Episode 2380 CWSA 02⧸10⧸24
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Summary
In this episode, Scott Adams talks about the weirdest thing that could happen in the future: super-old mutant wolves who could survive nuclear war. And a new Chinese medicine that could help you get rid of your hypertension problem.
Transcript
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Good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of human civilization.
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Well, if you're not subscribed to the Dilbert comic, either on X, you can subscribe to it
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there, or on the locals, locals, scottadams.locals.com, where you can see lots of other stuff, my other
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But you missed yesterday's Dilbert comic was, Wally was trying to expense his expenses when
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So, Wally tries to expense an AI brothel, only to be challenged by the boss.
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And when Wally complains that his choice of his sexual preferences are being criticized, the
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boss says, no, I just wanted to let you know that there's no such thing as an AI brothel
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And Wally says that would explain the excess body hair.
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So, if you're not subscribing to Dilbert, you're missing a lot, so much, just so much.
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Apparently around Chernobyl, which I guess was 38 years ago, was a disaster at Chernobyl, some
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of the wolves have evolved into mutant wolves who are resistant to cancer, at least cancer
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Might be the only thing that survives a nuclear war.
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But it does raise the question, what other powers do these wolves have?
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For example, can they fly in a way that defies physics?
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Because if they can, that would explain a lot about the UFOs.
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It could be just flying Chernobyl wolves, mutant wolves.
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I mean, you can't rule it out, is what I'm saying.
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Or possibly, if they start building pyramids, that could be another hint about our history.
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But keep an eye on the mutant Chernobyl wolves.
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We know now that from the totally reliable press in this country, that Joe Biden's age is not
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So it makes you wonder, if Joe Biden were to have a fight with a Chernobyl mutant wolf that
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Would Joe win with his superpower of being super old?
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Over in China, they did a study, a single-bind study with 342 participants, and they found
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that doing Tai Chi, the traditional Chinese practice that goes something like this, if
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you're only listening on a podcast, you're missing all the good visual humor.
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But apparently, the Tai Chi can definitely help your hypertension.
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So they compared it to regular exercise, and they found out that the traditional Tai Chi
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Now, let us examine the credibility of the science.
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Number two, it involves a traditional Chinese practice.
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So it comes from China, and they're trying to find out if a traditional Chinese practice
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The Chinese study that's a single-bind, which is not a double-blind, single-blind, so it's
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not as good as a double-blind, and only had 342 participants, surprisingly supported the
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Now, it doesn't mean Tai Chi doesn't lower your blood pressure.
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But should you believe it, if it's a study of 342 people in China about a traditional Chinese
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I've got a feeling if they studied traditional Chinese acupuncture, they might have gotten
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Let me show you what happens when you do your own research.
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Here, Dr. Eli David is showing us on the X platform.
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He is posting about, there's a graphic showing that China is emitting more carbon than the
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So if you did your own research and you tried to find out who's the worst polluter, you'd find
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That means the U.S. is roughly 24% of their population, and yet the U.S. is emitting something
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When you look at it that way, it's the reverse.
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If you look at it on a per-person basis, the U.S. is much worse.
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Is China worse than the U.S., or is the U.S. worse than China?
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Well, some say China is a country and the U.S. is a country, so you just compare them.
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They're doing worse things to the world than we are.
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But you don't think it matters that they have more people?
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Don't we naturally expect that the more people there are, the more CO2, if you live in any
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So if you did your own research and stopped at the raw number, did you do a good job of
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Or do you think it really matters, the per-person?
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Because if you tried to figure out who's the good people, I would say it's the people who
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Doing your own research will more often mislead you than illuminate you, and you don't know
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Sometimes doing your own research gets you exactly the right answer, might even save your life.
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The trouble is, you don't know when that's happening, and when you're just being misled,
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I see in the comments that you want me to note that CO2 can feed plants such as Joe Biden
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There's a Kentucky state senator who wants a constitutional amendment to ban non-citizens
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That we're seriously talking about not just letting, eh, let a few of those non-citizens
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I mean, it's just going to get lost in the noise anyway.
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But we have massive immigration, and we're going to let, it looks like there's a movement
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Well, how about we do a little bit of embrace and amplify?
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So the Democrats are telling us that our system would be better off if the illegal migrants
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Do you think our system would be better off if non-citizens who enter the United States
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What if we embrace it for a moment and say, you know what?
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Not only are you right about that, but you're so right we should do more of it.
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Here's a little mental experiment for you, and this is going to really, this is going
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Suppose we let everybody vote in the whole world, literally everybody.
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You want to vote in the next American election?
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We'll send you an electronic, you know, ballot.
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If Americans, including, you know, with our, all of our division naturally, and then you
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throw in the migrants, and we're going to get this real insider who wants power, which
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group is, you know, funding the bad guys the best, who does the military-industrial complex
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want, who's counting our votes, you know, all that stuff.
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Now, compare that to the world that would include our adversaries.
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Let them vote in our election, along with our allies.
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Well, I think you might be surprised, because even our adversaries don't want us to fail.
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If America went down, everything would be screwed for a long time.
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They don't want, you know, our adversaries don't want us to attack them.
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Our adversaries don't want us to, you know, take their resources and stuff like that.
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I think what they want is us to be a legitimate player on the world stage, to do the thing
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that America does, you know, invent new technologies and create medicines that aren't always a scam.
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You know, get to space, you know, create some Elon Musks now and then.
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I propose to you that, I don't, this is not a serious suggestion, by the way, but if we let
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every other country vote for America's president, that we would vastly improve our choices.
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Look at what we're, look at the two choices we gave ourselves with our current system.
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Do you think the rest of the world would have put up with that?
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Do you think that Biden would actually be in the race if the rest of the world got to choose
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It's possible that none of the people who were in the race would be in it.
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They'd probably pick somebody who was just a good, you know, a good operator who wasn't
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too political, who just did stuff that made sense.
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Yeah, yeah, they'd probably vote for somebody, well, Elon can't run, but they'd probably
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vote for, well, I don't know about Vivek, he's, you know, he certainly is aligned with
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one political party, but they'd probably pick somebody who wasn't too political, who just
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Anyway, our current system is so broken that letting the rest of the world vote, I believe,
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in all seriousness, it's not a serious suggestion, but as a mental exercise, I think the world
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All right, I'm going to take a minor partial victory lap.
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You might know the actor and activist Michael Rapoport, he's been making some news, he was
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on, Tim Poole's show was talking about him and others.
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He was on, oh, I can't, why can't I remember his initials?
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Look at the letters, the lowercase letter P, B, and D, lowercase.
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I just realized why I could never get his name.
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No, but P, B, and D, in lowercase, are all the same letter.
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I never realized that before, but I think that's the problem.
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Oh, that and the fact that my brain is corroding faster than Biden's.
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Anyway, Michael Rapoport is coming out and saying that he was initially fooled by the
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fine people hoax, and he actually believed that Trump had said those neo-Nazis were fine
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people, and now he's going public and saying he knows that that was taken out of context,
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The fine people hoax, in my opinion, was the second biggest political hoax of my time.
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But it was the second biggest political hoax, and it is now being treated, at least on the
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right-leaning side of the world, is being treated as simply a fact that it was a hoax.
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When you watch the Tim Pool show, there's nobody on the other side saying, oh, but he did say
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There's nobody arguing he actually said it, unless you have actually just batshit crazy
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Now, I do think that this hoax is an evergreen.
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If you wait two years, it'll just revive itself, and somebody will believe it happened again.
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But at the moment, it's beaten down better than I've seen it beaten down.
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So, big shout-out to Steve Cortez, who's been working against that hoax for years now, and
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Joel Pollack, also, and Breitbart, especially, in tweeting and posting.
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And then I, of course, have been a maniac about it.
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So, I would say that the three horsemen of the debunking of that hoax, we may have made
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By the way, let me ask you, do you think it would be commonly understood that it was a
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hoax, even on the right, do you think it would be commonly understood without debate if the
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three of us had not been pushing on it for seven years?
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Like, I never know what makes a difference, but seven years of just maniacally pushing
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back on that thing, at least speaking for myself, I think it made some difference, but only on the
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People on the left don't get real news, so they have no idea.
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All right, so, no surprise here, but the Democrats are pulling out some lawfare against
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RFK Jr., and it looks like they're accusing him of illegal activities, I don't know, something
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about a super PAC, it's probably bullshit, and now they've opened a federal investigation
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Man, how did the Democrats not see what's happening now?
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If they saw the same news as we do, maybe they'd see the same thing.
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And you know what's funny about it is that, and I'll give RFK Jr. some credit, if you look
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Now, that doesn't mean everything he's ever said about vaccinations is true, because I doubt
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You know, it's very unusual everybody would be true about, you know, that domain.
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But I swear I never really suspect him of intentionally lying.
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I mean, he's been talking about a lot of things for a long time, and I'm looking for the lies.
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Now, there might be things he's incorrect about.
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But if you compare the Biden administration to RFK Jr., I don't even need to look at the
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I'm just going to take his word for it that it's illegitimate, because I think he earned
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I think that the Democrats and Biden, his credibility is so low, and RFK Jr.'s is so high,
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not in terms of being technically correct about everything he's ever said, but just not lying.
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I believe that if he says there was no crime, and he says they're coming after him for political
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And I don't even need to hear anything else, because that's the difference in credibility.
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One is very high credibility, and the other is a known serial liar for 150 years.
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Senator Rand Paul is responding to Joe Biden, who said that it's, quote, close to criminal
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neglect if Congress doesn't send money to Ukraine.
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Close to criminal neglect if we don't fund Ukraine's border war.
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And Rand Paul, Senator Rand Paul reminds us, I would say it's criminal neglect for Mitch McConnell, Chuck
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Sumer, and Joe Biden to get together to send $100 billion overseas to fix someone else's border
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And actually, Trump said something like that in a speech in Harrisburg, I guess.
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That he thinks that the people who are not closing the border, that maybe there should be some
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I doubt there's any criminal liability, and I'm not really big on looking for crimes where
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It does seem like it's on that level of a gigantic crime, even if it's not technically a crime,
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if it's just people not doing their job or something.
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Are you having fun watching Biden supporters trying to explain away all of his mental problems?
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Does anybody else think it's hilarious at this point?
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But, you know, I always used to make fun of the old thing in politics.
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There's always somebody saying, oh, the emperor has no clothes.
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It's like the obvious thing everybody says in every situation.
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Yet you've got, obviously, a bumbling moron who's clearly mentally, you know, disintegrated.
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And they're trying to sell us on the fact that he's all there.
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This is the first time I've seen an exact perfect example of the emperor's new clothes.
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Because I always thought, well, if you had an emperor who literally wore no clothes,
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But we actually have a situation where everybody can see he's mentally degraded.
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And his supporters are looking you right in the eyes and saying, no, he's not.
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Now, do you see me doing the Democrat lying strategy?
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And you look for the smile that doesn't match the face.
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I want you to see if you can spot the point where she tells the lie.
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So watch your face until the moment she gets through the lie.
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And I want you to indicate when you see the lie.
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I want you to see if I can get it so you can both see it at the same time.
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Once you see it, it's so obvious it just jumps right out.
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But so here are the defenses that are the people giving.
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Because in my opinion, when Biden confuses names, in his case, it probably is because
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But it's also true that people confuse names routinely.
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Now, in fact, this is a sort of a confession of mine.
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I've always fantasized, like, what would it be like to be president?
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And I thought, I wonder, could I ever be a president?
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And I realized that I probably couldn't because of all the names of foreign leaders I would
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If I were being visited by, let's say, the leader of Afghanistan, I'm not sure I would
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know that Hibatullah Akhazanda, I wouldn't know him from Bahrain's Sheikh Hamad bin Asal
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I mean, I wouldn't even know the difference at all.
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You know, so that's one of the reasons I can't be president, because I can't tell all the leaders
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I used to think, but apparently not being able to tell the leaders apart will not hurt
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Now, the other thing that I thought would prevent me from someday being president is all of my
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But now I have evidence to suggest that I could grab a bunch of pussy, confuse the names of
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Hibatullah Akhazanda and Ibn Asal Khalifa, and I'd still be able to be a president.
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So here are some other things that people are saying to defend Biden.
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He posted today, show me a video, a recent video of Joe Biden stuttering, because they're
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saying, don't make fun of him for his stuttering.
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I mean, but do we have any video of him, let's say, from 10 years ago when he was perfectly
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I have no memory of him ever stuttering 10 years ago.
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But now suddenly he stutters like he did when he was a kid.
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And then Rachel Maddow points out that he rides a bike.
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Now, are we at the point where there's literally no difference between?
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If I had told you that a comedian had told you that Joe Biden is perfectly fine because,
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hey, look at how he rides a bike, wouldn't you think that that real comedian said that
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But that's actually what Rachel Maddow said in the real world, in the actual real world,
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She said that he's probably fine because he can ride a bike.
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Apparently he can ride it right into the ground.
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And then there's the argument that Kamala makes that Joe Biden is actually totally mentally
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capable, which certainly raises an interesting question, doesn't it?
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If the reason he's not being prosecuted seems to be largely around his mental incapacity,
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if you're arguing that he does have good mental capacity, aren't you also arguing he should
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You're going to say there's a complete difference between what Trump did and what Biden did,
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because Biden simply said that he couldn't remember and he's incapable and he didn't willfully
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But they believe that Trump is mentally capable and he also resisted giving those documents
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So therefore, it's his resistance that's the real crime.
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Do you know what they could say that would be terribly persuasive, but they can't form sentences
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Like, literally, they can't say it, but it would be so persuasive if they could.
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If Trump had not resisted, we think that he should not be charged with anything regarding
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Now, if they said that, I would say, oh, well, that's very consistent.
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Yeah, Biden wasn't charged because, because not just because he's mentally incapable, but
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because he didn't resist when they asked him back and he accepted the process, which apparently
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is not that unusual to have a process to get back documents from an official.
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If you really wanted to persuade me, you'd say, you know what?
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If you're a Democrat, you'd say, yes, Biden did not get charged because he obeyed the system.
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We also believe that if Trump had obeyed the system the same way, we also think he should not be charged the same way.
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If you said that to me, I'd say, you know what?
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That's actually a solid argument that one resisted and one didn't.
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So maybe it is a resistance that's the problem.
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If Trump had not resisted, he should also not be charged for having the documents.
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The reason they can't say that is it would give imaginary mental cover to Trump.
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So they can't even do a hypothetical mental experiment which allowed Trump to go free in their minds.
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I mean they can't say the persuasive thing because in doing so, they would have to imagine Trump innocent of something.
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Literally can't go there because their brains won't allow it.
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So instead, they're closed off from their best argument for Biden, which is, you know what?
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If Trump had given all the documents back, I don't think the possession of the documents should have been charged.
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And you remember they made such a big deal about the contents of Trump's documents?
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And that they must have the nuclear secrets in there.
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And then when Biden's documents were discovered, do you recall anybody characterizing the contents?
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After months and months of the Democrats saying, the contents are probably, well, we don't know, but I'm just speculating that it's Iranian nuclear secrets.
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Like, I don't think, do you think that a staffer or even Trump himself packed up some sensitive nuclear secrets and just took them with him?
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To me, it seems that both Biden and Trump probably had documents that were technically, you know, inappropriate to take home.
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But maybe not that dangerous, like in the final analysis, probably not too dangerous.
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So suddenly we just stopped talking about the contents.
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And that's why it's embarrassing if you're a Democrat.
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If you made a big deal about the contents being the important part, now you lost that argument.
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So is Biden fit to stand trial, in which case he should, or is he unfit?
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Remember, you mostly disagreed with me when I said that Putin's history lesson about why Russia thinks it should have some control over parts of Ukraine or all of it.
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I said that he looked unhinged and it didn't look very capable to me.
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Because the history lesson is not persuasive to Americans.
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I still say that the history lesson had no value to Americans.
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In other words, the details of his history lesson had zero persuasive effect on any American, probably any European.
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And I'm going to fool you here because you don't see this coming.
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But I saw that Tucker also regarded the history lesson as incoherent.
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So, Tucker agreed with me that the history part just didn't seem connected, really, to the answer in a tight enough way that it looked like he was coherent.
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I'm going to support Putin's play on the history lesson, but not for the reason you think.
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So, and then I saw some people think that Putin was personally hurt by being rebuffed by the West, you know, every time he wanted to be friends.
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Because the thing I was having trouble reconciling is that Putin is so capable and would know so much about persuasion, especially, you know, given his background,
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that to do something that is so wrong persuasion-wise, it made me question his sanity until I realized what the real play was.
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You don't realize why, but I'm going to tell you.
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Those of you who are my long-time listeners can confirm that this is something I've talked about before, and actually in some detail.
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Let's say you're negotiating with somebody, and it's just a business negotiation, and you want a good price, and they want to get a good price, and it's just business.
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If it's just business, you almost know before you start where it's going to end up, don't you?
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Like even before you start, you're going to ask for something too much, I'm going to say too little, we're going to meet in the middle, and in the end, it's going to look like similar business deals.
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Because everybody in business knows that if you started with a first offer that was so far out of the normal business realm, nobody would even negotiate with you.
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So you start by saying, what do we assume is possible?
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And then you're within that realm, and you can always get to a meeting of minds if it's just financial.
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Now, what would be an argument in which that doesn't work, where you're just both being rational, and you're both being within the rational domain, it's when something's irrational.
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This is an actual persuasion negotiating technique, which I have used, and it goes like this.
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If you can convince the other side that your reasoning is irrational, at least in any individual point of it, not the whole thing.
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If you're just totally irrational, they won't deal with you.
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But if you can say, I'm rational about everything, but honestly, I'm going to point out this one thing, and I'm going to tell you as directly as I can, I'm not going to be rational about this, and here's why.
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If you can make that case, you almost win the negotiation from that point on.
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That if you're negotiating with somebody, you have to convince them that you are irrational?
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Do you think that when Trump said I might nuke Moscow, do you think that sounded rational?
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So Putin couldn't be sure that that was something he could negotiate, because it wasn't based on something rational.
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Well, the first thing you do is you say, all right, I can't deal with crazy, so I'm going to have to work with whatever I can work with, but I know I can't change crazy.
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You can't negotiate with an irrational component.
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It doesn't mean the person is rational in general, but there might be an irrational component.
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When my syndication contract, which was originally a 15-year deal, expired, I thought to myself, hey, I'm a free agent.
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I'll go negotiate a better deal than I ever had, because I can negotiate with other syndication companies.
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The syndicator is who sells it to newspapers, and you split the money.
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But then my syndication company reminded me, hey, there was a clause in your original contract that says, even at the end of it, if you go work with somebody else, we still get a portion of your money.
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Yeah, after 15 years, your new work, we would still get paid for, even if we have nothing to do with you, if you've gone to another company.
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There's no way I would have signed that contract.
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Like, I actually don't know why I didn't know it was there.
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I could either take a big loss and go with the same company that I went with for 15 years, which had been a really good relationship.
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But I would leave a lot of money on the table if I couldn't go to the free market and negotiate my actual value.
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So you know how I negotiated out of that clause?
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I looked the head of the syndicate in the eyes over lunch, and I said, basically in these words,
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Now, I was at the height of my powers, and quitting at that point would have been absolutely stupid.
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And I looked them in the eyes, and I said, this is so fucked up that I'll quit the business before I will agree with this.
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Now, if he believed I would not quit the business, which would have been the more rational thing to do, obviously,
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because all I had to do was sign up with them again, and they would just start throwing money at me like they did before, and everything would be fine.
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So the most rational thing to do was say, oh, damn, I made a mistake, but I did, and my life would go on, and I'd still make a lot of money, they'd be happy, etc.
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So to get out of that, I went fully irrational.
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And I had to sell that I would fuck myself up and down, backwards and forwards.
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In the end, they were convinced that there was nothing they could do to get me to sign it.
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And then I reached a very good deal, and I ended up, I did sign it with them, but not until they gave me a much better situation.
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And in the end, I ended up going to another syndicate from, you know, just a business combination that happened later.
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And the irrational negotiating position is actually your strongest one, so long as you seem to be rational in general.
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And then he gave you that long, weird, incoherent history lesson.
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Do you remember the dates and the names and who?
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Does he need you to think that the history is a valid reason for whatever he's doing?
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Does he need you to believe that the history is accurate?
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Does he need you to agree with him about the history?
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He only needed one thing to win the negotiations that are upcoming, because he knows they're upcoming, and he got it.
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And the one thing he needed, and the one thing he needed was for the West to believe that he would burn down Europe before he would give up on this.
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Now, he didn't say it in those words, but he sure sold it.
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He sold that the Russian heart is what has to be satisfied.
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He may have, Putin, successfully established that there's part of the negotiations that are off...
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By simply telling us we're not going to be rational about this in a way that you and I would think would be rational.
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And I'm going to say used, because, you know, Tucker was using Putin, but Putin was using Tucker.
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As long as it's transparent, I don't mind it a bit, actually.
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Like, the entire intention of it was to show you all of it.
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If you have full transparency, you could wish it were better, but it can't be better.
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Am I such an idiot that I think Putin told me the truth?
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Do I think that Tucker asked every hard question that he wanted to ask?
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So my take on this is that Putin won the interaction in the sense that he established an irrational point of negotiations that will help him in the future.
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And at some point, the West will back down because he sold it so well.
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The whole incoherent part, the whole fact that he made you listen to it first before he didn't ask the question,
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that the way he handled the whole thing is all supportive of the fact that he has an irrational connection to it.
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Now, it is possible he's just a crazy, babbling old guy talking about history.
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But given that everything else he does seems to make sense, it would be weird if this is the one thing that was completely, you know, accidental.
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So I do believe that his belief about history is probably, you know, it's real.
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But far more important than his motivation is that he sold the fact that he's not going to be dealing with that like rational things.
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So one of the things that came out of that interview with Tucker and Putin was the claim that there was some movement toward a negotiated peace that Boris Johnson killed and talked Zelensky out of it.
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And among the things he says are that Tucker was a, quote, fawning, guffawing, and had a slack-jawed happiness at having a scoop.
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And Johnson says that Tucker betrayed his viewers around the world, said he didn't ask tough questions, didn't ask Putin why even now he is using the most brutal means of modern warfare to maim and murder innocent Ukrainian civilians.
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And then he said, Carlson acted like a fan of Putin and, quote, boneheadedly accepted Putin's mixture of semi-masticated Wikipedia and outright falsehoods, Johnson said.
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And he went on, he said, not since George Galloway, I have no idea who that is, but not since George Galloway went to Baghdad and hailed the indefatigability, indefatigability, god damn you, Johnson, can you use words that are a little bit smaller than this?
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I know you're showing off, but I don't need to take four runs at this one god damn word.
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Indefatigability, indefatigability of Saddam Hussein.
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Have we seen such a display of, this is actually something Johnson said, of bum-sucking servility to a tyrant?
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And said Carlson was just the medium, the sewer, the hose for Putin to spread his message to America.
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How did Boris Johnson do defending himself against the accusations?
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Did you hear the part where he said the accusations are not true?
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He left out the part about the accusations are not true.
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Well, you know, Putin's a liar, and the thing he said happened literally didn't even happen.
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And Tucker should have been more critical about that, because he's, you know, it's just fake news.
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But instead, he decided to destroy Tucker's personal credibility.
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Who does that if they can just go after the fact?
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Nobody does an ad hominem first if they can just say the thing didn't happen.
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Now, if you say the thing didn't happen, and then you go on and insult the person, then you're just Trump.
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But when Trump insults people, it's usually over a thing, like a policy, a thing.
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And he looked a little unhinged, and I think if you do a full-on personal attack and you don't do more of just a matter-of-fact denial of the facts behind it, you can't really fail harder than that.
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To me, it looked like another Putin victory over the West.
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My current thinking is that everything the West did in Ukraine was wrong, and that, you know, I'm not going to support Putin, but I can just talk about my own side.
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Everything my side did looks wrong from the 2014 coup to today.
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So I don't have to say Putin's good or Putin's right or anything like that.
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But when Johnson says that what Tucker should have talked about is how there's maiming and murdering of Ukrainians by Russia, really?
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I mean, that's so transparently just trying to change the topic that it's almost like a confirmation of the accusation that he denied a chance to have peace.
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I don't know if it's true, but the way he was reacting to it is as if it's true.
00:53:18.400
All right, so apparently the House Judiciary Committee is going after this district attorney, Fannie Willis, who's after Trump, as you know.
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So it's not a coincidence that they would go after her because she's after Trump.
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They're trying to figure out if she used federal funds illegally for her boyfriend or whatever.
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Now, I would like to suggest the following strategy.
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Does it seem to you that a lot of these Soros-backed prosecutors and DAs,
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That they're all using public money for their boyfriends or something?
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So would it make sense for the Republicans to, since they have that big legal fund that Stephen Miller's doing,
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wouldn't it make sense to simply investigate every one of the Soros DAs to target them for lawfare
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Because you could actually take down the whole Soros network by targeting them one after another
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Now, keep in mind, under a situation of normal politics, I would never suggest this.
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I don't think you should be going looking for crimes.
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That's the worst freaking thing you could do in America.
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But the Soros prosecutors, I consider an invasion.
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To me, that's an unfriendly force operating domestically.
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So under the sense that it's not almost, it is domestic terrorism.
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They're operating as domestic terrorists because they're hunting Republicans.
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And I'm literally afraid of being locked up for not doing anything illegal.
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Making people afraid to do legal things in their world because they think this horrible person will put them in jail.
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So this is, I would put, I would put a billion dollars behind this if I had a billion dollars
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to fund an absolute investigation of every Soros-funded candidate.
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And anybody who takes money from a Soros entity should know that their underwear is going to be turned upside down.
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And that the Republicans will target them only because of the Soros connection.
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If this were happening just because they're Democrats, absolutely no.
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I do not approve of just looking for crimes because somebody's a Democrat.
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But because they're Soros-funded and they seem to be fitting a pattern of domestic terrorism in the sense of legal,
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I think that they are completely legitimate targets for lawfare.
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And I wouldn't use lawfare in any other situation unless it was, you know, something that looks like literally terrorism or an attack on our nation.
00:56:50.640
Kamala Harris was talking to some folks, some class of future leaders,
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It will probably be quoted much like the Martin Luther King, you know, I had a dream.
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Possibly like Abe Lincoln, four score, 20 years ago.
00:57:15.560
Kennedy asks, you know, ask not what your country can do for you.
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The brilliance of this inaugural class and its leaders is the ability to see what can be unburdened by what has been and then to make it real.
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It's the only thing she says every time she goes anywhere.
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Because if you haven't heard it before, it sounds kind of awesome.
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If you've heard it over and over again, it gets less awesome every time you hear it.
00:57:55.780
So, I would like to suggest that the funniest thing about 2024 is watching DEI destroy the Democratic Party.
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So, DEI, as you know, would be the favoring of, you know, minority and women over white men primarily.
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And in this case, DEI caused the Democrats to hire Kamala Harris as the vice president.
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And I don't think there's anybody listening to this who would disagree that she's a DEI hire.
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Because I can't imagine it was because of capability.
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Now, likewise, just to be fair, if Trump picked Tim Scott, I would say that's a DEI hire.
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Now, if Trump picked as his vice president, Vivek, Ramaswamy, I would not say it's because he's brown.
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I would say we just watched him impress the country with the best communication skills and political policies I've ever seen.
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So it would be hard to sell that one as some kind of a minority DEI thing.
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That would be a genuine case of the, I'll call it the Bill Ackman style of diversity.
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Or really what Mark Cuban wishes it were, but it isn't, which is you pick the best person and, whoa, they're brown too.
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But if you're not getting it for free, then it's a DEI hire.
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But you would see it as a DEI hire because he's not of Vivek, right?
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If Vivek didn't exist, I might feel differently.
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Because Kamala Harris was hired as vice president,
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Biden can't quit because everybody knows that she's too weak to take over for the president,
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which was the entire point of a vice president.
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The entire point is you have to be smart, you know, good enough to take over.
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Now, you could argue that Pence, you know, wasn't as strong as Trump.
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You know, you could imagine him winning an election.
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But, you know, he wouldn't be my choice for president either.
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But Kamala, I don't even think the Democrats think she has a chance
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So they've got themselves in a bind where they can't get rid of Biden
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And it's only going to get worse because he will keep degrading between now and election day.
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In theory, the DEI hire should make Biden lose bad
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when, in fact, it would be an obvious solution if she were a strong candidate, right?
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The obvious solution would be, oh, well, Kamala can take over
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and I'm not feeling so good and she could win this election as easily as I could.
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Because they hired Kamala and they can't fire her.
01:01:49.800
Can you imagine, do some people say that Michelle Obama,
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let me tell you why Michelle Obama can't happen.
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You're not going to replace a black woman with another black woman.
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It would make it look like the whole thing was a joke.
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She's made it impossible for them to win the presidency.
01:02:23.520
usually it has a down vote, down ballot effect, right?
01:02:35.580
but we want a Republican president at the same time.
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You know, on the same ballot, they don't usually say that.
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you know what, let's give the Republicans a shot.
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Or, you know what, let's just not vote this time.
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You don't have to shout at me that she's half black and half Indian.
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But I understand it's the same as calling Obama black.
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In my mind, Obama's never been black, even once.
01:03:19.500
He's a person who is part white and part black.
01:03:23.820
And he's chosen that black is his better branding.
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Because claiming you're white is a disadvantage.
01:03:38.700
Now, obviously, if he claimed he's white, nobody would believe it.
01:03:41.680
But he can claim he's black, and people are like, oh, okay.
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Why can't he claim he's black when you're half black?
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that we all just accept that that's like a normal thing to do?
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Is it because society would treat him as black?
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I think that the non-Indian public just treats her as black,
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If you want to prove that you can speak in public
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you send other people to speak for you in public
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you could actually make sense, but you're not there.