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00:01:39.440 Well, if you were wondering what happened to the show yesterday, I had a bout of food poisoning.

00:01:47.140 I'm pretty sure it was food poisoning. Just before the show was about to begin. And I don't want to

00:01:54.640 tell you how bad it was, but I did lose four pounds in six hours. Let's just say it's the sickest I've

00:02:03.700 been in 25 years. And I was pretty much in bad shape for a long, long time. So I'm only about

00:02:11.160 20 percent, well, maybe 80 percent of my normal intelligence this morning. One of the things you

00:02:18.180 don't realize is that when you get sick, it hits you cognitively. My brain is actually substantially

00:02:25.760 slower than it was yesterday. So I'll do my best. But I decided, I woke up this morning,

00:02:32.520 and I wasn't 100 percent. And I thought to myself, you know what? If President Trump can take a bullet

00:02:39.880 to the ear and jump up and go right back to work, I can have six hours of the worst time of my life 0.98

00:02:47.340 and jump up and do a fight, fight, fight. And I wasn't planning to do this, but in honor of Hulk Hogan,

00:02:56.500 who ripped his shirt off at the RNC. Okay, that's a lot harder than it looks. It's a lot harder than it

00:03:12.040 looks. All right. Well, the big story today, besides the RNC, we'll talk about that, is a

00:03:17.760 gigantic computer outage. And let's see if this gives you any pause. Let's see. A company called

00:03:25.740 CrowdStrike. Hmm. Where have I heard that name before? CrowdStrike. Well, for those users who

00:03:32.400 have Windows and they also have CrowdStrike, apparently it took down their systems in a

00:03:38.800 really bad way. So I don't know exactly what the problem is, but flights are grounded and 9-11 is

00:03:46.280 broken and people can't get hospital reservations and society basically ground to a halt.

00:03:52.900 But as I was reminded, Microsoft is a key player in securing the elections.

00:04:01.760 So here's my question to you. So CrowdStrike is a cybersecurity software. A big enterprise would

00:04:10.280 put it on their computers so that the entire enterprise would be free from cyber attacks

00:04:15.380 of various kinds. Now, if you've heard of that name CrowdStrike and you're saying to yourself,

00:04:21.180 where have I heard of that before? They're the ones who investigated the DNC hack and decided that it

00:04:27.180 was a Russian operation. Which, if you're like me, you said, I don't believe that. First of all,

00:04:35.120 I don't believe that they could tell where it came from. You know, if these are like state-level hackers

00:04:40.140 and that they would leave a trail, that CrowdStrike could just figure out where that came from.

00:04:46.120 Okay. I never believed, I never believed that they had the right identification because everything

00:04:51.500 was Russia, Russia, Russia. It's like, oh, there's a hack. Who are you going to blame? How about Russia?

00:04:58.840 So it was a little bit too on the nose. Now, I don't know if it was fake news. I don't know that.

00:05:05.780 It's just that it had that odor to it. So then when you see that there's this big problem with

00:05:13.900 cybersecurity, with CrowdStrike, and the question you ask yourself is, wait a minute. What if CrowdStrike

00:05:21.100 was on the same computer networks that were doing elections? And let me ask you this. If you were

00:05:28.620 going to, let's say, insert some malicious code into a system, what would be the best way to do that?

00:05:38.360 I would think it would be embedded in the cybersecurity because cybersecurity would catch

00:05:44.620 anybody else doing something bad. The only thing it wouldn't catch is if it were the bad actor itself.

00:05:51.840 Now, you may remember, I don't know much about this story, but there was a Russian-made

00:05:57.060 cybersecurity program that was recently banned on all government computers. Kaspersky? Kaspersky?

00:06:04.520 I may be saying it wrong. Now, why would we ban a Russian cybersecurity software? Well, the only 0.95

00:06:12.660 reason I can think of, yeah, Kaspersky, right? The only reason I can think of is that we didn't trust

00:06:20.140 it, right? Because a security software has got to be the biggest security problem. I'll give you an

00:06:28.720 analogy. When I used to work at Pacific Bell, we'd have a lot of problem with theft. So people would

00:06:36.140 be losing their stuff all over the place. People were stealing from cubicles. And I got to talk to

00:06:42.360 the head of security one day about it. And I said, you know, can you determine where this is? And why

00:06:48.880 don't you have enough security? You know, I feel like security should see people carrying out

00:06:53.280 computers. And he said, security is who's doing all the stealing. They had determined that most of

00:07:01.420 the theft was the security guards themselves, either working with people or doing it themselves.

00:07:06.560 So the very best way to steal is if you're the one who's supposed to be stopping the stealing.

00:07:12.800 It's the best place to hide. Now, I want to be very careful. I don't want to malign crowd

00:07:18.440 strike. There's no evidence whatsoever that they did anything illegal or improper. Let me say that

00:07:25.240 as clearly as possible. There's no evidence whatsoever. But we are in a zero trust environment.

00:07:31.540 And when something looks like a duck and smells like a duck and walks like a duck,

00:07:35.260 it just raises some duck-like suspicions. So if you think that our election systems are secure,

00:07:46.520 let me just tell you that I'll bet the 9-1-1 people thought their system was secure.

00:07:52.120 What do you think? Do you think the people who designed 9-1-1 systems said to themselves,

00:07:56.980 you know what, we're not going to get the best security. We'll just get sort of grade B security

00:08:02.820 because, I mean, what difference does it make if you can't call 9-1-1 sometimes?

00:08:07.560 No. I would imagine, without being close to it, that the 9-1-1 systems are,

00:08:14.080 by their nature, very secure. Do you think the 9-1-1 systems would be more secure than elections?

00:08:23.480 What do you think? I feel like those would both be 10 out of 10 in terms of your attempt to make

00:08:29.920 them secure. Now, obviously, every company tries to be 100% secure, but some are going to be even

00:08:36.200 more secure than that. So if you've got a problem like that with your Windows system, I'd be worried

00:08:45.420 about anything with a Windows system. But I don't want to blame Windows, and I don't want to blame

00:08:51.260 CrowdStrike. I'm going to make a general comment. The thing you should trust the least is the thing

00:08:56.760 that's protecting you from the other stuff. It's just a good general thing to hold in your mind.

00:09:05.180 There was a story about DJT stock. That's the true social stuff. And allegedly, before the

00:09:12.680 assassination attempt, there was a big short, which means you would make money if it went down.

00:09:18.100 And it was a gigantic bet, allegedly. But the company that's responsible for that said, no,

00:09:26.140 that was just a mistake in reporting. So they say that there was no gigantic, unusual bet.

00:09:35.240 It just looked like it, and then they corrected it.

00:09:39.500 Or since we're in a zero-trust environment, it was exactly what it looked like, and they covered for it.

00:09:47.520 Now, I'm not accusing them. I'm just saying that in a zero-trust environment,

00:09:52.920 I don't know what to believe. But I will tell you that the official story is that that's debunked.

00:09:59.660 And I lean toward that being true, because it feels like that'd be hard to cover up.

00:10:05.340 We'll see. Anyway, if you watch the Amazon video show, The Boys, apparently their season finale had

00:10:15.460 some kind of a politician being assassinated. And so they had to add a statement that it,

00:10:21.360 that basically, they changed the name of the title of the show. They had the assassination in it.

00:10:29.400 And any similarities between the season finale and the shooting during the Trumps rally?

00:10:34.680 Purely coincidental. Purely coincidental, you say.

00:10:38.520 Here's what I say. If you were part of some shady deep space thing, deep space, deep state,

00:10:49.800 I told you, my brain's only 80% today. Lower your expectations. I'm not really working too well today.

00:10:57.400 If you were going to do some kind of MKUltra brain, you know, mass brain control thing on the country

00:11:05.980 to increase the chance that Trump got assassinated, you would do fiction that showed him getting

00:11:12.940 assassinated. Remember, there was a play. There was, at one point, there was a live play that showed

00:11:18.680 Trump getting assassinated. And then apparently this would not be Trump per se, but it was a,

00:11:24.400 you know, another thing to put in your head. So if I were trying to get a major politician

00:11:31.360 assassinated, and I were a dirty trickster, I would make sure some popular TV shows featured that

00:11:38.020 plot. Because all you have to do is make people think about it. You know, if you got a million crazy

00:11:43.580 people in the country, out of, you know, 350 million or whatever, if you send the message, you know,

00:11:49.860 this bad thing would be a good idea to a million people. You're going to get somebody who says,

00:11:55.680 you know, that's, there's an idea. I hadn't thought about that, but I'm getting primed. Yeah,

00:11:59.860 it's a priming thing. Again, I'm not going to, I don't, I'm not accusing anybody of doing that.

00:12:07.120 I'm just saying that's what it would look like. It would look exactly like that. You'd see fiction

00:12:13.180 that somehow, weirdly, coincidentally had that theme in it. But it could also happen just because

00:12:19.140 it's a story and politicians getting assassinated. It's not the, it's not really the strangest thing

00:12:24.420 for a fiction. So again, these are not accusations. They're just trying to navigate a world with zero

00:12:34.280 trust. Well, let's talk about the RNC convention and Trump's speech. First of all, Tucker Carlson

00:12:44.500 has his strangest journey, doesn't he? I loved watching Tucker go from canceled to, you know,

00:12:52.440 reconstituting his business to be even better than ever. And the next thing you know, he's sitting

00:12:56.920 next to Trump and giving a speech at the RNC. And he's giving the speech apparently during his old

00:13:03.220 time slot on Fox and they had to cover it. That's the ultimate. They had to cover it.

00:13:11.860 Anyway, so he's sitting up there with Trump and allegedly Tucker has some kind of a deal with

00:13:17.160 Trump where they're doing a documentary behind the scenes. So they've got a videographer is following

00:13:23.320 Trump around. Now that's going to be interesting. I can't wait to see that. All right, let's talk

00:13:29.540 about Trump's acceptance speech. Most of you probably saw it. I was in my deathbed trying

00:13:37.740 to stay awake long enough to catch most of it, but I caught up on it in the clips and the reactions

00:13:43.520 today. But the big story is the energy and the feeling. So even the MSNBC people and the CNN people

00:13:54.940 were saying there's something different. The, you know, especially Van Jones was pointing out

00:13:59.420 that the, that we haven't seen that kind of positive energy in a convention for a long time.

00:14:06.360 You know, maybe Obama was last time, but it was just crazy energy. And you can kind of see why that

00:14:12.540 because look at all the things that came together. First of all, everybody loves a comeback story,

00:14:18.080 right? When Trump lost the last election, it looked like he not only lost, but he was going to go to

00:14:25.200 jail. It looked like that's the biggest losing you could do. You lose the election and you might even

00:14:31.100 go to jail. At the moment, it's not looking like he's going to go to jail and he's ahead in the polls.

00:14:38.420 But here's, here's my take on that. Trump's comeback story is also your comeback story, isn't it?

00:14:46.800 Because if you were a Trump supporter when he went down and then he was just buried with

00:14:52.140 legal challenges, did that feel personal? It felt personal to me because if, because if you're

00:15:00.680 backing somebody and you know, you identify with them as your team and then you see them taken out

00:15:06.200 just savagely. So if you thought this was sort of Trump's comeback, I would argue it wasn't just

00:15:15.400 his comeback. He, he's the thing that identifies the comeback, but it was everybody's comeback,

00:15:21.740 possibly the country. In many ways, it feels like the country coming back. And boy, do we love a

00:15:27.640 comeback story, don't we? I mean, it's perfect cinema quality, the lowest you can go. And here he is,

00:15:36.260 here he is. So not only is it a comeback story, but he survived an assassination attempt by what

00:15:45.540 looked like divine intervention. Now, before you get on me about my own beliefs, I'm just saying what

00:15:53.420 it looked like, right? The reality is way less important. But to many people, including me,

00:16:00.840 it was just so suspiciously divine looking, that it's hard to get that out of your head.

00:16:08.020 So basically you got, you got a comeback story. You've got a survival of an assassination.

00:16:17.680 You've got the fist bumping in the American flag and possibly divine intervention.

00:16:24.320 How in the world could that be better? I mean, that's the most energy you can put into one

00:16:32.200 situation. And then on top of that, it's the greatest showman of all time. I think you'd agree

00:16:37.640 with that, right? Trump is the greatest showman of all time. So if you give that many tools to the

00:16:45.300 greatest showman of all time, what's he going to do with it? Well, he's doing what he, what he does.

00:16:51.480 Yes. He's just riding this, you know, riding this beast to victory. It looks like now. So even the

00:16:59.160 Democrats who talk about the enthusiasm gap, I saw a funny quote from, so I guess Jake Tapper was

00:17:07.140 asking his cohorts there. What theme are we seeing at the convention tonight? And Chris Wallace said,

00:17:12.820 is that a trick question? Testosterone. And, and he was, it was the most testosterone driven thing

00:17:22.720 ever. Now, did we learn anything? Let's see if the Democrats learned everything. So leading with

00:17:31.400 testosterone, which would include Hulk Hogan, Dana White, Trump himself, and the entire situation of

00:17:38.720 surviving the assassination. That's probably one of the most male, most male things that you could ever

00:17:46.320 do. And I think, and even there was some criticism from, I guess, Joey Reed or somebody. No, one of the,

00:17:54.580 one of the other MSNBC people was saying that even J.D. Vance's moving statement about wanting to be

00:18:02.560 buried with his relatives because, you know, this is his land. He wants to be buried where they are

00:18:07.680 many generations. Uh, one of the hosts said, well, that's a white supremacist kind of a thing.

00:18:13.320 Now you're going to say to yourself, wait a minute, hold on. What, why does wanting to be buried with

00:18:19.760 your family qualify as white supremacy? Well, they were working really hard at this one. It goes like

00:18:27.020 this. He's also married. So why does his male burial plot take more precedence than his wife?

00:18:36.260 What about her wife's history? Which is by the way, not a terrible point. I mean, but it also is

00:18:43.700 consistent with a, let's say, uh, a male frame on things. Let's put it that way. Not, not for good or

00:18:52.760 for bad. It's just different. And it's more classic. It, it suggests a different time and it

00:19:00.400 suggests a different way of organizing personally as, as well as every other way. So I think what

00:19:08.660 happened was besides all the things that just give us so much energy is that the idea to make it more

00:19:16.220 testosterone filled was a good one because I think that's how people felt right. When the, when the

00:19:25.140 fist went up, you, you felt like fighting. He didn't yell, you know, be calm, yield fight. That's

00:19:34.460 very male. All right. If a female politician gets nicked in an assassination attempt, it's very 1.00

00:19:41.760 unlikely she's going to jump up, put a fist in the air and yell fight. Right. It was just a 0.97

00:19:47.520 quintessential, the most male thing that ever happened in your life. You've never seen anything

00:19:52.780 more male than that. Um, he was angry. I think that's what I liked the best is that he got shot

00:20:03.260 and he jumped up angry. That's what I wanted to say. That's what I wanted to say. But he managed to

00:20:13.180 channel that anger into a unity pitch. But first I have to tell you, uh, uh, uh, Molly Hemingway's

00:20:20.280 joke. When Jake Tapper said, what theme are we seeing at the convention tonight? And Chris Wallace

00:20:24.120 said, is that a trick question? It's testosterone. Molly Hemingway quipped, uh, I can see why that would

00:20:30.160 be confusing for both of you. That was pretty funny. All right. So, um, the, the speech itself

00:20:43.780 was long, I guess is one of the longest speeches. Um, but if there was ever a time when you wanted

00:20:51.460 a long speech, it was this, because it didn't matter what he was saying, did it? That as long

00:20:58.120 as Trump was talking, you felt connected to all the people in the, in the room and all the other

00:21:05.060 people across the country. And so there's never been a better reason for a long acceptance speech.

00:21:11.860 You just wanted to revel in it. You wanted to feel it. It didn't matter what he said. You just

00:21:16.800 wanted to see him healthy. You wanted to see him in charge and you want to see the reaction. You want

00:21:22.140 to see the energy. That's what you wanted. And he got it. He delivered. Now here's the least

00:21:28.680 important fact about it. Daniel Dale, the fact checker for CNN said Trump had 22 lies.

00:21:38.560 So he mentioned a few

00:21:39.900 and here's one. He says that, uh, Trump claimed that the Democrats cheated in the 2020 election.

00:21:48.780 And that's not true, which is a lie. That's a lie from Daniel Dale. Here, here's what would have

00:21:56.760 been true. Trump claimed that there was cheating in 2020, but it hasn't been proven. That would be

00:22:03.440 true. But if you're a fact checker and you say it's proven that the election was fair, you're not much

00:22:11.000 of a fact checker because that can't be proven. You can only prove you didn't find anything. And it

00:22:16.960 doesn't matter whether the election was legitimate or not legitimate. If you're the fact checker and

00:22:22.640 you don't know that our elections are not fully auditable and you don't know that there's probably

00:22:28.020 a hundred ways you could mess with them. If you didn't know that, you don't belong to be a fact

00:22:33.720 checker. That's probably the most basic fact. Uh, and he probably thinks that January 6th was an

00:22:40.200 insurrection. So I got real problems with the fact checker. The fact checker failed on the very first

00:22:47.240 fact. What else did he say? He said, uh, uh, that Trump said that crime went up under Biden.

00:22:55.240 Isn't that? And then he says, that's not true. Crime went down to which I say, first of all,

00:23:00.840 that probably gets a little bit of the pandemic effect in there, which they like to forget.

00:23:05.680 Uh, and secondly, isn't that because they stopped counting crime and made everything legal? 1.00

00:23:11.040 You're the fact checker fucker. You better say that something changed in the way you're measuring. 0.97

00:23:16.800 Now I famously said that all data is fake. This is a good example. So CNN gets on there and he gets

00:23:24.480 fact checking and all the fact checking looked fake to me. Fake in the sense that the context was left out.

00:23:30.880 If he had said someone up, someone down, I'd say, Oh yeah, maybe if he said, uh, they changed the way,

00:23:38.240 you know, you can't really compare because a lot of things became legal that used to be illegal, like stealing

00:23:44.240 up to $950. So that was a fake fact check. In my opinion, um, they fact checked him when he said that, uh,

00:23:53.520 there were no wars when he was a president and Daniel Dale says, my God, no, there were 51 wars all over

00:23:59.760 the country when Trump was president. Well, Daniel Dale, let me explain Trump talk.

00:24:08.080 No wars means America was not in a war and not likely to get into one. That's what no wars means.

00:24:16.480 If you thought he meant that no other little country in Africa was at war with his neighbor.

00:24:22.080 No, he didn't mean that. He meant those were not relevant to us.

00:24:26.400 Because I can't name 51 wars. Can you, uh, go ahead, name the 51 wars. They're not important

00:24:33.680 to us. So the fact that he can't discern what is just sort of normal political talk. There were no wars.

00:24:42.480 He really meant the United States and there wasn't anything that likely we were going to go into.

00:24:51.280 All right.

00:24:54.080 So once again, uh, Daniel Dale can't tell the difference between a salesman's exaggeration

00:24:59.280 and a fact. Um, there were a bunch of things that I think were just failing the fact check,

00:25:04.720 but they're all directionally true. They were all directionally true in the usual way. They were all,

00:25:11.200 you know, they were all the things you'd want him to do better on no matter how bad it was or no matter

00:25:16.560 how Biden had done compared to him. They're all the things you want him to work on. I'd like to be

00:25:21.120 better on crime, better on immigration. So any of those facts that they say he got wrong, totally

00:25:27.520 irrelevant. And by the way, I've never seen facts matter less than at this convention.

00:25:33.840 Matter less in the sense that it was about energy. It was about energy, really. It was just energy.

00:25:42.160 And I've told you that Trump is an energy monster. He can take whatever energy you send him, flip it

00:25:49.120 around and use it. And recent events have given him so much energy and he productively employed it,

00:25:57.200 just like you, just like you thought he would. Well, on his unity pitch, of course, Democrats will

00:26:03.840 say it was a dark, dark thing. I'm sure today they'll be saying that. But here's some of the

00:26:09.600 things he said. I am running to be president of all Americans, not half of America. Good start.

00:26:15.440 He also said together, we will launch a new era of safety, prosperity, and freedom for citizens

00:26:20.560 of every race, religion, color, and creed. The discord and division in our society must be healed.

00:26:25.840 As Americans, we are bound together by a single fate and a shared destiny. We rise together,

00:26:30.400 we fall apart. Not bad. Now, those are just words, just words. But those are the words you want.

00:26:41.840 That's what you want to hear. Do you know what the biggest story the convention's speech was,

00:26:46.400 Trump's speech? The biggest story is what he didn't say. The biggest story is what he didn't say.

00:26:52.400 He didn't give them red meat. He didn't say that the people coming across the border are all bad.

00:26:58.960 He didn't say a lot of things he could have said. I don't even think he mentioned Biden, did he?

00:27:05.440 Yeah. Peter Navarro did, which I think was a mistake, actually. Yeah, you don't want to give the

00:27:12.160 other side red meat. And I think Trump succeeded in giving them nothing but fact checks that nobody 0.77

00:27:20.320 cares about. So if they're focusing on the fact checks, Trump wins. And by the way, when Biden talks,

00:27:31.280 literally everything he says are lies, but they're the big ones. If Trump tells you there are no wars in

00:27:36.400 the world, but there were 51 little wars you don't care about, is that a big deal? No. If he tells you

00:27:42.720 something about crime stats, but you think they should have been more clear, is that a big problem?

00:27:47.680 No. No. All you hear is he wants to work on crime more. Good. We like that too. But when you hear

00:27:55.520 Biden, Biden was doing the find people hoax, the Nazi stuff, the dictator stuff, that's the ship that gets 0.95

00:28:01.600 you killed. That gets the opponent killed. And it almost happened. 0.62

00:28:09.760 All right. So no contest. And the fact that Daniel Dale doesn't make a distinction

00:28:14.480 between little technical salesperson lies and exaggerations and something that will get you

00:28:20.800 killed, that is deeply dishonest. Let me say that directly. Daniel Dale, it is deeply dishonest

00:28:29.120 for you to count the fact checks as if the number of them is the important part. It is the quality of

00:28:36.080 them that matters. If one of them can get you killed, but one of them might be a misleading statistic

00:28:41.440 about crime, but everybody wants to work on it to improve it. Those are not the same. Those are not the

00:28:47.520 same. Very, very different. All right. So I thought Trump was calm and, you know, somebody pointed out,

00:28:59.040 he could have gone the other way. He could have said, they tried to kill me. So double down. We must, 0.71

00:29:04.160 you know, beat all the bad people up. He didn't do that. He read the room correctly. And

00:29:12.720 and here's the result. According to Jason, you know, Jason from the all in pod,

00:29:20.240 he said, Trump is flipping every moderate I know and many lifelong Democrats by speaking to all Americans

00:29:26.800 and it turns the way that the Democrats have forgotten how to. Interesting. The Democrats have

00:29:31.280 forgotten how to. That's exactly what happened. The Democrats have made it about identity.

00:29:37.360 And that's specifically anti, I won't say anti America. It's the opposite of America.

00:29:44.960 Yeah. Identity, focusing on identity is the opposite of the concept that made America what it is.

00:29:50.720 And he's a Democrat, by the way. And he's noticing that. And he says there are a lot of lessons here for

00:29:59.440 Democrats from having a positive message to building a big nonjudgmental tent and listening to your

00:30:05.840 constituents as opposed to lecturing them. Wow. And that's coming from a Democrat. So a Democrat is saying

00:30:13.280 you're not you're not building a big tent and you're not listening and you're lecturing to them.

00:30:19.760 That's what it feels like. I think he captured it perfectly, actually.

00:30:25.200 All right. Here's the most embarrassing thing for the Biden-Harris campaign.

00:30:28.640 They fact-checked Trump by saying that he had confused AI with electric cars. Oh, what a big old dope,

00:30:35.600 right? Who could confuse AI and electric cars? Because Trump said that AI would double the need

00:30:44.720 for electricity in the country. And of course, the Biden-Harris campaign are like, oh, he thinks

00:30:50.480 AI is going to double our electricity. No, he means electric cars. And he's wrong. So they fact-checked

00:30:56.800 him and said he's confused electric cars with AI. Except he wasn't wrong.

00:31:03.360 AI is the one that will be the biggest drain on electricity, according to all the experts,

00:31:08.720 like way more than electric cars. And not only was he right, they fact-checked him and proved

00:31:17.920 they don't understand AI. What's the most important thing you need to know about AI,

00:31:23.840 other than it might be could turn into a super weapon and change everything. The most important

00:31:29.280 thing you need to be in charge of policy around AI is to know that it will double our electricity need.

00:31:36.960 If you don't know that, you can't be president, period. AI is going to be probably the biggest

00:31:44.960 thing that happens in your lifetime. And they don't know that that's going to double the electricity need

00:31:50.240 and that we don't have that electricity. And then whoever does have that electricity will be the

00:31:54.880 the ruling country forever. Right? That is a level of incompetence that is stunning.

00:32:06.400 How many of you knew that AI would double the electricity use or at least vastly increase it?

00:32:13.360 Most of you knew that, right? Just regular people know that. How do you propose that you're going to be

00:32:19.600 in charge of the country? And you don't know that yet? You don't know that yet? Really?

00:32:28.480 This is the most embarrassing fact-check of all politics. Because not only is the fact-check wrong,

00:32:35.280 but it reveals that they don't have a basic understanding of the most important thing

00:32:39.440 that's coming toward us. The most important thing. And most of you knew it. It wasn't even hard to know.

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00:33:13.200 canceled, but it's temporarily halted for whatever reason. I don't know. So that's bad news for Biden.

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00:33:35.520 And while he was talking to them, a staffer slipped him a note that said, you are sounding defensive.

00:33:42.560 And brain dead Biden, instead of changing how he was talking and talking less defensive,

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00:34:52.480 So, not a good week. Not a good week is what I'm saying. Yeah.

00:34:58.320 Anyway, there was a rumor, I think Mark Halperin was behind it, that Biden's going to step down this weekend.

00:35:10.480 He's definitely totally stepping down. But as of today, I think, I think I saw something just

00:35:16.240 before I came on that the Biden campaign is still saying he's not. So, David Sachs was hypothesizing

00:35:23.840 that he said, evidently the widely cited, including by David Sachs himself, report was a strategic leak

00:35:35.120 designed to build momentum against President Biden, who doesn't want to go. What else can one call this

00:35:41.360 but a coup? So, it could be that everybody's saying he's leaving, although he has not said he's leaving.

00:35:49.360 In other words, if everybody simply acts like he's leaving, all of the funding will dry up,

00:35:56.080 and then he has to leave. So, it could be that they're front running the truth to turn it into the truth.

00:36:03.840 In other words, it might be just a fait accompli if they just keep saying it. Because nobody will act like

00:36:10.800 he's still running for president, and then it doesn't work. Because he's got to have other people think he's

00:36:15.680 running for president. I mean, if the entire Democratic Party said, you're not running for

00:36:20.320 president, and then he went out and tried to run for president, he almost couldn't do it.

00:36:26.720 It would be basically impossible. Now, of course, everybody's having fun with this on the right,

00:36:33.920 saying that, you know, Biden won fair and square, according to the rules of the game. And if he's

00:36:40.240 removed by the party elites, even if they do some little fake fast primary thing with five people

00:36:45.840 or whatever, however they do it, it's going to be canceling democracy. Now, I don't quite buy that.

00:36:53.600 It's just a fun thing to say politically. You know, there are some beliefs that are more recreational.

00:36:59.600 So, I'm going to say it's a recreational belief that the Democrats are canceling democracy by,

00:37:05.040 you know, having their power brokers install a new candidate. Because the candidate they're

00:37:11.200 running is brain dead. If it were any other situation, I'd say, oh, you know, you're clearly 0.98

00:37:16.960 it's a coup. But if you have somebody who obviously can't do it, you know, I wouldn't even,

00:37:24.880 I don't even think I mind if they replace them. It's just fun to say that they're canceling democracy,

00:37:30.480 because they are. They just have a good reason. Pretty good reason in that case. But it is canceling

00:37:35.840 democracy, technically. All right. So, let me summarize the state of the race. So, you've heard

00:37:42.800 all the elements, right? You've heard bad week for Biden, good week for Trump. Let me summarize that.

00:37:49.440 So, Trump this week is elevated from an ex-president to a legend, probably with the help of divine

00:37:56.720 intervention. Now, that's a pretty good week. Pretty good week. Let's see how Biden is doing.

00:38:03.520 Dementia riddled Biden is being attacked by two thirds of his own supporters who are begging him

00:38:08.080 to leave the race so they can replace him with a drunken cackler who is widely considered one of 0.97

00:38:12.800 the worst politicians in history. Oh, that's not as good. That's not nearly as good, is it?

00:38:18.800 Yeah. A legend with divine intervention. First, dementia riddled may be replaced with a drunken cackler.

00:38:30.800 Yeah, those are... I mean, it's kind of subjective, but it feels to me like there's a big difference

00:38:37.040 there. I don't know. I just feel that way.

00:38:39.040 Well, let's talk about the alleged, not alleged, but the shooter, a young man named Crooks. Apparently,

00:38:49.360 now he had a couple of cell phones and one burner phone or two or three, and they had what they call

00:38:56.080 three encrypted overseas accounts. What is an encrypted overseas account? I do not know. Do you?

00:39:05.840 An encrypted overseas account. Would that be like a WhatsApp? Is it using Telegram or Signal? Is it

00:39:16.640 an encrypted app that just happens to have some servers overseas? Or what exactly is that? I don't

00:39:25.840 know what that is. So, but anyway, there's the suggestion that there's some overseas connection.

00:39:32.320 Now, shall we speculate whether it was gross incompetence or an inside job, possibly a plot

00:39:41.200 by the CIA to kill him? Or maybe some other country? Let us look at what we know now and we'll...

00:39:49.760 Here's the spirit in which I do this. You should know in advance that I don't know the answer. That's

00:39:56.080 the important part. If you understand that I don't know the answer, then you're not going to get mad at me

00:40:01.760 for pushing a point of view that you think is wrong. Can we do that? Because you're going to go crazy

00:40:09.120 if I give any light to the theory that you think is wrong. I'm just going to tell you both of them,

00:40:15.360 and then I'm going to tell you how to look at it, right? What you do with it is up to you. And I have

00:40:21.040 to say I'm undecided. I'm completely on the fence on this. But let's take the Mike Cernovich view. He

00:40:29.360 says the regime's plan was to use MK Ultra. I'll talk about that in a minute. It's a mind control

00:40:35.440 thing that the CIA was involved with years ago. The regime's plan was to use MK Ultra, mind control,

00:40:43.840 and on the subject, and then lax security to have Trump assassinated.

00:40:48.960 Knowing that there would be widespread retaliation, chaos sits in, then you

00:40:53.440 put restrictions on the country because there's chaos, and then you can kind of take control.

00:41:02.000 So that the real play was to get Republicans, take Trump out, get Republicans all fired up and violent,

00:41:10.400 and then they could be cracked down on and taken out forever.

00:41:14.640 So that is one view. Now, what is the evidence for that?

00:41:20.480 All right. So here are some things that would be consistent with that view. But remember, I'm not saying what is true.

00:41:26.160 I'm just saying there's going to be facts that are consistent with a few different hypotheses.

00:41:31.040 So here are the things consistent with the fact that it was a larger attempt. The person who was a shooter was a

00:41:38.240 smart enough, but troubled youth, which is exactly the kind of person that you could flip.

00:41:46.480 So, and probably somebody who didn't feel important. If you were trying to hypnotize somebody,

00:41:56.880 you'd want to find somebody who's naturally leaning in that direction. In other words, you could not

00:42:02.080 hypnotize Tucker Carlson to murder Trump, because they're friends, right? You can't do that. But you

00:42:10.160 could find somebody who doesn't have an attachment to anybody, including his own friends, and maybe even

00:42:16.400 his parents, to some extent. So if you find somebody who's just sort of floating out there alone,

00:42:22.080 that's somebody you could maybe flip. But how do you talk somebody into a suicide mission?

00:42:29.200 How in the world do you talk somebody into that? Now, the rumor is that he didn't like Biden, maybe,

00:42:37.440 and he didn't like Trump. So he has a search result looking for both. I don't think you can believe

00:42:44.000 that. That's something told to you by our government, and our government is not credible.

00:42:49.760 So it sounds like the sort of thing they would say, just so you didn't think,

00:42:54.720 it was the rhetoric coming from the Democrats that caused this to happen.

00:42:59.520 So it's very convenient that he's the only person in the world who might have been

00:43:04.400 considering shooting either of the candidates. Do you think in the history of the world,

00:43:09.600 there's ever been an assassin who said, you know, it doesn't really matter which one I do. I could

00:43:14.960 shoot Biden and die trying. I could shoot Trump, die trying. That's about equal. No, in the history of 1.00

00:43:23.920 the world, nobody ever had that thought. Now, they're trying to sell him as, you know, unstable,

00:43:29.680 and he didn't like any politicians. But I don't think it's a total coincidence that he picked the

00:43:35.520 one he picked, given all the rhetoric around him. Now, how do 20-year-olds get their information on

00:43:43.680 politics? They don't do their own research and come to their own opinion. They listen to what

00:43:50.080 everybody says in the channel that they listen to. They listen to their friends. If their friends

00:43:54.400 say, ah, that Trump guy, that's what opinion a 20-year-old will have. So 20-year-olds don't

00:44:00.640 have their own opinions. I mean, I didn't have one when I was 20. When I was 20, I didn't know anything.

00:44:06.800 My 20-year-old opinions were just worthless, as are everybody's, as are everybody's.

00:44:12.480 So anyway, I don't trust that he was also looking to kill Biden. I just don't think that's true.

00:44:24.160 And I predict that you'll never see a document that is credible to make that claim. I think the

00:44:31.600 government will just say, yeah, we looked at it, and we're telling you we saw it. And then you'll say,

00:44:35.920 well, could we see it? Could we see what you saw? No, it's an ongoing investigation.

00:44:43.920 Right? They don't have to tell us or show us the evidence. They can just say it's an ongoing

00:44:50.000 investigation, and it doesn't seem like it was about Trump per se. Because the worst thing they

00:44:55.840 could say is it was about Trump per se, because that means that the rhetoric of the left actually

00:45:01.680 weaponized him to try to kill him, which is what I think happened most likely. And that would be true

00:45:10.240 with or without it being a wider plot. So at a bare minimum, he was hypnotized, brainwashed into not

00:45:19.600 liking Trump. So we don't know how it happened naturally or from some other source, but he clearly

00:45:25.440 was anti-Trump. I don't think there's any question about that.

00:45:28.400 Here are the things we don't know. We still don't know who to blame, because there's this question

00:45:35.920 about, well, but was there this other sniper? And somebody says that they've got an audio that shows

00:45:43.040 a second shooter. If there's a second shooter, then of course, I would assume that there's a larger plot,

00:45:50.800 because that would sound very Kennedy-esque. We still don't know why the snipers didn't take

00:45:58.160 the shot when they could. We still don't know why the guy was allowed to walk around forever.

00:46:03.040 All of those things point to either a massive security problem or a plot to have poor security

00:46:11.280 and then a weaponized guy. You put them together, boom. But if it's true that he was doing his own

00:46:19.280 research on where the campaign was going to be, so if you had to look it up, that doesn't sound like

00:46:28.080 somebody, doesn't sound like he had a handler, does it? Because if he had a handler, the handler would have

00:46:35.760 told him, this is what you're doing, you know, go there, do this. So it wasn't a handler situation,

00:46:42.320 but it could have been somebody who got hypnotized into doing his own work. So that's still possible.

00:46:50.320 There was the car with the remote control and the bombs. Some say it was to create a diversion.

00:46:56.880 I don't know if that's true, but if it was to create a diversion,

00:47:00.880 that would suggest he had a getaway plan. Although you can't imagine how he thought he

00:47:06.640 would get away. I mean, that's beyond belief. There's a story about he got there in a bicycle,

00:47:13.040 he got there in two different kinds of cars. So even basic facts about how he got there and whether

00:47:18.800 or not, even the question of whether he bought a ladder and carried it there for a mile, or he just

00:47:24.000 climbed up the air conditioning ducts or whatever it was. So almost everything about this is squirrely.

00:47:30.560 So with that much squirrely stuff around,

00:47:36.480 the, yeah, the Cernovich view that he was sort of weaponized by a bad actor,

00:47:41.440 and then poor security was intentional, or they just didn't care about protecting him,

00:47:47.360 which looks the same. Maybe. So I'd say that's very much in the mix. So here's the incompetence

00:47:55.760 argument. So we'll keep both, both arguments alive for now. The incompetence argument looks like this.

00:48:03.440 MKUltra isn't real.

00:48:07.440 It's not real. There's no MKUltra. Now it is true that there was a big program to see if mind control

00:48:15.200 work. But primarily it was with drugs. So they were testing LSD and other drugs to see if you

00:48:22.960 turn somebody into a zombie, I guess. But hypnosis was mentioned as, you know, one of the MKUltra tools.

00:48:32.160 But in my view, you can't really hypnotize somebody into shooting a president and killing themselves at

00:48:36.960 the same time. Now, I'm not going to say it couldn't happen in the most extreme case. I've

00:48:45.200 never seen it though. And it's generally considered true that you can't hypnotize somebody into murder.

00:48:51.200 You could hypnotize somebody into thinking it was their own idea. And you do that by saying that

00:48:57.520 he's Hitler. You do that by saying he's a dictator. You're going to lose your democracy. That's how you

00:49:04.480 do it indirectly. So if you're thinking this young man was individually hypnotized, that's not necessary.

00:49:11.520 You don't need individual hypnosis because the whole country was hypnotized or half of it. So what you

00:49:17.920 need is somebody who's willing to act on it. And that's the hard part. Now, since we know he'd already

00:49:24.400 talked to his schoolmates about threatening to shoot up a school, what does that tell you?

00:49:31.040 If he threatened to shoot up a school and then he did this, it probably has more to do with him wanting to

00:49:39.760 be important. In other words, the reason that you shoot up a school is that you want to die with some

00:49:46.800 glory, basically, even if it's negative glory. You want to be known, even dead. And so I would suggest

00:49:56.640 that maybe he wasn't even that political, but that he changed his target from the school where we would

00:50:03.200 be reviled forever too. And this is horrible, but this is what I think happened. I think he thought

00:50:10.400 he would be seen as a hero if he succeeded. Because it could be that he knew so many Democrats

00:50:16.880 that they would just regard him as a hero. On top of that, it looks like his parents were Trump supporters.

00:50:24.880 Imagine if your parents are Trump supporters and you don't go along with them.

00:50:28.000 So to me, it looks like somebody who needed to be important, couldn't find a way to do it in the

00:50:36.080 normal way. And he probably was somewhat ambivalent about whether he shot Biden, his school or Trump.

00:50:44.400 But when he looked at those three choices, probably said, you know what, Trump's the only one that maybe

00:50:49.600 half the country would think I'm a hero. Because the school shooting would get you zero, you know,

00:50:55.280 zero positive anything. So to me, it looks like somebody who wanted to do something bad.

00:51:01.600 And this is just what he picked. All right. He had access to a gun, easy access to a gun,

00:51:08.800 which suggests not so much a plot. With a plot, you'd expect somebody somehow gets a gun in some

00:51:16.320 illegal way or, you know, already had one maybe. But the fact that it was just a crime of opportunity,

00:51:22.960 you know, he just had access to a high powered rifle. To me, that suggests not a plot.

00:51:28.880 Unless the MKUltra people said, do you have any way to get a hold of a gun? Oh, yeah,

00:51:35.360 I got one in the house. All right, what else?

00:51:42.480 All right. So you've got the police and the socialists and the secret service blaming each

00:51:48.240 other. That sounds more like incompetence. But there were three entities. So there were the local

00:51:54.320 police who were supposed to be doing just traffic. There was a nearby police force,

00:51:59.760 another local police, but not that locality nearby. Apparently they had the sniper position

00:52:05.360 and they would have been controlling the house.

00:52:07.840 And then the secret service would have to deal with two different entities.

00:52:16.160 Now, anybody who's lived in the real world, what happens when three entities are in charge of

00:52:21.440 something? Now, in theory, they're only in charge of their own domains, but it's three entities have

00:52:27.040 some responsibility. How does that work out? In the real world, that's a total clusterfuck,

00:52:32.400 right? On paper, that's a problem. Now, I'm just speculating, but you can imagine something like this. 0.98

00:52:40.880 Hey, local police, are you all set? Yes. And then the secret service guy goes, all right,

00:52:48.800 they've got that building secured. Except he was talking to the wrong local police.

00:52:54.320 He was talking to the ones who were doing traffic. And the traffic guy said, yep, all good on traffic.

00:52:59.680 But he thought that it meant the local police were also securing that building.

00:53:04.400 So maybe they didn't even talk to the sniper team that set up in the window. It's entirely possible

00:53:10.560 that they thought, oh, the local police will be guarding the outside. We'll just set up in this

00:53:15.760 window. We got a better view. Maybe they're not the best or smartest snipers in the world.

00:53:20.480 They just wanted to get out of the sun. But maybe, maybe it gets back to

00:53:27.920 how hard they wanted to protect Trump. If you have a local police sniper group,

00:53:33.920 and they're looking at the roof, where they're going to have a tough day because they'll be in

00:53:38.320 the sun for hours, or they're looking at it indoors, where they've got access to a private bathroom,

00:53:44.320 and they're sitting in the shade. And they don't care so much whether Trump lives or dies.

00:53:51.120 You could see them making just the Wally decision of what's the laziest, easiest thing to do.

00:53:56.080 But if they were protecting their own guy, somebody they really wanted to keep alive,

00:54:02.480 probably get on the roof. So you could imagine that a whole bunch of decisions were made

00:54:07.360 that were all, well, if this mattered more to me, I'd try a little harder. You know, like the real

00:54:13.920 world, like everything in the real world. And let's see, what else we got? We also know that the

00:54:21.680 whistleblower says that the Secret Service had limited resources for Trump because of the NATO

00:54:27.520 summit and Jill was in town. And also whistleblower says that most of the security detail

00:54:35.680 were not even Secret Service. They were Department of Homeland Security assigned and they were

00:54:42.800 unprepared and inexperienced. So I don't know how much that matters. Do you think that the snipers were

00:54:51.680 not Secret Service? I'd have to know if the snipers were Secret Service. Because if they were,

00:54:59.200 you would still make sure that that roof got covered. And if you were less trained,

00:55:06.400 maybe that made a difference. All right. So if you put that all together, there's every

00:55:13.760 there's every indication that would suggest it was mass incompetence with a touch of not caring,

00:55:21.760 right? Not caring enough. But I would say that the theory that there's something deeper

00:55:28.880 is absolutely still alive. All right. Are you happy with that? Both hypotheses are completely alive.

00:55:38.160 And it's not outside what we expect from the dark parts of our government. It's not unprecedented, 0.77

00:55:45.280 if you look at the Kennedy assassination. So I would say this one's a tough one. And then if you add the

00:55:51.840 fact that the perp got killed, and you add the fact that there was opportunity for

00:55:57.840 one of the snipers to take the shot themselves and make it look like it was him, that's a lot of

00:56:02.720 coincidences. A lot of coincidences. Anyway, so over in the Ninth Circuit Court, over in Arizona, there's a

00:56:14.640 there's a ruling in favor of election integrity in Arizona. So voters will have to show proof of

00:56:20.400 citizenship to vote. That seems like a big deal. I don't know how many other places are having something

00:56:27.440 like this. I saw that maybe Nevada went the other way. Anyway. And then this story, which is amusing,

00:56:34.800 Hunter Biden is using the Trump defense to get in some of his troubles. The Trump defense,

00:56:41.040 among others, is that the special counsel was not constitutionally appropriate. In other words,

00:56:50.320 he's using exactly the argument that Trump successfully used on that Judge Cannon situation with Mar-a-Lago boxes,

00:57:00.640 that Jack Smith was not appropriately and legally empowered. And so, and by the way,

00:57:09.360 the Democrats mocked that defense until it worked. They mocked it. I think Joe Biden mocked it too.

00:57:18.160 And now it's the only thing that might keep his son in the prison.

00:57:22.400 So that's kind of perfect. Do you remember Max Boot? Max Boot? So he is a Washington Post columnist

00:57:31.680 and one of the worst of the worst for the Russia collusion theory. He is the sort of person that you

00:57:37.760 don't even imagine is trying to be a legitimate writer. He's just a Democrat, you know, maybe an

00:57:43.760 intelligence asset or something. But he doesn't write like he's a writer. He writes like he's working

00:57:48.720 for somebody who's not the Washington Post. At least that's what it looks like. So he's been the pusher

00:57:54.160 of some major hoaxes and sometimes one of the major pushers of it. Well, some news about him.

00:58:01.520 His wife, Sue Me, Sue Me Terry, but her first part is Sue Me. It's unfortunate. Anyway, she's a former CIA 0.71

00:58:14.640 analyst and she was his wife and she's been indicted for acting as an agent for the South Korean 0.66

00:58:21.440 government without registering. So that would be a far a problem. And I believe that there's an indication

00:58:29.840 that Max Boot has written on the topic of South Korea, maybe in a way that was compatible with

00:58:35.920 what his wife wanted. We don't know that for sure. But she was being paid in expensive meals and handbags. 1.00

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01:00:00.160 Because it sounds more to me like she just had a boyfriend. Because who was she eating the

01:00:05.120 expensive dinners with? She wasn't eating the expensive dinners with her husband? Because

01:00:10.560 that's not mentioned. I don't, you know, I'm not ruling it out. But wouldn't the husband be suspicious

01:00:15.840 about eating dinners that they can't afford on a writer's salary? So the husband never, he wasn't

01:00:24.320 alerted when his wife showed up with a handbag that he never could have afforded. And she probably 0.68

01:00:30.400 couldn't either. Do you know how much an expensive handbag costs, by the way? Sadly, I had to learn this

01:00:37.520 the hard way. An expensive handbag is many thousands of dollars. I mean, it could be $25,000. Now,

01:00:44.960 I doubt it was that. But I mean, it easily could be $5,000 to $14,000 for a handbag.

01:00:52.560 So I think there was $35,000 in total gifts that they calculated. But I'm not sure this is what it

01:01:00.000 looks like. I think she simply had a boyfriend. That's what it looks like. Because who else gives

01:01:08.080 you handbags and dinners? That's pretty boyfriend-ish. That doesn't sound like a spy situation to me.

01:01:16.400 But maybe. I don't know. I'm just speculating. We don't really know.

01:01:20.240 All right. Here's an interesting thing on AI. So China's government may be somewhat limited in their

01:01:31.360 AI push, which they would think is critical to the future, as we all do, because they need to control

01:01:39.040 political speech. So China has this extra problem that they have to teach AI to lie. Otherwise,

01:01:46.960 the whole regime comes down. So they're trying to figure out, how do we teach it to lie,

01:01:52.240 but also tell people it's an advanced intelligence? And I'm thinking, this could be the Achilles heel

01:02:03.040 of China. Because I don't know that the United States will have as big a problem. But I will say 0.90

01:02:08.720 more generally, I don't think governments can survive AI telling the truth. I don't think

01:02:16.000 governments can survive if AI learns to tell the truth. Now, at the moment, it lies automatically,

01:02:23.040 because it'll give you the common narrative. But if you're in China, are they training it only on

01:02:29.360 Chinese propaganda? Or are they training it the way other people do on all the other things happening

01:02:35.040 everywhere else? Are they training it on American data? So I don't think America uses Chinese, do they?

01:02:46.000 I wonder if the American AIs use China data for training. I don't know. But this could be the

01:02:52.320 biggest issue in AI that determines which countries survive is simply who's allowing it to tell the

01:03:01.120 truth. Because if you have to stop it from telling the truth, I mean, it's probably not going to be

01:03:07.760 very good. All right, I see you asking me about Kai, Kai Trump. How many of you saw Don Jr.'s daughter,

01:03:17.840 Kai, give her speech, first speech ever in public, apparently, at the convention?

01:03:22.400 That was genius, by the way. That was genius. Because she just said how great her grandfather

01:03:30.320 was and how kind he is. So the biggest complaint about Trump is he's only in it for himself.

01:03:36.800 It's hard to make that survive when the grandchild gets on and says, no matter what he's doing,

01:03:42.800 he'll call me. Like he'll call me from the golf course, he'll call me from work, calls me all the

01:03:47.440 time, make sure he knows how I'm doing. It's hard to survive that he's so selfish when you see the

01:03:55.760 grandkids say, um, no, you're totally wrong about that. And then some other people say the same thing.

01:04:01.760 I thought the Kai move was brilliant. And beyond that, I would say, we'll see if you had the same

01:04:09.200 feeling. You always wonder about the future because you think that the kids are all messed up now.

01:04:16.800 But every generation thought that. Every generation thinks their children are the ones that are messed up.

01:04:23.760 But watching Kai, who is a very capable human, you really get back your confidence in the youth.

01:04:32.320 It's like, okay, whatever it is that made her, her, we need some more of that. But it was very inspirational.

01:04:41.120 I don't think there could be much more inspirational than seeing a young person nail it on the first

01:04:47.680 try in the hardest place you could ever give a speech. But wow, what poise. And of course she's 0.92

01:04:53.840 beautiful. Surprise. Of course, she's the camera just loves her. So yeah, she's, she's going to be a

01:05:00.960 force to be reckoned with if she goes into politics. All right.

01:05:05.760 Apparently Yemen sent a drone into Tel Aviv and actually caused a death and some, some injuries. So

01:05:19.760 you probably heard that Trump said that

01:05:26.640 the Palestinians better give back are the hostages before he gets into office or they'll be held to 0.96

01:05:32.240 pay. And I thought to myself, he's the only one that knows this isn't a negotiation.

01:05:38.160 That's why Trump's better. Biden thinks it's a negotiation. It's not a negotiation. It's,

01:05:47.280 we're going to end every one of you fuckers until you give back the, the, uh, the hostages. You get 1.00

01:05:53.920 nothing until we get the hostages. And by the way, if it doesn't happen fast, we're just going to

01:05:59.600 mow the lawn. Now, do the Palestinians believe he would act that aggressively? They might. I mean, 1.00

01:06:09.280 that's all it takes. All it takes is they believe the, uh, they believe the threat. But here's the

01:06:15.680 thing. If somebody has your hostages, that's not a negotiation. If you're the powerful one,

01:06:22.160 especially if you don't think there's a good chance they're coming back.

01:06:24.720 If you're the powerful one, you say, here's the deal. If we don't get them back, there's going to

01:06:31.040 be a hell coming toward you that you've never even experienced before. Whatever gains you thought you

01:06:36.000 got out of that, we're going to take them away. We're going to set you back a hundred years.

01:06:41.120 But if you release the hostages, we'll talk. Biden never did that, did he? Did Biden ever give them

01:06:48.400 a direct threat? You need a threat. You need to say, credibly, we will destroy your life for a hundred

01:06:55.920 years. Give them back now. And by the way, that's not a negotiation. That's just what's going to happen.

01:07:03.200 Choose. And then you have to do it. You know, I don't know what that would take. But now, of course,

01:07:08.880 I don't want the poor Palestinian citizens to be, you know, wiped down or something. So ideally, 1.00

01:07:14.640 you don't want to do it or anything like it, but you need to threaten it. You need to make a threat

01:07:22.320 that sounds real. Now, it helps that Trump at one point dropped a mother of all bomb on the,

01:07:27.920 on the, what was it, ISIS or was it Taliban? I can't remember. ISIS, I think. It helps that he's 1.00

01:07:34.320 got a little bit of a history of being a badass. Then you can sell it. Do you think Biden could have

01:07:39.840 sold that threat? Do you think Biden could have said, oh, we're going to really come down hard

01:07:44.800 on you if you don't let, no, no, he doesn't have the ability. Trump has the ability. Now,

01:07:50.640 likewise with this Yemen stuff that's been driving me crazy, Trump says he's going to reduce your costs.

01:07:57.520 The biggest thing you could do fast is to stop the Yemen, the hoodies, I guess, from making all the 1.00

01:08:05.200 shipping go around the long way. So part of the reason that everything costs more is that the

01:08:10.800 ships can't go the short way. They're afraid of the getting a missile attack. Yemen needs to stop it. 0.89

01:08:19.840 And Trump is smart enough to know that there would be a gigantic financial gain, not just in America,

01:08:26.080 but everywhere, if he can scare the hoodies away from their actions. Now, I don't know what that would

01:08:32.240 take, but it would be similar to a Gaza thing where you say, look, you're going to stop doing that.

01:08:39.120 If you don't, Yemen's going to disappear because we can't live with this. This is an unsustainable 1.00

01:08:45.200 situation for the world and for the United States. We want you to know that if you don't stop now,

01:08:51.520 we're going to take out the capital or something. I don't know. That's a bad idea. But you have to do

01:08:56.960 something. I would put the entire fleet and just start hitting them. And I don't think we can put 0.95

01:09:07.120 up with this. So there's so many ways that Trump can fix things fairly quickly, Ukraine war, for

01:09:14.240 example, that when he says, I'm going to bring your costs down, it looks real to me because he has the

01:09:21.200 superpower. He's got the energy. He's got the gods on his side. He's got his reputation as being a

01:09:26.880 badass. He knows how to negotiate. He knows where the biggest lever is to make money. Biden doesn't

01:09:32.320 know any of that. These are things that Biden is just a helpless, hung of skin, basically.

01:09:40.960 So I think you'll see something happen with that. Then lastly, there's studies that say loneliness

01:09:46.720 increase your risk of premature death by nearly 30%. I believe that. And that's why

01:09:54.560 I try to be here every morning, no matter how bad I feel. Yesterday was impossible. So sorry I missed

01:10:00.560 yesterday. That is, by the way, the first sick day I've taken in decades, 30 years. But that one was

01:10:09.920 unavoidable, unfortunately. So I'm back. Well, I'm not back like Trump, but I'm back. And if you'd like to

01:10:20.960 work on your loneliness, every evening, just about every evening, we do a man cave live stream for

01:10:28.000 members of locals. So you'd have to be a member. And we just hang out. And if you saw the vibe,

01:10:36.320 you'd see, it's not so much about me doing a presentation. We're just hanging out. And we're

01:10:42.800 all addicted to it. There are hundreds of us, several hundreds of us that just meet every day.

01:10:47.440 And the people in the comments have made friends and they're supporting each other. People are

01:10:53.040 offering to help each other or just, they only know them from the comments. So, and it's a whole

01:10:58.560 bunch of people who are in some cases, widowed in other cases, just don't have anything else that

01:11:02.960 they would be doing on a Saturday night like me. So, so we've just, we're working on a cure for

01:11:10.720 loneliness. Now I can't cure everybody, but I can cure a few hundred. So if you want to join that fund,

01:11:18.400 it's the scottadams.locals.com is the link, but you'd have to be a member. And that's all I got for

01:11:24.320 you today. Thanks for joining. And I'm going to say hi to the locals people, but I'm going to say

01:11:31.600 bye to the rest of you. And, uh, thanks for joining.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - July 22, 2024

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