Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2429 CWSA 03⧸30⧸24

00:00:00.000 So tank your chalice is dying, a canteen jug or flask, a vessel of any kind, fill it with your favorite liquid.

00:00:05.880 I like coffee.

00:00:07.200 And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better.

00:00:11.900 It's called the simultaneous sip.

00:00:14.360 And it happens now.

00:00:15.180 Go.

00:00:19.340 Oh, God.

00:00:20.960 I feel so bad for the people who didn't sip with us.

00:00:24.640 Don't you?

00:00:25.280 The camaraderie, the fellowship, which is sort of a racist term, not racist, a sexist term.

00:00:32.700 But wow, was it good.

00:00:35.800 Well, maybe next time you can catch up.

00:00:38.320 If you were subscribing to the Dilbert Reborn comic that exists only to subscribers on X and the Locals platform, scottadams.locals.com,

00:00:48.620 you would get to see a comic in which the boss goes blind by looking at the eclipse.

00:00:53.300 But he is quickly repaired by getting a Neuralink chip in his head to regain his eyesight.

00:01:01.540 So that's what you're missing in the Dilbert Reborn comic.

00:01:06.120 That'll happen in a few days.

00:01:08.320 I have a question.

00:01:09.920 Can anybody answer this question?

00:01:11.400 I just keep forgetting to ask.

00:01:12.820 Look, my experience on the X platform is much diminished because a lot of the really interesting things that people connect to,

00:01:22.160 I'm not allowed to see.

00:01:24.720 Do you know why?

00:01:26.240 Why is it that when I look at stuff, it says you're unable to view this post because this account owner limits who can view their posts?

00:01:34.640 What does that mean?

00:01:35.600 Does that mean that somebody has blocked me or am I on a group block?

00:01:53.820 It means the other person blocked you?

00:01:55.820 I think it must be like a big block.

00:02:01.580 It can't be just because it happens so often.

00:02:04.080 I know it's not people who block me personally.

00:02:06.440 So it's a block list thing, right?

00:02:09.280 That's what I thought.

00:02:10.780 Yeah, so that's how I get siloed.

00:02:12.600 We'll talk more about that, about people like me getting siloed.

00:02:15.860 Well, there's a police are using something they call a GPS tracking darts to tag fleeing vehicles.

00:02:24.360 They don't have to do the pursuit.

00:02:26.240 They can just hit them with a GPS dart.

00:02:29.940 Now, how much, what's a locked account?

00:02:36.860 A private account?

00:02:38.520 What's a private account on X?

00:02:41.160 I don't even know what that is.

00:02:45.860 Hmm.

00:02:47.260 Interesting.

00:02:48.880 All right.

00:02:52.220 All I know is I want one.

00:02:55.180 Didn't you ever want to hit a car with a GPS dart?

00:02:58.680 You just see a car going by and you're like, I'd like to know where that car is going.

00:03:05.620 And you just track it.

00:03:07.080 Come on, that would be fun.

00:03:08.320 We all want to do that.

00:03:09.460 GPS darts for everybody.

00:03:10.940 Well, MIT chemical engineers figured out a way to more efficiently harvest CO2 and turn

00:03:19.300 it into chemical precursors for useful compounds like ethanol and other fuels.

00:03:25.920 Here's my prediction about CO2.

00:03:29.140 No matter what it's doing to the climate, I believe these technologies will allow people

00:03:35.080 to mine the atmosphere.

00:03:36.780 In other words, people will be sucking CO2 out of the air economically because you can

00:03:45.320 turn it into products.

00:03:48.000 So I'm pretty sure at some point in our history, we're going to run out of CO2 because people

00:03:54.820 will literally turn on a machine, suck it out of the air, turn it into ethanol in the

00:03:59.960 garage and sell it or use it in a car or something.

00:04:03.280 Imagine if you could fuel your car by sucking stuff out of the air economically.

00:04:10.360 That'd be kind of cool.

00:04:11.640 We might be getting there.

00:04:14.100 Did you see the update on that container ship captain who was on the big boat that hit the

00:04:19.980 bridge in Baltimore?

00:04:22.480 Turns out the captain did a great job or like really good, like way above what you'd expect.

00:04:28.540 Apparently, the time it took from losing power to closing the bridge was measured in seconds.

00:04:41.120 Was it the pilot or the pilot or the captain?

00:04:46.180 But whoever it was, was in charge.

00:04:48.300 Somebody's saying the pilot.

00:04:49.380 So I guess that's a different person.

00:04:51.260 The pilot immediately, so let me see if I get this right.

00:04:57.240 The pilot is who gets on the ship when you're close to port, right?

00:05:02.400 So the pilot's not the captain.

00:05:04.200 That's somebody who gets on just for the local, the last part of the port trip, right?

00:05:09.200 Okay.

00:05:09.440 So the local pilot immediately called the police or the harbor or somebody.

00:05:20.560 And the police immediately, this is the impressive part.

00:05:24.480 The police, it looked like they could tell, maybe they have a map of where all their vehicles are,

00:05:31.060 but they could tell which police officers were closer to each side of the bridge.

00:05:34.700 So they just very quickly got police officers on both sides of the bridge and closed it.

00:05:40.240 So the entire extended time between losing power and effectively closing the bridge from traffic was 153 seconds.

00:05:53.800 That's pretty good.

00:05:55.800 My God.

00:05:57.700 That's like incredible.

00:05:59.920 You know, I hate to say there's anything good about a tragedy.

00:06:03.020 Yeah.

00:06:05.440 Yeah.

00:06:06.460 But it's worth calling out that there were a handful of people who did one hell of a job saving lives.

00:06:13.380 So let's just put that in the not everything is bad all the time category.

00:06:19.720 All right.

00:06:20.240 I've got a question.

00:06:21.120 I've been fascinated with Mike Cernovich's takes on legalization of weed.

00:06:28.720 He's not so much for the legalization.

00:06:31.160 And one of the things he talks about is the psychotic breaks that people are having.

00:06:38.240 So people are going to emergency rooms with just mental breakdowns from weed.

00:06:43.660 Now, he says that basically all the medical professionals can confirm this is happening from the EMTs to the emergency rooms.

00:06:52.960 Basically, everybody who's in that part of the world in the medical world would see it.

00:06:58.960 And there's a lot of it.

00:07:00.600 But here's my question.

00:07:01.880 Why have I never seen it or even heard of it?

00:07:07.180 Do any of you know anybody who had a psychotic breakdown from weed?

00:07:12.100 And if you do, do you know that's all they had?

00:07:16.140 And do you know they didn't have a problem before they took the weed?

00:07:18.800 Because I've never heard of it.

00:07:22.260 Now, one of the reasons I may have never heard of it is because of, you know, it might be a generational thing.

00:07:30.020 I'm pretty sure there was no such thing when I was a kid or when I was young.

00:07:35.000 I've never heard of it.

00:07:36.400 You know, nobody I know had that problem.

00:07:38.500 So one of the filters I use on reality is if my observation does not match the claim or the science, I put a pin in it and say, OK, this I need my observation to match it.

00:07:54.160 Otherwise, I'm not convinced.

00:07:55.860 But one of the reasons my observation might not match is that in my day we were tougher and the weed was weaker.

00:08:03.380 So I think we were mentally tougher in my day.

00:08:08.460 Maybe every generation says that.

00:08:10.220 I don't know.

00:08:10.800 It could be just an old person thing I'm saying.

00:08:13.260 But I think we could bounce back from basically everything easier.

00:08:18.920 We didn't have our brains just corroded with TikTok all day long so that one more thing can push you over the edge.

00:08:26.040 Right.

00:08:26.160 So so it may be that the weed was weaker and the people were stronger and that now this is a new thing because the people are already whacked down on social media and they're on the edge and the weed is stronger and it pushes them over.

00:08:39.680 But I would like to put this hypothesis out there.

00:08:43.520 Do you remember during COVID when there were all these people who they said died of COVID?

00:08:51.020 And it turns out that maybe they died with COVID.

00:08:54.660 So the correlation could be backwards, which is that people who are having mental struggles are far more likely to look for solutions than people not having any struggle.

00:09:07.540 So you might expect that that group would be the people who are going to have a mental break might be looking for weed because they might be having a mental break.

00:09:17.520 You know, they might know they're fragile and it could be that that's the wrong way to handle it.

00:09:22.700 It could be that they instead of helping, it makes it worse.

00:09:26.040 Now, that would be the difference between indica and sativa.

00:09:31.200 So the other thing I say is if you smoke weed and you don't really know the difference between indica and sativa, the two major flavors of of weed, because they affect you differently.

00:09:42.940 One would definitely give you a mental break.

00:09:45.460 I could see that easily.

00:09:46.680 The other one would make you nap and happy.

00:09:50.600 So the other thing we have to look at is, is everybody who had a mental break, did they do sativa?

00:09:56.880 And did they only do sativa?

00:09:59.440 Was there nothing else in their system that might have been a contributing factor?

00:10:04.800 Probably not.

00:10:06.260 So I suspect that some of it is bad counting.

00:10:10.440 But some of it could be because the weed is stronger and the people are weaker.

00:10:13.920 So it might be true.

00:10:15.020 I've just never seen it.

00:10:17.680 Well, Stephen A. Smith and Mark Cuban are body switching, at least in the stereotypical way.

00:10:25.660 You know, if you were to say, all right, tell me how a stereotypical white person thinks, and then tell me how a stereotypical black person thinks.

00:10:33.800 Well, they just switch bodies, because Stephen A. Smith keeps saying things that make perfect sense and are not woke.

00:10:44.160 And don't seem to be related to any kind of team play.

00:10:48.140 In other words, Stephen A. Smith, in my view, has escaped the matrix, you know, to use Andrew Tate's terminology.

00:10:57.400 I think he's a free person.

00:10:59.400 I think he's giving opinions that just sound like a smart person talking.

00:11:04.900 When do you ever see that in today's world?

00:11:10.860 When does talking about things that are, you know, political topics?

00:11:14.400 When do you see somebody who's just a smart person talking?

00:11:17.200 Well, that's how he comes off to me.

00:11:20.520 And, you know, I'm not going to say the stupid thing.

00:11:22.900 I don't see color, because everybody does.

00:11:25.340 But, boy, is he, he's making himself look good.

00:11:31.380 So, all credit to him for simply speaking out.

00:11:34.500 And it can't be easy, because there must be plenty of people who are giving him a tough time.

00:11:38.380 So, it's not easy.

00:11:40.420 So, let's give him a little credit for that.

00:11:44.020 So, Stephen A. Smith is saying that equity is basically nonsense, and that you need to work for what you get.

00:11:51.420 Mark Cuban, we'll talk about him in a moment, separately.

00:11:55.340 I was asking on the X platform who has the best list of hoaxes, because I'm getting exhausted explaining all the same debunks to people who haven't heard it.

00:12:08.120 So, I thought, wouldn't it be good just to have, like, not just a list of hoaxes, but, you know, a paragraph or two explaining why they're hoaxes.

00:12:16.800 And I realized there isn't any way to do it.

00:12:21.220 It seems like an easy thing, right?

00:12:22.880 Well, somebody just put together a list of the hoaxes, and then put a little paragraph explaining what's wrong with them.

00:12:29.600 Here's why it's impossible.

00:12:32.000 We don't agree what the hoaxes are.

00:12:35.380 And you only have to be wrong once for your whole list to be debunked.

00:12:39.880 So, if I ask somebody, hey, can you put together a list of hoaxes?

00:12:45.900 There'll be 19 that are definitely hoaxes, in my opinion.

00:12:49.680 Again, the other problem is it's subjective.

00:12:51.940 And then there will be one that just came from, you know, QAnon or something.

00:12:56.980 And I'll be like, I can't really use that, because you put that one poison pill on your list.

00:13:02.920 And I believe if you looked at anybody's list that you didn't make yourself, there'd be a poison pill, subjectively, meaning it's something that you wouldn't want to promote.

00:13:15.100 So, I don't think anybody could make me a list of hoaxes that I could promote, because I'm guaranteeing that at least one of the things on the list will be something I look at and go, hmm, you think that's a hoax, but I think maybe you're the one who's wrong on this one.

00:13:31.460 So, there's actually no way to get there from here, because you couldn't, there's no way you could get any of us to agree on 20 hoaxes.

00:13:39.540 You know, if you look at my hoax list, I would say that almost all of you agree with everything on my list.

00:13:47.160 So, why don't we use that one?

00:13:49.900 Here's why.

00:13:51.380 Because the first person who used it would add one.

00:13:53.980 Oh, you missed one.

00:13:55.480 That's what mostly I hear.

00:13:57.160 Oh, you missed a few.

00:13:58.880 But no, I didn't miss them.

00:14:00.340 I chose not to put them because they were weak.

00:14:03.880 And maybe they're not hoaxes.

00:14:05.600 Maybe you're the one getting hoaxed.

00:14:07.220 So, I'm not saying that I'm right.

00:14:09.700 I'm saying the opposite of that.

00:14:11.820 I'm saying that we can't tell who's right, and so it's impossible for the political right to make a hoax list, because you would put hoaxes on it.

00:14:22.660 And that's the opposite of a debunking list.

00:14:25.600 So, you actually can't get there from here, because nobody would agree what the list is.

00:14:30.340 Yeah, no, top ten isn't going to work either.

00:14:34.920 So, I think it's just naturally unavailable to us, which is weird.

00:14:40.240 Speaking of hoaxes, would you be surprised to hear that smart people think that our jobs data is all made up?

00:14:47.080 No, you wouldn't.

00:14:51.440 No, you wouldn't be surprised at that at all, because we can all see the gears of the machine.

00:14:56.700 We've got a Democrat government, and we've got an election year, and the economy is going to be among the top things.

00:15:05.600 So, no, there's a guaranteed effect that the Biden administration would exaggerate.

00:15:12.420 So, I'm looking at an Adrian Norman post, and some of the things he says, he says, the new data confirms that Biden has been lying about job growth.

00:15:21.900 So, here's some of the claims from Adrian, that all new jobs since February 23 have been part-time.

00:15:29.960 Well, I don't know.

00:15:30.960 That's not true.

00:15:31.620 It's not all new jobs, but it might be the difference.

00:15:35.360 You know, the difference might be a lot of part-time jobs.

00:15:38.400 But certainly, a lot of people got, people who switched jobs certainly got into full-time work in many cases.

00:15:45.200 And 5 million unemployed workers simply don't exist, so they just erase unemployed people so they don't have to count them.

00:15:54.160 And the average monthly payroll increase in 23 was just $130,000.

00:15:59.020 So, basically, the idea is that in a variety of ways, in a variety of ways, those numbers are faked.

00:16:07.140 Does anybody doubt that?

00:16:09.380 Now, I don't know if these specific examples are, you know, giving the full picture.

00:16:13.980 But I believe it.

00:16:17.100 Yeah, I don't think any major numbers from the government are real.

00:16:21.520 None.

00:16:23.020 Because we really can't measure anything complicated.

00:16:27.320 Did you know that?

00:16:29.440 We don't have the ability as human beings to measure anything complicated.

00:16:35.200 We really can't tell if the economy is doing better or worse.

00:16:39.760 You really can't.

00:16:41.060 Now, I always look at, remember I told you, probably started saying this five years ago, that if there's one thing you could look at to know if the economy is doing well, what did I always say?

00:16:53.320 I said, well, there's one gold standard variable you can look at.

00:16:58.740 That's the one.

00:16:59.480 That is the one that will tell you where we're going.

00:17:04.320 Employment.

00:17:06.860 So, now I feel like a big old dope because the employment months aren't even real.

00:17:12.660 I told you it was the only thing that you could depend on for telling you if the economy is okay.

00:17:18.660 And apparently you can't depend on that either.

00:17:22.860 The last thing you could depend on just disappeared.

00:17:27.120 Because we know it's a lie.

00:17:29.040 I suppose if you saw a lot of unemployed people who had qualifications for jobs, that would be a problem.

00:17:37.920 Let me ask you, how many of you know a long-term unemployed person who has a skill?

00:17:44.380 I don't know any.

00:17:47.900 Do any of you know any?

00:17:49.320 Long-term unemployed with a skill.

00:17:55.480 Do you know any?

00:17:56.360 Because I would think that our current economy would allow zero of them to exist.

00:18:02.720 Oh, somebody was saying it's yourself.

00:18:06.480 Do you have a skill that doesn't work where you live?

00:18:10.160 Did something change?

00:18:12.760 There's a programmer.

00:18:14.020 There's a long-term unemployed programmer.

00:18:17.280 Really?

00:18:17.800 Scott said inflation was going to be fine.

00:18:28.100 No, I never said that.

00:18:30.720 Most of the things I get criticized for are literally hallucinations.

00:18:34.700 Somebody saying that I said that inflation would be fine because of job numbers.

00:18:40.240 That's the opposite.

00:18:41.300 If jobs are good, that's bad for inflation.

00:18:45.860 I never would have said what you hallucinated I said.

00:18:49.220 How did you hallucinate that?

00:18:50.400 That's the opposite of economics.

00:18:52.300 Literally anybody knows that.

00:18:54.820 And you think I said the opposite of that?

00:18:57.760 Check yourself.

00:18:59.400 Anyway.

00:19:01.200 So we can't trust that.

00:19:02.440 Larry David was on CNN having a TDS moment.

00:19:07.260 But there's a thing I do that I recommend to you.

00:19:10.580 If you see somebody you know is having a TDS moment or somebody you know is going to lie,

00:19:15.640 watch it first with the sound off.

00:19:18.940 And then see if you can find the moment where they're lying.

00:19:22.340 And I'll tell you how.

00:19:23.740 And then play it with the sound on and see if you spotted it.

00:19:28.120 So I did that.

00:19:29.140 I've been doing that lately.

00:19:30.180 So I did that with the Larry David thing.

00:19:32.440 So I turned it off.

00:19:34.000 And I watched his eyes.

00:19:36.620 So his eyes were mostly furled down.

00:19:39.760 And he would be like, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:19:44.120 You could tell he was angry.

00:19:46.520 You know, like actually angry, not just talking.

00:19:49.060 And then he suddenly opened his eyes.

00:19:53.900 And he goes, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:19:57.300 So I stop and I go back to hear what's the difference between the open eyes

00:20:02.300 and the closed eyes and the closed eyes.

00:20:03.680 The closed eyes were his opinion on Trump as a person.

00:20:09.180 Is his opinion a lie?

00:20:12.700 No, opinions are not lies.

00:20:14.580 Opinions are not lies.

00:20:15.600 So his face was compatible with his opinion.

00:20:19.780 He said, oh, he's a terrible, terrible baby eating cannibal or whatever he said.

00:20:24.620 And his eyes were very compatible with that.

00:20:27.320 And then he said, eyes open.

00:20:33.700 Because he tried to take over the world and ruin democracy that's been here for 250,000 years.

00:20:40.840 Or 250 years.

00:20:42.120 And as soon as he said the lie, which, by the way, I think he knows is a lie on some level.

00:20:50.580 On some level, I think they all know that's a lie.

00:20:53.380 His eyes open.

00:20:55.180 And you can see it more easily here.

00:20:57.380 Like if you don't notice the eyes opening, look for the wrinkled brows.

00:21:01.800 I saw two of them yesterday.

00:21:03.200 One was some guest on MSNBC.

00:21:05.960 And you could do the same experiment with both of them.

00:21:08.220 And as soon as the eyes go up, what are you saying?

00:21:12.660 Oh, an obvious lie.

00:21:14.780 You think he knows?

00:21:18.000 Maybe he knows.

00:21:19.400 Well, LeBron James' neighbors got a squatter.

00:21:23.260 So there's a squatter house a couple doors down from LeBron James in the same neighborhood as Seth MacFarlane.

00:21:31.840 And some other famously Democrat people.

00:21:36.220 And the shocking thing is not that LeBron's neighbor is a squatter.

00:21:45.260 The shocking thing is that when LeBron went to walk his dog, squatters moved into his house.

00:21:52.060 Yeah.

00:21:52.780 So LeBron got some squatters in his house just because he walked the dog.

00:21:56.700 They just saw him leave.

00:21:57.700 They ran right in and took over.

00:21:58.920 So now they live there, but that's not really the most, that's not the worst part.

00:22:04.360 The worst part is that the Lakers actually gave the squatter 35 minutes a game.

00:22:10.360 So now the squatter is going to be playing for the Lakers and we'll be receiving all of LeBron's pay.

00:22:20.340 No, that didn't happen.

00:22:22.540 That didn't really happen.

00:22:24.000 There's no squatters in LeBron's house.

00:22:25.640 But wouldn't it be funny if there were?

00:22:29.900 I think we could all agree it would be funny if there were.

00:22:35.180 I think I told you the Washington Post has gone down 43% since they canceled me.

00:22:42.780 Just a coincidence.

00:22:44.780 Well, it's not the only entity that's gone down a lot in the past year.

00:22:48.240 There's also the Daily Beast that's way off.

00:22:52.840 Oh, they also canceled me.

00:22:55.160 Huh.

00:22:55.860 It turns out that everything that canceled me is down by 40% to 80%.

00:23:01.600 Well, I did pretty well while they were doing all being canceled.

00:23:09.720 Things are going great for me.

00:23:11.640 Let's see.

00:23:12.240 Is there anything else that's embarrassing the Washington Post?

00:23:15.340 Oh, yeah.

00:23:18.440 One of their reporters, Taylor Lorenz, you hear a lot about her. 0.97

00:23:22.580 She attended a Pornhub Awards ceremony where she was filmed dancing while wearing her mask.

00:23:29.480 Now, she was dancing like Elaine from Seinfeld. 0.80

00:23:36.800 You know Elaine from Seinfeld?

00:23:39.100 The famous dance scene where you can't watch her? 0.95

00:23:42.260 The only thing that could make Elaine from Seinfeld a worse dancer is wearing a mask. 1.00

00:23:48.080 Now, I don't know if you've ever danced in any kind of a club, but seeing the face of the person you're dancing with is kind of essential to the whole process.

00:24:02.360 All right?

00:24:03.080 So, here's the difference.

00:24:05.460 If you're not wearing a mask and you're dancing like this, which was sort of how she was dancing, you look like a bad dancer.

00:24:16.060 But if you're wearing a mask and you're doing this, you look a little bit more like a serial killer.

00:24:23.280 Am I right?

00:24:25.380 You put a mask on me?

00:24:26.560 Imagine me doing this.

00:24:28.520 I'd be running in the other direction.

00:24:30.180 Look, I don't know what that's about.

00:24:32.800 So, she went to a Pornhub Award and danced like Elaine from Seinfeld with a mask on that looked like a serial killer. 0.89

00:24:40.780 And Washington Post is having a great week, is what I'm saying.

00:24:45.780 Well, the payouts on the X platform apparently are way up.

00:24:53.020 So, a lot of people are saying they're getting multiples of what they got before.

00:24:56.740 Now, these are the payments for accounts that are big enough to be monetized, and they have lots of comments.

00:25:04.080 So, you get paid if there's good advertisements in the comments, and I guess the amount went up.

00:25:10.840 So, I just checked because I saw the news.

00:25:13.400 People were saying, hey, it went way up.

00:25:14.760 But I checked mine, and it did go way up.

00:25:18.060 So, mine is maybe three times more than it was prior months with roughly the same traffic probably, but three times as much payment.

00:25:30.460 So, that's the good news.

00:25:32.100 Now, I'm not positive about this next fact, but I know that I lost my blue check when I changed my profile picture

00:25:39.200 because it takes several days to make sure you're really the same person and not somebody taking over the account.

00:25:46.240 And I think I was demonetized during the period.

00:25:51.160 It was only maybe a little over a week or something.

00:25:53.720 I think I was demonetized.

00:25:55.060 So, at the current rate of monetization, the price for me to change my profile picture would be about $3,000 to $4,000.

00:26:06.760 Just to change my profile picture would cost me $3,000 to $4,000 accidentally, which is what I did accidentally.

00:26:21.320 So, I accidentally charged myself several thousand dollars just to change the picture.

00:26:25.340 And when I changed it, I looked at it and go, huh, you know, I don't really love that.

00:26:30.340 I think I'll change it back.

00:26:31.380 So, if I change it back, it's going to be another, like, $3,000.

00:26:38.020 So, I might be at, like, $7,000 just for changing my profile picture.

00:26:43.960 That's suboptimal.

00:26:45.160 I might be wrong about that, but it looks like that's what happened.

00:26:48.180 I think when I changed the profile, I lost the check.

00:26:51.080 And I think losing the check loses temporarily the monetization.

00:26:55.460 Well, Lizzo said she got so much bad feedback from singing at that performance for the three presidents for the fundraiser that, what'd she say?

00:27:09.460 I'm starting to feel like the world doesn't want me in it.

00:27:11.780 I'm constantly up against lies being told about me for clout and views, being the butt of the joke every single time because of how I look,

00:27:19.000 my character being picked apart by people who don't know me and disrespecting my name.

00:27:22.940 I didn't sign up for this shit.

00:27:26.500 I quit.

00:27:28.180 Now, do you really think that she's quitting entertainment? 1.00

00:27:33.300 I don't think so.

00:27:35.860 I think she's just making social media hay and acting out, and I'm sure she didn't enjoy it.

00:27:43.260 But no, I don't think she's going to quit.

00:27:46.740 Do you?

00:27:48.100 That doesn't seem like real news to me.

00:27:49.980 I think the I quit is more of an exasperation than an actual career move.

00:27:56.840 Well, Diddy's apparently out of jail.

00:28:00.320 I don't think he was ever in jail, and I don't know how that works.

00:28:03.120 But the claims about him are humorously terrible.

00:28:08.800 I mean, they're so terrible that I don't know what's real and what's not.

00:28:17.160 So I'll just tell you what is being reported in various places.

00:28:20.400 But don't assume any of this is real.

00:28:22.880 Innocent until proven guilty.

00:28:24.120 But the claim is that in 1999 or so, when he was with Jennifer Lopez, J-Lo, they were dating, and they went to a club, and they had J-Lo hold his gun just in case something went down and he needed to kill somebody.

00:28:39.800 Well, it turns out it's a good thing he brought J-Lo to carry his gun and be his gun mule, as he liked to say, apparently.

00:28:47.660 Because some stuff went down, and at least one witness say that Diddy pulled the trigger and shot three people, and then they escaped.

00:28:57.100 And then he's allegedly bragging that he got away with murder because he bribed witnesses and jurors to get his acquittal.

00:29:08.460 Do you think, Eddie, that's true?

00:29:10.620 Do you think he actually shot three people in front of a room full of witnesses and bribed enough of them that he didn't get convicted?

00:29:20.060 Maybe.

00:29:22.400 It's within the realm of things that could have happened.

00:29:25.980 I don't know.

00:29:26.280 It's pretty wild.

00:29:27.100 So people are saying that he admits it privately.

00:29:33.940 So I don't know about that.

00:29:35.460 So you can't believe the hearsay stuff.

00:29:38.100 But maybe.

00:29:40.180 All right.

00:29:40.800 There was a, I think I may have mentioned, there was a big study in which they asked people, what do you think of this policy?

00:29:48.500 And it doesn't matter what the policy is.

00:29:50.060 Just some political thing in the news.

00:29:52.800 And then people would look at it, and they would judge it.

00:29:56.380 And then they would do a second test with different people in which they would say, all right, here's the Democrat plan.

00:30:04.580 And here's the Republican plan.

00:30:07.040 And it turns out that if you tell them their team likes something, they will like it even if they wouldn't have liked it before they knew whose idea it was.

00:30:17.020 And the effect is gigantic.

00:30:18.020 And the effect is gigantic and instant.

00:30:21.220 So you can get 70% of people to change their mind just instantly if you say this is what your team thinks.

00:30:29.280 Now, does that match what you experience and observe in the world?

00:30:35.440 The 70% of observers will immediately just take the side of their team.

00:30:41.800 It does.

00:30:43.340 All right.

00:30:43.720 Now, I think I'm getting the 70% wrong because there's some other numbers involved.

00:30:48.920 But it's about that big.

00:30:50.240 Like, the effect of it is at least half, and it's instant, and it happens every time.

00:30:57.400 You know, you could reproduce this forever.

00:30:59.240 It would just happen.

00:31:00.060 I've seen versions of this study.

00:31:03.440 I think Cialdini did something like this, a version of this.

00:31:07.320 But, yeah, this is consistent.

00:31:09.000 Every time they test it, you get the same thing.

00:31:10.900 So the way I say this is that people don't come up with opinions.

00:31:15.360 Their opinions are assigned to them because they learn of their team's opinion by watching the news.

00:31:22.140 And then the news tells them that their side is always right, and their team all agrees.

00:31:27.720 And then just immediately they take that side.

00:31:32.940 There's a picture going by that looks relevant when we look at that.

00:31:38.760 Okay.

00:31:39.260 I don't know what that's about.

00:31:40.900 A little side conversation there.

00:31:43.020 All right.

00:31:43.260 So keep this in mind when I talk about my next story.

00:31:46.200 So this is my theme for the day, that you think you're dealing with critical thinkers, but you're really not.

00:31:54.200 And this is the first thing you learn when you learn hypnosis.

00:31:57.540 First thing you learn is that people make up their minds first, and then they come up with tortured explanations of why they did it.

00:32:08.400 But the thinking follows the decision.

00:32:11.020 Most of you were raised to believe that people think about things and then make decisions.

00:32:18.140 Nothing like that's ever been shown to be true.

00:32:20.420 Every study on the topic, everyone, 100%, show that the thinking happens after the decision.

00:32:28.260 No exceptions.

00:32:29.920 You can ask Sam Harris.

00:32:32.160 You can ask anybody.

00:32:33.440 Anybody who studied brains and psychology, every single thing shows the same thing.

00:32:38.800 We are not thinking creatures.

00:32:41.460 We are rationalizing creatures.

00:32:44.260 That's it.

00:32:44.900 So watching Bill Maher's journey to reality has been fascinating because he, being a normal human being, will be influenced by his team.

00:32:56.900 But uniquely, he tries to be an independent thinker by his brand.

00:33:03.440 So he's got some protection in that he has a long history of disagreeing with his own team.

00:33:08.260 Not everybody can do that, but he has, and for a long time and lots of different topics.

00:33:14.820 So he has a little bit of a psychological protection against team thinking because he has a brand that includes not being a team thinker.

00:33:24.180 So he can make his opinions make sense with who he is because who he is is an open-minded person and he's got a long history of it.

00:33:34.120 So that does give him a psychological bulwark against being hypnotized.

00:33:40.020 But it's not perfect.

00:33:42.680 It's not perfect because he still believes that it's a fact that we know, and everybody knows who's smart, that the election in 2020 was not rigged.

00:33:54.920 Now, if you were thinking of this from, you know, starting from first principles and trying to figure out what's true,

00:34:03.120 do you think you could ever come to that opinion, that you know for sure any election is not rigged?

00:34:10.980 And I would suggest that the next time you run into somebody who says they know, they know, they know the 2020 election was fair, they know it.

00:34:21.280 I would like you to say this.

00:34:24.240 How do you know it?

00:34:26.040 Well, you know how the answer will be because the courts looked at lots of claims and not a single one was found to have any impact on the election of scale.

00:34:36.580 Everybody will say that because that's what their news told them to say.

00:34:41.440 Did they come up with that reason on their own?

00:34:44.940 No.

00:34:45.800 They watched the news and people kept saying that.

00:34:49.800 No court found it's true.

00:34:51.440 No court found it.

00:34:52.320 So it must be completely true that the election is fair.

00:34:55.480 Now, when somebody tells you that, that because the court said it didn't happen, you can know with certainty it did not happen.

00:35:06.080 Ask them if OJ is guilty.

00:35:07.780 Yeah, just sit on that for a moment.

00:35:15.260 As soon as you hear that, no court found that there was anything wrong with the election, therefore definitely was fair.

00:35:22.160 Was OJ definitely innocent because the court didn't find him guilty?

00:35:27.960 Because that's that's literally Bill Maher's argument that if the court didn't find you guilty, that's proof that there was no crime.

00:35:38.800 How in the world could you be a modern thinking human in civilization in 2024 and think that you could know one way or another?

00:35:51.860 Well, I guess you could know if it's rigged, if you found the rigging, which hasn't been found in a way that a court has confirmed.

00:35:58.980 But you can't know if you don't find it.

00:36:01.640 If you don't find it and you also know it's a complicated system.

00:36:06.000 How in the world do you say, you know, it was true?

00:36:10.020 So this is a case where Bill Maher's journey is impressive, because I do think he's genuinely one of the most open minded people in political life.

00:36:18.940 I think that's a fair thing to say.

00:36:21.120 But it's a tough journey because the brainwashing is real.

00:36:26.560 This would be a case of just pure brainwashing.

00:36:30.180 And I've told you before that intelligence doesn't protect you from brainwashing.

00:36:34.180 And the difference between this, it was an insurrection and it wasn't an insurrection, is brainwashing.

00:36:41.980 Now, when I say brainwashing, I know a lot of people who do not have experience in this realm think I'm using some kind of hyperbole.

00:36:52.460 No, literally brainwashing.

00:36:57.160 Literally people sitting in a room and saying, how will we convince the public to believe something that's obviously not true?

00:37:03.860 Well, let's do this and this and this and get our people to say that.

00:37:07.640 And we will brainwash the public into thinking that the obvious is not true.

00:37:11.980 When you see that somebody believes that they know the election was fair, which is clearly unknowable, and any modern human with a brain should know that, and we should all know it's unknowable, and yet they firmly cling to the fact that they can know it, that's brainwashing.

00:37:32.040 Because it's patently absurd.

00:37:35.600 It's not an opinion.

00:37:37.340 It's not an opinion that you're sure the election was fair.

00:37:43.640 That's not an opinion.

00:37:44.720 That is nonsense.

00:37:46.680 That's an impossibility that you claimed was possible.

00:37:49.200 Well, but Bill Maher is still quite a jewel, because what he said in his monologue, he said, this is American in a nutshell.

00:38:03.640 They, the Democrats, have this big fundraiser there.

00:38:06.740 They have ex-presidents, singers, dancers, Lizzo.

00:38:09.480 They raised $26 million.

00:38:10.780 Trump sold Twitter for idiots, that's what he's calling true social, Twitter for idiots, on the stock market and made $5 billion sitting at home.

00:38:20.820 Sitting at home.

00:38:25.000 So Bill Maher is quite aware that the lawfare strategy is having the opposite effect as intended.

00:38:32.160 Because there's no way in the world that true social IPO would have gone that way without the lawfare, in my opinion.

00:38:42.720 If Trump were just running for president, people would have looked at it as an investment, as opposed to what they're looking at it now.

00:38:51.520 I think people look at true social as the way that they, as citizens, can correct an injustice, as they see it.

00:38:59.040 So if you put $1,000 into it, maybe $1,000 you could afford to lose, or you're hoping you don't lose it, but you could afford it.

00:39:07.920 That's a vote for correcting the system.

00:39:11.720 That's not anything about the investment quality of the property.

00:39:18.280 But I do, I really actually am impressed and I respect the public for propping up that stock in such an artificial way.

00:39:29.040 To make something better.

00:39:31.080 It's literally to make something better in their view.

00:39:35.300 Well, I've been telling you the food supply is poison.

00:39:38.400 Here's some evidence of that.

00:39:40.140 So there's this group, Moms Across America, and they tested a bunch of cereals.

00:39:44.160 And surprise, surprise, they found it filled with poisons.

00:39:49.880 Literally poison.

00:39:50.760 Remember when I say the food supply is poison?

00:39:56.520 And people say, well, there's some hyperbole.

00:39:59.820 Nope.

00:40:01.220 Actual poison.

00:40:02.460 Now, not poison that says poison on the bottle, you know, that you use to kill people.

00:40:06.520 But things that are not good for you.

00:40:07.880 For example, oh, actually arsenic is one of them.

00:40:11.900 I'm sorry, take that back.

00:40:13.420 I was about to say that they're not literally poison.

00:40:16.020 They're just pollutants that are bad for you.

00:40:18.000 But one of the things is arsenic.

00:40:20.280 Literally poison.

00:40:22.140 And there's also some fertilizers.

00:40:24.760 Literally poison.

00:40:26.480 You know, for plants and weeds.

00:40:29.760 But it's in you.

00:40:30.840 So let's see.

00:40:31.540 They found in a children's cereal, heavy metals, arsenic, aluminum, cadmium, eight different

00:40:36.760 pesticides, including ones that are known to change sex hormones.

00:40:41.880 That was all in one cereal box.

00:40:45.360 And the testing reveals, according to them, that General Mills' Trix, that's a cereal, is

00:40:50.740 actually loaded with heavy metals and pesticides, artificial dyes, preservatives, chemicals.

00:40:55.860 We found arsenic and cadmium up to 400% higher than what the EPA allows in drinking water.

00:41:03.840 We found aluminum levels to be over 1,000% higher than what the EPA allows in drinking

00:41:09.540 water.

00:41:10.280 And we found glyphosate.

00:41:13.560 Now, glyphosate, I believe, is the weed killer, right?

00:41:18.720 And people are concerned about that and making it into the food supply.

00:41:21.820 It says, we found that glyphosate levels, 158 to 174 times higher than has been shown in

00:41:31.500 animal studies to cause sex hormones change and organ damage.

00:41:37.220 It's 100 and, let's say I'll take a middle range.

00:41:41.360 It's about 160 times higher than the amount we know will cause sex hormone changes in animals.

00:41:50.240 Are you worried about that?

00:41:51.820 If they found eight different pesticides, and one of them is used in shampoo to kill lice.

00:42:02.800 The other one is a fungicide known to cause endocrine disruption and hormone disruption,

00:42:07.660 even at very low levels.

00:42:10.540 Now, this is, you know, cereal, of course, is a highly processed food.

00:42:14.960 Do you know what they didn't mention?

00:42:18.980 Sugar.

00:42:20.700 Sugar.

00:42:21.820 They didn't even mention sugar.

00:42:24.560 Not because it's not dangerous, but, you know, the sugar is listed right on the label.

00:42:29.320 You don't have to look for it.

00:42:30.720 So, they were looking for the things that are not listed on the label, and they found all this.

00:42:35.200 But the sugar is probably just as dangerous.

00:42:38.080 I mean, it's certainly up there.

00:42:40.340 Certainly, some amount of sugar could disrupt your hormones. 0.68

00:42:46.060 Is that a fair statement?

00:42:48.800 There's some amount of sugar that would disrupt your hormones. 0.99

00:42:52.980 So, you've got a whole bunch of hormone disruptors in various ways, just in a box of cereal.

00:42:59.940 That's just one thing.

00:43:02.260 That's just your kid's breakfast.

00:43:04.420 The kid has just started eating.

00:43:07.800 It's just the first thing you put in your mouth.

00:43:10.120 What about the rest of the day?

00:43:11.460 Now, I remind you again, and I'll probably just keep saying this forever.

00:43:16.820 My entire life changed in the past 12 months when I stopped eating processed foods and cut down on sugar.

00:43:26.320 I thought that I was just at an age where everything hurt all the time.

00:43:31.640 Everything hurt all the time.

00:43:34.700 Everything in my body was sore and hurt.

00:43:37.740 All of that went away.

00:43:39.640 All of it.

00:43:40.460 I don't have any inflammation.

00:43:43.080 I drifted down in weight to my ideal weight with no dieting.

00:43:47.440 I drifted with no effort and no willpower.

00:43:53.440 I ate all day long as much as I wanted.

00:43:55.920 I just ate things that were whole foods.

00:43:58.700 That's it.

00:43:59.880 I would have broccoli with nothing.

00:44:04.260 You know, steamed broccoli.

00:44:05.920 It's delicious when you get used to it.

00:44:07.720 So, you should, I would recommend, really recommend, that you do an experiment with your own body if you're having any kind of issues.

00:44:16.780 Take two weeks to a month in which you only eat clean.

00:44:20.800 Don't do bread.

00:44:22.060 Don't do wheat.

00:44:23.240 And by the way, I don't know if those things are bad for you.

00:44:26.220 I'm just saying reduce it to the smallest number of foods that are just completely whole foods and not from restaurants.

00:44:33.680 Restaurants are full of sauces and whatnot that you don't know what's in them.

00:44:36.900 But if you, I think, and a number of people did the experiment and felt completely different in two weeks.

00:44:44.900 Completely different.

00:44:46.640 I mean, I'm a, it took 20 years off my age.

00:44:53.040 In terms of how I feel, not how I look.

00:44:55.880 But it probably took 20 years off my age.

00:44:58.740 Think about that.

00:44:59.660 Just food.

00:45:00.760 Just changed my diet.

00:45:01.800 All right.

00:45:04.840 Elon Musk is sounding the alarm on Italy's population collapse.

00:45:09.280 So, apparently, their number of births in 2023 was the lowest since 1861.

00:45:16.820 They had only 379,000 births.

00:45:19.480 They had a lot of immigration, but not a lot of births.

00:45:22.660 What is causing that?

00:45:23.940 Well, there's a viral video where somebody was saying, hey, what's wrong with young men in particular?

00:45:31.160 And the young man went on a screech about the economics of being a young person today.

00:45:36.400 You can't afford a house, can't afford a wife, can't afford a kid. 0.99

00:45:39.720 Why are you surprised that reproduction is falling?

00:45:42.920 What would surprise you about that?

00:45:44.700 And then you add our health problems and our food is poison and, you know, alcohol is poison and all the other things we're doing with social media.

00:45:53.940 And then we look at each other.

00:45:56.980 And we've all gotten fatter and less attractive to each other.

00:46:01.720 And we've also become politically polarized so that whatever whatever your dating possibilities were 20 years ago, they're half now because half of the country won't won't date you for sure.

00:46:17.460 Right.

00:46:17.860 So a full 50 percent of all the people you could have had a baby with are no longer available to you.

00:46:23.820 Because if you voted for Trump, everybody who doesn't like him is not going to mate with you.

00:46:28.660 That's for sure.

00:46:29.500 And vice versa.

00:46:30.960 Right.

00:46:31.180 So we've actually cut in half in the last seven years the people you could even possibly reproduce with.

00:46:38.880 How is that not going to have an effect?

00:46:42.060 And then you take away the ability to earn enough money to have a good living or, you know, good life.

00:46:47.780 So we have some pretty deep structural problems that guarantee we will go in a business as a country unless we fix them.

00:46:56.520 But I think we will.

00:46:57.580 So the Adams law of slow moving disasters suggests that we're seeing this one coming plenty of time to fix it.

00:47:06.920 I don't know what the fix will be.

00:47:08.840 I don't know what the fix will be.

00:47:09.320 That's always a surprise.

00:47:10.960 But yeah, when we have this kind of problem, the world has a basically a 100 percent success rate.

00:47:17.780 It's only the stuff that sneaks up on us we're bad at, pandemics.

00:47:22.460 We were very bad at the pandemic.

00:47:24.100 But stuff we see coming for a long time, usually the markets adjust and people adjust.

00:47:30.020 So we'll see.

00:47:30.460 Religion is shrinking in importance in American life.

00:47:36.880 People are going to church less and believe less.

00:47:39.800 That probably has an effect on reproduction because the religious people tend to like to form families and have kids as soon as possible.

00:47:47.860 And that's got to have an effect.

00:47:49.040 So basically, 100 percent of all the trends in America are anti-population.

00:47:57.480 So we've got the trends toward improving birth control.

00:48:01.740 I'm not saying I'm against that, but it reduces the number of unplanned pregnancies, at least.

00:48:08.100 We've got the social media turning kids from hetero into something else.

00:48:15.440 And that's got to reduce the number of kids where social media is training them that having a kid is a losing proposition.

00:48:24.300 So that's got to have an effect.

00:48:27.060 So and then, yeah, the food probably makes us less capable of reproducing in every way.

00:48:33.020 Every trend is moving away from human population.

00:48:38.240 But isn't it weird that it's happening the same time that robots are coming online?

00:48:43.340 But what are the odds that after, you know, 300,000 years of human-like evolution, that at the same time we forgot how to have babies, robots are coming online?

00:48:58.700 The same time.

00:49:00.920 The odds against that were very low, weren't they?

00:49:03.580 Or are they related somehow?

00:49:05.020 I don't know.

00:49:05.420 Anyway, there's a startup that's making seafood out of not fish.

00:49:14.120 So they make it look and taste and have the texture of seafood, even sushi.

00:49:22.160 But it's made out of various vegetable byproducts or something, something organic they shove together.

00:49:28.740 And I would say, once again, I make the vegetarian comment.

00:49:34.680 I'm not a vegetarian.

00:49:35.820 I'm a pescatarian.

00:49:37.020 But I have a little insight because I was a vegetarian for a long time.

00:49:41.100 Do not make your vegetables look like dead animals and then ask me to put them in my mouth.

00:49:47.140 No.

00:49:47.700 Because the early adopters of a seafood that's not really seafood should be vegetarians.

00:49:54.540 And then you make it the one way a vegetarian doesn't want anything to do with it.

00:50:00.280 Right?

00:50:00.860 Now, I wasn't a regular vegetarian because for me it was just for selfish reasons, just for my own health.

00:50:06.520 I wasn't trying to save the animals because I thought that was impossible.

00:50:11.220 But if you are a vegetarian who wants to save the animals and the thought, just the mental thought of eating an animal is more than you can handle,

00:50:17.800 why would you make your primary first adopter market that would love to have a protein option that they don't have?

00:50:27.900 Why would you make it exactly the thing they don't want to put in their mouth?

00:50:32.440 Oh, this will remind you of eating a dead animal's flesh.

00:50:37.000 I don't understand it.

00:50:39.220 Now, they think they can sell it to restaurants and I don't know, maybe.

00:50:42.760 But here's what I'd like.

00:50:46.800 I want you to give me a protein source that I can either grow in my own home garden so I can make protein at home

00:50:54.840 or just say it's a new food and put it in some form that I want to put in my mouth but doesn't look like a fish.

00:51:03.320 It doesn't have to look like a fish.

00:51:06.980 It could look like broccoli as long as I had protein.

00:51:09.100 All right, here's something that I know that not everybody knows.

00:51:15.100 It's not possible to get a fair trial for any January 6th people because the entire world has been brainwashed.

00:51:23.200 Brainwashed, not hyperbole.

00:51:25.540 Actual, literal, specific, technical brainwashing.

00:51:30.420 And it's not really possible to get a judge or a jury or even the witnesses to give you a fair trial.

00:51:41.100 And I think this might actually be worth a test somewhere.

00:51:45.540 I don't know how you would test that, like a challenge.

00:51:48.560 Because I've never seen a situation where it really literally would be impossible to get a fair trial

00:51:53.940 for any of the defendants, but much less Trump.

00:51:57.560 I mean, Trump doesn't have a chance of a fair trial.

00:52:02.100 And the reason I know that is because I am a hypnotist.

00:52:05.420 So when I watch you get brainwashed, I can tell it's happening.

00:52:09.920 But you can't tell it's happening.

00:52:12.880 Would you agree with that statement?

00:52:15.680 I'm trained, so I can tell when you're being hypnotized.

00:52:19.980 But you can't tell, because that's how it works.

00:52:23.940 Brainwashing, you don't know what's happening to you.

00:52:25.960 You just think you made up your own mind.

00:52:28.420 So I observe, and it's very obvious to me and clear, that the January 6th thing, like Russia collusion before it,

00:52:37.020 and the fine people hoax and the drinking bleach hoax and all the rest, that these are brainwashing operations.

00:52:42.140 And when you see the Bill Maher's, et cetera, who have really good brains and are very well informed, even they get brainwashed.

00:52:52.320 So when I look at Bill Maher, I look at a brainwashing victim who is incapable in this one topic of being rational.

00:53:01.020 You know, in the OJ was guilty too, you think, but the court didn't find him guilty.

00:53:07.980 So I see it as clearly as you could see anything, just because I have that specific talent.

00:53:16.020 Here's an analogy.

00:53:18.260 I've played tennis all my life.

00:53:20.580 So if I see a movie about a tennis player, it takes me about one second to realize that's not a real tennis player.

00:53:28.000 It's an actor playing tennis.

00:53:29.500 If you had never played tennis, you might think, oh, they found an actor who can hit pretty well too.

00:53:35.840 Nope.

00:53:36.540 No, if you know tennis, you know that that's just acting, and that ball definitely didn't go over the court.

00:53:41.500 They just showed somebody, you know, swinging, and then later you see the ball, and you go, yeah, no, you didn't really hit that ball.

00:53:49.920 So the same way that I can tell a tennis player is not a real tennis player,

00:53:53.520 I can tell when your opinion didn't come from your thinking, because I'm trained to do it.

00:54:00.840 I've seen it.

00:54:01.860 I know what the face looks like.

00:54:03.580 I know what words you're going to choose.

00:54:05.800 I know how it was done.

00:54:07.540 I watched every step of the process, and I watched my fellow citizens be brainwashed by evil forces.

00:54:14.580 Now, the rest of you are sort of accepting this, let's say, intellectually.

00:54:20.580 You're like, well, you know, I see what you're saying, and, you know, I kind of maybe believe you if you think I'm credible.

00:54:27.780 But you didn't see it.

00:54:29.960 I watched it.

00:54:31.360 I watched it like I was watching a car wreck.

00:54:34.200 I watched every part of the process.

00:54:36.440 Hey, that's brainwashing. 1.00

00:54:37.940 You're still doing it.

00:54:39.000 Hey, it's working.

00:54:39.440 Oh, no, it's working.

00:54:43.240 Yeah, as soon as we were told that protests were riots and they were insurrections, that's all that began.

00:54:50.140 It began with the word definition changes.

00:54:54.300 All right.

00:54:57.480 So why is it that the rest of the country doesn't know they were brainwashed?

00:55:01.780 Because it worked.

00:55:06.200 Yeah.

00:55:06.520 If you talk to somebody who vehemently disagrees that they were brainwashed, it's because it worked.

00:55:13.940 That's why they're vehement about it.

00:55:16.180 They wouldn't be vehement if it were not brainwashing.

00:55:22.100 If they had simply come to their own opinion by thinking it through, they wouldn't get real angry when you said they were brainwashed.

00:55:29.440 For example, let's say that Bill Moore had not been brainwashed.

00:55:35.320 And I'd say, hey, Bill, you know, I see what you're saying about there's no evidence that the no confirmed evidence by the courts that the election was rigged.

00:55:44.140 And then you say, well, you realize, you know, same thing with O.J., right?

00:55:49.780 Like the court didn't find him guilty, but you probably think he's guilty.

00:55:53.460 So why don't you take that thinking and apply it to the election, which is so complicated that nobody even involved knows if it's rigged.

00:56:01.200 They couldn't.

00:56:01.740 Now, if I said that to someone who was not brainwashed, what would happen?

00:56:07.620 They would immediately change their opinion.

00:56:11.040 Immediately.

00:56:12.220 Because the point is so solid, there is no defense against the O.J. argument, right?

00:56:21.060 Unless you're going to tell me you're positive that he was innocent.

00:56:24.460 And I know that, let's say, Bill Moore, I'm positive he would not say that.

00:56:28.120 So once you're sure that the courts are not your source of what's true, they're simply part of the legal system that does its best.

00:56:38.080 As soon as you know that, you could easily apply it to the election and everything else.

00:56:44.600 You know, certainly Bill Maher's brain works great, and he could do that.

00:56:49.240 So that's how you know it's brainwashing.

00:56:50.780 Because it's not brainwashing unless it can get people like Bill Maher.

00:56:58.120 Somebody whose brain actually works and has a long track record of being able to see multiple sides of an issue.

00:57:04.560 If it gets him, it's brainwashing.

00:57:09.800 So he's kind of the canary in the coal mine between what is brainwashing and what is just a difference of opinion.

00:57:16.300 Because there's lots of things that Bill Maher would say that would be just a difference of priority, maybe a difference of opinion.

00:57:24.100 And you can still argue with it, but you wouldn't say it's brainwashing.

00:57:27.080 You just say, oh, you have higher priorities, or maybe you saw something I didn't see, that sort of thing.

00:57:32.480 All right.

00:57:36.740 Four major Canadian school boards are saying that TikTok, Meta, and Snapchat have, in their words, rewired students' thinking.

00:57:45.900 And so there's a new lawsuit trying to get rid of them in four Canadian places.

00:57:49.820 And so here's what I think we need.

00:57:59.580 I feel like we need more people trained in persuasion.

00:58:05.160 Because people like me are not numerous enough to make any difference.

00:58:10.480 So I can tell you, hey, hey, it's obvious with my training.

00:58:13.820 I can see that you were brainwashed on this insurrection thing.

00:58:16.720 But I'm one person.

00:58:18.080 I've been canceled.

00:58:19.700 You know, I don't really make a dent.

00:58:22.140 But if you had lots of people trained, they would all say the same thing.

00:58:26.100 By the way, there wouldn't be any difference of opinion.

00:58:28.700 Everybody trained would have the same opinion.

00:58:30.640 And just like every professional tennis player could easily spot somebody who is acting like a tennis player.

00:58:37.640 Everyone, 100%.

00:58:38.740 Nobody would be a different opinion.

00:58:41.480 They would just have to be trained in the skill.

00:58:44.320 So maybe that's what we need to do.

00:58:46.500 Well, suppose we trained a bunch of online influencers so they could tell you what's true and what isn't.

00:58:52.720 They could tell you when you're getting brainwashed and when you're not.

00:58:55.820 That would be useful.

00:58:56.480 We just need more people who have the skill so they can help the others out.

00:59:02.420 All right.

00:59:03.080 Here's a Fox poll asked citizens to identify Biden's most significant achievement.

00:59:08.380 And 38% of the respondents couldn't think of anything.

00:59:12.160 38% of people they asked couldn't think of anything Biden did that helped.

00:59:18.180 Now, do you understand my point the other day where the Biden campaign has a formula?

00:59:24.460 First, they tell an outrageous lie.

00:59:27.760 And then they tell you the success when it wasn't.

00:59:32.080 And then they tell you that the reason for the success that didn't actually happen was the policies.

00:59:37.700 But they never connect what was it about that policy that could have possibly had any impact.

00:59:43.500 And if you do, they'll say, well, the infrastructure.

00:59:46.140 And then you say, OK, but can you really connect that all the way to the things that are happening in the economy?

00:59:54.760 I mean, can you list the projects and how much money the infrastructure project has brought in?

01:00:00.380 And can you track that all the way to things are better?

01:00:04.100 And the answer is no.

01:00:07.280 There's no connection between what there's literally no connection between what Biden says he did and what's happening in the real world.

01:00:19.080 Well, well, the moon, the moon is not moving the tides as much as it used to, thanks to my policies.

01:00:27.160 Well, it looks like climate change is an existential risk, but during my term, the temperatures have not gone up that much, thanks to my policies.

01:00:37.560 He just says thanks to my policies, but never explains how they would have any impact on anything, thanks to my policies.

01:00:44.540 And then when you ask people, what did he actually do?

01:00:48.540 They imagine that they've heard things, but they can't mention one because they didn't hear any things.

01:00:56.040 So he's actually doing the fake because where he's saying something that sounds like a reason, but isn't.

01:01:04.420 Because my policies is not any kind of a reason for anything.

01:01:08.260 It's just words in the sentence.

01:01:09.960 But because the words in the sentence sound like other things that were reasons for other things, your pattern recognition picks that up as a reason.

01:01:19.440 This is Cialdini.

01:01:21.700 So Cialdini found out that if you just say what I call a fake because, you say, why should you do this for me?

01:01:29.460 Well, because if you don't, the Fed will find out.

01:01:33.180 And you'd be like, OK, I don't know what any of that means.

01:01:36.420 But it sounded like a reason.

01:01:37.520 OK.

01:01:37.960 If something sounds like the pattern of a reason, people think they heard one.

01:01:44.320 And Biden is using that.

01:01:46.640 Yeah.

01:01:47.440 The employment rate is really good because of my policies.

01:01:53.820 Which ones?

01:01:55.820 Which ones?

01:01:57.040 Is it your policy of letting unlimited competition for jobs into the country?

01:02:02.340 Was that the policy that made employment good?

01:02:05.500 How?

01:02:06.600 That's the opposite.

01:02:07.960 It's the opposite.

01:02:09.420 How?

01:02:10.680 Yeah.

01:02:12.680 So that would explain why people think Biden is awesome, even though they can't think of a reason for it.

01:02:19.640 They imagine they heard a reason because of the structure of the sentences, just like an LLM can hallucinate.

01:02:26.700 And then they saw that their team agreed with them.

01:02:31.760 So they thought it must be true.

01:02:35.380 All right.

01:02:35.960 Mike Benz reminds us that Google has always been basically an intelligence asset from the start.

01:02:44.140 Now, I can't confirm any of that myself, but he seems to be right about everything else, Mike Benz does.

01:02:50.180 But the idea is that the government basically worked with them really early to help them succeed.

01:02:58.820 For example, I guess Google Maps comes from a government satellite stuff.

01:03:06.140 So the government was pretty cooperative with the beginnings of Google.

01:03:10.860 And the thinking is that what they wanted was to be able to find the birds of a feather.

01:03:15.820 This is Mike's take.

01:03:18.320 Birds of a feather, meaning if they could find people who had similar activities and interests, it would tell you more about the public.

01:03:26.660 And you could find bad guys, I guess.

01:03:29.140 So Google was identified very early by the intelligence people, allegedly, as something that if it became a big thing, they better get in on influencing it from the start.

01:03:42.500 So do you think that Google is dangerous?

01:03:49.000 Well, let me give you an example.

01:03:50.540 The reports that Google changed the search results for the word bloodbath because they were trying to do some brainwashing that Trump was wanting violence, but he'd use bloodbath about the car industry, not about violence.

01:04:05.020 And they changed their search results so the bloodbath word only means violence.

01:04:11.000 Now, I can't confirm that that happened.

01:04:13.500 I just saw it online.

01:04:14.580 Somebody showed a screenshot.

01:04:16.460 But it probably did.

01:04:17.700 I mean, I believe it because it would be in pattern.

01:04:20.540 Now, if you found out that Google is working closely with intelligence people, which means Democrats in this context, and you found out that they changed the definition of a word in their search results to be more compatible with the brainwashing, what does that tell you about Google?

01:04:42.120 Everything you suspected was exactly true.

01:04:46.500 Everything.

01:04:46.880 And you remember that Dr. Epstein, not the Epstein Island guy, but a different Epstein, he did research and found out that you could totally change people's votes by what search results they got.

01:05:01.440 And apparently it can be demonstrated in a robust way that Google can just change your vote by sending you things that would do that.

01:05:10.400 So if Google can change your vote directly by manipulating searches, if they can change the definition of an actual word to support brainwashing, and if they are, in fact, actually a creation of the intelligence units, one assumes they would still have a lot of control.

01:05:30.740 Which would also explain something else that I saw.

01:05:39.360 I saw some early video of the founders of Google.

01:05:44.300 And what I was expecting was to see, like, a young Bill Gates or a young Steve Jobs.

01:05:51.280 And by that I mean, oh, wow, you can see how smart they are.

01:05:57.000 You know, you can certainly see that the seeds of their success were already there.

01:06:02.440 I didn't really see that with the Google founders.

01:06:06.480 My first thought was, did they get some help?

01:06:09.700 And the answer is yes, they got some help.

01:06:14.260 I suspect that 100% of every business that matters to the intelligence community is owned by the intelligence community.

01:06:23.280 Everything that doesn't matter is untouched because it's irrelevant.

01:06:27.480 But everything that matters that was going to change how you think about your world, they probably have all of it by now, except for X.

01:06:35.700 And people are saying that X is looking suspicious now.

01:06:38.400 So, I don't know that.

01:06:41.340 But, I mean, I do trust that Musk is not working with the intelligence communities.

01:06:45.680 But could they have some other way to get him?

01:06:48.660 I don't know.

01:06:51.920 Edward Snowden is posting that, and I've seen these stories, I didn't know what to believe.

01:06:57.600 So, I waited a little bit.

01:06:58.620 But there is evidence that the FBI is sending agents to knock on your door, just ordinary American citizens, because you criticized the White House's Gaza policy online.

01:07:09.020 And there appear to be videos and strong evidence that that's actually happening.

01:07:17.180 And one of the FBI agents was quoted as saying that we do this all day long, that there's some group of people whose permanent job is to knock on your door because you posted things that the government doesn't like about Israel and Gaza.

01:07:31.620 Is that true?

01:07:36.480 I'm having trouble believing that one, because, you know, it's a little too on the nose.

01:07:42.780 Yeah, I mean, I've seen the videos.

01:07:45.360 I've seen the videos.

01:07:47.320 It looks true.

01:07:49.060 I'm not going to say it's not true.

01:07:51.160 But, wow, it's like my mind can't even hold that.

01:07:56.220 Yeah, that's how far we've gone.

01:07:58.980 Wow.

01:07:59.460 Meanwhile, the three presidents, when they got together for the fundraiser, Biden stands there between Obama and Pelosi and says to the camera in this very important event, while Obama, ex-president, is standing right next to him, that Trump said you should drink bleach.

01:08:20.280 Now, how could you think you could get away with that?

01:08:24.320 One of the most debunked hoaxes in all of the world, and there is one reason.

01:08:32.580 Biden's voters have never seen that debunked, so he can say it like it's a fact.

01:08:41.580 Un-fucking-believable.

01:08:43.720 Apparently, in the same event, he said the fine people hoax again.

01:08:47.520 How does his audience not know, I'll say his voters, how do they not know?

01:08:55.200 That's the most debunked hoax in all of American politics.

01:09:01.160 And he's so confident that there's no connection between the information and his audience that he can say that without any risk.

01:09:12.460 And Obama can stand there and not react to it.

01:09:15.180 Like, yeah, that works.

01:09:16.840 That's fine.

01:09:17.180 Well, have you noticed that the strongest communicators who might be, let's say, leaning pro-Trump, have been completely eliminated from the news?

01:09:34.120 Has anybody noticed?

01:09:35.820 When was the last time you saw me on CNN?

01:09:39.660 Because I used to be.

01:09:41.460 I used to be on CNN.

01:09:42.680 I used to be interviewed by everybody, making newspapers.

01:09:49.020 When was the last time I was interviewed by anybody except an obvious Republican person?

01:09:55.720 Well, I mean, Zuby doesn't count because he's from, he's not from America. 0.99

01:10:03.280 But in America, the left-leaning world has completely siloed me.

01:10:11.460 Now, I've told you that on the X platform, probably because of block lists that the Democrats use, I think.

01:10:17.620 I'm not sure.

01:10:18.840 But I don't reach any Democrats anymore.

01:10:21.200 So I'll never be asked to do anything on a Democrat-leaning platform.

01:10:26.080 But also the things I do on another platform, which should be open to everybody, they don't get to see.

01:10:33.400 Now, I didn't know if this was just me, but I saw Joel Pollack say, he posted this.

01:10:40.340 You don't see me on the big networks, whether to discuss U.S. politics or Israel.

01:10:44.680 I was last on NPR in 2016, CNN in 2017, MSNBC in 2018, and on Fox in 2020 on the Goffield show.

01:10:56.360 NPR and CNN don't want effective conservatives. 0.67

01:10:59.120 MSNBC doesn't want Republicans, and Fox doesn't want competition because he works for Breitbart.

01:11:04.260 So who is one of the best communicators in the public sphere on the questions of Gaza and Trump and Israel?

01:11:17.480 Joel, one of the very smartest, clearest communicators, gone, erased.

01:11:25.900 Now, I'm going to say this just because, you know, my audience knows me well enough that I can say this.

01:11:31.620 I'm one of the best communicators in the world.

01:11:34.260 I'm just waiting for a reaction.

01:11:39.060 It's true.

01:11:40.480 And it's not because I'm awesome.

01:11:42.040 It's because I compile the right set of skills.

01:11:45.740 Persuasion is important.

01:11:47.720 And on top of that, I practice a lot.

01:11:50.040 And I've reached a certain age where I have a lot of practice.

01:11:53.760 So I am one of the best communicators in the whole world.

01:12:00.300 But I'm completely shut off from communicating.

01:12:03.540 Joel, in my opinion, is one of the best communicators in the world.

01:12:08.960 In the world.

01:12:10.140 Like you won't see somebody explain something better on a topic you didn't know about.

01:12:15.800 How about Steve Cortez, who used to work on CNN until he debunked the find people hoax on the air live?

01:12:21.840 Boom, off the air.

01:12:24.500 How good a communicator is Steve Cortez?

01:12:27.720 Really, really good.

01:12:29.460 In fact, he put together an amazing video about the find people hoax.

01:12:34.560 In fact, I think he would be someone that they should consider as a press secretary.

01:12:39.800 He's that good.

01:12:43.960 So look for this pattern.

01:12:47.080 Look for the strongest communicators being completely shut out from the other side.

01:12:53.820 Now, remember the Ronna McDaniel story?

01:12:57.640 She was cut out not because she disagreed with them.

01:13:02.700 She just would have a story that they didn't want their viewers to hear.

01:13:08.000 And the excuse they used is, well, you can't treat lying about the insurrection like anything else.

01:13:15.060 I mean, that's different from all the other bullshit and hyperbole and lies.

01:13:20.300 No, that's the one that matters.

01:13:22.700 Just that one thing.

01:13:23.940 And by the way, I think she changed her mind on it at least once, which is usually a good sign. 0.99

01:13:30.040 So yeah, anybody who threatens to give them any useful information will be eliminated.

01:13:36.560 Greg Abbott tells people publicly on X that in Texas, anyone squatting in your home is breaking the law and they are criminals, violating the law and blah, blah, blah.

01:13:49.580 And also the Texas Castle Doctrine empowers Texans to use force to defend themselves and their property.

01:13:58.140 Do you believe that?

01:13:59.280 Do you believe that if you're in Texas, somebody squats in your house and then you use force to remove them, you think you're fine?

01:14:07.920 I don't.

01:14:09.660 I don't believe that.

01:14:11.900 Not for a second.

01:14:13.820 At the very least, you'd be sued for, you know, for a civil lawsuit and lose everything.

01:14:20.500 If you hurt them, you know, even if there was no arrest, you'd still get sued and lose everything.

01:14:26.280 And so other people were pushing back and saying, um, not in the real world and the real world, you can't just take your gun and start blazing away at the squatters.

01:14:38.780 Right.

01:14:39.960 You're going to be in a lot of trouble if you hurt anybody for any reason.

01:14:43.920 Now I do, I do get the concept, you know, he's not wrong about the concept and it might be very useful to, you know, scare the squatters into thinking they could be shot.

01:14:55.660 But in the real world, 2024, you can't just pull out your gun and start mowing down squatters.

01:15:03.680 I just don't think that's real.

01:15:06.820 But I like his attitude, but I just think it's maybe not practical.

01:15:12.700 There's also a video that's viral of some people in Mexico.

01:15:18.080 Apparently there was somebody who kidnapped and then killed a little girl and the authorities were not going to do anything to the guilty couple, a man and a woman who kidnapped a little girl, ended up killing her and the authorities didn't take care of it.

01:15:35.260 So, because the authorities didn't take care of it, even though they knew exactly who the guilty people were, the, uh, the guilty people walked free and they lived their life in peace.

01:15:47.460 No, because it's Mexico and it's not the United States.

01:15:54.940 Do you know what happened to him?

01:15:56.220 At least the wife, you know, one of the murderers, uh, was, uh, beaten to death, uh, by a crowd and nobody tried to stop it.

01:16:06.920 Entire crowd watched a guy beat her to death.

01:16:09.260 And everybody was pretty good with that.

01:16:13.740 Nobody tried to stop it.

01:16:15.480 And they were all there to watch her die.

01:16:19.200 And I hate to say it, but I watched it with some terrible enjoyment.

01:16:26.760 Like, boy, did I hate myself.

01:16:28.880 I watched it from beginning to end.

01:16:30.840 I wanted to watch.

01:16:33.640 I'll be honest.

01:16:34.940 I'll be honest.

01:16:35.480 I wanted to watch vigilantes murder somebody slowly.

01:16:39.960 And I enjoyed it every bit of it.

01:16:42.720 I'm not proud of that.

01:16:44.920 I am not proud of that.

01:16:47.220 But it's true.

01:16:49.080 I watched every bit of it because I wanted that fucking woman to be tortured and killed because she earned it. 1.00

01:16:56.500 You know, with her husband.

01:16:57.720 I hope they get him too.

01:16:59.420 But, oh, I hope I don't get kicked off of social media for saying that.

01:17:03.540 Don't do anything violent.

01:17:05.260 Don't do anything violent.

01:17:06.880 It never pays off.

01:17:08.060 You know, even the person who did it has to live with that.

01:17:11.860 So don't do anything violent.

01:17:16.340 All right.

01:17:19.720 Let's talk about Mark Cuban.

01:17:21.160 He was on Lex Friedman.

01:17:22.360 And he was explaining his thoughts about DEI.

01:17:27.140 And he thinks that DEI, it could be bad if you implemented it wrong.

01:17:33.680 But that would be common to any plan.

01:17:36.960 Now, what do you think of that so far?

01:17:39.580 That if DEI is implemented wrong, yes, it could be bad.

01:17:43.900 But if you implement it right, and I'll explain what right looks like in a moment, it'd be fine.

01:17:50.740 Are we good so far?

01:17:52.360 Is that a reasonable statement?

01:17:54.880 So far, good.

01:17:56.880 I'm with that.

01:17:57.860 Anything that you implement wrong is going to be bad.

01:18:00.400 But let's talk about what happens if you implement it right.

01:18:05.360 Is that all good?

01:18:07.660 Well, Mark said that there are no quotas and that quotas are illegal.

01:18:13.580 Is that your observation of the real world?

01:18:18.680 The hiring quotas are illegal?

01:18:21.900 Not in the real world.

01:18:23.420 In the real world, they're mandatory.

01:18:26.460 Where does he think that they're illegal?

01:18:28.960 They're mandatory.

01:18:30.340 They might be illegal, but they're also mandatory.

01:18:33.100 If you're working for a big company, and your boss says you need to improve your diversity,

01:18:38.780 but he doesn't say there's a quota, there's a quota.

01:18:44.580 Everybody gets that, right?

01:18:46.760 Your boss says you need more of it, and you're at this level, and our target is we want something

01:18:53.760 that's representative of the public, so everybody knows what the percentage needs to be, right?

01:18:58.960 Everybody knows that if they don't get their 13% black employees, that they didn't reach

01:19:05.180 their quota that doesn't exist.

01:19:07.960 Now, do you think that Mark Cuban doesn't know that in the real world, people would treat

01:19:15.360 it like a quota, whether it was or not?

01:19:18.140 Because we all have the same quota.

01:19:19.820 The whole point of it is to get the numbers up to a representative public rate.

01:19:27.840 So the quota is built into the system.

01:19:30.540 The boss doesn't need to give you a quota.

01:19:32.540 They just say, make it look like the rest of the world, and that's your quota.

01:19:38.560 No, but seriously, Mark Cuban doesn't know that?

01:19:43.140 He really doesn't know that?

01:19:44.760 That in the real world, of course, it's a quota.

01:19:46.720 And if you've ever been around it, people treat it like a quota.

01:19:51.940 They know what they're doing.

01:19:53.000 Everybody knows what the deal is.

01:19:54.820 Nobody's confused.

01:19:57.800 And your bonus will depend on it, on reaching that quota that is unstated, but everybody knows

01:20:03.620 what it is.

01:20:06.820 Betty said, Mark Cuban said, that there's far more discrimination against non-white candidates

01:20:14.380 than white candidates.

01:20:17.920 In what reality?

01:20:21.200 That hasn't been true for 30 years, maybe longer.

01:20:25.120 But for the last 30 years or so, every major corporation has been trying to increase their

01:20:30.720 diversity, so they're going to look for them first.

01:20:36.000 Who thinks, do any of you think that there's, quote, far more discrimination against non-white

01:20:43.420 candidates than white candidates?

01:20:47.120 Just white males. 0.77

01:20:49.860 Women are a different situation. 1.00

01:20:51.760 But white males?

01:20:53.260 How could you not be aware that for over 35 years, white males are being told they can't

01:20:59.020 be hired or promoted?

01:21:01.500 In my entire life, I've never heard that about a black person.

01:21:06.360 16 years in the corporate world, in much of it, I was involved with hiring.

01:21:11.980 So often, I'd be part of a team of people who talk to people who are potential hires.

01:21:16.940 I've hired lots of people.

01:21:18.740 I've owned businesses in which I've hired or been involved with, you know, dozens and

01:21:22.800 dozens of hirings.

01:21:24.760 And I can tell you that I'd never witnessed, even once, and all that time, never witnessed

01:21:33.360 active discrimination against a person of color.

01:21:37.260 I've never seen it.

01:21:41.640 Have you?

01:21:43.600 In a big company.

01:21:44.560 I think small companies are probably fully racist.

01:21:47.580 But in a big company.

01:21:49.720 In a big company, have you ever seen anybody actively discriminated against for race?

01:21:55.920 In 35 years.

01:21:57.300 I've never even heard of it.

01:21:59.680 Right?

01:22:00.480 I've never heard of it.

01:22:01.300 But I have heard of companies that are, you know, let you jump the line and put you at

01:22:06.740 the front of the line and actively recruit you.

01:22:08.860 And I've heard of plenty of companies, probably 80 million witnesses to this, where the white 0.99

01:22:14.480 men were told specifically they can't succeed in that company because they need to increase

01:22:19.680 their diversity.

01:22:21.000 Now, do you think that Mark Cuban doesn't know that?

01:22:24.580 Do you think he's not aware of that?

01:22:28.560 That the discrimination rate, my best guess, is five to ten times worse for white men and

01:22:37.840 has been that way for decades.

01:22:40.720 Do you know why people wouldn't know that?

01:22:44.060 Because some people, I think, genuinely don't know it.

01:22:46.960 Because we weren't allowed to tell you.

01:22:49.960 I had to get canceled before I could tell you.

01:22:52.260 Yeah.

01:22:53.740 Yeah.

01:22:54.420 It's the same reason doctors who may have disagreed with the pandemic didn't talk.

01:22:58.320 It's the same reason that people don't disagree, that people disagree with climate change and

01:23:02.480 happen to be scientists.

01:23:04.120 They're going to shut the fuck up.

01:23:05.960 Because they know that talking is the end of their career.

01:23:08.600 No, you don't talk about it.

01:23:09.880 That's why you don't know it.

01:23:11.680 But if you want, and I always think this is the funniest, when people say, oh, yeah,

01:23:16.200 can you give me one example?

01:23:18.540 I'll say, here's how you do this.

01:23:20.860 Walk outside.

01:23:22.920 Find an adult white male of age 50 or higher.

01:23:26.700 Say, excuse me, sir, have you ever worked in the corporate world?

01:23:30.200 Well, yes, I have.

01:23:31.740 And ask him if he's seen examples of discrimination against white people.

01:23:37.000 He will say yes.

01:23:38.040 Give you lots of stories.

01:23:40.320 And then say, have you ever seen it against a person of color in a corporation?

01:23:43.280 And they will say, no, actually, I've never seen it.

01:23:47.940 I've never heard of it.

01:23:49.660 I've never heard of it or seen it.

01:23:51.760 I've never even heard a hint of it.

01:23:53.000 I've never heard somebody else did it.

01:23:54.440 It's so non-existent that almost everything is more existent than that.

01:24:00.360 And he thinks it's the driving force in the workplace, and it doesn't exist at all.

01:24:06.020 It's completely non-there.

01:24:09.400 So that's amazing to me.

01:24:11.960 All right.

01:24:12.260 So hearing that argument, what do you think is the reason that Mark Cuban seems to be living in a different reality than the rest of us?

01:24:19.920 What do you think is behind it?

01:24:23.100 Now, we can't read his mind, so we're only speculating.

01:24:26.960 Is it because he's stupid?

01:24:29.160 Let's just go through the, is he stupid?

01:24:31.980 Go.

01:24:33.440 No, the answer is no, he's smart.

01:24:36.060 He's way above average.

01:24:38.340 Way above average and smart.

01:24:41.020 It's not stupid.

01:24:42.900 Is he under-informed?

01:24:47.760 Maybe.

01:24:48.240 But, you know, the first part of the argument where he said no quotas exist, I don't know.

01:24:55.380 Is that not being informed, or is that just trying to be a lawyer and argue your point that you know is not real?

01:25:01.920 Does he really think that?

01:25:04.280 In the real world?

01:25:05.640 Because he's lived in the real world.

01:25:07.700 He knows that people would treat it as a quota, even if they don't use that word.

01:25:11.700 So that part's a little ambiguous.

01:25:13.320 But when he says there's far more discrimination against non-white candidates, that is so disconnected from reality, I don't even know what to do about it.

01:25:23.040 I wonder if he has any specific anecdotes of it.

01:25:29.080 Has he ever been in the room when it happened?

01:25:31.760 I'll bet he's never been in the room when it happened.

01:25:34.240 I'll bet not once.

01:25:36.100 I'll bet he's heard his basketball team talk about white boys, though. 0.87

01:25:40.600 I'll betcha.

01:25:41.100 Have you ever heard the Larry Bird stories?

01:25:45.900 Larry Bird, you know, one of the best basketball players of all time.

01:25:50.460 But he used to get mocked by the black players for being white, you know, and therefore it couldn't be good, but he was one of the best players of all time.

01:25:59.860 And it was normal.

01:26:01.640 You know, and in fact, both the black and the white players tell the same story.

01:26:06.300 They were all there.

01:26:07.280 They all they all mocked him for being white.

01:26:11.340 He couldn't possibly be that good, et cetera.

01:26:15.920 So anyway, here's my take.

01:26:19.220 After all those things, I think that Mark Cuban is brainwashed and or just signaling because it would be good for him and his family and his businesses.

01:26:29.060 It might be just signaling.

01:26:29.920 So he might be just taking a case like a lawyer would take a case and and just trying to be an advocate for a community which he thinks is underserved.

01:26:39.500 Could be that.

01:26:40.860 He might just think the black community and maybe some of the other people of color are underserved and he's just trying to do a good thing.

01:26:47.860 Maybe.

01:26:48.080 But he's he also feels sort of brainwashed.

01:26:53.840 So I think it might be a combo.

01:26:56.180 I think it's some combination of maybe social impulse wanting to make a difference and be a certain kind of person in the community.

01:27:06.620 And some of it is just brainwashed.

01:27:08.620 So it's probably I think it's hard to determine because there's more than one thing going on and he might be a little under under informed on some stuff.

01:27:17.880 Gas prices are up since the beginning of the year.

01:27:19.740 Fourteen percent probably make a difference in the election.

01:27:26.240 There's an article in The Federalist by Jennifer Ghilardi.

01:27:32.440 And it's titled Hell Hath No Fury Like a Single Liberal Woman. 0.99

01:27:35.740 And she talks about how last month conservative news host Jesse Kelly was talking to Megan Kelly.

01:27:45.240 No relations.

01:27:46.380 Just two Kellys talking on her podcast.

01:27:50.320 And I guess Jesse said, quote, the mentally ill single woman is the beating heart of the Democrat Party. 0.97

01:27:58.420 He proclaimed over 70 percent of single women vote Democrat.

01:28:02.600 Furthermore, he declared that studies show approximately 60 percent of those women had been diagnosed with some sort of mental illness.

01:28:11.220 And then then Kelly, Jesse, joked that everyone knows a woman with, quote, her eyes half bugged out of her skull. 0.92

01:28:22.300 Her eyes half bugged out of her skull. 1.00

01:28:30.260 It's true, right?

01:28:31.820 The bug eyes usually is a signal for mental illness, in my opinion.

01:28:39.100 Yeah.

01:28:39.800 In my opinion.

01:28:41.560 So.

01:28:41.820 I like the fact that other people are seeing the same thing I am to to ignore that it's obvious that it's mental illness.

01:28:52.300 It's not helping anybody.

01:28:54.320 I don't feel like Democrats are better off being managed by the mentally ill. 0.99

01:28:59.840 I don't think so.

01:29:01.000 Well, I think that you could help them by maybe, you know, reframing this into a more honest conversation that you have brainwashed people and mentally ill people. 0.80

01:29:12.980 Who are the primary voters?

01:29:15.580 Brainwashed.

01:29:16.960 And mentally ill. 0.69

01:29:18.700 And that's who's running the country.

01:29:20.940 Well, not really.

01:29:21.720 It's people on top are brainwashing or running the country. 0.85

01:29:24.780 But they're the, you know, allegedly they're voting and determining things.

01:29:29.620 I'm not sure they are.

01:29:32.220 Meanwhile, the Washington Post reports that Biden found some secret way to quietly transfer billions of dollars in bombs and fighter jets to Israel.

01:29:42.380 So I guess it doesn't matter what the Congress wants to do or the people want to do.

01:29:47.960 All that really matters is that we're giving our money to Israel.

01:29:51.400 Now, as I've said many times, the question of supporting Israel, you know, with your words and or politics, is wholly separate from giving your money.

01:30:07.020 Do we all agree on that?

01:30:09.300 That you don't have to support everything with money if somebody already has some.

01:30:16.280 And now I don't know if they have enough or if they have borrowing capability or whatever.

01:30:20.120 But why is it just automatic?

01:30:22.080 We give you money.

01:30:24.200 Why can't it ever be?

01:30:25.800 Hey, do the best you can.

01:30:27.380 You know, if you can't do it without us, ask us.

01:30:30.640 Maybe we'll kick it in.

01:30:31.880 But I feel like we were just throwing money at them as soon as there was a problem.

01:30:36.120 Like, do they even need to ask for it?

01:30:37.960 Do they need to make a case that they can't stretch their own budget?

01:30:42.800 The Israel can't increase their debt. 0.63

01:30:45.660 Because I'm pretty sure I had nothing to do with anything that happened in Gaza.

01:30:50.880 So why am I paying for it?

01:30:53.720 Again, even if you're totally in favor of everything Israel's doing, which we'll talk about in a second, even if you're totally in favor, why are you paying for it?

01:31:04.120 There's lots of things I'm in favor of I'm not paying for.

01:31:06.540 Anyway, so the news is saying that Joe Rogan and they say Alex Jones are using the genocide word about the actions in Gaza.

01:31:20.640 Do you think you'll see more of that now that they broke the seal?

01:31:24.880 Well, I think it depends if they're still in business in a month.

01:31:30.080 If Joe Rogan and Alex Jones can say out loud that they believe Gaza is a genocide and they're still in business, then other people might start saying it.

01:31:41.880 Now, I'm not going to give you my opinion on it because this is so subjective and brainwashy and all that.

01:31:49.180 I will simply note this observation.

01:31:54.880 Israel is spending their Holocaust trip. 0.78

01:31:59.820 And if it doesn't work out, it's going to be the worst thing in the world.

01:32:04.560 Right.

01:32:04.980 But if they spend their Holocaust trip, I mean, what I mean by that is at this point, I think it's already fair to say. 0.79

01:32:14.360 That if you're anybody from Israel complaining about the Holocaust. 0.88

01:32:18.500 It's going to take two seconds for you to say Gaza.

01:32:23.200 Right.

01:32:23.640 So they're spending it.

01:32:26.560 And I'm not saying they shouldn't.

01:32:28.600 And I'm not saying that it's not a real thing to spend.

01:32:31.820 It's just that it's one hell of a risky investment.

01:32:36.080 So from an Israeli point of view, it feels like an investment.

01:32:39.160 I think this is my interpretation.

01:32:40.940 So my interpretation is they had this asset, which is how people feel about protecting Israel because the Holocaust ever happened. 0.83

01:32:50.180 But as soon as they do something that other people think reminds them of the Holocaust, that chip goes away.

01:32:59.560 So if they don't get something out of this, it's going to be the biggest disaster of all time.

01:33:05.180 It's a risky move.

01:33:07.500 If I had to guess whether it works, I'm going to guess yes.

01:33:12.200 I think that the hatred of Netanyahu that a lot of people in Israel have right now, because they don't want to they don't want blood on their hands, I guess.

01:33:24.060 It's a luxury belief.

01:33:29.080 You've heard that term, a luxury belief is something you can say in public that makes you sound like a good person.

01:33:36.140 But you can only say it because you don't have any control over it, because if you had control, you wouldn't be saying that shit.

01:33:42.540 So it's a luxury belief, so you can sound like a good person, right?

01:33:48.700 So here's here's my luxury belief.

01:33:51.220 I think Israel should stop killing innocent people because, oh, I hate any any violence.

01:33:59.080 You should stop doing it.

01:34:00.580 Israel should be a good person like me, because I say good things in public when when I don't have any.

01:34:07.800 I have no skin in the game.

01:34:09.460 So so I say good things, peace, peace and love.

01:34:14.540 That's a luxury belief.

01:34:16.680 I suspect there are a lot of anti Netanyahu people who like being anti violence.

01:34:24.100 But they kind of need the violence.

01:34:27.580 Because, you know, Gaza was an existential threat, still is to Israel. 0.86

01:34:33.920 And if they can find a way to get greater control over the area.

01:34:38.740 And again, I'm not saying it's good or bad.

01:34:41.600 You know, there's no opinion here.

01:34:43.260 I'm just saying that if it turns out the things work out, that they they managed to create a safer environment that can go forward and maybe a larger environment.

01:34:53.440 You know, maybe the size of Israel gets bigger and that has all kinds of benefits. 0.92

01:34:57.280 So it could turn out like the Louisiana Purchase.

01:35:01.600 Which, by the way, I'm not a historian.

01:35:05.960 I need a fact check on this.

01:35:07.960 Is it true that Jefferson was criticized for the Louisiana Purchase because it was too expensive?

01:35:15.520 Do I remember that right?

01:35:17.660 It wasn't true that everybody thought it was a good idea, right?

01:35:20.400 Are there any historians here who can give me a fact check on that?

01:35:25.720 I'm just going from memory, but not a clear memory.

01:35:29.760 It seems, yeah, I'm pretty sure that he was criticized.

01:35:33.780 You know, people said, ah, we don't need that land.

01:35:35.840 Why are we stealing that land?

01:35:37.800 And who could afford 18 million dollars anyway?

01:35:40.640 Anyway, but time goes by, but time goes by, and then it looks like a brilliant, genius move that made America what it is.

01:35:53.760 I think the same thing could happen with Netanyahu.

01:35:57.180 I think he will be viciously criticized by the luxury belief people.

01:36:02.100 But if it works, 100 years from now, he's going to be one of the legends of Israel.

01:36:08.680 So it's a big play, and I wouldn't bet against them, but there we are.

01:36:17.100 Now, I am of the belief that if Israel did not completely destroy Gaza and dominate it forever, they would be in mortal danger forever. 0.92

01:36:27.440 So do with that what you want.

01:36:30.200 It doesn't make anybody right or wrong.

01:36:32.560 It just, that's the situation.

01:36:35.140 All right, ladies and gentlemen.

01:36:38.680 I'm going to say goodbye to the folks on YouTube and X and on Rumble.

01:36:46.420 Thanks for joining.

01:36:47.400 See you at the same place tomorrow.

01:36:49.000 I'm going to keep the folks on Locals Connected so I can get a little after show with the subscribers.

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Real Coffee with Scott Adams - March 30, 2024

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