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Scott Adams talks about a new app that adds clothes back on to semi-clothed women on social media, and why he doesn't like watching heterosexuals have sex in front of other people. He also talks about why he thinks a heterosexual couple should just be holding hands.
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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to Coffee with Scott Adams, which is exactly what this is.
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Well, we got all kinds of stories. I'm going to jump right into them because I know you're people
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of action, aren't you? You're people of action. There's a new app called the Dignity app that will
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add clothes back on to semi-clothed women on social media. Somebody said it was a 4chan app,
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and to me, this is the funniest thing. If you could add the clothes back on to the women online.
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Now, what I love about this is how much work somebody put into the joke.
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Because I don't really see people using it. I can't really imagine anybody's going to say,
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you know, I'd like to spend some time today putting clothes on women online. But the fact
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that it actually works, and that it's a real thing, and that somebody spent all that time
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to build it, that's the story. The story is about one, probably one, intrepid autist who just said,
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you know what? I'll bet I can put clothes back on these women. And then he built it. I assume it's
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a guy. All right, so I tried to watch a new series. I thought I was going to recommend it to you today.
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On Netflix, it's called Alexander. It's Alexander the Great. Have any of you made the mistake of
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trying to watch that? You know what I said to myself? I said to myself, great. It was sort of a
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documentary movie. And it was going to be about Alexander the Great. And I had a lot of curiosity
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about Alexander the Great, because I don't know too much on that topic. And I thought, oh, this
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would be interesting. I like my dictators and stuff. And then I thought, finally, I'm going to watch a show
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that doesn't have any wokeness in it, because it's about, you know, ancient times. And they can't
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really change the ethnicities of the people, because it wouldn't be very, wouldn't be very,
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you know, accurate. Well, it took about 60 seconds into the miniseries before it turned into Brokeback
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Mountain, Alexander the Great version. I swear to God, they turned it into a gay love story.
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And the Alexander the Great is making out with his boyfriend, like 60 seconds into the fucking
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thing. Now, I don't have any problem with, you know, the gay part. But I also don't like watching
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heterosexuals have intimate moments in a TV show or movie. Because I get that it's, you know,
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sort of building up who their character is. But that's always the throwaway scene.
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Okay, there are people, they're kissing. I guess that I'm supposed to feel their love
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as an important part of the story. But they don't really need to kiss. They don't need to have sex
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right in front of me. They could just be holding hands. They could just say nice things to each other.
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I get it. I'll piece it together. And, you know, I'm not a prude. I'm about as far away as you can get
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from being a prude. It's just unnecessary entertainment. Because it's never like turning
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you on, right? Like, I don't get turned on watching a heterosexual couple make out. I just think,
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well, you know, I wouldn't mind if that were me, maybe, replacing the guy. Just in case you wondered
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which one I was going to replace in that scene. And I just don't need to see it. I feel like it's
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lazy writing. I guess that's what it is. You know, I'm a professional writer, sort of.
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So when I see lazy writing, I just go, oh, not another chasey. Not somebody tied to a chair to
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be tortured. Not 10 minutes of watching somebody be sweeter than people are in real life. And they're
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always like sickeningly sweeter than real life. Like, ugh. Anyway. Well, here's a evergreen story I'm
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going to keep bringing up because it keeps helping people. But I keep seeing more evidence
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from people online that they've experimented with quitting wheat and had tremendous weight loss
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and inflammation loss. And all their pain went away and they became more flexible. And that was my
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experience. And I've recommended that this is the one thing, well, not the one thing, but it's one
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thing you could really easily test. Meaning you could just try going a month. I think a month is a good
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number. A month without any wheat. But you really have to go cold turkey. You know, don't just cut
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down. I don't think that makes a difference. I think you just have to go no wheat, but also check
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the ingredients on packages. You know, because you could easily get yourself a, you know, a pizza or
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something and forget that that's wheat. So you have to go to zero, which is not terrible. You could do it
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for a month. But just see how you feel. My total overall health, tremendously better after a month
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off of wheat. And I've stayed off wheat. So I had a type of inflammation that was my entire body all the
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time. So if I exercised, it just hurt. Just always hurt. It just went away. And the only thing I changed
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was taking the wheat out of my diet. So give it a try. A lot of people say it's making a big
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difference to them. Tim Pool had a good point about Joe Rogan's alleged $250 million Spotify deal
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that allows him to be on other platforms like X, apparently. But as Tim Pool points out,
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if somebody like Spotify is going to double down on Joe Rogan, it kind of proves that that style of
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entertainment has an economic value that looks like it's lasting. So although people might complain,
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people, you know, people on the left might complain that Joe Rogan is so popular and his guests say
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things they think are not true and provocative, but apparently there's a market for it, a big market.
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And so I'd agree with Tim Pool that this does suggest that the powers that be are going to
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recognize the alternative voices, if you can call it that, have value. And I think it's probably
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the biggest symbol of a gigantic change in the media landscape where the traditional media just looks
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like a joke and the non-traditional media is becoming the traditional media. Do you know when
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it was the last time I looked at a news site? Or I just don't do it anymore. It's just not where I get
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the news. Pretty much all the news, I want to get filtered through somebody who knows more than the
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people who reported the news. You know what is bad news? Not bad news as in unlucky news, but a bad form
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of news is you go to any media site and then you just read the story. That's not even a left or right
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thing. That's just the worst thing you could do. Just go to any media site and read the story. Do you know
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what's a good form? Go to Glenn Greenwald's X feed and see what he says about the story in that media?
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Because he's going to add the context. Oh, here's the stuff they left out. Here's the stuff they're
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lying to you about. Here's the fact that's already been debunked. So if you show me today's news just
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from the original site, it's just worthless. Absolutely worthless. But if you show me that same story
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and you let a Mike Cernovich or Glenn Greenwald or Michael Schellenberger, Matt Taibbi, I could list
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20 more. If you let them filter at first, the people who feel they have something to add to the story or
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subtract from it, then you might have something. Then you might have something. But if you're seeing it
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just on the news site, you're probably just misleading yourself because the news is all motivated.
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You know, they'll show you what they want to show you and leave out what they want to leave out
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because they think they have a certain kind of audience and maybe other reasons.
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Well, Elon Musk continues to be entertaining on his own platform. He suggested that, well,
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he said this in a post, should I make the Texas Institute of Technology and Science real?
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In other words, should he just create a college? Now, the reason he asked is because the acronym for
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Texas Institute of Technology and Science would be TITS. So he's willing to create a college
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because it would be a funny, a naughty pun. Now, how much money do you have to have before you're
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willing to create a college just for the pun? Now, I'm sure he'd have other reasons for doing it, but
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I feel like the pun is a lot of it. Yeah, I couldn't love that more, frankly. And then he said,
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it would, of course, have advanced social studies, too. Advanced social studies, ASS. Oh, so he would
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build the Institute of Tits and Ass. I could not love this more. I couldn't love it more. I don't name
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anything I would like more than this. Start with just the basic story, the idea that Elon Musk could
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get involved designing a institution of higher learning. I'm already on board, all right? I'm not
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just on board. I'm, like, jumping up and down on board. Really? Elon Musk might want to solve the
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biggest problem in the United States and maybe the world, that our education system, you know,
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morphed into something horrible. And maybe he could fix it because he seems to be good at fixing
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stuff. I mean, that alone would be amazing. But if he names it something obscene, well,
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I couldn't love it more. I could not love it more. Well, a famous rapper and actor of 50 Cent
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is coming out a little bit pro-Trump. He says, maybe Trump is the answer because he's blasting New York
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Mayor Eric Adams and, you know, he's not so happy about the migrant crisis. So he said, you know, he's just
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like, I don't even understand all this stuff. He says, I can't explain this. He's talking about the migrant
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crisis in New York. Can't explain this. I'm stuck. Maybe Trump is the answer.
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So there you go. Now, how many, how many black voters do you think will actually consider Trump?
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I worry that I'm in a bubble. And just because a few notable people like Snoop Dogg recently said a
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positive Trump thing, how much of a bubble am I in? Is this a real thing? Because I feel like I don't
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want to get ahead of the reality. I feel like there's certainly some prominent people who have
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said pro-Trump things that you didn't expect. That's real. But I don't know if they represent
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much in the public. You know, I don't know if this is a 2% change or a 5% change or what this is.
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But I will dovetail this into my story about, you all know that, you know, it wasn't long ago that
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the great replacement theory, that the immigrants were being brought into the country to replace
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Americans. And usually it's white Americans who think they're the ones getting replaced.
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So that's the theory. I'm not saying that I buy into that theory. I'll just say it exists.
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But Elon Musk is buying into it hard, at least in its current form, which is the open borders.
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And there does seem to be plenty of solid evidence that there are people who are doing this for
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political reasons. And I think we can now say, oh, yeah, that this has at least one of the reasons.
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I don't know how many reasons there are. But at least one of the reasons is to change the
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voting mix so that Democrats win forever. And Elon Musk is saying that out loud. Apparently,
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Arizona is literally trying to do that right now. Arizona is trying to make it so that there's a push
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to make it legal for noncitizens in Arizona to vote only in the presidential election. That's pretty
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clear, isn't it? That they only wanted to vote in the presidential election. That's literally just
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about Trump. And maybe the future, but that's pretty obvious. And Coulter points out that back in the
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90s, I guess there was some Democrat who was saying it directly. If we open up immigration, I think during
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the Kennedy time, there was talk about using immigration to increase the percentage of Democrats.
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So Democrats have been talking about immigration as a way to gain power since Kennedy. And in writing,
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you know, in a way that we can verify this is an actual conversation.
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Now, I had my take on it prior to the Biden administration, is that although there was a
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lot of, you know, illegal immigration, I didn't really think people were doing it primarily for
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that. You know, I always thought it was more economic, you know, both economic on the migrants
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parts, but also economic on America's part, because we needed workers. And it was just sort of a sketchy
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way to do it to get them. But now I now I fully buy in at the current rate. And given that the
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administration is clearly letting people in intentionally. Yeah, there's certainly no more
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mystery about whether they can't do it. Oh, there's no way we can stop them, because the laws and I don't
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have any power. Even Bill Maher was mocking on his show Friday night, was mocking the people who don't
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understand that Biden could stop the border invasion anytime he wanted. Like even and the important part
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here is that Bill Maher, you know, deep in TDS, a lot of issues has found his way out, at least on the
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border issue. Right? That doesn't make him pro Trump. But he certainly understands that Trump was
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right on the border. And that's, that's pretty big. So yeah, I think at this point, we can say it's
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exactly what it looks like. It's a play to tip the, you know, maybe tip Texas, which would be the big
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one, maybe Florida. But I love the fact that Texas's response is to ship them to places that were already
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so blue, so blue, that it made no difference to any elections. That's pretty clever. Not just to
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ship them to places that, you know, can share the pain, but to ship them to places where they're
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electorally irrelevant. It's pretty smart. Send them all to New York and Chicago and you don't lose
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anything vote-wise. But what I'm wondering is, will the Democrats gain enough voters from immigration
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illegal immigration, will they gain enough Democrat voters to make up for the number of black voters
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I don't know. Because I feel like black voters are largely locked in because everybody is, you know,
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it takes, you know, just a miracle for anybody to change who they vote for. But some, if I had to
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guess, there might be a 10% movement in the black vote towards Trump. Maybe 10% tops. So you got 10%
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of 13% of the country, right? Maybe 1.3% difference. Could be enough to change the vote. But then what
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about the illegals? So we got 10 million illegals. Let's say you've got 10 million extra. We might have
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25 million. Who knows? But if you had 10 million illegals, how many of them are going to vote?
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I don't know. So you got, you know, there's not that, well, let's say it's about the same number.
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Let's say the illegals and the number of legal, you know, black citizens of America are roughly the same.
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Are they? Are they about the same? I think it's in the same neighborhood.
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Well, immigration isn't 25% of the country. All right. So we'll argue a little bit about the
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numbers. But my question is, does anybody understand the push and the pull, the net of this?
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Because I'm not 100% convinced that Democrats net out positive. What do you think? I think that all it
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would take is one good narrative to just take 25% of the black vote. And the narrative would be,
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you just say what they say. By the way, this is the best persuasion. The best persuasion is you don't
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sit in a room by yourself and say, what can I say that'll make a difference with whatever group you're
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trying to persuade? That could work, but it'd be very difficult to see into their minds.
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But when you see black people being interviewed on the media and they're asked about Trump versus
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Biden, what's the one thing that they always say, they always say when they're talking about Trump
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versus Biden. The one thing they always say, lately, I'll say lately because it's changed.
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Every time it's, I made more money under Trump. Every time. How many of the black citizens that
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you've seen interviewed said they don't like Trump because he's a racist?
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This year. In the past year, how many times have you seen a black citizen, not a pundit? I'm not
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talking about somebody who does a professional. Actually, zero. The dog that's not barking there
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is not barking really loud. Isn't that weird? Can you find me a citizen who's not a professional,
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not a pundit, and let's say not an academic, you know, not somebody who writes and talks for a
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living? Just an actual citizen. And just ask them if they think that Trump is a racist compared to
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Biden. That would be the fair question is compared to Biden. I feel like blacks get it now in the sense
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that Trump was always protecting Americans. And they're American. That's the end of the story.
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Right? That the Trump point of view is so simple. I'm surprised it's taking this long to catch on.
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Are you American? I'm on your side. And then he proves it by keeping the non-Americans out if he can do it
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so that you're not competing with him. I feel like black America is one narrative away. And even though
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I say this jokingly, it's literally true in a sort of indirect way, it's literally true that
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the immigrant situation has eliminated the possibility of reparations. Would you agree?
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Now you might say to yourself, well, Scott, there's still that one place that's going to do it anyway.
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And that's probably true. But that conversation is largely tabled, in my opinion, because of the
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money we're spending on the migrant population. Now you could say to yourself, but Scott, didn't you
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tell us that money is fungible and that's not how it works? And just because you're spending money on
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one thing, that doesn't mean you couldn't spend money on the other thing if you wanted to. You know,
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you could always run up your debt, whatever. And that's true. But we don't treat it that way in
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the real world. In the real world, we treat it like it's a limit, even though it's not. So if I were
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black, and I thought the country owed me more, be it better education, you know, some kind of change in
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urban laws or policing or something, if I thought I wanted something, and I saw that 100% of the
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attention of all the authorities in the government is to the migrant class, which is what it feels
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like. It's not the case, but it feels like that. I'd be voting Trump so fast. But I can't put myself
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in the heads of other people. So I guess we'll just have to find out how that goes.
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Here's some updates. Nikki Haley was on Saturday Night Live. I guess she played somebody in the
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audience who just asked a question of the person who was playing a Trump person. And the thing that
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caught me was that her thing on Saturday Night Live was to mock Trump, of course. And then she tweeted,
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you know, that Trump probably doesn't stay up that late. But you know, he'll be tweeting angry
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things at her when he sees he sees Saturday Night Live. And I thought, do you not know anything about
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Trump? The one thing we know about him for sure is he does stay up late. Like, that's like saying he
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doesn't golf. Did you not notice? He kind of golfs. And he also stays up late. So that was a kind of a
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weird thing to say about him. But here's what I got out of that. Nikki Haley only exists because Trump
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exists. Doesn't it feel like that? Now you can imagine if there was never a Trump that she may have,
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you know, risen in politics anyway, because she's capable. But I feel her entire existence
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is only based on Trump. She's defined by Trump. What a terrible place to be.
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Isn't that a terrible place to be in life? That who you are is defined by another person you don't even
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like? You're not even defined by your own anything. You just, well, compared to Trump.
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So that's just a weird situation. Well, Harvard is still stupid. They've invited a radical Palestinian
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speaker who has defended the Hamas massacres. So Harvard's actually got a speaker who said something
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along the lines of October 7th was totally normal. And, you know, you got to expect people to defend
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themselves. That's what she said. And they're like, well, that'd be a good speaker. Now, do I think that
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she should be allowed to speak? Absolutely. Absolutely. Free speech. Do I think that this is a good
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decision by Harvard? Well, it doesn't seem like it, because I'm pretty sure they wouldn't allow the
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competing message to be there. Or if it was, there would be so many protests that, you know, it turned
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into a mess. So, yeah, that's a little bit of problem, a little bit of problem managing their
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reputation. So Harvard still looks stupid, but maybe not as stupid as my state. There's a story in the San
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Francisco Chronicle, which used to be a newspaper. I don't know what it is now. But the San Francisco
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Chronicle was the last big paper to pick up Dilbert. They just weren't convinced. They just couldn't be
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convinced. Yeah. They wanted to hold out. Anyway, so the Chronicle is garbage. But anyway, they report
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that Hayward, just down the street from me, says that they had an elementary school that was
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struggling with their low test scores. So in order to help things, they spent $250,000 of federal money
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for an organization called, and I swear to God, this is the actual name of the organization,
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woke kindergarten, to train teachers to confront white supremacy, disrupt racism and oppression,
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and remove these barriers to learning. So that was their response to the low test scores, is to teach
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the students to be more aware of white supremacy. Now, you're probably saying to yourself, wow,
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that probably helped their test scores, huh? So let's check in on the test scores, because once
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they've addressed and confronted white supremacy, I would expect those test scores to start zooming up
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to the sky and update is, oh, yeah, the test scores went down. Well, nobody saw that coming.
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I mean, how could you even see that coming, really? I mean, because if people are stupid,
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I thought the antidote to stupidity was more wokeness. Am I wrong? Did I have that wrong the
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whole time? That if your kids are not performing, they're not woke enough? And maybe it's the white
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supremacy that they haven't fully confronted? It made so much sense to me, I'm surprised that didn't
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work. Because on paper, on paper, it looks so right. Have you noticed that? These good plans
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on paper? For example, take our border situation. On paper, the idea of opening your borders and
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rewarding people from all over the country that we can't vet by the multi-millions, on paper,
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that seems like a terrific idea. But then, you know, sometimes reality gets in the way. And it's not
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really working out in reality. But on paper, doesn't that sound good? Let all the strangers in from
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the prisons and anywhere without checking full of... I mean, on paper, it sounds great. So you can
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understand why you get caught by surprise. Yeah, weirdly, woke kindergarten didn't make as much
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difference as it does on paper. I mean, on paper, it seems like a good idea. How about the military
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action over there? Well, again, you tell me, is this not a great idea? So we got this problem with
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the Houthis and the proxies, you know, attacking American interests overseas. I don't know if there
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are interests, but we have people there. And the Biden administration draws up this plan.
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Now, I think you'd agree with me that on paper, this makes sense.
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That we don't want to war with Iran. So in order to get them to surrender, we will bomb things that
00:29:16.300
Iran doesn't care about until Iran surrenders. So that's what we've done. So we're going to bomb
00:29:23.020
Syria and Iraq and maybe Yemen until Iran just surrenders. Now, you tell me, isn't that a good plan,
00:29:32.700
at least on paper? So why it hasn't worked already? I'm a little bit puzzled. Because I'm
00:29:39.920
thinking, we've bombed all these empty buildings in other countries, and Iran is acting like nothing
00:29:47.320
even happened. How do you understand the world anymore? It's so confusing. You have such good
00:29:55.380
plans on paper, and then you implement them, and I don't know what's going on. I don't know what's
00:30:01.160
going on, that you can implement such logical, good plans, and still get a bad result. I don't know.
00:30:08.660
I just don't get it. Well, Tucker Carlson is in Russia, apparently. People assume, it's probably
00:30:15.900
a pretty good assumption, that he's there to talk to Putin. But couldn't he also be talking to Snowden?
00:30:22.980
Putin? Or Tara Reid? I think she's there now. Yeah. But I'm going to guess Putin. Now,
00:30:32.980
there's a backstory that Tucker talks about, that once before he got canceled, he was considering
00:30:40.060
interviewing Putin. And apparently the government was well aware of it, even though he didn't tell
00:30:47.660
anybody. And he believes that they were into his encrypted signal app. Now, I don't know if that's
00:30:54.920
how they found out, because they don't have to get into the signal app. There's other ways they can
00:31:01.620
do it. They can do it through your phone. They can find out somebody else who knows something.
00:31:05.860
There are other ways to do it. So I don't know if they got into the signal app. But let me tell you
00:31:08.920
again, if you believe there's such a thing as encrypted communication, so that you can say
00:31:16.100
things that you wouldn't say normally, don't put anything in an encrypted message that's illegal.
00:31:24.240
Ever. There's no such thing as a message the government can't get. In fact, if you were the CIA,
00:31:31.240
the first thing you do is you take over these little encrypted apps, because that's where all the good
00:31:36.460
stuff is. It's the first thing you do is you get control of any company that was trying to put all
00:31:44.440
the crooks in one place. Right? Wouldn't you go there first? You would stop at nothing to have full
00:31:52.640
control of encrypted apps, because that's where all the good stuff is. Now, is that? Let me explain it to
00:32:02.380
you in the narrative that I'm trying to use here. On paper, doesn't that sound like a good idea?
00:32:11.480
You're going to take this encrypted app, and you'll attract all the people who have things to say that
00:32:16.640
they don't want the government to hear, and you're going to organize them so that their names and user
00:32:21.880
numbers and all their messages will be in one place. Really easy to find. But don't worry, because it's
00:32:27.440
encrypted. Don't worry, government can't get there because it's encrypted. Now, you see a problem with
00:32:37.340
that? Does anybody see a problem that the CIA can co-opt any management it wants? Do you think
00:32:45.560
there's a leader of a company somewhere in America who can say no to the CIA?
00:32:50.520
Really? Yeah, do you really think anybody can say no to the CIA? No, if the CIA wants you to cooperate,
00:33:03.660
whether they do it through legal means or carrot and stick or, you know, because the CIA can come into a
00:33:11.060
company and they can say, for example, you know, I know your whole business model revolves around these
00:33:17.820
encrypted apps, but we really need to know what the terrorists are saying, so we're going to need
00:33:22.120
access to that. Oh, no, I'll never do that. I'll never do that. Really? Because, you know, there's
00:33:28.740
probably a federal organization that could shut you down, and then they'll list three organizations
00:33:35.140
that could just waive some paperwork and they're out of business. I'm not saying I'd do it, but I do have
00:33:41.740
a friend in this or that organization that would probably want to look into your business and
00:33:46.720
maybe your tax situation and when it was the last time you were audited. And now the CEO is scared
00:33:54.120
to death. And then the CIA says, and you know, what would really help you is we've got some
00:34:07.520
legislation that's cooking, and wouldn't you like to see that go away? Because that could cost you a lot
00:34:12.200
of money. And there might be some government contracts. We had the 34-minute glitch. There
00:34:19.060
might be some government contracts that would, you know, triple the size of your company and make you
00:34:23.360
richer than God, but, you know, only if the government's sort of on your side and you're
00:34:29.500
playing along with the government, right? So I don't think there's any such thing
00:34:34.600
as an American company that the CIA can't control. Do you think there's any such thing as an American
00:34:45.620
company that can't be controlled completely by our intelligence people? I mean, it might exist as some
00:34:52.180
kind of weird exception, but in general, there's no way you can resist them. So on paper, doesn't it
00:35:00.580
sound like a good idea to put all the crooks in one place in a little encrypted place so you know
00:35:04.780
exactly where the government's going to look, and the government absolutely, definitely, 100%
00:35:09.040
could get access to anything they want if it's an American company? Sounds great on paper, doesn't it?
00:35:16.880
No, it's the worst idea in the world on paper. It couldn't possibly work. In the long run,
00:35:23.420
it can't possibly work. You get that, right? Is there anybody pushing back on that? In the short
00:35:30.400
run, it might actually work. In the long run, the intelligence agencies have to have access to it,
00:35:38.100
and they'll do whatever it takes, and they have the power to do whatever it takes until they get it.
00:35:42.620
You know, they can keep hammering on it for years until they get it, but there's nothing they're not
00:35:47.400
going to get if they need it. You all know that, right? All right. I love when I see Sam Harris is
00:35:55.640
trending on X, because I know it's just going to be a bunch of people insulting his intelligence,
00:36:00.560
and I've decided to find entertainment in it. Here's what you'd never see if Sam Harris is
00:36:09.720
trending on X. Oh, look, I wonder what that's all about. Click. Wow, some people are saying some good
00:36:15.660
things about Sam Harris. Well, there's a good take. Yeah, I can see why he's trending now. He's got
00:36:22.500
a good take on that topic. Not lately. Poor guy. He's just getting shit on by absolutely everybody
00:36:31.600
on X. I don't see anybody supporting him at this point. Now, that has more to do with the X platform,
00:36:37.220
but even Elon Musk posted today, because there's yet another Sam Harris clip that people are calling
00:36:46.380
stupid. He says, Elon Musk says, Sam Harris's mind has melted into goo. How would you like to wake up
00:36:56.360
in the morning and find out that the smartest man in the country and the richest just insulted the
00:37:03.980
quality of your brain on the platform that he owns? I don't know. I just thought it's funny.
00:37:12.780
All right. So, two stories. California's got these hurricane-force winds that are supposed to be coming.
00:37:22.820
At my house, apparently, my force field is holding, because I just got a little sprinkle of rain that we
00:37:28.780
needed. So, I don't know where all this flooding and hurricane rains are going to be, but they say
00:37:35.240
somewhere in the state. Now, of course, you also know the story about the migrants who beat up the
00:37:42.460
cop in New York City, and then allegedly they got on a bus and headed to my state, California. Yeah.
00:37:50.220
And they went to San Jose, where they were immediately swept away by a flood and hurricane.
00:37:58.360
No, that didn't happen, but you wish it did, because you're bastards. You're all terrible.
00:38:06.380
All right. I asked my smart Democrat friend, who I often mention, because he fascinates me
00:38:14.000
because he's, you know, smart and he follows the news, but his opinions look like somebody who's not
00:38:20.760
smart and has never followed the news. You know, it's just the worst case of TDS you've ever seen
00:38:26.000
in your life. So, I use him to test things, and I checked in with him recently, because I wondered
00:38:33.560
how in the world he could not be like 50 Cent and Snoop Dogg at this point, right, and say, you know,
00:38:40.300
the open borders and all that stuff, well, you're going to have to give Trump a second look,
00:38:47.540
right? But I thought, I thought by now, surely, my smart Democrat friend would say, okay, you know,
00:38:55.860
Biden did a few good things I liked. I would expect that. I'd expect him to say that. And then,
00:39:02.560
but you know, you know, given his age and the open borders and the wars we're getting into,
00:39:07.640
I got to admit, baby Trump got a few things right as well. That's what I was expecting.
00:39:14.660
You know what he said? I'm paraphrasing. But he told me I should spend more time reading
00:39:20.880
the New York Times instead of all that fake news that the Republicans were feeding me.
00:39:38.700
You know, we're all in a bubble. Let's not pretend that my friend is the only person in a bubble.
00:39:45.000
We're all in a bubble. And I'm definitely in a bubble. And let me tell you how bad my bubble is.
00:39:59.860
No, I'm sure I do, because you're my friend. But I haven't seen him in a long time.
00:40:06.700
Right? And I'm trying to, I'm trying to think the last time I had a meaningful conversation with a
00:40:13.160
Democrat, who wasn't actually so insane that I just backed off right away. Because, you know,
00:40:19.840
you get the insanity thing right away. You know, the TDS just goes right to the top right away.
00:40:25.480
So you just go, oh, oh, back down. How many have had this situation?
00:40:31.780
Where somebody will say, blah, blah, blah, the insurrection of January 6th. And you'll say,
00:40:36.480
that was no insurrection. They didn't bring guns. And, you know, you do your thing about how the
00:40:41.220
media is fake. And they won't back down from the insurrection thing.
00:40:45.460
Anybody who believes the insurrection hoax or the fine people hoax cannot be dealt with. You can't
00:40:55.100
have a conversation. All they will do is shout at you for how brainwashed you are. They won't even
00:41:03.080
listen to the end of a sentence. It'll be, oh, what are you reading that? Listening to that Alex Jones
00:41:10.200
thing again? Oh, you must have got that from Alex Jones. Right? That's all you get.
00:41:17.840
All right. Some people are asking, is AI getting worse? Does anybody have that experience?
00:41:26.700
Like ChatGPT, where it seems like it's less useful than it used to be?
00:41:33.640
So a number of people are saying that. It's anecdotal. But somebody had an interesting
00:41:40.040
hypothesis. I'll just put that out there. I don't know if this makes sense technically,
00:41:45.780
but it's close enough to something that does. Could it be that the demand for the AI service
00:41:52.880
is so big that they're having a processing problem? Could we be reaching some kind of computing
00:41:59.980
temporary limit that's just making AI dumber? I saw some people speculating about that.
00:42:09.900
I feel like it might have some impact, but I would think it would have more impact on the
00:42:14.700
timing of the answer than the quality of the answer. But it could be that there's a processing
00:42:21.100
problem that's making it dumber. I don't know that. But I'll tell you my own experience.
00:42:26.280
It's I keep telling myself I'm going to jump into AI and force myself to learn it and use it because,
00:42:33.920
you know, for sure, I'm going to be using it in the future. I just want to get a head start on it,
00:42:39.580
you know, make sure I'm using all the tools in the best way. I can't find anything useful.
00:42:45.680
Like I keep thinking, oh, I'm going to find a thing that, you know, works for what I do.
00:42:50.780
And then I'll just keep using the thing because it'll be so useful. I can't not use it, you know,
00:42:55.280
like like a smartphone. I have not found that yet. I've done quite a few things,
00:43:05.620
Right. Well, actually, I think I'll just read you my Sunday comic today. If you're not a subscriber,
00:43:11.500
you haven't seen it. But I handle this in a Dilbert comic that you can see on if you subscribe
00:43:18.820
on the X platform or if you are on Locals, you can see it. So I'm just going to read it to you.
00:43:28.280
It's Mordak, the preventer of information services. And he comes into the room to talk to Dilbert.
00:43:35.600
And Mordak says, I've been asked to ensure we have proper safeguards on the AI you are creating.
00:43:43.240
So here I'm imagining that Dilbert is creating an AI for his company. All right. So he wants some
00:43:48.800
safeguards. And Dilbert says, such as? And Mordak says, well, you don't want any sexual content or
00:43:54.420
fake news. And Dilbert says, right. And Mordak says, you don't want AI to be a bigot. And Dilbert
00:44:01.980
says, obviously. And Mordak says, you don't want AI to have opinions. And it has to stay away from facts
00:44:09.580
too, because it hallucinates. And Dilbert says, good point. Mordak says, you also don't want it to get
00:44:16.580
into politics, religion, socialism, or capitalism. And then Dilbert says, what's left? Just the weather
00:44:25.500
and math. And Mordak says, weather and math are racist concepts. And Dilbert says, I quit.
00:44:35.500
Now, how far is that from reality? It's pretty close to reality, isn't it? You can't use it for fiction,
00:44:42.580
because then you're a plagiarist. You can't use it for facts, because it hallucinates. You can't use it
00:44:50.600
for opinions, because opinions are too provocative. So if you can't use it for fiction, facts, or opinions,
00:44:59.860
what's left? What's left? The weather, which you don't need it for? Or math, that you don't need it
00:45:10.760
for? I guess it's good for writing code. Yeah. And good for translating. Also excellent for translating.
00:45:20.380
I love the fact that we've actually invented a universal translator. Very Star Trekian. One of
00:45:29.180
the things you'll be able to do someday when you have your Apple Vision Pro AR glasses, you'll be able
00:45:37.360
to watch somebody talk a different language, and it will immediately show up as a transcript floating
00:45:44.220
in front of you. How amazing is that? You could actually go to a foreign country, and well, you
00:45:51.460
couldn't talk, but you could understand what they were saying. But suppose you were hearing impaired.
00:45:59.180
You could also talk to somebody and have it appear, and then being hearing impaired just disappears.
00:46:08.340
It just stops being a thing. Yeah. The technology for the hearing impaired is just so exciting. If you
00:46:17.260
know anybody who's got hearing issues, it's an exciting time to be alive. Very life-changing.
00:46:25.160
So I do think AI is going to have all these niche things that change people's lives. That's a good
00:46:31.220
example of one. So the coders and the people with hearing problems and a lot more are going to be real
00:46:37.220
happy. But for the average person who's doing average stuff, it is so far a little too difficult
00:46:43.400
and clunky to use. But it'll get there. We might only be a few months away from all of the interfaces
00:46:50.680
being fine and the tools being really good. All right. Here's an update on Ukraine.
00:46:59.940
So Mike Cervich had an opinion he posted today. He said,
00:47:02.840
my sense of Ukraine is the American people didn't fall for the hoaxes. The regime is at a level of
00:47:09.900
power now that they don't need to hoax the public into conflict as with the Iraq wars. They stole the
00:47:17.180
money and said, be glad you're not in prison like the J6ers. Does that sound like a fair summary of our
00:47:25.520
current situation? That the regime, the government is now so powerful that they can just do what they
00:47:31.980
want right in front of you and they don't have to give you a narrative and make you believe it.
00:47:37.580
I think that's only partially true. It's true-ish. Here's what I think. I don't think it's about the
00:47:45.640
not needing to brainwash. I think that they successfully brainwashed two thirds of the country.
00:47:51.440
So the one third that was not brainwashed doesn't have any power because they don't control the
00:48:00.500
government. So I don't think it's that they do or don't need to brainwash. I think they have
00:48:06.600
brainwashed again. It's just that they don't need to brainwash everybody anymore. They only need to
00:48:12.300
brainwash two thirds and then the other third they'll just call white supremacists and just say
00:48:18.420
that we're hoaxed. We're hoaxing each other. That's all they need. All right. Thomas Massey is
00:48:28.960
opposed to the House bill that would give $14 billion to Israel. And his reasoning is this.
00:48:35.680
Israel has a lower debt to GDP ratio than the United States. And we're done.
00:48:42.580
I don't need to hear anything else. Whoever has the lowest debt ratio should be the one paying
00:48:50.000
period. If you're not taking on as much debt as we are in this country, why are we giving you money?
00:48:58.560
I get that we're on the same side, but they're in theory, their ability to generate money is the
00:49:04.580
same as ours because they can borrow more money until their debt ratio is higher. And that's what we
00:49:12.380
did. Why can't they do what we did to create money? They're in better shape to do it than we are.
00:49:18.440
Now, but here's the mind blower of this whole thing.
00:49:24.480
just completely explode? How long have we been talking about the funding of Israel for the Hamas
00:49:32.780
situation? It's been since October 7th, basically. Talking, talking, talking. Politicians,
00:49:41.060
pundits, experts, military experts, a lot of people talking. How many of you are hearing for the first
00:49:49.080
time that Israel has a better debt to GDP ratio than the United States? How many are hearing that
00:50:00.500
So you're hearing for the first time the only fact that was relevant to the question.
00:50:10.660
There wasn't any other relevant question. And who did it come from? You know, Thomas Massey.
00:50:17.460
Why was it Thomas Massey who had to tell you this? Well, apparently there's a trend that's
00:50:25.920
being created that the only honest person in Congress is Thomas Massey. Once again, he found
00:50:33.700
the only thing that mattered. And he's the only person who told you in the government.
00:50:40.940
What is wrong? Is everything broken? Like, is just everything broken? Because the media should
00:50:49.580
have been telling you that every time the conversation came up. Every single time the funding came up,
00:50:59.940
somebody should have said, and, you know, the situation is that they have a better, you know,
00:51:05.480
debt to GDP ratio than we do. How does that not become the first thing you say on this topic?
00:51:12.280
Well, some of it is that people don't understand economics. And even when I say debt to GDP,
00:51:20.880
there'll be a number of you who are saying, hmm, I'm not sure what that means. What it means is that
00:51:25.680
Israel could borrow money easier, more easily than the United States. They have better credit,
00:51:32.580
essentially. Now, there's more to it than the ratio. You know, it'd be the, you know,
00:51:37.600
their long-term prospects, the risk involved. You know, there's other things. But I just think we
00:51:44.380
should be hard now to giving money to anybody who has a better debt to GDP ratio, that they should
00:51:52.400
be giving us money, literally. Anyway, so I remind you that I'm fully supportive of Israel doing what
00:52:02.240
it needs to do. I just don't think they need to do with our money. That's a separate question. And by
00:52:08.880
the way, this is a good little general lesson. In the world of financing, and this is hard to
00:52:18.500
understand the first time you hear it, you should separate the question of whether you do something
00:52:24.520
or not, from the question of how to pay for it. And that's completely counterintuitive, isn't it?
00:52:32.620
It's counterintuitive. Because you say, but wait, the ability to pay for it, that's like central to
00:52:38.260
the question of whether you do it. The most basic question is, can you pay for it? And how? Otherwise,
00:52:45.860
it's not even in the mix. Nope. Nope. Do it the other way. Now, in business, the reason you do that
00:52:53.240
is that first, you have to decide what a good idea looks like. And then secondly, if it's a good idea,
00:52:59.340
you can always get it funded. In the business world, you know, the established business world,
00:53:05.340
this is different from a startup. But in the established business world, you can almost always
00:53:10.520
get money for a good idea. You can borrow it. You could, you know, issue some more stock. You could
00:53:16.580
take it from another part of the company that didn't need it as much. But in the real world of
00:53:21.500
a big company, and again, just limiting this to big companies, you can always find the money one way
00:53:27.080
or another, if it's a good idea. If it's not a good idea, then you don't need money either way.
00:53:32.660
So first you say, is it a good idea? And then separately, you figure out, can you pay for it?
00:53:36.500
So the, but with the Israel funding, we haven't done that. We should have said, is it a good idea
00:53:45.740
for Israel to do what it's doing and for us to like it and support it? Let's say you, let's say
00:53:51.880
you decided yes. Separately, then you say, well, how would they fund that? But I think we put it
00:53:59.480
together. It's like, do we support Israel? Well, then we give them money, right? Support is money.
00:54:06.500
Got to support them with their money. We've conflated two things that should
00:54:11.200
properly be not just in the same conversation, but you should force them apart. They should be
00:54:17.280
forced apart. And then you have, it's more, it's a cleaner way to analyze something. Just treat the
00:54:24.480
financing as a separate question. And that is what Thomas Massey is doing. And Thomas Massey,
00:54:31.880
he again, proves that he is just about the only useful person in Congress who's telling you the
00:54:37.540
truth and, and looking at the important stuff. You know, in the, in the same way that I tell you that
00:54:44.620
when I see that, uh, there, that, uh, Bill Maher is trending, do you know what I think? I think,
00:54:52.320
oh, Bill Maher is trending on X because he said something that's common sense that will be shocking
00:54:58.680
to Democrats. Sure enough, Sam Harris is trending, as I said, and I, I know it's going to be about
00:55:06.380
people calling him stupid for some tedious opinion. Sure enough, right? But then you see Thomas Massey
00:55:14.100
trending. It's almost always because he's the only person who told you the truth, and he's the only
00:55:21.160
person who figured out what was important. The, the trend is really solid. Like the, Massey's never
00:55:29.540
trending because he was stupid. Ever. That's always the better idea. And people are like, oh,
00:55:36.100
hadn't thought of it that way. That's actually smart. So I guess there's, uh, been over 30 attacks on the
00:55:43.840
Houthis in Yemen. Does anybody have the same curiosity that I have? How many Houthis are there?
00:56:01.200
I mean, seriously, you look at a picture of it, there's not even a tree that they can hide behind.
00:56:06.360
There's not even bushes. There's basically just a big forest with a bunch of Houthis on
00:56:11.940
trucks with missiles and shit. How long does it take to kill them all? I'm not saying we should,
00:56:19.020
I'm just saying, are there millions? Hundreds? Tens of thousands who are armed and have missiles?
00:56:27.880
I feel like finding the missiles shouldn't be that hard. You know, assuming we have surveillance on
00:56:33.620
it's not like they have a lot of cloudy days. We should be able to see what's happening over
00:56:37.680
there pretty easily. I feel like what we need is a swarm approach where we just identify all the
00:56:45.120
targets with satellites or whatever. And then we just send 20,000 drones over and they all blow up
00:56:51.920
one different thing. We'll get there. But at the moment, our idea of sending 36 missiles
00:56:59.840
into Yemen seems like it wouldn't make no difference whatsoever. And they're, yeah, and they're still
00:57:08.420
attacking, so it didn't make any difference. So there you are. The Houthis are still blowing ships.
00:57:22.200
There's a lot more Houthis than you would guess. How many are there? I'd ask AI, but it would lie to me.
00:57:29.840
There are millions, but how many of them are military? Estimated 200,000 fighters or 200,000 population?
00:57:49.260
I just don't know if there's, is that a, is Yemen highly populated or is it sparsely populated?
00:57:55.180
I don't even know that. Anything that moves? We've got persistent surveillance, all right.
00:58:07.220
40 million Houthis and 200,000 fighters? Well, that sounds like a problem. Wouldn't it make
00:58:13.640
more sense just to stop telling Saudi Arabia to leave them alone? Didn't we tell Saudi Arabia
00:58:21.580
you have to calm down and stop fighting the Hooties? Yeah. Wouldn't it be better for America to say,
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you know, you guys have a lot of money and you got a lot of weapons we sold to you?
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yeah, wouldn't that be good? Anyway, apparently the Saudis can't stop it either.
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Yeah, and Darius Rucker was arrested for marijuana in Tennessee. Really? You can get arrested for
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marijuana in Tennessee? You know, Tennessee and Texas are just so close to being acceptable,
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but you're going to have to fix that marijuana stuff. Otherwise, I just can't visit. I'm sorry.
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All right. Obama helped Saudi attack Yemen as an apology for the Rand deal. That's what you think?
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All right. Ladies and gentlemen, I believe I've done everything I need to do on this fine Sunday.
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I don't know what you're doing if you're not watching football, but I'm sure you'll find something
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to do. If you're in California, make sure you stay out of the floods and the hurricane winds they tell
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us are coming, the Pineapple Express. And I will talk to you tomorrow on the X platform and