Episode 2381 CWSA 02⧸11⧸24
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Scott Adams explains why we should have a Black National Anthem at Super Bowl LIV, and why the Black Lives Matter protests have done exactly what they were supposed to do. Plus, a victory lap for Taylor Swift, and a new study from the Heartland Institute on why Trump is almost certain to win the 2020 election.
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Good morning, everybody. Happy Super Bowl and welcome to Coffee with Scott Adams, the best
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thing that's going to happen to you today. And that includes the Super Bowl. Yeah, even with
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two national anthems, still not as good as this one. Now, if you'd like to take this up to levels
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Go. Delightful. Dare I say, super. Well, my theme for today is things in the news that my smart
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Democrat friend will never hear. Things in the news that are well-established as facts that my
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smartest Democrat friend, he'll never hear. And just watch as we go how true that is.
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It seems like one of those things that, you know, clearly would be some kind of exaggeration or
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something. Nope. Nope. It's going to be fascinating. Well, of course, the big news is that the Super Bowl
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is today and because we're America, we tried very hard to find some way to ruin one of the best things
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we do. The Super Bowl. How could we ruin it? Hmm. Could we make it super political? Yes. Let's do
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that. Let's make it super political. Let's add a national anthem for, well, it's the black national
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anthem. And I, for one, say that I can't get enough of this. I think we should have the regular national
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anthem, which I call obsolete. And we should have a national anthem for every individual group in the
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country. Because, you know, that's what the whole point of a national anthem is, that each individual
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group gets their own. So I would like a anthem for bald white guys. I think I'll start writing that.
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And if you're not willing to run my national anthem, well, I guess you're some kind of a bigot,
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aren't you? Yeah. We need to embrace and amplify this. If you're complaining about the black national
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anthem, I think you're completely off base. Because I would like to hear the Filipino American national
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anthem. The Albanian national anthem, and maybe the Scottish, Scottish American national anthem.
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There are a lot of Irish. Do they have any kind of a national anthem? Latino, the Latino national
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anthem. Why can't we see the Italian? Exactly. Italian Americans. Okay. So let's get some national
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anthems for all of them. Now, in all the hubbub about the Super Bowl, could we take a moment to
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not lose track of what's really important? Yes, yes, sports are fun. They're fun, and they feed our
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souls in some ways. But let's not lose what's important. What's important is that just a few short
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years ago, there was this massive problem of our police abusing black people that they had stopped
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for arrests. Huge problem. And the public responded. There were massive Black Lives Matter riots, which
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some would call protests. And there was lots of kneeling, a lot of kneeling as sports events. And a lot of people
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were, you know, cynical. And they were saying, how can this kneeling, and this protesting, will it really
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make a difference in our terrible, racist country? How could this work? But it worked. It worked. It turns out
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there hasn't been a single instance of police abuse of black citizens since Biden was elected. And no need for
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kneeling. The kneeling is done. Can we all just take a victory lap for a moment? Honestly, I was a little
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skeptical that it would help. But it did. And I don't think you can doubt that. So here's something that
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my smartest Democrat friend will probably fail to notice, that the Black Lives Matter protests and the
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kneeling completely worked to eliminate police brutality against black Americans. And I think we can all
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celebrate that. All right. I'm moving on. Oh, I'm trying to move on. I'm trying. Taylor Swift. Taylor Swift.
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I couldn't do it. I couldn't do it. I tried to talk about the Super Bowl without mentioning her. And
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I literally, my body took over and something happened to me. I couldn't actually do it.
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All right. But having handled that important business, let's talk about a study. How many of
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you are aware that the Heartland Institute did a study on the mail-in ballot situation and determined
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through statistical means that the 2020 election was, quote, almost certainly won by Trump? Now, the
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almost certainly is they do a number of scenarios and almost all the scenarios show that he won
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handily. Now, the without getting into the details of this study, it went into, let's say,
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the irregularities and the legal violations involved. Because in lots of cases, there were,
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let's say, ballots that were counted that maybe technically shouldn't have been because of dates
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or some irregularity about them. So there were a number of categories of things which happened that
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were unusual for that year. And if you were to basically adjust any of the irregularities,
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Trump wins every time, almost every time. Now, do you believe that my smartest Democrat friend,
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who I often like to mention, do you think he's aware that there is a study that put a lot of effort
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into looking at it and came up with the answer that there's no way that Trump really won or Trump
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really lost? Nope. He will have no idea that it happened. Now, I'm not saying that he will
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question it. I'm not saying that he would believe it if he saw it. I'm saying he'll never know it
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exists. But our press has gotten to the point where they can just disappear anything. We first
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noticed this several years ago, right? You noticed that the press could make any story disappear.
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Just imagine that there's a major study that largely proves the election was maybe not rigged,
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but because of the way it was done irregularly and the way things were, let's say, overlooked that
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normally would have made a vote not count. It's a pretty big story. Now, I don't know if it's true.
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You know, I spend a lot of time telling you that people do the statistics wrong and they're looking
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at the wrong data and all the data is wrong. So I wouldn't automatically assume this is true.
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Don't automatically assume it's true. That would be irresponsible. But I'm only talking about the
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news. Do you think that if the news had gone the other way, it wouldn't be in the mainstream media
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every single day? Oh, yeah. If they had done the same kind of calculation on Trump's 2016 victory
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and they had found the same statistics, just they would be reversed, you think that wouldn't be the
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biggest story in the country? Of course it would. And it wouldn't matter if the statistics were correct
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or not. So the story is not even, you know, just whether or not the election was sketchy.
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The story is that this can never get any oxygen. Just it can't get any oxygen. It's amazing.
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All right. And the one place I saw it was behind a paywall. So the only place I saw it was behind
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the paywall. It must be somewhere else by now. All right. Did you ever see a terrible crime
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that you couldn't find a way to feel bad about? Has that ever happened to you and then you don't want
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to admit it? You know, I've told you that when I see a serial murderer, but he did a really good job
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of planning and executing, obviously, I always say, well, that's terrible. I certainly feel bad for the
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victims. And then there's a part of me that I don't like to admit that's a little bit impressed by the
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level of planning and work that went into it. A little bit impressed. I just don't say that part
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out loud. Well, here's another one of those situations. So apparently in San Francisco,
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there was a Waymo, Waymo vehicle, Waymo, a company that makes self-driving cars. And for reasons
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unknown, I guess a crowd decided to graffiti one of these cars and they surrounded it. And then they
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broke a window, put some, I think, fireworks on the inside and caught on fire. And it became a big
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spectacle where they, big spectacle where everybody was dancing around and celebrating. Now, I do not
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want to see any self-driving cars being destroyed for any reason, right? So everything about that
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is odious. Except, I probably shouldn't admit this. But I kind of love the attack on the self-driving
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car. I don't know why. I don't know why. I feel like it's the same reason probably the crowd
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responded. You know, first of all, I'm a boy, right? I'm a boy. So I like to see shit blow up.
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Is that wrong? I can admit it. I like to see stuff blow up. In fact, there's a whole Instagram
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page or channel or whatever you want to call it that is just stuff blowing up. I can't tell you
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how much time I spent looking at that thing. Wow, that blew up too. Look at that. Is this going to
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blow up? It blew up. I never get less interested in it. So I can kind of appreciate it, even though
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I disavow it. Don't do it. Don't catch any self-driving cars on fire. But I totally get it.
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All right, here's my prediction for the day. How long before a terrorist uses a self-driving car to
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deliver a bomb? Yeah, you just got quiet, didn't you? Because there's no way that won't happen.
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It would be the best way to do it. I can't think of a better way. Now, I assume the self-driving
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cars will have some kind of way to indicate if a human is in it. But you don't really need
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to be in it. Do you? You know, couldn't you call a self-driving car, put a dummy in it and
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a big, you know, dummy full of explosives in it? And if anybody looked in the, I don't know,
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if anybody monitors it to see if there's a human there. But it kind of looked like it.
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It's going to happen. There's going to be a self-driving car that carries a bomb eventually.
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This is shocking. So the American College of Pediatricians reviewed more than 60 studies
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and concluded, quote, there is no long-term evidence that mental health concerns are decreased
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or alleviated after gender-affirming therapy. Huh.
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It's almost like the whole thing is sort of a mass hysteria or something. It's almost as
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if it's not based on either observation or science. It's almost as if everything that you
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knew to be true is true. Now, I did actually expect that some people would report better mental
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health. But to say there's no long-term evidence, none? Are you saying you couldn't find one person
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to say I'm better off? How is that possible? You know how I always mock studies that I disagree with?
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Well, whenever the conclusion is something I don't like, I remind you that science is all rigged
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and bullshit and all the data is bad and the peer review is ridiculous. That is when I don't like
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the result or I disagree with it. Do you think this result is true? I don't think there's one chance
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in the world this is true. Whoever did this study and found out there is no long-term evidence? None.
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Not a single person. Do you believe that? Do you believe you can't get a single person to say,
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yeah, this worked out for me. Glad I did it. Not one? Now, let me remind you what cognitive dissonance is.
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Do you know what cognitive dissonance is? It's when you do something that doesn't make sense even to
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you. Even to you, it doesn't make sense. And so you reinterpret it in a weird way that makes it
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make sense when you know it didn't make sense. So it's how you protect your brain from thinking
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you're ridiculous. So everything I know about the world suggests that even if, let's say you took
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a thousand people who transitioned when they were young, if you took a thousand people and talked to
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them, I would expect at least a quarter of them to say it worked, even if it definitely didn't.
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Even if, and I don't know if it did or not. I'm not saying it did. I'm not saying it didn't. I don't
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know. But there's no way you don't get at least a quarter of the people saying, I'm pretty sure it
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worked. I think, you know, maybe I'm not happy, but I think I would have been worse off if I hadn't
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done it. So how in the world is this the only survey in which 100% of the people say the same
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answer? You believe that there's a survey of a large group of people about any topic, any topic at all,
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be it health, be it political, be it not. You think there's any topic where 100% of the people
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will say the same thing? Any? No, obviously this is bullshit. Now, how many of you wanted to
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immediately believe it because it agrees with your political point of view? I did. For the first five
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minutes, I thought, well, that's something. Hey, there's some evidence. And then I think about it
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for like one minute and I realize, oh, why would this be the one thing that's true? Everything else in
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the news is fake. All of it. And this is going to be the one story that's true? Maybe. But the
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odds of it are so small, I'm going to discount this as bullshit. All right. So this, it did change my
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plans though. Because for a while when I was thinking that, that maybe, you know, maybe I
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could remove my balls and I'd be happier. I mean, I didn't really make a plan for it. I was just
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looking at all the options. I was like, you know, maybe I'd be a little bit happier. And then I thought
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maybe I could get the Apple Vision Pro and using enhanced reality and virtual reality, I could just
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make it look like I had transitioned. But I'd be the only one who knows. Like I'd look in the mirror
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and I'd just see myself as a woman. And by the way, not just a woman, but a woman who could do pretty
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darn well in sporting competitions. And I don't like to brag. Tucker Carlson allegedly met with more than
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Putin in Russia. There's a report that says, I don't know if it's true yet, that he met with
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Edward Snowden and Joe Biden's accuser, Tara Reid. She's the one who accused him of sexually
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abusing her. What do you think? Do you think he talked to them? Now, it is making it look
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like, I like the fact that Tucker Carlson appears to be not afraid of anything. But of course, the
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narrative that's being used against him is that he's being a, what do they call it, the useful,
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useful idiot? Yeah. That Russia is using Tucker Carlson for their propaganda. How many of you would
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say that's a true statement? That Putin is intentionally using Tucker for propaganda?
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Obviously. Obviously. Yes. Transparently. Obviously. 100%. No question about it. Is that a problem?
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That's just describing everybody who ever did an interview anywhere. Do you know how many interviews
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I've done? Do you know what my purpose of the interview is? My purpose of the interview is
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propaganda. I want, I want me to look good and I want people to, you know, maybe buy my book or
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something. Do you think I'm there to tell you the truth? I mean, I, I don't generally lie, but I'm not
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there to tell you like the whole story. Have I ever done an interview where I said, you know, I wrote a,
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I wrote a new book. The reviews are great if you look at it, but to be honest, I have terrible
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character. And if you want the full story, uh, the book's okay. I mean, I'm being honest, but I'm kind of a
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jerk. So maybe you should think about that and not buy that book. Right? I don't tell you that. I just say
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the book is good. You'll love it. Which it is. You'll love it. You should see the reviews are crazy.
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Reframe your brain. You should get it right away. It'll change your life. It'll actually change
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your life. Literally, it will change your life. Um, but no, of course, Russia is using it for,
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for their propaganda. Of course, but it's all transparent. We all know it. It still works.
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It doesn't matter that you know, it's propaganda still works because it does expose you to a point
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of view you hadn't seen before. But I do wonder why Tara Reid is in Moscow. It's for her safety,
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isn't it? I think she was afraid of actually being killed by the Biden regime. Do you think
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she had inside information or was she always working with Putin? I don't know. I suspect she
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wasn't working with Putin. But Putin is smart to give asylum to people like that, to Snowden and
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Tara Reid. Yeah, she alleged that she was in trouble. I don't doubt it. I don't doubt that she got death
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threats. You know, I think people on both sides are getting death threats all the time. Anyway, so I like
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that Tucker's talking to all these people just because nobody else is doing it. And if you didn't know
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that the other side is pushing propaganda, you shouldn't be watching the news in general. I mean, if you
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don't know that Putin is trying to push some propaganda, you're really not, you're not qualified to watch
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television. That should be kind of obvious. All right. So there's more evidence that NATO was always the
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baddie. And that maybe, maybe the story we've been fed for years is completely bullshit. Because it is. Of course it is.
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That doesn't make Putin the good guy. No. It just means that you've been lied to for years. All right, let me give you an
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idea. So do you know that, that after when the German reunification was on the table, that NATO promised that if
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Germany reunified, that NATO would not push further toward Russia? And it's in writing. That was the
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actual agreement. And that was a pretty good agreement in my mind. Because unifying Germany is a pretty big
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deal. I mean, it's a really big deal. So if you could get that, and the only thing you had to give up
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is to agree, well, I saw it in writing. The only thing you had to give up was expansion of NATO.
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I feel like that would probably be a pretty good deal. I see some people saying it's not in writing.
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And you might be right. I did see the actual writing. So I saw the document with
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that clause circled this morning. Is it true? I don't know. I mean, it might be fake.
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But anyway, so the reporting today is that NATO has been lying. NATO lied about Ukraine. NATO lied
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about Germany. And NATO has just been an expansionist power. And then it's all about the military
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industrial complex and the neocons pushing it. And it was always, it was never about peace.
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It was never about that. It was about destroying Russia and getting their energy resources and
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degrading them and making our military industrial complex richer. Of course, it's always more
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complicated than that. But that's part of it. Now, do you believe that? Do you believe that NATO
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might have been the one that was lying and being aggressive and threatening? Now, that doesn't mean
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that Putin wasn't also lying and threatening and being aggressive, right? Nobody, nobody's giving
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him a pass. I'm not giving him a pass. I'm just saying that in situations like this, it would be
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normal that both sides suck. And everything that we've seen about everything in America in the last
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seven years would suggest that NATO is corrupt. Now, the reason I say that is that everything else is.
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Everything. Everything else has a monetary connection, which NATO has in a very big way.
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Everything with that much money involved is corrupt. Everything. Everything is. There's no exception.
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Once you get that big and there's that much money, it's always corrupt in some way, if not thoroughly,
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at least in major ways. So you don't have to wonder. You just have to know it's a big,
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a big entity with lots of money involved. There's nothing else you would need to know.
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Do you remember all the whistleblowers? I don't.
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Well, you don't know what's happening with NATO. It's just like a big old slush fund as far as we're concerned.
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who's talking about Zelensky, he reminds you that Zelensky was
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an actor, which is weird to go from actor to head of a country,
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but not unprecedented. Ronald Reagan, for example.
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You could argue that Trump was on TV before he was in politics.
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So it's not that unusual that a charismatic person becomes a leader.
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But what you might not know is that the same billionaire that funded Zelensky's TV rise
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is the one that funds the neo-Nazi Azov battalion.
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This is according to McGregor, and also supported Zelensky for president
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with the blessing of Victoria Nuland, who some say is the CIA's operative,
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who's just ruining Ukraine for some purpose that is hard to discern,
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And that Zelensky ran for office under the promise of peace,
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but almost as soon as he got there, it turned into the biggest war ever.
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Because the narrative of the people who would like us to fund Ukraine
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would be that he's this democratically elected leader
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He's only there because the United States staged a coup in 2014.
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about the Ukrainian experience was corrupt and wrong
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hey, if we stopped funding, it would be a tragedy.
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Because funding them created the biggest tragedy.
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Do you think that stopping funding them is going to make it worse?
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It's a money laundering headquarters, we assume, yes.
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To me, stopping funding is the easiest decision in the world.
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Because we've lost all faith that funding makes things better.
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And all the evidence suggests it makes things worse.
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Would you feel bad if the poor Ukrainian citizens
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ended up being managed by the evil Russian Empire?
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Would you feel bad for just the ordinary citizens?
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Well, not compared to what they're going through right now.
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Not compared to what they're going through right now.
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And it seems to me that the only reason Putin has a claim at all
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is that his management of some areas appears to be superior,
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But if there are people who would vote in a referendum will take Putin,
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So I would say that there's no argument anymore
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The fact that Ukraine will lose, I think, is irrelevant.
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But I think that at this point, it seems obvious
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that any negotiated settlement would give Russia the parts
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And probably Russia would be happy not controlling the rest of it.
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But I can't see any reason to support Zelensky.
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So why would I fund somebody that I can't even tell
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It seems like that would be the minimum requirement.
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any of the participants in the October 7th terrorist attack
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who actually helped overrun Israel and murdered people
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And believe it or not, Rashida Tlaib and Cori Bush
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They voted against allowing terrorists, known terrorists,
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Now, on one level, that sounds terrible, right?
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and how they remain in government is just a mystery.
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so it looks like that's going to correct itself.
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I think Tlaib is probably safer in her district.
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Number one, these are both from the New York Times.
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I want you to see if you can tell which one is about Trump
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Memory Loss Requires Careful Diagnosis, Scientists Say.
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Memory Loss Requires Careful Diagnosis, Scientists Say.
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you know, memory loss requires a careful diagnosis.
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You're going to need to get some scientists involved in this.
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you don't see the two stories put next to each other.
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that that was really in the Wall Street Journal.