Episode 2450 CWSA 04⧸20⧸24
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1 hour and 5 minutes
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145.78235
Summary
In this episode of the podcast, Alex talks about the perils of drinking more than one glass of water a day, Elon Musk's theory that history is written by the losers, and how a bad diet can make you stupid.
Transcript
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that you can't even believe with your small human brain.
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Well, all you need for that is a cup or a mug or a glass,
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a tank of gels, a stein, a canteen jug, a flask, a vessel of any kind.
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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine
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Well, we do have to mention that it's a 420 day.
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And today you can do the fun exercise of trying to decide
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Did I wake and bake or did I stick with coffee today?
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Well, yes, but not if your enemies are still alive
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and have a lot of time on their hands to edit Wikipedia.
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It's literally true that the losers are writing the history.
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Because the people who are doing the, you know,
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So, I think the losers are rewriting history to maybe try to win.
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they're seeing an increased demand for non-alcoholic drinks.
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Because apparently there are more people embracing the dry,
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Now, what do you think caused a decrease in alcohol use?
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Because you would think that the pandemic would have increased it.
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And you wouldn't really expect it to go down all the way,
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Well, what exactly would cause people to drink less?
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Because that would encourage people to do drugs.
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So, I think one of the things that the news can't report,
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because they don't feel comfortable reporting it,
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is that probably there's an alternative that's legal
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The other possibility is that more people have heard that
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alcohol is poison and that that reframe is having some impact.
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Could be just that people come to the same realizations
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You know, it could be just something in the air.
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Everybody comes to the same idea at the same time.
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I believe it's also decreasing in popularity among the young.
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I think high school kids are drinking way less.
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Well, how about the other things that are killing us?
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Wall Street Journal is reporting today that your food is killing you
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and that if you eat wrong, it affects your ability to think.
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How many of you already knew that if you have a bad diet,
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It'll actually make you stupid for that afternoon.
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I didn't know it was necessarily scientifically true,
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but I knew beyond a doubt that if I ate the wrong kind of food for breakfast,
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oh, your stomach is diverting energy from your brain to digest your food.
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Do you remember being told that when you were a kid?
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That that morning, that afternoon slump was only because it was food.
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If you eat food, you get a slump and you get a brain fog.
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Well, it turns out that it depends what food you eat.
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If you ate a big breakfast with saturated fats and sugar,
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you know, you had your donut and cereal and that sort of thing,
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that by the afternoon you'd be stupid basically.
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Now, how many of you noticed that in your own life?
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Is there anybody who said, oh, yeah, I've seen that in myself?
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Yeah, and that's why I take such caution to make sure that breakfast doesn't ruin my day.
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Breakfast is the worst meal of the day and will ruin your entire day if you overdo it.
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Whenever I see somebody healthy, if you ask them what they eat for breakfast,
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it's usually minimal or something pretty protein-filled.
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is that the Wall Street Journal has elevated it to, you know, a national story.
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So it's like a story right in the front of the Wall Street Journal that our processed food is killing us.
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And there's somebody named Gearheart, who is doing some research, I guess.
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And Gearheart and colleagues are saying that there should be a new mental health disorder
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called ultra-processed food use disorder or highly processed food use disorder.
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And it should actually be included in the psychiatrist and psychologist manuals.
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Do you think that a food, I don't know, food preference disorder
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should be part of the psychological literature?
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That actually seems completely appropriate to me.
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So once again, I'm finding that the world is going in my direction.
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If they're drinking less alcohol and they're realizing their processed foods are killing them,
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But on the other hand, I do think I live in a simulation, and I do think I can influence it.
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So the fact that it's all going my way, I don't know.
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Thomas Massey is talking about Speaker Johnson, who is a Republican like Massey,
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So Thomas Massey says the swamp tasked Mike Johnson with three betrayals of America.
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Number one, pass an omnibus that spends more than Pelosi's omnibus.
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Number two, reauthorize domestic spying without warrants.
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And number three, send $100 billion to wars around the world.
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Now, he hasn't done that yet, but he's trying to do that today.
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So this afternoon, they'll have a vote to send your money to other places.
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So if they vote for the bill, it bans TikTok after six months if they don't sell it.
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In my opinion, the TikTok part will kill it, meaning that I think TikTok is worth too much
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money to too many people for a Senate to have a majority against it.
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So I think the TikTok bill might have been a clever poison pill.
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It might have been a way to kill the whole bill.
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If you put the TikTok thing in here, people can't handle that.
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So my prediction is that I don't think TikTok can be banned because I don't think our politicians
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If we had an independent body of politicians doing whatever they thought was right in a
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republic, probably yes, because that would be the right thing.
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But given that we don't have anything like that and our government appears to be totally
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rigged, I'm saying that that's probably a poison pill.
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So I'm going to vote that the bill gets rejected.
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They may not say it's because of the poison pill TikTok, but I don't see a world in which
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Now, there is one possibility in which it could be the ban could be approved.
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You know that Steve Mnuchin and some other people are looking at and trying to buy whatever
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assets TikTok would sell them to reproduce it with an American flavor.
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If the CIA is behind that, and they might be, then the CIA would be happy if it became an
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So it could be that the CIA wants the TikTok ban because that would give them more leverage
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and more spying ability in the United States than TikTok necessarily would.
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Because Chinese controlled company doesn't want to give the CIA a backdoor.
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But an American controlled company might have no choice.
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So if you assume that the CIA is behind the TikTok part of the bill, then it probably indicates
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So actually, if it gets passed, I would say that's a pretty good indication that the CIA said
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Elon Musk has said that the ban on TikTok would conflict with the First Amendment, and it is
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Well, here's the problem with reasoning from analogy, which I never expect to see Elon Musk
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do, except you have to respect that he's running a major free speech platform.
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If it were my job to run a major free speech platform, I would be against banning TikTok because
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that would sort of be my fiduciary responsibility to the company, you know, to make it clear that
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free speech has got to be the higher, you know, the higher standard.
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And we have plenty of history of banning things from children if it's dangerous.
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If you see it as free speech, then absolutely it should be allowed.
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If you see it as something damaging to children, such as porn or excessive violence or something
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There'd be lots of things you wouldn't want children to see, but you would never call them
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If you were banning hardcore porn from a six-year-old, would you say, oh, you're taking away the six-year-old's
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You would say it's about the endangerment of a child.
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So I think that the free speech frame is the wrong one for analyzing TikTok.
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I think that it should be legal for adults everywhere, no matter who owns it.
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Now, you're going to argue with me whether that should be 18.
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If I say 25 and we compromise on 21 or 18, I'm still happier than if it hadn't been banned
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And some people say, but Scott, kids can just have access to it anyway.
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And they say, Scott, it's up to the parents to ban it, not the government.
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Let me, if you're not a parent, maybe that makes sense.
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But let me explain to you what every parent in modern America knows.
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Now, if your kids are already grown, you don't know this.
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So just stay out of the conversation if your kids are already fully grown.
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If you have kids today, you can't get them off of social media unless it's illegal.
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I mean, you can't really stop teenagers from smoking cigarettes.
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And it's probably one of the reasons that marijuana is being used more by teenagers
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But once it got moved into the, it's sort of like alcohol category,
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you should naturally expect that kids will do more of it.
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And that little help is if the government can say it's illegal at your age,
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that would go a long way to helping the parents.
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So, I'm going to disagree with Musk, but I'm going to respect his stand for free speech.
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Because if I ran a free speech platform, I think I'd say the same thing he's saying.
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Is it fair to say if I were in this position, I would say the same thing he's saying?
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Because I think he has a bigger, sort of a bigger role in the free speech debate.
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So, I can disagree with him while completely respecting his position on that.
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But I don't know that he would disagree about banning it for children at some age.
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I think he'd say yes to banning it for children under 12.
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And then it gets dicey, you know, once you get to the teenage years.
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So, Tucker was on Joe Rogan and made some news.
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It's both things you've heard, but every time he says it, it's just mind-blowing.
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So, according to Tucker, he's had people who really know how the government works,
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actually elected officials at high levels, tell him that they are frightened to death of the intelligence agencies in their own country,
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and that basically the intelligence agencies are running the country.
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Now, that comes from Tucker, who tells us he's not guessing.
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He personally knows the people who are in this situation, and they will tell you privately,
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yeah, we're scared to death of the CIA, and we think they're in all our business,
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and they could put us in jail for anything they wanted, and they could block anything.
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Now, if you're afraid of them, it means they're in charge.
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So, if you believe you are living in some kind of a democracy, a republic,
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Now, here's something I said in the man cave last night.
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Suppose you've been around when the founders were designing this system,
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and they were saying, all right, we need something like a democracy,
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but we can't really trust all the uneducated people to vote.
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Then the people will vote for their champions, you know, to represent them.
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But then you'll get the smart champions who will be the ones in charge.
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Because without free speech, the whole thing falls apart.
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So, you want your free speech, and then you want your free markets.
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Now, you've got a really good system that will last forever, right?
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If you would put me in charge of it, as one of the founders,
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you said, here's the system we're going to build.
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If I thought that technology would never improve,
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I would say, oh, that looks like that could be a good system.
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Free speech meant I could talk to the people who are within shouting distance, right?
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Free speech meant I could talk to people who are within shouting distance.
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How much damage could I do if I can only talk to people who are within shouting distance?
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Oh, yeah, I could write a letter and have a guy on a horse deliver it.
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But if I owned a newspaper, suppose I owned a newspaper.
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Well, now my free speech is sort of a powerful tool of influence.
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So, even if I were a young person designing the Constitution with the founders,
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which basically is going to give all the power of influence to the newspapers.
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So, I would say, and newspapers are owned by rich people,
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and the poor uneducated only know what they're told.
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So, it looks like you're designing a system that will concentrate all the power in the rich,
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because the rich can not only contribute to campaigns and get people elected,
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but they can control the means of communication.
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Now, your free speech isn't just a question of the people in shouting distance.
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Now, if you're influential, you could have a million followers on X.
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Suddenly, free speech is a super, super powerful and dangerous thing.
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Do you think that Jeff Bezos wanted to own the Washington Post?
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Think of everything that Jeff Bezos cares about and does.
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You know, there's no chance he wanted to own a newspaper.
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And as they can to every rich person in America, they said some version of this.
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Do you know how big the big the businesses that you do with the government?
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You know, the government puts a lot of money into your AWS service, you know, your your servers and stuff.
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And, you know, they're only doing that because we put a good word in there in Congress's ears.
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So we could probably make you billions of dollars poorer and we could even pass some legislation that's bad for Amazon.
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Oh, there's a million ways we could destroy Amazon.
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Or you could buy the Washington Post and then we continue controlling the coverage.
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So if you lose a few hundred million dollars per year on the Washington Post because, you know, you can never make it make money.
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And by the way, do you see Jeff Bezos with all of his entrepreneurial powers trying to make the Washington Post profitable?
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Don't you think if he was really like that was his baby, like you really want to make news work, it would look completely different by now because he's an inventor.
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But it's sort of the same, which deeply suggests he didn't buy it for his own purposes.
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It looks like he bought it to keep Amazon alive.
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Because if he doesn't buy it and control it for the benefit of the people who do control the country, he can't run Amazon anymore.
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Of many, many things, as Schumer says, they have six ways from Sunday or something like that.
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I think that our system, as it was designed, the design guaranteed that we would become a fascist company, country, and that we are indeed a fascist system.
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My understanding of fascist is that the country is not a democracy or anything like it, not a republic, but rather the only power is the government, which is sort of a permanent government, and the big companies.
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Our current system is that the intelligence people help our big companies operate overseas.
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You know, they say, hey, you can't do that to our big company overseas because we have a military and we have a government and we're backing this big company.
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So if you mess with this big company, we're going to come at you with all of our other tools.
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So the government and the big corporations have always worked together.
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So the big companies can fund the government and, you know, their lobbyists can give money to people and stuff.
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And the intel agencies can make the government do whatever they want.
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So you basically have a system in which, by its design, there was only one way it could go.
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If you knew that the Internet would happen, you could have easily predicted that rich people, the elites, the elites who own companies, plus the elites who are in office, are all working together and that we don't have anything like a democracy, republic.
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Then none of that is actually real and that all of it has been artificial theater for the benefit of the public.
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Now, it does appear, especially with all the Bush dynasty and Clinton dynasty stuff.
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I mean, it looks like our presidents have been selected by the intelligence agencies for decades.
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Yeah, because everybody's either an ex-CIA head or they're CIA adjacent or they're related to somebody who was in the CIA.
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So, no, it looks to me like the government has been a fascist entity, but it couldn't have been anything else.
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If you looked at the original design, if you had free markets, that lets the rich people get richer.
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If you had freedom of speech, it means that you and I can talk to each other and it makes no difference.
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But if you want to talk on the Internet, the rich people will make sure that you don't say anything they don't like.
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So, the free speech was a power that the rich could exploit, that the poor could not.
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So, the non-rich people would just get kicked off of social media.
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And you could be pretty rich and still get kicked off of social media.
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If you had free speech and free markets to something like a republic and wait,
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it guarantees you'll end up with a fascist system.
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Now, obviously, the system would be deeply rigged for the elites.
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Because the alternatives give you stuff like, you know, everything you don't like, basically.
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You don't want the uneducated population to be in charge.
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So, it might be that the combination of the fascist combination of big companies and big government
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at least protects you from other countries pretty well.
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And that your biggest risk is another country dominates you.
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that you keep other countries from messing with you because you're more powerful than them.
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It might be that's the only lasting system there is.
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It might be that every other system ends in conquest by the bad guys.
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So, if you tell me it's necessarily the worst system we could have, I don't know.
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It might be good for some things and terrible for others.
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So, Tucker basically confirmed that we have a blackmailocracy
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But then, Tucker also said that there's some kind of...
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So, Tucker doesn't believe that something is coming from another planet.
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But he does believe the phenomenon of whatever these unidentified things are is real.
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Now, he believes that U.S. servicemen have died as a result of a contact with him
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and that it might be some kind of spiritual thing.
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I don't think any U.S. service people died because of a UFO,
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whether the UFO came from another planet or was spiritual.
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I don't believe any of the spiritual stuff or any of the UFO stuff.
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I do think there's a good chance that Tucker got Sidney Powell.
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Remember I told you that that whole Kraken thing with Sidney Powell
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sounded like somebody told her a story so ridiculous
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about the Venezuelan general getting into the machines
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why is this reasonable attorney person saying something so obviously outrageous
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that if this doesn't turn out to be true, her entire life is ruined?
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And then we have Tucker, who has secret information he can't tell you about
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from secret people saying that there's some phenomenon that's real.
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And then he goes on television, it tells you the phenomenon's real.
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Do you think that that makes his credibility greater,
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It pretty much makes a guarantee that half of the country
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There's a bill to hold the Supreme Court accountable.
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the two people most associated with the intelligence agencies.
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They're both trying to establish an office of the inspector general
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and that they're protected from undue influence.
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Now, you can see right away that that's an attempt
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It's fairly obvious if you've been watching them over the years.
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They're up there with their eyeballs in every hoax.
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It can't be that it's always the same two people
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So this would be an attempt by the intelligence people
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which is there are more conservatives on the court
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there's not really a second way to interpret this.