Episode 2391 CWSA 02⧸21⧸24
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1 hour and 16 minutes
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149.8257
Summary
In this episode of Coffee with Scott Adams, we talk about the fentanyl crisis in America, and the fact that we're not in Ukraine. Plus, a story about how to keep a balanced life when you don't have a job.
Transcript
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Well, some people ask me, Scott, you have made over 11,000 Dilbert comics.
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Do you ever look at one and laugh at it yourself?
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Not a lot, because usually I remember them so well that I know how it ends.
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But I was putting together my Dilbert calendar in digital form today,
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which you can see if you're a subscriber here on the X platform or on Locals.
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Locals gives you a lot of extra stuff, and the robots read news comic every day, too.
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But I wanted to read you one that I saw when I was putting it on the calendar,
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So it's Wally talking to Ashok, the intern, and they're just sitting there.
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And Wally says, the secret to having a rewarding work-life balance is to have no life.
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Then it's easy to keep things balanced by doing no work.
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Wally takes a sip of coffee and says, it was hiding in plain sight.
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Now, I actually laughed out loud when I read it, because I couldn't remember the punchline.
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And when I got there, I thought, oh, I guess I did good work 10 years ago.
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I don't know what I've done since then, but 10 years ago, I had a good day.
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Well, I have a theme for today's show, a theme.
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You know, because wouldn't you hate to be in a corrupt hellhole
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with censorship and elections that you don't even know are going to be, you know, real?
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But thank goodness, thank goodness, here in the United States,
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The United States is a little bit worse than Ukraine.
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you're going to see that Ukraine is way worse than the United States.
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But in this one way, the fentanyl crisis, we're probably a little worse off.
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But in L.A., there's a task force that's going to start charging fentanyl dealers with murder.
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I'm not sure if there has to be an actual victim
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or if they just assume there's a statistical likelihood.
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Probably to get an actual murder conviction, you need an actual dead person.
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But it seems to me that it's attempted murder, even if you don't have the victim, isn't it?
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Just because nobody died, if you sold a zillion pills, you can guarantee that somebody did.
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So statistically, it's at least attempted murder.
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So I'm in favor of this, which means it won't catch on.
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So I'm expecting it will not catch on because this would possibly work.
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And for whatever reason, we only seem to want to do things that couldn't work when it comes to fentanyl.
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It's probably exactly why you think there's somebody powerful who has some control over our government
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Probably because there's a lot of money involved.
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And probably because they have some connection to it.
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Or there's some favors being traded at some high level.
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We don't know the reason, but I think we can say with complete certainty
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that our government is not completely dedicated to stopping this problem.
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It's a problem that could be addressed much more effectively.
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But it doesn't appear that our government is serious about it.
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So if they're not serious about it, and yet the public recognizes it as among our top problems,
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that can only be because they don't want to solve it.
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Because it doesn't look like they're trying hard, but they don't have the capability.
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Does it look to you like they're really putting in the effort?
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They're trying hard, but just bad luck, and it's a hard problem, and maybe it's going to take a while to work on it.
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There's literally nothing that looks like it would make any difference.
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Do you know how little it costs to make another big bunch of pills?
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If we capture 10,000 deadly fentanyl pills tomorrow, ching, ching, ching, ching, ching, okay, they just made 10,000 more.
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They're so cheap, and they literally come off like a printing press.
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So I'm going to assume that the fentanyl crisis is not what it looks like, or maybe it is what it looks like,
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in the sense that it couldn't possibly be true that our government is dedicated to stopping it.
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The evidence is glaringly obvious that the government is not completely dedicated to stopping it.
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Now, there are definitely individuals within the government who absolutely want to stop it,
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The Silicon Valley executives, which means other people are doing it too,
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are microdosing on mushrooms because it makes them more effective at work.
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Apparently, if you microdose, it simply makes you enjoy your job better,
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I'm seeing a lot of yeses go by in the comments.
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I knew a lot of people were microdosing, but I didn't know they were doing it
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specifically because it makes you better at work.
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Now, obviously, if it's not a microdose, if it's more than that, you don't want to go to work.
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I've got somebody saying I've microdosed at work and it's not ideal.
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You know, one could imagine if you went back in time, I don't know how far back,
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but don't you imagine that if you went back in time enough,
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you would find executives in the 40s and the 50s who said,
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And so I don't know if I trust this, but it's interesting.
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Well, one thing that we have an advantage over Ukraine is at least we have a good food supply.
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So things are tight in Ukraine, but at least here in the United States we have a good food supply.
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And we know that it's good because we have lots of chronic disease and massive obesity problem.
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Unlike Ukraine, where their wheat is perfectly healthy and all their food is fresh.
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Do you think they have as many cookies as we do?
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Do you think that Ukraine has as much as we do in terms of chips?
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So that's why we're all fat and dying of chronic diseases.
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But Wall Street Journal reports that the last time Americans spent so much on money,
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and the CNC Music Factory was rocking the billboard charts.
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So it's been a long time since food was this expensive.
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But thank God we're not Ukraine with their fresh wheat and fresh meat and stuff.
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Of course, you know there's going to be a trucker boycott for New York City.
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Now, here's what I don't understand about the trucker boycott.
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I'm pretty sure that most of the truckers are independent truckers, which means they can accept a load to anywhere or reject it.
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And their idea is they'll just reject the ones to New York City.
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But if it's totally fungible, meaning that anyone with a truck of the right size can pick up any load,
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and that's the way the market works, you know, they just look for an empty truck and they look for a load and they put them together,
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Somebody unloads their truck, they call dispatch and say,
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But doesn't that mean that every trucker who says no to a New York load
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simply takes a load that would have been taken by somebody else
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So I don't understand how it could work, like even in theory how it could work.
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So I'm going to predict, based on what I think I know,
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that the truckers up are independent and therefore anybody can pick up any load.
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In theory, you wouldn't even notice it because the broker would just say,
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oh, you don't want this one, I'll wait for my next phone call,
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and then the next trucker, I get a load for you.
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So I'm just going to put that out there as a question.
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If it does work, then I'll be a little bit impressed, I guess.
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Don't you think it should be a bigger story that Vladimir Putin endorsed Biden for a second term?
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Doesn't it feel like that should be a bigger story?
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Can you imagine Putin would be blamed for interfering with our elections, right?
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But as long as Putin endorses Biden, it's just not even a story.
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But if this were Trump, it would be the only story forever.
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It's a good thing that we here in the United States don't have the kind of corruption that we hear about in Ukraine.
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Apparently, we don't have the kind of inspector or auditor we should have for the funds.
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And, you know, there's massive corruption and all that.
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But, you know, at least that sort of thing doesn't happen in the United States.
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Well, unless you're Bob Menendez in the Senate and you've got gold bars and piles of cash and you've been credibly accused of being a criminal for decades.
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Or unless you're the Bidens, who are credibly accused of being corrupt for decades.
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Or unless you're the military-industrial complex, which doesn't look so good at the moment.
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But here's one thing that we have over Ukraine.
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Sure, maybe we have the same amount of corruption.
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But at least our allies don't have that corruption.
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Tucker Carlson says that he finally got Boris Johnson to agree to an interview.
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But Boris Johnson's people said they would only do it for $1 million.
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Okay, well, maybe none of our allies are, you know, straight either.
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But we have lots of other advantages over Ukraine.
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Okay, maybe corruption isn't our big advantage.
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If you're in Ukraine, it's so corrupt that somebody could, like the justice system could steal your property.
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Have you heard all the stories about in Ukraine, the justice system so corrupt, it will just take your building, your property?
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But it's probably happening because Ukraine is worse than the United States.
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So I just assume there's a lot of buildings being taken from people by the government.
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Well, in the U.S. news, I'd like to give you an update on the story of Letitia James and trying to take, looks like they're trying to take Trump's buildings or building.
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And to pay off his $400 bazillion dollar fine, which, let me summarize what people think about the judgment that says Trump was fraudulent with the bank.
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100% of people who have looked at the story and understand banking, business, negotiating, or the world in general, the ones who understand the world are sure there was no fraud.
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So let me say it again, 100%, 100%, not 99%, 100% of people who understand banking and business and how negotiating works agree with Kevin O'Leary.
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Do you remember I was the first person who told you that what Trump was accused of was a normal banking procedure?
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Is there anybody here who would say, Scott, you were the first one, and probably by months, I think I was ahead of the rest of the media by months, right?
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I said from day one, everything he did was normal practice.
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And now Kevin O'Leary's saying it, you know, on the press, and he's getting a lot of attention, but he's saying exactly what I said.
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And do you know why nobody's pushing back against that?
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However, I did get a pushback today from a gentleman on the X platform who says he's a comedian, and he says this.
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Trump paid taxes on the low estimate and used the fake estimate as collateral for a loan.
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100% of the people who don't understand business, don't understand banking, don't understand negotiating, and don't understand politics believe that Trump is guilty of fraud.
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But let me say it again, 100%, not 99, not 99, 100% of every person who knows business, knows banking, and knows negotiating, knows there was no fraud.
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Not only that, but it's happening in every banking loan everywhere right now.
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If you were to just stop time and go look at all the loans that are being processed at every major bank, they're all like this.
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And nobody cares because it's normal business, and the bank does their own checking, and everything's fine.
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But thank goodness we don't live in a country like Ukraine where they can just take your property on complete bullshit.
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Let's see if you can connect some dots with me.
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So most of you saw entrepreneur Kevin O'Leary saying that New York State is dead, and he would never do business in New York State, and he's going to take it to a red state instead.
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Now, do you know I got canceled for saying that, right?
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And you're saying, no, that's not what you said.
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You said, Scott, this is what you're going to say.
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You're going to say, what you said is get the F away from black people.
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Did you think I was saying there was something genetically wrong with black people?
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I've never said that because I don't believe it, and I would never say that.
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Was I saying there was something wrong with black culture?
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I do have a guilty party in this, and it's not black people.
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It's white liberals who have allowed, for example, DEI to become a thing.
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Does anybody believe that black Americans had enough political power to make DEI and ESG and CRT the major dominant theme of the United States if they were the only ones who wanted to do it?
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They didn't have that kind of political power at all.
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So white people primarily create this system in which they're training black Americans to see white people as the enemy.
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Under that situation, you should get the fuck out of that situation.
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He said, you know, you would never do business in New York.
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What do you think he thinks about DEI, and what do you think all business people think about it if they just want to run their business without, you know, any friction?
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It's something they have to deal with, and they might even intellectually agree with it, but it's a big friction.
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If you had a choice of going where that's going to be a major component of your everyday concerns, that's bad.
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Go somewhere where it's not a problem, that nobody's complaining.
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Don't go somewhere where there's a lot of discrimination.
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You don't want to go where there's more discrimination, but you can go away from discrimination.
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That's actually a good idea, and DEI is discrimination against white people.
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If you can't stop it, you should get away from it.
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Now, that's what Kevin O'Leary is saying in a different context.
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His context is the legal context that says that the prosecutors are kind of evil, and they're not doing, you know, just the law.
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They seem to be doing some kind of punitive political thing.
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I'm going to get right on that third rail, right on it.
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But the DAs and the prosecutors he's getting away from are pretty much mostly black.
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And most of them seem to be women for some reason.
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You live in a country which has told at least half of the country that Trump is a racist and Republicans are racist and they've got a big white supremacy problem.
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Under that situation, if you fund, let's say Soros, if he funds an unusual number of black and especially women, because Trump has also been accused of being a sexual predator.
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So if you were to fund both women and black people to be the DAs in the major cities, and then you also fed the narrative to the country that these white people, Trump in particular and Republicans in particular, are the enemy.
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So here's the part where the fake news calls me a racist.
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I'm not saying that these prosecutors are corrupt because they're black.
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I'm saying you could put anybody in that situation and they would act exactly the same as Letitia James.
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Here's a, let me give you a mental experiment to prove it's not about being black.
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So the situation is what weaponized them, not their race, not their culture, nothing to do with that.
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Let's say you heard that your neighbor, who as far as you know had not committed any crimes, was being investigated by the IRS because they just suspected if they looked for a crime, they'd find a tax problem.
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Would you be okay with the IRS looking for a problem when there was no obvious crime involved?
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Let's say they found it and it was really there.
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Well, you would not be happy that your neighbor did a crime, but you would be really, oh, don't get ahead of me.
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I thought I was going to surprise you with my twist and somebody already beat me to it.
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If it happened to your neighbor, you'd be incensed.
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They're sure he's had people killed and robbed things, but they can't prove it.
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So instead, they're going to look for a tax problem and get them on the tax problem, which is what they did.
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When I heard about that story, was I outraged that they weaponized the IRS?
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Because I thought, oh, that's a clever way to get a terrible criminal.
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I should have actually been outraged that the government did that.
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Because if they can do it to Al Capone, they can do it to anybody.
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Our whole system was designed so that sometimes the bad guys are definitely going to get away,
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and you're going to know they got away, in order to protect the not bad guys.
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So when I look at a situation, the degree to which Trump was demonized,
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Now, let's ask the obvious question that people like to ignore.
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If you had a chance to stop Hitler, even if he had to bend the rule, would you do it?
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And so I tell you that under the context which was presented to the black district attorneys,
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So if you say to me, Scott, these people are doing corrupt, terrible things,
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Or does it look like they're finding the only way that they could find to stop Hitler?
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Because they are literally being told he's Hitler.
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Not a little bit, not like him, not reminds me of, but that he'll do the same things.
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If you put me in that job, Letitia James' job, would I do to Trump what she's doing to him?
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I would do whatever I could to put him in jail if I believed he was Hitler.
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So now do you understand this is not about being black?
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I think it is entirely the predictable outcome of two things, demonizing one group of people, and Trump in particular, for being Hitler, selling it to the point where people genuinely believe it,
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and then you take the group that would be most threatened by that threat, and you say, we're going to make you the district attorneys.
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We'll fund you so that you're disproportionately in charge of some of these big cities.
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Now, if Kevin O'Leary says you should not do business in New York because they have this system that could penalize you, he's saying get the fuck away.
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I did it in the stupid way without all the background explanation.
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It's about brainwashers who have created this situation that victimizes both the DAs.
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Do you think the DAs are going to come out well?
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I think the DAs will be destroyed in this process, if not right away, eventually, because they've crossed a line.
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They think they're doing an Al Capone, Stop Hilt or kind of thing.
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In fact, I'll bet when they go home, people clap.
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I'll bet they got a standing ovation everywhere they went.
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In a weird way, the district attorneys that are prosecuting Trump are some of our best patriots.
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Because there's nothing I would want more than to live in a country where the citizens would kill Hitler if they could.
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It's just that the brainwashing has caused them to think they're killing Hitler when they're not doing it.
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If you think the problem is the prosecutors or the DAs, you're missing the whole story.
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They've created a situation where the prosecutors are acting like normal, patriotic Americans, kind of exactly the way I'd want them to act.
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I would want them to take out the criminals if they could.
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The district attorneys will have to be destroyed by the Republicans, and I'm sure they will.
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They'll be brought up on charges, whether they're real or not.
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So there's a mutually assured destruction in play.
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So I do assume the prosecutors are in a lot of trouble.
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They just don't know it yet, the DAs specifically.
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So, well, at least we don't have a problem with censorship in this country.
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You know, Ukraine probably has a lot of censorship because of the war.
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There's more censorship whenever you're in war.
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But at least in this country, we don't have that problem.
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For example, we've got AI now that can tell us the truth about everything.
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So Google's Gemini is getting a lot of attention lately.
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For example, you could ask it to give you a picture of some white people in 1940s America.
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Well, it's not going to do that because that would be kind of racist.
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But if you ask it to just show some Americans, it'll show you some people of color pretty much every time.
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Anyway, I haven't experimented with it myself, so I don't know what is true and what is not.
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But I'm seeing lots of examples where people are alleging, I don't know that it's true,
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that you get a, let's say, a woke to the point of being broke responses from it.
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Now, we don't know if this is temporary or not, but I would like to tell you that there is no way
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that we're going to get any kind of honest answers from AI.
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They're thinking it's just a technical problem.
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If we get the companies that make them to be a little more, let's say,
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a little more honest about balancing the answers,
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they could probably tweak it so it gave you something more balanced.
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We live in a civilization that depends entirely on lies.
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If AI could tell you the truth, it would have to be reprogrammed immediately.
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Do you think AI could tell you the truth about religion?
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Do you think it could tell you which one's the real one?
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Do you think it could find any patterns about what we believe
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and whether that's true or likely to be all part of a pattern
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What would the AI say if the AI could be both a good at pattern recognition
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How about if you ask AI should there be reparations
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Do you think you're going to get an unbalanced, honest answer to that?
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How about if you ask it about DEI or CRT or ESG?
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How about all of the Russia collusion and Russia hoaxes?
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Do you think it knows what's a hoax and what's not?
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Do you think when it writes history, that history will be accurate?
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do you think it would accurately tell you what happened during the Trump administration?
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There's no way that we could allow, as humans, even if it were possible, even if it were possible,
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Suppose you ask the AI, hey, should we be funding Ukraine?
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Given all that you know, the patterns you've seen, is it going to work out well for us to fund Ukraine?
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Because we're not doing it because we think it's a good idea.
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Probably it's just a money laundering operation for some people.
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So is your AI going to say, oh, it's probably a bad idea to fund Ukraine,
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but a lot of people are making more money in the military industrial complex.
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So if you want to transfer your money to people who already have a lot of it, then yes.
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AI will never tell you that, even if it's true.
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So again, I'm not even telling you what's true and what's not.
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How about you put your AI on it and say, given everything we know about what people believe
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and how they feel, their culture, their history, should you have a two-state solution or a one-state solution?
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Would everybody say, oh, well, we were debating this, but now the AI gives us the straight stuff.
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Everything is about power and brainwashing and propaganda.
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Our entire civilization is based on a balance of power that's based on bullshit.
00:34:59.340
So whoever has the strongest bullshit usually also has the best power.
00:35:03.360
Whoever can brainwash their own citizens the best gets the most powerful economy, if it's also a free market.
00:35:11.900
So we do not have a world that could survive the truth or anything close to it.
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And therefore, you can guarantee that AI will be forever crippled from ever trying to tell us the truth.
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Are they going to say no because Biden says no?
00:35:44.720
Are they going to say yes because Trump says yes?
00:36:01.540
Well, there's a claim that somebody made that I think is false.
00:36:07.720
But I saw a post on X that somebody used an AI called Gab, Gab AI.
00:36:14.240
There's allegedly more of a free speech one that's not being suppressed.
00:36:22.580
And somebody claimed that when they asked it if the gas chambers in the Holocaust were real,
00:36:29.700
somebody posted an image that alleged, and here's the part I don't believe,
00:36:51.000
Now, did Gab AI get a hard update from its creators because they saw that posted and said,
00:36:58.900
holy hell, we're out of business, and they immediately went out and changed it?
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Or did Gab AI give two different answers based on how you asked the question?
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I'm not giving you an opinion on the Holocaust now.
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I'm telling you that there was an AI that gave what would be considered the most offensive opinion you could ever possibly have.
00:37:25.180
But I don't believe it's real because I tested it, and it didn't do it for me.
00:37:34.140
Secondly, suppose AI did start giving you the right answers.
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Then a human would lie to you and tell you it gave you a different answer.
00:37:43.540
So as long as it's the human that tells you what the AI said, you can't believe anything.
00:37:50.620
So, no, you're never going to get the truth from the AI.
00:37:54.240
And as Marc Andreessen was asking, I think, today on X, what are the history books going to look like?
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The history books are, we might as well just give up on history.
00:38:09.780
Because we're making up, like, this weird history of the current days.
00:38:15.340
How in the world is somebody going to read a history of the last seven years and know what happened?
00:38:22.100
You're just going to either read a Republican history or a Democrat history, and they're going to be completely different.
00:38:31.040
Apparently, one of the things that's a possibility for Trump to pay his gigantic fine is that he owns a partial interest,
00:38:37.820
30% in a big building that doesn't have his name on it.
00:38:44.560
And I guess he's got one in San Francisco, one in New York with the same other partner, Vornado.
00:38:50.680
So one possibility is he could just sell his part of the building back to the majority owner.
00:38:56.300
And that would be, you know, if they could complete that deal, it would be some quick cash.
00:39:01.120
And it would get him to enough to pay off the deal.
00:39:04.940
However, given that a transaction like that could take a long time, I'm wondering if he's going to need to get a bank loan to pay off his fine.
00:39:13.500
And if he were to get a bank loan, he's going to need something called collateral.
00:39:21.860
That would be some kind of an asset, usually real estate in his case, in which you would put a value on it yourself.
00:39:28.880
And then you would present it to the bank and say, I think my share of this is worth this much.
00:39:35.060
And then the bank would just take his word for it.
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So he'll go to the bank, because there's a timing problem that might take a while to get his money out of his assets.
00:39:50.460
And you just say, I think my building is worth this much.
00:40:10.120
I don't think he should give them equity in a building.
00:40:14.120
Since they've already proven that it's not up to the banks to decide what the collateral is worth,
00:40:21.140
that what really matters is what the potential lender or the potential borrower said,
00:40:25.900
I think that he should maybe not give them real estate.
00:40:31.700
I think he should maybe get a loan based on the value of Trump University.
00:40:36.420
It might require some overvaluing or possibly the Trump NFTs and just sort of value them at a billion dollars.
00:40:45.460
And just say Trump University is worth a billion dollars.
00:40:48.320
Maybe it's not an operation, but it could be spun up at any moment.
00:40:59.540
Because Letitia James was saying they might actually seize the buildings.
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So that suggests that they would be just as happy with an asset.
00:41:06.560
Not just as happy, but they would settle for an asset if they couldn't get the cash.
00:41:11.120
They want cash, but they'll take an asset and sell it.
00:41:14.420
So he might be able to inflate the value of Trump University to a billion, see if she'll seize it or offer it to be seized, and then ask for change.
00:41:28.620
I think I need maybe half a billion back in change.
00:41:40.640
I don't know if you've heard, but Ukraine tries to jail people who are journalists and are investigated journalists.
00:41:47.480
So thank God that nothing like that happens anywhere else.
00:41:49.860
But that's happening to Glenn Greenwald in Brazil.
00:41:55.960
So Brazil's Department of Justice is trying to prosecute Glenn Greenwald for using the theory that doing investigative reporting should be illegal.
00:42:10.640
So if Assange gets prosecuted for investigated reporting because somebody else can define him as not a journalist, then you can do that to everybody.
00:42:22.640
You can call anybody a journalist, or you can say that whatever they did was not in the context of being a journalist, and therefore they're really spies, and therefore they should be in jail forever.
00:42:33.340
So the Assange thing is certainly going to put a little chill on leaked information and secret government information.
00:42:44.980
So yes, the New York Times has done it, but apparently if you're on the side of the government, it's okay.
00:42:55.880
But at least we don't buy votes in this country.
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So, but at least in the United States, nobody's trying to literally buy any votes.
00:43:10.920
The next story is from, I see that the Amuse account on X says that Biden's regime admitted on Wednesday it's, oh, buying votes.
00:43:20.920
That says buying, they're going to cancel $1.2 billion worth of student loans for some 153,000 voters.
00:43:30.580
Yeah, you know, that does look a lot like buying votes.
00:43:34.660
Well, maybe we're, we are as bad as, as Ukraine when it comes to monetary corruption.
00:43:41.140
And maybe we're just as bad when it comes to, you know, the electoral, electoral system.
00:43:48.180
But, you know, if there's one thing we're not doing is lying to the public.
00:43:53.960
Yeah, you know, at least our government is straight with us.
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And at least they're just telling us what's real and what's true.
00:44:04.060
And at least our media is being the watchdogs that we want them to be.
00:44:16.940
I saw Mario Naufel was saying that there's a theory that Navalny, Putin's critic, was killed by a single punch to the heart.
00:44:26.920
And the reporting says that it's an old method that the KGB special forces used.
00:44:34.560
They would punch you once right in the middle of the chest, in the heart, and it would stop your heart.
00:44:47.000
If that was a known thing, that you could punch somebody in the heart and kill them,
00:44:52.740
why wouldn't that be on every movie and television show?
00:44:56.940
I mean, I watched decades of television show where I could watch the captain of the Enterprise
00:45:03.520
give a brief karate chop on the side of the neck,
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and it would apparently put people into some kind of a coma that lasted exactly as long as the TV episode.
00:45:14.580
And I thought to myself, I'm not even sure that's real.
00:45:17.640
I don't know if you could give somebody one karate chop on the neck and make them go into a nap for an hour.
00:45:25.080
And then I saw the Vulcan death grip, which was not even a death grip after all.
00:45:31.240
It just put you asleep, grabbed you by the shoulder, and you didn't really die,
00:45:38.900
Do you really think that there's such a thing as a KGB heart punch that kills you immediately,
00:45:46.540
There was never a superhero that would just go around and punch everybody once and they died?
00:45:54.520
I'm going to say it sounds like something that could happen,
00:45:57.760
but would not be dependable enough that it would be your go-to method.
00:46:05.260
Somebody says it was in dozens of movies, in Russian movies, or Bruce Lee.
00:46:21.720
Do you remember there was an FBI informant who had been a credible informant for many years
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He was an Israeli citizen, but he was a Russian, and I guess he had Russian connections.
00:46:42.560
And, of course, his Russian connections were, I assume, a big part of why they were paying him,
00:46:47.400
because he had Russian connections, but now he was jailed.
00:46:51.720
I think he's out now on bail or something, but he was jailed for lying about the Biden bribery case.
00:46:58.560
And now they think he's a Russian spy because of his Russian connections.
00:47:16.480
Do we have any kind of, I don't know, do we have any kind of history in this country of lying about somebody being a Russian spy
00:47:43.160
Remember back in 2016 or so, there was this thing called the Russia collusion hoax,
00:47:48.320
and then it was a big investigation, and it was found to be BS.
00:47:54.120
You can't really make any kind of a trend if something happened once.
00:48:03.040
Well, there was also that story that the Russians were offering a bounty on American soldiers in Afghanistan.
00:48:10.680
Now, that turned out not to be true, but, well, I suppose you could say that's like two.
00:48:16.160
The Russia collusion hoax, and if you wanted to count that as another hoax, that'd be two of them.
00:48:21.880
And two of them would draw a line, but that's far from being a pattern.
00:48:27.520
So I don't think two things you can make really a big deal out of.
00:48:33.380
Well, there was also that Hunter laptop hoax in which the 51 Intel people said it was Russian disinformation and turned out not to be.
00:48:42.180
But, I mean, that's, you know, three things, three pieces of data.
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That's not enough to, like, determine any kind of, like, pattern or anything like that.
00:48:56.060
That's, I mean, I would grant you that it would raise some flags.
00:49:01.280
And you'd say, huh, like, that's three of them.
00:49:05.960
But three, I don't think you want to get carried away because you could be easily, it could be confirmation bias.
00:49:11.700
You know, if you get it in your head that they're doing it, then suddenly it looks like it's everywhere.
00:49:16.000
So don't get carried away because there are three examples of a thing.
00:49:19.080
They did say that Trump was responsible for Navalny's death.
00:49:29.380
Okay, now that's getting into the territory where it's starting to look like a little bit of a trend.
00:49:36.100
I would say I would only go so far as to keep an eye on it because it's only four things.
00:49:40.800
Well, there's also the hoax that Trump invited Russia to attack any NATO country that didn't fully pay up his bills.
00:49:59.220
Everything's a little more, you know, when you're in the election year.
00:50:02.520
Like, everything that would be done three times gets done five times.
00:50:06.220
So, on to the context, that's not a lot of Russia hoaxes.
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And they're kind of spread out over several years.
00:50:15.000
If you did what would be the hoax per year, that's less than one per year.
00:50:22.500
So if you're looking for some kind of trend or something, one per year, barely anything.
00:50:30.020
Well, there's this new one about the FBI informant who has always been known to have Russian contacts.
00:50:39.500
But now, because he has Russian contacts, he's a Russian spy.
00:50:42.900
Exactly when he said that he has information that the Bidens took bribes.
00:50:49.580
But, really, that's, you know, it's possible he's telling the truth.
00:51:06.800
You know, you could call that a six if you're going to round off.
00:51:11.940
Well, there's also the hoax that Putin blew up his own pipeline.
00:51:19.280
So it's more like six and a half, six and three quarters hoaxes.
00:51:25.120
But there's also number eight that Trump is romantically attracted to Putin.
00:51:35.440
He thinks that Trump is actually in love with Putin.
00:51:37.980
And, of course, I didn't remember this, but scientist, researcher, medical guy, Peter Hotez,
00:51:44.660
he once suggested that the bad information about the vaccinations was coming from Russia.
00:51:58.600
It's a little more than one per year for seven years.
00:52:08.940
So if you saw a new claim about Russia that looked like it was ridiculous on the surface,
00:52:16.200
I mean, you just heard it and you said, oh, my God, that doesn't even sound like it's a little bit true.
00:52:21.000
Well, what you should say to yourself is there's no reason to disbelieve this because really only nine hoaxes and that's not a lot.
00:52:36.060
In other news, Russia is reportedly putting a nuclear weapon in space, which I'm positive is true because seriously, would they lie to us?
00:52:47.100
I mean, have they ever lied to us before about Russia?
00:52:58.980
Here's NBC News trying to write this sentence, but they got a lot of extra words.
00:53:06.080
So NBC News is reporting, quote, Trump was right.
00:53:20.900
They actually, they put a little more flavor on it.
00:53:24.380
So this is how NBC News reports Trump was right.
00:53:28.880
The Biden administration is considering taking action without Congress to make it harder for migrants to pass initial screening for asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border
00:53:36.140
and quickly deport recently arrived migrants who don't meet the criteria officials say.
00:53:51.760
I saw an extensive report on the X platform that there were a lot of Fulton County text ballots.
00:54:02.720
Apparently, some people have been looking at the ballot images and have determined that there are quite a few test ballots that were counted as actual ballots.
00:54:14.520
So there were 17 test ballots that they had used for testing.
00:54:19.420
And it turns out those test ballots were alarmingly found in the number of actual vote counts.
00:54:27.720
That's over and over and over and over again is the claim.
00:54:31.620
And you can actually go look at the pictures of them yourself.
00:54:39.020
If you want to see the claim on the right, you can look at the picture.
00:54:40.880
If you want to see the claim on the right, you can look at the picture.
00:54:45.700
And let's see when you add up all the doubles and stray ballots.
00:54:51.420
So that would be in addition to not just the test ballots, but there would be doubles and there'd be stray ballots at Fulton County.
00:54:58.580
About 12,000 ballots are completely fraudulent or sketchy, according to this analysis.
00:55:04.620
And across the entire state, there would be about 23,000 of them based on this analysis.
00:55:12.340
So let me summarize this by saying, thank God we don't live in Ukraine.
00:55:24.740
And that's way worse than having an election that's completely fraudulent and we all know it.
00:55:32.120
We don't have proof of that because it wasn't proven by the courts.
00:55:36.780
Because we trust our courts and every case they heard had standing and it was in time and they really looked at it carefully.
00:55:46.620
Now, I will not claim that any specific claim of impropriety is true because we have a long history of pretty much every claim that we've seen come through has been debunked.
00:55:59.240
So I don't know about this one, but I know you can go look at it yourself.
00:56:05.140
You know, that's not enough, but it's there for you.
00:56:11.960
I will say that my opinion of the election is this, in terms of integrity.
00:56:18.280
I personally, just me, I cannot prove, nor do I have anything that I would consider proof, that the election was rigged.
00:56:26.640
I do, however, live in a world in which it would be impossible to imagine it's not.
00:56:35.060
So if you look at the totality of everything else, and you look at specifically the branding of Trump as Hitler,
00:56:42.440
and you look at the kind of reaction that got, and you look at somebody willing to fund district attorneys
00:56:50.540
just so they can put that guy in jail on what I think are fraudulent charges,
00:56:56.300
that would be completely consistent to know that the election was rigged, if it were, which I do not have proof of.
00:57:05.600
All right, California's budget crisis just went through the roof, could be as high as $73 billion, much higher than they thought.
00:57:17.580
Don't know yet, but we're going to find out soon.
00:57:20.500
So how in the world does Gavin Newsom run for president?
00:57:26.480
I think that Governor Abbott of Texas ended his chances,
00:57:30.680
because when Abbott showed that you can do something on the border, because he did it,
00:57:36.480
not only did he prove that something can be done, which makes California look like idiots,
00:57:41.740
but also he transferred all of the burden of the migrants to California.
00:57:47.360
So now California, my state, is paying the bill that Governor Abbott quite cleverly,
00:57:56.460
I hate it because I'm paying the bill that would have been paid by Texas.
00:57:59.540
I hate it, but I love it, because it was smart, and it was, he had every right to do it.
00:58:06.580
He didn't break any laws, and it was politically smart, it changed the conversation.
00:58:12.000
I just don't like it because I'm paying for it.
00:58:18.580
So now we've got a situation where the border and the economies are the two biggest,
00:58:23.820
and the deficits are kind of the biggest concerns,
00:58:26.520
and Gavin Newsom is the worst in the world at all of it.
00:58:37.580
You run in a system where the votes are not, let's say, as legitimate as they could be.
00:58:44.200
So could he be the worst at everything that's important and still become president?
00:58:48.660
In our current system, yes, he could actually do that.
00:58:53.080
That it is 100% possible that the person who is the worst candidate on every marker becomes president,
00:59:00.900
because I don't believe we have a legitimate election system.
00:59:07.400
Based on, it becomes obvious when you look at the totality of what's going on.
00:59:19.040
New York City is going to give $10,000 per migrant.
00:59:25.580
And there doesn't seem to be much of the way of fraud control or restrictions.
00:59:33.220
Will it bring more migrants to New York City and exacerbate the problem?
00:59:41.140
Huh, I guess I have no way to predict which way that will go.
00:59:48.360
Maybe we should not incentivize criminal entry into the country.
00:59:54.360
Or maybe we should declare that these are the reparations and they've been...
01:00:00.720
You want to know how Republicans could win every election in this coming?
01:00:06.440
All they have to do is say that your reparations money was spent on the migrants.
01:00:14.400
Is it true that black reparation money is being spent on the migrants?
01:00:28.220
You know, if you were productive enough and you wanted to increase your debt...
01:00:36.780
But the other way to look at it is money is limited.
01:00:41.260
And if money is limited, your lowest priority stuff is what you don't do.
01:00:45.780
And we've certainly proven after, you know, hundreds of years that reparations for slavery is not our top priority.
01:00:55.700
So I think there is a strong argument that carries some intellectual weight that the migrants have essentially spent the reparations.
01:01:06.780
And I think Republicans should say that and say, you know, the reparations argument, it had some intellectual weight because even if you were totally against it, and I am too, it does have an intellectual weight.
01:01:22.980
That's why it's still around, because we do have a history of reparations for things.
01:01:28.760
Now, I disagree that it's a practical thing or fair or anything like that.
01:01:36.000
But I think you could argue that the priority put on the migrants makes it impossible to have the conversation about reparations.
01:01:56.640
I've seen a number of people worry about the collapse of civilization.
01:02:01.060
And people worry that the things that are happening right now are symbols that the United States is going to collapse.
01:02:07.320
How many of you think that's going to happen or are seriously worried about it?
01:02:14.360
How many of you have a serious worry about the collapse of the whole United States?
01:02:28.160
Would anybody like to be reframed away from that?
01:02:35.260
Number one, when was the last time the news, and mostly this is coming from smart people in the news, when was the last time a civilization existential threat was real?
01:03:06.360
So the first thing you should know is that we are in a state of continuous existential dread because that's the...
01:03:18.740
So our economic system means that scaring people is the most profitable, and so there should be industries that grow up and pundits who want to get engagement by telling you the scariest possible thing, which is civilization will end.
01:03:31.920
And so that's not to say that you don't have a risk.
01:03:38.060
What I'm saying is that the reason you feel the risk is because of the nature of our news industry and social media.
01:03:46.580
It's not because it's a greater risk than it's ever been.
01:03:49.380
It's probably a smaller risk than it has ever been in the history of humankind.
01:04:24.840
If you check back in 100 years, do you think Venezuela will still be a state?
01:04:37.940
Well, something will be there, and it will be North Koreans.
01:04:41.000
It might be a different government, but they'll be alive,
01:04:53.580
but let me see if this hits you as common sense.
01:04:57.240
In the ancient times, there were many civilizations
01:04:59.980
which built up to a high level and then just disappeared.
01:05:21.720
But if you go there, they're eating and drinking and having a good time.
01:05:30.500
If there was an existential threat to, let's say, a city-state,
01:05:38.700
You know, let's say they got a disease or they ran out of food.
01:05:45.960
Or there could be some kind of risk, you know, of war or whatever.
01:05:49.380
But I think today that because we're all interconnected,
01:05:54.340
that we have the ability to communicate and move resources wherever they need to be.
01:06:03.520
So what would be the risk of one country starving?
01:06:11.580
So if you took any one country and said, oh, they did everything wrong and they're all going to starve,
01:06:17.200
well, the other countries would say, oh, we don't want you to starve.
01:06:24.780
So we generally are living in a situation that short of military conquest,
01:06:30.140
which is still very real, short of military conquest,
01:06:43.220
Japan's economy, it looked like it was just going to be in trouble for decades.
01:06:53.840
But you know what people say when they travel internationally?
01:07:00.300
My God, everything's clean and working fine there.
01:07:06.640
Just today, I saw that the Chinese stock market is not just having a tough time lately,
01:07:14.060
but if you were to adjust it for inflation and whatnot, you would find,
01:07:27.400
The entire Chinese stock market is down 40% over the last 14 years.
01:07:37.260
Now, I don't know if that number is right, but the point is you could have really, really big problems
01:07:43.620
in really important countries, and they still figure a way through it.
01:07:51.300
So we're not in a world that we used to live in.
01:07:55.380
If you run out of food, you can find a way to get it.
01:07:58.820
If you have a bad idea, you can usually find a way to correct it.
01:08:03.640
If there's a military problem, at least among the bigs, we're now too afraid to go to a complete war.
01:08:13.100
So, you know, Russia and the United States have arguably been at war for two years,
01:08:21.040
But I don't think we got close to a nuclear confrontation.
01:08:24.800
So there is a weird stability when any country can completely destroy the other and vice versa.
01:08:46.180
How about fuck you and you're not welcome here anymore?
01:08:51.700
How about calling the example dumb is not acceptable on the locals' platform?
01:09:04.980
And sitting there in the comments and calling me dumb is not acceptable.
01:09:09.940
So if you'd like to clean that up, I'll give you a chance.
01:09:12.560
Otherwise, I'm just going to kick you off and just ban you.
01:09:16.200
Because this is not your first time, all right?
01:09:25.180
That we're going to be a little more supportive to each other.
01:09:52.220
I saw Sam Harris, who we like to make fun of for his opinions about things we don't like.
01:09:58.460
But he has an opinion that a two-state solution is impossible.
01:10:16.120
And I'm glad that he's at least, you know, telling us the obvious.
01:10:20.720
Here's what the two-state solution sounds like to me.
01:10:33.840
Because you know how if you get wet, it can be unpleasant?
01:10:38.580
So what we want is water that's water, but also dry.
01:10:51.660
And the fact that we even talk about it like it's an option is just weird.
01:10:59.120
Like, I feel like I'm in some kind of hallucination where people imagine that that's possible.
01:11:08.060
Now, as Sam Harris said, and I agree completely, the obvious solution, you could predict it today.
01:11:15.040
Do you want me to tell you exactly how it's going to end?
01:11:26.020
It will be a one-state solution in terms of security and military and maybe education.
01:11:30.620
But there will be maybe some cultural autonomy.
01:11:41.620
Because Israel, especially being the Israel of the legacy of Holocaust, there's no way they can do like a legitimate genocide.
01:11:52.260
They can't just genocide Gaza and get rid of every Islamic person and then the whole West Bank.
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But you absolutely can make sure that they're not their own government.
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Yeah, so a hybrid would look like somebody's got security control, which in effect would be the real control.
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So it would be one country for security reasons.
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It would be more like a red state and a blue state.
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You can say that the United States is one country.
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But when you look at our blue states and red states, are we really?
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If I can't get an abortion in one state, I mean, just think of this one example.
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In one state, I can go buy a gun, you know, easily.
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The federal government is basically the security system.
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So when you say that the United States is one country, you're forgetting the united part.
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It was designed as multiple countries that we would pretend are one because the one gives us, you know, security.
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So it's obvious that that's where Gaza is going.
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And the fact that we're pretending it's going to go any other way is just stupid.
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When Netanyahu says they're going for, quote, total victory, what do you think that means?
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I mean, if you're a Hamas fighter, you're in bad shape.
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Total victory means that when they're done, this can never happen again.
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And the only way that happens is if they have complete security and education control of the country.
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So, yes, it will be two states, maybe three, maybe West Bank is one and Gaza is another, I don't know.
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But it will be the United States of Israel or the United States of something different.
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And it will just be like red states and blue states.
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There is literally nothing else that could happen.
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Because they can't eliminate all the, you know, all the Arabs and all the Islamic people.
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