Xfinity's internet is failing and they can't figure out what's going on. They call in a tech to fix it, and it's worse than when he showed up. So what do they do next?
00:05:06.920So when they say that 10,000 studies were retracted and it's a new record, is that bad?
00:05:12.460You don't know unless you don't know unless you don't know unless you know the percentage.
00:05:17.040If 10,000 is 1% of all the studies, even if it was bigger than the year before, because let's say there are just more studies that year, that wouldn't be bad.
00:05:34.880So even though this is one of those stories that seems to agree with my preconceived notions that there's a lot of bad studies, hearing the number without the ratio and not knowing if that's a big or a small percentage is useless.
00:05:51.840How many of you, this is just a little check for you, how many of you knew before I told you that when I said there are 10,000 retractions and it's a new record, how many of you immediately said, that's not actually telling me anything?
00:06:05.580How many of you knew that the moment you heard it?
00:06:08.360Because that's what you should be doing.
00:06:09.700I'm trying to get you to the point that the moment you hear the raw number without the percentage or the percentage without the raw number, you can't believe anything else that happens after that.
00:06:26.640There's also a study or some researchers said that the after-school activities for kids, you know, they're all packed up with tutoring and sports and music and clubs and stuff like that.
00:06:37.580They say that it's not really helping them because the kids are so basically filled with stuff all day that that last hour of stuff is not really helping them.
00:06:50.040They're basically full by the time they get done with school.
00:06:55.100Now, did they need to do some research on this or could they have saved some money and just ask me?
00:07:02.580Because asking me would have gotten you the same result.
00:07:05.760Scott, do you think that the schools are organized in a way that's good for the children, good for their minds and their development and good for the families?
00:07:13.560I would say, no, it seems to be organized for the opposite.
00:07:18.420School and all the activities appear to be organized to destroy family life and drive you into divorce.
00:07:26.540Now, I'm not saying that they planned it that way, but there's a famous, well, I guess it's getting more famous, saying that says that if a system gives you the same output time after time after time and nobody changes it, that the output is the intention.
00:07:44.960You can't say, well, we didn't intend it to work out that way if year after year after year you keep doing the same thing and you know what you're getting.
00:07:54.700Anybody who's a parent, with the exception of people who are maybe parents for the top 2%, if you're a top 2%er, you could probably handle all this stuff.
00:08:04.900Yeah, I got A-plus, I got music, got it all.
00:08:54.500Over in Finland, they've got a big project.
00:08:58.100They're going to make a big battery on a sand.
00:09:00.320So they're going to store a whole bunch of heat in a special kind of sand that just stores the heat well, and then they can reuse it later.
00:09:18.880I love the idea of using dirt for a battery, special sand.
00:09:25.560But Finland also has a project to make a gravity battery.
00:09:29.040So the first kind just stores heat, which can then be converted to energy.
00:09:33.340But the second kind uses an abandoned mine and a big weight that goes down the mine downhill to create energy, because anything moving can be used to harness energy.
00:09:47.980And then during the day when the energy is cheap, or I guess at night when the energy is cheap.
00:09:55.840No, it must be during the day because they're using solar.
00:09:58.060They'll pull the weight up the mine, and then when they need the energy, they'll let it go back down.
00:10:03.480So two different technologies in Finland.
00:10:37.540You're married, you're happy with your personal appearance, because the thing they found is that your appearance has more to do with your overall happiness than almost anything.
00:10:47.000And if you've got excellent health and consider yourself upper class, you're most likely to be happy.
00:17:03.700And story number one, according to Fox News, the January 6th committee allegedly suppressed testimony showing Trump administration tried to get National Guard presence on January 6th.
00:17:18.880Now, Liz Cheney, who was part of that January 6th committee, says that's flatly false.
00:17:25.380But Liz Cheney is the least credible person in the world.
00:17:28.060I think if I knew nothing other than Fox News says it's true and Liz Cheney says it's not true, who would you believe?
00:17:36.820If the only thing you knew is Fox News versus Liz Cheney, which side do you take?
00:17:43.380Well, the news is not the most reliable thing in the world.
00:17:48.040But Liz Cheney is the least reliable thing in the world.
00:17:51.000Now, I think, you know, this will be one where there's going to be some question about whether or not it was really suppressed or whether she thought it wasn't important and the committee thought it wasn't important.
00:18:09.600It's going to be one of those stories.
00:18:10.680But since nothing that Liz Cheney says is anything but ridiculous, partisan bile, I think there's a greater chance that Fox News has the story right in this case.
00:18:23.540There's a fund called Avanza, which, because it uses ESG, ESG is, you know, the standard where you make sure that you're doing good by the environment and you're hiring diverse staff, et cetera.
00:18:41.680And one of the companies that didn't do well in the rankings and therefore Avanza decided they could not put money into it.
00:18:50.460And you may have heard that this company is called NVIDIA, NVIDIA.
00:19:37.120Well, I would say this problem is coming from inside the house.
00:19:41.260If you were an investor in this Avanza fund and you found out that they didn't invest in the number one best stock of all time so far, who knows what will happen after this, NVIDIA, and it was because of weak ESG, I think you'd have to say the problem is coming from inside the house.
00:19:57.800Well, Mike Lindell is going to get his day in the Supreme Court.
00:20:22.440Now, I will give you my generic warning that if 100 claims are made about the 2020 election being rigged, you can guarantee that 95% of them are false at the minimum.
00:20:36.140It could be 100%, but at minimum, 95% are going to be false.
00:20:40.940I said that on the first day and lots and lots of times after it, and it's been true so far.
00:20:46.560Now, does that mean that there aren't a bunch of real claims that will turn out to be, you know, explosive?
00:20:57.8805% of the claims would still be a lot of claims, and you only need one to be right for the whole election to be different than it came out.
00:21:11.640Well, if you follow the Rasmussen account almost, well, every single day, for weeks and weeks and months and years, actually, I think they've been showing you evidence that sure looks credible, but there's always that extra level of verification.
00:21:27.060It's like, you've got to hear what the other side says.
00:21:31.080So do you think the Supreme Court would have taken the case if there was nothing to it?
00:21:34.780So I'm not sure if he's going to make election claims or some other kind of claims.
00:21:42.500But if we live in a simulation, and if the Trump story is going to look like a three-part movie play, which it seems like it's shaping up to do, there's going to be, there has to be the magic point where Trump is right about the 2020 election being rigged.
00:22:01.740Now, I don't personally have any proof that that's the case, that it was rigged.
00:22:11.220But if it's a movie, it feels like every single indication, the cat's on the roof, Mike Lindell is going to the Supreme Court.
00:22:20.180You know, there's court cases pending that have been delayed for reasons we don't understand.
00:22:26.040There are ballots that are apparently, according to witnesses, are fake ballots, and they're locked in a room, and they won't be unlocked, but we don't know why there's a delay.
00:23:55.940But whatever juice they're pumping into Biden might be a different juice they're pumping into Kamala, but they seem pretty juiced up to me.
00:24:08.440Speaking of Rasmussen, they did a poll.
00:24:10.180It says, 35% of likely U.S. voters say that if Trump wins this year's election, they would support Democrats in Congress refusing to certify the election results.
00:26:38.880Well, something called the Academy Awards happened last night, which apparently is some kind of celebration of movies that I would not watch because they're all terrible.
00:26:47.480I recognize zero movies that were nominated, and I have no intention of seeing any of them because the more likely it is to get an award, the less likely it's good entertainment because it means they packed it with crap.
00:27:07.720But there are a number of stories that came out of it.
00:27:09.920Number one, some guy named Jonathan Glazer got up there and he got Rupard.
00:27:15.320Rupard is when you get taken out of context, so part of your comments are removed, to make it very different from what he actually intended.
00:27:25.060So, let me tell you what he said, and then I'll tell you how he got Rupard.
00:27:29.840He said, and by the way, I'm not agreeing with what he's saying.
00:27:34.820He said, right now we stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation that has led to conflict for so many innocent people.
00:27:45.320So, his framing is that the Israel occupying that territory, so he would call it occupying, others would call it something else,
00:27:55.820is basically it makes them feel bad because their Jewishness and the Holocaust are being cheapened.
00:28:06.040So, basically he's saying that, you know, Jews and, you know, this big idea of the Holocaust are being cheapened by what's happening there.
00:30:08.860Or if something happened in Hollywood that just opposited the whole town, where the town is full of Jewish actors and Jewish managers, etc.,
00:30:22.280but they've all gone to, or a substantial number of them turned into cease-fire supporters, which would feel to many like Hamas supporters?
00:34:34.200He would make everybody on stage look bigger, stronger, and more glamorous.
00:34:38.100And he says, After a really bad politically correct show tonight, and for years, disjointed, boring, and very unfair, why don't they just give the Oscars to those that deserve them?
00:34:55.740Maybe that way their audience and TV ratings will come back from the depths.
00:35:47.680You know, the camera loves her, lots of good quotes and stuff.
00:35:51.020So these are two people who really understand how the media works.
00:35:55.180Do you know what people do when somebody who really understands the media and is partisan interview somebody else who really understands the media and is partisan?
00:36:04.420Well, it was kind of hilarious because Nancy Mace kept trying to frame the questions from Stephanopoulos as, quote,
00:36:12.760trying to shame a rape victim, which she repeated over and over and over again.
00:36:17.540Meanwhile, Stephanopoulos was framing it as the jury found Trump liable for rape, which didn't happen in the real world, by the way.
00:36:28.700But also what didn't happen in the real world is Stephanopoulos trying to shame Nancy Mace as a rape victim.
00:36:38.000So both of them just continually repeated their claims, which were ridiculous.
00:36:59.920You might, if you were a little less, let's say, informed about how things work, it would look like two people who couldn't have a conversation or somebody avoiding a question or somebody asking illegitimate questions and trying to score points.
00:37:17.000That's sort of the old way to look at it.
00:37:18.940But if you understand that the two people are brilliant at handling media events, brilliant.
00:37:28.640Then you understand that they know that the audience can't follow an argument.
00:37:33.700The audience can't follow any complicated argument.
00:37:37.860So what you can do is just repeat over and over something you want them to hear.
00:37:44.060So if you were a pro-Nancy Mace and you spent any one second looking at that video, you'd say, man, I hate that Slopinopoulos guy, to quote Trump.
00:38:56.780But, like, what's it really mean in the real world?
00:38:59.520How in the world does a judge cite a law that doesn't exist to argue that the jury found in their own minds they were thinking something other than what they said?
00:39:11.460But I guess something like that happened.
00:39:14.000You know, Byron York is very credible in his analyses.
00:39:17.520In the absence of an actual jury finding of rape, the judge guessed that the jury's decision necessarily implies rape.
00:39:26.440Do you understand why Nancy Mace would not want to get into a decision about the details?
00:39:36.100Because you can't explain the story and the details.
00:39:39.420You could read that sentence like 15 times and go, I'm not exactly sure what.
00:39:59.100Anyway, so those are two good media pros at work.
00:40:04.620Did you know that apparently half of the country is unaware, according to a recent survey, that the non-documented slash non-citizens get counted in the census?
00:40:19.540Now, you might say to yourself, well, so what?
00:40:21.660The census is just trying to figure out who's here.
00:40:28.220So what you might not remember is that the census is in part, and maybe largely the main reason, is to figure out how many representatives are applicable.
00:40:40.100So if they can, they being the Democrats, if they can pump up areas with extra non-citizens, then the census, when it rolls around, will say, hey, you need some extra representatives because you've got some extra people.
00:40:54.800Those extra representatives would allow the Democrats to have a majority and rule forever as kings and queens.
00:41:01.800The Trump administration, I guess, tried to get citizenship to be the only valid answer on the census, you know, so that it didn't have this distorting effect.
00:41:15.440And Musk is pointing that out, Elon Musk.
00:41:21.040And it's obvious that this is, isn't it obvious to you that this is all intentional?
00:41:29.120It's obviously intentional to pump up the power of the Democrats at any cost.
00:41:34.420And the anti-cost would be extra crime, et cetera, and cost.
00:41:43.260So you think the problem is the immigrants, right?
00:41:48.580Do you think the problem is the migrants?
00:41:50.520Do you think the problem is the cartel?
00:41:53.420Do you think the problem is George Soros?
00:41:57.240Well, to me, it looks like the problem is coming from inside the House because none of those things would matter.
00:42:03.180If the Democrats didn't want it to happen because we would just have stronger laws, et cetera.
00:42:09.880So the problem with migration is coming entirely from inside.
00:42:16.800And it's intentional because if a system continues to give you one kind of output and you don't change it, that must be the output you want because you do have the ability to change it.
00:42:28.420So we must assume that this plot to increase power at the cost of American citizens is exactly what it looks like.
00:42:38.560Speaking of things that are exactly what they look like, do you remember me saying the only explanation for why we're not doing anything useful about fentanyl and about the border must be that the cartel is on our side?
00:42:51.280Now, when I say our side, I mean must be working with American power interests, otherwise we would stop it.
00:42:59.200And then Mike Benz, who has more information than I do, I was just looking at the system and saying, hey, if the system keeps giving you the same result and the government has the ability to change it but does nothing, that must be the result they want.
00:43:17.340And therefore, they must be working with the cartels to control Mexico and Central America.
00:43:22.000But I was just talking through my ass based on the system.
00:43:28.220I simply looked at the output and said, all right, if nobody's trying very hard to change it, they must want it.
00:43:34.760What could be the possible explanation for wanting this?
00:43:38.380And the only explanation is that we're the ones doing it.
00:43:42.100If it were coming only from the outside as a risk to Americans, we would have stopped it somehow.
00:43:47.680But we're not even trying in a way that looks like trying.
00:43:51.700You know, there's little stuff, but not really.
00:43:55.080So Mike Benza says that the reason that the Department of Defense, CIA and the state and Department of Homeland Security, they all tried to stop Trump from building a border wall.
00:44:10.880Because, as Mike Benza says, if we lose the cartels, we lose Latin America.
00:44:21.100We need the cartels for America to have control over the governments of other countries.
00:44:27.940Because the only way we can control the governments is to control the cartels, because the cartels control the governments.
00:44:35.620So basically, we are consciously, we meaning these groups of three-letter people, are consciously allowing 100,000 people to die from overdoses and consciously allowing us to be overrun with crime and migrants, because it gives us control over the other countries.
00:45:30.880Why aren't you trying to put them out?
00:45:33.000And that was really frustrating to have, you know, a death in the family that looked like it, you know, could have been maybe, if not preventable, there could have been a lot more that could have been done.
00:45:42.940And then, to watch nothing being done was, like, the worst, most painful feeling you can imagine.
00:45:50.960That I couldn't stop it from happening to somebody else's kid.
00:45:55.320I mean, really, that's all you have left.
00:45:57.020All you have left when you lose your own kid is you can make something good out of it.
00:46:02.940You know, you try to turn it into a positive at anything.
00:46:08.460I thought my role would be to try to persuade tougher action against Mexico for the fentanyl specifically.
00:46:18.440I can now see that that's a waste of energy.
00:46:21.760I can now see that this was a conscious trade-off.
00:46:25.240And a better way to see the death of all of the young people and other people dying from fentanyl is that they're effectively like conscripts.
00:46:34.100In other words, it's like having a draft, except the draft is based on who got addicted.
00:46:41.560So the people who got addicted are essentially war casualties.
00:46:46.860Because the war in this case is to control the other countries by working with the cartels productively to do that.
00:46:53.080And the expense of that, just like the expense of any war, would be the soldiers you lose.
00:46:58.400And the soldiers in this case didn't sign up for it, except they kind of did.
00:47:06.840If you're an addict, you didn't sign up to die.
00:47:09.580You didn't sign up to fight the cartels.
00:47:11.620But you did sign up for something that was going to put you in the middle of that mix.
00:47:16.580And you did sign up for something that gave you a pretty good risk of dying.
00:47:20.260And it is true that people consciously put themselves in that situation.
00:47:26.860And so I've actually had a change of opinion that when you know it's coming from inside the house, meaning that the drugs coming into the country are America's choice.
00:47:37.100Then I see it as basically a forced conscription, like a draft, except that the addicts who were the ones who paid for the war, they pay for it literally by buying the drugs.
00:47:50.800And it looks like our three-letter agencies probably share some of that and use it for bad gains.
00:47:58.980But, yeah, so my stepkid was killed in this war that he didn't know he was in.
00:50:19.940It is merely a country with no functional economy or government in which the streets are ruled by criminal gangs and cannibalism is becoming a national problem.
00:51:13.460But, and then other people are saying, but hey, Scott, don't joke about this because those Haiti gangs are going to come to America.
00:51:23.280The cannibals are going to come here and start eating Americans.
00:51:25.560And I'm not sure that's a problem because if we just sort of lock ourselves indoors, the cannibals are going to end up eating people around doors.
00:51:38.180So they're going to eat a lot of homeless people, probably eat a lot of the Venezuelan prisoners that were released.
00:51:47.340So if we could get the cannibals to eat the Venezuelan prisoners that came up from Venezuela, that could be a plus.
00:51:57.560In the short run, you get the Haiti cannibals to eat the other migrants.
00:52:01.440But eventually that's not going to work because if the cannibals stay here in America long enough, apparently the microplastics in the water will cause them to lose their health and vigor.
00:52:15.160And they might lose all of their cannibalistic urges because they'll mostly be playing video games and masturbating like Americans.
00:52:43.420Meanwhile, there's a study in of Great Britain that says that the water is so polluted that the men's sperm count is going down and they're shooting blanks.
00:52:52.060This is coming from Sir Tim Smith, who is 69, they have to tell you.
00:53:01.480So I don't know why that just seemed a story about a sperm.
00:53:07.740And they got to tell us that the guy's age is 69.
00:53:16.700Anyway, the UK's rivers and seas are so packed with chemicals that all the men are turning into hermaphrodites and frogs are gay and stuff.
00:53:29.360But so, yeah, that's another example of the problems coming from inside the house.
00:53:33.560Meanwhile, in the city of Pittsburgh, they're cutting back on the police responses.
00:53:37.120So between 3 a.m. and 7 a.m., no police will show up if you report certain kinds of things like theft, harassment, criminal mischief, and burglary alarms.
00:53:49.420Well, I'm not so sure you need the police in all those situations.
00:53:58.200As you know, Trump was against it, but now he's for it because his biggest donor has like, I don't know, $30 billion invested in ByteDance.
00:54:08.880So the biggest donor looks like he bought off at least Trump and Vivek and maybe Rand Paul and maybe Thomas Massey, maybe others.
00:54:18.160And there are reports, one lawmaker told the publication Semaphore, they'd been personally threatened that a yes vote to ban TikTok could result in political retaliation.
00:54:31.140They said it would be bad for your future and you'll get millions of dollars dropped in your head, meaning, you know, for your opponent.
00:54:43.060So if you thought that the risk of TikTok was coming from China, it was not.
00:54:50.600It was coming from an American investor who has so much money that he can essentially buy the loyalty of Trump and Vivek and Rand Paul and Thomas Massey, apparently.
00:55:01.380Now, I'll just say allegedly because you can't read anybody's minds, but that's what it looks like.
00:55:06.580And if you wanted to make sure that's not the case, what you would do is you'd listen to Vivek and you'd make sure that he knew what the critical problem was, which is the persuasion threat.
00:55:20.120So you can find that if he's bought off or he's lying by whether or not he says he understands the greatest threat.
00:55:31.680So if Vivek says, yes, I understand the threat of TikTok is a persuasion threat, then maybe he's got an honest opinion.
00:55:39.660But if he ignores a persuasion threat and talks about things like data and children spending too much time on it, then you'd know he's bought off, in my opinion.
00:55:49.160Can't read his mind, but that would be the indication.
00:59:26.760Yeah, it's exactly what it looks like.
00:59:28.560So, yeah, apparently they were just bought off.
00:59:31.640Now, what Trump says is that he said he thinks TikTok is a national security threat, but he couldn't support Congress banning it because it would boost support for Facebook, which he says is the enemy of the people.
00:59:45.760Now, first of all, would it boost, say, Instagram that it's owned by Facebook?
00:59:54.940Do you think it would boost Instagram?
00:59:56.900Because Instagram is a competing service.
00:59:59.560You know, they have reels that are like TikToks.
01:02:58.280They don't send these guys out for the true stuff because the true stuff, you don't need hoaxers.
01:03:03.540They save the hoaxers for just hoaxers.
01:03:07.880So as soon as you see that Brennan and Schiff said the same thing, which is that the intel people probably won't give President Trump as a candidate or maybe even in office the good stuff on the intelligence briefings,
01:03:23.840because they don't trust him with all of his boxes at Mar-a-Lago, they don't explain why it was okay that Biden had a bunch of boxes.
01:03:34.480But they say that they'll probably leave out, quote, the sources and methods, because they're afraid that Trump would give the sources and methods away to somebody.
01:04:30.560And they could say something like, well, we have human intelligence sources that we trust and they've been right before.
01:04:37.080Is that something that's going to give away the store?
01:04:40.360Most of these are kind of obvious how we get, you know, it's either human or intelligence or something.
01:04:48.100But anyway, so I have a question whether any president ever got something that secret, the sources and methods, except for the generic stuff.
01:04:55.320So I don't even think the issue is real.
01:04:59.000But when you see Brennan and Schiff on it, it means that they're part of a hoax to make it seem that Trump is uniquely untrustworthy with information.
01:09:11.120But speaking of which, I should also mention that if Vake and Trump are just being political, it's probably good politics.
01:09:19.440So the question about TikTok and banning it, if it's true, and I don't know that this is true, but it could be, and I think it's likely it's true.
01:09:32.240If it's true that TikTok was never going to be banned because it just would never get the votes, then there's no point in Vake and Trump being on a losing side.
01:09:42.640If they know it's going to lose, you might as well be on the side that says, hey, I'm no dictator.
01:09:49.400I'm not going to ban this free speech.
01:09:52.960So it looks like Trump and Vake have found the political sweet spot, which is you act like you're in favor of free speech,
01:10:00.560but you have to lie through your teeth about what you understand about the risk of TikTok.
01:10:06.420So they're obviously lying through the teeth.
01:10:08.320Laura Trump, as you know, is the co-chair of the RNC now, and people are saying there's some good indications there.
01:10:20.820So she's going strong to suggest Republicans work hard for ballot harvesting, the legal kind, the legal kind, not any illegal stuff.
01:10:30.140But everybody understood that if you don't ballot harvest like crazy, you can't win in today's environment.
01:10:35.180So at least she's fighting fire with fire.
01:10:38.260And, you know, I heard some of you being skeptical about her as the person in this job.
01:10:46.240I actually have a really high opinion of her.
01:10:49.740You know, just from a little bit of interaction.
01:12:04.760Do any of you think that he would be dumb enough to speak for one of the two major political parties when he's trying to sell cars to everybody?