Did you know that a robot has a human brain on a chip? Is it a cyborg? And is it a turn-on? Is cleaning the house better than watching your husband or partner do the dishes? This week, we talk about it and more.
00:05:33.500And, you know, and you're probably saying, okay, that's a little overdone.
00:05:39.500I hope you're doing this just for entertainment because we don't really believe that it would be better if somebody just came and asked you.
00:05:46.560I mean, that's not going to be as good as science, Scott.
00:06:42.140Back in 2015, McKinsey, the consultant group, did a research study, and they found out that one of the best things that a company can do for their profitability is to increase their diversity.
00:06:59.540Now, that was cool because a lot of people wanted to increase diversity for all the right reasons, you know, to get your company looking like the public and make sure nobody's left behind and there's no discrimination and no bias.
00:09:16.760Why do you think the Democrats have to come out against trans surgery for minors?
00:09:21.740And they say the administration does not support surgery for minors in that context.
00:09:33.040I'm not sure if they had an opinion on it before, or they just didn't talk about it.
00:09:39.560But they finally had to reach a point where the Republicans were sort of calling out the craziness that they just had to find something closer to realistic, middle, non-crazy.
00:09:54.940Because I think it's becoming more and more clear that money is driving this.
00:10:00.600It's not about the benefit of the children.
00:10:04.500I mean, there's some belief structure that's driving it, too.
00:10:08.340But the thing that makes the hospitals do it is going to be maybe money.
00:10:14.820So I do appreciate that the Biden administration has a sensible opinion on this.
00:10:22.420But it makes you wonder, why is that coming out now?
00:10:26.920And why did we even have to wonder about it?
00:10:29.180Like, the level of incompetence coming from the White House, the lack of leadership.
00:10:35.020Don't you think that a long time ago the White House should have said, just so you know what our opinion is, we're against it.
00:10:42.000Don't you think that would have been useful at some time in the last several years if, in fact, they were against it?
00:10:48.260Wouldn't that be the type of leadership you kind of expect from your president and your White House?
00:13:47.920The more I think about his performance, you know, there are lots of little things I wish he'd argued better, but I don't think arguing made any difference at all.
00:13:58.840I mean, people were strictly looking at the vibe.
00:14:02.160They saw a strong, in-control person, and they compared it to Biden, and they liked the in-control person a little bit more, the person who looked alive.
00:14:12.240So I'm not sure if any of the hoaxes made a difference, but I still want to push against them.
00:14:17.500All right, here's the favorite part of my day.
00:14:40.620But watching the Democrat, you know, pundits, even the professionals, the reporters, watching them wake up to how badly they've been gaslighted or gaslit.
00:14:56.960But also, watching the ones who refuse to wake up is even better.
00:15:00.840So Bill Maher had Chris Matthews on, and he started to, he was trying to sort of defend, you know, the Democrats a little bit, as best he could.
00:15:13.300And he started saying that the debate wasn't fair.
00:15:16.080He didn't say fair, but he was indicating, you know, that it was a sort of a lopsided competition, because Trump kept telling one lie after another, and Biden couldn't keep up.
00:15:30.560That was his defense of Biden, is that he couldn't keep up.
00:15:36.420That was the defense of Biden, that he couldn't keep up.
00:15:41.900And Bill Maher said, isn't that the point?
00:15:50.200Imagine you're a Democrat, and you're watching Bill Maher, who has achieved, you know, or started with some form of enlightenment, at least about part of this.
00:16:00.520And he just says the most obvious thing.
00:16:07.020Now, why does Bill Maher have to explain to one of the, you know, most experienced observers of politics, Chris Matthews, that the point of the president is to have someone who can keep up with an ordinary conversation?
00:16:22.740The fact that you haven't had to have that conversation is just delightful.
00:16:28.860Anyway, Stephanie Winston-Walkoff, I guess she is someone who's not crazy about the Trump administration, but she said that in a post that CNN was really part of the reason that Biden looked bad.
00:16:58.820CNN's carefully considered framing and lighting design effectively conveyed the intended perceptions of fragility versus dominance in visual composition.
00:17:11.120Now, this is the debate, the side-by-side view of the debate she's describing.
00:17:17.320Biden was filmed in profile, looking pale as a ghost.
00:17:21.040Trump was filmed straight on, not looking his usual shade of tangerine, but more like marmalade.
00:17:27.420Biden is a man of honor, integrity, resilience, and resolve.
00:17:30.640So, the reason that Biden looked like he was dead for three days by the time he debated was probably the lighting and the angle that he was filmed at.
00:17:49.340Because I'll bet there are a lot of videos of Biden from that night, you know, ones they don't show us, in which he looks sharp and totally on the ball.
00:18:00.640I wish they'd showed us some of those videos instead of those misleading videos where he looks like he's just about dead.
00:19:06.020Now, I've been telling you for several months that it seems to me I'm seeing indications that CNN wants to find the middle.
00:19:13.860Yeah, and actually be a useful service to people who want the news.
00:19:19.020And it seemed to me there was a kind of a marked march toward the middle.
00:19:25.120And this, I think, was a highlighter there.
00:19:27.720To me, this was the highlighter of their year.
00:19:30.440Because they pulled off the hardest thing you can do, which is to make people on the right say, okay, okay, I think you handled that right.
00:19:40.520So, all credit where credit is due, and especially since I've been a daily critic, I've got to give them credit.
00:30:40.840He imagines that there's something we haven't all observed that's obvious, that's hiding out there outside the view of our ability to see it.
00:30:51.620That must be the big explanation that he doesn't know.
00:30:54.540Do any of you think there's anything missing in the story?
00:34:19.720If you looked at Biden for a year and you didn't think that it was at least a good chance that he'd have a bad debate, well, I can't excuse that away.
00:34:30.540I think there's something wrong with your ability to think or observe.
00:34:35.360Maybe observing is the bigger problem.
00:34:37.520How about there's a bunch of Hollywood donors that are all panicked now.
00:34:44.500And the story is from somebody who said, there's a sense that the money dried up last night, meaning the debate, that the money dried up last night about 10 minutes into the debate.
00:34:54.960To which I say, I don't think that's the only thing that dried up, if you know what I mean.
00:35:03.540Imagine you're a woman and you like your presidents to do a good job of protecting you because that's like the main thing, got to be protected.
00:35:14.680Did Biden look like somebody who could protect you or anything else?
00:35:25.000Now, Biden does not look like somebody who could protect you from anything.
00:35:29.560And my theory is that that dried up the women immediately.
00:35:37.340Once they realized that Trump was strong and he likes America and they realized that Biden is weak and almost dead, but he too likes America.
00:35:48.600If you live in America and you live in America, who's going to protect you?
00:36:43.440They say that the most patriotic option, if, you know, if you believe the threat that the world, you know, the world's in trouble and Hitler could take over, you know, Trump, in their view.
00:37:00.320Why would Biden be your candidate if the alternative is the end of the country?
00:37:07.880If you really believe your own brainwashing, the first thing you do, even if you are Biden, even if you're Biden, you'd say, oh, wow, I've lost a step.
00:37:18.560I better, you know, get a better person in here.
00:37:20.820Do you know where that frame comes from, that if if Biden believes that we have all these troubles with Trump, why doesn't he make sure that Trump doesn't win by getting out of the way?
00:37:53.280Explain to us why, if you've been saying Democrats, please, Democrats, explain to us if you really believe any of the things you're saying, the fine people hoax, he's going to take your democracy and become a dictator.
00:38:06.640If you believe any of that, why are you running Biden?
00:38:10.100You know, that's the opposite of what you would do if you believe your own your own most important story.
00:38:19.020So now the Atlantic has adopted Greg Gottfeld's frame of what the hell are you doing?
00:38:26.680This can't be explained in any rational world.
00:38:30.640Something has to be just badly broken, meaning the capability of the Democrats.
00:38:35.680Did you ever think you would see the Atlantic and Fox News hosts being on the same page to this degree?
00:39:10.020You don't see deep agreement, you know, this far into an election season.
00:39:18.980I would submit to you that something really big may have happened that we won't recognize until after the fact.
00:39:25.640I always talk about persuasion that the Democrats have this hoaxocracy.
00:39:32.080They have literally a mesh network of of hoaxes.
00:39:38.260Now, here I'm going to delight my technically minded people who know what a mesh network is.
00:39:44.440If you have a Wi-Fi, you probably know a mesh network is where the nodes kind of support each other.
00:39:49.980So they have, you know, and I described this the other day on the whiteboard.
00:39:54.420The reason that they believe the fine people hoax is because they already believed the the hoax that he thinks that the Mexicans are all rapists and killers.
00:40:05.920Literally something that nobody believes, including Trump.
00:40:09.120So they use one hoax to support the belief in the other hoax and vice versa.
00:40:19.020Are believable only because the other hoax is believable and vice versa.
00:40:23.980So they feel actually a mesh network of hoaxes.
00:40:28.100So to to and by the way, this is what I've been dealing with as a persuader.
00:40:34.200I've never figured out how you could break the mesh.
00:40:37.100You can break like one at a time, but then it just heals.
00:40:40.720It's like a self-healing hoax mesh network.
00:40:45.100As soon as you're done debunking something, you can watch it reform as soon as the conversation zone.
00:40:51.600But right back to where it was, it just heals.
00:40:54.960And what you needed was going to go into analogy territory, a Rosetta Stone.
00:41:00.200You needed a discovery of a thing that would allow Democrats to escape from the gaslighting they gave themselves.
00:41:09.360They built a world that only makes sense within the world, within the mesh network of hoaxes.
00:41:15.340As soon as you get out of it and you realize that the mesh network is fake, all the rest of it is at risk for the first time.
00:41:24.260Now, remember, I kept telling you that the fine people hoax was the tentpole hoax.
00:41:29.960And I was saying, if we can just debunk this one, that will be the Rosetta Stone.
00:41:36.400And that will be the one that lets people say, oh, wait a minute.
00:41:39.700If we were that fooled about this one, what about those other ones?
00:41:44.600And then they would start to maybe look at them a little more critically.
00:41:47.320And then the whole mesh network would come down.
00:41:50.720That was my thinking of the best case scenario, is if you get the big one, the one that supports all the other ones, the other ones will collapse.
00:41:59.840I completely underestimated the power of the mesh network.
00:43:05.260Not a single person is really surprised who was not part of the gaslighting, you know, architecture.
00:43:13.060But apparently, this was such a stark and obvious and observable break with reality, the reality that he's fine, that it's just so observably not true,
00:43:23.720that you can see that some number of them were triggered into cognitive dissonance, where they literally believe absurdities,
00:43:30.700like CNN was out to get him, and that's the reason he looked bad.
00:45:44.540And so, any imagination that it was just a bad day or transitory is probably closer to cognitive dissonance or stupidity or something like that.
00:46:49.080One of my favorite personalities who I don't agree with is Cenk Uyghur.
00:46:57.120And what I love about him, even while, you know, being annoyed by some of his opinions, is that he does not seem to be subject to brainwashing.
00:48:17.400And at the debate, when the whole country saw Biden as he truly is, instead of what the establishment had been pretending he was, it was a shock to the system.
01:09:57.940So, was it Cernovich who says that the judges should go to jail?
01:10:05.660Or at least there should be some kind of a process.
01:10:09.280If Trump gets in office, there should be some kind of a process started to actually put in jail the judges.
01:10:17.480Now, I've never even heard of such a thing, but I'm completely in favor of it.
01:10:22.960I think the judges that put the January 6th people in jail, and under these conditions, a law that they knew probably wasn't even a law, I think they need to be in jail.
01:10:58.160All right, so this other decision might be even more interesting, but it's going to take a long time for the world to figure out how important this is.
01:11:05.120That's the so-called Chevron decision from the courts.
01:11:08.720And that said, that it's reversing the situation we're under, where the Congress could pass a law, but then the specific interpretation of the law and how it's, you know, how it's implemented could be the expert organizations that are most relevant.
01:11:27.160So, that would allow OSHA, for example, to tell you you all had to wear masks when there was no law to that effect.
01:11:37.440So, it's hard to come up with examples, but some say that when you remove all the lawmaking from the so-called experts and the administrative state, as they call it, that that's a good thing.
01:11:49.500Because the experts are, let's say, corrupt.
01:17:47.360But one does wonder if the politics of the White House is being run by Obama because he knows that they don't have the capability to do it on their own, which we can observe.
01:17:57.760So I don't know what to think about that, but I'm going to keep watching.
01:18:05.920Well, do we think that Jill is the bad guy in this whole story?
01:18:11.080You know, why is Biden clinging to power?
01:18:14.320Is it because it's too late and there's no practical way to replace him?