Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2423 CWSA 03⧸24⧸24

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00:00:25.040 Oh, that's good.

00:00:27.120 That's good.

00:00:27.740 Well, as you know, most of my technology is broken at any moment.

00:00:32.480 I've got a broken automatic shade.

00:00:34.500 I've got a bad computer in my elevators down.

00:00:38.120 Coughing machine is a nightmare.

00:00:40.280 But everything else is going to work great today

00:00:43.220 because we got some fun news.

00:00:46.720 Well, it turns out that the In-N-Out Burger Place

00:00:50.040 has closed its first outlet.

00:00:53.520 They've never had to close any store.

00:00:57.040 That's pretty good.

00:00:58.400 But they closed the one in Oakland because too dangerous.

00:01:03.320 Too dangerous.

00:01:04.060 It's the first ever permanent closure for the chain.

00:01:07.640 Now, I think they finally earned their name.

00:01:12.560 They're out.

00:01:13.640 They're out.

00:01:14.560 They were in.

00:01:15.820 But now they're out.

00:01:17.700 Why would anybody live in Oakland?

00:01:19.920 I don't know.

00:01:20.800 I don't know.

00:01:20.820 But if they keep closing places to buy food in Oakland,

00:01:24.840 I'm a little worried that the people in Oakland

00:01:27.260 are going to drive to my town for food.

00:01:29.200 And then I'm going to have to move again.

00:01:34.220 Because, oh, no.

00:01:36.460 Anyway, I watched a show last night.

00:01:39.260 Has anybody heard of a show called The Three Body Problem?

00:01:42.180 I guess it was a book.

00:01:43.800 Now it's a show on Netflix.

00:01:47.200 Well, I watched it, so you don't need to.

00:01:49.500 Here's my review.

00:01:51.420 Number one, it's an interesting show.

00:01:55.840 But the best part about it is to laugh at the wokeness.

00:02:01.420 Because it has a very strict hierarchy of who's good and who's bad.

00:02:06.880 And at the top of their hierarchy, you've got minority women

00:02:12.080 who are physicists and geniuses.

00:02:15.640 And then just below them would be black men, also physicists and geniuses.

00:02:21.960 And then at the bottom would be white men who are scumbags in bars,

00:02:27.180 sometimes bartenders, but just generally kind of worthless.

00:02:32.120 So if you watch it, do what I was doing last night with a friend.

00:02:38.540 We were watching it, and we're trying to guess what we would see next.

00:02:44.100 So, for example, a guess would be, all right,

00:02:46.320 the first time you see a white guy, he's going to be a scumbag.

00:02:50.500 Then just see if you're right.

00:02:53.920 You'll be surprised how often you can guess exactly what's going to happen.

00:02:57.720 But that said, so the wokeness, of course, is off the chart, as all movies.

00:03:05.420 But it's actually well made.

00:03:06.840 So beyond that, it's actually pretty interesting.

00:03:11.960 I just watched the first two.

00:03:13.640 Anyway, Bill Maher is making news again,

00:03:17.260 talking about the pandering Democrats, and he's advising his own team,

00:03:22.060 the Democrats to get off the race politics, because it's sort of the past.

00:03:29.360 And I do think this is one of the things that Bill Maher is sort of a national treasure for,

00:03:36.240 is that he is capable of telling his own team when they're making a mistake.

00:03:40.120 I'm not sure they listen, but it's pretty awesome that they at least have somebody who can talk to them

00:03:47.300 and say, you know, maybe this thing you're doing is ruining the country, and maybe not so good.

00:03:54.020 So, let's see, I guess the Financial Times, as he quoted,

00:03:59.480 said Democrats are going backwards faster with voters of color than any other demographic.

00:04:04.540 So, the more the Democrats try to make it about race, the more diversity they're losing.

00:04:14.820 So, do you think they've figured out that it's not working?

00:04:19.900 Well, don't worry, because they have a better plan.

00:04:23.640 So, if racial division isn't getting the Democrats what they want, don't worry,

00:04:29.320 because that's not like the only thing they have, because that would be pathetic.

00:04:35.400 Imagine if you had a whole national party, and the only thing you had to offer was you're all racist.

00:04:44.020 That's it.

00:04:45.200 But don't worry about that, because they have a lot more.

00:04:47.820 So, the news says that the Biden campaign has decided to use personal insults as a big part of their campaign.

00:04:57.120 So, they don't just have racial division.

00:04:59.320 They also have personal insults, but not like the clever ones.

00:05:04.400 I'm not talking about a Trump kind of insult, where it's really sticky and fun and well-designed,

00:05:11.040 and it says something really funny, and you want to say it yourself.

00:05:16.340 I mean, it just really gets into the minds of the other people.

00:05:20.660 It's not like that, no.

00:05:21.900 So, Biden has decided that they're going to call Trump Broke Don.

00:05:30.520 Now, I'm going to make a recommendation for the Democrats.

00:05:35.320 They don't take my advice.

00:05:36.700 They don't even listen to me.

00:05:37.800 But if they did, I'd say, you might want to call a meeting with Bill Maher before trying this.

00:05:44.440 Now, I don't know what Bill Maher would say about that idea of Biden trying to out-insult the best insulter in the history of humankind.

00:05:54.280 But it does seem like they're not taking strength against weakness, which would be the normal way you do these things.

00:06:01.060 Normally, you'd find something that the other team doesn't do well, and then you'd do it well, and you'd form that contrast.

00:06:08.820 That'd be good.

00:06:09.980 What you don't do is try to get into an insult contest with the best insulter of all time.

00:06:18.620 And you don't open the bid with Broke Don.

00:06:22.540 Let me give you a little persuasion advice.

00:06:26.180 If he's broke because you broke him, you lose.

00:06:30.440 If he's broke Don because you took his money, we're going to notice that.

00:06:39.140 He didn't get broke on his own.

00:06:41.220 He got broke because you're stealing his money.

00:06:43.960 By the way, he's not broke.

00:06:45.680 You stole so much money that he formed a new social media entity, and he'll probably make $4 billion this week.

00:06:52.780 So, joke's on you.

00:06:54.220 But every time I hear Broke Don, I hear Frank Luntz in my head.

00:07:01.100 Frank Luntz on CNN was looking at the camera and saying,

00:07:04.600 if they take Trump's property, if they try to take his house or one of his houses, he's going to win the election.

00:07:14.600 Well, what do you think Broke Don reminds you of?

00:07:18.320 It reminds you of they're trying to take his stuff.

00:07:21.420 There's nobody in the country who's okay with that.

00:07:25.420 Nobody.

00:07:25.980 You know, at a real basic human level, you don't want to see your government taking people's stuff because they're on the other side.

00:07:35.860 Literally, nobody's in favor of that except batshit crazy pieces of shit.

00:07:41.560 Right?

00:07:41.880 Now, if this were reversed, I'd be saying the same thing.

00:07:45.780 You know, it has nothing to do with party.

00:07:47.400 If your government is just taking somebody's stuff because they're angry and they want to win an election, just call him Broke Don.

00:07:58.140 Just remind us every time you use that that you're robbing his stuff and it can happen to us too.

00:08:06.140 So, I don't think that the Democrats have anybody working for him at the moment who knows how to do anything.

00:08:15.580 They appear completely lost.

00:08:19.960 And I think Bill Maher is pointing that out correctly.

00:08:24.600 And I liked Bill Maher's take on this about the race relations because it is exactly mine, but he words it differently.

00:08:34.700 You've heard my reframe for race, which is that dividing people by race is literally just stupid.

00:08:41.880 It doesn't buy you anything.

00:08:43.920 You don't get anything from it.

00:08:45.580 But it misses the fact that we're infinitely different.

00:08:49.940 You know, Dave Chappelle makes a better point.

00:08:52.920 He makes the point that it's about class.

00:08:56.200 And if you're rich enough, you're not really having the same problems as poor black people.

00:09:02.160 You're having the problems of rich people.

00:09:04.100 And then that becomes the group that you have the most identity with because you have most in common with it, at least in terms of the real stuff that matters to your life.

00:09:13.680 So the way Bill Maher puts it is, you know, we have lots of interracial everything.

00:09:22.560 Andy gave some great examples.

00:09:25.880 Very entertaining.

00:09:27.200 But the fact that we're complicated and we're diverse way beyond race now.

00:09:32.300 We're just diverse in every way.

00:09:33.800 And to imagine that you can put a bunch of us in one big category is really old thinking.

00:09:40.500 There was a time it made sense, but this is not that time.

00:09:44.840 Well, the Department of Justice reportedly dismissed a $3.3 billion fraud suit they were going to do against the Dish company, you know, the satellite Dish company.

00:09:59.700 But they dropped that fraud suit after the chairman of the Dish donated $113,000 to Biden.

00:10:08.820 Now, I don't mean to suggest they're connected.

00:10:13.460 It's just that one happened soon after the other.

00:10:22.040 Oh, my.

00:10:23.620 What if everything is exactly the way it looks?

00:10:26.240 Do you ever think about that?

00:10:30.500 What if it's what if everything is just exactly what it looks like?

00:10:34.480 That would be the worst case scenario.

00:10:36.920 Well, what this looks like is that somebody bought their way out of a lawsuit.

00:10:42.080 I don't know that that's true.

00:10:44.800 But it looks exactly like it.

00:10:47.020 You know, it doesn't mean it's true.

00:10:50.360 Well, did you know that everything on TikTok has a similar theme?

00:10:53.700 So, Ashley St. Clair was pointing out that TikTok is removing and banning videos, which speak about the increased risk of mental health issues with hormonal birth control.

00:11:09.580 Now, Ashley is an advocate for that point of view.

00:11:14.780 So, I'm no doctor, so I cannot confirm or deny, and I certainly don't trust any studies, pro or anti.

00:11:23.700 So, I don't know.

00:11:25.360 I can say that observationally, I think it's obvious.

00:11:28.860 I don't know if anybody's had that experience.

00:11:31.520 But to me, it seems obvious that personalities change.

00:11:35.160 At the very least, the personality changes with hormonal birth control.

00:11:38.760 I think that's observably true.

00:11:42.660 And apparently, TikTok's going to remove or suppress your voice if you say that.

00:11:52.100 So, TikTok's in favor of hormonal birth control, if you look at the impact of their suppression.

00:12:00.200 So, what else?

00:12:01.020 Let's see if there's any kind of pattern here.

00:12:03.240 Let's see.

00:12:03.740 What does TikTok say about climate change?

00:12:08.240 Too many people?

00:12:10.280 Too many people, yeah.

00:12:12.200 They say the people are the problem.

00:12:15.180 What does TikTok say about dual income, no kids, couples?

00:12:21.420 I believe that there's a trend showing people with no children celebrating how happy and free they are,

00:12:28.900 and all the money they have, and the things they can do.

00:12:31.200 How about, what does TikTok think about being heterosexual?

00:12:39.820 Hmm.

00:12:40.700 Not as cool as it used to be, huh?

00:12:43.440 You know what's really cool?

00:12:45.320 Being anything except heterosexual.

00:12:48.140 Much cooler.

00:12:49.980 How about the traditional family?

00:12:51.620 Yeah, not so much.

00:12:52.560 Not on TikTok.

00:12:53.940 How about free markets?

00:12:56.160 Hmm.

00:12:58.100 Kind of not so much.

00:12:59.360 Um, what do all these things and more have in common?

00:13:04.000 Every one of them has the same impact.

00:13:06.000 It suppresses American reproductive urges.

00:13:11.200 So, is it a coincidence that the reproductive impulse of Americans is being turned off by TikTok?

00:13:19.520 Do you think that spending all day on your phone increases your testosterone and makes you want to get busy with a real human?

00:13:28.980 Or does it do the opposite?

00:13:31.000 Well, we're pretty sure it does the opposite.

00:13:34.060 So, you've got a tool that China can use to turn off the human reproduction in America.

00:13:39.120 And, uh, we're not worried about that.

00:13:46.560 And, uh, and our Congress wasn't concerned until probably has said too many things pro-Palestinian.

00:13:54.960 But whatever it takes, if it's the Palestinian situation, I don't care why.

00:14:02.280 Uh, and Ashley also responded to my comments on that post saying,

00:14:05.980 Wait until you find out about, quote, The List videos.

00:14:09.960 Thousands of videos with reasons to not have kids.

00:14:13.620 So, apparently there's something called The List on TikTok where you can add all the, all the awesome reasons to not have kids.

00:14:22.600 Is that a little too on the nose?

00:14:24.260 But what would it take for you to be able to see it?

00:14:30.280 What does it take for pattern recognition to kick in?

00:14:34.220 Are we there yet?

00:14:36.140 Anybody?

00:14:37.720 Anybody see the pattern?

00:14:40.020 Yeah, it's, it's, it's could not be more obvious.

00:14:43.520 Now, you might say to me, but Scott, is it intentional?

00:14:48.700 Well, I'll tell you what, they could turn it off if they wanted.

00:14:51.320 Because they can make anything viral they want.

00:14:54.900 So, whether it happened on its own or didn't happen on its own, it's certainly the message that they're comfortable with.

00:15:00.920 And that ends up being the same thing.

00:15:02.360 And, of course, any food imports are probably killing us and making us unable to reproduce.

00:15:09.580 So, I think our, our food source is poison, in my opinion.

00:15:15.580 I talked about this, that 50% of young liberal women have been diagnosed with a mental health condition.

00:15:23.600 What do you think the number is when you add the undiagnosed, the ones who didn't go to seek help?

00:15:30.060 Because if you live where I live, it's really expensive and hard to find anybody to give you mental health support.

00:15:39.560 Is that the same everywhere?

00:15:41.100 I think it is probably, right?

00:15:42.540 It's not really easy or cheap to get any kind of therapy, right?

00:15:48.760 Not, very few people can afford it.

00:15:50.880 So, if 50% of women have been diagnosed, it means they had the wherewithal to, you know, get a medical professional to do that.

00:15:59.720 I would bet that the real number is closer to 75 or 80%.

00:16:03.940 Young liberal women, I think, are 75 to 80% mentally ill.

00:16:09.080 That's, that's my guess.

00:16:11.100 Now, why would that be?

00:16:14.680 Well, Elon Musk had a theory.

00:16:18.820 He responded to that post about the young women having, young liberal women having that much mental illness.

00:16:27.520 And he said that hormonal birth control and no kids to care for would make any mammal sad.

00:16:34.120 Okay, that's just like the best sentence that you're going to read today.

00:16:41.100 You know, I've often said that the difference between humor and a good summary is almost nothing.

00:16:49.960 There's almost no difference between summarizing a real situation and a joke.

00:16:56.340 Because the only, the only reason that things don't sound like a joke, you know, in, by their nature is because we make them complicated.

00:17:05.280 If you take anything in the news and you just summarize it, it's hilarious.

00:17:13.980 That's all it takes.

00:17:15.280 So here he's done it.

00:17:16.320 He's just summarized it.

00:17:18.020 Hormonal birth control and no kids to care for would make any mammal sad.

00:17:22.760 Okay.

00:17:23.920 There's really nothing else to say.

00:17:25.580 That's pretty much it.

00:17:28.240 If you do all the things that make, would make any mammal sad, and then you look around and go, hey, what is making all these mammals sad?

00:17:37.460 Could it be that every single thing we do is clearly something that we know would make you sad?

00:17:44.340 Maybe it's that.

00:17:46.220 Maybe.

00:17:46.620 All right.

00:17:51.120 The Financial Times is reporting that China is telling the government that they can't use computers.

00:17:59.340 They have Intel and AMD chips.

00:18:01.880 So now China is worried that American-made chips could be spying on them.

00:18:08.260 Now, do you think that's just a response to the U.S. saying you can't have TikTok on your machine?

00:18:16.620 Or do you think they're actually worried?

00:18:19.700 And do you think they have a reason to be?

00:18:22.260 Do you think they have a reason to be worried about American chips on their computers?

00:18:26.760 I'm going to say yes.

00:18:30.540 I'm going to say yes.

00:18:32.020 I don't know that those chips have any, you know, issues on them.

00:18:35.900 But I can tell you if we were getting our chips from China, I would be very suspicious about what's on there that I don't know about.

00:18:43.660 Because I don't know how hard it is to hide something on a chip, you know, a little unexpected code or something.

00:18:50.760 But I'd be worried if I were China.

00:18:56.140 All right.

00:18:57.040 I don't think I said it on this live stream yesterday.

00:19:01.860 But that Kate Middleton video, that looks sort of obviously AI to me.

00:19:08.240 The one where she talked about her cancer diagnosis.

00:19:11.280 Now, if it is, I'm totally okay with it.

00:19:15.720 Ethically, morally, publicity-wise, royal family-wise.

00:19:21.900 Every part of that I'm okay with.

00:19:23.580 Because here's what I assume.

00:19:24.680 If she's been taking chemo for two months after stomach surgery, she's not looking that great.

00:19:32.700 Right?

00:19:33.080 She's probably lost a lot of weight.

00:19:34.840 Her face is probably a little sunken.

00:19:37.500 And there's probably not enough makeup and wigs that can compensate for that.

00:19:42.600 My guess, it's just speculation, is that their best case scenario was to record her voice, which is probably fine.

00:19:51.060 And then just add an AI.

00:19:54.260 Because the background looked very AI.

00:19:56.760 And everything else is pretty easy to do.

00:19:58.960 The deep fake stuff.

00:20:00.140 The only thing that would be hard would be getting the voice exactly right.

00:20:05.500 Because even though the computers are good at faking voices, you can still sort of tell when it's a fake.

00:20:12.600 But if you used a real voice and just added the AI, it'd be fine.

00:20:16.540 Now, remember, she's got young kids.

00:20:18.340 And the young kids don't need to see her looking bad.

00:20:22.820 You know, that'd be a little scary.

00:20:24.740 So, you know, we live in a world where makeup is accepted.

00:20:28.080 And, you know, wigs are accepted.

00:20:30.540 And dressing good is accepted.

00:20:32.340 And getting the lighting just right.

00:20:34.660 And then photoshopping the picture.

00:20:36.420 It's all accepted.

00:20:37.780 So, if they use new technology to just put out a little better face than normal, totally acceptable.

00:20:45.820 I don't even think they should hide it.

00:20:48.900 You know, if it came out that it was AI, they should just say, yes, this is AI.

00:20:54.740 It's the real person's voice.

00:20:57.380 And we did it so that people didn't see her looking bad.

00:21:01.780 I'm totally okay with that.

00:21:03.380 There's nothing wrong with that at all.

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00:21:38.040 Well, James Carville, in his unspoken way, he is quoted as saying that part of the party's polling problems, in other words, why the party is not doing well, is, quote, too many preachy females in the Democrat Party.

00:21:58.340 What does that sound like?

00:22:00.820 Well, it would be another phrase for too many preachy females.

00:22:04.220 It's batshit crazy women.

00:22:08.880 Yeah.

00:22:09.800 Yeah, the Democrats have a problem of mentally ill women who they can't say no to.

00:22:17.200 They have problems saying no to them.

00:22:19.180 So it turns out that the mentally ill women end up running the whole show because nobody can say no to them.

00:22:26.960 It's just too dangerous.

00:22:28.280 We've all been trained to say, all right, okay, yeah, whatever.

00:22:33.880 That's fine.

00:22:34.860 Just let me go do something else and try to ignore this.

00:22:38.520 So at least the Democrats are now aware, and I would say that Bill Maher's pretty close to this same realization,

00:22:47.980 that if your party is run by mentally ill young women, you're going to get this result, which is a President Trump.

00:22:56.860 So just keep saying broke down, keep making it about race, and keep being preachy female-led party,

00:23:04.860 and you can pretty much guarantee, unless there's an amazing amount of rigging, you can pretty much guarantee a President Trump.

00:23:12.740 All right, what about all these squatter stories?

00:23:18.400 This is probably one of the most alarming things I've ever seen.

00:23:23.020 I've canceled my holiday plans because I don't want to come home and find somebody living in my house if I'm gone for a week.

00:23:31.800 Has anybody had that?

00:23:33.160 Has anybody literally thought they were going to cancel their vacation plans

00:23:36.740 because they don't want a squatter moving in the minute they walk out the door?

00:23:42.740 And why don't we hear more stories of violence?

00:23:46.740 I'm not recommending it.

00:23:48.260 But it's kind of weird that with all of our guns and if somebody steals your house

00:23:55.740 and nobody's gotten violent, how in the world do they not get violent in that situation?

00:24:02.780 Now, I don't recommend it because you end up in jail and losing your house.

00:24:06.720 So it's way worse to be violent.

00:24:08.480 I'm just, I'm kind of amazed at the level of constraint, the level of self-restraint.

00:24:15.660 What happened to America?

00:24:19.240 Let me just say it directly.

00:24:21.840 You could end the squatter problem tomorrow with violence.

00:24:27.300 I don't recommend it.

00:24:29.240 I'm just saying if this were any prior time in America, it would already be solved.

00:24:34.480 Your neighbors would come over and they would help you kick the shit out of the squatters

00:24:39.320 and then the police would come and the police would not arrest you.

00:24:43.920 They would arrest the squatters because that was what America was.

00:24:47.980 We didn't let the criminals take our shit, but now we do.

00:24:52.900 So I don't recommend violence, but I'm rooting for it.

00:24:56.620 Can I say that?

00:25:00.400 I don't know.

00:25:01.040 Is that too far?

00:25:02.200 Because I definitely don't recommend it.

00:25:04.320 I do not recommend it.

00:25:05.700 I mean, I strongly, strongly don't recommend it because you're going to go to jail if you do that.

00:25:11.580 But probably there's some number of people who are just angry enough that it's going to go too far

00:25:20.760 and they're going to get in real trouble.

00:25:21.960 I don't recommend it, but there used to be a way that these problems got solved

00:25:26.860 and I don't think we have that mechanism anymore.

00:25:31.000 And everybody who's sane is just saying it's crazy.

00:25:35.280 And here's my take.

00:25:36.720 As long as the squatter situation is real, there's no way that Trump can lose.

00:25:42.100 Because the squatter situation and the DAs taking Trump stuff, in my mind, that's the same story.

00:25:55.400 Does anybody have that same feeling?

00:25:57.700 That the squatter problem in America is the same story as the Democrats and their lackeys stealing Trump stuff.

00:26:09.060 It's somebody who had a property right and then the government, through its behavior, is taking it away.

00:26:20.040 Not for themselves necessarily, but letting somebody take it away.

00:26:23.680 Yeah, the looting as well.

00:26:25.240 The massive looting is the government, basically it's the government stealing from you.

00:26:30.560 Let me say it directly.

00:26:31.520 Whatever looting is allowed by the law, that's the government stealing from you.

00:26:38.580 That's the government.

00:26:40.020 Because they're the ones who control that.

00:26:42.180 They can make you stop.

00:26:44.580 You know what else they can make you stop?

00:26:46.600 Make it illegal to kill a squatter.

00:26:50.100 Make it legal.

00:26:52.220 Didn't it used to be sort of okay to kill a horse thief?

00:26:54.920 So I don't recommend anybody do anything illegal.

00:26:59.340 Let me say that as clearly.

00:27:00.560 Don't do anything illegal.

00:27:02.220 But let's make it legal.

00:27:04.320 That'll never happen, but it would be a solution.

00:27:09.340 So what we have now is what I call a reverse government.

00:27:13.720 A normal government would be trying to protect and take care of the people.

00:27:18.540 Am I right?

00:27:19.320 Even a totalitarian government.

00:27:23.960 Do you know what Putin really is interested in doing?

00:27:29.120 Putin actually wants Russia to do well.

00:27:32.500 I'm positive he does.

00:27:34.400 I think he really wants the Russian people to have a good life.

00:27:39.020 Now, I'm not pro-Putin.

00:27:41.000 He's got plenty of problems.

00:27:43.240 Plenty of problems.

00:27:44.380 I've talked about him in the past.

00:27:46.020 Don't need to mention him every time.

00:27:47.620 I'm just saying that the normal function of a government, be it a Republican, be it, you know, any Democratic or even totalitarian, they do want their people to do well because, you know, they do well if the people do well.

00:28:04.600 So, but we have the opposite.

00:28:07.640 What kind of government do you have when they're encouraging squatters to take your home?

00:28:13.620 That's a reverse government.

00:28:15.180 Instead of a government protecting your rights, they're actively taking it away.

00:28:21.060 What do you call it when the government is actively suppressing speech by using its entities to talk to social media and lean on networks and stuff like that?

00:28:31.700 Well, that's the opposite of what your government is supposed to do.

00:28:34.480 Your government is supposed to protect your free speech.

00:28:38.920 They're actually actively taking it away.

00:28:41.020 That's a reverse government.

00:28:45.980 How about making sure that the economy is solid?

00:28:50.480 That would be the job of a government, wouldn't you say?

00:28:53.720 Make sure that the government is, you know, make sure the economy is functioning well.

00:28:58.360 Basic government function.

00:29:00.920 What's ours doing?

00:29:01.840 Well, we just passed a unlimited, ridiculous budget, which guarantees that we'll go out of business as a country because we'll be ruined by debt.

00:29:13.620 Is that what a government is supposed to be doing?

00:29:17.780 Or is that closer to the opposite?

00:29:19.800 That's the opposite.

00:29:20.800 That's the opposite.

00:29:21.480 That's the opposite.

00:29:21.800 That's the opposite.

00:29:23.460 They're actively making the economy crash.

00:29:26.760 They're not just doing nothing.

00:29:28.920 They're very actively crashing it through, you know, unlimited debt.

00:29:33.860 That's a reverse government.

00:29:36.300 How about that Department of Justice that's supposed to protect us from crime?

00:29:41.920 Is that what's happening?

00:29:43.820 No, no.

00:29:44.800 In fact, at least in the political realm of January 6th and everything with Trump, the government is the crime.

00:29:52.760 The government is the crime.

00:29:56.700 They're not the ones preventing it.

00:29:58.920 They are the crime right in front of us.

00:30:03.920 What about the news?

00:30:05.660 The news is supposed to tell you what's real.

00:30:08.240 Do they do that?

00:30:10.120 No.

00:30:11.180 They very directly do the opposite.

00:30:13.300 Not even close.

00:30:17.200 And the government, of course, is silent on that because it works for their benefit.

00:30:24.400 There's a long post from RFK Jr., which I just realized fits perfectly with this point, in which he points out that all of our regulatory bodies that are supposed to be protecting us are all captured.

00:30:41.640 And they're doing the opposite.

00:30:44.260 So the people who should make sure our food supply is better are probably actively making it worse.

00:30:51.380 The people who are supposed to make sure that our medicines are safe are probably actively doing the opposite.

00:30:58.860 Actively.

00:30:59.600 Not just doing nothing.

00:31:01.360 Not just being worthless.

00:31:03.620 Actively working against our interests.

00:31:05.920 How about the national defense?

00:31:07.360 The national defense is supposed to keep us safe.

00:31:10.980 Is that what Ukraine is doing?

00:31:13.480 Is that keeping us safe?

00:31:16.020 Are we witnessing our military doing things that keep America safe?

00:31:23.660 It doesn't look like it.

00:31:24.880 To me, it looks like we're risking a nuclear confrontation and using up all our weapons and degrading the respect of our military and God knows what else.

00:31:35.440 Putting our soldiers in dresses.

00:31:39.400 Literally putting our soldiers in dresses.

00:31:42.580 Now, does that sound like the government's on your side?

00:31:46.700 Not so much.

00:31:51.480 Let me stop for it.

00:31:52.760 There's somebody here who still believes the 4chan hoax about my pandemic opinions.

00:31:58.800 If you fell for the 4chan hoax that said I was pro-vaccine and pro-mask and pro-lockdowns, none of that ever happened in the real world.

00:32:08.340 And if you're concerned, is that what I personally did with my own health decisions, I'd like to gently suggest that you don't have any role in my health decisions.

00:32:23.440 Be they correct, be they incorrect.

00:32:27.900 Because you don't know anything about my health situation.

00:32:31.540 You don't know anything about my risk-reward.

00:32:33.760 You are a stupid piece of shit whose only value was to come on and say some completely wrong bullshit that you heard on 4chan or Reddit or some terrible place.

00:32:47.460 And you're just making the world a worse place.

00:32:50.500 You're worse than the government right now.

00:32:52.520 To come in and just yell at somebody who's trying to help you, try to help you.

00:32:57.380 Trying to make the world a better place.

00:32:58.940 And your job is to come in here like a little dingleberry and tell me that something that happened two fucking years ago that you misunderstood is the important thing we should be thinking about right now.

00:33:16.760 Anyway.

00:33:18.060 All right.

00:33:18.720 So we have a reverse government.

00:33:21.880 But the good news is it can't get any worse.

00:33:26.960 Am I right?

00:33:27.420 I mean, what could the government do that could be more on the nose to prove that they're against the people?

00:33:35.220 There's nothing else they could do.

00:33:37.020 There's nothing.

00:33:38.280 I tell you, there's nothing that our government could do that would make you think even more than you already do that they're anti-people.

00:33:47.660 So the next story is the Biden administration accelerates their plan to unleash grizzly bears near rural communities.

00:34:00.460 Wait, what?

00:34:03.200 The Biden administration is releasing grizzly bears near rural communities intentionally.

00:34:09.920 Okay, I take back everything I said.

00:34:13.540 It can get way worse, people.

00:34:15.780 It can get way worse.

00:34:17.840 They're unleashing grizzly bears.

00:34:19.580 I didn't make that up.

00:34:23.180 Does anybody think I made that up?

00:34:25.120 That's an actual story.

00:34:27.100 They're releasing the grizzly bears near your homes.

00:34:30.180 Just in case you hadn't gotten the hint from the squatters and the fentanyl and the MS-13.

00:34:37.780 If none of that was giving you the hint, how about a fucking grizzly bear?

00:34:42.520 Do you see it yet?

00:34:43.620 Do you see it yet?

00:35:13.620 You know, you would think that the normal role of a government would be to prevent non-citizens from entering, you know, especially under this current situation.

00:35:29.060 But not only are they not preventing it, but they're charging us, the taxpayers, to fly them in comfort and as quickly and as efficiently as possible into the country.

00:35:45.160 Now, does that sound like a government or does that sound like a reverse government?

00:35:50.840 Well, with any luck, the grizzly bears will eat the criminals coming in.

00:35:58.720 They're not all criminals.

00:36:01.200 Most of the immigrants are fine people.

00:36:02.840 I didn't mean fine people that way, but you know what I mean.

00:36:09.820 Well, but don't worry.

00:36:11.400 In many other ways, the government is just fine.

00:36:13.860 Let's see this next story.

00:36:14.880 Apparently, there's a report that Google is willing or has been asked.

00:36:21.940 We don't know if they're willing, but they've been asked to reveal the identities of some YouTube viewers, the viewers.

00:36:30.820 So the government reportedly has asked Google to reveal who was watching certain videos.

00:36:39.560 Not who created the video.

00:36:44.860 The government is trying to find out who was watching certain videos.

00:36:52.820 Does that bother you at all?

00:36:55.740 And apparently, they can even find out who you were, what you were watching, even if you were doing it anonymously and not signed in.

00:37:04.100 Because they can figure out your IP address.

00:37:06.120 So they want to find out what you watched.

00:37:11.540 Now, I think there's a specific case involved that they were looking into.

00:37:15.940 But just think about that.

00:37:18.640 They want to know what you watched.

00:37:24.560 If that doesn't scare you, I don't know what will.

00:37:29.500 All right.

00:37:30.140 So this is actually RFK's take on it.

00:37:32.840 I'm going to read his words because I think they were well chosen.

00:37:35.440 He said, the CIA works for military contractors, providing a steady pipeline of forever wars.

00:37:41.900 The health agencies are controlled by the pharmaceutical industry, which profits from chronic diseases.

00:37:47.680 The Fed, held captive by big banks, flood the canyons of Wall Street with money.

00:37:53.480 The agencies that are supposed to be stewards of American security and prosperity and health are no longer working on behalf of you and me.

00:37:59.600 They become sock puppets for the industries they're supposed to regulate.

00:38:05.460 Corporate capture is the biggest threat to American democracy.

00:38:09.700 Correct.

00:38:11.100 That is correct.

00:38:13.160 100% correct.

00:38:14.440 Now, when I say the government is working against you, it's usually because of some entity that's corrupt or some, you know, billionaire who's corrupt or something.

00:38:24.960 So the government doesn't wake up in the morning and say, what can we do that's bad for America?

00:38:30.420 There's always some entity that's benefiting.

00:38:33.580 There's somebody making money.

00:38:35.000 And that's why the government acts the way it does, so somebody can keep making money, apparently.

00:38:43.820 Well, only the mole can save us.

00:38:46.720 How many of you remember the mole?

00:38:49.120 The mole is, let's say, an imaginary person who works for the Democrat campaign, originally for the Hillary Clinton campaign,

00:38:58.560 which we imagined was giving terrible advice, but doing it intentionally like a mole.

00:39:05.580 You know, really, they're playing for the other team, but they've infiltrated.

00:39:09.200 And, you know, I said earlier that the Biden campaign is going to start insulting and calling Trump broke down.

00:39:16.460 That feels like the mole.

00:39:18.880 Doesn't it?

00:39:20.780 Again, it's an imaginary person.

00:39:22.440 But it feels like somebody is literally giving them what they think is the worst advice.

00:39:29.560 Hey, have you thought of publicly flogging Trump in front of the public?

00:39:35.240 It's just like all terrible, terrible advice.

00:39:37.840 You'll see more of that.

00:39:40.300 Well, of course, the big news still is that Moscow attack on the theater and the mall.

00:39:46.260 I thought by now we'd have more clarity on who did it.

00:39:49.900 But ISIS claimed responsibility, and at some point people thought it was.

00:39:55.880 I reminded you that it's too early to believe ISIS, even when they claim responsibility.

00:40:03.560 Because we do know that in the Vegas shooter situation, they claimed responsibility and it wasn't them.

00:40:09.280 So we do know that ISIS claiming responsibility is a thing, even if it's not true.

00:40:15.100 That doesn't mean it wasn't ISIS, because there's evidence that they're from a, you know, sort of an ISIS area, and it's about that.

00:40:24.400 But then other people are saying it's really a Ukraine operation in secret.

00:40:30.020 And, you know, Putin seems to be taking the approach that it was Ukraine.

00:40:35.400 Now, what we don't know is if Putin knows the real answer.

00:40:42.460 What we don't know is if he does know the real answer, if he is pretending he doesn't know.

00:40:49.180 Because it would be a good excuse to get more savage on Ukraine.

00:40:54.060 Because the current situation was sort of a stalemate.

00:41:01.020 But it seems to me that Putin now has an October 7th free pass for Ukraine.

00:41:08.220 This is the problem when precedents get set.

00:41:12.320 They prime you so you only think of that precedent.

00:41:15.300 Have you ever been in a conversation about politics and Hitler came up?

00:41:20.740 I'm joking, because Hitler comes up in every conversation about politics.

00:41:24.440 Once you get a Hitler model in your mind, then it's just always there as your go-to to understand everything that has nothing to do with the Holocaust.

00:41:33.180 Likewise, the October 7th attacks, because they're in your head, when you see this attack, how many of you connected it to October 7th as in sort of a like attack?

00:41:51.980 How many of you just automatically thought, oh, this is very October 7th-ish?

00:41:57.460 Did anybody think that?

00:41:58.400 You know, the news has mentioned it, but I think people probably automatically compare them.

00:42:06.460 And here we have a country which is already primed for thinking that Israel had a moral cover for going hard against Gaza.

00:42:18.140 You know, you could argue how hard and the specifics of it.

00:42:21.180 But they had some moral cover to go hard militarily.

00:42:24.700 Does it seem a coincidence that when we'd been so primed by October 7th, giving you a free pass to be brutal, that suddenly Putin gets a free pass to be brutal with Ukraine?

00:42:42.580 Because all he has to do is say, I think it's Ukraine.

00:42:45.000 And even now, as I'm talking, probably Ukraine is getting pounded pretty hard.

00:42:51.900 Has anybody seen an update?

00:42:53.420 I heard there were cruise missiles and bombers heading toward, you know, heading toward Kiev or whatever.

00:43:02.420 I've got a feeling he might just take out the capital.

00:43:07.760 He might just turn the capital into Gaza.

00:43:09.800 I don't know how hard this is going to be, but it seems to me that for domestic reasons, Putin has to get as brutal as he possibly can.

00:43:21.680 Because he can't look weak, right?

00:43:24.900 The last thing you can do is look weak, especially when some people think it might have been Ukraine, whether it was or not, who knows.

00:43:31.720 But I think that it's going to get brutal because he got a free pass.

00:43:36.440 Now, did Ukraine do it?

00:43:40.640 Let's go through the possibilities.

00:43:44.760 Is it a coincidence that ISIS did it now and the way they did it?

00:43:52.280 How would ISIS benefit from this particular crime?

00:43:57.480 Here's the thing.

00:43:59.620 An ISIS attack, I would expect usually to be more like something blowing up.

00:44:06.440 Right?

00:44:08.700 These guys were trying to get away with it.

00:44:11.640 That's very on ISIS to try to run away and live, isn't it?

00:44:17.660 You know, it seems like the terrorists have this whole, I've got to die doing the thing.

00:44:22.340 It has to be an explosion.

00:44:23.900 I don't know why, but they seem locked into that pattern.

00:44:26.120 So when I see people doing something that's a little bit off pattern, I say to myself, hmm, that's a little off pattern for terrorist attacks.

00:44:38.180 And that doesn't mean it's not.

00:44:40.000 I mean, they may have been inspired by the October 7th thing, so there's a perfect reason that they did it the way they did it.

00:44:45.160 They may have noticed that October 7th got more attention.

00:44:48.400 But if you were ISIS, would you want to get Putin really, really mad at you right now?

00:44:55.900 Is that something that ISIS wants more of?

00:44:58.900 Does ISIS want more of Russia coming after them?

00:45:02.560 I don't think so.

00:45:05.560 It seems like that wouldn't be a good strategy.

00:45:08.760 Would it?

00:45:10.180 I mean, is it likely that that attack will make Putin say, oh, I guess, you know, wherever ISIS is mad at me, anywhere in the world, I guess I better back off?

00:45:19.520 Probably not.

00:45:21.340 So I'm not sure that ISIS would see that as a good strategy for ISIS.

00:45:25.260 By the way, the Taliban just issued a statement opposing the October 7th attack.

00:45:35.480 The Taliban.

00:45:37.720 That's right.

00:45:38.520 The Taliban.

00:45:42.920 So it could be ISIS.

00:45:46.900 I'm still saying that the indication is not.

00:45:52.200 Then the second question is, was it Ukraine?

00:45:56.100 Why would Ukraine benefit from that?

00:45:59.680 Do you think there was somebody in Ukraine who said to themselves, if we do this horrible attack in the heart of Moscow, we'll have more chance of winning the war?

00:46:10.720 Does that sound likely?

00:46:13.120 Does that sound like a good approach?

00:46:18.320 See if I can make the comments work here.

00:46:21.280 Comments stopped again.

00:46:25.260 All right.

00:46:30.600 There should be a fix coming this week for the mobile app, I'm being told.

00:46:36.100 But let me just close this and reopen it because I can't read the comments right now.

00:46:40.660 And I want to.

00:46:42.560 All right, locals, coming back to you.

00:46:45.960 Trying to see if I can see the comments refreshed.

00:46:48.460 There we are.

00:46:49.080 We got refreshed comments now.

00:46:53.200 All right.

00:46:53.980 So ISIS might have been ISIS, but it's hard to see how that's good for them.

00:46:58.380 Might have been Ukraine.

00:46:59.460 But again, it's hard to see how that would be good for them.

00:47:04.740 Because it sounds crazy.

00:47:06.800 Like, why would you give Putin a free pass to bomb the capital?

00:47:11.240 Because that's what he has.

00:47:14.040 Putin now has a free pass to destroy the capital of Ukraine, which he didn't really have before.

00:47:20.220 Because before he was like, well, I'm fighting for these areas on the border.

00:47:24.860 But if he can sell it to his own public in the world as a Ukraine op, he can take out the whole capital.

00:47:32.540 Why would Ukraine do that?

00:47:36.160 They would have to know that's going to happen.

00:47:39.180 All right.

00:47:40.300 Now let's talk about the CIA.

00:47:43.440 Again, I have no evidence that the CIA was behind it.

00:47:46.960 But would it make sense?

00:47:49.400 Would the CIA care so much if the capital of Ukraine gets bombed to rubble?

00:47:57.480 They don't care about the rest of Ukraine, apparently.

00:48:00.140 So it could be that anything that makes Putin look bad is good for the CIA.

00:48:07.120 I don't know.

00:48:08.100 But it's hard to see how anybody has a clean play here.

00:48:13.160 Because it's not obvious to me how anybody benefits from this.

00:48:19.140 Somebody's saying NATO.

00:48:20.760 How would NATO benefit from this?

00:48:24.320 I don't see it.

00:48:26.380 How would Ukraine benefit from it?

00:48:28.560 I don't see it.

00:48:31.480 How would the military-industrial complex benefit from it?

00:48:35.340 Oh, now we're talking.

00:48:37.220 Now we're talking.

00:48:38.960 There is one entity that would make a ton of money.

00:48:42.960 It's our own military-industrial complex.

00:48:46.580 Who does the bidding of our industrial-military complex?

00:48:49.820 Well, depending who you're listening to, many people would say the CIA is basically partners

00:48:56.280 with our military-industrial complex.

00:48:59.920 So if you see something that looks like it would make a lot of money for American military-industrial

00:49:06.840 complex people, and you can't find anybody else who seems to have an obvious way to benefit

00:49:12.060 from it, I'm going to go with a working assumption that we did it.

00:49:19.400 I don't have evidence for that.

00:49:21.280 No evidence whatsoever.

00:49:23.460 But a working assumption is that we're guilty.

00:49:26.980 It looks like, you know, it may have been ISIS-related people or something, but that doesn't mean

00:49:37.380 that's, you know, not who's behind it.

00:49:40.480 And, yeah, it looks like we did it by proxy, exactly.

00:49:46.500 Now, that doesn't mean I'm right.

00:49:48.500 Remember, we're still in the deep fog of war.

00:49:50.960 So anything could be true, all right?

00:49:55.660 I have very low confidence in anything that anybody says, including me, about this situation.

00:50:02.540 But if you're trying to figure it out logically, I would rule out the people who don't benefit.

00:50:09.340 I don't see Ukraine benefit.

00:50:11.900 I don't see ISIS benefit.

00:50:14.920 I don't see NATO benefit.

00:50:16.720 I only see the military-industrial manufacturer's benefit.

00:50:25.420 So follow the money.

00:50:28.500 All right.

00:50:29.680 And how in the world did Russia not figure out exactly who the problem is?

00:50:35.160 Because you know they're torturing these guys, right?

00:50:37.020 The guys they caught.

00:50:37.820 Russia benefits.

00:50:48.580 Oh, so some of you are thinking that Russia did it to himself.

00:50:51.900 You think Putin did it to himself?

00:50:54.720 I think that's the least likely explanation.

00:50:58.440 Of all the explanations I'd put, that's sort of Michelle Obama is going to run for president

00:51:04.300 kind of thinking.

00:51:06.460 It's just too cartoonish.

00:51:09.260 It's cartoonish.

00:51:11.500 Yeah.

00:51:11.780 Thinking that Michelle Obama is going to run for president is a cartoon opinion.

00:51:16.840 But thinking that Putin did a terrorist act in his own heart of his own country,

00:51:22.520 that's a little bit cartoonish.

00:51:25.700 Yeah.

00:51:26.120 He's not going to do something that makes him look weak and vulnerable.

00:51:31.460 I don't see that.

00:51:32.420 Yeah.

00:51:35.200 All right.

00:51:38.420 I'm not sure the terrorists know who recruited them, which, if they don't know who recruited

00:51:44.860 them, that kind of rules out ISIS, doesn't it?

00:51:49.040 If that's true.

00:51:51.120 Let me test this.

00:51:52.780 I'm just thinking of it right now.

00:51:54.180 If it's true that they don't know who recruited them, does that suggest ISIS?

00:51:59.840 Because doesn't ISIS recruit people who are already on their side?

00:52:09.820 It feels like these guys had to get talked into it with money.

00:52:15.000 ISIS didn't have any believers who are willing to do it for free?

00:52:19.380 I don't know.

00:52:19.820 Well, this has our CIA written all over it, but it doesn't mean it's true.

00:52:26.100 It's impossible to know at this point.

00:52:27.960 All right.

00:52:33.340 Let me ask you a question.

00:52:35.760 If you're using other social media, especially, have any of you who are, let's say, pro-Trump,

00:52:42.520 seen a sudden huge decrease in Trump-related social media?

00:52:51.060 So does anybody feel like they got siloed and they're just not seeing any Trump stuff?

00:52:57.780 I'm just going to put that out there.

00:53:00.120 Because I heard some reports, very anecdotal, that maybe there was some new round of suppression

00:53:07.620 coming.

00:53:08.600 So I'm looking at your comments.

00:53:10.220 Oh, I see a whole round of yeses.

00:53:12.820 Now, are you seeing it on the X platform?

00:53:15.320 Because I only use X, so I haven't really noticed.

00:53:22.400 You think that Trump material is being throttled.

00:53:26.260 I'm just seeing a wall of yes.

00:53:29.080 So on Facebook, Facebook and Instagram, well, wow.

00:53:37.180 People are confirming it like crazy.

00:53:39.920 It's just a wall of yes.

00:53:41.160 So a lot of people are just not seeing Trump stuff now.

00:53:47.000 Interesting.

00:53:48.220 Do you know what could really get Trump elected?

00:53:52.100 Suppressing his stuff.

00:53:53.980 That could really help him.

00:53:56.040 I feel like everything they're doing is somehow related to be...

00:54:00.160 Oh, here's an opinion.

00:54:02.320 Some Chechen connection.

00:54:09.720 Bombings to be terrorists.

00:54:13.060 Oh, so are you saying that you think Putin ginned up reasons to go against the Chechens

00:54:20.380 so it wouldn't be that unusual if he did a false flag?

00:54:23.620 Is that what you're suggesting?

00:54:24.620 All right, I will put that suggestion in the hopper that there's some suggestion that Putin

00:54:34.940 has done a false flag in the past on a big issue, the Chechen situation.

00:54:40.420 But I don't think it's confirmed that he was a false flag in either case.

00:54:45.400 I'm still going to put that at the bottom of the list.

00:54:48.040 I think that Putin doing it himself has got to be the least likely possibility.

00:54:59.040 All right.

00:55:01.380 Again, Elon Musk making news, as he always does.

00:55:05.520 He tweeted or posted that,

00:55:08.460 please forward links to X posts to your friends so they know what's actually happening.

00:55:13.340 Some people still believe the legacy media.

00:55:15.920 Now, what's the key word there?

00:55:20.240 What's the key persuasion word in this sentence?

00:55:23.240 Some people still believe the legacy media.

00:55:25.780 What's the key word?

00:55:27.260 The persuasion word.

00:55:30.680 This one's easy.

00:55:33.600 Which word is the persuasion?

00:55:34.980 I think there's just a delay in the comments.

00:55:37.600 The persuasion word, I'll just tell you.

00:55:41.780 Oh, I guess it wasn't as obvious as I thought it would be.

00:55:44.840 Some people are saying legacy.

00:55:46.580 The correct answer is still.

00:55:49.580 If you took the word still, it completely loses its power.

00:55:54.740 Watch this.

00:55:55.920 Here's without the word still.

00:55:58.380 Some people believe the legacy media.

00:56:03.680 And then what do you say if you hear that?

00:56:07.020 I'll tell you what I say.

00:56:08.880 I say, oh, you mean, you know, the accurate media I listen to?

00:56:13.340 Of course I believe it.

00:56:15.260 Why wouldn't I?

00:56:16.440 There's Elon Musk being a troll and right winger or something.

00:56:21.500 Now, the legacy part isn't the insult you think it is because people don't know what that means.

00:56:28.900 Go on the street and ask people to define legacy.

00:56:32.340 Good luck.

00:56:33.620 They don't even know what the word means.

00:56:35.080 They literally don't know what the word means.

00:56:38.020 It's just something that, you know, those of us who like to talk about stuff in public, we know what it means.

00:56:43.740 And if you're a technologist who's got legacy computing systems, you know what it means in that context.

00:56:50.220 But people don't really know what it means to have legacy media.

00:56:53.660 What percentage of the of the general population even knows what legacy media means?

00:56:59.380 20 percent tops.

00:57:02.500 It's not a lot.

00:57:04.240 Yeah.

00:57:04.840 So the legacy is not the keyword.

00:57:07.180 Keyword is still because still makes you think past the sale.

00:57:12.720 Still is the active word.

00:57:14.920 Because it tells you that you're going to be there and other people have already gotten there first.

00:57:22.960 What's that called?

00:57:25.620 The high ground maneuver.

00:57:27.480 Thank you very much.

00:57:29.140 It's the high ground.

00:57:30.560 By suggesting that some people have gotten to where you're going to get to eventually, but they got there first,

00:57:37.560 puts you in the position of still being in the weeds and we know where you're going to end up.

00:57:43.040 Oh, you're going to end up with us.

00:57:45.160 Eventually.

00:57:46.260 But at the moment, you're still in the weeds.

00:57:50.440 That's persuasion.

00:57:52.240 Really good persuasion.

00:57:54.740 Yeah.

00:57:55.100 I use the word still in my version of this when I mock people who come at me online.

00:58:02.720 I often can make them go away forever by saying, you still, you still, you think the news is real?

00:58:10.680 Or you still believe the news in 2024?

00:58:12.960 If you say you think the news is real in 2024?

00:58:17.720 It's suggesting that they haven't caught up, even without the word still.

00:58:23.560 You put it in the form of a question and it suggests you haven't caught up to me yet.

00:58:28.600 That's the high ground maneuver.

00:58:31.140 People can't resist the high ground because they don't want to feel that they're a lower level of awareness than somebody they're talking with.

00:58:38.280 They can disagree about facts, but when you say I'm at a higher level of awareness and you'll get there, it really gets to people.

00:58:48.460 That really gets you on the insides.

00:58:50.660 But, you know, disagreeing about a fact is just you get to yell at each other.

00:58:54.980 It doesn't really have that impact.

00:58:57.860 Yeah, still drinking in the morning.

00:59:00.500 That's another one.

00:59:01.560 All right.

00:59:03.720 I'm trying to understand this Mike Gallagher story, who's resigning from Congress.

00:59:12.280 But he chose a resignation date that makes it impossible to replace him in time, which means they're going to be operating at a deficit and the margin will get smaller.

00:59:25.840 And so maybe the Republicans will lose control.

00:59:29.680 And if the Republicans lose control.

00:59:33.560 Here's what Roger Stone warns.

00:59:36.600 He says a billionaire Paul Singer.

00:59:38.900 Now, this is Roger Stone.

00:59:40.960 So.

00:59:42.500 I can't confirm the facts.

00:59:44.620 I'm giving you his opinion.

00:59:47.320 So Roger Stone says billionaire Paul Singer who paid for the original Steele dossier.

00:59:52.580 Is that is that an evidence?

00:59:56.480 Did the billionaire Paul Singer pay for the Steele dossier?

01:00:00.440 I don't remember that.

01:00:02.720 Can you confirm that in the comments?

01:00:08.420 Well, OK.

01:00:11.900 But anyway, Roger Stone is certainly plugged in.

01:00:14.900 So he's saying.

01:00:18.160 That this billionaire Paul Singer paid for the original Steele dossier and the Roger predicts that he will be exposed.

01:00:25.840 He's exposed as a man financing the RINO effort to turn over control of the House to the Democrats.

01:00:32.600 And here's the key part.

01:00:34.580 Who will then pass a law barring Trump from running for president?

01:00:39.640 Whoa.

01:00:41.400 Could that be true?

01:00:42.520 Could it be true that a billionaire could buy off just a few politicians because you only have to get a few?

01:00:52.380 And if they leave, Democrats get control of everything before the election.

01:00:57.020 And if they control everything, they pass a law that says somebody accused of insurrection can't run for president.

01:01:05.140 And then they take him out.

01:01:09.020 Now, if you were a billionaire who cared most about Trump not being the president,

01:01:15.320 because if Trump is president, it might take down your whole operation.

01:01:19.840 Do you think that you would be willing to spend, oh, I don't know, several million dollars to make sure that Trump can't win?

01:01:34.800 You might.

01:01:36.140 Now, you might say to me, Scott, that's crazy because he's a Republican.

01:01:41.540 So why would a Republican want the Democrats to have control of everything?

01:01:46.980 Well, he's smart.

01:01:49.660 Nobody says he's not smart.

01:01:51.940 So I would say it's because he knows the Republicans are going to be in charge if Trump wins.

01:01:58.400 And so this is his one chance to keep Trump out of office.

01:02:02.720 And probably Republicans will do fine, you know, in the election.

01:02:07.400 They might take back power, at least in one house.

01:02:10.040 So, I don't know.

01:02:15.460 I'm going to stop short of saying that this is a confirmed plan.

01:02:21.400 But, you know, as I often say, design is destiny.

01:02:28.800 If the design of what we see is going to give us that outcome, it's hard to imagine that it's not intentional.

01:02:37.280 You know what I mean?

01:02:38.260 Because I don't believe that Mike Gallagher has given his reasons for his suspicious timing of leaving.

01:02:48.460 Doesn't it sound like he owes a description of why?

01:02:52.500 And I haven't heard it.

01:02:54.500 But I don't want to blame him of, you know, taking money if that's not the case.

01:02:59.340 But I think we're all going to be watching the next year to see where Mike Gallagher ends up.

01:03:06.060 And does he end up in some entity that has some connection to billionaire Paul Singer?

01:03:13.880 I don't know.

01:03:15.040 I guess I don't embrace this theory fully.

01:03:17.800 But there's certainly enough questions that this is in the mix.

01:03:23.080 You can't rule it out.

01:03:25.000 So, let's say there's nothing about Roger Stone's opinion that you could rule out as being obviously wrong.

01:03:33.140 Right?

01:03:35.140 It could be true.

01:03:36.080 It could not be true.

01:03:37.080 But it's not obviously wrong.

01:03:39.900 So, you know, that's something.

01:03:44.540 All right.

01:03:45.280 I heard from one of my followers on X, maybe on here as well, George Leperche.

01:03:54.300 He said to me that ever since I posted this, and it's something I wrote on Facebook, my liberal friends have gotten completely quiet on the political front.

01:04:05.600 Nicely done.

01:04:07.600 So, I'm going to read you.

01:04:09.840 You've heard this before.

01:04:11.980 But I'm going to read it to you because now it seems to be a little bit tested.

01:04:17.240 And maybe you'd want to try it too.

01:04:19.540 So, one of my posts was levels of awareness in politics.

01:04:22.600 And by the way, this was written as a high ground maneuver.

01:04:28.240 This is the high ground.

01:04:30.020 So, listen for the persuasion, which tells you if you're not thinking in the way I'm going to describe, well, you might be a little bit behind the rest of us.

01:04:41.660 It's going to be just like Elon Musk's still believe the legacy media.

01:04:45.920 It should, if I wrote it correctly, it should make you feel, oh, I guess I need to catch up with everybody.

01:04:54.280 All right.

01:04:56.620 I said levels of awareness in politics.

01:04:58.800 Level one.

01:04:59.960 At level one, you believe they're the preferred news source.

01:05:03.560 So, you believe your news is true.

01:05:05.880 And you don't sample any other sources.

01:05:08.360 You're not even aware of any other arguments.

01:05:10.280 You just watch MSNBC, and that's what you believe is true.

01:05:14.560 It's level one.

01:05:16.280 Level two, a little bit higher.

01:05:20.520 You sample news from multiple sources, but you still believe that your source is the real one.

01:05:26.200 And you think, oh, yeah, I hear the other story, but that's from the fake news.

01:05:30.040 So, that's level two.

01:05:31.820 At level three, you become aware that all news is fake everywhere, at least in the limited way of leaving out context.

01:05:40.360 The facts might be true, but they might be out of context.

01:05:43.900 And you realize that, wait a minute, it's both sides.

01:05:47.400 Both sides do this.

01:05:49.700 And then you're up, that's when you're at level three, when you realize that the news from everywhere is motivated more than you thought.

01:05:57.920 All right.

01:05:58.160 Level four is where you understand that none of our experts are reliable.

01:06:04.160 No, you can't pick the good expert.

01:06:06.620 You do not have that power.

01:06:08.220 And they're not reliable.

01:06:12.620 We used to think they were, but they're absolutely not.

01:06:15.800 Some of the experts might be right, but none can be trusted without verification.

01:06:20.060 It's because of the distortion of money.

01:06:21.800 All of the experts pretty much have some kind of monetary stake.

01:06:30.420 So, you can't really believe people have a monetary stake.

01:06:33.420 But at level five, you start to see the gears of the machine.

01:06:38.980 I call it Mike Benz style.

01:06:40.840 So, if you don't know Mike Benz, you should follow him on X.

01:06:44.380 And you will learn about the machinery, the NGOs, the funding, the Atlantic Council, the Carlisle Group, and all these other entities that make everything happen.

01:06:55.920 So, once you see the gears of the machine, you know how the wrap-up smear works, you know how the fake news works, you know that the watchdogs are just essentially, they're basically pit bulls for the Democrats.

01:07:12.140 So, once you learn all that, you can see the gears of the machine.

01:07:17.340 That's level five.

01:07:21.840 And then you also realize that we're probably under the control of our intelligence professionals, and that's the nature of the country.

01:07:29.640 If you still think we're a democratic federal republic, then you're not at level five.

01:07:37.200 So, I think I'm at at least at level five, because I don't believe any of the news.

01:07:44.060 I don't think our experts are credible.

01:07:47.240 And it seems to me that the country is not a republic in any way.

01:07:53.980 And then at level six, this is the level where you're dead because you know too much, also known as the Epstein level.

01:08:00.500 Now, do you think that this would shut up somebody who was arguing with you because they watched MSNBC and they got the right answer?

01:08:09.900 It might.

01:08:11.640 It might.

01:08:13.080 Because when people realize that they're arguing from a lower level of awareness, where they believe the things that their own side tells them, it's actually embarrassing.

01:08:24.020 Just think about this.

01:08:25.980 Imagine me coming into your conversation and saying, you still believe the news?

01:08:34.860 And now, what do people always say when you say, do you still believe the news?

01:08:39.900 They always say, but what about Fox News?

01:08:44.320 They're sometimes wrong too.

01:08:47.140 And then you say, I didn't say there was a good one.

01:08:51.540 I'm just mocking you for believing any news.

01:08:54.220 But what about Fox News?

01:08:55.640 No, I'm not saying there's a good one.

01:08:58.200 You have to get to my level where everything is spun.

01:09:02.880 Everything is spun all the time.

01:09:06.020 Want to hear an example?

01:09:07.880 You know that quote from, what's his name?

01:09:14.340 Who's the wet works guy?

01:09:16.620 Carville.

01:09:16.960 So James Carville was talking to Anderson Cooper.

01:09:21.420 And he said that the Democrats needed to go harder, you know, with the dirty tricks and advertising and marketing.

01:09:29.160 And they need to do more of what he called wet work.

01:09:33.420 And what he described the wet work as is the basically the really dirty campaign ads.

01:09:40.980 Now, Anderson Cooper laughed, let's say, awkwardly because he knew he was talking to somebody on his own team, Democrats.

01:09:50.580 And here's this Democrat saying wet works when we're in the context of people talking about trying to assassinate RFK Jr.

01:10:00.180 And Trump as well.

01:10:01.500 So immediately, the people on the right leapt to the conclusion that what Carville was really saying is assassinate Trump.

01:10:12.600 That didn't happen.

01:10:13.720 How many of you think that Carville was secretly trying to send the message to assassinate Trump?

01:10:20.620 Did you believe your own news?

01:10:23.960 If you believed your own news, that story?

01:10:28.120 No.

01:10:28.840 He defined his terms immediately.

01:10:31.760 There was no delay.

01:10:33.280 If you hear it in a context like the fine people hoax, the fine people hoax is exactly the same.

01:10:39.220 Where you say the thing that would be real easy to take out of context, but you know immediately that it could be taken out of context.

01:10:49.580 So you fix it immediately.

01:10:51.640 He said, no, wet works means, yes, it's taken from the colorful language of the CIA whacking people.

01:10:59.020 But this context, it means just the advertising.

01:11:02.640 He said it directly.

01:11:04.700 He said it immediately.

01:11:06.380 And there's no ambiguity to that at all.

01:11:09.220 But if your news told you that he was suggesting killing Trump, that didn't happen.

01:11:17.940 So don't believe your own news.

01:11:19.960 Don't believe the other news.

01:11:21.700 Don't believe any of the news.

01:11:23.540 It's a spin situation.

01:11:26.880 All right.

01:11:27.460 And that, ladies and gentlemen, brings me to the incredible conclusion of the best live stream you're going to see today.

01:11:34.680 Thanks for joining, everybody on the X and Rumble and YouTube platforms.

01:11:42.140 I'm going to say a few words to the local subscribers after I log off.

01:11:46.860 I'll start another stream immediately just to do a little closing.

01:11:51.040 Thank you.

01:11:52.320 And.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - March 24, 2024

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