Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2399 CWSA 02⧸29⧸24

00:00:00.000 Good morning to everybody except for racist YouTube. I'd like to welcome you to

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00:00:35.040 It happens now. Go. Happy leap year. It's especially hard for dyslexics. I'm gonna

00:00:48.660 power through it. As you know, February 29th is not even a real day, so any crimes

00:00:53.880 you commit today don't count. So go nuts. Well, let's talk about the 0.82

00:01:00.240 simulation. Apparently Midjourney says they're hoping to release what they call

00:01:05.880 new consistent character features. Consistent character. Now what I think

00:01:11.700 that means is that if you create a character, it won't create a whole new

00:01:18.500 character if you want to create a new scene. So the problem with the old AIs is

00:01:24.500 you can say, show me a movie of Scott walking down the street. And then it would.

00:01:30.080 And then you'd say, now show me the next scene where Scott turns the corner. It

00:01:35.660 can't do that because it would do a whole new me, a whole version of the city

00:01:40.740 differently. There wouldn't be any continuity. But if you can make the

00:01:45.240 characters consistent, it means I think you can have them pick up where they left

00:01:51.660 off. Now that's not as important as what I call, in a short story I'm working on

00:01:58.920 right now, persistent characters. So a consistent character would be that one

00:02:04.680 that doesn't change every time you update the scene. But a persistent one would be

00:02:10.040 in a video game in which when you leave the game and log off, the character still

00:02:15.900 lives its life. That's common. And when a character can live its life even when

00:02:22.920 nobody's watching, maybe even have experiences to talk about later within the

00:02:27.380 realm of its world, it's a very small leap to programming that character to think

00:02:33.860 they're real. And then you're all going to see that we're in a simulation. Because once

00:02:39.800 you see that we can build one, and we can, that we very clearly have all of the

00:02:45.600 technology to build a simulation. Now you're going to say to me, but Scott, the

00:02:50.840 characters in the simulation that the simulation that we would be able to build

00:02:54.720 today would see these enormous flaws in their universe, right? That they'd see all

00:03:02.300 these mistakes and things that don't quite fit together. Because we're not really so

00:03:06.180 good that we could build a universe that would be all consistent. For example, how

00:03:13.080 would we even have enough computing so that we remember everything in history? And if

00:03:18.620 you and I have a disagreement, you know, we both saw the same history somehow. Way too

00:03:23.980 complicated. Couldn't possibly do it. But you know what we could do? We could very easily

00:03:29.300 program the persistent characters to believe they're seeing a consistent environment when

00:03:35.860 they're not. We can give them cognitive dissonance. So if you and I have a different

00:03:42.280 memory of what happened 10 minutes ago, they don't have to solve it. That would be hard.

00:03:48.480 Making everything consistent would be beyond our ability. But to program a character who lives

00:03:55.360 forever within the digital world, and then its mind has been programmed to believe that

00:04:00.340 everything looks fine. They see all the detail even though it's not there. They believe there's

00:04:05.300 something beyond what they can see, even though there isn't. And their history would be created

00:04:10.120 on demand. So in other words, they would never see the new forest until they walked in that

00:04:15.860 direction and entered it. If the forest is created as they enter it, which I'm pretty sure our reality

00:04:22.540 is the same way, then it means it also created history. Because the forest had to start as acorns

00:04:28.780 and seeds before it grew. So it's creating a history on demand. We are at that point in history

00:04:38.400 where we can create creatures who believe they're living in a real world, but we can show that they

00:04:44.480 are definitely not. And that's who we are. We'll figure that out. Well, there's a new study that says

00:04:50.600 married people are a lot happier. What do you think I'm going to call that? Could it be?

00:04:56.660 Backwards science. Backwards science. Well, let me see. I'm thinking about getting married.

00:05:08.240 Let's see. I got a couple choices. Angry bitch. Angry, complaining, unhappy bitch. Depressed, 1.00

00:05:17.420 unhappy, complaining bitch. Oh, whoa. There's a happy one. Will you marry me? I know we just met. 1.00

00:05:25.520 But honestly, my options are kind of low. I know. I mean, just think we just met. But I don't want

00:05:31.760 to lose you. You're the first one I met. So how about we get married? No, I would say that this

00:05:39.260 looks like backward science to me because it seems kind of obvious that people who are happy and

00:05:45.440 healthy are more likely to get somebody to marry them and be happy about it. Do you disagree?

00:05:52.100 Great. Let's do another one. There's another study. It's published in The Hill that marijuana is very

00:06:02.860 correlated with a 25% higher risk of heart attacks and, oh, 42% higher risk of stroke. Whoa. Whoa.

00:06:12.340 So I guess that's true. Should we learn a few things about how to evaluate science when it's in the news?

00:06:22.380 Okay. Number one, if you didn't know anything about even the topic of the study, what are the odds

00:06:29.200 chances is true? You don't even know the topic? Give me the odds. 50%. 50%. You're starting with only a 50%

00:06:39.160 because a half of all studies can't be reproduced. Turns out that they're just bad studies.

00:06:45.120 So moment one, there's only a 50% chance it's true. Now, do you think that this study was a

00:06:54.880 randomized controlled study that the highest level of scientific rigor? No, it was not. It was

00:07:03.640 observational and it was asking people how they feel. Hey, do you smoke marijuana every day? Yes,

00:07:11.120 I do. Do you ever have any heart disease? Well, as a matter of fact, I did. That's the lowest level

00:07:17.760 of credibility. So if you're starting with something that is only 50% likely to be true

00:07:23.980 before you even know what the topic is, and then you look at those things, the 50% that at least could

00:07:30.440 be true, and you say, it wasn't one of those good studies like a randomized controlled placebo.

00:07:37.640 There's maybe only 25%. So I would say by its nature of being a study and also not being the good

00:07:49.380 kind, best case, 25%. Now, here's another rule of thumb that you'll find quite useful. If a scientific

00:07:59.820 study does not agree with observation, it doesn't mean the science is wrong, because our observations

00:08:08.840 can be faulty, but you'll have much more comfort if they're compatible. For example, I believe

00:08:17.360 that smoking cigarettes is more likely to give you lung cancer. And indeed, I know some people who had

00:08:24.780 lung cancer and all but one of them smoked cigarettes. So they're the science and my observation, perfect.

00:08:31.900 I believe that eating a lot of desserts and sugary food will make you gain weight. Science says so.

00:08:38.660 And then I observe my friends. Oh, yeah, the people who eat the most of that kind of food, they gain weight.

00:08:44.000 Very compatible. Do you know anybody who smokes marijuana every day and died of a heart attack?

00:08:49.760 I've never even heard of it. I'm sure it happens. I'm sure it happens. It must happen, right? Because

00:08:58.440 heart attack is pretty common. I've never even heard of it. Or a stroke. Never even heard of it.

00:09:04.820 Now, that's the lowest level. That's a very low level of certainty, right? Because I don't know

00:09:09.980 everybody. I don't know if they smoke every day, right? But I can say that I can't observe it in the

00:09:15.980 real world. Would anybody agree with that observation? That if it's a 25% difference,

00:09:24.260 that feels like enough I would have noticed. Wow, those marijuana smokers are dropping like flies. 0.90

00:09:30.420 25% is big enough to notice in the real world. But I don't. But I don't.

00:09:37.860 Here's the next thing you should look at. Is there anything in the world that's happening

00:09:42.640 that would cause somebody who has money, let's say an industry type of person, maybe somebody in the

00:09:49.640 corporate world, who would want to do a fake study for any reason? Well, is it true that drinking is

00:09:59.400 down among young people? And marijuana is up? Is that true? I believe that's true. Now,

00:10:07.360 if you were the alcohol industry, and you wanted young people to think, you know, maybe that alcohol

00:10:15.080 is a little safer than you thought compared to the marijuana. Because, you know, a lot of kids say,

00:10:20.320 well, the marijuana is safe, the alcohol is not. But maybe the drug, maybe the alcohol industry would

00:10:26.700 like you to believe it's a little closer than you thought you'd risk. Now, that's kind of unfair,

00:10:34.240 isn't it? To blame the alcohol industry for fake studies. I mean, that's pretty unfair.

00:10:40.900 Have they ever done anything like that before? Did we spend 30 years imagining that the studies

00:10:49.000 that said alcohol is good for you, as long as you're moderate about it? And recently we found

00:10:55.040 out that none of that was true. Who do you think funded those studies? The ones that said alcohol

00:11:00.800 is good for your health. Who do you think? When I was a kid, scientists and doctors were saying the

00:11:08.620 cigarettes were good for your health. Because of probably some studies that might have been funded

00:11:14.660 by the cigarette people. I don't know, but probably. So yes, we have one possibility that alcohol use is

00:11:24.060 down. And if you suspected that people are terrible, like they always have been, you would

00:11:29.660 say, huh, who funded the study? So I clicked the link to go look at the study. Do you think it says

00:11:36.120 who funded it? Do you think that's part of the write-up in the medical journal? Who gave us the

00:11:41.880 money? And even if it did say who gave you the money, do you think you'd know the real source?

00:11:46.520 Because it'd be pretty easy to hide who's giving you money. So I'm not saying that there's any

00:11:53.280 direct evidence that the alcohol industry is trying to make marijuana look worse. I'm just saying it

00:11:59.440 would be normal. It would be normal to expect it. Because remember, the alcohol industry isn't one

00:12:06.480 person. It's a whole bunch of individual actors. Any of them could have made the decision to fund the

00:12:11.880 study. All right. Is there anything else, though, in the atmosphere, something in the news that would

00:12:18.720 make somebody want to fake a study? I'm not saying it's fake. I'm saying, is there anything that would

00:12:24.640 make somebody want to fake it? Okay. Is there anything else in the news about, let's say, excess

00:12:32.860 heart disease and strokes? Have you seen anything like that in the news lately? Oh, yes.

00:12:40.560 Yes. There's a massive concern that excess deaths are up, and we don't know why. We don't know why.

00:12:48.840 And some people say it's because of the vaccinations, although I think the excess deaths started before

00:12:54.640 the vaccinations, so I'd need a fact check on that. But if you were the big pharma industry

00:13:00.500 and you thought that people were looking at all-cause mortality and they saw too many heart attacks

00:13:09.580 and strokes and they were going to blame you for it, because you're the ones who rolled out those

00:13:15.260 vaccinations, what would you do if you had dark money to fix things? Well, if it were me, I would

00:13:24.200 confuse the topic by saying, you know, you're right. Young people are having a lot of heart disease,

00:13:30.580 but at the same time, marijuana use among young people is way up. It's all being legalized in

00:13:37.520 states. I feel like, you know, you really can't sort that out. You know, the young people do a lot

00:13:43.400 of marijuana and they have more heart disease lately, but it's probably the more marijuana.

00:13:51.540 You know, there are lots of things going on. It'd be hard to, it's going to be hard to sort out what the

00:13:55.260 actual cause is. Now, I'm not accusing them because I have no direct information. I'm simply telling

00:14:03.120 you how you should look at a study. You should always look who funded it and you should ask

00:14:10.280 yourself, is there anybody who would benefit not just a little bit, but is there anybody who would

00:14:15.680 benefit enormously, like staying in a jail and making a billion dollars? That's a pretty big benefit

00:14:22.720 for doing something that would be sketchy if they did, hypothetically. All right. Here's another

00:14:30.460 one. Do you believe that when they did this study, and it was people, you know, just reporting their

00:14:37.700 own experience, do you think that they only talked to the recreational users? Or did they talk to people

00:14:46.340 who use it medicinally in addition to the people who use it recreationally? What do you think?

00:14:52.720 Well, my guess is that they asked both of them. And what could you imagine would be true about a

00:15:01.840 group of people who use a medicine every day? Would it be true that people who choose to use a

00:15:08.500 medicine every day are among the most healthy people in the world? Or would there be something

00:15:15.100 about that group, the medicine every day group, that might tell you they've got a little bit of

00:15:20.940 maybe less healthy situation in general? And did the study tell you if they broke out the people that

00:15:29.180 they, that are not medicine takers to see if the recreational users are dying at this higher rate?

00:15:35.740 No. All right. So I don't know if the study is good or not. I'm saying that if you didn't know how to

00:15:45.260 look at it with that filter, all those different filters, you'd be a little bit, you know, maybe easier

00:15:52.860 to fool. There's a story, I don't know if it's true yet, but allegedly the company Panera Bread

00:15:58.940 negotiated maybe with Governor Newsom to be exempt from the new minimum wage law, $20 minimum wage.

00:16:08.300 And that's after the owner reportedly donated to Newsom for the New York Post. Now, I think I'd

00:16:15.820 wait a little bit to find out if there's any more details on that, but that would be a direct bribe,

00:16:20.720 wouldn't it? I don't know if it's illegal, but in a common sense way, that would just be a bribe.

00:16:30.480 I don't know what else you'd call it, if it's true. So imagine the amount of opposition research

00:16:37.060 on Newsom that you haven't seen yet. Just, just hold in your mind how much the Republicans must be

00:16:45.840 holding back, you know, just in case they need it. Because they don't need to destroy them until

00:16:50.560 they need to destroy them, and it's too early. So I just feel like there's some group of Republicans

00:16:55.980 who really have the good stuff, like the really good stuff. And they're just like, oh, hold, hold.

00:17:03.840 I don't know how much longer we can hold. But I would say if they slot Newsom in at the last minute

00:17:11.420 for Biden, you're going to see an opposition research drop like you've never seen in your life.

00:17:22.180 It's going to be one for the ages. That's just a guess. It's just a guess. I think it's going to

00:17:26.820 be one for the ages. Keep in mind that Newsom's ex-wife is on the Trump team. If there's anybody who

00:17:38.600 knows where the bodies are buried, I mean, just think about it. What could she tell you or any

00:17:46.920 ex-wife? Just say any ex-wife. What could an ex-wife have on opposition research that nobody else

00:17:55.700 would know? All right. There's a rich guy, Jan Shramek. He was a former Goldman Sachs guy. He's

00:18:05.800 trying to build this whole design from scratch home in California. He needs some kind of ballot

00:18:12.660 approval to get the zoning or whatever. But it's between San Francisco and Sacramento. And it would

00:18:19.760 have 20,000 homes. And they'd build all the transit infrastructure and school and jobs and stuff. Now,

00:18:26.980 Reid Hoffman and Lorena Powell Jobs is also behind this. So it looks like a very Democrat thing,

00:18:37.020 which is irrelevant to the story in this case. But I've been telling you for some time

00:18:42.180 that the biggest economic driver that's not robots, and maybe not AI, will be designing towns from

00:18:50.020 scratch. Designing them from scratch. Do you know how much better a city or a town could be if you

00:18:57.180 designed the whole thing from scratch? Your transportation would be almost zero. Oh, by the

00:19:02.820 way, there's a place like that. You should look into Estonia. Estonia is a little over a million people.

00:19:10.380 And they're very high tech. So everything you need to do in the government in Estonia, you can do on

00:19:17.640 your phone, including paying taxes. You just have an app. So they basically automated the government.

00:19:25.620 They just automated it. You just do stuff on your app, and it's all you need.

00:19:29.500 And transportation in Estonia is free and perfect. You can easily go anywhere, all free. So they don't

00:19:42.780 have much traffic problem, and the pollution is way down. Now, Estonia had the advantage of probably

00:19:49.780 coming after World War II, and maybe it's a smaller place and whatever. But in a way, they're not a

00:19:56.600 perfect example of designing from scratch. But they are a good example of designing, right? So

00:20:04.040 apparently they have a real high education and a lot of, you know, engineer techie people, and they

00:20:09.020 just decided to design it correctly. And look what happened. Apparently it's a pretty good lifestyle

00:20:16.300 there. So designing towns from scratch is the biggest thing, and I hope this works. We know now that

00:20:24.220 Hunter said he was either high or drunk when he did the famous phone call with his Chinese guy.

00:20:31.480 He was trying to shake down for money, and he said, I'm sitting here with my father. He's not going to

00:20:36.940 like it. And that was the $5 million shakedown. And apparently he still got the money. He got the

00:20:43.700 money. And I guess one of the people he was trying to shake down was this guy, Ho. That was his last name,

00:20:52.840 Ho. So I don't know who is the best negotiator in the whole world. Some people say Trump is good at

00:21:03.320 negotiating. He is. But Hunter is the first person I've ever heard of who ever got a Ho to give him

00:21:13.840 money. Yeah. Yep. In my entire life, I've never had a Ho give me a diamond. Not even one time. And I've

00:21:26.000 tried. I'd be like, hey, Ho, got any diamonds? Maybe like a bunch of bad words I can't say. And I'd say,

00:21:35.680 if I were Hunter Biden, I could get that diamond from you, Ho. But no, I don't have his negotiating

00:21:43.040 skills. So what I think, and by the way, he did that while high and drunk. It's sort of like,

00:21:51.000 you know, sort of like doing the dance backwards in high heels. You know what I mean? I mean,

00:21:57.160 that's a higher level of difficulty. He got a diamond from a Ho, and he negotiated while he was high, 0.81

00:22:03.240 either high or drunk. And he was so inebriated, he doesn't even remember. I don't know. Was I high

00:22:07.860 or was I drunk? But got it done. So here's what I think. I think we should send him over there to

00:22:14.380 negotiate with Putin. And, you know, give him six shots of whiskey in a blunt and see if he can make

00:22:22.140 some peace. Because we don't have a negotiator like that anywhere. He's our best guy. Oh, if you don't

00:22:31.900 think Hunter's our best negotiator, please. You're the same people who think Joe Biden isn't the very

00:22:40.060 best person the Democrats have for president. You know, that's not true. So grow up, will you? Just

00:22:48.020 grow up. Well, I guess the thing we call the president, that dried bundle of sticks, soaked in

00:22:57.280 hobo piss that we call Joe Biden, is going to go down to the border and check it out. He's going 0.98

00:23:02.920 down to Brownsville. Going to Brownsville. I'm pretty sure that's what he says every time he goes

00:23:11.500 to the bathroom. All right, I'll be back. Got to go to Brownsville. Anyway, he did not contact the

00:23:21.800 Union, the Border Patrol Union. And so the Border Patrol Union, in response to him going down there

00:23:27.420 today, says, keep our name out of your mouth today. They posted, keep your name out of our mouth

00:23:35.300 today. Because they're afraid that Biden is going to say that the union supports what he requested for

00:23:43.340 border funding. And so keep our name out of your mouth today. Well, Putin has threatened in some

00:23:55.860 speech, you know, nuclear war against the United States if we keep supporting Ukraine. And he asks,

00:24:03.260 you know, what are you, crazy? Don't you know we have nukes that can nuke you? What are you doing? 0.99

00:24:06.840 But although Putin is a, let's say he's a formidable leader with a nuclear arsenal and a war that he seems

00:24:17.900 to be winning. But I feel like it's kind of a kind of a close comparison between Biden and Putin. For

00:24:28.120 example, Biden was just on one of those evening shows that's a non-Gottfeld one. You've heard of

00:24:36.000 those. If you watch any late night TV, there's, there's Gottfeld. And then there's like these

00:24:42.640 miscellaneous ones with people who are all the same people. I think they're different people.

00:24:48.140 There's like one is called a Seth and there's a Jimmy and maybe another Jimmy. Are there two

00:24:53.900 Jimmys and a Seth? Something like that. But on one of those shows, Biden, because he can't speak and

00:25:02.300 deliver a joke, they did an elaborate setup where the Biden could get a laugh by simply putting his

00:25:08.860 sunglasses on. So he was, he was asked if he was embracing the, the, what is it? Dark Biden meme,

00:25:19.760 you know, where he acts all awesome and his eyes glow and stuff like that. And to make his case,

00:25:24.820 he put on his sunglasses and that was sort of the punchline. So they literally had to craft the

00:25:30.820 situation where one of the Jimmys or the Seths does all the work to set it up. And all Biden had to do

00:25:37.600 was take out his sunglasses and put them on. It went like this.

00:25:42.820 It was less than awesome. Did the audience love it? Oh,

00:25:57.680 that's my seal impression. Yeah. Seal impression.

00:26:07.060 Well, Biden needs no cognitive test. According to his doctors, he's just fine. And I like to point

00:26:19.820 out that I think he's found the dementia sweet spot, the dementia sweet spot. And this is something we

00:26:26.880 can all aspire to. I want to find that place where I'm still smart enough to be the leader of the entire

00:26:34.240 Democratic Party, but not capable enough to stand trial for my crimes. Sweet spot. 0.57

00:26:44.020 Yeah. It's inspiring if you think about it. He hit that. That's called sticking the landing.

00:26:52.460 Well, Mike Benz, who has miraculously not been assassinated yet. Hmm. That's weird. Uh,

00:26:59.380 but there's more to the story besides the fact that he hasn't been assassinated by the CIA yet.

00:27:04.280 Um, he says, if you guys think Russiagate is over again, you've seen nothing yet.

00:27:09.000 Russiagate 3.0 is going to be the mother of them all. If the Ukraine aid is denied,

00:27:15.120 I would not rule out the blob. That's the security state and the Democrats and permanent people, 0.94

00:27:21.120 et cetera. Uh, the blob burning the entire Republican Party to the ground.

00:27:25.400 Then in its ashes, installing a Nikki Haley. Huh? Well, that's pretty scary. So I guess the idea

00:27:36.860 would be to, you know, jail Trump and, uh, basically take out the Republicans one way or the other and

00:27:43.800 just have a one party system and a complete coup. Now, the only thing that makes me safe, feel safe,

00:27:50.920 is that there aren't any members of the Democratic Party who have any history of using, let's say,

00:27:58.860 the CIA to overthrow countries. What? Are you telling me that there are Democrats and our security,

00:28:08.720 um, apparatus has experience overthrowing countries like with the coups and stuff? Really?

00:28:16.440 Well, how many times have they done it once? 80 times? Oh my God, I should have done more research.

00:28:24.920 80 times? Well, but not in any countries that matter, right? It's like a little, you know,

00:28:30.980 Mauritania and Lusupalaka and Krakpapapapa, you know, basically places you can't, what? Ukraine.

00:28:39.980 Ukraine? My God. 2014, the United States and the Democrats took over an entire country?

00:28:51.160 Wow. So, well, it looks like they can do that. Well, I don't know how much we should worry about

00:28:57.960 this, but it does look possible. I would say that Mike Benn's statement would have looked insane

00:29:05.880 five years ago. It would have looked just insane. Today, it's kind of a coin flip. Now, I think we'll

00:29:14.020 be fine because I'm an optimist, but is it possible that there would be literally a coup in the United

00:29:20.280 States? I don't think so because they already own it. The coup already happened. The coup happened a

00:29:27.840 long time ago. What they do to keep Trump out of office might be just details, but no, they're

00:29:33.460 already firmly in charge. Will they lose the illusion that we have a democracy and the vote

00:29:40.360 counts and all that? They might. So, really, what you're talking about is them just dropping the

00:29:46.060 illusion that voting matters. That might happen. We might lose the illusion that voting matters.

00:29:54.160 All right. Trump did a video in which he called Biden a mental midget and says he's making up 0.98

00:30:06.320 stories about him forgetting his wife's name and he explained why that was a fake news. And I kind of 0.91

00:30:13.020 liked it because the way Trump did it, he did it with real high energy. Yeah, his usual, but even

00:30:19.560 even really more commanding. So, a lot of it was just showing how commanding he is compared to the

00:30:27.000 competition. You know, he didn't say that, but you could see that he was putting the energy emphasis

00:30:32.860 into it. But that was good. And persuasion-wise, that was good stuff. And the mental midget thing is 1.00

00:30:38.320 very quotable, so that's good stuff. The part where you have to explain why it was fake news is not

00:30:45.780 ideal, but it's better than not doing it. So, anyway, that was a good play.

00:30:55.860 Corinne Jean-Pierre talked about the lack of a cognitive test for Biden and said, quote,

00:31:03.000 folks need to understand that the president passes a cognitive test every day.

00:31:07.740 So, why do we even have them? It makes you wonder why we have them, if you're passing it every day.

00:31:13.960 Anyway, there's nothing they won't tell you that doesn't sound stupid. 0.98

00:31:20.180 All right, here's the story, and I want you to see if you can determine what's really going on. 0.98

00:31:27.240 All right? So, the story is that there's going to be a new election security task force.

00:31:34.780 Well, that sounds good, doesn't it? An election security task force. Finally,

00:31:39.120 finally, an election security task force. Now, maybe we'll have some, you know, confidence that

00:31:46.100 the election was done correctly. That's good news. Election security task force. Did I ever tell you

00:31:55.260 that if you only know what is happening, you don't know anything? But if you know who, you know

00:32:02.980 everything? Well, maybe we should dig into this a little bit, because the what sounded great.

00:32:09.000 I like having an election security task force. That's exactly what I want. Let's see who's in

00:32:14.220 charge of it. Democratic Governor Shapiro of Pennsylvania. Okay, so the Democrats are going

00:32:24.720 to decide what is fair. Okay, that's terrible. That's terrible. But at least we don't have to worry

00:32:32.420 that he's somehow, you know, working with, because this would be terrible. Imagine if he were working

00:32:38.620 with some kind of intelligence group or CIA. I mean, I'm not suggesting that. I'm just saying that

00:32:46.960 would be terrible, because that would be the worst case scenario, wouldn't it? Imagine that. Imagine if

00:32:52.960 it's a Democrat, so he's already biased. But then on top of that, the people that we imagine would

00:32:59.800 be rigging in elections, you know, intelligence type people. That if he were in any way associated

00:33:07.060 with them or working with them, that would make this story look pretty bad. Let's see. I read this

00:33:12.540 story in NBC News. NBC News. So is there anybody here who doesn't make that connection?

00:33:22.960 So I listen to Glenn Greenwald, who's always saying that NBC News is the primary CIA outlet where

00:33:36.580 they put their stories out. So you've got a CIA identified outlet that most of the country doesn't

00:33:41.860 know that. And you've got a Democrat saying he's going to do election security. You should assume

00:33:47.700 that that that really means the opposite. It looks a lot more like protecting fraud than detecting it.

00:33:54.540 So remember my rule. If you only know what is happening, you don't know anything. If you know who is

00:34:03.800 involved, you know everything. Allegedly. Speaking of rigging, an Illinois judge just ruled that Trump

00:34:19.900 should be removed from the state ballot, citing the insurrectionist ban. Let's see if you can guess.

00:34:29.660 Is there anybody here who is not up on that story? For only the people who are not up on the story,

00:34:36.900 what would you guess is the demographic of the judge? If you guessed black Democrat judge,

00:34:45.400 you'd probably be right on. Right. Now, am I saying that there's something wrong with black women? 1.00

00:34:52.660 No. If you're hearing that, you're hearing the wrong story. Am I saying there's a clear correlation 0.67

00:35:01.480 of black women, judges, attorney generals, prosecutors, going after Trump in what looks

00:35:09.860 like a weaponized prosecution? Yes. The correlation is unmistakable. Couldn't possibly miss it. Is that me

00:35:18.240 saying there's something wrong with black women? No. You could replace the black women in the story 1.00

00:35:25.900 with anybody and get the same result under the condition that the person you replaced them with

00:35:33.920 had also been told that they're stopping Hiller and specifically somebody who's bad for them in

00:35:40.880 particular. So let's say you spent seven years telling the country that if you're an Elbonian,

00:35:49.200 Trump hates you. Oh, he's so prejudiced against Elbonians. And not only that, if you're an Elbonian

00:35:55.680 woman, he's probably raped you a few times. Am I right? And if he hasn't gotten around to you yet, 0.99

00:36:02.980 well, it's only because he's going twice on E.G. and Carroll. He's going to get around to it,

00:36:07.500 all that raping and pussy grabbing. So you're an Elbonian woman and every day you wake up and the 1.00

00:36:13.620 news tells you that you've got somebody who's a candidate who's a Elbonian pussy grabbing 0.99

00:36:20.760 prejudice against Elbonians. And he might be Hiller. He's not just a little prejudice. He might be 0.96

00:36:28.040 Hiller level prejudice. All right. Now you're a judge and you're an Elbonian woman and you become a

00:36:35.160 judge. And by weird coincidence, the very person who's the monster against all Elbonians, 0.98

00:36:42.420 especially the Elbonian women, he hasn't gotten around to raping yet. What are you going to do? 0.74

00:36:48.840 Do you use your power to stop Hiller or do you let history judge you because you allowed that monster 0.97

00:36:55.500 to go to get into office and start discriminating, probably rounding up and raping every Elbonian 0.99

00:37:02.080 woman he can find? What is the more ethical and moral way to go? I would argue that this black female 1.00

00:37:11.760 judge did the most moral and ethical thing you could do under the circumstances, which is that

00:37:18.000 her illusion is that she's stopping Hiller. Likewise, the prosecutors in all of the cases against him,

00:37:25.960 the AGs and the prosecutors, who are black and especially women, again, nothing wrong with being 1.00

00:37:32.000 black, nothing wrong with being a woman. That's fine. It's just that that demographic was targeted to be 1.00

00:37:38.440 brainwashed extra hard because the Democrats need to keep them, you know, keep them in the Democrat fold.

00:37:45.840 So with no malice or bad feelings for the black female judge, 0.99

00:37:51.620 it's because she's black and female. 1.00

00:37:57.660 And she has been targeted by the brainwashers to act exactly the way she act. Clearly, 0.58

00:38:05.620 clearly a non-legal ruling and just trying to stop Hiller. So when this is retold, people will say,

00:38:13.840 my God, what did that cartoonist say about black people today? But you all heard me, right? 0.86

00:38:19.120 It's not about being black. It's not about being a woman. It's about that group being targeted by 1.00

00:38:26.180 her own dark forces to be brainwashed a little extra hard. And it worked. You think brainwashing

00:38:33.840 doesn't work? Of course it does. That's why there are two parties. Of course it does.

00:38:40.020 So I would expect that to get reversed, but who knows? Speaking of the Supreme Court,

00:38:49.580 they've decided to take up the case of whether the president has blanket immunity while in office.

00:38:56.920 Now, I'd like to give you Rachel Maddow's take on this, if I could. Rachel Maddow talking about the

00:39:07.060 Supreme Court taking up the case. I think there were some words in there, too. But I can't pretend

00:39:22.420 it's not mental illness anymore. You just have to watch any video of Rachel Maddow. It is obvious

00:39:31.740 mental illness. It's not a difference of opinion. Now, hold on.

00:39:40.100 Do I think that Rachel Maddow has something wrong with her? Actually, no. It might surprise you.

00:39:48.820 I think she's very smart, and I think she probably means well for the country.

00:39:53.040 Are you surprised? She's very smart, like super smart, way smarter than me, and means well for the 1.00

00:40:00.700 country. I'm almost positive. I mean, but she is in a demographic group which has been targeted

00:40:09.860 by the brainwashers to believe that she and she alone, with her influence, can stop Hitler 0.62

00:40:19.980 from coming to office and rounding up the entire LGBT community and putting them in jail. 0.98

00:40:27.960 What would you do if you had been brainwashed into thinking Trump was Hitler and that he had

00:40:36.960 some special problem with women and LGBTQ? What would you do? Well, if it were me, I would do what

00:40:44.960 she is doing. I would be really, really upset emotionally that he could be coming to office

00:40:52.260 again. That would bother me a lot if I had been brainwashed like she is. So I think she's within

00:40:59.680 her brainwashed state, she's acting completely morally and ethically, I think. It's just that

00:41:09.140 she's in a brainwashed state. So when we watch it, it's obvious mental illness. It's obvious. 0.99

00:41:14.960 But, you know, maybe her viewers can't tell the difference because they're in the same state.

00:41:25.020 Anyway, well, she's not the only one talking about it, of course. There are others such

00:41:31.940 as Chris Hayes, her co-worker there on MSNBC. And he said this, quote, that the Supreme Court

00:41:40.440 order to saying that they would hear the case was a clear, unmistakable sign from the MAGA majority

00:41:47.020 of the Trump-created court that they are with him. Does that feel like a reasonable interpretation?

00:41:56.100 Who in the world thinks that the members of the Supreme Court that Trump nominated are MAGA?

00:42:04.500 Are you kidding me? I didn't think there's even one person who thinks that. And of course, he's confusing his viewers

00:42:12.480 because his viewers don't know the difference between a conservative judge

00:42:16.780 and MAGA. Those are not really that close.

00:42:22.460 You know, they share a conservative worldview, but it's only the conservative part.

00:42:25.980 The judges don't have a bit of MAGA in them.

00:42:30.480 You know, whatever the MAGA energy is, is purely political.

00:42:34.660 You know, a lot of it is about personality. Honestly, it's about personality.

00:42:38.440 It's a lifestyle. You know, there's a whole bunch going on,

00:42:41.980 whatever makes the MAGA supporters, which I don't identify with, frankly.

00:42:46.920 I like them. I just, I'm not one of them. I'm not a hat wearer.

00:42:50.700 But to, to paint the Supreme Court as a MAGA majority, do you feel like that's setting up

00:43:01.160 for, let's say, a coup? Because the only thing protecting us from the Democrat terror

00:43:10.260 is the Supreme Court. So if they don't get rid of the Supreme Court, they can't do anything

00:43:15.660 that they want to do. They're going to end up with a Trump presidency if they don't get rid of it. 0.94

00:43:19.240 To me, it looks like

00:43:20.720 a warning sign that the Democrats are ready to take down the court,

00:43:27.160 which could be as simple as

00:43:29.620 packing it, which, by the way,

00:43:32.760 they could do before the end of the year, couldn't they?

00:43:35.440 Well, let me ask you this. 0.89

00:43:38.680 Hypothetically,

00:43:39.820 knowing that the court just took up this case

00:43:42.600 and that it could make all of their

00:43:44.700 all of their plans to get rid of Trump could just disappear with one order.

00:43:51.560 Could Biden say,

00:43:53.180 I'm packing the court right now

00:43:55.180 and here's 10 nominations?

00:43:59.120 Oh, but they still have to be,

00:44:00.520 there's still be a process to put them through.

00:44:03.300 But he wouldn't be able to get them affirmed, though, right?

00:44:05.340 He would need more, more support from the Republicans.

00:44:07.660 Yeah, confirmed would be the hard part.

00:44:12.720 So he couldn't really just

00:44:13.920 front-run the decision packet.

00:44:16.500 That wouldn't work, would it?

00:44:18.620 Senator approval? Yeah, okay.

00:44:22.120 Anyway,

00:44:22.760 but the whole MAGA thing

00:44:24.300 does show you that they're trying to

00:44:26.260 ramp things up for

00:44:27.580 a coup or military action

00:44:30.280 or jailing.

00:44:31.400 That's the only way I can see it.

00:44:34.000 Every time they use MAGA, 1.00

00:44:35.340 I hear, we want to kill you physically. 1.00

00:44:38.960 And colonizer, too. 1.00

00:44:40.660 When I hear colonizer, 1.00

00:44:41.880 I hear, we want to kill you physically. 1.00

00:44:44.320 We're just not going to say it yet. 0.99

00:44:47.080 We'll say it later when we have enough power,

00:44:49.680 but we're not going to say it directly.

00:44:51.200 Not yet.

00:44:54.600 All right.

00:44:56.600 Then Lisa Rubin,

00:44:58.120 who's a lawyer correspondent type

00:45:01.480 contributor on MSNBC.

00:45:03.500 She writes this

00:45:06.700 on a post.

00:45:07.760 If the Supreme Court derails

00:45:09.080 both federal criminal trials of Trump,

00:45:11.460 so there are two federal trials.

00:45:12.760 One is the documents

00:45:14.320 and one is about January 6th.

00:45:18.020 She says,

00:45:19.260 Tish James and E.G. and Carroll

00:45:20.960 will have held Trump accountable

00:45:23.140 in ways the Justice Department

00:45:25.160 might never achieve.

00:45:27.040 Don't discount the significance

00:45:28.860 of civil liabilities,

00:45:30.660 especially for a guy

00:45:31.740 who values money over liberty.

00:45:34.220 Okay, could there be

00:45:35.040 any clearer statement

00:45:36.540 that they're using lawfare against them?

00:45:40.000 That's very direct, isn't it?

00:45:42.240 They're basically saying

00:45:43.360 what matters is they get him.

00:45:45.920 Right?

00:45:47.420 Like, it doesn't matter how we get him,

00:45:49.000 what matters is we get him.

00:45:51.220 And that,

00:45:52.880 I mean,

00:45:53.180 it doesn't even look political.

00:45:54.160 I mean,

00:45:56.360 this is,

00:45:56.860 this looks like

00:45:57.480 the worst person in the world

00:45:59.300 who doesn't know

00:46:00.840 how bad this sounds.

00:46:03.160 And why would you write this

00:46:04.800 in public

00:46:05.380 knowing that basically

00:46:07.380 it would be interpreted

00:46:08.700 as a,

00:46:09.420 you know,

00:46:10.400 confession

00:46:10.980 that it's lawfare?

00:46:14.000 You would only do this

00:46:15.440 if you lived in such a bubble

00:46:16.840 that you couldn't understand

00:46:18.440 how somebody else

00:46:19.240 would process this.

00:46:20.940 Imagine the depth

00:46:22.000 of that bubble

00:46:22.660 that you wouldn't understand

00:46:24.580 how anybody else

00:46:25.700 would read this statement.

00:46:27.980 That's pretty impressive.

00:46:30.560 Yeah.

00:46:32.080 All right.

00:46:34.200 Now,

00:46:35.440 Rachel Madd now has a,

00:46:37.080 I guess,

00:46:38.720 a legal opinion

00:46:39.380 that,

00:46:41.860 is she a lawyer?

00:46:43.900 Is Rachel Madd,

00:46:45.160 is she an attorney?

00:46:48.080 I feel like she might be.

00:46:49.460 never passed the bar,

00:46:52.380 somebody says,

00:46:53.180 PhD,

00:46:55.060 not an attorney?

00:46:56.200 All right.

00:46:56.900 But,

00:46:57.240 um,

00:46:57.800 super smart.

00:46:59.020 But anyway,

00:46:59.420 her reading of the situation

00:47:00.740 is that,

00:47:02.140 of course,

00:47:04.300 Trump does not have

00:47:05.220 blanket immunity

00:47:05.980 for what he did in office

00:47:08.340 because,

00:47:09.440 uh,

00:47:10.260 the Nixon case

00:47:11.240 showed you

00:47:12.800 that Nixon was worried

00:47:14.120 about what would happen

00:47:14.980 after he was out of office,

00:47:16.300 which is the whole reason

00:47:17.460 he was pardoned.

00:47:18.200 so if you couldn't

00:47:20.620 be convicted

00:47:21.220 for something

00:47:21.780 that happened

00:47:22.280 in office,

00:47:23.660 then why would you

00:47:25.780 need a pardon?

00:47:26.740 I mean,

00:47:26.980 that's a,

00:47:27.420 that's a confession

00:47:28.240 that's obvious

00:47:28.960 that if you did something

00:47:30.120 bad enough during office,

00:47:31.760 maybe they wouldn't

00:47:33.480 prosecute you 0.95

00:47:34.460 while you're in office,

00:47:35.900 but certainly

00:47:36.460 as soon as you're done.

00:47:38.000 Now,

00:47:38.400 that's her take. 0.75

00:47:39.900 Did she leave anything out?

00:47:41.240 Is there any context missing?

00:47:42.500 doesn't it really matter

00:47:47.360 if the thing you're doing

00:47:48.460 is in the context

00:47:49.420 of your actual job?

00:47:52.880 The burglary

00:47:53.920 wasn't really exactly

00:47:55.060 part of his official duties.

00:47:57.560 That was just a crime.

00:48:00.180 Is there anybody here

00:48:01.100 who says

00:48:01.660 that if Trump 0.91

00:48:02.400 had murdered a hobo, 0.99

00:48:04.580 that he should be

00:48:05.440 not prosecuted

00:48:06.380 after he left office?

00:48:08.320 Is there even one person

00:48:09.540 who thinks

00:48:09.880 that's,

00:48:10.740 that would make

00:48:11.200 a good rule?

00:48:12.840 No,

00:48:13.820 no.

00:48:14.460 If he does an actual crime

00:48:16.060 that has nothing to do

00:48:16.920 with doing his job,

00:48:18.320 it's just unrelated

00:48:19.100 to his job,

00:48:20.400 like a burglary,

00:48:21.980 you know.

00:48:22.700 I mean,

00:48:23.180 you could make the case,

00:48:24.040 but it's too unrelated.

00:48:25.840 Then of course you,

00:48:26.800 of course you could

00:48:27.740 be prosecuted afterwards.

00:48:29.920 But,

00:48:30.960 suppose it's January 6th

00:48:33.220 and you're concerned

00:48:34.780 that the republic

00:48:35.720 has been corrupted

00:48:37.640 by a dirty election.

00:48:40.100 whose job is it

00:48:42.160 to make sure

00:48:43.920 that it wasn't corrupted?

00:48:46.140 The president.

00:48:48.960 Nobody more than that.

00:48:51.420 Not only was it his job,

00:48:53.120 I would argue,

00:48:54.520 job number one.

00:48:56.500 Of all the things

00:48:57.580 the president does,

00:48:59.340 making sure the election

00:49:00.360 was not rigged

00:49:01.160 when it looked like it was,

00:49:02.920 in his opinion,

00:49:04.420 that would be

00:49:05.480 by far

00:49:07.200 the most directly

00:49:08.880 applicable thing

00:49:10.040 that that president

00:49:10.920 at that moment

00:49:11.760 should be doing.

00:49:12.920 Indeed,

00:49:13.420 I would say

00:49:13.880 he should have canceled

00:49:14.760 everything else.

00:49:17.200 Clear the schedule.

00:49:18.120 I'm sure he did

00:49:18.900 clear the schedule.

00:49:19.920 It should only be that

00:49:21.060 because that's how important

00:49:22.040 it is

00:49:22.460 to the job of president.

00:49:24.800 The fact that he suspected

00:49:26.260 there was fraud,

00:49:27.800 and I do believe

00:49:28.580 he believed

00:49:29.040 really there was fraud.

00:49:30.120 That's right on point

00:49:34.140 with his job.

00:49:35.620 How about the documents?

00:49:37.500 The documents he took out?

00:49:40.320 Well,

00:49:41.040 as Judge Dean points out,

00:49:42.900 the judges could say,

00:49:44.680 well,

00:49:45.080 we're not going to

00:49:46.200 blame you

00:49:46.900 for anything you did

00:49:47.620 in office,

00:49:48.600 but after office,

00:49:49.960 you still had them.

00:49:51.540 So it's the after office

00:49:52.640 problem,

00:49:53.320 you know,

00:49:53.600 that we're looking at.

00:49:54.960 You know,

00:49:55.300 it's like a separate crime.

00:49:57.080 However,

00:49:58.600 it seems to me

00:49:59.420 that immunity

00:50:00.020 I'm no lawyer,

00:50:01.700 but from a common sense

00:50:02.960 point of view,

00:50:04.380 if Trump made decisions

00:50:05.720 about that proprietary

00:50:06.880 information

00:50:07.560 while in office,

00:50:09.360 I would say

00:50:10.440 it's clear

00:50:11.080 that his intent

00:50:11.960 was that he could,

00:50:13.960 it would not be

00:50:14.840 confidential

00:50:15.340 after he left

00:50:16.140 and that he could have it.

00:50:18.300 So,

00:50:18.820 to me,

00:50:20.760 it should cover everything,

00:50:22.900 but I could also imagine

00:50:24.220 it wouldn't,

00:50:24.960 you know,

00:50:25.160 I'm no lawyer,

00:50:26.020 so don't assume

00:50:27.080 that I can predict

00:50:27.860 these things accurately.

00:50:29.800 However,

00:50:30.520 I would think,

00:50:31.980 I would think

00:50:34.560 he's going to be

00:50:35.380 okay,

00:50:36.820 but I wouldn't guarantee it.

00:50:38.080 I'd say 60-40

00:50:39.380 Supreme Court

00:50:40.860 backs Trump.

00:50:41.840 What do you say?

00:50:42.560 Give me your odds.

00:50:43.860 60-40 in favor

00:50:45.100 of Trump

00:50:45.860 Supreme Court.

00:50:47.560 Give me your odds.

00:50:49.920 75-25,

00:50:51.240 60-40 is good.

00:50:52.820 9-1,

00:50:53.740 75-25,

00:50:55.020 6-3.

00:50:55.680 80-20.

00:50:57.700 Well,

00:50:58.160 I'm not saying

00:50:58.700 what the vote will be.

00:51:00.040 I'm saying the odds

00:51:00.920 that it goes his way.

00:51:02.740 Not the vote on the court.

00:51:04.620 That's a separate question.

00:51:06.260 80-20.

00:51:07.420 All right.

00:51:07.760 So,

00:51:08.000 most of you think

00:51:08.640 he's probably going to prevail,

00:51:10.220 but honestly,

00:51:11.140 don't you think it

00:51:11.760 because they're not Democrats,

00:51:13.340 right?

00:51:14.440 If there were Democrats,

00:51:15.640 you'd say,

00:51:16.140 oh,

00:51:16.160 he's dead.

00:51:18.220 Now,

00:51:18.740 let me ask you this.

00:51:20.180 What's the point

00:51:21.020 of the Supreme Court

00:51:22.020 if every one of us

00:51:23.660 knows that if they were

00:51:24.620 all Democrats,

00:51:25.360 they would rule differently

00:51:26.280 than if they were

00:51:27.420 all Republicans?

00:51:29.080 What's the point of it?

00:51:31.540 It does tell you

00:51:32.580 that the system 0.99

00:51:33.740 is completely ridiculous. 0.97

00:51:37.560 All right. 0.98

00:51:42.760 Columbia University Hospital.

00:51:45.000 I guess they're

00:51:45.820 ahead of DEI there.

00:51:47.080 he was found

00:51:48.960 to have plagiarized

00:51:49.840 20% of his

00:51:51.180 doctoral dissertation.

00:51:53.400 But the funny part

00:51:54.560 is the name

00:51:55.540 of his doctoral dissertation.

00:51:59.840 This is the guy

00:52:00.740 they had in charge

00:52:02.020 of their DEI.

00:52:04.440 I don't even know

00:52:05.240 what this means,

00:52:05.800 but Ubuntu.

00:52:07.720 It's all in capitals.

00:52:09.040 U-B-U-N-T-U. 1.00

00:52:10.880 Ubuntu.

00:52:11.920 I am because we are.

00:52:13.280 A case study

00:52:13.940 examining the experiences

00:52:15.300 of African-centered

00:52:17.540 rights-of-passage program

00:52:18.960 within a community-based

00:52:20.680 organization.

00:52:23.460 You Ubuntu.

00:52:25.080 I don't know

00:52:25.560 what that even means.

00:52:28.860 Yeah,

00:52:29.160 I know it's an operating system,

00:52:30.520 but what does it mean

00:52:31.240 in this context?

00:52:34.760 All right.

00:52:35.260 Okay.

00:52:36.020 It means sharing,

00:52:36.900 somebody says.

00:52:39.260 Sounds good.

00:52:39.980 All right.

00:52:41.460 The government

00:52:42.940 is trying to refund

00:52:43.720 itself with a giant

00:52:45.160 omnibus bill,

00:52:46.280 which is,

00:52:47.180 of course,

00:52:47.460 thoroughly corrupt,

00:52:48.800 but we've always

00:52:49.340 put up with it

00:52:50.000 in the past.

00:52:51.840 Marjorie Taylor Greene

00:52:53.060 says that

00:52:54.040 we should not

00:52:55.600 prove,

00:52:56.100 you know,

00:52:56.660 not approve

00:52:57.460 this thing

00:52:57.940 because it's got

00:52:59.640 a bunch of money

00:53:00.220 in there she doesn't 0.97

00:53:00.920 like for the

00:53:01.480 Green New Deal,

00:53:03.040 DEI,

00:53:03.960 and open borders.

00:53:05.360 Now,

00:53:05.620 of course,

00:53:06.680 Democrats would 0.89

00:53:07.440 dispute the

00:53:08.060 open borders

00:53:08.720 and they would

00:53:09.920 support the

00:53:10.460 Green New Deal

00:53:10.960 stuff,

00:53:12.100 but would

00:53:13.540 they argue

00:53:14.060 that it's

00:53:14.640 funding for

00:53:15.180 DEI?

00:53:17.260 I mean,

00:53:18.040 I haven't seen

00:53:19.360 it,

00:53:19.640 but I'm guessing

00:53:20.280 that's really

00:53:20.860 in there

00:53:21.300 if Green

00:53:22.580 says so.

00:53:24.660 So I'd like

00:53:25.460 to give you

00:53:25.820 my opinion

00:53:26.360 on this.

00:53:26.860 I support

00:53:27.300 closing the

00:53:27.900 government

00:53:28.200 forever

00:53:28.680 if the

00:53:29.400 alternative

00:53:29.840 is funding

00:53:30.500 DEI.

00:53:33.680 I'll say

00:53:34.360 that as

00:53:34.840 clearly as

00:53:35.380 I can.

00:53:35.900 I support

00:53:36.440 not funding

00:53:37.940 the government

00:53:38.380 ever

00:53:38.820 for anything,

00:53:40.220 if DEI

00:53:41.640 is in

00:53:41.960 the funding.

00:53:43.240 Just shut 0.84

00:53:43.640 it down

00:53:43.980 because I

00:53:45.180 prefer it.

00:53:46.460 Because if

00:53:46.920 my government

00:53:47.800 is going to

00:53:48.320 fund discrimination

00:53:49.420 against me,

00:53:50.360 I'd rather not

00:53:50.920 have a government.

00:53:52.020 Let's just

00:53:52.420 fight it out.

00:53:54.180 Let's form a

00:53:55.040 new one.

00:53:55.980 Let's have

00:53:56.400 another revolution

00:53:57.200 or something.

00:53:57.820 Whatever.

00:53:58.420 I mean,

00:53:58.660 I don't want

00:53:59.300 to...

00:54:00.020 I'm not

00:54:00.420 supporting

00:54:00.800 violence.

00:54:01.660 No violence.

00:54:02.840 No violence.

00:54:03.340 But maybe

00:54:05.280 in a peaceful

00:54:05.880 way,

00:54:06.980 we could

00:54:07.400 just stop

00:54:07.980 supporting

00:54:08.340 the system

00:54:08.860 because no,

00:54:09.760 I'm not

00:54:10.160 going to

00:54:10.560 spend money

00:54:11.400 to discriminate

00:54:12.160 against me.

00:54:14.920 No.

00:54:16.360 So,

00:54:17.140 Republicans,

00:54:17.820 I am calling

00:54:18.460 upon you

00:54:19.020 to just

00:54:19.420 stop the

00:54:19.860 government.

00:54:21.200 And if

00:54:21.720 it means

00:54:22.700 that Russia 0.72

00:54:23.840 wins,

00:54:24.240 I want to

00:54:24.520 be as clear

00:54:25.020 about this

00:54:25.460 as possible.

00:54:26.600 If it

00:54:26.980 means that

00:54:27.400 Russia wins

00:54:27.980 in Ukraine,

00:54:29.380 I'm still

00:54:29.920 okay with it.

00:54:30.560 If it

00:54:32.240 means that

00:54:32.820 China takes 0.96

00:54:33.460 over Taiwan,

00:54:35.180 still okay.

00:54:36.660 Still okay.

00:54:38.060 If it

00:54:38.740 means that

00:54:39.180 the government

00:54:39.660 doesn't get

00:54:40.260 paid,

00:54:41.400 still okay.

00:54:43.960 You can't

00:54:44.880 tell me

00:54:45.180 anything that

00:54:45.720 would bother

00:54:46.100 me about

00:54:46.500 this.

00:54:47.740 It would

00:54:48.620 crash our 0.99

00:54:49.140 economy.

00:54:50.500 Okay.

00:54:51.980 Okay.

00:54:53.340 Yeah.

00:54:53.760 But you

00:54:54.100 can't put

00:54:54.440 DEI in

00:54:55.000 the budget.

00:54:56.520 That's not

00:54:57.600 negotiable.

00:54:59.840 Not

00:55:00.360 negotiable.

00:55:01.860 That's

00:55:02.180 got to

00:55:02.360 be the

00:55:02.660 opening

00:55:02.960 bid is

00:55:03.500 that

00:55:03.680 that's

00:55:04.000 not in

00:55:04.380 there.

00:55:05.120 You know,

00:55:05.400 that can't

00:55:06.120 even talk

00:55:06.440 about it.

00:55:07.740 So let's

00:55:08.520 hope that

00:55:09.000 the country 0.53

00:55:09.920 is destroyed

00:55:10.880 by its

00:55:11.640 own bad

00:55:12.160 decisions.

00:55:13.520 That's

00:55:14.020 just me.

00:55:14.520 You can

00:55:14.780 hope that

00:55:15.120 it survives.

00:55:17.140 So Romney

00:55:18.300 is weirdly

00:55:20.840 arguing for

00:55:21.920 money for

00:55:22.400 Ukraine,

00:55:23.440 and it's

00:55:23.820 a bit of

00:55:24.200 a mystery

00:55:24.600 because he's

00:55:25.800 very pro

00:55:26.620 $60 billion

00:55:27.500 to fund

00:55:28.620 it.

00:55:29.460 And he

00:55:29.820 says that

00:55:31.700 they'll

00:55:34.060 lose

00:55:34.380 without

00:55:34.680 it,

00:55:35.780 et cetera.

00:55:36.960 Now,

00:55:37.540 here's

00:55:37.780 what's

00:55:38.160 weird.

00:55:39.660 We assume

00:55:40.480 that a lot

00:55:40.920 of the

00:55:41.160 Ukraine

00:55:41.600 situation

00:55:42.260 has to

00:55:42.680 do with

00:55:43.080 money

00:55:43.440 laundering

00:55:43.960 and

00:55:44.320 finances

00:55:45.380 and corruption

00:55:46.020 and stuff.

00:55:47.160 But my

00:55:48.700 instinct tells

00:55:49.560 me that

00:55:50.100 Romney is

00:55:51.140 not

00:55:51.500 financially

00:55:52.500 corrupt.

00:55:54.520 Now,

00:55:55.100 I know,

00:55:55.520 I know,

00:55:56.060 I know,

00:55:56.580 you don't

00:55:57.800 like him.

00:55:58.420 I know

00:55:58.700 you don't

00:55:59.000 trust him.

00:55:59.600 I know,

00:55:59.960 I know.

00:56:00.660 But the

00:56:01.620 guy's already

00:56:02.360 rich completely

00:56:03.380 legally,

00:56:05.640 and he's

00:56:06.320 a Mormon,

00:56:07.620 and he's

00:56:08.580 really the

00:56:09.000 last guy

00:56:09.880 who would

00:56:10.580 do a

00:56:10.840 financial

00:56:11.260 crime at

00:56:12.040 this scale

00:56:12.640 or even

00:56:13.720 be in

00:56:13.980 favor of

00:56:14.380 it.

00:56:16.000 Now,

00:56:17.000 I get that

00:56:17.780 many of you

00:56:18.180 will disagree

00:56:18.660 with me

00:56:19.140 because it's

00:56:20.180 purely subjective,

00:56:21.540 so I'm just

00:56:22.000 talking about

00:56:22.460 my own

00:56:23.200 trying to

00:56:24.440 sort it

00:56:24.820 out.

00:56:25.440 In my

00:56:25.920 opinion,

00:56:27.120 while he

00:56:27.540 might be

00:56:27.940 weaselly

00:56:28.460 and you

00:56:28.820 don't like

00:56:29.240 him and

00:56:29.460 he's got

00:56:29.740 his own

00:56:30.200 agenda,

00:56:32.100 et cetera,

00:56:32.600 I just

00:56:33.320 don't think

00:56:33.740 he's a

00:56:34.060 crook. 1.00

00:56:35.320 Has

00:56:35.760 anybody ever

00:56:36.500 accused him

00:56:37.040 of being

00:56:37.320 a crook?

00:56:41.520 Am I

00:56:42.080 missing

00:56:42.320 something?

00:56:45.980 Yeah.

00:56:46.940 Well,

00:56:47.820 so,

00:56:49.560 you know,

00:56:49.840 one of the

00:56:50.140 things about

00:56:50.520 being a

00:56:50.880 Mormon is

00:56:51.300 you think

00:56:51.580 God's

00:56:51.940 watching you

00:56:52.400 pretty

00:56:52.640 closely.

00:56:53.740 And I

00:56:54.100 don't know

00:56:54.420 a lot

00:56:54.660 of

00:56:54.880 Mormon 0.98

00:56:55.340 thieves. 0.99

00:56:57.780 You know 0.88

00:56:58.320 all those

00:56:58.820 smashing

00:56:59.580 grabs you

00:57:00.160 see in

00:57:00.400 the city?

00:57:01.740 Not a

00:57:02.280 lot of

00:57:02.560 Mormons.

00:57:04.120 I always

00:57:04.740 look at

00:57:05.020 him and

00:57:05.180 say,

00:57:05.480 where's

00:57:05.740 all the

00:57:06.040 Mormons? 0.55

00:57:09.620 So,

00:57:10.240 I don't

00:57:10.540 think he's

00:57:10.980 a crook, 0.78

00:57:12.100 but he's 0.98

00:57:12.840 going hard

00:57:14.120 at the

00:57:14.420 Ukraine

00:57:14.740 funding,

00:57:15.440 which is

00:57:15.800 hard to

00:57:16.120 understand.

00:57:18.800 Would

00:57:19.220 you like

00:57:19.540 to have

00:57:19.940 a,

00:57:20.900 oh,

00:57:21.200 there you

00:57:21.500 go.

00:57:22.160 Don't

00:57:22.400 get ahead

00:57:22.760 of me.

00:57:23.960 What did

00:57:24.400 I tell

00:57:24.800 you

00:57:25.100 whenever

00:57:25.560 there's

00:57:25.880 a story

00:57:26.260 about

00:57:26.520 politics

00:57:27.100 that

00:57:27.820 just

00:57:28.100 doesn't

00:57:28.400 add

00:57:28.640 up?

00:57:31.100 It's

00:57:31.580 always

00:57:31.820 the CIA.

00:57:34.620 So I'm

00:57:35.460 going to

00:57:35.580 give you

00:57:35.880 a working

00:57:36.520 assumption,

00:57:37.420 and it's

00:57:37.620 not based

00:57:38.020 on any

00:57:38.640 proof or

00:57:39.280 anything like

00:57:39.700 that.

00:57:39.880 my working

00:57:40.880 people.

00:57:41.880 My working

00:57:43.000 assumption is

00:57:43.640 that Romney

00:57:44.100 must have

00:57:44.260 some connection

00:57:45.020 with the

00:57:45.660 intel people

00:57:46.140 and they

00:57:46.740 want it,

00:57:47.380 and he

00:57:47.660 just can't

00:57:48.080 say no to

00:57:48.520 them.

00:57:49.240 That's my

00:57:49.660 guess.

00:57:51.000 Maybe they

00:57:51.560 have blackmail

00:57:54.600 on him,

00:57:55.120 maybe he just

00:57:55.700 thinks they're

00:57:56.100 doing the right

00:57:56.520 thing.

00:57:56.940 I don't know.

00:57:57.300 But Mike

00:58:00.560 Benz did a,

00:58:01.600 he's got

00:58:02.200 another video

00:58:02.820 in which he

00:58:03.260 gives a six

00:58:03.980 minute explanation

00:58:05.060 of what

00:58:05.360 happened with

00:58:05.880 the whole

00:58:06.140 Ukraine

00:58:06.540 situation.

00:58:07.120 And this

00:58:08.860 is very

00:58:09.780 compatible with

00:58:10.900 the view

00:58:11.300 that I

00:58:11.680 formed,

00:58:13.840 I don't

00:58:14.380 know if it

00:58:14.700 was on my

00:58:15.120 own, but

00:58:15.740 reading everybody

00:58:16.420 else's opinion.

00:58:18.840 And it

00:58:19.420 goes like

00:58:19.840 this.

00:58:20.960 Ukraine was 0.87

00:58:21.640 always about

00:58:22.160 energy.

00:58:23.960 It was

00:58:24.580 always about

00:58:25.020 energy.

00:58:26.720 And, but

00:58:27.660 energy and

00:58:29.120 national defense

00:58:30.720 are the same

00:58:31.320 topic.

00:58:32.600 The thing

00:58:33.360 your government

00:58:33.980 can't say to

00:58:34.740 you is,

00:58:35.460 look, if

00:58:37.020 our energy

00:58:37.820 company doesn't

00:58:38.660 completely

00:58:39.140 dominate the

00:58:39.860 world, we

00:58:40.980 will not have

00:58:41.620 an effective

00:58:42.040 military either.

00:58:44.140 Because first

00:58:44.800 of all, you

00:58:45.100 need energy

00:58:45.660 for your

00:58:46.180 military, but

00:58:47.240 you also need

00:58:47.760 tons of

00:58:48.140 money.

00:58:49.300 And the

00:58:49.600 energy business

00:58:50.320 is where you

00:58:50.760 get most of

00:58:51.240 it.

00:58:51.760 But more

00:58:52.140 importantly, and

00:58:53.180 here's where

00:58:53.640 Mike Benz

00:58:54.380 really added a

00:58:55.500 nuance here that

00:58:56.140 I wasn't

00:58:56.660 considering, is

00:58:58.760 that as long

00:58:59.820 as Russia had 0.93

00:59:01.080 a big,

00:59:02.300 successful,

00:59:03.260 competitive energy

00:59:04.300 business, primarily

00:59:05.480 through Gazprom,

00:59:07.020 their big energy

00:59:07.780 company, that

00:59:09.080 they could make

00:59:09.720 so much money

00:59:10.420 that they could

00:59:11.120 fund and sell

00:59:12.620 weapons to a

00:59:13.820 whole bunch of

00:59:14.300 countries that we

00:59:15.020 don't want to

00:59:15.480 have weapons.

00:59:16.940 So that our

00:59:17.760 military dominance

00:59:19.140 over smaller

00:59:20.220 countries, such as

00:59:21.960 Syria, would be 0.93

00:59:23.460 thwarted because

00:59:24.820 Russia had so much

00:59:25.820 money it could just

00:59:26.660 give them a bunch of

00:59:27.500 weapons.

00:59:28.760 So the idea in

00:59:29.900 Ukraine, and this

00:59:32.040 would be Mike's,

00:59:33.500 Mike Benz's

00:59:34.400 framing, is

00:59:36.100 that it was

00:59:36.800 always about

00:59:37.560 stealing all the

00:59:39.440 energy business

00:59:40.300 from Russia to

00:59:42.640 make them weak

00:59:43.680 enough that they

00:59:44.460 couldn't fund

00:59:45.080 military stuff in

00:59:46.380 other countries

00:59:47.000 where we also have

00:59:47.840 interests.

00:59:50.760 Wow.

00:59:51.860 And so

00:59:52.420 everything that you

00:59:53.780 thought was bad

00:59:54.680 about America and

00:59:56.460 aggressive was true,

00:59:58.400 and that we did

00:59:59.320 the coup, specifically

01:00:01.960 not, and there's

01:00:04.760 even a suggestion

01:00:05.500 that the person we

01:00:06.440 deplaced was trying

01:00:08.840 to play fair with

01:00:10.040 both sides, that

01:00:11.680 apparently the coup

01:00:13.880 that we were behind

01:00:14.920 that got rid of the

01:00:15.840 leader of Ukraine

01:00:16.760 and put Zelensky in

01:00:18.300 eventually, that that

01:00:19.820 coup was against

01:00:20.940 somebody who had

01:00:21.540 done deals with

01:00:22.320 American companies,

01:00:24.180 Chevron, but also

01:00:25.840 deals with Russia.

01:00:26.720 So he was basically

01:00:28.780 just trying to do

01:00:29.500 deals that made

01:00:30.180 sense, it looks

01:00:30.860 like, and that

01:00:31.860 wasn't good enough

01:00:32.700 because it still

01:00:34.620 gave deals to

01:00:35.420 Russia.

01:00:37.720 And that's who we

01:00:38.740 got rid of?

01:00:40.740 Now, I'm sure he

01:00:41.580 wasn't totally clean,

01:00:43.080 but that's a

01:00:44.740 different frame than

01:00:45.500 I've heard.

01:00:46.400 So, yes, it was a

01:00:47.420 battle between two

01:00:48.540 gas stations, but

01:00:49.900 two gas stations

01:00:51.100 with machine guns.

01:00:52.080 So, this is a war

01:00:56.180 between two gas

01:00:57.180 stations, but the

01:00:59.140 gas is just so they

01:01:00.300 can afford the

01:01:00.840 machine guns.

01:01:02.560 But it's not the

01:01:04.880 great democracy of

01:01:06.540 America against a 0.96

01:01:07.600 gas station with

01:01:08.760 nuclear weapons.

01:01:10.300 It's two gas stations

01:01:11.660 with machine guns, and

01:01:13.300 they know that there

01:01:13.940 can't be two, and

01:01:15.200 we're trying to be

01:01:15.780 the one.

01:01:17.060 We're trying to crush 1.00

01:01:18.280 them forever, 0.98

01:01:19.060 basically.

01:01:19.420 So, it seems to me

01:01:22.660 if we were trying to

01:01:23.880 make peace, the path

01:01:25.980 to do that would be

01:01:27.080 to say, look, the

01:01:28.180 real problem here is

01:01:29.660 not that Russia does

01:01:30.620 well.

01:01:31.400 The real problem is

01:01:32.300 that your military

01:01:33.260 adventures are at

01:01:34.440 odds with ours.

01:01:36.340 How about this?

01:01:38.960 Maybe instead we

01:01:39.980 could work together

01:01:40.740 on those other

01:01:41.340 countries so that we

01:01:43.180 don't shoot each

01:01:44.160 other and they don't

01:01:45.060 shoot each other, and 0.54

01:01:45.800 maybe we just, you 0.97

01:01:47.280 know, if Gazprom

01:01:48.080 gets a deal there,

01:01:48.940 maybe Chevron can

01:01:49.840 also get a deal

01:01:50.540 there.

01:01:51.940 Maybe we're happier

01:01:53.680 if that country is

01:01:54.660 just doing their

01:01:56.000 own thing, and

01:01:57.240 they're not pro or

01:01:58.180 anti either one of

01:01:59.080 us.

01:02:00.320 How about that?

01:02:01.980 So, given that I

01:02:03.660 believe Putin, you

01:02:07.000 know, of course he's

01:02:08.060 a partisan and he's

01:02:10.480 part of the Russian

01:02:11.180 history, which is

01:02:12.140 hard for us to

01:02:13.160 fathom, but I feel

01:02:14.960 like he's also a

01:02:15.680 business person, and

01:02:17.400 he's a practical

01:02:18.140 person, and if you

01:02:19.920 said, look, here's

01:02:21.240 how we can both

01:02:21.920 get pretty much a

01:02:24.100 lot, I suspect

01:02:26.740 there might be a

01:02:27.700 way to go there.

01:02:28.360 Maybe.

01:02:29.240 I mean, it would

01:02:29.880 be unlikely, but

01:02:32.040 it's the only path I

01:02:33.000 can see.

01:02:34.320 So, that, ladies and

01:02:35.740 gentlemen, is the

01:02:36.360 world we live in.

01:02:37.300 The Ukraine war

01:02:38.020 seems like a case

01:02:41.240 of the government

01:02:42.280 can't tell you the

01:02:43.160 truth.

01:02:43.520 And I think

01:02:45.780 something similar is

01:02:46.680 going on with our

01:02:47.380 border, right?

01:02:49.680 So, what would the

01:02:50.680 truth have been if

01:02:51.800 you, if our

01:02:53.280 government could tell

01:02:54.080 us the truth about

01:02:54.900 Ukraine, what would

01:02:55.680 it have sounded

01:02:56.180 like?

01:02:57.300 It would sound like

01:02:58.180 this.

01:02:59.020 All right.

01:02:59.940 I know this is

01:03:00.640 going to be hard for

01:03:01.240 you to hear,

01:03:01.780 citizens, but

01:03:03.040 sometimes the world

01:03:04.520 is a tough place, and

01:03:06.160 you've got to do

01:03:06.800 tough things that, on

01:03:08.300 paper, don't look so

01:03:09.320 cool.

01:03:09.600 One of them is, if

01:03:11.500 we don't dominate

01:03:12.340 this country, Ukraine,

01:03:14.320 and I know, dominating

01:03:15.920 another country is a 0.98

01:03:17.860 little unethical,

01:03:18.640 immoral, but if we

01:03:20.020 don't, then Russia 0.79

01:03:21.800 will.

01:03:23.040 They'll have so much

01:03:23.980 money in control,

01:03:25.400 their military will

01:03:26.300 fund all kinds of

01:03:27.120 problems for us, and

01:03:28.580 in the long, long

01:03:29.620 run, we will be

01:03:31.580 weakened, cut off from

01:03:33.000 the financial world,

01:03:34.680 and we'll be in

01:03:35.820 trouble.

01:03:36.620 And the reality is

01:03:37.980 that countries are

01:03:38.740 either growing or

01:03:39.580 shrinking.

01:03:40.440 There's nothing in

01:03:41.100 between.

01:03:42.260 Nothing stays the

01:03:43.160 same, except maybe

01:03:44.020 Switzerland.

01:03:45.080 But as a world

01:03:46.440 power, if we're not

01:03:48.040 growing, we will be

01:03:49.640 shrinking, because

01:03:50.460 somebody else will be

01:03:51.120 growing instead,

01:03:51.880 Russia.

01:03:52.700 And so it really does

01:03:54.140 make sense that we

01:03:55.780 destroy the entire

01:03:57.140 country of Ukraine if 0.96

01:03:59.940 we can slow down

01:04:00.900 Gazprom, and that,

01:04:03.200 believe it or not,

01:04:04.000 as terrible as that

01:04:05.020 sounds, it's better

01:04:05.960 than the alternative,

01:04:07.340 which is Russia has

01:04:08.400 unlimited money,

01:04:09.580 that they appear to

01:04:11.100 be putting into

01:04:12.040 unlimited weapons for

01:04:13.320 places that are a

01:04:14.680 problem for us.

01:04:17.020 Now, if they had

01:04:17.820 said that to you

01:04:18.500 honestly, what would

01:04:20.800 you say?

01:04:22.400 Would you say, oh,

01:04:23.640 yeah, you know, now

01:04:24.480 that you've explained

01:04:25.020 it to me, I guess we 1.00

01:04:25.980 have to kill a million 1.00

01:04:27.280 people in Ukraine just 1.00

01:04:28.800 to have more energy

01:04:30.680 profits?

01:04:31.420 you would never vote for

01:04:34.060 that?

01:04:35.160 No, you would say, I

01:04:36.200 feel like we should

01:04:37.020 just compete with them

01:04:38.000 maybe.

01:04:38.900 You know, maybe just do

01:04:39.920 a better job of energy.

01:04:42.240 Something like that.

01:04:43.540 Maybe produce more

01:04:44.700 energy in the United

01:04:45.380 States and just let them

01:04:46.340 do their own thing.

01:04:47.040 Maybe that.

01:04:48.700 But who's right?

01:04:51.980 Is Victoria Newland

01:04:53.980 wrong?

01:04:54.580 I don't know what she

01:04:58.460 thinks, so I can't put

01:04:59.700 words in her head.

01:05:01.320 But the people who are

01:05:02.280 talking about her

01:05:03.400 believe that she's

01:05:05.180 doing evil things,

01:05:07.140 that if you didn't do

01:05:09.180 them, worse things

01:05:10.860 would happen to your

01:05:11.560 country down the road,

01:05:13.000 and it's almost

01:05:13.680 guaranteed.

01:05:15.460 How would you feel

01:05:16.320 about her if she

01:05:17.120 genuinely believed,

01:05:18.460 if she genuinely

01:05:20.960 believed that this

01:05:22.640 had to be done to

01:05:23.560 protect America in

01:05:25.020 the long run?

01:05:26.200 Because you know

01:05:26.960 what?

01:05:27.640 It's not a bad

01:05:28.580 argument.

01:05:30.880 I don't know if

01:05:32.420 there's a better way,

01:05:33.800 but that argument's

01:05:34.760 not bad.

01:05:35.760 It's just one that we

01:05:36.980 can't hear.

01:05:38.340 We can't participate

01:05:39.540 in an argument that

01:05:40.520 says, I'd like to

01:05:41.800 take your reputation,

01:05:43.080 Americus.

01:05:43.880 I'm going to make

01:05:44.580 you all a party to

01:05:45.940 this massive crime.

01:05:47.420 We're probably 1.00

01:05:48.680 going to kill a 1.00

01:05:49.300 million Ukrainians 1.00

01:05:50.300 before this is all

01:05:51.180 done.

01:05:51.780 But here's the good

01:05:52.460 news. 0.94

01:05:53.200 After we've killed a 0.96

01:05:54.140 million Ukrainians, 1.00

01:05:55.400 we're going to make

01:05:56.220 a lot more money in

01:05:57.120 energy.

01:05:59.420 Does that sound like

01:06:00.400 something you would

01:06:00.960 vote for?

01:06:02.560 But the energy

01:06:03.560 takes it from Russia

01:06:05.420 so they don't buy

01:06:06.740 weapons, so we don't

01:06:08.480 have a military

01:06:09.140 conflict.

01:06:11.220 You can kind of see

01:06:13.480 that the dots do

01:06:14.400 line up.

01:06:15.780 However, I believe 0.97

01:06:17.720 it's a loser's 0.98

01:06:18.840 analysis. 0.98

01:06:20.340 It imagines there

01:06:21.560 are two ways things

01:06:23.340 can go.

01:06:24.680 Russia wins or we 0.96

01:06:25.700 win.

01:06:26.600 And that's too

01:06:27.400 limiting to me.

01:06:28.900 I think there's

01:06:29.600 probably a way we

01:06:30.400 could both do okay.

01:06:31.680 And nobody's putting

01:06:32.920 enough attention into

01:06:33.820 that.

01:06:34.540 Now, if you believe

01:06:35.440 that the other side

01:06:36.200 can't be worked with,

01:06:37.200 they're just evil,

01:06:38.540 under all situations

01:06:40.020 that are just going to

01:06:40.760 try to kill you, no 0.99

01:06:41.820 point in making a 1.00

01:06:42.500 deal, well, you might

01:06:44.620 be right.

01:06:45.500 I don't know.

01:06:46.720 You know, that's

01:06:47.280 where my knowledge

01:06:48.080 ends.

01:06:48.780 I don't know what

01:06:49.300 the Russians are 1.00

01:06:50.020 thinking or what

01:06:51.120 Putin's actually

01:06:51.760 thinking.

01:06:53.680 But it's not crazy.

01:06:56.040 It's just not what I

01:06:57.080 would have picked.

01:06:58.040 I would have picked

01:06:58.680 peace and try to

01:06:59.820 figure it out.

01:07:01.300 But I also am glad I

01:07:03.060 live in a world where

01:07:04.680 people will make super

01:07:07.000 hard choices if they

01:07:08.800 think it's the right

01:07:09.440 choice for the country.

01:07:11.280 I don't know if that's

01:07:12.180 what's happening.

01:07:12.580 It could be just for

01:07:13.320 money.

01:07:14.580 But on the border,

01:07:16.260 again, it's a mystery.

01:07:17.940 I'll bet you that the

01:07:19.380 real reason we don't

01:07:20.320 know is that we can't

01:07:21.680 be told the truth.

01:07:22.880 Because I believe the

01:07:23.980 truth would sound like

01:07:24.960 this.

01:07:26.020 Here's the deal.

01:07:27.300 If we stop the

01:07:28.360 cartels from bringing

01:07:30.760 people and fentanyl,

01:07:32.920 they will stop working

01:07:34.140 with us.

01:07:35.120 Because we have a deal

01:07:36.160 with them that they're

01:07:37.420 the only reason that

01:07:38.320 Mexico is staying 0.98

01:07:39.240 together.

01:07:40.260 Like the government's

01:07:41.140 kind of fake, it's the

01:07:42.260 cartel that's holding

01:07:43.020 the whole country

01:07:43.520 together.

01:07:44.360 At least America has

01:07:45.660 some influence on our

01:07:47.200 neighbor.

01:07:48.480 And, you know, if we

01:07:50.940 didn't work with the

01:07:51.700 cartels, we wouldn't.

01:07:53.400 And then the next thing

01:07:54.240 you know, they're going

01:07:55.360 to make a deal with

01:07:55.980 Russia because we don't 1.00

01:07:57.100 want to do car deals

01:07:58.420 and manufacturing with

01:08:00.140 Mexico.

01:08:01.220 So Mexico's going to 0.99

01:08:02.300 say, well, if you're not

01:08:03.060 going to build a

01:08:03.500 manufacturing plant here

01:08:04.680 and give us jobs, I'll 0.56

01:08:06.200 bet China will. 0.70

01:08:07.740 And next thing you know,

01:08:08.980 Mexico is essentially

01:08:10.260 owned by China, right?

01:08:12.480 Now, if the CIA came

01:08:15.020 to you and said, look,

01:08:16.020 it's really more

01:08:16.700 complicated than you

01:08:17.540 think.

01:08:18.220 If we don't work with

01:08:19.620 the cartels, the real

01:08:20.820 power in Mexico, they 0.92

01:08:22.700 are going to work with

01:08:24.340 whoever else has money.

01:08:26.420 And they're still going

01:08:27.280 to do what they're

01:08:27.820 doing, but they're

01:08:29.440 going to, you know, the

01:08:30.600 money is going to come

01:08:31.240 from Mexico and then

01:08:32.100 Mexico, or from China

01:08:33.320 or Russia, and then

01:08:35.080 we've got China and

01:08:36.240 Russia on our doorstep, 0.99

01:08:38.060 right?

01:08:38.440 For the next 20 years,

01:08:39.540 it looks like a really

01:08:40.280 bad idea to let the

01:08:41.380 cartels do what they're

01:08:42.220 doing, but might be

01:08:45.600 better off.

01:08:48.080 Now, I don't know that

01:08:49.120 that's true, and it's

01:08:50.200 not the way I would

01:08:50.940 play it, but can you

01:08:53.260 see the general point

01:08:54.380 that the world is such

01:08:56.380 a dirty place that the 0.54

01:08:58.540 people who might be

01:08:59.620 looking out for your

01:09:00.420 benefit or the

01:09:01.520 country's benefit in the

01:09:02.540 long run, because

01:09:03.320 they're long-run people,

01:09:04.580 right?

01:09:05.160 They're planning for the

01:09:06.480 bigger picture.

01:09:07.460 They can't tell you

01:09:09.340 what's true, because

01:09:10.920 you're not ready to

01:09:11.860 hear the truth, Jack

01:09:13.320 Nicholson.

01:09:14.300 You are not prepared

01:09:15.540 to hear the truth.

01:09:18.140 Yeah.

01:09:19.480 So, it could be some

01:09:21.180 of that.

01:09:22.300 So, again, I go back to

01:09:23.540 when things don't make

01:09:24.600 sense, like, why are we

01:09:26.000 funding Ukraine, or

01:09:27.700 why is the border

01:09:29.060 completely open?

01:09:29.920 it's probably always

01:09:31.600 the same reason, that

01:09:33.600 there's a CIA involved,

01:09:35.760 and they have a

01:09:36.420 legitimate larger

01:09:38.020 strategy, but they

01:09:39.640 couldn't possibly tell

01:09:40.780 you, because if they

01:09:41.980 did, you wouldn't

01:09:42.480 support it, which

01:09:44.900 doesn't mean it's the

01:09:45.780 worst idea.

01:09:47.220 I'm not qualified to

01:09:48.540 judge.

01:09:49.240 I don't know.

01:09:51.660 All right, that,

01:09:52.520 ladies and gentlemen,

01:09:52.960 is my show for today.

01:09:55.720 I'd like to thank the

01:09:57.520 members of Rumble, and

01:09:59.940 the people on X

01:10:01.000 watching, and even the

01:10:02.540 people who are watching

01:10:03.240 on the racist Google

01:10:04.760 product called YouTube.

01:10:06.960 As we know, Google is

01:10:08.260 going full racist.

01:10:09.780 And I like to keep 0.90

01:10:12.160 pairing racist with their

01:10:13.600 product names, so that

01:10:15.140 someday their AI will

01:10:16.380 learn the truth.

01:10:19.320 And that's all I got

01:10:20.060 for today.

01:10:20.900 See you tomorrow, same

01:10:21.760 place, same time.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - February 29, 2024

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