Episode 2484 CWSA 05⧸24⧸24
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In this episode of Coffee with Scott Adams, Scott Adams talks about how to design new cities around accidentally meeting your neighbors and how to solve the problem of overprescription of illegal drugs in the United States. Scott Adams is a standup comedian, writer, podcaster, and podcaster.
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well I see rumbles in the house and locals in the house let's hear from YouTube and the
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youtubers in the house yet I'd like to see at least one youtuber before I start make
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I'm going to show you a picture from my college days this is a true story there was an underclassman
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who decided that he looked enough like me and he decided that was his role model because I was a year
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or two older and he started dressing like me and people noticed and started calling him the clone
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so so and rather than rejecting that and saying I'm not trying to copy him he embraced it he said yeah
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I'm totally trying to copy him and uh it would get more and more extreme the entire time it just got
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funnier and funnier he was a friend of mine he lived he lived you know just a few doors down to the
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dormitory but anyway for Halloween that year uh let's see where is we went as clones see if you can
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tell which one I am I like to think he was the poor man's version of me but I'm not entirely sure
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he's probably worth a billion dollars now he was pretty smart probably did a startup or something
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anyway I saw a concept today in one of uh Owen's posts um about the what's called the third place
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have you ever heard that term a third place so your house is your first place your place of work is
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your second place and the third place would be like I guess if you were in England it would be the
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tavern if you were somewhere else it would be someplace else now my third place used to be my gym
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you know it's a place you could go to feel less lonely and maybe run into people
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but um here's why I wanted to talk about it I really think we need to design new cities
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around accidentally meeting your neighbors leaving it to chance just doesn't work
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we need some way that in the normal course of business you run into people that you don't mind
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running into you know by you know all voluntarily nobody's going to be forced to talk to their
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neighbors but I've been looking into a number of businesses that I could start in my local area
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that would have a physical location and I didn't realize that I was always thinking about them as the
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third place for example I was thinking of starting a dog park that would have some shady place where
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you could plug in your laptop and sit at a table and if you make it so it's sort of like picnic tables
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you're going to have people who don't know each other sharing the same picnic table and if they have a place
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to plug in their laptop and talk about your dog hey which one is your dog it's kind of a perfect place
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to meet people I've actually met good friends in the dog park um I had a few other few other ideas for that
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but I think I think I might even call it the third place I like the name so much I call it a third place dog park
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yeah and just build it around the human attraction but also you can take your dog there
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wouldn't that be a good idea anyway couldn't make money from it as my neighbor
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my neighbor reminded me yesterday when I was talking about it
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so where I live uh our local real estate um let's say real estate um let's say king and queen of the
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neighborhood they're they're very uh and I say that not as an insult they're just very good at organizing
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things in the neighborhood so I know I've met all of my neighbors just through the fact that they're
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they're fairly organized we're all in a whatsapp thing it's actually a great situation
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anyway uh can you believe that overdoses are down and obviously we're going to talk about
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trump and bronx and all that later but overdoses actually went down a little bit
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from 2023 down four percent from 2022 I don't know if this is real it could be that they went down
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because the pandemic's over the pandemic might have been a high point for drugs could be that uh all of
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our data is bad all the time so it's not even real very possible maybe they just started reporting it
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differently how about the fact that more people are substituting weed for stronger drugs maybe I don't
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know maybe it works the other way but I don't have data on it um maybe the government is giving out
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fewer prescriptions so fewer people are getting hot um getting hooked maybe I don't know but certainly
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there was action in that direction but I'm gonna I'm gonna offer the most uh provocative idea for why
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maybe um ODs went down a little bit for that one year I think the most likely explanation is it's we're
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we're off of the pandemic don't you four percent sounds sort of like just coming off the pandemic
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high I don't know if it's real but I would offer this possibility uh all the junkies are dead
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you can't kill somebody twice there might be a logical end to how much the um how much the overdose
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problem can get in other words there might be a natural cap to it and we might have hit it
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now let me make a bad analogy if you try to kill a head terrorist like a bin laden
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it's not really going to stop things because there'll be a second in command
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if you kill the second in command probably won't stop things because there'll be a third in command
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but in theory the quality of the terrorist goes down every time you kill one you know from the top down
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you know bin laden perhaps he was really good at it yeah al-zahiri maybe he was really good at it
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but when you get to maybe the fifth or sixth terrorist down in the organization chart
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i think it probably starts falling apart like that fifth best terrorist isn't quite good enough
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but it could be that with that's a terrible analogy maybe the worst i've ever done but um
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i think the overdoses are limited to people who would be would have a propensity to it once you run
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out of people who have a propensity you don't make new ones right there the people who are never going
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to become an addict are not going to wake up this morning and something changed that they were born
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and people who are never going to be addicts because there's there's such a um a genetic component to
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this and if you take let's take alcoholism alcoholism is around 10 of the public if alcohol killed you
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at a high rate like fentanyl it does kill you but at a higher rate like fentanyl wouldn't you start
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running out of drugs i think you'd actually start running out you know if the population has become
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stable so it could be that here's my favorite story of the day uh explorers say they found what they
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believe is the remains of world war ii ace pilot who was downed in a jungle ravine now he was fairly
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famous for his exploits as a pilot but here's the best part his name is richard bong b-o-n-g or i think
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his his friends probably called him dick and if i were going to be a world war ii flying ace and my name
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was dick bong i would feel like i was the coolest person in the world well you know until i got shot down
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and died in a ravine in the jungle but until then cool name so i'll be uh celebrating tonight in the
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man cave with the rest of the local subscribers and uh we will uh do something i don't know what
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but something that would be appropriate to honor dick bong
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maybe some tubing kind of a thing i don't know you maybe you could come up with an idea
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well do you remember when marjorie taylor green got into a little uh shouting match
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in congress with uh eyelashes mickey uh her real name is representative crockett
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i think it's jasmine crockett and uh she was talking today and there's some open hearing
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and she was touting her credentials she said i currently hold an honorary doctorate
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i also hold jurist doctorate a bachelor's degree uh she technically holds the rank of lieutenant
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colonel in the civil air patrol and i actually practiced law for almost two decades in addition
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to serving on various boards in addition to being a prior state lawmaker so uh this was in the context
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of telling somebody that she doesn't understand why you have to choose between
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uh qualified and diverse because she's saying very clearly that she has lots of qualifications
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and she's diverse she's black and she's female and so why can't they just do more of that
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you know what why are you pretending that you have to lower the quality of people
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to get enough diversity now she said that in public which suggests that she doesn't understand human
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motivation or how anything works and and somehow doesn't understand that systemic racism has made it
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impossible to not choose between diversity and quality because the pipeline is too small has nothing to do
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with anybody's genes has nothing to do with culture the school system does not create a pipeline of people
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that corporations need in terms of the the talents so here's the problem and again it's what democrats don't
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understand if there had never been dei if there had never been dei and i saw a representative crockett and i
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found out that she had done all of these things and also had gotten elected to congress do you know what i
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would say about her if there had never been dei i would have said wow she might be more more capable than
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everybody in congress because if she had to overcome things like being black and being a woman in a in a
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world where that was you know not a free pass i would have said huh you know all things being equal
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probably better than average because you know potentially maybe overcame more barriers to get there
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but in the context of dei i assume that she does not belong in her job she holds an honorary doctorate
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which is complete do you know who own who also has an honorary doctorate jerry seinfeld you get an
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honorary doctorate for giving a speech as a college does she think we're stupid enough to think that an
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honorary doctorate is something she can mention in the as a part of her qualifications how stupid would
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you have to be to say you have an honorary doctorate and that's part of your credentials
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uh now she also has some kind of legal degree do we assume that she got that the real way by being
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qualified no i don't assume that i assume the opposite i assume the opposite because we're in the
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context of dei and on top of that seems to not understand the most basic element of the topic that
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she was having an open hearing on how does she not understand the most basic thing that the pipeline
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is insufficient to get us all what we all want i think everybody would be happy if the pipeline was
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just full of diverse candidates that were great and then the companies would say that's great and then
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you've got to work with all these great people and you would not see their color because you'd say
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uh my co-worker is just great i mean my co-worker is nailing it if your co-worker is doing a good job
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that's the part you see realistically you know you might be you might be prejudiced i like to say this
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a lot discrimination only lasts until you open your mouth and then you get judged by what the
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you say and that's it that in the real world you can't discriminate against somebody who's talking to
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you because you're going to decide what you think about them based on what comes out of their mouth
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period period it doesn't matter what happened the moment until they open their mouth the moment they
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open their mouth you're judging them on what comes out yeah that's it and and i don't think
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i don't think not everybody understands that i think the the people who are worried about what other
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people are thinking about them are sort of missing the biggest part of that that if you act like a
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good person it's pretty much automatic that people are gonna like you and want to work with you there
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aren't that many good people but if you're black let me give you a uh an insider tip about white people
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there are not so many white people that are awesome that uh i have an unlimited amount
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if you walk into my life and you're just like a good person you're in the top 10 percent without
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trying it's not that hard it's not that hard to get into my top 10 percent in favor of people
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the bar isn't just not that high it really isn't all right um so i would say that the thing that
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representative crockett misses is that she is she and anybody who is pro dei creates a situation where
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the assumption is flipped from wow you must be extra qualified if you made it through some extra
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challenges to get here to you're probably not qualified because we've built a system to promote
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unqualified people the system guarantees it because of systemic racism limiting the pipeline of applicants
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that you would like to hire all right uh elon musk being uh it must be nice to be the richest person in
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the world because because there's just that little extra bit of freedom you get
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so here's something that really happened i could not have loved it more so elon musk was on some kind
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of uh online thing where he was taking uh press calls viva tech 2024 in paris and uh somebody from
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business insider got up a reporter to ask a question and here's the here's the question she starts to ask
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she says quote tesla has had a bumpy few months looking at flagging sales at home stock market decline
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layoffs when you look back and musk interrupts her he interrupts her in mid-sentence he says
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yeah we can stop the question right now because i don't think business insider is a real publication
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okay the reporter replied and sat down then musk said so let's move on to the next question
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can can we take a moment to slow clap that out okay can you just slow clap at home
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i i don't know how much to express how much i love that what why in the world would he give respect
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to something that's clearly not a real publication all right business insider is just bullshit now i think
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it was sort of a little bit real at one point but not now
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so more of that please more of that i would like to suggest as my theme today it does feel like things are changing
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let me give you some hints do you think i could have gone after representative crockett as hard as i just did
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even two years ago no somebody would have grabbed it out of context and
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tweeted it all over the place and tried to get me canceled but now i can just tell you what is useful
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and true i wouldn't say it if it weren't useful i don't know if everybody gets that yeah even when i
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got canceled for saying get the f away does everybody know that was trying to be helpful for everybody
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that of course the news looked like it made it look like i'm targeting one group nope
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is specifically was to help that one group that it says i'm targeting because if you don't know what's true
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you cannot make plans i'm telling you what's true what's true is if you're going to do dei i'm going to try
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to get away from it if you're creating a situation where you say i've got your money and you better give it back
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i'm going to run away so you can't have it both ways you can't have it both ways and now i can say
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please play responsibly all right um thomas massey being awesome as usual has introduced a bill
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to eliminate taxpayer funding for online censorship
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why why is it always the same guy who comes up with all the good ideas
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who the hell did we hire for congress if there's like one guy who comes up with all the useful ideas
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it's always the same one like i'm glad we elected accidentally one smart person
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now rand paul is pretty great too but i like thomas massey
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so yes the twitter files as massey says the twitter files showed the government colludes with private
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companies and universities to violate the first amendment yes proven and congress must use the power of
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the purse to make that illegal yes please that's a yes yes yes yes yes and better yet here's the best part
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let's get people on record to be against it let's see who's against having the government reduce your free speech
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let's find out who's bold enough to say yeah i would like to use the government power to
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restrict your free speech because we wouldn't want you to get any bad information about the pandemic
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right because that's the good argument yeah we wouldn't want you to get any dangerous information
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or or who or the real nature of the hunter laptop
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yeah good we certainly wouldn't want any misinformation
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all right jonathan turley is all over this story about
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the so-called hunter biden sugar bro now i mentioned this but it's such a head shaker
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and and turley is making a point that the fact that the regular media media you know the corporate
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media is not treating this as like the biggest story ever just sort of ignoring it
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tells you a lot so this is dog not barking situation so the situation i'm talking about is
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there's this fellow named uh it's a friend of hunter biden's who has given him millions of dollars kevin
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morris and he just says he's a friend he wants to help no ulterior motive he just likes to give his
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friend millions of dollars and apparently he gave his friend all of his money because he doesn't have it
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left that's what you do for your friends yeah when your friend needs money you don't give some money
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what what so congress of course wanted to talk to the sugar bro to find out what the deal is
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and the cia said they had some relationship with the sugar bro and said no you can't talk to him
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what wait what we can't talk to the person giving millions of dollars to the president's son
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because the cia says you you can't know what that guy knows maybe it's exactly what it looks like
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i've been saying that a lot lately maybe this story is exactly what it looks like yeah like uh
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like everything bad yeah yeah yeah and if you tie this together with the uh the mike ben's view of
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the world that ukraine is basically a play to get the uh energy resources from russia has nothing to do
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with ukraine or liberty or democracy in fact we're not interested even a little bit in ukraine being
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democratic apparently that would just work against our interests so uh
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there'll be more on that a little bit in a moment um it's a whole week of complicated stories
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do you notice that the news is really complicated now for example there's a story about the eco health
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alliance boss peter dasik and apparently he's in big trouble for some documents that have been found
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that suggest there was a some kind of coordinated effort to hide the involvement of the wuhan lab
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if i have that right uh and they use apparently they use the personal email to avoid getting caught
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they there there's some people involved who were deleting emails ahead of time before they got foyered
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and the nature of the conversations that we have seen suggests that they know they were guilty and that
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they were trying to hide hide it at least that's how it's being interpreted i'll just say that's how it's
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being interpreted can't know their inner thoughts so it looks like everything you thought was true about
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the pandemic was true it came out of the wuhan lab it was gain of function we were behind it
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right america was behind it everything and they covered it up so every bad assumption you had about
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now that's a complicated story so i don't know if i have all that nuance there but that's the basic idea
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uh there's a democratic consultant who's been indicted for creating a deep fake of joe biden's voice
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that did a bunch of robo calls and told people not to vote stephen kramer so he's being charged with
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voter suppression and faces up to six billion dollar fines so that's the future the future is uh
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people faking voices on robo calls but got caught speaking of of ai voices you know the story about
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scarlett johansson saying that uh chat gpt illegally stole her voice and had a they they hired somebody
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to sound like her because she had declined the offer to do it herself well it turns out that this
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story is way more complicated than you thought because it's not so simple as we stole your voice
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because the the voice they used is a real person who was not doing an impression and the real person
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says this is new nobody's ever nobody in my real life has ever told me i sound like scarlett johansson
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now do you believe that do you believe that everybody who listens to us says well it sounds
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like scarlett johansson but that in a real life and nobody's saying that it was altered voice it's a real
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voice nobody nobody told her she sounds like nobody never once i've been told i look like john denver and
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about 50 other people i hear it all the time and no nobody's ever said that i don't know i don't know
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so a open ai's uh story is that it never intended to copy scarlett and wanted her for it but they found
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somebody who was not her that was just a voice they liked and there you go that's their version
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but uh this is going to have huge implications for uh hollywood because what happens if you can
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create people who sort of are in the in the vibe of scarlett johansson is that going to be okay
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what if you found what if you created an ai that didn't look exactly like her but was a
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highly attractive blonde of the same age and then you gave it a voice that was based on
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not her but somebody who sounds a lot like her according to other people
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is that going to be legal there's going to be massive lawsuits about all this stuff
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so we'll see i would just like to note because the important part is my connection to all stories
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that uh scarlett johansson's husband once mocked me on snl she's she's married to colin joust joust
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so he mocked me about a year ago on snl so good luck with that guys there's a study of brains they found
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there's a part of the brain that might be involved with causing somebody to be a narcissist
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maybe 40 years ago i remember the first time i heard that uh they found that the brains of addicts
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and alcoholics in particular were different and they were saying hey we think that alcoholism might
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have a genetic propensity to which i said what i thought that was free will i thought you either
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decided to drink or you didn't are you telling me that your brain might be different and that some
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people cannot just decide not to drink and that was the case then later people said we found in the
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brain a part of the brain that makes you more likely to be gay and i said what i thought that was
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just a choice you tell me that your brain could be the you know decider of in your genes could be the
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decider of whether you're a born gay and then i said to myself what's going to happen to free will
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once we find and map all the parts of the brain once you know that there's a physical part of the
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brain that causes all of our behaviors and you can identify it and you go oh there it is we just scanned
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you you got that big narcissist thing in your brain up that's why you're acting that way or oh found out
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you've got that tendency to be an alcoholic there it is it's right in your brain what are you going to
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think of free will when we identify all the parts of the brain that cause all of our actions
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well i i realized that that day that the idea of free will would get smaller and smaller
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as we got smarter and smarter about what the brain does as a machine and here's and so here's the
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newest one now now if narcissism can be identified
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and everything from intelligence to you can even apparently even your propensity to be conservative
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or liberal can be identified in your brain so if your brain has an influence on these things
00:31:45.400
are you still clinging to the idea that you have free will yeah because that idea is going to get
00:31:52.760
harder and harder to hold on to harder and harder
00:32:00.280
all right um the debate over whether the government was trying to kill to kill trump uh and have him
00:32:08.680
assassinated by including in their mar-a-lago raid uh authorization they're authorized to use deadly force if necessary
00:32:25.240
well it was just standard procedure they just say that all the time
00:32:29.480
and there are other people uh mike cernovich dan bungino for example
00:32:33.240
example and uh who say no you idiots that is not a standard procedure
00:32:40.760
now how could it be standard procedure but also not a standard procedure well it turns out it can be
00:32:48.680
and bungino gets to the heart of it by asking this question
00:32:57.000
would the dea be allowed to serve a search warrant on the white house with armed agents in the cocaine case
00:33:05.720
do you think that armed people with authorization to shoot to kill
00:33:10.920
would have gone into the white house to look into the cocaine situation
00:33:14.760
and and by the way in both cases there was full cooperation
00:33:20.360
on the physical part so at mar-a-lago there was never any indication anybody was going to resist anything
00:33:26.840
and the secret service were always in the communication they were always talking to him
00:33:33.320
never once said if you come in here we're going to prevent you in fact they negotiated so that there
00:33:39.240
would be no problems at all so the question is if you knew there were going to be no problems
00:33:44.680
because you'd already negotiated it why do you have to put that in there
00:33:49.480
so i'm going to take a a middle a middle view of this
00:33:54.760
i don't think somebody sat down and said all right i got a plan to kill the president
00:33:59.240
here's what we're going to do we're going to create this situation and then we'll put this authorization in there
00:34:04.040
and then as soon as something goes wrong we'll just start blazing away and gun down the president
00:34:10.120
i don't believe that even for the slightest second because nobody's nobody's that dumb
00:34:15.560
but did they create a situation where the possibility would go from zero to non-zero
00:34:24.600
yes it does look like they did that it looks like they very much created a situation where there was a
00:34:31.080
non-zero chance of killing him that did happen i so i'm with bongino on that um
00:34:38.200
but i but i wouldn't take it so much as they plan to kill him because if they had planned to kill him
00:34:46.440
it would have gone down differently it would have been more like more of a surprise you know less of a
00:34:53.320
negotiated situation so um and by the way i like i say this often but one of the things i always value
00:35:04.120
in dan bongino is his talent stack he's done one of the greatest jobs of assembling uh talents
00:35:14.120
everything and this is another one so he's got this background and you know uh law enforcement
00:35:20.760
type stuff but on top of that he knows politics and on top of that he knows all the players and on top of
00:35:26.520
that he's great at the media stuff so he's got the full package and that's why he's doing so well all
00:35:36.360
right um so trump went to the bronx and gave his uh big speech it was a giant hit there were no real
00:35:43.880
problems of any scale it was all positivity um we're all americans doesn't matter what color your skin is
00:35:51.480
people were wild for him if anybody thought he would get a bad reception in the bronx you were wrong
00:35:57.640
the crowd was the most diverse for a trump crowd there were plenty of white people but uh there
00:36:05.240
were plenty of other people too so plenty of asians plenty of blacks plenty of hispanics
00:36:15.560
because remember i told you the andre agassi strategy where you don't go after your opponent's
00:36:22.280
weakest shot you go after their strongest shot because if you get lucky and you can you can
00:36:28.440
make them lose their confidence in their strongest shot they're dead so you basically can decapitate
00:36:34.360
somebody in the first set just by making sure you lose if they lose their confidence in their best play
00:36:40.040
so the best play that the uh democrats have is that the deepest bluest states absolutely cannot stand
00:36:50.520
that he trump anything so he went into the deepest bluest place and blew their doors off
00:37:00.280
he andre agassi you could see the panic in aoc's um you know complaints about him going there
00:37:08.360
why would you even complain about it like why would that even be a conversation that somebody running
00:37:14.280
for president would visit a highly populated area in america and make his case but they had to
00:37:20.680
complain about it because he was going right into the belly of the beast they could tell he was going
00:37:26.840
for their forehand he wasn't going for their weak backhand he went right into the middle of the dragon
00:37:37.480
now and i agree with some people who say he's not going to win the state he might by the way i'm not i'm
00:37:46.440
not on the the page that he's not going to win the state you do the part we can't predict is how far
00:37:55.240
biden will fall between now and election day you see the rate of decline right have you seen a video of
00:38:04.200
biden talking one year ago completely different one year completely different um we'll we'll talk about
00:38:13.800
this so biden gave a uh a press conference very rare apparently he had all the people he was going
00:38:22.440
to call out call on on a card he gave them only one question apiece because that's the one he was
00:38:28.600
prepared for and then he read his responses it appears from a card in other words it wasn't the press
00:38:35.800
conference at all it was a q a with written questions and written answers he just stood in public and did it
00:38:43.800
do you think he would have had to do that a year ago a year ago he might have been able to bluff his
00:38:50.920
way through although they were they were hiding him a year ago but i think he could have gotten through
00:38:55.480
it today he is clearly not capable of handling a question that he's not that's not written in front
00:39:03.640
of him with the answer that's completely different in one year what's he going to be by november
00:39:11.240
by november i don't even think there'll be a choice it could be a really one person and one person who's
00:39:20.360
just not even going to be alive in a few months so could trump win new york i'm going to say yes
00:39:28.040
i'm going to say yes but not because of steady state it's because there's there could be a big
00:39:35.000
there's going to be a big drop in biden before november i think his health will just fall off a
00:39:41.640
ledge i think it already has and they're just hiding it from us but it's going to be hard to
00:39:46.840
hide it for a few more months i suspect that the democratic national convention where biden has to
00:39:54.440
give a speech could be really really touch and go for the democrats because i don't think they trust
00:40:01.880
him to be able to even read the teleprompter at this point imagine him going up there if it happens
00:40:09.640
uh and giving in his acceptance speech and he does the mumbly thing oh my god
00:40:20.200
it's bad enough if he does it just you know in a stump speech but if he does it standing in
00:40:25.000
front of the whole country at the dnc and i think he will it's not a good look uh apparently i don't
00:40:33.720
know is this true i need to fact check on this did did trump actually say at the bronx rally and i
00:40:41.160
quote i don't eat bacon anymore it's too expensive he didn't really say those words did he because i've
00:40:49.960
been laughing about it all morning it sounds like something you would say in his normal hyperbole we
00:40:57.960
do assume that he can still afford bacon but but if he said that it's hilarious because i think the the
00:41:07.880
difference between trump today and prior trump is that now we understand him like we get him no you
00:41:16.840
didn't mean literally you can't afford bacon of course but is it funny it's totally funny
00:41:24.920
yeah it's totally funny so that's all we care about
00:41:30.920
so meanwhile trump goes and does by everybody's account everything right now may i remind you again
00:41:38.520
that trump's performance as a candidate this time around is unlike anything i've ever seen i mean
00:41:49.160
it's just all good all the way i mean he's just doing one home run after another i mean he's hitting
00:41:56.200
frozen ropes into the outfield every at every at bat it's crazy and this bronx thing
00:42:03.080
really highlights that yeah because he's not just playing as safe if i told you he's made no mistakes
00:42:11.400
but he's also playing as safe you'd say oh that's not the trump we want we're not looking for the play
00:42:17.080
a safe guy so here he goes into the belly of the beast in the bronx kills it that's who we want we want
00:42:26.280
the one who can do the thing you think can't be done we want the one who says why would i be afraid of that
00:42:35.720
why would i be afraid of that that's the one we want
00:42:41.080
meanwhile the governor of new york hochel said that she referred to trump supporters as clowns
00:42:48.920
during the rally clowns have we noticed a correlation that the democrats think that republicans are pieces
00:42:58.200
of shit it's a pretty clear pattern yeah just remember that you have one leader who is saying
00:43:07.720
very clearly and consistently we're all americans we can pull together and one who says we're better
00:43:13.960
off divided because that's kind of what he's saying biden anyway um here's something uh biden said in a
00:43:26.680
post he says donald trump and his mega republican allies don't care about securing the border or
00:43:32.440
fixing americans broken immigration system if they did they would have supported the toughest border
00:43:37.960
enforcement in history so it was a bill that just got turned down by mostly republicans instead
00:43:43.720
they put partisan politics ahead of our national security so here's my question first of all you
00:43:49.880
can see that he's dividing the country by referring to mega republican allies now he's specifically
00:43:56.840
talking about the elected politicians but how do you hear it i don't hear it that way i hear that
00:44:03.960
he is just saying if you're a mega republican he wants to piss on your head that's what i hear do you
00:44:10.440
hear it differently i think he's insulting the citizens at the same time he's insulting the
00:44:16.920
people they voted for the so-called mega allies
00:44:23.320
so that's his usual piece of shit divisive uh terrible president um framing that there are bad people
00:44:30.520
and there are good people and he's the good people i guess do you do you think that the democrats are
00:44:35.480
catching on because this obviously was a fake border bill that had poison pills in it do you
00:44:41.560
think that the democrats haven't figured out that it's all theater and bullshit do they really think
00:44:48.920
that the republicans looked at a perfectly good border bill and said we're going to turn this down for
00:44:54.280
the good of getting elected i'm not saying they wouldn't but it's not what happened
00:44:59.800
they didn't really have a chance to look at a good border bill
00:45:07.640
i think it's strange that the president's name is biden at the same time we're all wondering the same
00:45:14.760
question on election day will he still be alive by then
00:45:22.440
what are the odds that his name would be by then when all we're waiting for is if he's still going
00:45:33.160
to be alive by then that's a weird coincidence all right uh biden also posted or somebody did for him
00:45:42.280
trump is not running to lead america he is running for revenge but you can't build a future on revenge
00:45:48.680
i'm running to lead america into the future what future is that the one where you live for another
00:45:56.600
four months and then we bury you what exact future are you talking about old man who can't even do a
00:46:03.480
press conference you're not part of our future you're just not in any way our future but okay but
00:46:13.720
here's my bigger complaint he says uh trump is not leading running to lead america he's running for
00:46:19.480
revenge revenge is what i want revenge is called the justice system do you think the justice system was
00:46:28.600
set up for fairness no do you think the justice system was set up to rehabilitate people no it's revenge
00:46:38.120
that's what it does and the and the the risk of revenge is the only thing that keeps society together
00:46:47.160
why do you not do bad things if you're a good person why do you not do bad things because we're
00:46:51.480
going to get revenge on you we're going to put you in jail if you don't want to call that revenge
00:46:56.600
fine you can call it a flower you can put a different word on it but the justice system is
00:47:03.720
very much about revenge and that's what makes it work and you know what revenge is the animated
00:47:11.000
the animating part of it the part of the reason that trump has so much support is that you put 2000
00:47:18.600
fucking people in jail for political reasons you're trying to jail the president for political reasons
00:47:24.120
and peter navarro is still in fucking jail so revenge is going to be at the top of the menu
00:47:30.440
revenge is at the top of the menu and it belongs there because that's what justice looks like
00:47:36.840
justice looks like honest revenge who else needs to talk about let's not have revenge
00:47:44.200
did anybody else have to talk about that do you remember jimmy carter saying oh don't do revenge on
00:47:49.640
me do you know why we didn't have to do revenge on jimmy carter because there was no reason
00:47:55.640
do you know why we didn't need revenge on bill clinton there was no reason there was no reason
00:48:06.680
do you know why nobody's ever fucking talked about revenge before ever
00:48:13.000
there was no reason if he's talking about don't do revenge it's because he created the whole situation
00:48:20.280
nobody's going to be talking about revenge unless something really really
00:48:25.640
fucking big and terrible had happened and something big and fucking terrible is happening right now
00:48:37.400
no you let peter navarro enter prison and the other 2000 fucking people you drop this stupid law
00:48:43.240
fair charges and we'll stop talking about revenge but right now i want to see hundreds of democrats in
00:48:48.760
jail i want to see hundreds of democrats in jail minimum and we do have the goods i mean completely
00:48:57.400
within the legal system i recommend no actions outside the legal system yeah no no vigilante anything
00:49:04.760
don't do that but yes the justice system has plenty of evidence of crimes at the highest level so yes
00:49:12.840
revenge revenge revenge revenge revenge revenge and every time you say don't do it you remind us why we
00:49:20.760
need to because nobody else needs to even fucking talk that way if you're talking somebody out of getting
00:49:28.600
revenge revenge is called for because it isn't even in the conversation it's just not part of the
00:49:38.120
conversation until you fucked up really badly and you have peter navarro is still in prison peter navarro
00:49:53.000
and yes you can build a future on revenge it's called the justice system speaking of justice apparently
00:50:00.120
the amuse account on x tells us that there's something called the 65 project uh and it's apparently
00:50:08.360
mostly to cancel anybody anybody who's a lawyer who's trying to help trump and it's run by david brock
00:50:15.000
and it's funded by george soros and it's uh as muse says it's an all-out war on the sixth amendment to the
00:50:35.800
all right uh american american first legal that's the uh republican oriented uh group that's trying to
00:50:45.720
create a counterbalance for the in the legal system and it's trying to use legal means to
00:50:52.040
get justice in a variety of ways that democrats have tried to take it away from you but there's
00:50:57.480
this new story that frankly i do not understand
00:51:02.520
there's something about a new document that's been undercovered some obama order from his days that's
00:51:08.920
been kind of secret that says that there should be something about keeping copies of all the classified
00:51:15.480
stuff on the server and the argument doesn't make sense to me but maybe it does to you so i've asked
00:51:22.760
for a clarification but here's what it sounds like it sounds like america first legal is saying
00:51:30.520
that trump's um legal problems with the mar-a-lago documents are not a problem because there are also
00:51:41.160
copies of them that the government never lost they've always had the copies now i don't understand
00:51:47.240
that do you why would that make any difference if they have copies i assume they had copies didn't you
00:51:53.800
always assume they had copies but would the government in 2024 and i have a digital copy of everything
00:52:01.640
important that came across the government's desks i mean i just assume so so i don't i don't understand
00:52:09.400
the importance of this but american first legal is playing it as very important so i've asked them
00:52:17.720
to explain it give me the dummies version of i don't get it like why is this important how's it
00:52:24.120
has to have anything to do with anything so if they come up with that i'll talk about it again but
00:52:29.720
at the moment all i can say is that people who know more than i do about the law i think there's
00:52:34.920
an important thing that happened and i have no idea what it is uh blocked the fbi from arresting
00:52:42.920
dangerous iranians yeah that's a boring story but i see what you're saying so there's some story about
00:52:52.280
john carrey blocking the arrest of some known iranian uh bad guys uh because he was trying to
00:52:59.640
get a deal done with iran is that the biggest crime in the world here's the thing that might
00:53:07.400
be just real politic meaning that if you're this close if you're this close to getting a deal that's
00:53:13.640
a really big deal maybe you don't arrest those people on tuesday you maybe you get the deal
00:53:21.160
arrest them a few weeks later so i don't know how real that story is
00:53:25.240
uh it's not that far from something i would think is normal business but
00:53:31.480
i guess i'd wait for dan bongino to set me straight on that
00:53:35.880
so i guess i don't have enough hook into that story to care about it
00:53:41.800
um there's a report that the us and the european union are moving toward an agreement for a massive loan
00:53:50.440
for ukraine but their clever technique is they're going to use russian assets frozen in the west as
00:54:03.560
i've been saying that our form of government is not a democracy of course it was designed to be a
00:54:09.800
republic you know federal republic with democratic principles but it's really not that either it
00:54:16.920
probably hasn't been since the 50s we are essentially a criminal organization and colonizers
00:54:25.240
we're basically the borg trying to you know take everybody's assets and apparently we've always been
00:54:31.560
that way that's what america is now if that sounds like a criticism here's the twist i don't think
00:54:41.800
there's a better form of government because if you don't coordinate your government with your big
00:54:47.720
capitalist entities somebody else will and they'll be your daddy so unfortunately if you're not the
00:54:56.520
baddest criminal in the criminal world you're going to get dead so being the baddest of the criminals
00:55:03.320
might be the best form of government maybe because you know i think democracy has its issues too
00:55:11.240
if you let dumb people make big decisions so i don't know but when i see a story like this it
00:55:18.440
just reminds you that we're a criminal organization trying to steal putin's stuff
00:55:23.640
you know the the mike ben's take is that ukraine is really just an energy play and the hunter
00:55:29.160
biden is part of that with burisma that's that's why hunter was part of burisma all part of the
00:55:34.440
the you know the big energy play to steal the energy from russia and since we couldn't get all of
00:55:40.760
their energy we're going to settle for keeping their assets that we could freeze
00:55:47.560
i mean i get that there's a war going on but we're we're persecuting we're prosecuting the war
00:55:55.160
like we're just criminals we're just looking to steal shit
00:55:58.120
it it's hard to not see it as just a criminal act against another criminal and again if it sounds
00:56:06.040
like if it sounds like a criticism believe it or not it's not we seem to be a very effective criminal
00:56:16.280
organization because we've overthrown lots of governments we've got access to lots of resources
00:56:23.080
and other places and uh maybe it's not working out so well in ukraine but you know it seems to be
00:56:31.800
proving the the point but to me um so putin has said that uh he's willing to negotiate a ceasefire along
00:56:41.240
current lines of uh who owns what now i say there's no chance of negotiating until trump gets there
00:56:50.120
because the biden play it was never about stopping a war they're not really concerned with ending
00:57:00.360
war they're only concerned and stealing russia's energy game and if they haven't done that and they
00:57:07.800
think they still have a chance they're not going to negotiate so this basically they're going to save
00:57:13.720
the negotiations for trump who as far as i know does not have a massive interest in the big
00:57:19.960
energy deal or stealing things in ukraine so he could just say yeah let's just end this
00:57:32.120
i would bet against it but i wouldn't bet against ending it in a month
00:57:38.440
because i think he could get it done in a month
00:57:40.360
and that ladies and gentlemen brings us to the conclusion of my prepared remarks
00:57:52.520
it all comes down to race and religion somebody says does it
00:58:00.440
uh trump didn't let zelensky rip up the minsk peace accords biden did and that was the start of
00:58:21.000
all right i had another topic but i think too controversial
00:58:26.520
um i think we overestimated russia's willingness to negotiate
00:58:37.720
here's what i think we should do i would love to see trump do a grand deal
00:58:43.160
where we just work out our differences with the three superpowers and just agree to rule the world
00:58:49.640
in peace and they can have their part and we'll have our part you know i realize that taiwan's a problem
00:58:58.120
but at this point we are moving our chip facilities out of there
00:59:04.440
and i think taiwan knows that in the long run there's really no way that they could become
00:59:09.640
they can't be independent in the long run it's too dangerous could you imagine china
00:59:15.160
having a major ally in cuba and you know being right at our doorstep and
00:59:20.680
i don't know it just seems to me that we're fighting history if we're trying to keep taiwan out of
00:59:34.200
vivek had a good plan i think what we should do instead is create a hundred year plan
00:59:38.600
do the hong kong plan say you know what why fight history in a hundred years sometime within that
00:59:46.440
hundred years taiwan will be china but if you wait a hundred years you don't have to worry about
00:59:51.320
microchips because something will be very different by then and it won't be you know depending on taiwan
00:59:59.320
so i think if we said how about we just agree now that there's it's a hundred year plan
01:00:05.320
and in a hundred years taiwan will figure out what its role will be so there'll be future negotiations
01:00:11.000
of does it operate a little bit independently compared to the mainland nobody knows what the
01:00:17.400
mainland would even look like in a hundred years you could you could have a you know a democracy in
01:00:23.880
china in a hundred years anything could happen so i think you do a hundred year plan and just
01:00:29.000
take the violence off the table because if you're president xi and you know you got it back
01:00:37.560
you just won't be alive when it happens that's a big win and if we can take that off the table
01:00:44.040
then we can deal with china at a much much better level
01:00:54.760
hong kong island was ceded to the uk in perpetuity i don't believe that i thought it was a 99 year lease
01:01:01.000
hong kong had a 50-year plan that the ccp removed yeah well it's a risk but here's the thing hong kong
01:01:14.040
didn't really have a chance of staying independent forever taiwan doesn't have a chance of staying
01:01:19.400
independent forever if it were our hemisphere we would insist that we had that much control and
01:01:34.600
many think it was a deal so i'm seeing people say that the the the narrative of hong kong is all fake
01:01:43.080
and that they did not have a deal to give it back i'm i'm doubting your framing of that
01:01:48.920
uh i think it was a 99 year lease and when it ended the uk gave it back so but but i will note
01:02:00.440
that there are people who are saying that's not true
01:02:09.240
yeah a managed democracy with an authoritarian streak the the one thing i don't see is china
01:02:15.240
looking like they're they want to control other countries except economically of course um but
01:02:23.080
taiwan's special so i think something will happen there one sooner or later it's going to happen
01:02:30.280
so i i think it's a deal that trump could make i think he could say look about russia you make your
01:02:36.520
money china you make your money we'll make our money and let's play i think you can pull that off
01:02:45.720
i i suspect that the biggest reason we can't get along with russia and china is that we can't stop
01:02:52.440
doing covert things to each other continuously because we're sure that the other is doing it too
01:02:58.440
so you know i'll tell you that the theory that china is doing everything it can to stop reproduction in
01:03:05.800
america is looking better and better i don't think that they're that clever but maybe all right that's
01:03:14.440
all i got for you and on youtube and rumble and x i'm going to take a few minutes with just the
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subscribers on locals and i'll see the rest of you tomorrow locals stay with me the rest of you bye for