On this week's show, Alex takes a break from The Daily Show to sip on a cup of coffee. Alex also talks about the recent bridge collapse in Baltimore and the heroic actions of the police response. And Alex makes a prediction about the future of CO2 production.
00:07:36.400You know, nobody I know had that problem.
00:07:38.500So 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.
00:08:26.160So 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.
00:08:39.680But I would like to put this hypothesis out there.
00:08:43.520Do you remember during COVID when there were all these people who they said died of COVID?
00:08:51.020And it turns out that maybe they died with COVID.
00:08:54.660So 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.
00:09:07.540So 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.
00:09:17.520You know, they might know they're fragile and it could be that that's the wrong way to handle it.
00:09:22.700It could be that they instead of helping, it makes it worse.
00:09:26.040Now, that would be the difference between indica and sativa.
00:09:31.200So 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.
00:09:42.940One would definitely give you a mental break.
00:10:17.680Well, Stephen A. Smith and Mark Cuban are body switching, at least in the stereotypical way.
00:10:25.660You 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.
00:10:33.800Well, they just switch bodies, because Stephen A. Smith keeps saying things that make perfect sense and are not woke.
00:10:44.160And don't seem to be related to any kind of team play.
00:10:48.140In other words, Stephen A. Smith, in my view, has escaped the matrix, you know, to use Andrew Tate's terminology.
00:11:40.420So, let's give him a little credit for that.
00:11:44.020So, Stephen A. Smith is saying that equity is basically nonsense, and that you need to work for what you get.
00:11:51.420Mark Cuban, we'll talk about him in a moment, separately.
00:11:55.340I 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.
00:12:08.120So, 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.
00:12:16.800And I realized there isn't any way to do it.
00:12:35.380And you only have to be wrong once for your whole list to be debunked.
00:12:39.880So, if I ask somebody, hey, can you put together a list of hoaxes?
00:12:45.900There'll be 19 that are definitely hoaxes, in my opinion.
00:12:49.680Again, the other problem is it's subjective.
00:12:51.940And then there will be one that just came from, you know, QAnon or something.
00:12:56.980And I'll be like, I can't really use that, because you put that one poison pill on your list.
00:13:02.920And 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.
00:13:15.100So, 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.
00:13:31.460So, 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.
00:13:39.540You know, if you look at my hoax list, I would say that almost all of you agree with everything on my list.
00:14:11.820I'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.
00:14:22.660And that's the opposite of a debunking list.
00:14:25.600So, you actually can't get there from here, because nobody would agree what the list is.
00:14:30.340Yeah, no, top ten isn't going to work either.
00:14:34.920So, I think it's just naturally unavailable to us, which is weird.
00:14:40.240Speaking of hoaxes, would you be surprised to hear that smart people think that our jobs data is all made up?
00:14:51.440No, you wouldn't be surprised at that at all, because we can all see the gears of the machine.
00:14:56.700We've got a Democrat government, and we've got an election year, and the economy is going to be among the top things.
00:15:05.600So, no, there's a guaranteed effect that the Biden administration would exaggerate.
00:15:12.420So, 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.
00:15:21.900So, here's some of the claims from Adrian, that all new jobs since February 23 have been part-time.
00:16:41.060Now, 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?
00:16:53.320I said, well, there's one gold standard variable you can look at.
00:23:39.100The famous dance scene where you can't watch her?
00:23:42.260The only thing that could make Elaine from Seinfeld a worse dancer is wearing a mask.
00:23:48.080Now, 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.
00:26:45.160I might be wrong about that, but it looks like that's what happened.
00:26:48.180I think when I changed the profile, I lost the check.
00:26:51.080And I think losing the check loses temporarily the monetization.
00:26:55.460Well, 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?
00:27:09.460I'm starting to feel like the world doesn't want me in it.
00:27:11.780I'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,
00:27:19.000my character being picked apart by people who don't know me and disrespecting my name.
00:28:24.120But 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.
00:28:39.800Well, 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.
00:28:47.660Because some stuff went down, and at least one witness say that Diddy pulled the trigger and shot three people, and then they escaped.
00:28:57.100And then he's allegedly bragging that he got away with murder because he bribed witnesses and jurors to get his acquittal.
00:30:07.040And 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.
00:33:42.680It'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.
00:33:54.920Now, if you were thinking of this from, you know, starting from first principles and trying to figure out what's true,
00:34:03.120do you think you could ever come to that opinion, that you know for sure any election is not rigged?
00:34:10.980And 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.
00:34:26.040Well, 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.
00:34:36.580Everybody will say that because that's what their news told them to say.
00:34:41.440Did they come up with that reason on their own?
00:35:15.260As soon as you hear that, no court found that there was anything wrong with the election, therefore definitely was fair.
00:35:22.160Was OJ definitely innocent because the court didn't find him guilty?
00:35:27.960Because 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.
00:35:38.800How in the world could you be a modern thinking human in civilization in 2024 and think that you could know one way or another?
00:35:51.860Well, 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.
00:35:58.980But you can't know if you don't find it.
00:36:01.640If you don't find it and you also know it's a complicated system.
00:36:06.000How in the world do you say, you know, it was true?
00:36:10.020So 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.
00:36:57.160Literally people sitting in a room and saying, how will we convince the public to believe something that's obviously not true?
00:37:03.860Well, let's do this and this and this and get our people to say that.
00:37:07.640And we will brainwash the public into thinking that the obvious is not true.
00:37:11.980When 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.
00:38:10.780Trump 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.
00:45:44.700And 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.
00:45:56.980And we've all gotten fatter and less attractive to each other.
00:46:01.720And 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.
00:48:27.060So and then, yeah, the food probably makes us less capable of reproducing in every way.
00:48:33.020Every trend is moving away from human population.
00:48:38.240But isn't it weird that it's happening the same time that robots are coming online?
00:48:43.340But 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?
00:50:00.860Now, I wasn't a regular vegetarian because for me it was just for selfish reasons, just for my own health.
00:50:06.520I wasn't trying to save the animals because I thought that was impossible.
00:50:11.220But 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,
00:50:17.800why would you make your primary first adopter market that would love to have a protein option that they don't have?
00:50:27.900Why would you make it exactly the thing they don't want to put in their mouth?
00:50:32.440Oh, this will remind you of eating a dead animal's flesh.
00:55:16.180They wouldn't be vehement if it were not brainwashing.
00:55:22.100If they had simply come to their own opinion by thinking it through, they wouldn't get real angry when you said they were brainwashed.
00:55:29.440For example, let's say that Bill Moore had not been brainwashed.
00:55:35.320And 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.
00:55:44.140And then you say, well, you realize, you know, same thing with O.J., right?
00:55:49.780Like the court didn't find him guilty, but you probably think he's guilty.
00:55:53.460So 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.
01:00:07.280There's no connection between what there's literally no connection between what Biden says he did and what's happening in the real world.
01:00:19.080Well, well, the moon, the moon is not moving the tides as much as it used to, thanks to my policies.
01:00:27.160Well, 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.
01:00:37.560He just says thanks to my policies, but never explains how they would have any impact on anything, thanks to my policies.
01:00:44.540And then when you ask people, what did he actually do?
01:00:48.540They imagine that they've heard things, but they can't mention one because they didn't hear any things.
01:00:56.040So he's actually doing the fake because where he's saying something that sounds like a reason, but isn't.
01:01:04.420Because my policies is not any kind of a reason for anything.
01:01:09.960But 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.
01:03:29.140So 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.
01:03:42.500So do you think that Google is dangerous?
01:03:50.540The 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.
01:04:05.020And they changed their search results so the bloodbath word only means violence.
01:04:11.000Now, I can't confirm that that happened.
01:04:17.700I mean, I believe it because it would be in pattern.
01:04:20.540Now, 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?
01:04:42.120Everything you suspected was exactly true.
01:04:46.880And 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.
01:05:01.440And apparently it can be demonstrated in a robust way that Google can just change your vote by sending you things that would do that.
01:05:10.400So 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.
01:05:30.740Which would also explain something else that I saw.
01:05:39.360I saw some early video of the founders of Google.
01:05:44.300And what I was expecting was to see, like, a young Bill Gates or a young Steve Jobs.
01:05:51.280And by that I mean, oh, wow, you can see how smart they are.
01:05:57.000You know, you can certainly see that the seeds of their success were already there.
01:06:02.440I didn't really see that with the Google founders.
01:06:06.480My first thought was, did they get some help?
01:06:09.700And the answer is yes, they got some help.
01:06:14.260I suspect that 100% of every business that matters to the intelligence community is owned by the intelligence community.
01:06:23.280Everything that doesn't matter is untouched because it's irrelevant.
01:06:27.480But 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.
01:06:35.700And people are saying that X is looking suspicious now.
01:06:58.620But 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.
01:07:09.020And there appear to be videos and strong evidence that that's actually happening.
01:07:17.180And 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.
01:07:59.460Meanwhile, 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.
01:08:20.280Now, how could you think you could get away with that?
01:08:24.320One of the most debunked hoaxes in all of the world, and there is one reason.
01:08:32.580Biden's voters have never seen that debunked, so he can say it like it's a fact.
01:09:17.180Well, have you noticed that the strongest communicators who might be, let's say, leaning pro-Trump, have been completely eliminated from the news?
01:13:23.940And by the way, I think she changed her mind on it at least once, which is usually a good sign.
01:13:30.040So yeah, anybody who threatens to give them any useful information will be eliminated.
01:13:36.560Greg 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.
01:13:49.580And also the Texas Castle Doctrine empowers Texans to use force to defend themselves and their property.
01:14:13.820At the very least, you'd be sued for, you know, for a civil lawsuit and lose everything.
01:14:20.500If you hurt them, you know, even if there was no arrest, you'd still get sued and lose everything.
01:14:26.280And 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.
01:14:39.960You're going to be in a lot of trouble if you hurt anybody for any reason.
01:14:43.920Now 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.
01:14:55.660But in the real world, 2024, you can't just pull out your gun and start mowing down squatters.
01:15:06.820But I like his attitude, but I just think it's maybe not practical.
01:15:12.700There's also a video that's viral of some people in Mexico.
01:15:18.080Apparently 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.
01:15:35.260So, 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.
01:15:47.460No, because it's Mexico and it's not the United States.
01:25:13.320But 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.
01:25:23.040I wonder if he has any specific anecdotes of it.
01:25:29.080Has he ever been in the room when it happened?
01:25:31.760I'll bet he's never been in the room when it happened.
01:25:41.100Have you ever heard the Larry Bird stories?
01:25:45.900Larry Bird, you know, one of the best basketball players of all time.
01:25:50.460But 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.
01:26:19.220After 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.
01:26:29.920So 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.
01:26:40.860He 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.
01:27:08.620So 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.
01:27:17.880Gas prices are up since the beginning of the year.
01:27:19.740Fourteen percent probably make a difference in the election.
01:27:26.240There's an article in The Federalist by Jennifer Ghilardi.
01:27:32.440And it's titled Hell Hath No Fury Like a Single Liberal Woman.
01:27:35.740And she talks about how last month conservative news host Jesse Kelly was talking to Megan Kelly.
01:29:01.000Well, 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.
01:29:32.220Meanwhile, the Washington Post reports that Biden found some secret way to quietly transfer billions of dollars in bombs and fighter jets to Israel.
01:29:42.380So I guess it doesn't matter what the Congress wants to do or the people want to do.
01:29:47.960All that really matters is that we're giving our money to Israel.
01:29:51.400Now, 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.
01:30:53.720Again, 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?
01:31:04.120There's lots of things I'm in favor of I'm not paying for.
01:31:06.540Anyway, so the news is saying that Joe Rogan and they say Alex Jones are using the genocide word about the actions in Gaza.
01:31:20.640Do you think you'll see more of that now that they broke the seal?
01:31:24.880Well, I think it depends if they're still in business in a month.
01:31:30.080If 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.
01:31:41.880Now, I'm not going to give you my opinion on it because this is so subjective and brainwashy and all that.
01:33:07.500If I had to guess whether it works, I'm going to guess yes.
01:33:12.200I 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.
01:34:43.260I'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.
01:34:53.440You know, maybe the size of Israel gets bigger and that has all kinds of benefits.
01:34:57.280So it could turn out like the Louisiana Purchase.
01:35:01.600Which, by the way, I'm not a historian.