Episode 2456 CWSA 04⧸26⧸24
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Rep. Adam Schiff's suit is stolen from his car and he has to go to a meeting in a hunting vest. President Xi of China says he will not fight a war with the U.S. California wants to raise taxes on non-whites if they re white or non-Black.
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All right. So here's my favorite story of the day. Representative Adam Schiff
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went to San Francisco for a meeting and that didn't work out because his luggage was stolen
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from his car. And so he had to wear a little hunting vest. Who wears a hunting vest?
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Yeah, I've never understood the the hunting vest. Are there a lot of situations where your torso
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is cold, but your arms are warm enough? I've never been in a situation where, you know, I'm thinking
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my arms are just right, but this torso area, I just need to get that a little warmer. So I'll put
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on my little hunting vest. Anyway, so Adam Schiff had to go to his meeting in a hunting vest when
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everybody else was wearing suits. Kind of embarrassing, but it seems a little perfect
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that the Democrat got robbed going to San Francisco. So good job, Adam Schiff. You've done a great job
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with your state. Now the emperor has no clothes. Somebody actually said the emperor has no clothes.
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I've never seen a situation where that phrase actually worked. It's one of my most hated phrases
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because everybody says it about everything. Oh, the emperor has no clothes. The emperor has no
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clothes. I'm just so sick of hearing that phrase. And then finally, there's somebody who has his
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actually clothes, his clothes actually stolen from him. Like, okay, finally, the emperor has no clothes.
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It fits. Well, there's other news from San Francisco. President Xi of China is also in San Francisco,
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or he was, and he was speaking, and he says he wants to be friends with the U.S., and that he won't
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fight a war with anyone. He will not fight a war with anyone. You know, I think his comments would
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have been more credible, except for the fact that he was wearing Adam Schiff's suit when he said it.
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So, that's... Thank you very much, people. That's the end of the show. No. I feel like I should end it on
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that and just go out big. Come on. That's a good joke. He was wearing Adam Schiff's suit. Yeah.
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Yeah. That's called a callback. Well, I actually believe China. When China says they want to be
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friends with the U.S. and they don't want a war, of course they do. Of course they do. But they want
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to be the kind of friends that eventually dominate you and take all your business. So, and they want
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to spy on you and, you know, do that kind of stuff. But I do believe he doesn't want a war.
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Can you imagine any scenario in which China would be better off starting a war? There's no scenario
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in which that makes sense for them. It certainly makes sense for them to, you know, flex their
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muscles and try to get some control over their local islands and, you know, try to make noise
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about Taiwan. Everything China does makes sense to me. That's the one thing I always appreciate
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about China. You never have to wonder what they're thinking. Do you? It's always, it's
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always right out there. You know, there's no, there's not much of a trick to it. You know,
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they're spying on you. You know, they're trying to take your markets, but there's no surprise
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to it. I kind of like that. I like transparency, even if it's bad. Well, let's talk about more
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about racist California. There's now a proposal that's getting some traction to raise your taxes
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if you're white or basically non-black. So everybody non-black would pay more taxes and black residents
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would get a break on their property taxes. And if you were to apply for a work license of some sort,
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a kind of license that the state would give you, then if you're white, you go to the back of the line
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and the black residents would go to the front. So the, the proposal is to be a racist state.
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So the, the, the way California wants to deal with the legacy of slavery that happened in other
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states, just, just try to hold this in your mind. California never had any slavery. So they want to give
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reparations to the descendants for the thing that never happened in California. And the way they want to
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make it right is by having an openly racist system. Now it hasn't been approved, but, but the
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ridiculousness of the fact that this even is a conversation is incredible, incredible. All right.
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So here's a fun thing. Do you know how hard it's been to try to figure out, uh, all the claims about
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election irregularity and every day you'll hear another claim. It's like, Oh, this County did
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something and I don't understand it. And this County may have done something and I don't understand it.
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Well, here's where data visualization comes in handy. So I just posted, and I think you will like it a lot
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on the X platform, a data visualization done by, uh, an account, mad liberals. So mad liberals has been
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doing tons of research on his own, apparently, uh, using public sources and put together a data
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visualization of which counties had what kind of problems just in Georgia. Now you have to see it
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to be impressed at the data visualization. It was the, it was the best thing I've seen so far. It was the
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best thing I've seen about the 2020 election in the sense that you could very quickly get a sense of where the
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problems were and how much and how widespread and it's shocking, right? Now I can't, I can't vouch for
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the data, but apparently it's public sources and, uh, it's shocking that the number of problems in
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specific places, it'll blow your mind. Yeah. Now I can't, again, I can't verify the data,
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but if it's accurate, it's pretty shocking. Matt Walsh is creating a little, uh, controversy as he
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often does on X. So apparently the other day he said on X, uh, that the key to losing weight is to
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eat less and exercise more. And there was some metabolic health practitioner, he calls her, I guess
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she calls herself, uh, finds the idea so absurd that she assumes it must be a joke and mocked him for
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thinking that losing weight is just about eating less and exercising more. What do you think?
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Who's right? The, the so-called metabolic health practitioner or Matt Walsh, who says,
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if you want to lose weight, just eat less and exercise more.
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Um, I'm going to go with the metabolic health practitioner.
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Yeah. Because the, the idea of just eating less and exercise more is a willpower-based idea.
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All willpower-based concepts fail because willpower isn't even real. So this is magical thinking.
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Thinking that you could lose weight by just try hard or I'll concentrate harder to eat less
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and exercise more or use my willpower. It's not really a thing. That's magical thinking.
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Here's, here's what does work. If you've seen my book, I'd have failed almost everything and still
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wouldn't bake. I talked about you manage your cravings instead. If you manage your cravings,
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then you don't have to worry about free will not existing because you won't want the thing that
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you're not supposed to do. So if you go about it from a, uh, working on your cravings perspective,
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you're going to get something that this metabolic health practitioner
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probably knows about fairly well, actually. So for example, I teach you that you should just
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identify a problem food. For me, it was, let's say French fries at one point. And I would just say,
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I'll eat everything I want except French fries. So now there's no willpower involved because it's not
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really hard to eat everything you want all the time except French fries. And then I just,
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once I lose the craving for the French fries, I'll just pick another thing.
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And you just remove your most problematic things without any willpower at all. So in the end,
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you do eat less, but it has more to do with your mix of foods than it does with quantity.
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So in, in some very general way, Matt Walsh is right, eating less and exercising more is good for
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you, of course, but you can't really get there with that philosophy. It's, it's a philosophy that locks
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you in a corner. You can't get out. So the one that works is to work on your cravings.
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You can read that in my book. Kamala Harris said recently, quote,
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I just don't think people should have to go to jail for smoking weed.
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When she was a district attorney, she oversaw 1,900 convictions for marijuana related offenses.
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But isn't it great that she's not in favor of it now? Not in favor of it now.
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1,900 people whose lives were probably ruined by that.
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But speaking of drugs, uh, food and drug administration, the FDA, they've approved a
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breakthrough status for LSD, which means it could be used, um, you know, for treatments.
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So there've been clinical trials in which, uh, some bio company called MindMed, MindMed,
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uh, found out that, uh, very small doses of LSD, not, not enough for you to be tripping or anything,
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will make you feel, uh, less depressive and less anxiety and basically, uh, less PTSD.
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Basically, it's like a cure-all for a whole bunch of medical things.
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Now, do you remember the discussion I had, uh, yesterday or so, in which I was just speculating
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that the reason our mental health is so bad lately is that we were designed to be tribal and family,
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but many of us lost our tribal family and even work connections and we're just alone.
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And even if there are people around, if you feel alone, I think it makes you crazy.
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Um, you know, use the general word, but the way it might, uh, express itself in an individual
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might be a variety of different things that have different names.
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But my speculation is, this is just speculation, this is not backed by science,
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that, uh, the feeling of being alone is what actually stimulates these mental problems.
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Now, this gets us to the question of how in the world would LSD or, you know, some of these drugs
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like ecstasy, MDMA, and ketamine, how would they make you feel less mental health problems,
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So they all seem to have been indicated for helping a variety of problems.
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The ones that work at all work on a variety of mental problems.
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It's a variety of different drugs that have different mechanisms.
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And when they work at all, they work on a variety of mental problems, not just one.
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Now, here's what that suggests to me, connecting it to my earlier thought.
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My brief experience with, um, let's say, uh, chemistry suggests that some drugs make you feel
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Marijuana makes you feel like you don't care that you're alone.
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And it also cures all your mental problems for some people.
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So don't do anything I say in the medical sense.
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But here's my, here's my speculative hypothetical take on this.
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I think that the drugs that are working for these mental health problems, because it's
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a variety of different problems, I think they're all related to how alone you feel or how connected
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And these are drugs that make you feel connected, even if you're not sitting in the same room
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I think that's going to be the magic bullet, is that we're going to realize the reason
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these drugs work is because they make you feel connected.
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Well, Green Jean-Pierre, there's a story now circulating.
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If this story were about the Trump White House, I would tell you I don't necessarily believe it.
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Because, you know, if the sources are sketchy, it sounds a little rumor-like, but it's believable.
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And the rumor is that the top aides to Biden were secretly trying to push Green Jean-Pierre
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out of her job, because she's really terrible at it.
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And that Green Jean-Pierre doesn't want to go anywhere, so she's going to hang tight.
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And one of the reasons given for why they were unsuccessful in nudging her out of a job,
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which I think everybody who's watching knows she's completely unqualified for it.
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I don't think there are any Democrats watching Green Jean-Pierre who say,
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I doubt there's anybody who thinks she's qualified or capable to do the job.
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But apparently the internal reports are that they've got a diversity problem.
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So because she is black and female and lesbian,
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anything you do to replace her gets you a little less diversity than you had before.
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Chances are, unless you find another, I guess you could top it if she were disabled.
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But, uh, so they've trapped themselves with their own philosophy of putting identity over a capability.
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And then they got somebody who didn't have the capability, but had the identity and they couldn't,
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Now, I would like to use her as my example of all of corporate America.
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Do you think only the, the White House has this problem?
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That there's somebody not doing the job, but they know they can't get rid of them because
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It has nothing to do with anybody's genes or race.
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It's just that you find yourself in a situation where you have an incompetent employee,
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which has nothing to do with their genes or their culture.
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It just could be not everybody's killing it all the time.
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You can't get rid of them because you're sort of trapped in your own philosophy of,
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It's going to look really bad if I get rid of it.
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So watching the Democrats have the problem that they created is kind of fun.
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The GDP just plunged from 2.4 to 1.6, and if the GDP falls below the inflation rate, which
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apparently it has done now temporarily, at least, we have a thing called stagflation.
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And the stagflation is when the economy is not growing, but the inflation is.
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Because if the economy is growing at the same time as inflation, they can kind of balance
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But if your economy is shrinking and your inflation is growing, you got your stagflation, and you're
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Now, it could take a decade to climb out of that if you get in deep enough.
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So, we could be entering a decade of, you know, not ideal situation, but we'll see.
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So, I don't know if anybody saw, I was trying to jumpstart a conversation of what would it
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And survive is the right word, because we're at a point where survival is actually a legitimate
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question, like actually dying, because we're so poorly managed in terms of our debt that
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Like, literally, it could kill every one of us.
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And so, I just put it out as a, you know, stick in the ground, something to talk about.
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I said, suppose you cut all the expenses across the board by 15%, one, five, 15%.
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Suppose you could boost the GDP, let's say up to 4%, which would be really high.
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But let's say you did it with AI and robots and self-driving cars and, you know, maybe another
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I feel like you could, you know, if we're in a rare time when we've got a technology switch
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And everybody's going to sell a new car to get self-driving cars.
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So, it's actually possible that the United States is entering a super cycle of upgrading
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And you probably almost certainly would need a Republican president to just take the controls
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So, let's say you've got a 15% cut in expenses, which would be draconian.
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And you've got a 4% GDP, which is hard, like really hard, but this might be the only time
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you could do it because of the new stuff coming online.
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You'd have to manage your inflation to maybe 3% to keep it under the GDP, but still high
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enough that you're eating away the debt because you want a little bit of inflation to eat away
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the debt while you're paying it down at the same time.
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Now, when I said that, the pushback I got from a senior or two was, how am I supposed to live
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The only way you could do it would be a massive reorganization of how people live.
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So, for example, how many seniors are living in a house by themselves with extra bedrooms
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and their biggest problem is that they're lonely?
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You know, could you reach a situation where people would just do the things they wouldn't
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Or maybe the only times you need a car is to drive to a doctor appointment once a week.
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I can imagine the seniors drastically reorganizing their lives to save that 15%, but also having
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better lives as a result because they have more connection.
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So if you're going to take 15% away from people's income, which is draconian,
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you're going to have to compensate by making something a lot better, lowering costs, maybe
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lowering pharmaceutical costs if you can, something.
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But anyway, I don't know if it's even possible to get out of the problem we're in debt-wise,
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but I wanted to put a stake in the ground and let people argue about it.
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Because if it's the biggest problem in our country, have you noticed nobody's talking
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When we do talk about it, we say things like, oh, too much debt.
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Talking about it is what would you do about it that could actually work in the real world.
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By the way, I hate it when people say, this is the conversation we should have.
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But it's conspicuously missing that nobody in leadership and nobody in the press has said,
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you know, this is our biggest problem, you know, the debt bomb, and here's the only way
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Does it scare you at all that nobody's willing to even suggest a way to get out?
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Because if nobody's suggesting it, it might be because nobody thinks it could work.
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Isn't the most obvious story that you would ever see, well, we got this big problem, but
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Isn't that the way you handle every other story?
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There's not a single thing happening that would reduce the biggest problem we have.
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So I was trying to kickstart that, and I think it just sort of died, and nobody wanted to
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I think it's literally that nobody wants to talk about bad news.
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He has a plan about the debt, because I haven't seen it.
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If there's a Vivek plan, and by the way, he's exactly the one who should be doing it, because
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you're going to need somebody who's got not only the, let's say, the cojones, but the
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So, yeah, I mean, Vivek probably is the only one who could save us there.
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Rasmussen did a poll of who people think will win.
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So this is not their preferences, and it's not who they will vote for.
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It's who they think other people will vote for.
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And 56% of likely voters say former President Trump is likely to be elected.
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This is one of those polls where the actual number is like, yeah, that sounds, that's
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about where I would have guessed that would have come out.
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Trump, believe it or not, has decided he's going to try to win New York State.
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So he's trapped in New York for his lawfare trials.
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And I think he's going to try to book Madison Square Garden, and just, he's going to try
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Now, how crazy that is, is that he lost, and Republicans typically don't have a chance in
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Now, you say to yourself, 10 points, that's not very good.
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And here's the thing that people don't give Trump enough credit for.
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He can feel the zeitgeist like nobody ever has.
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Like, he is so tapped into just, you know, the vibe, the, you know, the feel, the direction,
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And I think he is correctly seeing that not only putting up a fight in the lawfare in
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New York is making him look good, but if he took it to the state and just went on offense
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in New York, and he said, well, if your judiciary is trying to take it from me, I'm going to take
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The reason there's so much lawfare is that it's a Democrat state.
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I mean, if it were a Republican state, he wouldn't even be in court.
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So instead of saying, I'm going to fight this court case and, you know, do my best in the
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court case and go on, he just said, I'm going to take your fucking state.
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It's the most ballsy, smartest, reading the room I've ever seen.
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Now, I don't think anybody else would have come up with that idea.
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I mean, it's so only Trump that it's like right on brand.
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I don't know that he'll win, but the fact that he's taking offense in New York, how much
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He's going to walk out of his little bullshit, fake, rigged lawsuit.
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He's going to go across the street, you know, so to speak, and he's just going to rock the
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biggest arena, or at least the most famous one, I guess.
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Everything about that is A plus from a political perspective.
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He's just so good at reading the room and finding the opening.
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Anyway, here's something else that's just brilliant.
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I love the fact that the TikTok ban or something like it looks like it's going to happen,
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and that Trump and Vivek were both smart enough to go pro-TikTok just before it happened.
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It's the perfect play because Vivek and Trump can say to young people, well, you know, we've
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been telling you we didn't want a band, but then they also get a band because it's not
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You know, they don't get a vote on this one, so they can play it both ways.
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They can get a band because TikTok's bad for Republicans, but they can also act like they
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So it turns out that the political people are saying, well, wait a minute.
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If TikTok gets banned, all those young people who supported Biden are going to blame him
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Biden's going to put his name on goodbye TikTok.
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How in the world is he going to keep young people if he signs off on killing TikTok?
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So once again, Vivek and Trump have played this perfectly.
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They said, you know, I don't want to be in that room.
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Jeff Yass, who owns the big piece of ByteDance.
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So there's a big Republican donor they can make happy by not wanting to ban it.
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And they get the credit for not wanting to ban it.
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And it's going to actually hammer Biden because young people like their TikTok.
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So you know how Germany phased down its nuclear power?
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And did you say to yourself, why are they doing that?
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That the parliament's decision about that, closing down their nukes, according to Sabine
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Hassenfelder, who's a German physicist, a member of the German ministry, she says, for
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nuclear safety, seems to just have rewritten relevant passages of an information document
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to imply that it would not be possible to delay the phase-out due to safety concerns.
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So, in other words, the decision by Germany was based on somebody rewrote something to
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make it not true, to make them think if they didn't close down the nuclear power plants right
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So Germany, remember I told you there's no penalty for lying in politics?
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Apparently, allegedly, this German minister just lied and destroyed the nuclear energy
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California just opened up some 10,000 megawatt battery storage facility, not too far from
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And apparently, I didn't know this at all, but apparently California is actually doing
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I did not know this either, but apparently we had such good solar power in California that
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we're creating more energy than we could store.
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So we were creating all this solar energy with all our solar rooftops, and we had to ship
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it to another state where they could store it in their batteries.
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We were creating more than we needed, shipping it to someone else so they could store it in
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their batteries, and then we would run out of electricity.
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But apparently, they're looking for 100% clean grid by 2045.
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And Newsom said the storage saved us last year because we'd had enough batteries to get
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this by, and I recall, I recall last year being the first year in a while that I hadn't been
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I don't know if there's another California here, but I feel like in every prior year,
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there was always that summer where they say, you know, it wouldn't be bad if you turn down
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your AC, you know, maybe, or maybe turn it up to 85 just for now because we don't have
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enough electricity, but I feel like we didn't do that last year, which could suggest that
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California turned the corner and is going to have maybe a green and reliable network
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And battery storage is looking like it's going to fall another 40% by 2030.
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You know, all of this would suggest that Elon Musk was right for years, saying that solar
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plus batteries was going to be the way to go because that gives you the stability.
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Now, I'm still big on nuclear energy, and I don't think that Elon Musk is against nuclear
00:34:06.260
energy, but he was right because the economics of solar were always about the cost of the batteries.
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At least in recent years, the only problem was you couldn't store it, and apparently they're
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The cost of the batteries is dropping like crazy.
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I saw scientists say that AI was going to create all kinds of scientific breakthroughs because
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AI would be able to do an instant meta-analysis of all the things happening in science.
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Now, a meta-analysis is where the studies maybe are different kinds of studies for the same
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topic, but the studies individually were not that reliable, or maybe they had conflicting
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But a meta-analysis will look at all the studies and try to figure out overall if this one's
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a little bad, but the other one's compensated for it.
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You know, maybe the big picture, you can tease down something useful.
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So they say the AI will be able to do this better than people because it'll just sort
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of automatically look for these correlations and stuff, to which I say, okay, this is the
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dumbest thing a scientist ever said, because meta-analysis is about as credible as horoscopes.
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But they're all excited because they'll be able to do it faster.
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To me, this sounds like, hey, you know, we were doing horoscopes before, but once we
00:35:41.400
have AI, we're going to do horoscopes so fast and so good.
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Nobody needed to do any horoscopes because they're not real.
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It's a thing in the sense that people do it and serious people do them.
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And serious people will tell you this meta-analysis told you something serious.
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Have I mentioned that lying in politics, there's no penalty?
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Well, meta-analysis is one of the ways that people lie in politics.
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And here's why a meta-analysis is just complete BS.
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You have to use your human judgment to decide which studies are good enough to be in the mix.
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Let's say there's a bunch of studies on a topic and the AI goes out and says, oh, there's a bunch of studies.
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I'm going to collect them all together and then I'm going to do a meta-analysis on them.
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And it comes out, wow, this is a good idea, whatever it is.
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Because the biggest study is the one that's going to drive the overall result.
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Often there's one study that's 80% of all the volume of all the other studies.
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And if you balance it, you know, if you put all the people into the same mix, that one study is going to basically tell you how the whole thing's going to go.
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But what if the one study, the one with the most people in it, was funded by somebody in the industry who got the answer they wanted?
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Is the AI going to be smart enough to say, oh, this was funded by people who wanted this outcome, so therefore we'll take it out of the meta-study?
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And if you were to say, but hey, take out all the studies where they were funded by somebody in the industry.
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As soon as you add the human judgment, or even try to program the machine to have human judgment, you end up making your meta-analysis just your assumptions.
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So if your assumption is that this study or this study is in or out, that's what's going to drive the answer.
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It was your assumption about which one is good enough.
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I saw yet another story about people complaining about trans athletes in women's sports and winning all their medals.
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I guess there have been over 900 cases of trans athletes, people biologically born male who won something in a woman's competition.
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So people are saying it's getting worse and worse.
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And so I asked myself, what is the ratio of women versus men who think it's a good idea for trans athletes to compete on women's teams?
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What do you think was the answer when I looked up to find the polling on whether there's a difference between men and women about whether they want this situation with trans athletes?
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I did find a number of polls where people were asked, you know, are you in favor of the trans athletes, et cetera.
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I wanted to know what women think specifically.
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Because here's my assumption by the fact that I couldn't find it.
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The fact that I couldn't find what women think versus what men think strongly suggests to me that this is a woman-driven issue.
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Meaning that I've never met a man who thinks that trans athletes should compete on women's teams.
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Now, I don't run into a lot of Democrats, so maybe there are lots of Democrats men who do believe it.
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Wouldn't you like to know if the people driving it are entirely Democrat women?
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Yeah, I can see one has a little muscle deficit.
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But basically, you're running around kicking a ball.
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How much of a gender difference does that make?
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Ladies, you don't have any idea how dangerous we are.
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I think that women who are maybe not athletes themselves
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I mean, they might know that boxing is dangerous,
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You know, well, less dangerous than most things, I guess.
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But anything where there's even a possibility of physical contact,
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but almost every sport where there's something kinetic going on
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So I think it's a women screwing other women problem,
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and it's interesting that the news doesn't want us to frame it that way
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Well, you know about the protests at Columbia University.
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is apparently being accused of being a giant plagiarist
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And, of course, there's allegations that George Soros
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hey, I think there's some foreign involvement too.
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it looked like there was a good deal of groundwork
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I feel like it would have to be Iran, wouldn't it?
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So probably Soros money is making its way there
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And then I guess Ohio State is going to be next.
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and we're watching the colleges being taken down
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Because, I mean, certainly the Jewish population
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being taken down by their own system, basically,
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Why aren't the protesters going after the government?
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I think most people just watching it on the news
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and the Democrats like to call them fake electors?
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So we were being gaslighted pretty badly on that.
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I wonder if there's any North Korea stuff in there.