.

00:18:19.880 Right?

00:18:20.240 So they can't take credit for the Fed.

00:18:22.440 Was it the, oh, the infrastructure bill that has barely been spent?

00:18:33.220 What?

00:18:34.520 Did he lower taxes?

00:18:35.980 No.

00:18:37.620 Did he lower, let's say, regulations?

00:18:41.580 Did he, no, he didn't decrease regulations.

00:18:44.080 He may have increased them.

00:18:45.040 Did he improve the, let's say, the operation of the free market?

00:18:52.180 No.

00:18:53.220 He pushed DEI and ESG, which are really a drag on the market.

00:18:59.380 You know, sort of an unproductive thing that the business has to do.

00:19:02.480 So maybe the reason that the techno-optimists are involved is because they see that the news is lying to people.

00:19:12.240 And they're just trying to explain what's really happening in the world because it's useful to know what's real.

00:19:18.760 Is there any other reason that people would think the government couldn't handle it on its own?

00:19:23.000 Well, let's see.

00:19:24.100 We've got an exclusive story here.

00:19:25.600 Apparently, the federal governments have caught this al-Shabaab, al-Shabaab terrorist, who was caught at the border and then released to Rome freely for a year before he was arrested in Minnesota a few days ago.

00:19:41.880 So our government is allowing known terrorists into the country.

00:19:46.340 I wonder what would cause the Internet dads to think they needed to get involved.

00:19:50.740 Could it be that their government is allowing massive numbers of military-aged people into the country, and some of them are known terrorists, and they're letting them free?

00:20:00.600 I mean, that's the sort of thing that would make you say, hey, maybe I should get involved.

00:20:09.280 Kamala Harris reminds us what is at stake in the 2024 election.

00:20:14.900 Freedom.

00:20:16.420 Freedom is on the ballot.

00:20:19.300 Yeah.

00:20:19.460 Do you know why Kamala Harris says that freedom is on the ballot?

00:20:24.700 Because they don't have any policy issues to run on.

00:20:28.740 They don't have any success to run on that's real, that isn't just gaslighting because we're coming off a pandemic, and everything gets better after a pandemic.

00:20:38.800 Yeah.

00:20:39.000 When one party has to say stuff like, freedom is on the ballot, and they can't say stuff like, close the border.

00:20:49.460 Right?

00:20:51.160 What does Trump say?

00:20:53.520 Close the border.

00:20:56.200 That's a real thing.

00:20:57.360 That's a thing you could do.

00:20:58.780 You could do it or not do it, but it's a real thing.

00:21:01.720 But no, Kamala Harris wants you to think their freedom is on the ballot.

00:21:05.060 Well, but at least the government is spending our money well, you know, when they're not gaslighting us.

00:21:13.520 See, let's see how well they're spending our money.

00:21:15.820 Oh, well, five Ukrainian officials have been arrested over a theft of $40 million in war funds as Ukrainian corruption continues.

00:21:26.120 So, I don't want to make a big deal of this, but Russia has never stolen my money that I know of, that I know of.

00:21:40.720 Russia has never taken a dime from me.

00:21:43.840 Not really.

00:21:44.400 But the Ukrainians have taken $40 million of tax money, some of which was mine. 0.84

00:21:51.460 I paid some of those taxes.

00:21:53.640 So, Ukraine is stealing money from me while I'm funding their defense.

00:22:00.780 You know, that's the sort of thing that would make an Internet dad want to get involved.

00:22:05.160 Because you look at the government and you say, are we really not accounting for the billions of dollars we're giving to other countries while we're falling apart?

00:22:15.280 Yeah, that'll get your Internet dad's involved.

00:22:18.720 How about this?

00:22:19.600 House Republicans and the House Democrats are still trying to negotiate some kind of a border deal.

00:22:29.500 A border deal?

00:22:30.600 Well, apparently Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House, Republican, thinks they can get some kind of a border deal done if they, you know, maybe if the Ukraine funding is part of the deal.

00:22:44.960 Let me give you some advice from an Internet dad, because apparently the government needs it.

00:22:54.600 You don't negotiate your personal security.

00:22:57.300 There are things you do negotiate.

00:23:01.760 For example, money, money, power, who does what, what policies we'll put into play, that stuff.

00:23:13.040 Do you know what you don't negotiate on?

00:23:16.540 How many terrorists you let into the country?

00:23:19.640 How many people we don't know what their intentions are or what they would do into the country?

00:23:25.460 That is physical security.

00:23:28.400 You don't negotiate physical security.

00:23:33.040 Do you know who knows that?

00:23:34.940 A guy who wrote a book on negotiating.

00:23:37.980 Trump.

00:23:39.260 He doesn't negotiate physical security.

00:23:44.640 In what world do adults negotiate physical security?

00:23:53.320 That's not an adult action.

00:23:55.460 Absolutely not adult.

00:23:58.760 Do you know what you need?

00:23:59.600 You need some techno-optimists to tell you this is not a negotiation topic.

00:24:06.320 You don't say, oh, if you give us some Ukraine funding, we'll reduce the number of murderers coming into your country by a little bit. 0.96

00:24:14.020 No, zero is the right fucking number until we get a handle on it. 0.98

00:24:20.760 And then, of course, I'd like a healthy flow of immigrants in the future if we can vet them and know who they are and get rid of terrorists. 1.00

00:24:30.120 But no, if you've got Republicans and Democrats, both parties, who think that physical security of the country is something they can negotiate on,

00:24:42.800 You need somebody, an adult, to tell you what you negotiate on and what you don't.

00:24:52.600 Let me give you another example.

00:24:54.100 Fentanyl coming into the country.

00:24:58.400 Both Trump and Biden got that wrong. 0.99

00:25:03.300 So this, you know, I'm going to shit on Trump for a minute. 0.99

00:25:06.100 Neither of them stopped it. 0.98

00:25:07.600 Do you know why they didn't stop it?

00:25:09.200 They acted like it's negotiable.

00:25:12.040 You know, China, you know, you should do this and maybe we could be better friends. 0.99

00:25:16.580 No, you should close their embassies, send them home, send every fucking Chinese citizen home until there's no more fentanyl coming in the country. 0.99

00:25:24.780 Why are we negotiating that? 1.00

00:25:27.140 Stop negotiating things that are not negotiations.

00:25:30.820 That's crazy.

00:25:33.460 All right.

00:25:34.020 So maybe you do need some Internet dads.

00:25:36.500 How about Gaza?

00:25:42.800 It's the same thing.

00:25:43.980 Why is there anybody in our government suggesting to Israel that they shouldn't negotiate with what would be a nation of terrorists living on their border who would certainly try to regroup and do it again? 0.59

00:25:59.520 Who in the world is telling Israel that they shouldn't negotiate?

00:26:05.080 Again, this is physical security.

00:26:08.360 These are not negotiations.

00:26:10.080 And Israel is smart enough to know that. 0.68

00:26:12.000 So they're not.

00:26:13.040 And don't expect them to.

00:26:16.260 Do not expect them to negotiate.

00:26:19.820 That would be insane.

00:26:21.620 And they're not going to.

00:26:22.580 I don't think they will.

00:26:26.320 Let's see.

00:26:27.820 TikTok apparently said it walled off the U.S. data so that China wouldn't have access to any of the Chinese companies' data.

00:26:38.440 Well, it turns out that some employees say the data is still sometimes shared with its China-based parent.

00:26:46.080 How about that's a big surprise?

00:26:48.540 How about that's a really big surprise?

00:26:51.120 Do you know how you can tell if TikTok has access to sensitive data and it's giving it to China?

00:26:58.140 Do you know how you can tell?

00:26:59.080 Well, because it's China and it's sensitive data.

00:27:03.500 Do you know who needs to explain that to you?

00:27:07.940 An internet dad.

00:27:09.180 Because apparently the government doesn't understand that you don't give sensitive data to your enemy, certainly who has access to it.

00:27:17.020 How in the world were you planning to audit this process?

00:27:20.580 When TikTok told you, oh, we promise we'll keep this walled off, did you think there was some physically possible way that you could check that?

00:27:30.260 How are you going to check that?

00:27:33.180 So you do a surprise visit to the office.

00:27:35.680 You say, show us your code.

00:27:38.540 That's not going to show you anything.

00:27:40.000 All they have to do is open up a channel, grab everything they want and be done with it, hide the records.

00:27:47.140 How hard would it be?

00:27:50.000 How hard would it be for China to get access to that without the U.S. knowing that they'd violated some agreement with TikTok?

00:27:59.500 You don't negotiate things like this.

00:28:02.640 Again, maybe some adults need to get involved because you don't negotiate stuff like this.

00:28:10.000 Yes, you can send your spies over.

00:28:12.580 We'll let them be on staff in the White House.

00:28:15.060 But here's what we'll do.

00:28:16.960 We'll make them promise that they won't tell you anything.

00:28:21.480 What?

00:28:22.560 Yeah, it's okay.

00:28:24.000 Yeah, we have some Chinese spies working in the White House.

00:28:27.340 They're on staff and they have access to all their secrets.

00:28:30.620 But the good news is we made them promise they wouldn't tell China. 0.98

00:28:35.500 Would you ever do that?

00:28:37.400 We just did that.

00:28:38.560 That's what we're doing with TikTok.

00:28:40.940 You're going to promise you're not going to tell China, right? 0.98

00:28:43.760 Oh, yeah.

00:28:44.960 Oh, yeah.

00:28:46.040 Yeah, well, tell China.

00:28:48.260 That's crazy.

00:28:49.320 Why would you even do that?

00:28:51.840 Okay.

00:28:52.320 Again, this is not Democrat and it's not Republican.

00:28:56.780 This is crazy to allow this to continue.

00:29:00.880 Meanwhile, RFK Jr. and some others are pointing out that the FDA has changed their rule change here that allows them to do clinical trials that have minimal risk.

00:29:16.160 That's in quotes, minimal risk without informed consent of the humans who are testing the therapies or the meds.

00:29:25.640 So, in other words, if the medical people think that whatever it is they want to test on you medically, if they think it doesn't look like a risk, then they can go ahead and not tell you what the risks are because it doesn't look like a risk.

00:29:43.800 Now, you might say to yourself, but Scott, that's just common sense.

00:29:48.400 If the risk is, you know, minimal, why do you really need to inform people about the risk?

00:29:53.880 But here's the problem, as RFK Jr. and anybody who has any experience with any big entity knows, as soon as you open that door, then there will be bad actors saying, you know, it looks like minimal risk to me.

00:30:08.360 Now, as RFK Jr. says, can you think of any therapy that all the experts agreed was perfectly safe but turned out not to be?

00:30:17.080 Well, you know, he's obviously talking about the COVID shots.

00:30:21.440 I think he's exaggerating a little here.

00:30:23.880 In the sense that I don't think all the experts said the shots were perfectly safe.

00:30:31.880 I think all the experts said these shots will kill some people because stuff like this always kills some people.

00:30:39.060 So, I don't think anybody said they were perfectly safe.

00:30:42.660 I think they were arguing the risk-benefit, and they may have gotten the risk-benefit wrong.

00:30:47.540 But, yeah, I think he's stretching the point a little bit.

00:30:51.260 But his base point, that as soon as you say minimal risk is okay, it's going to get abused.

00:30:58.040 But let me give you an example of what I hope it means.

00:31:02.480 All right?

00:31:02.840 There are a number of things that the FDA is only mildly interested in because it's an external device.

00:31:11.580 All right?

00:31:11.860 So, here's an example.

00:31:13.420 Let's say you had a device that vibrated your arm when you snored.

00:31:20.120 And its only purpose was to wake you up so that you didn't have a sleep apnea.

00:31:25.620 I'm just making this one up.

00:31:26.860 I think there might be something like that, but I'm just making it up.

00:31:29.120 If you went to the FDA, under the old rules, they'd say you better do a trial, a $10 million multi-person trial with the control.

00:31:42.180 And then the company would say, are you kidding?

00:31:44.560 It's literally just a thing that vibrates on your arm 10 times a night.

00:31:49.480 You actually think somebody's going to die because they have a little thing on their arm that vibrates it 10 times a night?

00:31:54.860 All right?

00:31:56.620 So, that's what minimal risk is.

00:31:59.720 So, minimal risk looks like things like that where even a reasonable person, you know, who's not a medical doctor would say, yeah, okay, you can let that one go.

00:32:08.880 So, there is a utility to it.

00:32:11.660 There is a utility to lowering that standard, and it would make a lot of things available faster.

00:32:18.600 But RFK Jr. is right.

00:32:21.300 There probably needs to be something that polices who gets to say it's minimal risk, you know, or maybe just transparency is enough.

00:32:32.280 If you saw that that example that I just gave you of a hypothetical device that just vibrates your arm to stop you from snoring,

00:32:39.580 if you heard that was one of the things they said was minimal risk, you'd say to yourself, eh, okay, that one's okay.

00:32:46.460 So, maybe they just need a little extra.

00:32:50.400 It should be transparent to the world why they say it's minimal risk.

00:32:56.060 That would be fair to me.

00:32:58.000 I would be okay with that.

00:32:59.380 As long as they say why they're saying it, then that's a form of informed consent.

00:33:05.160 We're saying it's not dangerous because all it does is vibrate your arm, but you decide.

00:33:08.880 If they're going to give you a pill that has active ingredients and they're going to tell me that that's a minimum, minimal risk, maybe not.

00:33:20.700 But suppose, suppose they said we're going to test ivermectin to see if it works with COVID.

00:33:27.780 Do you want them to do a total clinical trial, $10 million five years later, or do you want them to say, you know what, it's minimal risk because we've had it around forever,

00:33:41.400 and maybe we should just repurpose it, which you could have done anyway.

00:33:44.980 The doctors could do that on their own.

00:33:46.960 But it would give them a little cover if they repurposed it and said it's been tested.

00:33:51.760 So, there are cases where that minimal standard is useful to you as well.

00:33:55.240 Anyway, Elon Musk had to go public.

00:34:02.940 He felt it was necessary to back Matt Walsh, who was saying that the moon landing is real.

00:34:10.280 So, both Elon Musk and Matt Walsh are concerned.

00:34:13.760 So many people believe the moon landing was faked.

00:34:17.780 And indeed, I think something like 40% of the country is suspicious of it.

00:34:22.540 But at the same time, Elon Musk needed to go public separately to say that he's not aware of any aliens.

00:34:34.740 You know, he's not seen any evidence of aliens.

00:34:37.860 Now, why do you think that this is necessary?

00:34:43.380 Why do these guys have to do this?

00:34:45.640 Well, first of all, I would note that they're both internet dads, right?

00:34:50.700 So, even though Matt Walsh was not mentioned as one of these, you know, techno-optimists,

00:34:57.740 because he's not a techno guy, he's in that family. 0.98

00:35:01.600 You know, he's in that world of dads who are just doing things that are not stupid. 1.00

00:35:06.800 You know, stop doing stupid things. 1.00

00:35:08.500 I'm a dad. 1.00

00:35:09.140 I'm going to try to stop you from doing stupid things. 1.00

00:35:11.100 So, he lives in that world. 1.00

00:35:14.600 But here's the bigger picture I saw.

00:35:17.060 If you need a Matt Walsh and an Elon Musk to say in public the moon landing was real,

00:35:24.260 the reason for that is that the public has been gaslit so much,

00:35:30.120 and we've seen so many hoaxes that were literally government ops,

00:35:34.760 that it is no longer crazy to imagine that something like a moon landing was faked.

00:35:42.000 Now, I don't think it was.

00:35:44.820 My personal belief is that it was real and that way too many people were involved with it,

00:35:50.100 which is what Matt Walsh says.

00:35:51.720 Way too many people were involved with it for that secret to last this long.

00:35:55.860 But I don't think we would even, I don't think we would be as likely to believe it

00:36:02.340 if we didn't live through an era in which we know for sure

00:36:06.300 the government lied to us about even the biggest things in the world.

00:36:10.680 The biggest things in the world they lied to us about.

00:36:13.580 Yeah.

00:36:15.820 So, that's a use for the internet dads.

00:36:20.420 Again, their rising power is because of rising utility.

00:36:25.860 That's the thing you need to know.

00:36:27.680 The reason that there's a rise in this power of the non, 1.00

00:36:32.540 sort of non-political party power is because it has utility.

00:36:37.100 It was a big, gigantic hole in the universe that needed to be filled

00:36:41.980 with just rational people.

00:36:44.300 Hey, I'm just a rational person.

00:36:46.260 Let me tell you what I see.

00:36:47.740 That's the hole they're filling.

00:36:50.040 Let's talk about Pakistan.

00:36:51.680 Former Pakistan Prime Minister, Imran Khan,

00:36:54.920 he was sentenced to 10 years in prison for leaking state secrets.

00:37:00.840 Well, thank God the United States is not like Pakistan. 1.00

00:37:04.400 Am I right?

00:37:06.020 Pakistan is backwards, practically third world country. 1.00

00:37:10.400 Can you imagine if somebody came into power in the United States

00:37:14.600 and then they tried to prosecute a previous leader, prior leader,

00:37:20.520 for leaking some state secrets?

00:37:24.760 Let's see.

00:37:25.660 Where were the state secrets?

00:37:29.800 Apparently, Imran Khan was keeping his state secrets in boxes at Mar-a-Lago.

00:37:35.180 Oh, well, okay, now I get it.

00:37:39.380 They were in boxes.

00:37:40.420 No, they weren't.

00:37:41.420 I'm just making that up.

00:37:43.060 But if you haven't connected the dots yet,

00:37:45.320 the United States has become more like Pakistan 1.00

00:37:47.820 in that Joe Biden is trying to prosecute the prior president

00:37:52.900 for state secrets that he kept in boxes in Mar-a-Lago.

00:37:57.420 So, yeah, maybe that's why the country thinks they need some adult leadership.

00:38:06.900 So, Biden posted that he's trying to solve the gender pay gap,

00:38:10.820 which, as you know, if you watch this show,

00:38:13.040 you probably know it's imaginary.

00:38:15.220 There's nobody here who thinks the gender pay gap is real, is there? 0.91

00:38:19.640 Make yourself known in the comments.

00:38:22.840 Do any of you think the so-called gender pay gap is real?

00:38:25.740 I already know the answer.

00:38:31.840 Yeah, none of you do.

00:38:33.020 And the reason you know it's not real is what?

00:38:37.280 Why is it you know and Biden seems to act like he doesn't know?

00:38:41.980 Because you get real news.

00:38:45.080 Do you know where you saw that real news?

00:38:47.180 Probably.

00:38:48.480 On the Internet.

00:38:50.520 Do you think...

00:38:51.200 How many of you saw that real news in a mainstream,

00:38:54.240 uh, TV show?

00:38:57.020 You might have.

00:38:58.460 You know, you might have seen John Stossel say it.

00:39:01.500 You might have seen some opinion person on Fox say it.

00:39:05.820 But, uh, Biden can say this to his base

00:39:09.220 because they don't get real news.

00:39:11.800 So, here are some of the things that Biden believes are true.

00:39:14.680 And I wondered, are any of the Democrat policies based on anything but hoaxes?

00:39:20.840 Look, listen to this list of things that the Democrats want you to believe.

00:39:25.180 There's a gender pay gap. 1.00

00:39:27.660 No, there isn't.

00:39:29.460 Uh, that, uh, the climate is going to kill you.

00:39:32.400 All of the recent evidence suggests exactly the opposite.

00:39:37.040 We're getting greener.

00:39:38.380 That, that's some new news.

00:39:40.300 Steve Malloy is talking about that.

00:39:42.180 So, the world has gotten greener.

00:39:44.560 The glacier is about the same.

00:39:46.520 We're growing.

00:39:47.580 Or at least the ice caps, I guess.

00:39:49.920 And, uh,

00:39:51.480 nothing seems to be underwater yet.

00:39:55.040 And, uh,

00:39:55.800 the storms are not getting worse.

00:39:58.340 But, yeah, climate alarm.

00:39:59.880 And then, of course, there was the fine people hoax

00:40:02.580 that, uh, Biden actually did his last campaign around.

00:40:06.600 Something that literally didn't happen.

00:40:08.540 The fine people hoax.

00:40:10.100 Uh, then they're worried about Trump's chaos.

00:40:12.780 Which, again, is a narrative.

00:40:15.660 It's not something that happens.

00:40:17.900 You know, it's not like there's more chaos

00:40:19.700 than there, there is under Biden.

00:40:22.400 But they're going to run on chaos.

00:40:24.140 Then they're going to run on the lack of freedom.

00:40:26.920 They're going to take your freedom away.

00:40:28.460 That's not real.

00:40:29.880 It's the opposite.

00:40:32.280 Then there was, uh,

00:40:33.300 the Russia collusion hoax.

00:40:34.860 Then there's the hoax that Biden can't,

00:40:36.800 can't shut the border.

00:40:38.260 Unless he gets,

00:40:39.440 unless he gets a bill.

00:40:41.620 Even though every single person in America

00:40:43.840 knows that Trump

00:40:44.740 shut the border

00:40:45.960 sufficiently

00:40:47.160 without a bill.

00:40:50.140 They're telling you that they need a bill to do it.

00:40:52.820 Even though

00:40:53.560 all the things that Biden did to reverse

00:40:56.060 Trump

00:40:56.580 is what the problem was.

00:40:59.880 All right.

00:41:06.860 And what else?

00:41:08.480 Then there's the equity

00:41:09.980 is a good system argument.

00:41:11.480 So the Democrats are selling the idea that equity,

00:41:15.520 as opposed to merit,

00:41:16.500 is a good system.

00:41:17.600 That is completely imaginary.

00:41:20.060 There is no system in the history of humankind

00:41:22.300 that has ever worked on equity.

00:41:24.540 Can't work.

00:41:25.700 Doesn't work on paper.

00:41:27.360 Never worked in reality.

00:41:28.620 And they're,

00:41:29.420 they're trying to sell it.

00:41:31.120 It's a hoax.

00:41:34.140 How about the teachers' unions are good?

00:41:37.860 That's probably the most harmful hoax in the country,

00:41:40.140 is that the teachers' unions are a force for good,

00:41:43.440 and they're,

00:41:43.760 they're helping your kids get educated.

00:41:46.140 Of course,

00:41:46.720 it's exactly the opposite.

00:41:47.760 So I don't think there's anything

00:41:52.060 that Democrats are running on

00:41:53.840 that is actually even real.

00:41:57.360 So that's the reason they have to say stuff like,

00:42:00.600 you have to,

00:42:02.060 you have to solve for Trump's chaos,

00:42:05.020 and he must be a spy for somebody,

00:42:07.720 whatever they'll make up next.

00:42:09.120 And he must be stealing some money somehow,

00:42:11.980 and he must have done all these things.

00:42:14.520 The reason is because all of their policy preferences

00:42:17.600 are based on imaginary things.

00:42:21.540 Now, why,

00:42:23.440 why am I telling you that,

00:42:25.720 but your news is not?

00:42:28.000 Why,

00:42:28.300 why has CNN not once said,

00:42:31.200 you know,

00:42:31.680 honestly,

00:42:32.140 we look at this list of Democrat stuff,

00:42:34.600 it's all imaginary.

00:42:37.040 It's because they're part of it.

00:42:39.120 The news is part of the imaginary gas land,

00:42:42.820 so they can't tell you.

00:42:46.020 All right,

00:42:46.380 I see,

00:42:47.340 do you think that the internet dads

00:42:49.240 were activated by the fact

00:42:51.120 that the Democrats

00:42:52.040 are not even dealing with anything

00:42:54.800 related to facts or reality?

00:42:57.260 Of course.

00:42:58.540 That's pretty alarming.

00:43:00.600 All right,

00:43:00.740 here's another story from

00:43:01.920 somebody named Austin,

00:43:03.720 who's the founder and CEO of Bloom Tech.

00:43:06.500 so he,

00:43:09.980 apparently this has been verified,

00:43:11.560 I think it's true,

00:43:13.400 that the FAA

00:43:14.960 gave secret code words

00:43:17.320 to students in the Black Caucus

00:43:19.380 of Federal Aviation Employees

00:43:21.280 to put on their resumes

00:43:24.480 so they would go to the front of the line.

00:43:27.020 That's right.

00:43:29.080 The FAA told the Black Caucus

00:43:32.840 of Federal Aviation Employees

00:43:34.480 how to use their race

00:43:37.600 to get ahead of white people 0.98

00:43:39.960 by putting a secret code

00:43:41.800 on their resumes.

00:43:45.080 But in another instance,

00:43:46.980 they were told that

00:43:49.140 if they say their worst class in school

00:43:52.920 was science,

00:43:54.160 that they received their lowest grades

00:43:55.680 in science,

00:43:56.900 that that would be another way

00:43:58.040 to indicate

00:43:58.560 that they were a minority candidate.

00:44:04.380 Yeah, let me say that again.

00:44:07.460 The way that you would go

00:44:08.860 to the front of the line

00:44:10.100 to become a pilot, I guess?

00:44:16.420 No, just to be

00:44:17.480 in the federal aviation, I guess.

00:44:19.540 I don't know if it's pilot per se.

00:44:21.440 But you go to the front of the line

00:44:23.680 for hiring if you said

00:44:25.220 your worst grade was science

00:44:27.540 because according to them

00:44:29.740 that would identify you

00:44:30.780 as a minority.

00:44:33.380 So I don't think I have to point out

00:44:35.460 that that's the most racist thing

00:44:36.960 I've ever seen in my life.

00:44:38.400 Not only the assumption

00:44:39.780 that if you're a minority

00:44:41.700 you're certainly going to be

00:44:43.400 doing bad at math.

00:44:45.280 This is coming from the FAA?

00:44:47.220 What?

00:44:47.620 So I'm not...

00:44:50.100 I would do a fact check

00:44:51.400 on this story.

00:44:52.420 I don't trust myself

00:44:53.620 on this story.

00:44:54.900 I feel like

00:44:55.700 there might be

00:44:56.700 some context missing,

00:44:58.120 I hope.

00:44:59.260 Like, I hope

00:44:59.840 it's not exactly true.

00:45:01.940 But here's the important thing.

00:45:04.220 If you're wondering

00:45:05.160 about the Black Caucus

00:45:07.560 of Federal Aviation Employees,

00:45:09.600 you probably said,

00:45:10.400 I've never even heard of that.

00:45:12.240 That's because it's one

00:45:13.080 of your smaller caucuses.

00:45:14.620 Yeah, the Black Caucus

00:45:18.700 of Federal Aviation Employees.

00:45:20.240 It's a very small caucus.

00:45:22.240 Don't confuse that

00:45:23.200 with the Big Black Caucus.

00:45:25.300 So it's not a Big Black Caucus.

00:45:28.200 It's a smaller one.

00:45:32.620 You probably didn't know

00:45:34.120 what FAA stands for.

00:45:36.900 It stands for

00:45:37.800 Flying African Americans. 0.74

00:45:40.580 FAA.

00:45:41.240 Flying African... 0.97

00:45:42.160 It could mean

00:45:43.300 Flying Alcoholics Anonymous.

00:45:49.080 And maybe it only seems that way.

00:45:51.940 But, you know, who knows?

00:45:54.900 Anyway,

00:45:56.000 here's some good news.

00:45:59.220 Turns out,

00:45:59.860 I didn't know about this,

00:46:00.880 but did you know

00:46:02.520 that one of the

00:46:03.420 January 6th detainees,

00:46:05.640 one of the ones

00:46:06.140 who had held on the charge

00:46:07.360 of obstructing

00:46:10.120 an official proceeding,

00:46:12.280 his last name

00:46:13.420 is Adams.

00:46:15.000 Did anybody know that?

00:46:16.360 I just found that out today.

00:46:18.580 That's right.

00:46:19.380 The January 6th committee 0.99

00:46:20.820 fucked with an Adams. 0.99

00:46:25.140 Let me tell you 0.99

00:46:25.940 how that's working out for him.

00:46:29.640 Adams was just released,

00:46:31.420 pending,

00:46:32.720 the Supreme Court

00:46:33.620 looking at whether

00:46:34.540 obstruction of justice

00:46:35.740 is even a real charge

00:46:36.940 that could even be

00:46:38.600 something they could

00:46:39.440 be charged with.

00:46:41.780 Yeah. 1.00

00:46:42.720 Don't fuck with an Adams. 1.00

00:46:44.480 He not only got himself 1.00

00:46:45.700 out of jail,

00:46:46.400 he brought it

00:46:46.860 to the Supreme Court,

00:46:48.200 and he's going to get

00:46:48.900 probably another

00:46:50.420 300 people out of jail.

00:46:52.840 So,

00:46:53.340 if there's one thing

00:46:54.360 my family does,

00:46:55.520 we don't just escape

00:46:59.340 from the jail.

00:47:00.960 No.

00:47:01.120 first we escape

00:47:03.380 from the jail,

00:47:04.480 then we release

00:47:06.060 the other prisoners, 0.98

00:47:07.480 and then we burn down

00:47:08.740 the jail 1.00

00:47:09.140 and kill the warden. 1.00

00:47:11.280 Right. 1.00

00:47:12.180 You don't fuck 1.00

00:47:12.960 with my family. 1.00

00:47:14.580 Now,

00:47:14.880 I say my family,

00:47:15.720 I'm not related

00:47:16.320 to them closely,

00:47:17.660 but I figure all Adamses

00:47:19.260 are, you know,

00:47:20.420 somewhere far back

00:47:21.600 in Great Britain

00:47:22.760 somewhere,

00:47:23.280 they probably are

00:47:23.800 all connected.

00:47:24.980 So,

00:47:25.700 every time I see

00:47:26.740 an Adams

00:47:27.320 break something

00:47:28.320 that needed

00:47:29.440 to be broken,

00:47:30.740 John Adams,

00:47:31.520 for example,

00:47:32.660 breaking the whole 0.59

00:47:33.440 frickin' country.

00:47:35.180 Yeah, 0.95

00:47:35.420 every time I see it,

00:47:36.300 I go,

00:47:36.560 there you go.

00:47:37.940 That needed

00:47:38.520 to be broken.

00:47:39.560 I'm glad one of my

00:47:41.360 people did it.

00:47:42.680 So,

00:47:42.980 yeah.

00:47:44.200 So,

00:47:44.700 the Supreme Court

00:47:45.280 is going to look

00:47:45.760 at at least

00:47:47.040 300 of the 1,000 people

00:47:48.740 because the charge,

00:47:50.300 the only charge

00:47:50.860 they're in jail for

00:47:51.680 is this obstructing

00:47:54.160 a government

00:47:55.160 proceeding.

00:47:56.520 So,

00:47:59.020 we'll see how that

00:47:59.560 goes.

00:47:59.940 Good luck.

00:48:01.800 John Cusack

00:48:02.800 is learning that,

00:48:04.880 well,

00:48:06.240 let me tie this

00:48:07.040 last story

00:48:07.500 back to the theme.

00:48:09.240 So,

00:48:09.520 there might be

00:48:10.140 300 people

00:48:11.140 out of 1,000

00:48:11.920 who are in jail

00:48:13.560 for a made-up charge

00:48:15.680 if the Supreme Court

00:48:17.580 says this isn't

00:48:18.480 even valid.

00:48:19.460 That's what it

00:48:20.080 will look like.

00:48:21.260 So,

00:48:21.600 is there some reason

00:48:22.500 that you think

00:48:23.200 the Internet dads

00:48:24.940 would feel that

00:48:26.320 they needed

00:48:26.740 to get involved

00:48:27.460 because the system

00:48:28.360 wasn't working right?

00:48:30.280 Mm-hmm.

00:48:31.540 Yep.

00:48:32.100 Here's one.

00:48:33.680 And,

00:48:33.980 John Cusack,

00:48:35.020 famous Democrat

00:48:36.200 supporter,

00:48:37.580 is learning that

00:48:38.860 his own team

00:48:39.580 hates him

00:48:40.080 and that he joined

00:48:40.940 the wrong team.

00:48:42.880 So,

00:48:43.700 apparently,

00:48:44.540 John Cusack

00:48:45.100 is coming under fire

00:48:46.440 completely unfairly.

00:48:48.640 Now,

00:48:48.920 let me say

00:48:49.380 as clearly as possible,

00:48:50.440 I'm not a fan

00:48:52.900 of John Cusack

00:48:53.780 for his political opinions.

00:48:56.840 However,

00:48:58.160 he does seem

00:48:59.100 to be unfairly

00:49:00.120 targeted for

00:49:00.840 anti-Semitism

00:49:01.640 that doesn't appear

00:49:03.220 to be justified

00:49:04.640 at all.

00:49:06.460 And,

00:49:06.960 if you're going

00:49:07.260 to go after

00:49:07.660 a Hollywood actor

00:49:08.880 for anti-Semitism,

00:49:10.680 you know that

00:49:11.380 ends his career,

00:49:13.020 even if it's not true.

00:49:14.680 So,

00:49:15.380 don't put me

00:49:16.240 in a situation

00:49:16.940 where I have to go

00:49:17.680 all Internet dad

00:49:18.700 and be supporting

00:49:19.460 John Cusack,

00:49:20.460 but I am. 1.00

00:49:22.700 Leave this fucking 1.00

00:49:23.600 guy alone. 1.00

00:49:24.320 All he asks for

00:49:24.960 is a ceasefire

00:49:26.560 in Gaza.

00:49:27.980 Now,

00:49:28.300 I disagree

00:49:28.860 with a ceasefire

00:49:29.680 in Gaza.

00:49:30.360 I think Israel 0.98

00:49:30.960 needs to finish

00:49:32.520 the job,

00:49:33.060 and they will,

00:49:33.580 so it doesn't

00:49:33.960 matter what I think.

00:49:35.520 But,

00:49:36.020 that is not

00:49:37.020 a crazy opinion.

00:49:39.140 It's not crazy

00:49:40.340 to say,

00:49:41.020 stop fighting.

00:49:42.420 It's not a good plan,

00:49:43.920 because I don't know

00:49:44.500 what you would do instead.

00:49:45.740 But,

00:49:46.000 it's not crazy.

00:49:47.060 This is not the thing

00:49:47.920 you destroy people over. 0.73

00:49:49.460 If you didn't have

00:49:50.280 somebody on the other

00:49:51.360 side saying,

00:49:52.220 stop fighting,

00:49:52.980 all the time,

00:49:54.780 you would miss them.

00:49:56.560 Let me say that again.

00:49:58.060 You can disagree

00:49:59.080 with the people

00:49:59.680 who say ceasefire,

00:50:01.260 and I do,

00:50:02.620 in this case,

00:50:03.900 but man,

00:50:04.720 do you need them.

00:50:06.400 You so need

00:50:07.460 the ceasefire people

00:50:08.580 every single time,

00:50:10.180 no matter what

00:50:10.980 the situation is.

00:50:12.160 You've got to have

00:50:13.020 people on the other side,

00:50:14.520 because otherwise,

00:50:15.800 things just go

00:50:17.020 out of control.

00:50:18.420 So,

00:50:18.860 I don't love

00:50:20.400 John Cusack's

00:50:21.600 political opinions, 1.00

00:50:22.720 but damn, 1.00

00:50:24.600 you need some. 0.99

00:50:26.040 You need you

00:50:26.720 some Cusack

00:50:27.720 in the mix,

00:50:28.900 otherwise,

00:50:29.580 you don't have

00:50:30.000 a control

00:50:30.500 on your aggression,

00:50:31.940 and you need it.

00:50:34.660 So,

00:50:35.800 do you think

00:50:36.360 John Cusack

00:50:37.140 is learning

00:50:37.780 that maybe

00:50:38.420 this whole

00:50:38.940 political

00:50:39.560 left versus right

00:50:41.040 thing isn't

00:50:41.540 working out for him,

00:50:42.460 and what he

00:50:43.480 really needed

00:50:44.080 was an

00:50:45.720 internet dad.

00:50:47.840 So,

00:50:48.620 because this

00:50:49.880 was a gigantic

00:50:50.720 hole that was

00:50:52.240 not being filled,

00:50:54.320 which is

00:50:55.020 somebody who's

00:50:56.060 not crazy

00:50:56.720 and not one

00:50:57.320 of his fans

00:50:58.040 saying,

00:50:59.060 this is wrong,

00:51:00.480 I filled it.

00:51:01.880 That's what

00:51:02.320 the internet dads

00:51:03.480 are doing,

00:51:04.300 and that's why

00:51:05.280 people are giving

00:51:06.340 them some credibility.

00:51:08.000 That's why

00:51:08.620 somebody who was

00:51:09.340 a lifelong Democrat

00:51:10.300 is being completely

00:51:11.880 credible to

00:51:12.860 Republicans today

00:51:14.040 because they're

00:51:14.980 not being crazy.

00:51:16.620 That's all they

00:51:17.560 needed to do.

00:51:18.620 You can be a

00:51:19.300 Democrat,

00:51:20.700 just don't be 1.00

00:51:21.840 fucking crazy, 0.99

00:51:23.620 and you're fine. 1.00

00:51:24.860 You get along

00:51:25.380 fine.

00:51:26.340 So,

00:51:26.600 what did John

00:51:27.120 Cusack say?

00:51:27.860 He said something

00:51:28.400 I disagree with,

00:51:29.940 but it's not crazy,

00:51:31.040 so I'm going to

00:51:32.060 defend him

00:51:32.660 because that's

00:51:34.220 what the internet

00:51:35.920 dad should do.

00:51:38.860 All right.

00:51:39.600 TikTok,

00:51:42.320 according to

00:51:42.800 Zero Hedge,

00:51:43.720 TikTok spent

00:51:44.660 $1.5 billion

00:51:45.840 building up

00:51:47.560 an operation

00:51:48.140 intended to

00:51:48.900 convince U.S.

00:51:50.060 longmakers

00:51:50.660 that TikTok

00:51:51.960 is safe.

00:51:53.360 Actually,

00:51:53.880 the Wall Street

00:51:54.520 Journal is

00:51:54.980 reporting that.

00:51:57.040 Zero Hedge

00:51:57.600 was just

00:51:58.000 tweeting it

00:51:58.680 or posting it.

00:52:01.000 Now,

00:52:01.340 how much

00:52:02.900 does $1.5 billion

00:52:04.340 buy you?

00:52:06.520 Do you think

00:52:07.140 they spent that

00:52:07.800 all on ads?

00:52:09.600 Was that even

00:52:12.080 just a direct

00:52:12.820 bribe?

00:52:13.880 As in,

00:52:15.020 you know,

00:52:15.620 if you support

00:52:16.400 me,

00:52:16.880 there might be

00:52:17.360 a big donation

00:52:18.180 coming to that

00:52:18.960 thing you support

00:52:19.980 that isn't connected

00:52:20.920 to TikTok

00:52:21.480 or you,

00:52:22.640 but,

00:52:23.500 you know,

00:52:23.880 it's just going

00:52:24.380 to get a lot

00:52:24.880 more money

00:52:25.600 all of a sudden.

00:52:27.800 Stuff like that.

00:52:29.940 So,

00:52:30.880 how's that

00:52:31.480 working out?

00:52:32.660 Do you need

00:52:33.060 any adults

00:52:33.840 to sort this

00:52:34.860 out for you?

00:52:36.040 Here,

00:52:36.400 let me sort

00:52:36.880 put it out

00:52:37.160 for you.

00:52:38.460 TikTok

00:52:38.700 is owned

00:52:39.300 by China.

00:52:40.000 China wants 0.96

00:52:40.580 to influence

00:52:41.220 us.

00:52:42.380 TikTok

00:52:42.740 is basically

00:52:43.540 turning your

00:52:44.400 sons into

00:52:45.200 daughters

00:52:45.580 and your

00:52:45.940 daughters into

00:52:46.520 sons,

00:52:47.400 and probably 0.99

00:52:48.300 killing

00:52:48.820 reproductive

00:52:49.580 impulses in

00:52:50.700 this country

00:52:51.240 for a generation.

00:52:53.320 And,

00:52:54.100 who knows

00:52:55.380 what else?

00:52:56.480 And they

00:52:57.000 spent $1.5

00:52:58.020 billion in

00:52:59.020 what was

00:52:59.700 probably pretty

00:53:00.420 shady expenses

00:53:01.360 to bribe and

00:53:02.840 influence this

00:53:03.520 country.

00:53:03.840 but you

00:53:05.120 think they

00:53:05.500 should be,

00:53:06.020 they should

00:53:06.440 stay.

00:53:07.780 You think

00:53:08.500 TikTok should

00:53:09.160 stay,

00:53:10.100 and that

00:53:10.440 that's okay.

00:53:11.620 No,

00:53:12.060 you need

00:53:12.460 dad to say

00:53:13.240 get the 0.99

00:53:13.600 fuck out 1.00

00:53:14.160 of here 1.00

00:53:14.460 with your

00:53:15.300 TikTok,

00:53:16.560 because there's

00:53:17.040 no way you

00:53:17.600 can make it

00:53:18.140 safe.

00:53:18.960 No way you

00:53:19.800 can make it

00:53:20.380 safe.

00:53:21.200 Stop

00:53:21.500 pretending.

00:53:23.020 Don't gaslight

00:53:23.980 us.

00:53:27.240 Ashley St.

00:53:28.060 Claire was,

00:53:30.340 she's been

00:53:31.020 posting and

00:53:31.680 talking about

00:53:32.160 the connection

00:53:33.740 between,

00:53:34.440 so-called

00:53:34.980 connection

00:53:35.400 between

00:53:35.780 antidepressants

00:53:36.880 and suicide

00:53:37.720 rates.

00:53:39.040 And she

00:53:39.880 said today

00:53:41.040 that on a

00:53:42.000 post that

00:53:43.080 antidepressants

00:53:44.000 double the

00:53:44.520 risk of

00:53:44.900 suicide for

00:53:45.440 people under

00:53:45.940 25, yet

00:53:47.240 they're handed

00:53:47.680 out like

00:53:48.060 candy.

00:53:49.160 Well, let

00:53:50.540 me give a

00:53:51.340 fact check on

00:53:53.120 this if I can.

00:53:54.740 I don't know

00:53:55.660 if that's true,

00:53:57.260 that antidepressants

00:53:59.880 increase risk,

00:54:01.320 but what I do

00:54:02.480 know is if

00:54:03.960 you're at

00:54:04.420 risk of 0.98

00:54:05.100 killing yourself, 0.93

00:54:05.980 you're far 0.99

00:54:06.440 more likely

00:54:06.940 to get

00:54:07.300 drugged with

00:54:09.100 antidepressants.

00:54:10.640 So which way

00:54:11.520 does the

00:54:11.820 causation go?

00:54:13.540 Do you think

00:54:14.100 that the

00:54:14.740 people who are

00:54:16.120 suicidal are

00:54:17.000 more likely to

00:54:17.700 get drugs,

00:54:18.400 and then if the

00:54:19.220 drugs don't work, 0.86

00:54:20.480 they end

00:54:20.860 themselves,

00:54:21.460 or is it

00:54:22.060 more likely

00:54:22.560 that taking

00:54:25.360 the antidepressant

00:54:26.740 doubles your

00:54:28.480 odds of

00:54:28.840 killing yourself, 0.93

00:54:29.340 or increases 0.99

00:54:30.220 it by, yeah,

00:54:31.520 doubles?

00:54:32.340 Which do you

00:54:33.240 think it is?

00:54:34.300 If you had to

00:54:34.840 guess, which

00:54:35.340 direction do you

00:54:36.100 think the

00:54:36.440 causation goes?

00:54:42.800 I think it

00:54:44.780 probably goes

00:54:45.680 both ways, but

00:54:47.840 I don't know

00:54:48.320 which way is

00:54:48.940 dominant, or

00:54:50.000 if they're

00:54:50.340 equivalent.

00:54:52.700 So I'm not

00:54:53.600 going to tell you

00:54:54.160 that an

00:54:54.760 antidepressant

00:54:55.480 is a bad

00:54:55.920 idea for

00:54:56.340 every person

00:54:56.840 in every

00:54:57.240 situation,

00:54:57.920 because I

00:54:58.200 don't think

00:54:58.480 that's true.

00:54:59.800 But is it

00:55:01.240 a good idea

00:55:01.900 for every

00:55:02.300 person in

00:55:02.740 every situation?

00:55:03.600 No, probably

00:55:04.320 not.

00:55:05.260 So I don't

00:55:05.740 know what

00:55:05.980 the mix is.

00:55:07.100 I think that

00:55:07.940 Ashley's raising

00:55:09.220 the question is

00:55:10.140 a service, and

00:55:12.080 I would put

00:55:12.720 Ashley St.

00:55:14.100 Claire in

00:55:14.600 the internet

00:55:15.240 dad category

00:55:16.440 without the

00:55:18.060 gender part,

00:55:18.960 and I don't

00:55:20.060 know if she

00:55:20.340 has a kid,

00:55:20.820 I don't think

00:55:21.180 so.

00:55:22.020 But I

00:55:24.160 what is she

00:55:25.460 doing here?

00:55:26.660 She's doing

00:55:27.460 the thing you

00:55:27.980 need an

00:55:28.300 internet dad

00:55:28.900 for, which

00:55:30.360 is, hmm, the

00:55:32.080 news is owned

00:55:33.080 by the

00:55:33.440 pharmaceutical

00:55:33.960 companies, and

00:55:36.560 the news is

00:55:37.680 not telling us

00:55:38.420 there's anything

00:55:38.900 wrong with

00:55:39.440 these drugs,

00:55:41.080 but we

00:55:42.780 observe that

00:55:44.020 there's this

00:55:45.020 connection.

00:55:46.360 Shouldn't we

00:55:47.020 be digging

00:55:47.700 into this a

00:55:48.420 little bit

00:55:48.740 harder?

00:55:49.640 Yes, yes.

00:55:51.620 So again,

00:55:52.420 being right

00:55:54.200 or wrong

00:55:54.640 is a

00:55:54.960 slightly

00:55:55.260 different

00:55:55.620 question from

00:55:57.160 whether this

00:55:57.760 is a

00:55:58.120 productive

00:55:58.560 path, and

00:55:59.260 the answer

00:55:59.560 is yes.

00:56:00.520 This is

00:56:00.880 very productive

00:56:01.560 to push

00:56:02.720 hard on

00:56:03.480 this question

00:56:04.060 of any

00:56:04.460 connection

00:56:04.900 between

00:56:05.260 antidepressants

00:56:06.140 and especially

00:56:07.560 serial killers

00:56:09.160 and all the

00:56:10.340 rest.

00:56:10.840 I do not

00:56:11.800 assert that

00:56:12.980 it is a

00:56:13.680 causal

00:56:14.020 connection,

00:56:15.360 but you

00:56:15.760 need to

00:56:16.200 know, we

00:56:17.440 need to

00:56:17.800 know what's

00:56:18.220 going on

00:56:18.640 there.

00:56:18.920 So yes,

00:56:19.800 Ashley St.

00:56:20.360 Clare doing

00:56:20.900 a good

00:56:21.440 service for

00:56:22.120 the country,

00:56:23.460 internet dad

00:56:24.260 style.

00:56:29.440 Why is it

00:56:30.420 that the

00:56:31.120 liberals are

00:56:32.320 so much

00:56:32.860 more likely

00:56:33.380 to be on

00:56:33.880 antidepressants?

00:56:35.580 We've talked

00:56:36.320 about this,

00:56:37.100 but it fits

00:56:37.620 in my

00:56:37.960 theme.

00:56:39.500 So the

00:56:40.060 theme of

00:56:43.500 imaginary

00:56:44.420 problems,

00:56:46.500 this whole

00:56:47.600 depression

00:56:48.080 thing and

00:56:49.220 the value

00:56:49.920 of

00:56:50.180 antidepressants

00:56:51.180 is sort

00:56:52.180 of close

00:56:52.760 to the

00:56:53.160 imaginary

00:56:53.640 world,

00:56:56.100 you know,

00:56:56.380 because some

00:56:56.820 of these

00:56:57.140 might be

00:56:57.600 getting

00:56:58.200 imaginary

00:56:58.740 cures.

00:57:00.320 So,

00:57:01.380 you know,

00:57:02.800 why is it

00:57:03.220 that conservatives

00:57:03.860 do better

00:57:04.520 mentally?

00:57:06.380 And I

00:57:07.120 have a

00:57:07.820 hypothesis

00:57:08.800 with no

00:57:09.720 backing

00:57:10.100 whatsoever,

00:57:11.180 but just

00:57:11.960 an observation.

00:57:13.220 To me,

00:57:13.620 it seems

00:57:13.900 that conservatives

00:57:15.040 accept one

00:57:16.640 thing on

00:57:17.400 faith,

00:57:18.540 God,

00:57:19.840 and then

00:57:20.720 once they've

00:57:21.540 accepted that

00:57:22.160 one thing,

00:57:23.720 the path

00:57:25.000 to a happy

00:57:26.060 life is

00:57:26.680 clear.

00:57:28.140 Right?

00:57:29.120 The conservative

00:57:30.260 religious path

00:57:32.140 to success

00:57:32.880 and happiness

00:57:33.460 is completely

00:57:34.840 clear.

00:57:35.820 You never

00:57:36.340 wonder what

00:57:36.980 to do.

00:57:37.940 You wake

00:57:38.560 up in the

00:57:38.940 morning every

00:57:39.540 day knowing

00:57:40.080 exactly what

00:57:40.860 to do.

00:57:41.960 I'm going

00:57:42.380 to pray,

00:57:43.400 I'm going

00:57:43.640 to take

00:57:43.920 care of my

00:57:44.340 body because

00:57:45.140 God wants

00:57:45.800 me to,

00:57:46.280 so I'm

00:57:47.140 going to

00:57:47.320 eat right

00:57:47.760 and exercise

00:57:48.320 if I can.

00:57:49.180 Not that

00:57:49.580 everybody does

00:57:50.140 that, but

00:57:50.920 it's clear

00:57:51.340 what you're

00:57:51.700 supposed to

00:57:52.120 do.

00:57:52.980 I'm going

00:57:53.540 to work

00:57:53.900 hard, take 0.96

00:57:54.540 care of my

00:57:54.900 family, probably

00:57:55.640 get married,

00:57:56.800 have some

00:57:57.220 kids, put my

00:57:58.200 focus there.

00:58:00.300 How is that

00:58:01.060 not good for

00:58:01.840 mental health?

00:58:03.400 And it only

00:58:04.180 requires one

00:58:04.940 act of faith,

00:58:06.360 just one.

00:58:08.160 And then you

00:58:09.000 can observe

00:58:09.640 that the people

00:58:11.500 who take that

00:58:12.040 one act of

00:58:12.700 faith have

00:58:13.720 good outcomes.

00:58:14.480 that's the

00:58:15.960 important part.

00:58:17.400 We have one

00:58:18.280 act of faith,

00:58:19.620 everything flows

00:58:20.600 from that, you

00:58:21.380 know, with the

00:58:21.880 conservative package,

00:58:23.080 I guess, and

00:58:24.220 then we know

00:58:24.680 what to do, and

00:58:25.880 then we do it, and

00:58:27.140 then we observe

00:58:27.720 later it worked.

00:58:29.340 The people who

00:58:29.980 had their

00:58:30.360 religious, you

00:58:31.600 know, say,

00:58:31.960 process, they

00:58:33.800 actually do well

00:58:34.500 and they're happy.

00:58:36.360 Now, suppose you

00:58:37.300 took a different

00:58:37.900 view.

00:58:38.880 You don't take

00:58:39.640 the God, you

00:58:41.200 know, assumption,

00:58:42.160 and you try to

00:58:43.360 figure everything

00:58:44.120 out from scratch.

00:58:46.020 How are you

00:58:46.380 going to do

00:58:46.700 that?

00:58:47.780 How do you

00:58:48.320 figure it out

00:58:49.060 without that

00:58:50.100 help of the,

00:58:51.320 you know, the

00:58:51.700 system that says,

00:58:52.600 hey, just follow

00:58:53.700 this path?

00:58:54.840 Well, you look at

00:58:55.820 everything individually.

00:58:57.700 And so you look at

00:58:58.520 the news to tell

00:58:59.800 you what's true.

00:59:01.240 How does that

00:59:01.680 work out?

00:59:03.080 If you're a 0.88

00:59:03.820 Democrat and you

00:59:04.520 look at the

00:59:04.980 news to figure

00:59:06.360 out what's true,

00:59:07.700 well, that doesn't

00:59:08.380 work because the

00:59:09.120 news isn't even

00:59:09.760 in that business.

00:59:11.000 They're in the

00:59:11.400 business of selling

00:59:12.220 hoaxes to get

00:59:13.020 Democrats elected.

00:59:14.620 So you're going to

00:59:15.480 look at the news

00:59:16.260 and then you're

00:59:17.220 going to look at

00:59:17.540 the outcomes and

00:59:18.420 they're not going

00:59:18.820 to match up.

00:59:20.020 In other words,

00:59:20.640 your observation

00:59:21.640 is never going to

00:59:23.580 match what you

00:59:25.360 believe to be

00:59:26.060 true.

00:59:27.480 But with

00:59:28.160 Republicans,

00:59:29.700 their observation

00:59:30.860 and their

00:59:32.220 beliefs match

00:59:34.300 perfectly.

00:59:36.100 So there's no

00:59:36.960 trigger for

00:59:38.080 insanity.

00:59:39.420 Because if you

00:59:40.180 say, I believe,

00:59:41.180 that doing

00:59:41.960 these things

00:59:42.520 that God

00:59:42.960 wants me to

00:59:43.580 do, on

00:59:44.660 average, but

00:59:45.500 not every

00:59:45.920 time, but on

00:59:47.140 average, will

00:59:47.820 give me a good

00:59:48.340 outcome, there's

00:59:49.580 my belief, there's

00:59:51.220 my observation,

00:59:52.260 yep, yep, every

00:59:53.640 time, it seems to

00:59:54.620 work.

00:59:55.100 Not every time,

00:59:56.000 because people

00:59:56.440 could have bad

00:59:57.000 luck and

00:59:57.400 everything.

00:59:59.840 Now, suppose you

01:00:00.800 said to yourself

01:00:01.500 that it would be

01:00:04.520 good to have an

01:00:05.160 open border because

01:00:06.300 the news or your

01:00:07.400 political party said

01:00:08.400 that's the way to

01:00:09.020 go.

01:00:09.940 But then you

01:00:10.520 observe, huh, but

01:00:12.640 my city is

01:00:13.520 destroyed.

01:00:14.940 Well, how about if

01:00:15.580 you said that equity

01:00:16.540 is a better process

01:00:18.280 and DEI is good,

01:00:19.500 because your team

01:00:20.160 said that and the

01:00:20.960 news told you that,

01:00:21.940 and then you go to

01:00:22.860 apply for a job and

01:00:23.860 you find out that

01:00:24.480 you're a white man and 0.81

01:00:25.340 you can't get one in 0.83

01:00:26.620 corporate America.

01:00:28.180 Then you go, huh, I

01:00:30.260 was really sold on

01:00:31.120 this equity stuff, but

01:00:32.300 I'm unemployed.

01:00:33.240 Or how about if

01:00:34.980 the Democrats tell

01:00:36.540 you the economy is

01:00:37.440 great, but you're

01:00:39.060 unemployed, and when

01:00:40.680 you try to get a job,

01:00:41.740 you can get one, but

01:00:42.740 not one that pays

01:00:43.480 the rent.

01:00:45.060 Huh.

01:00:46.300 My belief that the

01:00:47.960 economy is good,

01:00:48.800 because Biden says

01:00:49.680 so, is not matching

01:00:51.320 what my life is

01:00:52.320 looking like.

01:00:53.500 How about if they

01:00:54.300 told you that if you

01:00:56.220 get these shots, you

01:00:57.300 won't get COVID?

01:00:59.200 Huh.

01:01:00.200 Here's what they're

01:01:00.960 telling me, but here's

01:01:02.880 what I'm observing.

01:01:05.220 How about if they

01:01:06.040 tell you that the

01:01:07.120 president said that

01:01:08.460 some Nazis were fine 1.00

01:01:09.900 people, but when you

01:01:10.700 look at the transcript,

01:01:12.240 huh, it doesn't say

01:01:13.760 that at all.

01:01:15.240 And on, and on, and

01:01:17.320 on, and on.

01:01:20.800 It's all the same.

01:01:22.680 If you were a

01:01:23.940 Democrat, you can't

01:01:25.660 even be sure that a

01:01:26.700 boy is a boy and a

01:01:27.700 girl is a girl.

01:01:28.580 And by the way, I

01:01:29.820 do believe that

01:01:30.440 there's, you know,

01:01:31.620 gender dysmorphia,

01:01:33.120 and there's some

01:01:33.800 group of people who

01:01:34.680 have, you know,

01:01:35.740 legitimate biological,

01:01:38.340 physical issues, and

01:01:39.580 I wish them the best.

01:01:42.140 But mostly, and

01:01:44.100 mostly the trans thing 0.63

01:01:45.220 is a mental health 1.00

01:01:46.040 problem.

01:01:46.940 And mostly it's

01:01:48.140 because they can't

01:01:48.800 tell what's true and

01:01:49.740 real.

01:01:51.200 Just can't tell what's

01:01:52.380 true.

01:01:53.420 So you have a

01:01:54.460 massive problem of

01:01:56.340 Democrats not having a

01:01:58.100 mechanism or any

01:01:59.180 system whatsoever to

01:02:00.800 tell them what is

01:02:01.560 true.

01:02:03.180 But do Republicans

01:02:04.300 have the same

01:02:05.040 problem?

01:02:06.060 Well, a little bit.

01:02:07.200 I mean, Republicans 0.98

01:02:07.920 could have some crazy

01:02:08.980 conspiracy theories

01:02:09.980 too.

01:02:10.620 But as we've learned,

01:02:11.800 a lot of them are

01:02:12.560 true.

01:02:15.440 But I would say that

01:02:16.500 the conservative

01:02:17.480 worldview matches

01:02:20.200 belief and outcome

01:02:22.100 pretty well.

01:02:23.100 And the other does

01:02:24.040 not.

01:02:24.340 So one would drive

01:02:25.400 you crazy and 0.96

01:02:26.960 one would not. 1.00

01:02:29.200 If you're

01:02:29.780 conservative, I can

01:02:30.680 tell you exactly how

01:02:31.680 to be successful.

01:02:32.740 If you're a 0.88

01:02:33.400 Democrat, I have no

01:02:34.260 idea.

01:02:35.560 I don't know how to

01:02:36.540 tell a Democrat to be

01:02:37.520 successful unless they

01:02:40.260 got rid of all their

01:02:41.120 current beliefs.

01:02:43.380 The Democrats

01:02:44.300 literally canceled me

01:02:45.700 for giving them good

01:02:46.600 advice.

01:02:49.520 Just hold that

01:02:50.300 thought for a moment.

01:02:51.640 The Democrats, not a

01:02:53.420 single Republican, by

01:02:54.560 the way, not a single

01:02:56.140 Republican ever told me

01:02:57.500 they had a problem with

01:02:58.320 anything I ever said or

01:02:59.380 canceled me.

01:03:00.120 It was all Democrats.

01:03:02.060 The Democrats

01:03:03.100 couldn't even recognize

01:03:05.260 good advice about how to

01:03:07.760 stay out of trouble and

01:03:09.480 stay safe and get jobs.

01:03:11.860 They were so mad they

01:03:12.960 canceled me when they

01:03:13.740 heard it because it

01:03:14.440 didn't match what they've

01:03:16.340 been told.

01:03:18.060 But good luck.

01:03:19.740 Good luck, white, 0.99

01:03:21.920 straight Democrats 0.53

01:03:23.040 getting a job.

01:03:24.760 You'll be over to my

01:03:25.900 side soon.

01:03:27.700 Anyway, so you got

01:03:28.760 Biden up there getting

01:03:29.820 ready to start World War 0.66

01:03:30.960 III with Iran. 0.91

01:03:32.520 What did Biden say about

01:03:34.140 war with Iran?

01:03:35.440 Well, one of the reasons

01:03:36.820 he ran for office is that

01:03:38.120 he didn't want Trump to

01:03:39.440 start a war with Iran.

01:03:42.620 Yeah.

01:03:43.640 Do you think that the

01:03:44.920 Republicans have any

01:03:48.660 confusion with what they

01:03:49.940 believed and then what

01:03:51.500 they observe?

01:03:52.620 Nope.

01:03:53.440 Because Republicans said,

01:03:54.780 we think that Trump would

01:03:57.040 actually be safer when it

01:03:59.120 comes to war with Iran,

01:04:00.100 not more dangerous.

01:04:01.500 I feel like Joe Biden's

01:04:04.160 policies of giving them

01:04:06.280 money back and trying to

01:04:07.600 play nice, we feel like

01:04:10.300 that would cause the war.

01:04:12.920 So what happened?

01:04:13.860 Biden does his policies and

01:04:17.680 we're getting ready to have

01:04:19.120 a shooting war with Iran.

01:04:21.080 Probably not on their

01:04:22.280 homeland, but it's going to

01:04:24.620 be a shooting war with

01:04:25.500 Iran and there's nothing 1.00

01:04:26.560 that's going to stop it.

01:04:28.040 Now, so that's, again,

01:04:30.060 Republicans had a

01:04:31.020 completely consistent

01:04:32.160 worldview.

01:04:33.240 What they predicted is

01:04:34.600 exactly what's happening.

01:04:36.160 The Democrats said, oh,

01:04:37.380 if we get rid of Trump, we

01:04:38.620 get rid of these wars. 1.00

01:04:39.860 They got six fucking wars at 1.00

01:04:41.440 the same time. 1.00

01:04:42.160 You cannot be more wrong

01:04:44.120 than that, that Biden's

01:04:45.900 the keep us under a war

01:04:47.380 candidate.

01:04:48.160 You can't be more wrong

01:04:50.180 than six wars, if you

01:04:52.380 count the border as an

01:04:53.500 invasion.

01:04:55.480 I'm adding a few wars 0.81

01:04:56.760 there.

01:04:56.980 I think it's closer to five.

01:04:58.720 Anyway, so what else

01:05:03.600 did Biden say?

01:05:04.820 Oh, Biden also said that

01:05:07.820 the president, meaning

01:05:09.060 Trump at the time, does

01:05:10.680 not have the political

01:05:13.360 authorization to start a

01:05:15.020 war on his own.

01:05:15.680 He needs Congress for

01:05:16.620 that.

01:05:18.960 So then Joe Biden

01:05:20.100 becomes president and he

01:05:21.560 just does the same thing

01:05:22.420 that Trump was doing, like

01:05:23.700 he'd never said it was a

01:05:24.880 bad idea.

01:05:26.320 Like Biden had never said

01:05:27.740 that closing the border was

01:05:28.960 the highest priority, which

01:05:31.200 he used to say.

01:05:32.720 Right.

01:05:32.820 So if you're a

01:05:35.380 Republican, you've got a

01:05:38.700 president who said, I'm

01:05:39.880 going to act tough on

01:05:40.800 Iran, we're going to be 0.98

01:05:42.100 better off this way, and it

01:05:44.020 looked like it worked.

01:05:45.320 You've got a president who

01:05:46.700 said, don't do this, and

01:05:47.840 then he does it, and a

01:05:48.840 president who said, this

01:05:49.740 doesn't work, and he used

01:05:50.900 his plan and it didn't

01:05:51.760 work.

01:05:53.960 How do you hold that in

01:05:55.180 your head and then go vote

01:05:56.300 for Biden?

01:05:57.200 Because that's what a lot of

01:05:58.280 Democrats are going to do. 0.92

01:05:59.860 That would make you crazy. 0.98

01:06:02.320 That would drive you insane

01:06:04.040 because you can't hold all

01:06:05.120 these things in your head at

01:06:05.980 the same time, that Biden

01:06:07.560 is the good one, yet

01:06:09.640 everything he does seems to

01:06:11.000 create a bad outcome, except

01:06:12.360 the economy, and he had

01:06:14.000 nothing to do with that

01:06:14.900 really.

01:06:15.500 It was the Fed.

01:06:17.700 All right.

01:06:20.080 Now my favorite story, the

01:06:21.740 Taylor Swift conspiracy

01:06:23.060 theory.

01:06:24.100 So it goes like this.

01:06:26.080 So Taylor Swift has this

01:06:27.380 boyfriend, this

01:06:28.680 what's his name, Travis

01:06:31.620 Kelsey, with the most 0.65

01:06:32.780 American-sounding name

01:06:33.940 ever, and the theory is

01:06:36.660 that, you know, their

01:06:38.100 sudden romance may be

01:06:40.140 driven by, you know, some

01:06:42.420 CIA or Democrat plan to

01:06:48.140 get, you know, all the

01:06:49.280 football lovers to love

01:06:50.860 Taylor Swift and football

01:06:52.600 and Travis, and then

01:06:55.920 Taylor Swift will tell them

01:06:57.380 all the vote Democrat, vote

01:06:58.700 Biden, and they'll get a

01:07:00.600 big, you know, electoral

01:07:01.860 push, and that the whole

01:07:03.940 thing's a fake, but more

01:07:05.540 importantly, that the Super

01:07:08.220 Bowl itself is rigged, some

01:07:10.700 say.

01:07:11.640 I'm not saying that.

01:07:13.740 And the idea is that,

01:07:15.800 surprise, surprise, of all

01:07:18.220 surprises, Taylor Swift's

01:07:20.680 boyfriend gets into the

01:07:21.840 Super Bowl, which just

01:07:23.160 happened.

01:07:23.460 So the Super Bowl is

01:07:25.020 upcoming, but he'll be

01:07:26.000 there.

01:07:27.880 Now, how big of a

01:07:31.420 coincidence is that?

01:07:32.600 Well, is there anything

01:07:34.180 about Travis Kelsey that we

01:07:35.840 should know that would be

01:07:37.000 relevant to this story?

01:07:38.740 Hmm, checking notes.

01:07:40.340 Some say he was paid an

01:07:41.880 enormous amount of money,

01:07:43.500 they say $20 million, but I

01:07:44.820 don't think the dollar amount

01:07:45.760 is known, to do

01:07:48.380 advertisements for Pfizer for

01:07:50.140 the shot, the combined COVID

01:07:52.820 and flu shot.

01:07:55.120 Yeah.

01:07:56.200 Travis Kelsey is a public

01:08:01.840 proponent of the shots for

01:08:04.680 Pfizer, specifically.

01:08:07.720 Not just, he's not somebody

01:08:09.360 who just said shots are good,

01:08:12.260 because a lot of Democrats

01:08:13.300 did that.

01:08:14.220 He's someone who actually took

01:08:15.600 money from Pfizer to say it in

01:08:18.280 public a bunch of times on

01:08:19.480 commercials.

01:08:21.980 And now he's coincidentally

01:08:23.860 going to marry, I think

01:08:26.000 they're getting married,

01:08:27.380 Taylor Swift, and he's in the

01:08:29.240 Super Bowl.

01:08:33.120 So, now Vivek Ramaswamy

01:08:36.400 pointed out, you know, the

01:08:39.480 conspiratorial coincidences that

01:08:41.980 are piling up, as many others

01:08:44.840 have.

01:08:45.160 This caused CNN to do a show

01:08:47.780 to mock Vivek for how, oh, how

01:08:53.060 crazy that is.

01:08:54.900 That's so crazy.

01:08:56.880 So, who did CNN invite on to,

01:09:00.340 for Abby Phillips, the host of

01:09:02.280 the show, to talk about how

01:09:04.500 crazy it was?

01:09:05.660 It's crazy.

01:09:06.800 Vivek, oh my God, it's crazy.

01:09:08.880 It's crazy.

01:09:09.520 Well, they got a contributing

01:09:12.760 writer from Checking Notes,

01:09:15.940 a contributing writer from,

01:09:17.680 well, of course they're going to

01:09:19.140 want to bring on somebody who's

01:09:20.480 super credible, right?

01:09:23.720 You don't want to bring on

01:09:24.540 somebody from some, you know,

01:09:26.420 known propaganda entity or

01:09:29.940 something, because they want to

01:09:31.100 be credible.

01:09:31.500 So, they brought on Jemele Hill,

01:09:35.540 who's a contributing writer to

01:09:36.980 The Atlantic.

01:09:38.620 Oh.

01:09:39.740 Okay.

01:09:40.560 Well, The Atlantic is considered

01:09:43.120 by people on the right to be the

01:09:45.620 biggest signal for an op.

01:09:48.980 Right?

01:09:49.640 The number one signal for an op

01:09:52.300 would be that The Atlantic is

01:09:56.300 writing about it.

01:09:58.080 Now, I don't know if Jemele Hill

01:10:00.180 wrote about it, but she's part

01:10:02.760 of The Atlantic, right?

01:10:04.840 There's nobody who works for

01:10:06.160 The Atlantic, I don't think.

01:10:07.640 This is just speculation.

01:10:08.940 I can't read minds.

01:10:10.220 But I doubt there's anybody who

01:10:11.640 works for The Atlantic who isn't

01:10:13.560 completely aware that they're a

01:10:14.960 propaganda machine.

01:10:17.140 Like, they don't, they must know

01:10:18.900 that they're not attempting to

01:10:20.580 show both sides of any important

01:10:22.220 issues.

01:10:24.660 And then there's the interesting

01:10:26.020 connection, I need a fact check on

01:10:27.740 this, but that George Soros or

01:10:30.160 the Soros family, I guess, owned

01:10:32.500 Taylor's music catalog.

01:10:35.060 But also, was the Carlisle group

01:10:37.120 involved in owning that?

01:10:39.560 Is that true?

01:10:41.120 Can somebody give me a fact check

01:10:42.680 that the Carlisle group was

01:10:45.460 involved in owning some of Taylor

01:10:47.940 Swiss music?

01:10:48.700 Now, again, people on the right will

01:10:51.680 tell you, people on the right will

01:10:55.660 tell you that the Carlisle group is

01:11:02.700 another signal of the intelligence

01:11:05.320 people in the United States.

01:11:06.760 Basically, it's sort of too connected

01:11:09.620 to intelligence people.

01:11:10.840 So then you got Soros, the Carlisle

01:11:14.300 group, Pfizer, and then we know that

01:11:18.340 Biden has said he wants the, he wants

01:11:20.840 Taylor Swift to, you know, he wants to

01:11:23.120 talk to her and maybe get the 0.79

01:11:24.660 endorsement.

01:11:25.400 That seems obvious.

01:11:26.480 So, so since all of these connections

01:11:31.740 are real, it doesn't mean that the

01:11:34.520 narrative that connects them all is

01:11:36.020 real, but the, the base facts seem to

01:11:38.760 be real, that there was a writer from

01:11:40.620 the Atlantic, the Soros family did own

01:11:43.260 the things, she is a Democrat, you know,

01:11:46.820 there is a Pfizer connection, those are

01:11:48.300 all real things.

01:11:49.120 But then packaging up all those real

01:11:51.900 things and making the, the larger real

01:11:55.080 thing true is, is unproven.

01:11:57.600 Yeah, I would say that's an unproven

01:11:59.220 belief.

01:12:01.080 But how did, uh, Abby Phillips treat it? 0.98

01:12:05.140 Uh, what was her counter argument?

01:12:07.700 Uh, let me do my impression of Abby

01:12:10.380 Phillips on CNN and Jemele Hill giving

01:12:14.500 their, uh, very academic, um, debunking.

01:12:19.120 Oh, oh, oh, see, uh, CNN doesn't always

01:12:27.420 use words for debunking.

01:12:30.660 Sometimes they use what I call the

01:12:32.180 tapper tilt.

01:12:33.660 The tapper tilt is when you're listening

01:12:35.500 to somebody who's, who you want to,

01:12:37.420 you know, debunk.

01:12:38.800 You don't have to say any words.

01:12:40.320 You can scowl a little bit and turn

01:12:41.920 your head to one side like this.

01:12:45.920 So that's, that's how you listen to

01:12:47.600 somebody you don't like.

01:12:48.520 The tapper tilt.

01:12:51.060 Really?

01:12:53.180 But if it's somebody you want to agree

01:12:55.680 with, you look at them like you just

01:12:59.100 fell in love.

01:13:01.260 If you get a chance to look at the, uh,

01:13:03.280 the clip of, uh, Abby Phillips talking

01:13:05.460 to Jemele Hill, she actually looks like 0.94

01:13:08.380 she's in love. 0.97

01:13:10.160 It's the damnedest thing. 0.98

01:13:11.260 She says, oh, oh, oh, yeah. 0.99

01:13:18.000 Mm, yeah.

01:13:19.840 Oh, yeah.

01:13:21.680 Mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm.

01:13:23.040 Oh, oh, God.

01:13:24.800 Oh, oh.

01:13:26.420 Keep talking.

01:13:27.880 It, it, it's the funniest thing.

01:13:30.220 Now, when I tell you that I watch CNN

01:13:32.040 for comedy, this is what I mean.

01:13:35.040 I watch that thing with just, like,

01:13:37.600 fascination.

01:13:38.940 I was like, really?

01:13:40.460 Are you really trying to pull this off?

01:13:43.000 Now, remember I tell you that if the only

01:13:45.260 thing you know is what's happening,

01:13:47.860 you don't know anything about the news.

01:13:50.060 The only thing you need to know is who

01:13:53.240 is connected to whom.

01:13:57.300 The Taylor Swift story made no sense at all,

01:13:59.980 or didn't have any importance if you only

01:14:02.400 knew what.

01:14:04.460 Here's what.

01:14:06.160 Taylor Swift likes Democrats, and she's 1.00

01:14:08.540 got a boyfriend in football, and he made it

01:14:12.140 to the Super Bowl.

01:14:13.300 That's what.

01:14:15.160 Now, let's add the who.

01:14:17.260 Let's see.

01:14:17.900 The Atlantic is trying to debunk it.

01:14:20.220 Pfizer's paying the boyfriend or dad to promote

01:14:23.820 shots.

01:14:25.640 The Carlyle Group and the Soros Group

01:14:28.120 owned her catalog, and CNN's saying it's BS.

01:14:36.920 That's the who.

01:14:39.400 So do you see in this story that the who,

01:14:42.160 the who's involved, tells a completely

01:14:45.240 different story, whether it's true or not.

01:14:47.600 I don't know if it's true.

01:14:48.880 But it tells a completely different story

01:14:50.600 than the what.

01:14:53.300 So CNN wants you to pay attention to the what,

01:14:56.940 but don't pay attention to the who,

01:15:00.280 and don't understand who the who is.

01:15:04.480 Is there somebody here who wants to yell

01:15:06.740 the Jews?

01:15:07.620 This is usually the place where one of you

01:15:10.200 says, oh, you mean the who is the Jews?

01:15:13.520 No, that's not what I'm talking about.

01:15:18.340 But since I know this is where you chime in,

01:15:21.960 oh, it's they.

01:15:23.200 It's probably they.

01:15:25.380 No, I don't think that Kelsey or Taylor Swift

01:15:29.900 are part of the they.

01:15:32.560 All right, let's talk about Mark Cuban,

01:15:34.340 the funniest story in the news.

01:15:37.340 Mark Cuban has been defending DEI and diversity,

01:15:41.840 let's say, criteria in hiring.

01:15:43.600 But he's trying to find this narrow ground

01:15:48.700 where it's not overt discrimination.

01:15:52.000 It's simply something an employer does

01:15:54.300 to, let's say, acknowledge that diverse employees

01:15:59.120 would have diverse perspectives,

01:16:01.660 and that diverse perspectives are an asset.

01:16:05.400 And as an employer, if you wanted to get

01:16:08.340 the asset of diverse opinions,

01:16:11.160 which I do agree is an asset,

01:16:13.880 the more diverse opinions,

01:16:15.400 the more vision you have on your audience

01:16:18.020 and everything else.

01:16:19.860 So that makes sense.

01:16:22.340 But he's trying to sell that there's a narrow place

01:16:25.680 where you can take race into consideration

01:16:29.000 when hiring in gender,

01:16:30.520 but that it would not be illegal

01:16:32.780 and it would be something that you would agree with

01:16:35.120 if you just understood it.

01:16:36.340 So if he explains it better,

01:16:38.640 then you'll probably agree with him.

01:16:42.760 So let's see how that worked out.

01:16:45.180 So here he is explaining on the,

01:16:47.320 he did a number of takes on it.

01:16:49.100 And by the way, part of the story

01:16:50.860 is who he was talking to.

01:16:53.480 So he was having the debate

01:16:55.440 with a number of people online.

01:16:57.580 I was one of them for a while.

01:17:00.160 So I was one of the ones who he challenged

01:17:02.620 with an example.

01:17:03.880 Is this, you know,

01:17:06.660 is this an example of racism?

01:17:08.460 He asked.

01:17:09.000 If you had 30 white male employees

01:17:11.140 and you decided, hey, 0.65

01:17:13.680 maybe I should get a black female employee 1.00

01:17:16.380 to add some perspective to the group, 0.90

01:17:19.180 would that be racist?

01:17:21.180 So that was sort of the thought experiment he gave.

01:17:25.720 Now I responded,

01:17:26.780 yes.

01:17:30.560 Unambiguously.

01:17:33.200 Yes.

01:17:34.080 That's exactly what we're talking about.

01:17:36.080 You don't want to do.

01:17:36.980 That's called discrimination. 0.76

01:17:38.900 Yes.

01:17:39.460 That would be racist.

01:17:41.840 But he took another run at it

01:17:43.440 and he said this.

01:17:47.580 He said, quote,

01:17:48.940 I only hire the, 1.00

01:17:50.180 let's say for example,

01:17:51.520 he was talking about himself.

01:17:52.480 He says,

01:17:53.440 I only hire the person

01:17:54.400 that will put my business

01:17:56.400 in the best position to succeed.

01:17:59.780 And he says,

01:18:00.620 race and gender

01:18:01.300 can be part of the equation.

01:18:02.940 Because he says,

01:18:03.940 I view diversity

01:18:04.660 as a competitive advantage.

01:18:08.180 So that's fair, right?

01:18:12.200 Is that okay?

01:18:13.980 He views it as a competitive advantage.

01:18:16.460 And he's an entrepreneur,

01:18:18.540 business person.

01:18:19.320 And a business person

01:18:20.740 should be able to take into account

01:18:22.980 the competitive advantage.

01:18:26.500 Right?

01:18:29.200 Let me check on the,

01:18:31.520 let's see,

01:18:32.040 what were the justifications

01:18:33.120 for slavery in the United States?

01:18:36.840 Could justify it

01:18:38.840 because it's really good for the business.

01:18:41.440 Well, it does have a racial component.

01:18:43.300 I mean, that's actually true.

01:18:45.180 I'll admit it has a racial component.

01:18:46.800 But as long as it's good for the business.

01:18:51.560 No, I'm just,

01:18:52.920 I'm making a bad analogy.

01:18:54.840 Don't make analogies.

01:18:56.140 Don't make arguments

01:18:56.880 based on analogies.

01:18:58.240 Because they're all, 1.00

01:18:59.060 they're all stupid like that one. 1.00

01:19:00.920 Because, 1.00

01:19:01.620 because obviously slavery

01:19:03.320 in the United States

01:19:04.180 is not the same

01:19:05.420 as diversity hiring.

01:19:07.900 But it was funny when I said it.

01:19:09.620 But it's not an argument.

01:19:11.040 Right?

01:19:11.600 Before you tell me

01:19:12.500 don't make analogy arguments,

01:19:14.040 it was just funny.

01:19:15.220 It's not a real argument.

01:19:16.040 So, anyway,

01:19:19.260 after Mark said that

01:19:21.000 if it's good for the business

01:19:22.680 to increase diversity,

01:19:24.580 for example,

01:19:25.380 to have a better,

01:19:26.180 you know,

01:19:27.360 better perspective on things,

01:19:28.860 which you do get

01:19:29.760 with more diversity,

01:19:31.460 that,

01:19:31.740 that he can use that

01:19:32.820 as part of the equation.

01:19:34.700 But remember,

01:19:35.560 he's not telling you

01:19:36.800 that he's hiring

01:19:38.080 lesser qualified people.

01:19:40.720 Right?

01:19:41.100 Now, you could,

01:19:41.680 separately,

01:19:42.280 you could argue

01:19:42.780 whether it's possible

01:19:43.880 to find enough,

01:19:45.860 you know,

01:19:46.140 people who have

01:19:46.620 the qualifications

01:19:47.440 so that everybody,

01:19:48.700 every employer

01:19:49.340 could hire enough diversity.

01:19:51.260 So, that's a separate question.

01:19:52.860 But he says,

01:19:53.800 you know,

01:19:54.080 separate from that,

01:19:54.780 you can find

01:19:55.660 the quality people.

01:19:56.860 So, let's say

01:19:57.320 they're all the same quality.

01:19:58.380 But then he would,

01:20:00.020 once they're the same quality,

01:20:01.820 he might take

01:20:02.840 diversification

01:20:04.600 into consideration.

01:20:06.500 Well, that was met

01:20:07.420 with a little pushback

01:20:08.580 from somebody named

01:20:09.520 Andrea Lucas,

01:20:11.160 who says,

01:20:12.400 EEOC commissioner here,

01:20:15.380 that would be the

01:20:16.780 Equal Employment

01:20:18.720 Opportunity Commission.

01:20:21.100 So, the person in the country

01:20:22.820 who's in charge

01:20:24.360 of knowing

01:20:25.360 what is racist

01:20:26.480 and hiring

01:20:27.020 what is not

01:20:27.900 informs Mark Cuban

01:20:29.740 the following

01:20:30.340 in public,

01:20:31.300 which is funny.

01:20:32.540 Unfortunately,

01:20:33.340 you're dead wrong

01:20:34.140 on black letter

01:20:35.020 title seven law.

01:20:37.420 No, title,

01:20:38.120 what is it?

01:20:40.140 Five, six,

01:20:41.000 seven, I guess.

01:20:42.260 As a general rule,

01:20:43.880 race and sex

01:20:44.600 can't even be

01:20:45.800 a motivating factor

01:20:47.300 nor a plus factor,

01:20:50.340 tiebreaker,

01:20:51.500 or tipping point.

01:20:53.400 It's important

01:20:54.000 employers understand

01:20:55.160 the ground rules.

01:20:59.480 So,

01:21:00.320 what we have here

01:21:01.620 is Mark Cuban

01:21:03.040 not only

01:21:04.160 promoting

01:21:07.920 that he personally

01:21:08.960 wants to pursue

01:21:10.020 something that

01:21:10.760 the government

01:21:11.720 he supports

01:21:12.440 says

01:21:12.820 is dead wrong

01:21:14.520 and illegal,

01:21:15.920 not even a gray area,

01:21:18.100 not a gray area,

01:21:19.780 dead wrong

01:21:20.680 and totally illegal.

01:21:24.100 But I will admit

01:21:25.400 if you took race

01:21:27.180 into consideration,

01:21:28.360 an employer

01:21:28.820 could figure a way

01:21:30.200 to game that.

01:21:31.220 That's true.

01:21:32.380 It's just

01:21:32.980 dead wrong

01:21:34.260 and totally illegal.

01:21:38.460 But he seems

01:21:40.080 to have

01:21:40.480 just set himself up

01:21:42.560 for the biggest

01:21:43.140 lawsuits in the world

01:21:44.420 because I'm going

01:21:46.180 to guess

01:21:46.540 there are some

01:21:47.060 white men

01:21:47.740 who work

01:21:48.260 for Mark Cuban

01:21:49.220 and if you're

01:21:51.340 a white man

01:21:51.940 who worked

01:21:52.300 for Mark Cuban

01:21:53.040 and you ever

01:21:53.760 suspected

01:21:54.400 that somebody

01:21:56.240 got a promotion

01:21:57.400 over you,

01:21:59.540 I don't know

01:22:00.780 how you don't

01:22:01.340 take that to court.

01:22:03.360 When you have

01:22:04.360 the backing

01:22:04.880 of the EEOC

01:22:06.140 commissioner,

01:22:08.460 how do you

01:22:10.540 lose that case?

01:22:12.180 Well,

01:22:12.400 I suppose you still

01:22:13.060 have to prove

01:22:13.500 your specific case.

01:22:14.500 But would Mark Cuban,

01:22:18.280 would he defend

01:22:19.020 himself by saying,

01:22:20.700 I did promote

01:22:21.480 somebody over you

01:22:22.360 because of diversity,

01:22:23.580 but they were

01:22:24.420 equally qualified,

01:22:25.880 so that should be fine.

01:22:28.320 Because I think

01:22:29.140 the law would say,

01:22:30.080 that's not a reason.

01:22:32.040 You know,

01:22:32.300 equally qualified

01:22:33.120 is good,

01:22:33.780 but the tiebreaker

01:22:35.000 he used was diversity

01:22:36.260 and that's against

01:22:37.400 the law.

01:22:39.020 So,

01:22:39.860 I wish Mark Cuban

01:22:41.300 well,

01:22:42.400 because I do believe

01:22:43.220 his intentions

01:22:44.440 for the country

01:22:45.200 are the right

01:22:45.700 intentions.

01:22:46.560 I don't think

01:22:47.080 he has any

01:22:47.580 bad intentions.

01:22:48.980 I do think

01:22:49.720 that if you're

01:22:51.460 an employer

01:22:52.160 and you have

01:22:54.420 a lot of diversity

01:22:55.180 in your business,

01:22:56.800 probably supporting

01:22:58.800 DEI

01:22:59.520 is a good look,

01:23:01.320 but

01:23:02.160 there was a little

01:23:03.520 trap here

01:23:04.180 that he walked into

01:23:05.200 because I think

01:23:06.260 he had every

01:23:06.880 intention of simply

01:23:08.200 supporting diversity

01:23:09.900 without breaking

01:23:11.460 any laws.

01:23:12.100 I mean,

01:23:13.280 I'm sure

01:23:13.700 he did not

01:23:14.260 intend to

01:23:14.700 break any laws

01:23:15.500 and of course

01:23:16.660 there's no evidence

01:23:17.240 he broke the law.

01:23:18.020 He's using

01:23:18.460 hypothetical situations.

01:23:20.840 So,

01:23:21.120 just to be clear,

01:23:22.460 there's no indication

01:23:23.340 he's ever broken

01:23:24.100 the law.

01:23:26.080 These are thought

01:23:27.040 experiments,

01:23:28.300 purely.

01:23:30.760 All right,

01:23:31.580 I've told you

01:23:32.900 before I also

01:23:33.600 watch MSNBC

01:23:34.640 because it's

01:23:35.760 fascinating to

01:23:36.520 watch an entire

01:23:37.720 channel devoted

01:23:39.080 to people with 0.73

01:23:39.860 mental illness.

01:23:41.360 Now,

01:23:41.880 I'm no doctor

01:23:43.000 and I cannot

01:23:43.700 diagnose mental

01:23:44.740 illness.

01:23:45.480 I'm telling you

01:23:46.320 what it looks

01:23:47.360 like to me,

01:23:48.460 how I receive it.

01:23:49.840 As an audience

01:23:50.580 member,

01:23:51.580 what's it feel like?

01:23:53.120 And when I saw

01:23:53.780 Rachel Madnow,

01:23:55.040 or I called her

01:23:55.700 Racial Madnow, 0.59

01:23:57.480 interview E.

01:23:58.540 Jean Carroll

01:23:59.060 and they were just

01:24:00.060 giddy and happy

01:24:01.040 and laughing

01:24:01.600 and about

01:24:03.140 how they had

01:24:04.000 got,

01:24:04.660 you know,

01:24:04.980 they got 83 million

01:24:05.980 out of Trump

01:24:06.800 and when asked

01:24:08.160 what E.

01:24:08.700 Jean Carroll

01:24:09.140 would do

01:24:09.580 with the money

01:24:10.040 to promote,

01:24:11.940 you know,

01:24:12.660 the causes

01:24:13.140 of women,

01:24:16.120 E.

01:24:16.500 Jean Carroll

01:24:16.900 said that

01:24:17.560 with a big

01:24:19.280 smile and laugh

01:24:20.160 that she was

01:24:20.640 going to go

01:24:21.080 shopping and

01:24:21.900 if Rachel

01:24:22.720 wanted to go

01:24:23.320 with her,

01:24:24.000 she'd go

01:24:24.360 shopping,

01:24:25.040 they'd get

01:24:25.400 completely new

01:24:26.180 wardrobes,

01:24:26.920 new shoes.

01:24:28.420 Rachel,

01:24:29.140 do you want

01:24:29.500 a penthouse?

01:24:30.200 She'd be willing

01:24:30.800 to buy Rachel

01:24:31.480 a penthouse.

01:24:32.980 And then

01:24:33.380 after all that

01:24:34.240 giddy happiness

01:24:35.580 about all the

01:24:36.220 money she's 1.00

01:24:36.720 going to spend

01:24:37.120 from Trump

01:24:37.720 because,

01:24:38.920 you know,

01:24:39.080 that's how

01:24:39.420 rape victims

01:24:40.120 act.

01:24:41.480 When you're

01:24:42.180 a rape victim

01:24:42.860 and you 0.98

01:24:43.740 finally win

01:24:44.420 after a long

01:24:45.380 court battle,

01:24:47.640 you talk

01:24:49.360 about the

01:24:49.760 shopping.

01:24:51.840 Right.

01:24:52.440 Yeah,

01:24:52.660 you like to

01:24:53.240 put the focus

01:24:54.100 on the shopping

01:24:54.980 that you're

01:24:56.060 going to do

01:24:56.400 with all this

01:24:56.900 Trump money.

01:24:59.180 Meanwhile,

01:24:59.900 E.

01:25:00.060 Jean Carroll's

01:25:00.680 lawyer sat

01:25:01.520 next to her

01:25:02.100 and listened

01:25:02.560 to that

01:25:03.000 and said

01:25:03.860 nervously,

01:25:04.460 that's a

01:25:05.820 joke.

01:25:09.100 That's a

01:25:09.740 joke.

01:25:13.360 So,

01:25:14.340 when I

01:25:15.980 watched it,

01:25:16.600 what I saw

01:25:17.080 was Rachel

01:25:17.940 Madnow

01:25:18.440 apparently 0.62

01:25:19.520 insane.

01:25:21.440 I mean, 0.96

01:25:21.720 she looks

01:25:22.480 like just

01:25:22.940 she's in

01:25:23.880 complete 0.99

01:25:24.620 mental

01:25:25.240 distress,

01:25:26.460 honestly.

01:25:27.340 Now,

01:25:27.700 again,

01:25:28.100 I'm not

01:25:28.400 saying that

01:25:28.780 that's a

01:25:29.160 fact.

01:25:30.180 I'm no

01:25:30.560 doctor.

01:25:31.160 I can't

01:25:31.540 diagnose her.

01:25:32.300 I can't

01:25:32.540 read her

01:25:32.860 mind.

01:25:33.160 I'm

01:25:33.640 saying how

01:25:34.060 it appears

01:25:35.300 to me.

01:25:35.940 It just

01:25:36.180 feels like

01:25:36.820 it's a

01:25:37.500 mental 0.96

01:25:37.740 illness

01:25:38.200 festival.

01:25:41.840 No,

01:25:42.400 I disagree.

01:25:43.420 I'm seeing

01:25:44.240 your comment

01:25:44.720 here.

01:25:45.040 Somebody

01:25:45.260 saying that

01:25:46.520 Mark Cuban

01:25:47.900 is in that

01:25:49.100 category.

01:25:49.580 Definitely

01:25:49.900 not.

01:25:50.920 Mark Cuban

01:25:51.400 is not

01:25:52.140 crazy or

01:25:54.100 insane. 0.99

01:25:55.900 And he's 0.99

01:25:56.440 not dumb. 0.70

01:25:57.960 I think 0.99

01:25:58.400 he's a

01:25:58.780 CEO with a

01:25:59.600 diverse workforce

01:26:00.520 and he's

01:26:01.000 doing the

01:26:01.380 best he

01:26:01.700 can to

01:26:02.020 support them.

01:26:03.160 That's

01:26:03.640 not a

01:26:04.860 bad

01:26:05.220 impulse.

01:26:06.720 There might

01:26:07.060 be a

01:26:07.300 bad outcome

01:26:07.780 from it,

01:26:08.420 but I

01:26:09.240 believe his

01:26:09.700 intentions are

01:26:10.480 all directed

01:26:11.420 in what he

01:26:12.860 thinks is the

01:26:13.440 best direction.

01:26:16.520 Meanwhile,

01:26:17.200 Joy Reid got

01:26:18.240 caught on a

01:26:18.800 hot mic.

01:26:19.760 I think this

01:26:20.840 is real,

01:26:21.760 but I don't

01:26:22.460 trust any

01:26:23.020 hot mic

01:26:23.560 stories from

01:26:25.500 this day

01:26:26.080 forward.

01:26:27.560 And that

01:26:27.860 would be a

01:26:28.260 good tip for

01:26:29.140 you.

01:26:29.320 don't

01:26:30.320 trust any

01:26:31.980 hot mic

01:26:32.720 stories for

01:26:34.420 the rest

01:26:34.840 of time

01:26:35.400 because that

01:26:36.120 can now be

01:26:36.720 done with

01:26:37.080 AI too

01:26:37.600 easily.

01:26:38.600 And this

01:26:39.080 particular

01:26:39.500 one, the

01:26:40.240 hot mic,

01:26:40.940 she wasn't

01:26:41.520 on camera,

01:26:43.020 so it was

01:26:43.440 just an

01:26:43.800 audio.

01:26:44.800 How hard

01:26:45.340 would it be

01:26:45.800 to make a

01:26:46.420 deep fake

01:26:47.040 audio of

01:26:48.520 Joy Reid and

01:26:49.420 then insert it

01:26:50.200 in a clip?

01:26:51.200 Real easy.

01:26:52.780 So I'm not

01:26:53.580 positive this

01:26:54.440 story is real.

01:26:55.620 I'm going to

01:26:56.020 need a fact

01:26:56.560 check on this.

01:26:57.180 I don't

01:26:57.420 know if

01:26:57.640 she's

01:26:57.900 admitted it

01:26:58.500 or anything,

01:26:59.420 but it

01:26:59.800 feels fake-ish.

01:27:02.560 It feels,

01:27:03.100 I'm going to

01:27:03.880 say, I

01:27:05.820 don't know,

01:27:06.020 this one's a

01:27:06.460 coin flip.

01:27:07.960 I'm going to

01:27:08.660 say coin flip

01:27:09.440 on this one.

01:27:09.960 I can't tell

01:27:10.580 if this is

01:27:11.060 real, but I'll

01:27:11.940 tell you what

01:27:12.340 happened.

01:27:13.160 What happened

01:27:13.780 was they

01:27:14.480 went to a

01:27:16.260 B-roll or

01:27:16.920 something with

01:27:17.580 Biden, and

01:27:19.880 this is in

01:27:21.220 the context

01:27:21.780 of, you

01:27:22.200 know, Iran.

01:27:23.080 We might

01:27:23.500 start a

01:27:23.980 shooting war 0.94

01:27:24.460 with Iran,

01:27:25.320 and allegedly

01:27:26.340 it was about

01:27:28.340 the story

01:27:28.720 about the

01:27:29.340 three troops

01:27:30.800 that were

01:27:31.100 killed, and

01:27:31.980 all three 0.96

01:27:32.640 were black.

01:27:33.700 Two of

01:27:34.060 them were

01:27:34.300 female.

01:27:35.560 I don't

01:27:35.980 know if

01:27:36.360 there's ever

01:27:38.060 been a

01:27:38.400 military action

01:27:39.160 in American

01:27:39.700 history where

01:27:41.140 two females 0.63

01:27:42.220 died in the

01:27:43.660 same military

01:27:44.260 action.

01:27:46.080 Maybe, but

01:27:47.640 oh, she

01:27:50.240 apologized.

01:27:51.060 Somebody says

01:27:51.580 she apologized

01:27:52.400 for behind the

01:27:53.220 scenes.

01:27:53.540 Did she

01:27:53.880 really?

01:27:54.120 Really?

01:27:56.340 Oh, well,

01:27:57.420 okay.

01:27:57.940 If it was

01:27:58.440 real, I'll

01:27:58.900 tell you what

01:27:59.300 she said.

01:28:00.720 She said,

01:28:02.360 starting another 1.00

01:28:05.180 fucking war. 1.00

01:28:07.000 So she was 1.00

01:28:07.620 talking about

01:28:08.100 Biden, quote,

01:28:08.980 starting another 1.00

01:28:09.760 fucking war. 1.00

01:28:10.820 That was her 1.00

01:28:11.500 quote.

01:28:13.200 So, now

01:28:15.080 you're a

01:28:16.160 viewer of

01:28:16.680 MSNBC, and

01:28:18.320 MSNBC has

01:28:19.400 been telling

01:28:19.840 you, Biden's

01:28:21.420 her man.

01:28:22.660 He's a good

01:28:23.160 guy.

01:28:23.500 But the

01:28:24.400 first thing

01:28:24.960 you've ever

01:28:25.380 heard on a

01:28:25.920 hot mic from

01:28:26.880 Joey Reed is

01:28:28.320 that he's

01:28:29.140 starting another 1.00

01:28:29.680 fucking war, 1.00

01:28:30.520 which could be 1.00

01:28:31.540 the biggest

01:28:32.320 insult you

01:28:33.280 could give to

01:28:33.780 any politician.

01:28:35.660 Because she's

01:28:36.400 not saying we

01:28:37.200 have to be in a

01:28:37.860 war.

01:28:38.140 She's saying he's

01:28:38.820 starting one that

01:28:39.500 didn't need to be

01:28:40.120 started.

01:28:41.000 There is no

01:28:42.480 greater criticism

01:28:44.200 of a politician

01:28:45.220 than started a

01:28:46.820 war that didn't

01:28:47.480 need to start.

01:28:48.420 You can't top

01:28:49.300 that.

01:28:50.540 And then people

01:28:51.180 are watching her

01:28:51.800 show, and

01:28:52.980 they're like,

01:28:54.160 wait, what

01:28:54.980 did you just

01:28:55.380 say?

01:28:57.340 Why is it

01:28:58.540 that my

01:28:59.040 worldview of

01:29:00.000 what MSNBC 0.66

01:29:01.000 feels about

01:29:02.720 this administration

01:29:03.740 is not

01:29:04.840 matching what

01:29:05.640 I observe

01:29:06.140 her say? 0.98

01:29:08.140 Crazy. 0.77

01:29:09.920 How about 0.95

01:29:10.300 the Republicans?

01:29:11.960 When the

01:29:12.500 Republicans heard

01:29:13.240 this, did it

01:29:14.280 alter their

01:29:14.980 worldview?

01:29:16.520 No.

01:29:17.700 Because the

01:29:18.280 Republicans know

01:29:19.400 there's probably

01:29:20.360 not a single

01:29:21.220 Democrat

01:29:21.720 who really

01:29:22.400 wants a

01:29:22.880 little extra

01:29:23.400 war from

01:29:24.480 their president.

01:29:25.580 We knew

01:29:26.220 that.

01:29:26.960 If you

01:29:27.380 asked me

01:29:27.780 what did

01:29:28.260 I think

01:29:28.740 the Democrats

01:29:29.600 say behind

01:29:30.320 closed doors,

01:29:32.080 it's this.

01:29:34.080 This is

01:29:34.660 exactly what

01:29:36.340 I assumed

01:29:37.100 Democrats say

01:29:38.760 behind closed

01:29:39.400 doors.

01:29:40.140 Yeah, we

01:29:40.540 don't want

01:29:40.880 another war.

01:29:42.020 And if he

01:29:42.540 gets us into

01:29:43.140 one, that

01:29:43.680 would be

01:29:43.960 very bad.

01:29:45.280 Just what

01:29:45.960 I expected.

01:29:49.040 All right.

01:29:49.720 so we

01:29:52.300 haven't

01:29:52.540 attacked

01:29:52.900 Iran yet,

01:29:53.580 right?

01:29:54.280 I'm going

01:29:54.860 to make

01:29:55.040 the same

01:29:55.400 prediction

01:29:55.780 everybody's

01:29:56.360 making,

01:29:57.180 all the

01:29:57.580 smart people.

01:29:58.520 We'll

01:29:58.960 probably take

01:29:59.500 military action

01:30:00.440 against some

01:30:01.640 assets that

01:30:02.540 are not in

01:30:03.440 Iran, and

01:30:05.480 we'll see what

01:30:05.920 happens there.

01:30:07.400 RFK Jr.

01:30:08.380 did confirm

01:30:09.020 that Trump's

01:30:09.620 team asked

01:30:10.340 them about

01:30:10.980 being VP.

01:30:12.460 People are

01:30:13.180 interpreting that

01:30:14.080 as it was an

01:30:14.900 offer.

01:30:15.240 I don't

01:30:16.920 know that

01:30:17.520 that's exactly

01:30:18.480 what he

01:30:18.920 said.

01:30:19.920 What he

01:30:20.480 said was his

01:30:21.180 team asked

01:30:21.980 him if he

01:30:22.480 wanted to

01:30:22.840 be VP.

01:30:24.120 That doesn't

01:30:24.860 mean you get

01:30:25.340 to be VP.

01:30:26.980 That means

01:30:27.500 they're asking

01:30:28.600 him if he'd

01:30:29.140 be interested.

01:30:30.280 And secondly,

01:30:31.160 there's no

01:30:31.800 evidence that

01:30:32.460 the team was

01:30:33.180 talking for

01:30:33.780 Trump.

01:30:35.540 It could be

01:30:36.400 that there

01:30:36.780 were lots of

01:30:37.380 people associated

01:30:38.060 with the

01:30:38.380 campaign, and

01:30:39.520 they knew that

01:30:40.200 talking to all

01:30:40.860 the people who

01:30:41.400 were potential

01:30:42.040 candidates was

01:30:43.160 just the

01:30:43.600 smarter thing

01:30:44.080 to do.

01:30:45.240 I don't even

01:30:46.360 know if Trump

01:30:46.900 knew about it

01:30:47.500 until it was

01:30:47.880 over, so

01:30:48.760 there's no

01:30:49.140 reporting on

01:30:49.760 that.

01:30:52.560 All right,

01:30:53.120 ladies and 0.98

01:30:53.500 gentlemen, I

01:30:54.140 ran long.

01:30:55.020 I'm going to

01:30:55.380 end now.

01:30:56.320 Thanks for

01:30:56.760 joining on

01:30:57.440 Rumble and

01:30:58.660 X and

01:30:59.200 YouTube.

01:30:59.800 I hope you

01:31:00.140 like my

01:31:00.580 theme, and

01:31:02.060 I will talk

01:31:02.560 to you

01:31:02.880 tomorrow.

01:31:03.780 Thanks for

01:31:04.280 joining.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - January 30, 2024

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