Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2538 CWSA 07⧸16⧸24

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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. 0.98

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. 1.00

00:13:49.620 So, it looks like a DEI hire because it's a woman. 1.00

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? 1.00

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. 1.00

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. 1.00

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. 0.96

00:19:54.360 She's got the brains. 0.68

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? 1.00

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. 0.98

00:25:28.280 I don't like people saying bad shit about cats. 0.98

00:25:33.000 So, I mean, that's one little criticism, but I mean, it's not a big one. 0.99

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. 0.90

00:29:58.400 And then Joy Reid being her mentally ill self. 0.87

00:30:03.860 And by the way, 0.80

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 1.00

00:30:12.640 is obviously mentally ill. 0.99

00:30:15.980 And somehow MSNBC 0.99

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, 0.94

00:30:24.780 people who are mentally ill 0.93

00:30:25.860 have opinions, 0.98

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, 0.97

00:31:31.260 I think of silly things. 0.74

00:31:33.440 I think of things like 0.83

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 0.99

00:32:22.440 authority to kill Hitler. 0.72

00:32:25.220 We all have authority 0.84

00:32:26.860 and moral cover 0.96

00:32:28.580 for killing an actual Hitler. 0.98

00:32:31.440 But we don't have one. 0.95

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. 0.84

00:33:10.160 criminals.

00:33:11.320 So if we saw somebody 0.98

00:33:12.860 go shoot a bunch 0.97

00:33:14.660 of migrants 1.00

00:33:15.400 because they thought

00:33:17.100 they were all criminals,

00:33:18.240 you'd say to yourself, 0.92

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 1.00

00:33:24.000 you should kill them all. 0.99

00:33:25.500 He's just saying 1.00

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? 0.73

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 0.79

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 0.94

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, 0.80

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, 1.00

00:36:58.320 I'll go shoot him. 1.00

00:36:59.040 No. 1.00

00:37:00.600 There's nobody

00:37:01.200 to shoot.

00:37:02.520 If a lone gunman 0.99

00:37:03.860 killed the president,

00:37:05.320 there's nobody 0.99

00:37:05.820 to shoot.

00:37:07.440 You could take 1.00

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 0.96

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 0.94

00:38:16.920 guy is up 0.97

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 0.92

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 0.99

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 0.96

00:40:01.560 Black just 0.99

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. 0.61

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

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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 0.96

00:44:13.400 the kill 0.99

00:44:13.820 shot. 0.92

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 0.57

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 1.00

00:44:38.800 this fucking 1.00

00:44:39.360 guy for a 1.00

00:44:39.960 change?

00:44:40.740 Will you 1.00

00:44:41.080 fucking 1.00

00:44:41.440 listen to 1.00

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 1.00

00:44:45.420 asshole and 1.00

00:44:46.340 an idiot, 1.00

00:44:47.160 probably a 1.00

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 1.00

00:47:42.800 is so fucked 1.00

00:47:44.200 up that even 1.00

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 0.82

00:48:34.920 filter.

00:48:36.120 The Dilber 0.97

00:48:36.960 filter says

00:48:37.760 that there

00:48:39.040 are pointier

00:48:39.680 bosses who 0.97

00:48:40.560 are selfish 1.00

00:48:41.020 and incompetent 1.00

00:48:42.040 and they're 0.97

00:48:42.780 pushing DEI.

00:48:44.380 Their employees

00:48:45.100 were selfish 1.00

00:48:45.900 and incompetent 1.00

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 0.87

00:49:58.500 incompetent 0.99

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 0.98

00:50:14.440 kill the 1.00

00:50:14.840 president, 1.00

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 1.00

00:50:32.500 kill them. 1.00

00:50:34.860 Now, 1.00

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 1.00

00:50:46.020 killed. 1.00

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 0.99

00:50:52.720 Trump killed 1.00

00:50:53.380 by painting 0.66

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 1.00

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 0.93

00:51:04.900 him killed, 0.97

00:51:05.780 they did

00:51:06.560 fantasize about

00:51:07.400 having him 0.99

00:51:07.900 killed, 0.99

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 0.85

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, 1.00

00:53:32.140 you idiot. 1.00

00:53:33.360 You idiot. 1.00

00:53:34.880 I can't even 1.00

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. 1.00

00:53:53.700 You idiot. 1.00

00:53:56.740 What's the 1.00

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 1.00

00:54:37.040 fucking filter 1.00

00:54:37.700 work? 1.00

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 1.00

00:57:03.680 and there just

00:57:04.940 weren't enough

00:57:05.460 women in the 0.77

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 0.72

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 1.00

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 0.63

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 0.92

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 0.76

01:02:16.520 permission to

01:02:17.100 shoot.

01:02:17.320 That can't 0.97

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 0.67

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 0.89

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 1.00

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 1.00

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 1.00

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 1.00

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 1.00

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 0.97

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. 1.00

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. 0.81

01:07:47.680 Because if they could get

01:07:48.920 75% of women to be on 1.00

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 0.91

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 1.00

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 0.99

01:13:00.460 Democrats are murderers, 1.00

01:13:03.640 basically. 1.00

01:13:04.660 Because if you're going to law

01:13:05.940 fare a guy and send him to jail, 0.74

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 0.98

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 0.90

01:14:02.340 murderers. 0.97

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 0.96

01:14:24.580 country.

01:14:25.220 And then soon after, Mayorkas 1.00

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. 0.58

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 0.98

01:15:07.600 work out. 0.99

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. 0.68

01:16:41.400 That's the one that makes you think that 0.89

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 1.00

01:16:56.980 of shit? 1.00

01:16:58.420 I don't know. 1.00

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 0.66

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. 1.00

01:18:56.820 He's a liar. 1.00

01:18:59.800 He is reckless. 1.00

01:19:02.260 He is a crook. 1.00

01:19:05.180 And he doesn't care about the country or anybody 1.00

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 0.99

01:19:53.920 Jack Black and back the fuck off. 0.99

01:19:58.000 Because I can't get mad of him because he's now 1.00

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 1.00

01:20:06.840 in the race is to fuck him. 0.99

01:20:08.640 I don't think the Democrats are trying to remove him to the 1.00

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. 0.84

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. 0.79

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 0.99

01:23:21.820 bad shit crazy. 0.99

01:23:23.220 Leave my kids alone. 1.00

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. 0.83

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. 0.70

01:25:24.080 So we've got an anti-Semite who's yelling in all caps. 0.98

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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Real Coffee with Scott Adams - July 16, 2024

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