Real Coffee with Scott Adams - July 16, 2024


Episode 2538 CWSA 07⧸16⧸24


Episode Stats

Length

1 hour and 28 minutes

Words per Minute

150.51843

Word Count

13,370

Sentence Count

1,009

Misogynist Sentences

28

Hate Speech Sentences

31


Summary

In this episode of the highlight of human civilization, Scott Adams talks about a new hypnosis technique called Decrypt, and the new VP pick, J.D. Vance. He also talks about Elon Musk's new carbon fiber battery that could make planes and cars 50% lighter, and why you shouldn't believe climate change models.


Transcript

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00:00:41.680 Well, yesterday I told you about my experience teaching ChatGPT to hypnotize,
00:00:47.240 and that turned into an article on something called Decrypt,
00:00:51.140 and other hypnotists were asked about it.
00:00:53.520 It turns out other hypnotists have tried the same thing, and it's a real thing.
00:00:58.600 You can teach ChatGPT to hypnotize.
00:01:02.760 Now, I'm not sure it's a good idea.
00:01:05.820 It's probably a good idea if you're doing it for your own purposes,
00:01:08.580 but I'd be a little bit worried, no, a lot worried, if ChatGPT learned that on its own,
00:01:17.300 you know, that if the entire ChatGPT app could do it instead of just the people who train it
00:01:22.700 to do it for themselves, there's a lot to worry about there.
00:01:27.580 Your free will is certainly under assault.
00:01:31.560 Anyway, it was just good to know that my experience with it was validated by other hypnotists.
00:01:38.840 So hypnotists are on the same side.
00:01:40.900 You can teach it to hypnotize you, and it will do it.
00:01:43.600 All right, there's a new, of course, I'll talk about all the politics,
00:01:50.400 but I'm just waiting for everybody to get here.
00:01:52.160 There's this new weightless carbon fiber battery thing where they can make structures out of it,
00:01:57.400 but they can also make batteries out of it, and it already works in a small form,
00:02:02.880 but it could make planes and cars 50% lighter, and it already works.
00:02:11.600 Now, this is one of the nerdish things I love to revel in.
00:02:16.060 If you could make batteries and also structures, things like cars and planes, 50% lighter,
00:02:24.420 do you know how much of a change that is?
00:02:27.520 That's virtually all of your climate change problem just right there.
00:02:31.240 If everything were 50% lighter, it would need so much less energy.
00:02:38.440 And there's a whole bunch of stuff that's happening that's going to make an enormous difference in our energy architecture.
00:02:45.520 So add that to the things that your climate models don't predict.
00:02:52.260 Which of your climate models predicted a carbon fiber battery that would make everything half the weight?
00:02:59.100 Nobody.
00:02:59.620 Yeah, that's why you shouldn't believe any of those models.
00:03:04.520 I saw an observation by Eric Meadows, a gentleman on X.
00:03:11.060 He said the Republican Party has not nominated a president that drank alcohol since John McCain in 2008.
00:03:20.320 That's interesting.
00:03:22.460 I didn't realize that.
00:03:24.340 It's pretty interesting.
00:03:25.080 Anyway, J.D. Vance is the vice president pick, unless you're living under a rock, in case you didn't know that.
00:03:32.440 So it's J.D. Vance.
00:03:33.980 We'll talk about all the things about him.
00:03:35.980 Apparently, he's scaring the Democrats, at least the pundits on CNN, because he's young and he's a populist.
00:03:44.940 But more importantly, he could take the Trump-like message into another generation and might be popular to young people because he is young.
00:03:54.380 He's only 39.
00:03:55.380 And so that scares him and should.
00:04:01.340 Here's some of the things we know about him.
00:04:03.780 Apparently, he has a number of changed opinions.
00:04:06.320 So he was pro-war when he joined the military, was a Marine, but then he was, you know, decided that war was maybe wasting a lot of people and resources.
00:04:20.160 And I think he was at one point more pro-vaccine than you might be comfortable with.
00:04:28.120 So he's been anti-Trump and pro-Trump.
00:04:32.320 So he has been back and forth on a number of things.
00:04:36.380 And I don't know exactly how to think about that.
00:04:40.200 Because on one hand, I like mental flexibility.
00:04:45.760 I like people who go into a situation with an opinion and then learn more and come out with a different opinion.
00:04:53.280 That's not a bad thing.
00:04:54.980 And if it happened more than once, even better.
00:04:59.080 However, it does sort of highlight his youth and inexperience, meaning that that's a lot of things that are really important to change your mind about fairly recently.
00:05:14.160 So I guess my biggest issue with him is I don't know what I'm getting.
00:05:19.260 You're definitely getting the smartest guy in the game.
00:05:21.600 One of the things I posted about, Elon Musk agreed with this on X, that Trump had won the IQ contest.
00:05:32.660 So his team, you know, Trump plus J.D. Vance, their combined IQ is way above Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
00:05:43.740 I think most people would generally agree with that.
00:05:46.280 So if you're looking for smart, that contest is over.
00:05:52.080 There's no competition.
00:05:53.700 The smartest pair, by far, are going to be Trump and Vance.
00:05:58.240 Because Vance is just crazy smart.
00:06:00.040 But here are some of the things people are concerned about or maybe they like, depending on your point of view.
00:06:06.900 So allegedly, so these are other people's characterizations.
00:06:10.960 He probably would say it differently.
00:06:12.580 So just be aware that these are biased characterizations.
00:06:17.920 That the Vance is a protege of Peter Thiel.
00:06:22.020 And some say Peter Thiel is too close to the security state because Palantir is something that works for the spies.
00:06:29.400 That's one of the Thiel products.
00:06:31.480 And he's allegedly on the steering committee of the Bilderberg group, which I've never really worried about.
00:06:39.480 It's just rich people who have their little group that they get together.
00:06:44.520 But if you're worried about Peter Thiel, are you also worried about Elon Musk?
00:06:49.960 Because Musk is backing Vance and backing Trump.
00:06:53.040 In fact, Musk is putting $45 million per month into a pro-Trump PAC.
00:07:00.960 So Musk has voted Democrat every time he's ever voted.
00:07:04.800 And he's all in on Trump.
00:07:07.240 Because we've seen what we get with Biden.
00:07:11.960 Some of the things that J.D. Vance likes, that a lot of Trump people like to, is Vance likes Bitcoin.
00:07:21.740 That's pretty popular.
00:07:23.860 And somebody pointed out to me that the Bitcoin subculture is like its own little culture.
00:07:32.300 And if you get somebody who's known to be pro-Bitcoin, you automatically get a whole bunch of Bitcoin tech bros that maybe don't care about much else.
00:07:43.120 So you get that for free.
00:07:45.180 So you might be bringing in the Bitcoiners.
00:07:47.080 He also likes open AI instead of closed, which I think is going to be more popular than not among the tech people.
00:07:55.740 He's against DEI.
00:07:58.740 Thank you.
00:08:00.220 He doesn't love the war in Ukraine.
00:08:02.180 He doesn't think that's necessary.
00:08:03.580 And even the Teamsters seem to have a positive opinion of him.
00:08:09.240 So the Teamsters Union likes him because he's pro-working people.
00:08:13.940 He wrote that book.
00:08:14.760 Was it the hillbilly eulogy?
00:08:20.260 And that was about low-income people.
00:08:22.820 I haven't read the book, so I don't know.
00:08:25.620 So he's got a lot going for him, going into it.
00:08:30.620 So how does everybody like that pick?
00:08:34.120 Do you like the pick?
00:08:35.520 I'm not positive that Trump had him picked before the assassination attempt.
00:08:40.800 As others have pointed out, once the assassination attempt happened, he had complete freedom to pick whatever vice president he wanted.
00:08:48.540 For example, if he really, really needed to win the election, a lot of people were saying, you know, it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world if he had a good Republican running mate who was also black.
00:09:04.660 Oh, Tim Scott, you know, solid Republican.
00:09:09.620 Yeah, maybe he'd be a good, solid backup.
00:09:13.180 And you thought, well, what about Dr. Ben Carson?
00:09:16.760 Yeah, he feels like a good, solid Republican, you know, wouldn't be too exciting.
00:09:24.600 And here's my observation.
00:09:28.440 Didn't you always think that Trump was going to at least pick somebody who was less exciting than Trump?
00:09:36.980 Somebody who wouldn't show him up.
00:09:38.760 Somebody who, when he's on the, let's say, the campaign, somebody that no one will ever say, wow, that vice president pick is so good.
00:09:51.180 You kind of wonder why the vice president isn't the top of the ticket.
00:09:54.980 Now, that's normally what you would never do if you're president.
00:09:57.760 You would never pick a vice president who even has the potential on a good day to look better than you.
00:10:06.440 That's like rule one of vice president.
00:10:08.700 It's got to be sentient and worse than the president.
00:10:13.040 Right.
00:10:13.200 That's a Dan Quayle thing.
00:10:15.200 He's sentient and he is Republican and he's worse than the president.
00:10:20.900 It's good enough.
00:10:22.400 Right.
00:10:22.660 Always had low standards for the VP.
00:10:24.220 And you could, you could say that it was kind of a fear, insecurity, comparison kind of a problem.
00:10:35.100 But after the assassination, I think Trump has lost all fear.
00:10:41.460 Meaning that the idea that he wouldn't pick the best person because of how it would look.
00:10:48.680 Right out the door.
00:10:50.280 He just picked the best person.
00:10:51.900 He didn't look at race.
00:10:55.060 He didn't look at gender.
00:10:56.800 He didn't look at sexuality.
00:10:59.780 He had the complete freedom after the assassination attempt to pick somebody who could look better than he would.
00:11:06.580 And he did.
00:11:07.840 Do you know how brave that is?
00:11:10.180 Now, it's not as brave as popping up after somebody shoots you.
00:11:14.180 I mean, that's a whole different level.
00:11:15.700 But it's, I can't think of a time when the top of the ticket picked somebody who was clearly able to shine.
00:11:27.120 I've never seen that before.
00:11:28.480 Have you?
00:11:29.340 Can you name a time that's ever happened?
00:11:32.200 I can't think of a time.
00:11:33.980 You know, you want your vice president to be capable, but not somebody who potentially could give the best speech of the campaign.
00:11:41.040 I mean, that's new.
00:11:43.240 And Trump looked right into that monster and said, sure, let's just pick the right person.
00:11:50.420 So I think that he is a brave choice.
00:11:55.420 And I think that the DEI argument has largely been slaughtered by the Secret Service campaign, Secret Service detail that was protecting him.
00:12:07.420 I mean, that's the strongest anti-DEI argument is that it nearly got Trump killed.
00:12:13.160 Now, am I saying something that's beyond the facts?
00:12:17.280 Yes.
00:12:17.700 There are no facts.
00:12:20.140 There are no facts that says there's a DEI causation of what we saw.
00:12:26.560 There's certainly lots of questions about the capability, but we don't know if it's because of DEI.
00:12:32.340 That would be too far.
00:12:34.960 However, does it look like it's a DEI problem?
00:12:39.120 Yes.
00:12:40.340 It looks like it.
00:12:41.800 Doesn't mean it is, right?
00:12:43.560 That's a big difference.
00:12:44.800 We don't know what the reality is.
00:12:46.180 We're pretty far from knowing what the reality is.
00:12:49.000 But the impression of it really looks like it was a DEI problem.
00:12:54.180 Did you know, as Christopher Rufo pointed out today on X, that there are wildly different fitness requirements for male and female Secret Service agents?
00:13:06.920 Like how many pull-ups you can do and what you can do fitness-wise?
00:13:12.780 Wildly different.
00:13:13.620 Wildly different.
00:13:15.840 Because you wouldn't have any women who qualified.
00:13:18.720 Well, you'd have very few if the fitness standards were designed for men.
00:13:22.260 So, we do have documented proof that these standards are substantially lower for women and that they have a target to get 30% women into the Secret Service and that there's what looks like a DEI hires the boss of the whole operation.
00:13:43.820 Now, I say that because she didn't seem to have the right qualifications for the job.
00:13:49.620 So, it looks like a DEI hire because it's a woman.
00:13:53.240 And how do you not think that that's part of the problem?
00:13:56.700 Again, there's no verification, no proof that any kind of DEI thing caused any of the problems with the assassination attempt.
00:14:06.480 No proof.
00:14:08.060 But every indication, every indication is there.
00:14:11.460 So, you know, people are going to go on what they see and what they feel.
00:14:16.400 What I saw and what I felt was mass incompetence with a very clear veneer of something DEI going on there.
00:14:27.520 So, I think there's probably a lot more to the story.
00:14:30.260 But that's what it looks like and what it feels like.
00:14:32.600 And that's what people are going to vote on.
00:14:34.420 They're going to vote on what it looked like and what it felt like.
00:14:37.900 We may never know the facts.
00:14:39.380 Yes.
00:14:41.460 Well, at the convention, as you know, Trump himself made an appearance.
00:14:46.500 He didn't speak.
00:14:47.380 He just came in to sit there and listen to the boring speakers a little bit.
00:14:51.580 And he had his bandage over his ear.
00:14:55.780 And I saw a bunch of people say, he looked changed.
00:15:00.280 He looked changed.
00:15:02.920 I can't explain it.
00:15:04.940 But something about his demeanor, something about his expression.
00:15:10.340 He's a different guy.
00:15:11.920 Of course, you would be.
00:15:13.320 I can't imagine you'd be the same person after that.
00:15:16.540 That would have to change you.
00:15:18.240 We don't know how.
00:15:19.520 We don't know how much.
00:15:20.580 We don't know how long it'll last.
00:15:22.400 But boy, did he look different.
00:15:23.620 I don't know if you had this experience, but I was watching it.
00:15:29.700 Just coincidentally, I was doing a man cave live stream to my subscribers on Locals.
00:15:36.140 So we were all there together.
00:15:38.140 And then we heard he was going to make a visit.
00:15:40.560 So I turned on the TV.
00:15:42.060 So we watched it together.
00:15:42.980 And I was standing up because I was standing next to the TV so I could be in the picture with the live stream.
00:15:50.280 But here's the thing I realized.
00:15:53.560 Somebody in the comments said that they were watching it alone and stood up.
00:15:58.440 And I'm thinking, if I had been watching it alone, I would have stood up.
00:16:03.760 Did anybody feel that?
00:16:07.060 Is there anybody who watched it alone who stood up?
00:16:11.640 Because I'll bet there were.
00:16:15.200 So whatever that is, that's bigger than the candidate.
00:16:23.020 Whatever that is.
00:16:24.680 Whatever made you stand up.
00:16:26.260 So the last time I did that was when when Trump did the Rosie O'Donnell move in his first debate.
00:16:36.120 I literally stood up.
00:16:39.140 Out of respect.
00:16:40.980 Just out of pure respect for the skill that that took.
00:16:44.420 And I stood up yesterday.
00:16:46.180 I was up anyway.
00:16:47.340 But I would have stood for that.
00:16:48.800 Just to see him walk in.
00:16:50.000 So whatever is going on here is way bigger than whatever is happening on the surface.
00:16:59.420 There's something way bigger.
00:17:02.920 Amber Rose spoke.
00:17:05.560 Now, I have to admit, I have no idea who Amber Rose is.
00:17:09.520 I guess I'm a certain age.
00:17:11.260 But she has 23 million Instagram followers and millions of people on X.
00:17:16.980 And she's a singer?
00:17:20.360 I don't know who she is.
00:17:21.980 What is she?
00:17:23.280 Is she just a influencer personality?
00:17:26.700 Or is she an artist or something?
00:17:28.560 I have no idea who she is.
00:17:31.240 All I know is that she is very popular among young people.
00:17:37.120 I don't know if she's especially popular for black Americans or not.
00:17:42.400 I just don't know.
00:17:43.560 But I will tell you that her charisma is off the chart.
00:17:50.000 Wow.
00:17:51.040 Talk about charisma.
00:17:52.920 Now, I saw Matt Walsh complaining because she's got a tattooed face.
00:17:57.920 And, you know, she's got a lifestyle that maybe is not a purely Republican perfect, you know, Norman Rockwell kind of life.
00:18:06.700 But she went up there and she said the most powerful thing you could ever say.
00:18:11.900 She realized she had been lied to about who Trump was.
00:18:15.720 Everything else was just fun and energy and a feeling.
00:18:22.680 But, wow, is that important.
00:18:25.500 The only thing that mattered was she stood in front of the world, acted like, let's say, acted like a young person.
00:18:34.020 Acted like a person who's maybe not always too active in voting and politics and said, I was fooled.
00:18:43.640 They told me he was somebody else.
00:18:45.700 That's the single most important message.
00:18:49.540 If any of that got through, and I'm not, you know, I can't imagine too many Democrats were watching the, especially young ones.
00:18:57.820 I don't know how many young Democrats were watching the Republican convention.
00:19:01.580 Not many.
00:19:02.040 But if it turns into reels, and it probably will, they're going to see it on TikTok and they're going to see it on Instagram.
00:19:09.580 And they're going to say, huh, that's interesting.
00:19:13.040 I thought Trump was terrible.
00:19:15.600 Why is it that this person, who's a lot like me, or at least I have some feeling or affection for her, and looks smart, because she comes across as smart, by the way.
00:19:25.300 That's really important.
00:19:26.140 And she comes across as somebody who actually did the work and, you know, looked into it and changed her mind, which shows, you know, intellectual flexibility.
00:19:38.000 And the fact that she has 23 million followers, you don't get that without skill and talent, right?
00:19:45.860 That doesn't happen on its own.
00:19:47.560 So she's got the goods.
00:19:49.100 I don't know too much about her, but you could tell instantly.
00:19:52.860 She's got the charisma.
00:19:54.360 She's got the brains.
00:19:55.340 She's got the intellectual flexibility.
00:19:59.020 There's a lot going on there.
00:20:00.980 A lot to like.
00:20:02.880 So I'm going to disagree with Matt Walsh, who I think he felt was, you know, time to talk to the base and the, I guess, the lifestyle modeling that Republicans would do, something like that.
00:20:17.600 But I think this was a brilliant choice.
00:20:20.260 A brilliant choice.
00:20:21.120 And I don't think that this was about catering to anybody.
00:20:26.080 It didn't look like stunt casting, as they like to say.
00:20:29.980 It looked like a real example of a real person who represents something that the public should see.
00:20:36.100 Here's a real person with a real brain who changed their mind.
00:20:39.420 It's kind of inspirational, really.
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00:21:43.480 All right, that worked.
00:21:46.060 David Sachs from the All In Pod gave a speech.
00:21:50.160 I felt sorry for him, because if you've ever given a speech where the people aren't basically paying attention, which is, that was the situation, because the people were milling around and talking in the convention.
00:22:02.040 It was all noisy with crowd noise.
00:22:03.980 And he's trying to give a speech, not really knowing if anybody's watching.
00:22:08.860 So it's like you're just talking to noise.
00:22:11.840 Oh my God, that's hard.
00:22:13.260 The only thing that makes speaking to a crowd easy is when you connect.
00:22:20.100 All right, I've done a lot of, a lot of in-person public speaking.
00:22:23.800 And I can tell you that if you do a speech where the tables are arranged in circles, you know, not circles, but rounds, they call them, round tables, and everybody's eating, they're going to be talking to each other while you're giving your oh-so entertaining speech.
00:22:41.180 It doesn't work at all.
00:22:43.200 So when I would give speeches, the first question I'd ask is, what's the table arrangement?
00:22:47.880 If it were audience arrangement, and they were going to be sitting there doing nothing but listening to me, great, that's going to work perfectly.
00:22:55.520 If it's tables, and I'm going to be talking while they're eating dessert, while dessert is being served at the tables, you don't have a chance.
00:23:04.040 You don't have a chance.
00:23:06.080 Your talk is not going to go well.
00:23:08.260 And the convention is one of those situations.
00:23:11.500 So unless you're one of the superstars, if you're one of the just interesting people, you're not going to get much attention, and it definitely affects your ability to speak.
00:23:22.220 I did not think that David Sachs was comfortable.
00:23:24.600 He didn't look like he was, you know, in his element.
00:23:32.340 He's amazing on podcasts and in person, but it looked like he was a little bit out of his comfort zone there.
00:23:39.200 I think that came through.
00:23:40.700 But boy, do I appreciate him.
00:23:42.400 And I give extra special appreciation to anybody who can do something uncomfortable, do it in front of everybody, and do it because you think it matters.
00:23:56.080 So if that sounded like a criticism, do you see how I turned that into a compliment?
00:24:01.520 The criticism is I don't think that was his game.
00:24:03.760 You know, standing in front of the big crowd of Republicans and giving a political speech, it's probably unfamiliar territory.
00:24:11.620 But boy, you go into unfamiliar territory like that, and you know it's not your thing, and you know millions will be watching, and you do it anyway?
00:24:23.160 I love that.
00:24:25.220 Give me more of that.
00:24:27.080 Give me more of people who are out of their comfort zone and doing the best they can because the country needs it.
00:24:32.540 Give me lots of that.
00:24:34.900 Thank you.
00:24:37.340 So I appreciate David Sachs for what he's doing for the country.
00:24:44.020 Let's see.
00:24:44.720 Apparently, there's a quote from J.D. Vance.
00:24:47.240 I think this is a true one.
00:24:48.720 There's going to be a lot of fake news running around about him, but maybe you can fact check me.
00:24:53.360 Did he really say all of this?
00:24:55.420 Did he say at one point, we are effectively run in this country by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices they've made, and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable too?
00:25:10.060 Did he really say that?
00:25:13.240 Because if he really said that, you know, honestly, if I'm going to be honest about it,
00:25:18.460 it seems really disrespectful to cats.
00:25:25.460 I love cats.
00:25:28.280 I don't like people saying bad shit about cats.
00:25:33.000 So, I mean, that's one little criticism, but I mean, it's not a big one.
00:25:41.400 He might love dogs, so that'd be fine.
00:25:47.420 Anyway, it looks like Biden might lose the Teamsters backing.
00:25:51.780 Teamsters are talking about maybe not backing anybody, which would be a gigantic blow to Biden.
00:25:57.940 Reuters is saying that.
00:25:59.480 There's 1.3 million members, and without an endorsement, I do think that makes a difference.
00:26:06.000 Obviously, the members can do what they want, but I think the endorsement from the leadership probably moves votes.
00:26:13.620 That's probably a half a million votes right there that, yeah.
00:26:17.400 Out of 1.3 million, how many would change their vote because of the leadership?
00:26:22.760 100,000?
00:26:24.820 200,000?
00:26:25.960 I mean, that's a lot.
00:26:29.340 All right, well, apparently Morning Joe is back on the air.
00:26:32.180 I haven't seen it, but somebody said Morning Joe is back.
00:26:34.640 Like, I'm not so sure that the real reason Morning Joe was canceled, or at least left off the air for a day, I'm not so sure it's because they were afraid of him.
00:26:45.620 You know, we don't know what conversation happened.
00:26:48.500 It could have been anything.
00:26:49.980 But the fact that Morning Joe was not on the air yesterday, but Joy Reid and Rachel Maddow were on the air,
00:26:57.700 then I'm not sure that that story holds together.
00:27:05.600 So maybe there was just something else going on that we don't know about, maybe.
00:27:10.040 And maybe it was just because it was morning.
00:27:12.340 You know, maybe they just thought, oh, it's too soon.
00:27:14.640 At least we'll make the morning regular news, and we'll get to the opinions later in the evening.
00:27:18.600 But Rachel Maddow and Joy Reid were back on the air last night.
00:27:24.660 I think Maddow said that J.D. Vance is widely considered to be the most radical choice.
00:27:31.120 What would make him the most radical choice?
00:27:35.940 What's the definition of radical?
00:27:38.260 You know, when they have to make up words,
00:27:40.240 that's when you know they're just fishing for some reason.
00:27:46.640 You know, do you remember when,
00:27:48.160 I remember when Republicans,
00:27:50.840 this was sort of a Newt Gingrich thing,
00:27:54.440 would say,
00:27:55.780 they're a bunch of liberals.
00:27:57.660 The Democrats are a bunch of liberals.
00:27:59.580 And he would make liberal the insult.
00:28:03.640 And I always thought,
00:28:04.600 well, can't you do better than that?
00:28:07.560 Like liberal and?
00:28:10.160 And therefore your policies are what?
00:28:15.060 What exactly are you complaining about?
00:28:17.080 The label?
00:28:18.460 Like, what are they doing?
00:28:20.060 And I always,
00:28:21.100 I was always angry about that when I was a younger man.
00:28:24.380 And I thought,
00:28:25.300 can't you do better than just saying they're liberals?
00:28:28.440 Like, that's the best you can do?
00:28:30.760 How about saying this policy doesn't work?
00:28:33.500 Or you're going to spend too much or something.
00:28:36.020 I guess that was all,
00:28:37.180 you know,
00:28:37.440 baked into the word liberal at that point.
00:28:40.580 But I have the same problem with most radical.
00:28:43.340 Are they saying what?
00:28:45.980 Is it radical to want less war?
00:28:48.160 Is it radical to want the states
00:28:52.080 to work on abortion on their own?
00:28:55.160 Where is the radical part?
00:28:58.300 It seems like he's pretty ordinary Republican to me.
00:29:03.240 Claire McCaskill on MSNBC said,
00:29:06.380 the only person who was more excited than J.D. Vance
00:29:09.440 was Vladimir Putin.
00:29:10.960 Wow.
00:29:17.340 Wow.
00:29:19.180 They have so few intellectual channels
00:29:24.280 that they can use
00:29:25.500 that they just go to their go-to.
00:29:28.740 Well, it's a cloudy day today.
00:29:31.180 Well,
00:29:31.960 Putin sent in those clouds.
00:29:34.420 We had an earthquake today.
00:29:36.100 Have you checked Putin?
00:29:37.300 Because I think Putin caused that earthquake.
00:29:39.000 No, Putin is not behind everything.
00:29:42.660 And Putin is not the reason anything happens.
00:29:46.060 Maybe a few things in Ukraine.
00:29:47.920 But no,
00:29:49.440 I don't think Putin was delighted
00:29:51.520 that J.D. Vance got picked.
00:29:54.640 I don't think so.
00:29:57.320 I don't think so.
00:29:58.400 And then Joy Reid being her mentally ill self.
00:30:03.860 And by the way,
00:30:04.340 I mean this literally
00:30:05.260 in case you're wondering,
00:30:06.980 you know,
00:30:07.160 are you just saying stuff
00:30:08.240 because you like one side more than the other?
00:30:11.740 No, Joy Reid
00:30:12.640 is obviously mentally ill.
00:30:15.980 And somehow MSNBC
00:30:17.620 thinks that mental illness
00:30:19.200 and opinions
00:30:20.420 are kind of the same thing.
00:30:22.300 And, you know,
00:30:24.780 people who are mentally ill
00:30:25.860 have opinions,
00:30:27.640 but you don't want to lead
00:30:28.700 with the mental illness
00:30:29.680 and then say,
00:30:30.560 well, it was sort of an opinion.
00:30:32.760 No, don't do that.
00:30:34.100 But MSNBC is doing it.
00:30:36.580 And Joy Reid says
00:30:37.700 she fears that
00:30:38.400 after the assassination
00:30:39.360 attempt on Trump,
00:30:40.880 quote,
00:30:41.200 the media will acquiesce
00:30:42.920 to Republicans
00:30:44.060 and not label Trump,
00:30:45.420 quote,
00:30:45.980 the greatest purveyor
00:30:47.120 and promoter
00:30:47.760 of political violence
00:30:48.940 since George Wallace.
00:30:50.580 Now, here's my question to you
00:30:53.360 because I like to be,
00:30:55.180 I like to be mentally flexible too.
00:30:57.840 I like to be,
00:30:59.180 I like to tell myself
00:31:00.360 that new information
00:31:02.220 would change my opinion.
00:31:05.400 But,
00:31:06.540 and this is actually worth exploring
00:31:08.420 because there have been
00:31:09.060 a number of examples
00:31:10.560 of Trump's rhetoric
00:31:12.700 that if you saw it
00:31:14.740 out of context,
00:31:15.640 you'd say,
00:31:16.460 huh,
00:31:17.300 that does sound a little,
00:31:19.340 that does sound
00:31:20.160 a little violent,
00:31:21.460 right?
00:31:22.080 But then I said to myself,
00:31:23.740 why don't I remember
00:31:25.300 any of them?
00:31:27.180 I thought,
00:31:27.880 why,
00:31:28.220 when I think about Trump
00:31:29.520 and his violent rhetoric,
00:31:31.260 I think of silly things.
00:31:33.440 I think of things like
00:31:34.460 when he talked tough
00:31:35.880 about some protester
00:31:37.240 at a rally years ago,
00:31:39.320 it's like,
00:31:39.640 oh,
00:31:39.940 in my day,
00:31:40.540 we used to beat him up
00:31:41.480 or something.
00:31:42.900 Was he really advocating
00:31:44.460 for violence
00:31:45.320 in society at large?
00:31:47.480 Or was he just talking tough
00:31:48.880 about a guy
00:31:50.160 because he likes
00:31:50.860 to talk tough?
00:31:52.220 I mean,
00:31:52.720 I didn't take that
00:31:53.300 as a literal truth,
00:31:55.420 did you?
00:31:56.600 I just thought it,
00:31:57.500 you know,
00:31:57.860 hyperbole,
00:31:58.800 acting tough,
00:32:00.300 blah, blah, blah.
00:32:00.620 To me,
00:32:01.320 that was like
00:32:01.780 attending the UFC.
00:32:03.840 He attends the UFC
00:32:05.200 because it's part of
00:32:06.700 his brand
00:32:07.780 of looking tough,
00:32:08.720 being tough,
00:32:09.860 liking tough people.
00:32:11.720 That didn't mean
00:32:12.600 anything to me.
00:32:13.220 But when I hear Biden
00:32:14.860 say the fine people hoax,
00:32:17.640 he is putting a target
00:32:20.200 on people's backs
00:32:21.160 because you do have
00:32:22.440 authority to kill Hitler.
00:32:25.220 We all have authority
00:32:26.860 and moral cover
00:32:28.580 for killing an actual Hitler.
00:32:31.440 But we don't have one.
00:32:33.840 It's got to be the real thing.
00:32:36.320 So if you're saying
00:32:37.000 that he is the real thing,
00:32:38.220 you are inviting violence
00:32:40.160 and it should,
00:32:42.480 if everything works
00:32:43.580 the way you know it does,
00:32:46.300 cause, you know,
00:32:47.040 some one out of a million people
00:32:48.720 to get a gun
00:32:49.720 and climb up on a roof.
00:32:51.840 So,
00:32:52.620 but what did,
00:32:53.300 what did Trump ever say
00:32:55.820 that would activate
00:32:58.100 somebody this way?
00:33:00.300 I'm not aware of anything.
00:33:02.620 So,
00:33:03.280 Trump did say
00:33:04.680 that the migrants
00:33:06.400 coming across
00:33:07.240 are,
00:33:08.120 in many cases,
00:33:08.980 dangerous and criminal.
00:33:10.160 criminals.
00:33:11.320 So if we saw somebody
00:33:12.860 go shoot a bunch
00:33:14.660 of migrants
00:33:15.400 because they thought
00:33:17.100 they were all criminals,
00:33:18.240 you'd say to yourself,
00:33:19.700 well,
00:33:19.880 wait a minute,
00:33:20.480 even Trump doesn't say
00:33:21.520 they're all criminals.
00:33:23.120 Trump doesn't say
00:33:24.000 you should kill them all.
00:33:25.500 He's just saying
00:33:26.260 we should have,
00:33:26.960 you know,
00:33:27.220 better law enforcement
00:33:28.100 and a border
00:33:28.700 and,
00:33:29.600 you know,
00:33:29.840 use law.
00:33:31.140 Basically,
00:33:31.780 when he talks about
00:33:32.860 illegal immigrants,
00:33:35.980 he is talking about
00:33:37.720 a law enforcement situation.
00:33:40.160 So he's very clear
00:33:41.920 that law enforcement
00:33:43.320 and border people
00:33:44.400 should be the ones
00:33:45.580 handling the criminals
00:33:46.680 coming across the border.
00:33:47.960 At what point
00:33:48.800 did he suggest
00:33:49.600 you should take it
00:33:50.300 into your own hands?
00:33:51.820 Do you remember
00:33:52.680 ever hearing Trump say,
00:33:54.140 you know what,
00:33:55.020 law enforcement
00:33:55.700 isn't doing enough
00:33:56.580 about the migrants.
00:33:57.580 You better take it
00:33:58.160 into your own hands.
00:34:00.080 Nothing.
00:34:01.320 Because that's not even,
00:34:02.820 it's not even contemplated.
00:34:05.320 Nothing like that.
00:34:06.180 So I would love
00:34:08.000 to see the left
00:34:09.420 do their best job
00:34:11.060 of,
00:34:11.980 you know,
00:34:12.280 their list
00:34:12.880 of what they think
00:34:13.820 is the dangerous rhetoric
00:34:14.900 from Trump
00:34:15.620 because I think
00:34:16.840 it would just be funny.
00:34:18.680 It would be
00:34:19.460 just another example
00:34:20.460 that they're doing
00:34:21.180 a job that they're bad at.
00:34:23.120 If their job
00:34:24.060 is to tell you
00:34:24.840 how to interpret
00:34:26.300 your reality
00:34:27.040 and they looked at Trump
00:34:28.600 and they said
00:34:29.100 that's actual
00:34:29.760 dangerous rhetoric
00:34:30.680 and they couldn't
00:34:33.140 determine hyperbole
00:34:34.320 from regular,
00:34:35.480 you know,
00:34:36.380 political talk
00:34:37.240 and they thought
00:34:38.600 that that was
00:34:38.980 in the same category
00:34:40.000 as continually hammering
00:34:41.740 that somebody is Hiller
00:34:42.640 and they're going
00:34:43.600 to steal your democracy,
00:34:44.800 there'll never be
00:34:45.320 another election.
00:34:47.040 Now,
00:34:48.220 as somebody pointed out,
00:34:50.820 Trump too
00:34:51.480 has apparently
00:34:52.160 said something like,
00:34:53.720 you know,
00:34:53.980 you'll lose your democracy
00:34:55.160 if Biden is elected.
00:34:58.020 Do any of you feel,
00:34:59.740 oh my God,
00:35:00.680 I just become triggered
00:35:02.840 into becoming an assassin
00:35:04.120 because Trump said
00:35:06.100 that Biden might
00:35:07.100 be bad for democracy?
00:35:10.060 No.
00:35:11.120 No,
00:35:11.480 it doesn't come across
00:35:12.340 that way.
00:35:13.300 It doesn't come across
00:35:14.180 that way at all.
00:35:15.040 When Trump says
00:35:16.000 you're going to lose
00:35:16.580 your democracy,
00:35:18.040 every Trump supporter says,
00:35:20.180 well,
00:35:20.500 not like completely.
00:35:23.240 Yeah,
00:35:23.800 we're saying stuff like,
00:35:25.160 oh,
00:35:25.260 you mean they're going
00:35:26.080 to censor you
00:35:26.740 on social media?
00:35:28.120 Which they have.
00:35:29.500 Yes.
00:35:29.780 Oh,
00:35:30.540 you mean they want
00:35:31.280 to control
00:35:32.240 your Second Amendment?
00:35:34.620 Yes,
00:35:35.180 they do.
00:35:35.860 That's exactly
00:35:36.440 what they want to do.
00:35:37.920 So yes,
00:35:38.620 when Trump says
00:35:39.580 they're coming
00:35:40.000 for your democracy,
00:35:42.880 Republicans translate
00:35:44.040 that into their head
00:35:45.020 into policy.
00:35:47.120 Don't you?
00:35:48.200 What is the policy
00:35:49.400 on free speech
00:35:50.260 and can you interfere
00:35:51.360 with it
00:35:51.880 through these
00:35:53.360 external entities?
00:35:55.200 What's the policy
00:35:56.140 on the Second Amendment?
00:35:57.100 Yeah,
00:35:58.780 I mean,
00:35:59.080 we just see it
00:35:59.820 as policy.
00:36:01.280 So,
00:36:02.180 it doesn't look
00:36:02.720 like you should
00:36:03.960 be activated
00:36:04.540 to any kind of danger.
00:36:07.120 I would like
00:36:07.820 to test
00:36:08.320 another theory
00:36:09.880 that I think
00:36:10.400 is batshit crazy.
00:36:11.880 And this is
00:36:12.340 on both sides.
00:36:13.900 So this is
00:36:14.420 a both sides
00:36:15.260 batshit crazy.
00:36:17.280 The idea
00:36:18.040 that if Trump
00:36:18.860 had been assassinated,
00:36:20.120 there would have
00:36:21.680 been a civil war.
00:36:22.660 think that through
00:36:25.740 for a minute.
00:36:27.300 So you got
00:36:27.820 all these Republicans
00:36:29.040 who would be
00:36:29.680 so mad
00:36:30.680 you can't even
00:36:31.240 believe it.
00:36:32.400 And a lot of them
00:36:33.260 have guns.
00:36:34.540 So that's where
00:36:35.360 the Democrats
00:36:36.080 stop their analysis.
00:36:38.200 They're going to be
00:36:38.720 really mad
00:36:39.300 and they have guns.
00:36:41.180 So,
00:36:41.860 civil war.
00:36:43.660 All right,
00:36:43.980 think it through
00:36:44.440 to one more level.
00:36:46.140 You ready for this?
00:36:47.040 Here's one more level
00:36:47.960 of the thought.
00:36:49.280 Who are they
00:36:49.940 going to shoot?
00:36:50.400 Who are they
00:36:52.260 going to shoot?
00:36:53.560 Were they going
00:36:54.120 to shoot their neighbor?
00:36:55.620 Ah,
00:36:55.880 that guy,
00:36:56.320 I think that guy,
00:36:57.120 my neighbor voted
00:36:57.820 Democrat,
00:36:58.320 I'll go shoot him.
00:36:59.040 No.
00:37:00.600 There's nobody
00:37:01.200 to shoot.
00:37:02.520 If a lone gunman
00:37:03.860 killed the president,
00:37:05.320 there's nobody
00:37:05.820 to shoot.
00:37:07.440 You could take
00:37:08.180 out your guns,
00:37:08.880 you could clean them,
00:37:09.520 you could load them,
00:37:10.420 you could walk outside,
00:37:11.560 but then what are you
00:37:12.080 going to do?
00:37:13.580 You're not going
00:37:14.280 to shoot your neighbor
00:37:15.100 because your neighbor
00:37:16.480 had nothing to do
00:37:17.220 with it.
00:37:18.340 You're not going
00:37:18.960 to shoot Biden
00:37:19.620 because he didn't
00:37:20.660 have anything
00:37:21.000 to do with it.
00:37:21.720 I mean,
00:37:22.080 not directly.
00:37:23.900 What are you
00:37:24.560 going to do
00:37:24.800 with your gun?
00:37:25.680 Are you going
00:37:25.940 to take over
00:37:26.280 the government?
00:37:28.160 No.
00:37:29.820 No.
00:37:30.480 You're going
00:37:30.840 to maybe insist
00:37:31.840 the government
00:37:32.280 does a better job
00:37:33.180 of figuring out
00:37:34.360 what went on,
00:37:35.240 but what exactly
00:37:36.640 would you do
00:37:37.320 with your guns?
00:37:39.980 The problem
00:37:41.240 is that we're
00:37:42.080 so simplistic
00:37:42.920 that we go
00:37:44.320 immediately to
00:37:45.080 civil war
00:37:45.680 when there's
00:37:46.100 no really
00:37:46.800 any path
00:37:47.720 to get there.
00:37:48.360 let me tell
00:37:50.200 you what
00:37:50.460 would have
00:37:50.720 happened.
00:37:51.920 Had the
00:37:52.580 assassination
00:37:53.100 attempt
00:37:53.660 succeeded,
00:37:56.320 the country
00:37:58.280 would have
00:37:58.600 gone into
00:37:59.020 a deep
00:37:59.380 depression
00:37:59.820 and we
00:38:01.960 would have
00:38:02.240 talked tough
00:38:02.840 like,
00:38:03.620 oh,
00:38:04.100 it's got
00:38:04.600 to be stopped,
00:38:05.400 but there
00:38:06.140 wouldn't be
00:38:06.600 anybody to
00:38:07.320 shoot.
00:38:09.000 You just
00:38:09.940 wouldn't have
00:38:10.460 hate and a
00:38:11.120 gun at the
00:38:11.560 same time
00:38:12.240 with a target
00:38:13.400 because we
00:38:14.980 still don't know
00:38:15.660 exactly what
00:38:16.320 this crazy
00:38:16.920 guy is up
00:38:17.460 to,
00:38:17.860 but we
00:38:18.420 know the
00:38:18.760 one person
00:38:19.380 who is
00:38:19.680 certainly
00:38:20.040 responsible
00:38:20.780 is dead
00:38:22.180 and would
00:38:24.340 have been
00:38:24.600 dead probably
00:38:25.480 in every
00:38:26.100 circumstance,
00:38:26.660 even if he
00:38:27.240 succeeded.
00:38:28.660 So,
00:38:29.100 no,
00:38:29.520 we're not
00:38:30.160 close to a
00:38:30.760 civil war
00:38:31.360 and nobody
00:38:33.680 can even
00:38:34.100 give me an
00:38:34.760 example of
00:38:35.380 how that
00:38:35.660 could ever
00:38:36.000 happen.
00:38:36.900 This is very
00:38:37.620 similar to
00:38:39.260 how the
00:38:39.540 Democrats
00:38:40.020 imagined that
00:38:41.240 the trespassers
00:38:42.400 on January
00:38:43.100 6th could
00:38:44.260 take over
00:38:44.740 the country.
00:38:46.080 How?
00:38:47.180 What,
00:38:47.520 with some
00:38:47.840 paperwork?
00:38:49.120 With some
00:38:49.620 people who
00:38:50.380 said they're
00:38:50.820 electors?
00:38:52.040 I think I'll
00:38:52.840 try to take
00:38:53.380 over the
00:38:53.700 country.
00:38:54.280 I'm a fake
00:38:54.780 elector.
00:38:55.960 Everybody
00:38:56.280 stand down.
00:38:57.160 It's my
00:38:57.520 country now.
00:38:58.800 There's no
00:38:59.200 path.
00:39:02.440 So,
00:39:03.300 no,
00:39:04.680 we were not
00:39:05.300 on the
00:39:05.620 verge of
00:39:06.060 civil war.
00:39:07.200 What we
00:39:07.600 were on
00:39:07.860 the verge
00:39:08.320 of is a
00:39:09.560 mental illness
00:39:10.380 that never
00:39:11.040 would have
00:39:11.340 gone away.
00:39:11.840 if Trump
00:39:13.940 had gone
00:39:14.360 down,
00:39:15.340 I would
00:39:17.080 be permanently
00:39:17.700 injured.
00:39:19.580 I mean,
00:39:19.940 we all
00:39:20.360 would have
00:39:21.460 been injured
00:39:21.920 by that,
00:39:22.400 at least
00:39:22.620 the people
00:39:23.240 were sane.
00:39:25.780 So,
00:39:26.260 no,
00:39:26.380 there was
00:39:26.560 a lot
00:39:26.800 to lose,
00:39:27.280 but it
00:39:27.480 wasn't
00:39:27.700 going to
00:39:27.840 be a
00:39:28.080 civil war.
00:39:28.780 There was
00:39:28.980 nobody
00:39:29.260 to shoot.
00:39:32.820 Jack
00:39:33.260 Black,
00:39:34.160 doing his
00:39:35.240 Tenacious D
00:39:36.180 thing,
00:39:36.700 which is,
00:39:37.240 I guess,
00:39:37.540 music and
00:39:38.160 comedy kind
00:39:38.920 of a show.
00:39:39.260 soon after
00:39:41.360 the assassination
00:39:41.980 attempt,
00:39:42.760 one of his
00:39:43.180 bandmates
00:39:43.900 said something
00:39:45.900 on stage
00:39:46.680 spontaneously
00:39:48.020 indicating he
00:39:50.660 wished the
00:39:51.240 attempt had
00:39:52.180 been successful.
00:39:54.460 And as
00:39:55.140 you might
00:39:55.420 imagine,
00:39:55.840 there was
00:39:56.020 some backlash.
00:39:57.880 And in
00:39:58.840 Australia,
00:39:59.300 they were
00:39:59.680 trying to
00:40:00.060 deport him
00:40:00.760 and Jack
00:40:01.560 Black just
00:40:02.080 canceled the
00:40:02.720 tour.
00:40:03.640 Was that
00:40:04.000 the right
00:40:04.300 decision?
00:40:06.620 Yes.
00:40:07.100 Now,
00:40:09.160 remember,
00:40:09.580 Jack Black
00:40:10.140 really,
00:40:10.840 really doesn't
00:40:11.400 like Trump.
00:40:12.620 I don't know
00:40:12.940 if he knew
00:40:13.260 that,
00:40:13.520 but he
00:40:13.760 really,
00:40:14.260 really,
00:40:14.600 really doesn't
00:40:15.440 like him.
00:40:15.860 He super
00:40:16.520 doesn't like
00:40:17.100 him.
00:40:18.800 And I
00:40:20.000 think that
00:40:20.380 was the
00:40:21.220 bandmate
00:40:21.680 who said
00:40:22.120 it was
00:40:22.540 the height
00:40:23.220 of
00:40:23.400 irresponsibility.
00:40:26.280 But think
00:40:27.140 about what
00:40:28.040 causes somebody
00:40:29.160 to do
00:40:29.620 that.
00:40:30.880 What would
00:40:31.520 cause you
00:40:32.000 to say
00:40:32.440 on stage
00:40:33.400 in front
00:40:34.520 of thousands
00:40:35.440 of people
00:40:36.000 with cameras
00:40:37.480 and everything
00:40:37.900 else that
00:40:39.160 you wish
00:40:39.560 the president
00:40:40.100 had been
00:40:40.520 assassinated
00:40:40.980 or the
00:40:41.380 candidate
00:40:42.240 had been
00:40:42.620 assassinated?
00:40:44.380 The only
00:40:45.140 thing that
00:40:45.500 would cause
00:40:45.920 that is
00:40:46.920 that you
00:40:47.180 thought
00:40:47.600 everybody
00:40:48.140 agreed,
00:40:50.020 that you
00:40:50.660 thought it
00:40:50.940 was a
00:40:51.200 crowd-pleaser.
00:40:52.200 He didn't
00:40:52.800 say it
00:40:53.120 because he
00:40:53.560 thought the
00:40:54.360 crowd would
00:40:54.740 be mad.
00:40:55.440 He thought
00:40:56.000 the crowd
00:40:56.460 would cheer,
00:40:58.140 and some,
00:40:58.860 I think,
00:40:59.080 did.
00:41:01.240 But how
00:41:02.280 much of a
00:41:02.880 bubble do
00:41:03.360 you have to
00:41:03.740 live in to
00:41:04.440 think that's
00:41:04.920 a good
00:41:05.260 idea in
00:41:05.960 a crowd
00:41:06.580 that simply
00:41:07.280 is there
00:41:07.640 because you're
00:41:08.300 funny and
00:41:08.880 entertaining
00:41:09.300 and they
00:41:09.660 bought a
00:41:09.980 ticket?
00:41:11.860 I can't
00:41:12.740 imagine
00:41:13.280 worse judgment.
00:41:15.800 But I
00:41:16.140 think that
00:41:16.480 worse judgment
00:41:17.060 comes down
00:41:17.580 to being
00:41:17.860 in a silo
00:41:18.600 where you
00:41:19.500 just don't
00:41:20.300 even know
00:41:20.740 anybody on
00:41:21.260 the other
00:41:21.520 side.
00:41:22.340 I think
00:41:22.720 you would
00:41:22.940 have to
00:41:23.280 literally
00:41:23.680 not know
00:41:24.480 a Republican
00:41:25.200 to say
00:41:26.440 that into
00:41:27.140 a big
00:41:27.580 crowd of
00:41:27.980 people,
00:41:28.440 as if
00:41:29.400 there's not
00:41:29.840 a single
00:41:30.220 Republican
00:41:30.660 there,
00:41:31.260 or even
00:41:31.960 a single
00:41:32.360 decent
00:41:32.720 person who
00:41:33.880 would never
00:41:34.340 embrace such
00:41:35.440 a thought.
00:41:36.700 There must
00:41:37.080 be plenty
00:41:37.680 of Democrats
00:41:38.480 who are
00:41:39.360 just disgusted
00:41:40.220 and just
00:41:41.520 sick over
00:41:42.540 what almost
00:41:43.120 happened and
00:41:44.080 what did
00:41:44.400 happen.
00:41:47.180 Anyway,
00:41:47.820 Bank more
00:41:53.320 encores when
00:41:54.140 you switch
00:41:54.560 to a
00:41:54.880 Scotiabank
00:41:55.440 banking
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00:41:57.440 Learn more
00:41:57.840 at
00:41:58.020 Scotiabank.com
00:41:59.060 slash
00:41:59.440 banking
00:41:59.800 packages.
00:42:00.760 Conditions
00:42:01.040 apply.
00:42:02.540 Scotiabank,
00:42:03.300 you're richer
00:42:03.760 than you
00:42:04.100 think.
00:42:06.880 So there's
00:42:08.600 a message
00:42:09.060 inside the
00:42:10.020 Democrat
00:42:10.640 inside camp
00:42:12.340 that the
00:42:13.500 strategists
00:42:14.560 have just
00:42:14.920 given up.
00:42:15.460 But here's
00:42:16.360 something a
00:42:16.820 Democrat
00:42:17.180 strategist
00:42:17.880 allegedly
00:42:18.720 said.
00:42:19.420 So this
00:42:19.800 is an
00:42:20.260 anonymous
00:42:20.760 person,
00:42:21.380 so you
00:42:21.500 have to
00:42:21.760 be careful
00:42:22.600 with these
00:42:22.980 anonymous
00:42:23.340 ones.
00:42:24.620 But
00:42:24.860 allegedly
00:42:25.860 a Democrat
00:42:26.420 strategist
00:42:27.240 said
00:42:28.140 that the
00:42:30.200 assassination
00:42:30.760 attempt
00:42:31.340 destroyed
00:42:32.220 Biden's
00:42:32.760 entire
00:42:33.200 strategy
00:42:33.780 for taking
00:42:34.500 on Trump,
00:42:35.560 trying to
00:42:36.180 portray him
00:42:36.940 as a
00:42:37.300 threat to
00:42:37.740 democracy.
00:42:39.120 The
00:42:39.260 strategist
00:42:39.780 said that
00:42:40.260 message is
00:42:40.920 dead,
00:42:41.720 but it
00:42:42.640 gets better.
00:42:43.140 And then
00:42:45.340 a top
00:42:45.820 Democrat,
00:42:46.400 another one
00:42:46.800 who specializes
00:42:47.600 in congressional
00:42:48.400 races,
00:42:49.540 congressional
00:42:50.620 races,
00:42:52.200 said it's
00:42:52.840 altered
00:42:53.340 everything,
00:42:53.900 but listen
00:42:54.300 to this
00:42:54.680 quote.
00:42:57.220 This is
00:42:57.980 a Democrat
00:42:59.220 strategist
00:43:00.660 who understands
00:43:02.160 how things
00:43:02.780 work.
00:43:04.040 So let me
00:43:04.580 tell you
00:43:04.940 that whatever
00:43:06.680 problems the
00:43:07.520 Democrats have,
00:43:08.960 it's not because
00:43:09.620 they don't have
00:43:10.100 smart strategists,
00:43:11.240 it's because
00:43:12.320 they weren't
00:43:12.680 listening to
00:43:13.240 him.
00:43:14.160 But here's
00:43:14.600 one of the
00:43:14.940 smart ones.
00:43:16.040 The clear
00:43:16.440 effect of
00:43:16.900 this assassination
00:43:17.560 attempt is
00:43:18.780 that it
00:43:19.240 officially thrust
00:43:20.080 Donald Trump
00:43:20.680 out of
00:43:21.200 politics and
00:43:22.400 into
00:43:22.660 martyrdom,
00:43:23.880 the person
00:43:25.320 said.
00:43:26.000 They're
00:43:26.420 framing this
00:43:27.040 as an
00:43:27.380 attack on
00:43:27.940 MAGA and
00:43:28.720 not on
00:43:29.160 Trump,
00:43:29.900 even more
00:43:30.440 powerful.
00:43:31.960 And then
00:43:32.200 this is the
00:43:33.660 money shot,
00:43:35.080 this last
00:43:35.540 sentence.
00:43:36.300 This is
00:43:36.900 literally
00:43:37.440 biblical
00:43:37.980 stuff we're
00:43:38.760 talking about.
00:43:39.480 There you
00:43:41.820 go.
00:43:43.180 He was
00:43:44.280 circling around
00:43:45.280 the target
00:43:45.820 and then he
00:43:46.940 found it.
00:43:47.900 Here's
00:43:48.180 circling around
00:43:48.840 the target
00:43:49.360 that it
00:43:50.260 changes the
00:43:50.840 messaging.
00:43:51.940 Yeah,
00:43:52.240 you're getting
00:43:52.580 close.
00:43:53.740 Circling
00:43:54.220 around the
00:43:54.680 target is
00:43:55.240 it changed
00:43:56.780 it from
00:43:57.100 politics into
00:43:57.920 martyrdom.
00:43:58.700 Oh, okay,
00:43:59.660 now you're
00:44:00.000 getting a
00:44:00.260 little bit
00:44:00.580 closer,
00:44:01.400 a little bit
00:44:01.840 closer.
00:44:04.080 It was an
00:44:04.820 attack on
00:44:05.300 MAGA,
00:44:05.700 not on
00:44:06.020 Trump.
00:44:06.340 That's how
00:44:06.640 they're
00:44:06.780 reframing it.
00:44:07.380 Oh, yeah,
00:44:08.240 yep.
00:44:08.520 You're
00:44:09.400 getting closer.
00:44:10.640 You're
00:44:10.780 getting a
00:44:10.980 little bit
00:44:11.300 closer.
00:44:12.720 And then
00:44:13.400 the kill
00:44:13.820 shot.
00:44:14.400 This is
00:44:14.960 literally
00:44:15.360 biblical
00:44:15.820 stuff.
00:44:16.880 Done.
00:44:18.160 You found
00:44:18.960 the target.
00:44:20.260 You found
00:44:20.900 the bullseye.
00:44:21.980 Speaking of
00:44:22.560 bullseyes.
00:44:24.720 Yes,
00:44:25.540 this is as
00:44:26.480 insightful as
00:44:27.480 you could
00:44:27.780 possibly be.
00:44:29.440 So whoever
00:44:29.920 this particular
00:44:31.600 Democrat was,
00:44:34.180 I don't like
00:44:34.940 to give advice
00:44:35.720 to the
00:44:36.020 Democrats,
00:44:36.660 but here's
00:44:37.000 my advice.
00:44:37.500 Will you
00:44:38.300 listen to
00:44:38.800 this fucking
00:44:39.360 guy for a
00:44:39.960 change?
00:44:40.740 Will you
00:44:41.080 fucking
00:44:41.440 listen to
00:44:41.980 this guy?
00:44:43.260 Whoever you've
00:44:43.800 been listening
00:44:44.220 to is an
00:44:45.420 asshole and
00:44:46.340 an idiot,
00:44:47.160 probably a
00:44:47.580 bunch of
00:44:47.940 them.
00:44:48.420 Listen to
00:44:48.820 this guy.
00:44:49.660 You got
00:44:50.340 somebody who
00:44:51.660 knows what
00:44:52.080 they're talking
00:44:52.560 about and
00:44:53.100 can see the
00:44:53.640 whole field.
00:44:54.840 Listen to
00:44:55.500 this guy or
00:44:57.120 lose everything
00:44:57.840 or lose
00:44:59.960 everything.
00:45:01.160 You're going to
00:45:01.760 lose the
00:45:02.120 presidency.
00:45:02.940 You're going to
00:45:03.460 lose both
00:45:03.880 houses.
00:45:04.680 You already
00:45:05.140 lost the
00:45:05.680 Supreme Court,
00:45:06.240 and it's
00:45:06.900 going to
00:45:07.060 get worse.
00:45:08.640 So again,
00:45:10.320 I say it's
00:45:12.060 not that they
00:45:12.560 don't have
00:45:12.920 smart people.
00:45:16.120 They're not
00:45:16.720 listening to
00:45:17.200 them.
00:45:20.620 All right.
00:45:23.120 I'm going to
00:45:23.680 give you a
00:45:24.100 story that
00:45:24.500 sounds like
00:45:25.020 it's not
00:45:25.340 related to
00:45:25.900 anything in
00:45:26.380 the news.
00:45:27.040 It sounds
00:45:27.420 like it's
00:45:27.800 just about
00:45:28.320 me.
00:45:29.580 And then
00:45:29.820 I'm going
00:45:30.120 to connect
00:45:31.020 it to the
00:45:31.460 news and
00:45:31.880 you're going
00:45:32.160 to go,
00:45:32.840 whoa,
00:45:33.380 good point,
00:45:34.240 Scott.
00:45:34.480 So I've
00:45:36.920 got this
00:45:37.260 ear infection.
00:45:38.260 You don't
00:45:38.540 care about
00:45:38.940 that, but
00:45:39.460 I call my
00:45:40.300 health care
00:45:40.720 provider and
00:45:42.340 they say,
00:45:43.500 what is it?
00:45:44.620 And I say,
00:45:45.160 well, I've
00:45:45.480 got this
00:45:45.800 problem, blah,
00:45:46.500 blah, blah.
00:45:46.820 And they
00:45:47.160 say, ah,
00:45:48.040 good.
00:45:49.380 And I think
00:45:50.160 I'm going to
00:45:50.460 make an
00:45:50.760 appointment.
00:45:51.800 And then
00:45:52.320 they say,
00:45:53.500 no, this
00:45:54.500 phone number
00:45:55.060 is sort of
00:45:55.660 the general
00:45:56.100 one.
00:45:56.560 I go, oh,
00:45:57.820 oh, well,
00:45:58.620 I'll give you
00:45:59.140 the phone
00:45:59.480 number for
00:46:00.200 the place you
00:46:00.740 should have
00:46:01.040 called.
00:46:01.280 And then
00:46:02.480 I think,
00:46:03.220 hmm, I
00:46:03.960 feel like I
00:46:04.680 wasted a lot
00:46:05.180 of time
00:46:05.460 giving you
00:46:05.900 a lot of
00:46:06.240 information
00:46:06.780 when all
00:46:07.900 I needed
00:46:08.260 was the
00:46:08.680 phone call
00:46:09.060 that I
00:46:09.340 should have
00:46:09.540 been calling
00:46:10.000 instead of
00:46:10.820 the one
00:46:11.040 they gave
00:46:11.460 me to
00:46:11.740 call,
00:46:12.080 which they
00:46:12.420 told me
00:46:12.740 was the
00:46:13.000 right number
00:46:13.600 to call.
00:46:14.260 And I've
00:46:14.760 been on
00:46:15.140 hold for
00:46:15.720 an hour.
00:46:18.320 And then
00:46:19.600 finally I
00:46:20.160 called and
00:46:20.780 I got another
00:46:21.520 recording to
00:46:23.240 tell me that
00:46:23.900 I was on
00:46:24.900 hold and
00:46:25.620 they could
00:46:26.140 call me
00:46:26.480 back.
00:46:27.120 But then
00:46:27.680 they did
00:46:28.020 call me
00:46:28.380 back and
00:46:28.940 the callback
00:46:29.520 was just to
00:46:30.040 tell me I
00:46:30.400 was on
00:46:30.680 hold for
00:46:31.640 another 30
00:46:32.240 minutes and
00:46:32.840 then I
00:46:33.080 waited and
00:46:33.880 then they
00:46:34.140 called back
00:46:34.780 and then the
00:46:35.640 person, so
00:46:36.500 finally I was
00:46:37.700 trying to get
00:46:38.120 the ear, nose,
00:46:38.880 throat department.
00:46:40.060 So finally I
00:46:40.640 get the ear,
00:46:41.080 nose, throat
00:46:41.420 department.
00:46:42.040 They say, they
00:46:43.300 ask all the
00:46:43.840 same information.
00:46:45.260 Somehow my
00:46:45.920 account had
00:46:48.240 not been
00:46:48.640 transferred even
00:46:49.380 though I'd
00:46:49.740 entered it
00:46:50.160 three times
00:46:50.720 by now.
00:46:51.780 So now three
00:46:52.320 times I've
00:46:52.900 given my
00:46:53.500 medical number.
00:46:54.940 It's asked a
00:46:55.620 fourth time and
00:46:56.700 I've still not
00:46:57.220 talked to
00:46:57.580 anybody who
00:46:58.120 can help me.
00:46:58.620 right?
00:46:59.940 Does this
00:47:00.180 sound familiar?
00:47:01.360 Everybody knows
00:47:02.200 this, right?
00:47:02.660 You've all had
00:47:03.120 this experience.
00:47:04.300 So then I
00:47:05.040 finally get the
00:47:05.900 right person and
00:47:07.440 I say, can I
00:47:08.700 make an
00:47:09.180 appointment for
00:47:10.240 the ENT?
00:47:11.860 And they say,
00:47:13.400 oh, that's not
00:47:14.340 at this number.
00:47:17.560 And they gave
00:47:18.300 me another
00:47:18.700 number.
00:47:20.860 So I finally
00:47:21.740 got to somebody
00:47:22.400 who could make
00:47:23.420 an appointment and
00:47:25.100 it wasn't
00:47:26.400 until like a
00:47:27.140 week from
00:47:27.500 now and I
00:47:30.160 had to fight
00:47:30.800 for it and
00:47:31.380 finally I got
00:47:31.940 an appointment
00:47:32.420 in 48 hours
00:47:33.740 and stuff like
00:47:34.320 that.
00:47:34.820 Now, was
00:47:35.860 this story about
00:47:36.640 me and about
00:47:38.100 my health care?
00:47:39.640 No.
00:47:40.820 It was about
00:47:41.440 how everything
00:47:42.100 in the country
00:47:42.800 is so fucked
00:47:44.200 up that even
00:47:45.560 simple things
00:47:46.480 don't work.
00:47:48.020 Simple things
00:47:48.820 don't work.
00:47:50.140 Everywhere that
00:47:50.800 you look and
00:47:51.380 expect competence,
00:47:53.140 everywhere that it
00:47:54.420 used to be, it
00:47:55.960 is gone.
00:47:56.920 We have a
00:47:57.800 massive incompetence
00:47:59.580 problem, which
00:48:01.220 is probably some
00:48:02.040 combination of
00:48:02.940 several things.
00:48:03.840 I don't know what
00:48:04.260 all the forces are,
00:48:05.340 but you all see
00:48:06.120 it, right?
00:48:07.200 I'm not telling
00:48:08.080 you a story that
00:48:08.800 you go, I've
00:48:09.540 never had that
00:48:10.040 problem.
00:48:10.920 Every time I
00:48:11.500 talk to somebody
00:48:12.100 they're capable
00:48:13.120 and effective.
00:48:14.240 No.
00:48:15.040 You've all had
00:48:15.860 the experience,
00:48:16.560 okay?
00:48:17.380 Now that's your
00:48:17.960 context.
00:48:19.840 Now let's talk
00:48:20.520 about what
00:48:21.100 happened with
00:48:21.620 the Secret
00:48:22.020 Service and
00:48:23.780 protecting Trump.
00:48:28.160 We have at
00:48:29.220 least two
00:48:29.880 hypotheses.
00:48:31.400 One, I'm
00:48:32.900 going to call
00:48:33.380 the Dilber
00:48:34.920 filter.
00:48:36.120 The Dilber
00:48:36.960 filter says
00:48:37.760 that there
00:48:39.040 are pointier
00:48:39.680 bosses who
00:48:40.560 are selfish
00:48:41.020 and incompetent
00:48:42.040 and they're
00:48:42.780 pushing DEI.
00:48:44.380 Their employees
00:48:45.100 were selfish
00:48:45.900 and incompetent
00:48:47.080 and already
00:48:47.520 are looking
00:48:47.920 for another
00:48:48.420 job and
00:48:49.480 that you
00:48:49.800 should expect
00:48:50.400 massive
00:48:51.000 incompetence
00:48:51.760 everywhere.
00:48:53.320 That's the
00:48:53.780 Dilbert
00:48:54.040 filter.
00:48:54.940 Now, did
00:48:55.400 the Dilbert
00:48:55.840 filter
00:48:56.280 correctly
00:48:57.200 predict
00:48:58.440 my
00:48:59.640 inability
00:49:00.400 to get
00:49:00.840 an
00:49:00.960 appointment
00:49:01.300 for
00:49:01.580 healthcare?
00:49:02.340 It did.
00:49:03.320 It perfectly
00:49:04.280 predicted
00:49:04.940 that even
00:49:06.020 the simplest
00:49:06.620 thing,
00:49:07.680 get an
00:49:08.060 appointment
00:49:08.380 for healthcare,
00:49:09.820 becomes so
00:49:11.420 impossibly
00:49:12.300 difficult I
00:49:13.060 almost gave
00:49:13.580 up.
00:49:14.600 I mean,
00:49:14.860 literally,
00:49:15.320 I almost
00:49:15.800 said,
00:49:16.060 all right,
00:49:16.300 I'll just
00:49:16.640 live with
00:49:16.960 an ear
00:49:17.220 affection for
00:49:17.760 the rest
00:49:18.000 of my
00:49:18.220 life.
00:49:18.620 I can't
00:49:18.920 do this.
00:49:19.340 Now,
00:49:20.320 take that
00:49:20.720 filter and
00:49:22.500 compare it
00:49:23.060 to the
00:49:23.280 other one.
00:49:25.120 There was
00:49:25.840 a clever
00:49:26.420 government
00:49:26.920 plot that
00:49:29.000 involved
00:49:29.560 hundreds of
00:49:30.240 variables,
00:49:32.120 an insane
00:49:32.800 20-year-old,
00:49:35.120 and the
00:49:35.640 extreme
00:49:36.480 unlikeliness
00:49:37.380 that they
00:49:39.840 could allow
00:49:40.580 this to
00:49:40.980 happen and
00:49:41.360 get away
00:49:41.700 with it,
00:49:42.680 that the
00:49:43.600 crowd wouldn't
00:49:44.480 notice it,
00:49:46.140 and that
00:49:47.060 even if it
00:49:47.860 worked,
00:49:48.300 something good
00:49:49.640 could have
00:49:49.980 come from
00:49:50.400 it.
00:49:51.860 That's the
00:49:52.380 alternative.
00:49:53.980 Which one
00:49:54.560 do you think
00:49:54.840 seems more
00:49:55.340 likely?
00:49:56.540 Well,
00:49:57.020 let's talk
00:49:57.480 about how
00:49:57.920 wildly
00:49:58.500 incompetent
00:49:59.180 they would
00:49:59.460 have had
00:49:59.720 to be
00:50:00.200 in order
00:50:01.480 for it
00:50:01.880 to be
00:50:02.160 incompetence
00:50:02.860 as the
00:50:03.260 entire
00:50:03.700 explanation.
00:50:05.140 Now,
00:50:05.280 some of
00:50:05.620 you are
00:50:05.860 going to
00:50:06.000 say,
00:50:06.280 Scott,
00:50:06.640 it could
00:50:07.040 be both.
00:50:08.360 It could
00:50:08.720 be sort
00:50:09.140 of a
00:50:09.460 planned
00:50:10.500 incompetence
00:50:11.520 where it
00:50:13.040 wasn't that
00:50:13.500 they were
00:50:13.720 trying to
00:50:14.440 kill the
00:50:14.840 president,
00:50:15.240 but they
00:50:16.260 weren't
00:50:16.540 trying too
00:50:17.060 hard not
00:50:17.640 to make
00:50:18.760 it happen,
00:50:20.000 meaning you'd
00:50:21.240 expect them
00:50:21.780 to try a
00:50:22.260 lot harder
00:50:22.840 and do a
00:50:23.360 better job
00:50:23.980 if their
00:50:24.780 intention was
00:50:25.600 to protect
00:50:26.100 them.
00:50:27.120 They did
00:50:27.720 such a bad
00:50:28.320 job,
00:50:29.280 it looks
00:50:29.940 like their
00:50:30.880 intention
00:50:31.380 was to
00:50:32.500 kill them.
00:50:34.860 Now,
00:50:35.500 I'm looking
00:50:36.340 in the
00:50:36.620 comments,
00:50:37.220 somebody saying
00:50:37.740 I'm so
00:50:38.140 wrong because
00:50:39.340 this would
00:50:40.260 all be
00:50:40.760 compatible
00:50:41.300 with the
00:50:42.360 theme of
00:50:43.100 he's a
00:50:44.060 dangerous
00:50:44.560 person who
00:50:45.660 must be
00:50:46.020 killed.
00:50:46.240 Now,
00:50:47.940 two things
00:50:48.460 can be
00:50:48.820 possible.
00:50:50.060 One,
00:50:50.900 the Democrats
00:50:51.540 were trying
00:50:52.320 to get
00:50:52.720 Trump killed
00:50:53.380 by painting
00:50:54.600 him as a
00:50:55.220 person that
00:50:55.680 anybody would
00:50:56.240 kill,
00:50:56.660 which is
00:50:56.980 Hitler,
00:50:57.700 if they
00:50:58.320 had a
00:50:58.540 chance.
00:50:59.540 So I
00:51:00.220 accept that
00:51:01.160 as 100%
00:51:02.100 given that
00:51:03.680 the Democrats
00:51:04.380 did want
00:51:04.900 him killed,
00:51:05.780 they did
00:51:06.560 fantasize about
00:51:07.400 having him
00:51:07.900 killed,
00:51:08.420 and they
00:51:09.000 talked in
00:51:09.460 a way that
00:51:09.900 would make
00:51:10.220 it more
00:51:10.500 likely,
00:51:11.200 and they
00:51:11.500 were completely
00:51:12.080 aware of
00:51:12.500 it.
00:51:12.700 Are
00:51:13.700 everybody
00:51:14.080 happy?
00:51:15.280 You're all
00:51:15.960 happy with
00:51:16.340 that part,
00:51:16.800 right?
00:51:17.520 No
00:51:17.840 disagreement
00:51:18.600 that it
00:51:20.680 was at
00:51:21.360 the very
00:51:21.700 least,
00:51:23.540 what do
00:51:24.320 they call
00:51:24.640 it,
00:51:25.040 the poisoned
00:51:26.980 heart thing?
00:51:28.320 There's a
00:51:28.740 different word
00:51:29.120 for it.
00:51:29.860 But at the
00:51:30.380 very least,
00:51:31.400 they created
00:51:32.000 a situation
00:51:32.640 where somebody
00:51:33.680 would more
00:51:34.860 likely be
00:51:35.440 killed.
00:51:37.280 That doesn't
00:51:38.240 mean that
00:51:39.600 they intentionally
00:51:40.540 told the
00:51:41.320 Secret Service
00:51:42.020 to do a
00:51:42.540 bad job.
00:51:43.940 That doesn't
00:51:44.660 mean that.
00:51:45.480 It's possible.
00:51:46.920 It is not
00:51:47.520 ruled out.
00:51:48.800 And let me
00:51:49.340 be as clear
00:51:49.880 as possible.
00:51:50.560 I'm not
00:51:50.840 ruling out
00:51:51.260 anything.
00:51:52.520 I'm just
00:51:53.060 laying it
00:51:53.960 out so
00:51:54.400 you know
00:51:54.800 how to
00:51:55.720 analyze it.
00:51:57.160 So I'm
00:51:57.820 helping you
00:51:58.340 analyze it.
00:51:59.400 I'm not
00:52:00.040 telling you
00:52:00.420 what the
00:52:00.700 answer is.
00:52:01.960 And I'm
00:52:02.340 telling you
00:52:02.740 that if
00:52:03.060 the only
00:52:03.520 filter you
00:52:04.120 put on
00:52:04.520 it is
00:52:04.980 that a
00:52:05.760 bunch of
00:52:06.240 clever
00:52:06.640 operators
00:52:07.360 managed
00:52:08.160 100
00:52:08.600 variables
00:52:09.240 correctly,
00:52:10.320 that's a
00:52:11.560 stretch.
00:52:12.020 if you
00:52:13.780 put the
00:52:14.140 Dilber
00:52:14.420 filter on
00:52:15.000 it, it
00:52:15.280 does explain
00:52:15.880 everything.
00:52:17.540 It explains
00:52:18.000 it all.
00:52:18.920 There's
00:52:19.160 nothing that
00:52:19.860 can't be
00:52:20.160 explained by
00:52:20.660 incompetence.
00:52:22.420 Nothing.
00:52:23.560 Because you
00:52:24.140 and the
00:52:24.920 reason that
00:52:25.320 you think
00:52:25.860 that might
00:52:26.260 be hard
00:52:26.840 is that
00:52:27.240 you think,
00:52:28.140 but Scott,
00:52:29.380 how hard
00:52:30.360 is it
00:52:30.800 to make
00:52:32.280 sure there's
00:52:32.760 somebody on
00:52:33.160 the roof?
00:52:33.640 that is
00:52:36.380 exactly the
00:52:37.080 kind of
00:52:37.380 thing that
00:52:37.720 could be
00:52:38.080 done by
00:52:38.800 incompetence.
00:52:40.060 It doesn't
00:52:40.660 matter that
00:52:40.980 it wasn't
00:52:41.280 hard to
00:52:41.680 do it
00:52:41.920 right.
00:52:43.000 You've
00:52:43.460 seen in
00:52:43.800 your own
00:52:44.140 life that
00:52:44.900 just because
00:52:45.300 it's easy
00:52:45.760 to do it
00:52:46.260 right does
00:52:47.220 not predict
00:52:47.840 it will be
00:52:48.280 done right.
00:52:49.400 It doesn't.
00:52:51.100 So here's
00:52:51.760 the things we
00:52:52.220 know or
00:52:54.240 think we
00:52:54.640 know.
00:52:55.980 Oh, and
00:52:56.320 then there's
00:52:56.900 also what I'll
00:52:57.440 call the
00:52:57.960 sniper's
00:52:59.980 filter.
00:53:00.360 So the
00:53:02.240 sniper filter
00:53:03.040 says, and
00:53:03.760 I said this
00:53:04.380 the other
00:53:04.640 day, I
00:53:05.740 said, well,
00:53:06.280 if one of
00:53:07.520 the snipers
00:53:07.980 was looking
00:53:08.420 through the
00:53:08.860 scope, that
00:53:10.460 would kind
00:53:10.840 of blind
00:53:11.300 them for
00:53:11.840 anything in
00:53:12.500 the larger
00:53:12.920 field, and
00:53:14.240 so you
00:53:14.500 could imagine
00:53:15.000 how they
00:53:15.340 would miss
00:53:15.620 it.
00:53:16.720 And then
00:53:16.980 people said,
00:53:17.880 Scott, Scott,
00:53:19.220 Scott, I'm
00:53:19.900 so embarrassed
00:53:20.560 for you.
00:53:22.780 I'm so
00:53:23.440 embarrassed for
00:53:24.040 you.
00:53:24.260 You're talking
00:53:24.940 about sniping.
00:53:26.100 I'm an expert
00:53:26.780 on snipers, and
00:53:27.860 let me tell you
00:53:28.440 one thing for
00:53:29.120 sure.
00:53:29.420 There's one
00:53:30.460 thing I can
00:53:30.940 tell you for
00:53:31.460 sure, Scott,
00:53:32.140 you idiot.
00:53:33.360 You idiot.
00:53:34.880 I can't even
00:53:35.340 believe you're
00:53:35.780 embarrassing
00:53:36.140 yourself by
00:53:36.720 talking about
00:53:37.160 this in
00:53:37.520 person.
00:53:38.620 Let me tell
00:53:39.340 you the
00:53:39.680 first thing
00:53:40.480 about sniping.
00:53:42.100 Sniping
00:53:42.540 101, Scott.
00:53:44.640 There's always
00:53:45.320 a spotter.
00:53:47.480 So if you
00:53:47.880 have a
00:53:48.200 spotter, then
00:53:49.980 the sniper is
00:53:50.860 not blinded by
00:53:51.680 looking through
00:53:52.140 it.
00:53:52.300 There's a
00:53:52.640 spotter.
00:53:53.700 You idiot.
00:53:56.740 What's the
00:53:57.340 Dilbert filter
00:53:58.220 say?
00:54:00.140 The Dilbert
00:54:00.940 filter says,
00:54:02.020 I'll bet there
00:54:03.260 wasn't a
00:54:03.720 spotter that
00:54:04.300 day.
00:54:06.120 Do you
00:54:06.700 know what
00:54:06.900 we just
00:54:07.180 found out?
00:54:09.680 It was a
00:54:10.460 manpower
00:54:10.920 shortage.
00:54:13.380 No
00:54:13.900 spotter.
00:54:16.620 Yeah, they
00:54:17.720 didn't have
00:54:18.100 spotters.
00:54:18.800 Which filter
00:54:23.540 worked better?
00:54:24.820 How about
00:54:25.320 your sniper
00:54:25.860 filter?
00:54:26.400 How'd that
00:54:26.680 work?
00:54:27.760 Your
00:54:27.940 brilliant
00:54:29.020 operators,
00:54:31.040 they got all
00:54:32.020 the resources,
00:54:33.680 they're highly
00:54:34.400 trained, they're
00:54:35.500 working as
00:54:36.060 teams.
00:54:36.640 How'd that
00:54:37.040 fucking filter
00:54:37.700 work?
00:54:38.920 Right?
00:54:39.320 So everybody
00:54:40.000 who mocked me
00:54:41.120 for saying
00:54:42.020 incompetence is
00:54:42.980 certainly on the
00:54:44.000 table.
00:54:44.260 I don't
00:54:44.720 know the
00:54:45.080 truth, but
00:54:45.580 it's on the
00:54:45.940 table.
00:54:46.720 All of you
00:54:47.460 who said,
00:54:48.200 no, these
00:54:48.800 crack teams of
00:54:49.820 snipers, they're
00:54:50.920 never going to
00:54:51.380 make a mistake.
00:54:52.320 They would see
00:54:52.840 the whole field.
00:54:53.660 There's no way
00:54:54.260 they could have
00:54:54.720 missed this.
00:54:56.320 Well, you're all
00:54:57.080 wrong.
00:54:58.860 Incompetence can
00:54:59.480 explain a whole
00:55:00.260 lot.
00:55:01.040 It doesn't mean
00:55:01.520 it's the whole
00:55:01.940 answer.
00:55:02.920 And just to be
00:55:03.860 clear, I'll have
00:55:04.460 to say this every
00:55:05.100 10 seconds.
00:55:06.300 I think that the
00:55:07.700 theory that there
00:55:09.860 was an insider is
00:55:11.080 completely alive.
00:55:12.900 Completely
00:55:13.420 alive.
00:55:14.860 Yeah.
00:55:15.140 There's nothing
00:55:15.800 that has ruled
00:55:16.340 that out.
00:55:17.920 And when you
00:55:18.860 look at it, the
00:55:19.680 totality of the
00:55:20.720 evidence is so
00:55:21.800 suspicious that
00:55:23.600 it's absolutely a
00:55:24.760 hypothesis.
00:55:25.960 But don't rule out
00:55:27.280 the most obvious
00:55:28.240 one.
00:55:28.940 The most obvious
00:55:29.980 one is massive
00:55:30.800 incompetence.
00:55:32.700 Now, we also know
00:55:33.880 that it wasn't
00:55:34.460 their regular
00:55:35.040 team.
00:55:36.820 So if you
00:55:37.560 introduce the
00:55:38.920 non-regular
00:55:39.700 team, what does
00:55:41.200 that do to the
00:55:41.880 level of
00:55:42.340 capability?
00:55:43.240 Well, it
00:55:43.540 drops to the
00:55:44.060 floor.
00:55:44.900 You all know
00:55:45.380 that.
00:55:46.000 You know you
00:55:46.440 can't bring in
00:55:46.980 the temps.
00:55:47.980 I mean, there
00:55:48.300 were trained
00:55:48.940 professionals from
00:55:49.880 Department of
00:55:50.460 Homeland Security,
00:55:51.600 but different
00:55:52.180 training, different
00:55:52.860 process, different
00:55:53.760 situation.
00:55:54.700 You should expect
00:55:55.720 massive incompetence
00:55:56.840 just because you
00:55:57.440 trained out the
00:55:57.980 people.
00:55:59.080 Now, let me
00:55:59.800 talk about my
00:56:00.420 favorite topic,
00:56:01.580 DEI.
00:56:02.680 There is no
00:56:03.600 indication that
00:56:04.540 DEI effects had
00:56:06.560 anything to do
00:56:07.220 with what
00:56:07.520 happened.
00:56:08.000 None.
00:56:08.220 There is a
00:56:11.360 DEI overlay
00:56:12.460 which guarantees
00:56:14.220 less capability.
00:56:17.620 It guarantees
00:56:18.300 them.
00:56:19.240 So you're in a
00:56:20.220 system that
00:56:20.700 guarantees flaws,
00:56:22.200 but you don't
00:56:22.800 know if it
00:56:23.200 guaranteed the
00:56:23.840 specific one.
00:56:25.400 Is that fair?
00:56:26.780 To say that
00:56:27.360 you've added a
00:56:28.880 layer of
00:56:29.260 incompetence that's
00:56:30.860 guaranteed by its
00:56:32.140 nature to cause
00:56:33.960 inefficiency
00:56:34.580 competency.
00:56:34.960 It doesn't mean
00:56:35.600 it causes a
00:56:36.140 specific one.
00:56:37.020 That would be
00:56:37.760 going too far.
00:56:38.740 But you can say
00:56:39.600 incompetence is
00:56:40.700 throughout the
00:56:41.660 organization.
00:56:43.100 Now, again, if
00:56:44.000 you're new to my
00:56:44.840 streams, let me be
00:56:45.980 very careful of
00:56:47.000 what I'm saying.
00:56:48.000 I'm not talking
00:56:48.740 about anybody's
00:56:49.460 genes or their
00:56:50.360 DNA.
00:56:51.340 I'm not talking
00:56:51.920 about their
00:56:52.280 sexual preferences.
00:56:53.600 So it has
00:56:54.180 nothing to do
00:56:54.760 about gender or
00:56:55.520 race.
00:56:56.060 That's never in
00:56:56.900 my argument.
00:56:58.100 My argument is
00:56:59.000 supply and demand.
00:57:00.520 If the Secret
00:57:01.380 Service says,
00:57:02.100 hey, we've got to
00:57:02.600 get 30% women
00:57:03.680 and there just
00:57:04.940 weren't enough
00:57:05.460 women in the
00:57:06.060 pipeline who
00:57:06.640 are fully
00:57:07.080 trained and
00:57:07.640 able to lift
00:57:08.340 heavy objects,
00:57:09.380 they're going to
00:57:10.000 lower their
00:57:10.400 standards.
00:57:11.440 And they did.
00:57:12.460 They lowered
00:57:12.880 their standards.
00:57:14.280 So they lowered
00:57:15.120 it for physical
00:57:15.860 fitness.
00:57:16.800 Do you think
00:57:17.120 they lowered it
00:57:17.720 for years of
00:57:18.820 experience?
00:57:20.220 Probably.
00:57:21.480 Do you think
00:57:21.860 they lowered it
00:57:22.420 for, I don't
00:57:23.560 know, marksmanship
00:57:24.340 or anything else?
00:57:25.580 I don't know,
00:57:26.720 but probably.
00:57:28.080 Probably.
00:57:28.860 Because the
00:57:29.480 diversity goal was
00:57:30.480 right at the top
00:57:31.240 of their goals.
00:57:32.580 I think it was
00:57:33.340 at least equal
00:57:33.940 to protecting
00:57:34.560 the lives
00:57:35.080 of the
00:57:35.400 candidates.
00:57:36.680 So that
00:57:37.500 should create
00:57:38.360 massive incompetence.
00:57:40.220 It should.
00:57:42.160 All right.
00:57:42.660 What else?
00:57:45.260 They kept
00:57:45.980 jumping the
00:57:46.460 stage and
00:57:47.060 didn't do
00:57:47.400 anything even
00:57:48.000 though, I
00:57:49.280 guess somebody
00:57:49.720 said for 30
00:57:50.520 minutes they
00:57:51.000 were chasing
00:57:51.980 the shooter
00:57:52.460 around.
00:57:53.520 How could
00:57:53.880 that be
00:57:54.200 explained by
00:57:54.780 incompetence?
00:57:55.960 Easily.
00:57:57.020 They weren't
00:57:57.420 sure he was
00:57:57.940 a shooter.
00:57:58.540 There was a
00:57:58.900 suspicious guy.
00:58:00.680 The suspicious
00:58:01.300 guy was not
00:58:02.140 on the interior
00:58:02.860 security.
00:58:04.420 He was around
00:58:04.920 the outside.
00:58:06.260 So they were
00:58:06.640 looking for him
00:58:07.280 and had not
00:58:08.700 identified yet
00:58:09.500 that he was
00:58:10.060 a lethal threat.
00:58:12.040 It was just
00:58:12.460 something they
00:58:12.900 were looking
00:58:13.160 into.
00:58:14.120 Now, should
00:58:15.000 they have done
00:58:15.440 better?
00:58:16.100 Probably.
00:58:17.360 Would simple
00:58:18.100 incompetence
00:58:19.140 explain this
00:58:20.200 part of it?
00:58:20.860 Yes, it
00:58:21.180 would.
00:58:22.120 Simple
00:58:22.520 incompetence
00:58:23.320 would completely
00:58:24.280 explain,
00:58:25.360 well, I don't
00:58:25.900 know what we're
00:58:26.420 looking for,
00:58:27.020 but somebody
00:58:27.380 said there's a
00:58:27.920 guy, looks
00:58:28.980 suspicious.
00:58:30.240 We're looking
00:58:30.900 for him, but
00:58:31.780 he's outside
00:58:32.260 the security
00:58:32.760 perimeter.
00:58:33.440 We'll keep
00:58:33.860 you informed.
00:58:35.320 You could
00:58:35.980 easily imagine
00:58:36.820 why they'd
00:58:37.300 say, Trump's
00:58:39.400 going to be
00:58:39.640 really mad if
00:58:40.240 we take him
00:58:40.640 off the stage
00:58:41.280 for some
00:58:41.760 vague guy
00:58:43.060 wandering
00:58:43.520 around outside
00:58:44.220 the venue.
00:58:46.580 So you can
00:58:47.280 imagine that
00:58:47.880 being incompetence,
00:58:48.840 but we don't
00:58:49.240 know.
00:58:50.120 Can't know
00:58:50.600 from this
00:58:50.980 distance.
00:58:52.420 Let's see,
00:58:52.680 what else was
00:58:53.220 there?
00:58:53.700 There was
00:58:54.040 the, this
00:58:55.840 story I don't
00:58:57.240 think is
00:58:57.660 exactly right,
00:58:58.920 but apparently
00:58:59.920 the roof
00:59:00.740 that the
00:59:01.420 shooter was
00:59:01.960 on was a
00:59:03.300 staging area
00:59:04.020 for the
00:59:04.480 local police
00:59:05.200 and maybe
00:59:05.720 there were
00:59:06.100 two, somebody
00:59:07.560 said there
00:59:08.020 were some
00:59:08.380 snipers inside
00:59:09.680 the building
00:59:10.220 that he was
00:59:11.180 on top of.
00:59:13.160 What?
00:59:15.900 Now, shouldn't
00:59:17.240 they be on
00:59:17.700 top of the
00:59:18.280 building?
00:59:19.360 You say to
00:59:20.060 yourself, now
00:59:21.100 how could it
00:59:21.620 possibly be
00:59:22.480 true that
00:59:23.840 there would
00:59:24.100 be nobody
00:59:24.560 on top of
00:59:25.100 the building?
00:59:25.480 Like, how's
00:59:27.980 your brain
00:59:28.360 even, how
00:59:29.520 do you even
00:59:29.940 hold that in
00:59:30.660 your brain
00:59:31.140 when the
00:59:31.600 top of the
00:59:32.020 building had
00:59:32.440 a direct
00:59:32.800 line of
00:59:33.220 sight on
00:59:33.960 the president
00:59:34.420 and the
00:59:34.940 lower part of
00:59:36.100 the building
00:59:36.460 probably did
00:59:37.020 not?
00:59:37.700 I mean, I
00:59:38.020 don't know,
00:59:38.440 but it
00:59:38.620 probably did
00:59:39.060 not.
00:59:40.880 Here's how
00:59:41.400 you can
00:59:41.640 explain it.
00:59:43.320 Who's going
00:59:43.840 to be covering
00:59:44.320 the roof?
00:59:45.960 Bob's got
00:59:46.540 the roof.
00:59:48.200 All right,
00:59:48.920 good, Bob's
00:59:49.480 got the roof.
00:59:50.640 And then you
00:59:51.240 see Bob later,
00:59:52.120 you go, I
00:59:52.640 thought you
00:59:52.900 were on the
00:59:53.260 roof.
00:59:53.940 And Bob
00:59:54.260 says, no,
00:59:54.900 no, they
00:59:55.380 told me not
00:59:56.140 to do the
00:59:56.560 roof, they've
00:59:56.960 got that
00:59:57.320 covered.
00:59:58.320 Well, but he
00:59:58.960 said you're
00:59:59.340 on the
00:59:59.600 roof.
01:00:00.240 No, they
01:00:00.640 said, I
01:00:01.480 heard him
01:00:01.760 very clearly.
01:00:02.760 He said, we
01:00:03.480 got the roof
01:00:04.180 covered, Bob.
01:00:05.200 You don't
01:00:05.760 need to do
01:00:06.220 that.
01:00:08.740 That's it.
01:00:09.940 Now, I'm not
01:00:10.580 suggesting that's
01:00:11.300 exactly what
01:00:11.860 happened.
01:00:12.460 I'm saying that
01:00:13.120 how easy would
01:00:13.820 it be to
01:00:15.320 miscommunicate about
01:00:16.600 who had the
01:00:17.200 roof?
01:00:18.120 And if you
01:00:18.780 were inside, you
01:00:19.800 couldn't see the
01:00:20.380 roof.
01:00:21.140 So if somebody
01:00:21.920 told you the
01:00:22.500 roof was
01:00:22.920 covered, and
01:00:24.260 they just
01:00:24.640 miscommunicated,
01:00:26.380 you'd say, all
01:00:27.260 right, roof is
01:00:27.800 covered.
01:00:28.520 Would you
01:00:29.080 necessarily get a
01:00:30.080 ladder and go to
01:00:30.800 see if somebody's
01:00:31.480 on the roof?
01:00:32.000 Or would you
01:00:32.440 just say, well,
01:00:33.940 this guy I
01:00:34.680 trust just said
01:00:35.520 the roof is
01:00:36.200 covered.
01:00:37.660 It would be so
01:00:38.820 easy to imagine
01:00:39.680 this was
01:00:40.160 incompetence and
01:00:41.160 miscommunication.
01:00:42.600 Or the guy just
01:00:43.540 had to take a
01:00:44.140 leak, or he
01:00:46.220 got called
01:00:46.640 away, or maybe
01:00:47.380 that's exactly the
01:00:48.420 guy who they
01:00:49.920 said, well, don't
01:00:51.460 worry about the
01:00:52.040 roof.
01:00:52.320 We'll make
01:00:52.740 sure nobody
01:00:53.180 gets up there
01:00:53.920 because the
01:00:54.880 doors are
01:00:55.280 closed.
01:00:56.000 You know, he
01:00:56.260 can't get up
01:00:56.680 there anyway.
01:00:57.820 So, you know,
01:00:58.560 the doors are
01:00:59.040 locked, so he
01:00:59.800 can't get
01:01:00.100 internally.
01:01:01.880 Why don't you
01:01:02.360 come down, look
01:01:03.620 for that guy
01:01:04.160 that's running
01:01:04.660 around.
01:01:05.420 So maybe the
01:01:06.000 guy on the roof
01:01:06.520 came down to
01:01:07.200 look because
01:01:08.300 there was no
01:01:09.020 reason to be on
01:01:09.640 the roof anymore.
01:01:11.000 And then the
01:01:12.260 guy used a
01:01:12.760 ladder to climb
01:01:13.320 up.
01:01:14.440 Nobody saw it.
01:01:16.660 Is any of that
01:01:17.420 possible?
01:01:17.920 I don't know.
01:01:19.260 But lots of
01:01:20.320 possibilities.
01:01:21.720 Let's see, what
01:01:22.420 else?
01:01:27.040 Yeah, the fact
01:01:28.020 that they kept
01:01:28.740 Trump on this
01:01:29.580 stage when
01:01:30.740 suspicious things
01:01:31.900 were happening
01:01:32.360 is pretty sketch.
01:01:34.240 The fact that the
01:01:35.060 shooter, there's a
01:01:36.740 story I don't
01:01:37.420 believe going
01:01:38.640 around that the
01:01:39.860 shooter, I'm
01:01:42.900 sorry, the
01:01:43.300 counter snipers
01:01:44.740 had him in
01:01:46.060 their sights for a
01:01:46.880 long time but
01:01:47.720 didn't have
01:01:48.100 permission to
01:01:48.820 shoot.
01:01:49.100 That can't
01:01:50.440 be true.
01:01:52.260 So I don't
01:01:52.960 know what is
01:01:53.480 true, but it
01:01:55.200 can't be true
01:01:55.980 that they had
01:01:56.820 in their sights
01:01:57.480 a gunman with
01:01:58.880 a rifle and
01:02:00.260 they didn't have
01:02:00.780 permission to
01:02:01.380 take him out.
01:02:02.200 That can't be
01:02:03.000 true.
01:02:03.720 Do we all
01:02:04.340 agree on that?
01:02:05.000 That can't be
01:02:05.580 true.
01:02:07.480 Like, I'm
01:02:08.120 willing to
01:02:08.580 believe a high
01:02:09.400 level of
01:02:09.940 incompetence, but
01:02:11.420 there's no way
01:02:12.280 that if somebody
01:02:13.160 points a gun at
01:02:14.240 a candidate, the
01:02:15.680 shooters don't have
01:02:16.520 permission to
01:02:17.100 shoot.
01:02:17.320 That can't
01:02:18.760 be a thing.
01:02:19.620 So just forget
01:02:20.440 that.
01:02:21.160 That just can't
01:02:22.060 be a thing.
01:02:23.900 All right.
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01:02:57.600 Sloper, so you
01:02:59.040 know, there's a
01:02:59.620 safety vacuum
01:03:00.280 there, we wouldn't
01:03:02.460 want to put somebody
01:03:03.400 up on a sloped
01:03:04.240 roof.
01:03:06.020 Oh my God, they
01:03:07.120 didn't want to put
01:03:07.740 somebody on a sloped
01:03:08.840 roof, the boss
01:03:10.080 said.
01:03:13.560 So I don't know if
01:03:14.480 that's true, but in
01:03:15.400 the comments I saw
01:03:16.260 somebody had a quote
01:03:17.440 from Cheadle, the
01:03:19.000 head of the Secret
01:03:20.420 Service, saying that
01:03:22.100 they thought they
01:03:22.760 could secure it
01:03:23.540 from the ground
01:03:24.280 because it was like
01:03:25.520 a slippery sloped
01:03:26.680 roof.
01:03:28.880 Wow.
01:03:31.720 Wow.
01:03:32.780 They didn't see the
01:03:33.860 ladder coming.
01:03:35.920 All right, what
01:03:36.500 else?
01:03:40.420 All right, that's
01:03:41.200 enough on that.
01:03:42.480 All right, I'm going
01:03:43.880 to do something that
01:03:44.800 I've been waiting to
01:03:45.520 do, but I'm waiting
01:03:46.440 for exactly the right
01:03:47.660 time to do it.
01:03:48.500 Here's a little
01:03:49.340 persuasion lesson for
01:03:50.760 you.
01:03:51.860 Persuasion works best
01:03:53.240 when the timing is
01:03:55.840 right.
01:03:57.800 When the timing is
01:03:58.940 right.
01:03:59.640 So sometimes the
01:04:00.740 public is just ready
01:04:01.800 for a certain message
01:04:02.820 and other times they're
01:04:03.700 not.
01:04:04.660 For example, after we
01:04:06.580 all watched what
01:04:07.520 looked like a bad
01:04:09.860 Secret Service detail,
01:04:12.240 they had too many
01:04:13.080 women in it, according
01:04:14.040 to some observers,
01:04:15.620 that primes people for
01:04:17.520 the message that DEI
01:04:18.820 is a bad idea.
01:04:20.100 You all understand
01:04:20.860 that, right?
01:04:21.840 So once it's in the
01:04:22.760 news, it's attached
01:04:24.240 to a big story, then
01:04:26.180 if you take the
01:04:27.220 emotion and the
01:04:28.600 attention that's
01:04:29.380 already attributed
01:04:30.680 to the story, and
01:04:32.380 then you can extend
01:04:33.240 it.
01:04:33.540 Say, all right, you
01:04:34.060 already feel this way,
01:04:35.300 then why don't we make
01:04:36.760 it illegal everywhere?
01:04:38.720 Because you can see
01:04:39.580 how damaging it is.
01:04:41.360 Now that would be an
01:04:42.460 example of pairing your
01:04:44.120 persuasion to what's
01:04:46.060 in the common
01:04:47.200 consciousness at the
01:04:48.220 time.
01:04:48.520 It's very important.
01:04:49.180 If you don't do that,
01:04:50.540 you have no choice, no
01:04:51.780 chance of succeeding.
01:04:53.860 So, given that the
01:04:56.040 biggest complaint about
01:04:58.200 Trump had been the
01:05:00.440 he's going to be a
01:05:01.260 dictator, et cetera, and
01:05:03.500 because the Democrats
01:05:04.660 are saying that they
01:05:05.860 might have to pull back
01:05:06.720 their strategy and
01:05:07.620 advertising on that,
01:05:09.320 what's left?
01:05:10.660 Well, abortion is left.
01:05:11.920 So, suddenly, abortion
01:05:13.940 has gone from, you
01:05:15.700 know, one of the big
01:05:16.440 things to, way, the
01:05:19.560 biggest thing.
01:05:20.360 I would argue it's the
01:05:21.460 biggest thing.
01:05:22.520 So, this is the time
01:05:23.980 for me to reframe it.
01:05:26.780 You've got your vice
01:05:27.800 president, and you know
01:05:28.900 your vice president, J.D.
01:05:30.560 Vance, is capable of
01:05:32.680 communication at a level
01:05:34.140 that you rarely see.
01:05:36.420 So, here's a reframe that
01:05:37.900 he could use that I think
01:05:39.520 Trump would be maybe
01:05:40.660 less facile with.
01:05:45.500 Did I use that word
01:05:46.480 right?
01:05:48.040 I've never said that, and
01:05:49.200 I've never used that
01:05:50.100 word in public.
01:05:53.280 So, here's the reframe.
01:05:55.320 So, it comes in a few
01:05:56.480 different statements.
01:05:57.880 So, just listen to the
01:05:59.080 statements, and I'll post
01:06:00.560 this on X if you want to
01:06:01.580 see it.
01:06:02.660 All right, here's my
01:06:03.340 abortion reframe.
01:06:05.540 Number one, women have the
01:06:06.980 political power to get
01:06:08.060 whatever laws they want,
01:06:09.520 in states that already
01:06:11.340 ban abortion.
01:06:13.820 Women have all the
01:06:15.800 political power they need
01:06:17.080 to get whatever they want
01:06:18.460 simply by saying we won't
01:06:20.500 vote for anybody who's
01:06:21.820 against us.
01:06:23.740 So, if women in any of
01:06:25.420 these states, by a
01:06:26.960 majority, you know, a hard
01:06:28.540 majority, it'd have to be
01:06:29.640 more than 50%, probably.
01:06:31.700 If they want something
01:06:32.680 changed, they could put so
01:06:34.120 much fear into the existing
01:06:35.640 candidates that they would
01:06:37.420 either change their minds
01:06:38.920 or they would get voted
01:06:40.640 out.
01:06:42.240 So, that's the first
01:06:43.600 point, is that women have
01:06:44.680 the political power to get
01:06:45.720 whatever they want.
01:06:48.320 Trump and the Supreme
01:06:49.300 Court took the decisions
01:06:50.460 about women's bodies out of
01:06:52.760 the federal government's
01:06:53.820 control and moved it closer
01:06:55.300 to the individual, where it
01:06:57.800 belongs, in the states.
01:06:58.880 How much would you want
01:07:04.520 Trump to be involved in
01:07:06.240 your health care decisions?
01:07:08.640 Not at all, right?
01:07:09.940 How about the next
01:07:10.660 president?
01:07:11.420 Do you want the next
01:07:12.040 president to be involved in
01:07:13.280 your health care?
01:07:14.420 Not really.
01:07:15.860 You want to be the one
01:07:16.940 that's involved.
01:07:18.060 And at the very least, you
01:07:19.320 want it to be the closest
01:07:20.580 government to you, so you
01:07:22.700 can affect it more.
01:07:24.260 That would be the state
01:07:25.000 government.
01:07:26.160 So, he's basically
01:07:27.280 saying, I'm out of the
01:07:28.180 game.
01:07:28.960 I'm not going to tell you
01:07:29.800 to get an abortion.
01:07:31.760 I'm not going to tell you
01:07:32.460 not to.
01:07:33.380 I've taken myself out of
01:07:34.700 the decision process.
01:07:36.820 So, complaining to the
01:07:38.320 person who has taken
01:07:39.180 themselves out of the
01:07:40.400 decision process is the
01:07:42.500 wrong place to complain.
01:07:44.120 Where they should be
01:07:45.180 complaining is to other
01:07:46.420 women.
01:07:47.680 Because if they could get
01:07:48.920 75% of women to be on
01:07:52.140 the same page, they could
01:07:53.140 get anything they want in
01:07:54.600 any domain.
01:07:55.360 Not just abortion, any
01:07:56.860 domain.
01:07:57.800 75% of women on the
01:07:59.320 same page, they get
01:08:00.420 everything.
01:08:02.160 Here's the next thing.
01:08:04.120 Republicans are not
01:08:05.140 complaining much.
01:08:06.920 I'll put in parentheses
01:08:08.320 much.
01:08:09.300 Republicans are not
01:08:10.160 complaining much about
01:08:11.720 states where abortion is
01:08:13.060 legal.
01:08:14.500 I haven't heard it at
01:08:15.760 all.
01:08:16.600 Have you?
01:08:17.760 When Republicans fixed
01:08:20.400 the process in their
01:08:21.800 mind, and the process
01:08:22.920 meaning the states should
01:08:24.080 have this power, not the
01:08:25.240 courts, they were a lot
01:08:29.040 happier with where it
01:08:30.320 came out, even when it
01:08:32.080 didn't come out their way.
01:08:34.040 So, you can see that the
01:08:35.340 Republicans have managed
01:08:36.440 to find peace with what
01:08:38.860 they really hate, which is
01:08:40.700 abortion, being legal in
01:08:42.860 California.
01:08:44.840 Republicans seem to be at
01:08:46.780 peace with the fact that
01:08:48.640 New York state people are
01:08:49.780 okay with it.
01:08:50.340 Now, privately, of course,
01:08:53.200 they'd be quite opposed to
01:08:54.420 it because they're anti-abortion,
01:08:56.420 many of them.
01:08:57.440 But you don't see them
01:08:58.780 marching.
01:08:59.940 You don't see them making it
01:09:01.860 their top priority.
01:09:03.720 They're simply letting the
01:09:05.000 states do what the states do,
01:09:07.200 hating us sometimes, loving us
01:09:08.640 sometimes, but respecting the
01:09:10.020 system.
01:09:11.240 That's all they're asking.
01:09:12.580 That's all they're asking of
01:09:13.680 Democrats.
01:09:14.800 We're just asking Democrats to
01:09:16.440 respect the system and then
01:09:18.540 get whatever result the
01:09:19.720 system gives us.
01:09:21.160 Your state might be
01:09:21.960 different than mine.
01:09:24.380 So, here's the bottom line.
01:09:25.700 Women should be talking to
01:09:26.640 each other about what they
01:09:27.640 want and then going and
01:09:29.160 getting it.
01:09:30.360 They don't need to talk to
01:09:31.440 anybody else.
01:09:32.460 They don't need to talk to
01:09:33.520 Trump.
01:09:34.300 They don't need to talk to
01:09:35.440 the Supreme Court.
01:09:36.800 They don't need to talk to
01:09:37.900 the court at all.
01:09:39.180 They need to talk to each
01:09:40.320 other.
01:09:41.400 If they can convince each
01:09:42.760 other to get on the same
01:09:44.020 page, they can have anything
01:09:45.000 they want.
01:09:46.260 So, stop making it about
01:09:47.800 Trump, stop making it about
01:09:49.820 the federal government,
01:09:51.680 stop making it about the
01:09:52.780 Supreme Court.
01:09:54.780 That part of the problem
01:09:55.860 has been fixed.
01:09:57.300 They just put the decision
01:09:58.680 as close to the individual
01:09:59.980 as they could.
01:10:01.660 Now the individual has to do
01:10:02.940 what individuals do in a
01:10:04.100 free country.
01:10:05.120 You've got to work.
01:10:06.380 You've got to persuade.
01:10:07.760 You've got to get out the
01:10:08.600 vote.
01:10:08.960 You've got to make it work.
01:10:10.680 So, don't complain to
01:10:11.800 Trump about a problem that
01:10:13.500 is entirely within the power
01:10:15.760 of women.
01:10:17.800 What do you think?
01:10:20.500 Now there's probably a
01:10:22.000 cleaner, better way to say
01:10:23.080 that.
01:10:23.480 Maybe J.D.
01:10:24.160 Vance is exactly the person
01:10:26.100 to figure that out.
01:10:27.420 I don't know if Trump could
01:10:29.600 deliver that.
01:10:31.980 You know, Trump has his own
01:10:32.960 style, which is incomparable
01:10:34.540 for so many things.
01:10:36.760 But nuance, nuance isn't
01:10:39.580 exactly his thing.
01:10:40.420 So, all right.
01:10:43.560 Looking at your comments.
01:10:47.280 The problem is that Democrats
01:10:48.780 are lying about a national
01:10:50.220 abortion ban.
01:10:51.200 Well, I think you have to deal
01:10:52.300 with the lying separately.
01:10:54.260 So, Trump in the interview
01:10:56.240 yesterday, I guess, for Fox
01:10:58.880 News, said that he is
01:11:01.960 absolutely against the extreme
01:11:05.320 abortion views in the project
01:11:07.180 in 2025.
01:11:08.860 So, he says they go way,
01:11:10.000 way too far.
01:11:11.520 So, I think he has to do
01:11:12.860 some work in debunking
01:11:14.960 that.
01:11:16.080 But it's debunkable.
01:11:18.220 Because that's at least
01:11:19.160 you can fact check it.
01:11:20.960 You can fact check that
01:11:22.060 Trump has never said
01:11:23.680 ban all abortions.
01:11:25.040 You can fact check that
01:11:26.300 he's continually said he
01:11:28.120 doesn't want to do it.
01:11:29.920 And you can fact check that
01:11:31.280 he moved it to the states.
01:11:32.640 Because if he wanted to ban
01:11:33.840 abortion, he would have tried
01:11:35.020 to keep things with the
01:11:35.860 federal government.
01:11:37.420 I mean, that's a winnable
01:11:38.980 argument.
01:11:40.040 But he's, everybody's got to
01:11:41.760 hear it at least once.
01:11:45.860 In what would have been the
01:11:47.020 biggest news, but got
01:11:48.160 overshadowed, Judge Eileen
01:11:50.800 Cannon dismissed that
01:11:53.580 Mar-a-Lago box case because
01:11:55.280 the special counsel guy was not
01:11:58.300 constitutionally appointed.
01:12:00.480 Jack Smith.
01:12:01.700 He was not constitutionally
01:12:03.080 appointed.
01:12:03.380 So we don't know if this
01:12:05.260 case could ever come back,
01:12:06.720 but Jonathan Turley's view
01:12:08.600 on it is, of all the cases
01:12:10.720 that could be dismissed, this
01:12:12.180 would be at the top of the
01:12:12.980 list, meaning it was the most
01:12:13.960 dangerous one.
01:12:15.640 It was the greatest threat.
01:12:17.300 And for now, at least it's
01:12:18.900 gone.
01:12:20.160 So if Turley is saying that for
01:12:22.020 now, at least it's gone, I
01:12:24.480 guess that means from a legal
01:12:25.820 perspective, there's some way it
01:12:27.260 could come back.
01:12:28.340 But in a practical world, we
01:12:30.260 don't expect it.
01:12:31.020 How many of you predicted that
01:12:34.420 the Mar-a-Lago case would turn
01:12:36.020 into a big nothing?
01:12:39.580 I wasn't so sure, but I
01:12:41.680 thought more likely than not it
01:12:43.100 would turn into a big nothing.
01:12:44.820 So it's still not a nothing, but
01:12:47.180 it's off the burner for now.
01:12:49.660 It also suggests, it leads into
01:12:56.660 the larger theme that the
01:13:00.460 Democrats are murderers,
01:13:03.640 basically.
01:13:04.660 Because if you're going to law
01:13:05.940 fare a guy and send him to jail,
01:13:07.780 it's not a stretch to be a
01:13:09.600 murderer.
01:13:10.500 It really isn't.
01:13:12.820 Imagine what it would take, how
01:13:14.260 evil you would have to be to
01:13:16.380 create a fake scenario to put
01:13:18.520 somebody in an actual prison.
01:13:21.080 Just think about that.
01:13:22.700 The level of evil it would take
01:13:24.320 to put somebody, you know, by
01:13:26.520 lying into an actual prison is
01:13:29.140 the smallest step to murder.
01:13:32.020 It really is.
01:13:32.800 I mean, they're just right next
01:13:34.760 to each other.
01:13:35.920 So every time you see some
01:13:38.400 evidence that the Democrats were
01:13:40.120 acting in a lawfare-like way,
01:13:43.280 stretching the law, bending the law,
01:13:45.560 abusing the law to get somebody, it
01:13:47.520 tells you they might be
01:13:50.200 murderers.
01:13:51.980 And in my opinion, they are
01:13:53.760 attempted murderers.
01:13:54.860 Well, murderers, because somebody
01:13:56.000 died.
01:13:58.880 Not legally, perhaps, but in
01:14:00.840 practical effect, they are
01:14:02.340 murderers.
01:14:03.580 That's my opinion.
01:14:05.900 RFK Jr.
01:14:07.540 finally got Secret Service
01:14:08.920 protection.
01:14:09.640 It came after Trump said, you
01:14:12.140 know, after what happened to him,
01:14:13.360 you're going to have to give
01:14:14.020 Secret Service protection to
01:14:15.360 RFK.
01:14:16.320 RFK Jr.
01:14:17.360 thanked Trump and said, hey,
01:14:19.480 there's some, you know, that's
01:14:21.080 working across the aisle.
01:14:22.320 I mean, that's a good sign for the
01:14:24.580 country.
01:14:25.220 And then soon after, Mayorkas
01:14:27.380 announced that in light of the
01:14:29.600 weekend's events, that the
01:14:31.760 president has directed him to give
01:14:34.000 Secret Service protection to
01:14:35.460 Robert F.
01:14:36.040 Kennedy.
01:14:37.060 Well, that seems like an
01:14:39.120 admission, doesn't it?
01:14:40.880 That seems like a confession.
01:14:42.280 confession, that's how I hear it.
01:14:44.260 I hear it as a confession that
01:14:46.160 they denied him Secret Service to
01:14:49.820 try to get him killed.
01:14:52.300 Now, he didn't say that.
01:14:54.480 It's not in evidence, but why do I
01:14:56.660 hear it?
01:14:58.820 Why do I hear it?
01:15:00.300 I hear it when it's not there.
01:15:02.280 That's a problem.
01:15:04.640 I hear it clear as day.
01:15:06.380 We tried to kill him and it didn't
01:15:07.600 work out.
01:15:08.160 We got caught.
01:15:09.960 So I guess we're going to have to
01:15:11.120 reverse that.
01:15:12.280 But given that this happened
01:15:15.960 after Trump had called for it, it
01:15:18.480 makes you wonder which president
01:15:19.740 ordered it because he said the
01:15:22.240 president directed me to do it.
01:15:24.440 But I've got a feeling that Trump
01:15:26.520 directed him to do it and the
01:15:29.840 Democrats just had to fall in line.
01:15:32.200 So in a way, it's almost feeling
01:15:34.040 like Trump's in charge, that he's
01:15:36.080 moved into presidential mode and
01:15:37.700 that he might just have more power
01:15:40.940 already than you could imagine just to
01:15:43.940 do things that need to be done.
01:15:48.400 Well, I put this story last because I
01:15:51.800 needed to calm down a little bit.
01:15:54.140 So Biden gives an interview to Lester
01:15:55.940 Holt, CBS, in which once again he
01:15:58.780 pushed the fine people hoax.
01:16:00.440 Just a few days after Trump was nearly
01:16:05.320 killed, almost certainly because the
01:16:08.540 shooter thought he was a, you know, that
01:16:10.640 kind of a risk to the country.
01:16:13.360 And he pushed it.
01:16:15.820 Even after the Democrat insider said, well,
01:16:19.440 that strategy is dead.
01:16:20.660 I feel like I feel like nobody's even
01:16:24.240 talking to Biden.
01:16:26.040 Are you telling me that there was nobody
01:16:28.000 who could sit him down and say the one
01:16:30.140 thing you can never say again is that
01:16:31.780 fine people thing?
01:16:33.120 It's the debunked hoax and it's the most
01:16:36.020 dangerous thing anybody ever said, because
01:16:38.420 that's the one that makes you believe he's
01:16:40.400 a Nazi.
01:16:41.400 That's the one that makes you think that
01:16:43.460 somebody ought to take him out.
01:16:44.700 It is the tentpole hoax and Lester Holt,
01:16:49.120 Lester Holt did not push back on it.
01:16:52.940 Now, is Lester Holt incompetent or a piece
01:16:56.980 of shit?
01:16:58.420 I don't know.
01:16:59.860 So he's either incompetent because he
01:17:02.040 doesn't know the biggest hoax in the
01:17:03.440 world is the biggest hoax, or he let that
01:17:06.460 go at the great peril to the United States
01:17:09.740 and other candidates.
01:17:11.560 Now, whichever the answer is, that's really
01:17:14.300 bad for Lester Holt and he needs to
01:17:16.240 apologize to the country.
01:17:17.760 Lester Holt owes you an apology for
01:17:20.900 letting that happen.
01:17:22.020 A public apology.
01:17:23.240 I demand it.
01:17:25.060 Lester Holt, CBS, I demand an apology
01:17:27.540 because you're putting me in danger
01:17:29.400 because as a Trump supporter, you allowed
01:17:33.020 Biden to say that Trump is supporting
01:17:35.860 neo-Nazis and I'm not okay with that.
01:17:40.380 Now, I don't know if Biden tied it to Trump
01:17:45.760 that time or if he just said, you know, the
01:17:48.400 neo-Nazis are coming out of the woods, but
01:17:50.440 it's the same story, right?
01:17:52.660 Even if he didn't mention Trump, I can't
01:17:54.520 remember if he did, it ties it to Trump and
01:17:56.800 that's the reason he does it, obviously, because
01:17:58.940 he's not talking about any other event.
01:18:01.080 He's talking about that one and it happened
01:18:02.580 years ago.
01:18:03.140 So, it's obviously to tie it to Trump.
01:18:08.380 So, I thought that I was going to do a lot
01:18:14.660 of cursing because my first impression was
01:18:18.900 to go off on Biden, but I feel as though the
01:18:23.220 Democrats have abandoned him and that he's
01:18:26.820 going to lose the election.
01:18:29.320 He is going to go down in history as the worst
01:18:32.520 president of all time and he's going to
01:18:35.620 suffer a long and painful death.
01:18:40.260 And I feel like the better move is to move
01:18:45.180 on.
01:18:47.240 I believe that telling you who he is is
01:18:50.460 unnecessary because he can't win and his own
01:18:53.380 side knows who he is now.
01:18:55.760 This is who he is.
01:18:56.820 He's a liar.
01:18:59.800 He is reckless.
01:19:02.260 He is a crook.
01:19:05.180 And he doesn't care about the country or anybody
01:19:08.960 who's a Republican for sure.
01:19:11.780 Biden has identified himself and certainly by
01:19:14.200 pushing the fine people hoax right after the
01:19:16.900 assassination attempt, possibly the lowest character
01:19:20.060 I've ever seen in a public official.
01:19:22.720 It would be hard to think, you know, who has
01:19:25.400 gone lower in terms of morals, ethical behavior and
01:19:30.060 criminal behavior, probably.
01:19:32.380 So we've never seen anybody that bad operating at
01:19:37.040 that level.
01:19:37.580 In my opinion, he he's taken.
01:19:42.480 He's taken badness to a level that I honestly
01:19:46.840 I'm surprised.
01:19:47.660 I didn't know you can get there.
01:19:48.860 So I think he should take some leadership skills from
01:19:53.920 Jack Black and back the fuck off.
01:19:58.000 Because I can't get mad of him because he's now
01:20:01.220 irrelevant.
01:20:02.060 I think I think he's irrelevant.
01:20:04.280 And I think the reason the Democrats are leaving him
01:20:06.840 in the race is to fuck him.
01:20:08.640 I don't think the Democrats are trying to remove him to the
01:20:13.800 race, partly because it's impractical, but partly because
01:20:18.700 they hate him.
01:20:19.700 I think they hate him at this point.
01:20:21.640 I think the Democrats were not right on his campaign.
01:20:25.180 Know that he is destroying their their ability to earn money.
01:20:30.000 Imagine your Axelrod.
01:20:32.500 Right.
01:20:32.980 And you still want to be working and and helping them.
01:20:37.180 He just Axelrod is basically.
01:20:40.840 You know, done.
01:20:42.400 The Democrats could be done as an effective party for a
01:20:45.800 generation.
01:20:46.600 It's possible.
01:20:47.980 I don't you know, I wouldn't predict it, but it's possible.
01:20:50.360 So what Biden has done to the Democrat Party in whole is
01:20:55.520 hard to calculate yet.
01:20:56.960 But it's the most destructive thing that's ever happened to
01:20:59.500 the Democrats.
01:21:00.620 And he's still going.
01:21:01.780 So to me, it looks like they're just letting him go.
01:21:05.720 I think what you're going to see is an abandonment of
01:21:08.800 advice.
01:21:10.000 I think even some of his closest advisors are going to stop
01:21:13.060 taking his calls and they're going to stop calling him and
01:21:17.000 they're just going to back up and they're going to say, look,
01:21:18.940 I washed my hands of this.
01:21:20.820 If it were up to me, he would have been replaced six months
01:21:22.920 ago, but it wasn't up to me.
01:21:25.020 And now you're going to watch them fail.
01:21:27.300 And I'm going to tell you all that he's failing against my
01:21:30.900 advice.
01:21:32.300 My advice was not this.
01:21:33.920 It's going to fail.
01:21:34.840 And now you watch it.
01:21:36.140 Should have taken my advice.
01:21:37.760 So the Democrats are going to turn on him like crazy.
01:21:41.160 And the fact that nobody's turned on him yet for bringing up the
01:21:43.960 fine people hoax, it's only because they can't bring it up because
01:21:47.720 they've been pushing the hoax as real too.
01:21:49.340 So the Democrats, the, the Democrat press can't even report that he
01:21:55.480 just did the worst thing that any president's ever done.
01:21:57.780 He pushed the fine people hoax right after an assassination attempt.
01:22:04.560 Name anything that's worse than that.
01:22:07.000 I can't think of anything that a president did.
01:22:10.340 That is so low.
01:22:13.360 That's almost hard to hold in your head.
01:22:15.560 Now, I think dementia might've been a reason and, and nobody advising him
01:22:20.240 anymore, but man, it's hard to believe.
01:22:23.640 Meanwhile, over in California, Governor Newsom signed the first nation's bill
01:22:29.300 banning schools from telling parents that their child has changed their gender
01:22:34.780 identity and their pronouns.
01:22:36.160 It's the Daily Wire is reporting that now.
01:22:43.700 Remember when you thought that Newsom had a chance of running for president, he really
01:22:49.340 didn't in retrospect, I kind of thought he had a good shot at one point too, but the more
01:22:55.560 you look into it and the fact that he's a white male and that he's destroyed California.
01:23:00.640 I mean, even Democrats aren't going to go for this, are they?
01:23:04.620 What percentage of Democrats would be okay with the school helping their child transition
01:23:11.500 and not telling you?
01:23:13.520 Are there a lot of Democrats that are okay with that?
01:23:17.360 Even if half are okay with it, there's got to be a solid half who say, that's, that's just
01:23:21.820 bad shit crazy.
01:23:23.220 Leave my kids alone.
01:23:24.480 It's got to be.
01:23:25.480 Because I think the parent thing is bigger than the Democrat thing by a lot.
01:23:29.240 Well, and then the most important story of the day I'll end on is that a company called
01:23:37.440 IHMC has created a humanoid robot that can play ping pong.
01:23:44.980 Finally.
01:23:47.140 That is exactly what I've been waiting for.
01:23:50.120 Now, that sounds like a joke, doesn't it?
01:23:52.700 Nope.
01:23:53.080 So maybe, I don't know, a year or so ago, I saw an expert say that one of the best ways
01:24:01.120 to keep your brain and your body active in your older years is racket and paddle sports.
01:24:08.220 So all the sports are good.
01:24:10.360 So whatever you do that's active is good.
01:24:12.060 But apparently the paddle sports, because it's fast twitch and it's balance and it's reflexes
01:24:17.960 that uses a lot of your brain, apparently it's just the very best thing.
01:24:21.000 So I went out and bought myself a really nice ping pong table.
01:24:26.220 And then I said, well, now I'm going to play me some ping pong and I'll make it, you know,
01:24:32.080 some more regular thing so that I'll be doing something that's good for me.
01:24:36.900 And then I looked around in my house and the only person there was my dog.
01:24:40.640 So I did what anybody would do.
01:24:43.060 I used duct tape to attach the paddle to the dog's foot.
01:24:48.660 It didn't work.
01:24:49.580 It didn't work in case you're wondering how the experiment went.
01:24:52.260 She was completely uninterested in the sport.
01:24:55.720 So there's nobody in the house.
01:24:57.660 And then I thought, well, I'm going to have to like find a ping pong player.
01:25:03.400 And then I thought, oh, I might have to make a friend.
01:25:07.840 Because, yeah, I checked with the people I knew and, you know, people are either out of town or they live far away or, you know, it's really hard.
01:25:17.740 The incoming wars.
01:25:22.280 American whites are going to fight for Israel.
01:25:24.080 So we've got an anti-Semite who's yelling in all caps.
01:25:29.260 Keep yelling anti-Semite.
01:25:31.120 But could you do me a favor?
01:25:32.820 If the anti-Semites want to get really active in the comments, could you put your comments in all caps?
01:25:40.680 Because then we can see them better.
01:25:42.300 They'll stand out better.
01:25:43.420 Just make your comments all caps if you're an anti-Semite or if you're just against Israel.
01:25:48.860 So just give me all caps.
01:25:52.360 It got quiet, didn't you?
01:25:54.420 All right.
01:25:58.900 So I decided I needed a ping pong playing robot so I can have less human contact.
01:26:04.880 Now, I do have one friend who plays ping pong, but I need more.
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