Episode 2540 CWSA 07⧸19⧸24
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On today's show, Alex talks about a cyber attack on the DNC, and why he thinks it could have come from Russia. Alex also talks about his recent bout with food poisoning, and how he managed to get through it.
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Well, if you were wondering what happened to the show yesterday, I had a bout of food poisoning.
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I'm pretty sure it was food poisoning. Just before the show was about to begin. And I don't want to
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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
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been in 25 years. And I was pretty much in bad shape for a long, long time. So I'm only about
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20 percent, well, maybe 80 percent of my normal intelligence this morning. One of the things you
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don't realize is that when you get sick, it hits you cognitively. My brain is actually substantially
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slower than it was yesterday. So I'll do my best. But I decided, I woke up this morning,
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and I wasn't 100 percent. And I thought to myself, you know what? If President Trump can take a bullet
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to the ear and jump up and go right back to work, I can have six hours of the worst time of my life
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and jump up and do a fight, fight, fight. And I wasn't planning to do this, but in honor of Hulk Hogan,
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who ripped his shirt off at the RNC. Okay, that's a lot harder than it looks. It's a lot harder than it
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looks. All right. Well, the big story today, besides the RNC, we'll talk about that, is a
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gigantic computer outage. And let's see if this gives you any pause. Let's see. A company called
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CrowdStrike. Hmm. Where have I heard that name before? CrowdStrike. Well, for those users who
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have Windows and they also have CrowdStrike, apparently it took down their systems in a
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really bad way. So I don't know exactly what the problem is, but flights are grounded and 9-11 is
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broken and people can't get hospital reservations and society basically ground to a halt.
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But as I was reminded, Microsoft is a key player in securing the elections.
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So here's my question to you. So CrowdStrike is a cybersecurity software. A big enterprise would
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put it on their computers so that the entire enterprise would be free from cyber attacks
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of various kinds. Now, if you've heard of that name CrowdStrike and you're saying to yourself,
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where have I heard of that before? They're the ones who investigated the DNC hack and decided that it
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was a Russian operation. Which, if you're like me, you said, I don't believe that. First of all,
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I don't believe that they could tell where it came from. You know, if these are like state-level hackers
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and that they would leave a trail, that CrowdStrike could just figure out where that came from.
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Okay. I never believed, I never believed that they had the right identification because everything
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was Russia, Russia, Russia. It's like, oh, there's a hack. Who are you going to blame? How about Russia?
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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.
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It's just that it had that odor to it. So then when you see that there's this big problem with
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cybersecurity, with CrowdStrike, and the question you ask yourself is, wait a minute. What if CrowdStrike
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was on the same computer networks that were doing elections? And let me ask you this. If you were
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going to, let's say, insert some malicious code into a system, what would be the best way to do that?
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I would think it would be embedded in the cybersecurity because cybersecurity would catch
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anybody else doing something bad. The only thing it wouldn't catch is if it were the bad actor itself.
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Now, you may remember, I don't know much about this story, but there was a Russian-made
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cybersecurity program that was recently banned on all government computers. Kaspersky? Kaspersky?
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I may be saying it wrong. Now, why would we ban a Russian cybersecurity software? Well, the only
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reason I can think of, yeah, Kaspersky, right? The only reason I can think of is that we didn't trust
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it, right? Because a security software has got to be the biggest security problem. I'll give you an
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analogy. When I used to work at Pacific Bell, we'd have a lot of problem with theft. So people would
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be losing their stuff all over the place. People were stealing from cubicles. And I got to talk to
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the head of security one day about it. And I said, you know, can you determine where this is? And why
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don't you have enough security? You know, I feel like security should see people carrying out
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computers. And he said, security is who's doing all the stealing. They had determined that most of
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the theft was the security guards themselves, either working with people or doing it themselves.
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So the very best way to steal is if you're the one who's supposed to be stopping the stealing.
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It's the best place to hide. Now, I want to be very careful. I don't want to malign crowd
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strike. There's no evidence whatsoever that they did anything illegal or improper. Let me say that
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as clearly as possible. There's no evidence whatsoever. But we are in a zero trust environment.
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And when something looks like a duck and smells like a duck and walks like a duck,
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it just raises some duck-like suspicions. So if you think that our election systems are secure,
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let me just tell you that I'll bet the 9-1-1 people thought their system was secure.
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What do you think? Do you think the people who designed 9-1-1 systems said to themselves,
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you know what, we're not going to get the best security. We'll just get sort of grade B security
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because, I mean, what difference does it make if you can't call 9-1-1 sometimes?
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No. I would imagine, without being close to it, that the 9-1-1 systems are,
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by their nature, very secure. Do you think the 9-1-1 systems would be more secure than elections?
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What do you think? I feel like those would both be 10 out of 10 in terms of your attempt to make
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them secure. Now, obviously, every company tries to be 100% secure, but some are going to be even
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more secure than that. So if you've got a problem like that with your Windows system, I'd be worried
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about anything with a Windows system. But I don't want to blame Windows, and I don't want to blame
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CrowdStrike. I'm going to make a general comment. The thing you should trust the least is the thing
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that's protecting you from the other stuff. It's just a good general thing to hold in your mind.
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There was a story about DJT stock. That's the true social stuff. And allegedly, before the
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assassination attempt, there was a big short, which means you would make money if it went down.
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And it was a gigantic bet, allegedly. But the company that's responsible for that said, no,
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that was just a mistake in reporting. So they say that there was no gigantic, unusual bet.
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It just looked like it, and then they corrected it.
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Or since we're in a zero-trust environment, it was exactly what it looked like, and they covered for it.
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Now, I'm not accusing them. I'm just saying that in a zero-trust environment,
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I don't know what to believe. But I will tell you that the official story is that that's debunked.
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And I lean toward that being true, because it feels like that'd be hard to cover up.
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We'll see. Anyway, if you watch the Amazon video show, The Boys, apparently their season finale had
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some kind of a politician being assassinated. And so they had to add a statement that it,
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that basically, they changed the name of the title of the show. They had the assassination in it.
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And any similarities between the season finale and the shooting during the Trumps rally?
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Purely coincidental. Purely coincidental, you say.
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Here's what I say. If you were part of some shady deep space thing, deep space, deep state,
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I told you, my brain's only 80% today. Lower your expectations. I'm not really working too well today.
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If you were going to do some kind of MKUltra brain, you know, mass brain control thing on the country
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to increase the chance that Trump got assassinated, you would do fiction that showed him getting
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assassinated. Remember, there was a play. There was, at one point, there was a live play that showed
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Trump getting assassinated. And then apparently this would not be Trump per se, but it was a,
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you know, another thing to put in your head. So if I were trying to get a major politician
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assassinated, and I were a dirty trickster, I would make sure some popular TV shows featured that
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plot. Because all you have to do is make people think about it. You know, if you got a million crazy
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people in the country, out of, you know, 350 million or whatever, if you send the message, you know,
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this bad thing would be a good idea to a million people. You're going to get somebody who says,
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you know, that's, there's an idea. I hadn't thought about that, but I'm getting primed. Yeah,
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it's a priming thing. Again, I'm not going to, I don't, I'm not accusing anybody of doing that.
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I'm just saying that's what it would look like. It would look exactly like that. You'd see fiction
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that somehow, weirdly, coincidentally had that theme in it. But it could also happen just because
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it's a story and politicians getting assassinated. It's not the, it's not really the strangest thing
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for a fiction. So again, these are not accusations. They're just trying to navigate a world with zero
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trust. Well, let's talk about the RNC convention and Trump's speech. First of all, Tucker Carlson
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has his strangest journey, doesn't he? I loved watching Tucker go from canceled to, you know,
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reconstituting his business to be even better than ever. And the next thing you know, he's sitting
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next to Trump and giving a speech at the RNC. And he's giving the speech apparently during his old
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time slot on Fox and they had to cover it. That's the ultimate. They had to cover it.
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Anyway, so he's sitting up there with Trump and allegedly Tucker has some kind of a deal with
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Trump where they're doing a documentary behind the scenes. So they've got a videographer is following
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Trump around. Now that's going to be interesting. I can't wait to see that. All right, let's talk
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about Trump's acceptance speech. Most of you probably saw it. I was in my deathbed trying
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to stay awake long enough to catch most of it, but I caught up on it in the clips and the reactions
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today. But the big story is the energy and the feeling. So even the MSNBC people and the CNN people
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were saying there's something different. The, you know, especially Van Jones was pointing out
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that the, that we haven't seen that kind of positive energy in a convention for a long time.
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You know, maybe Obama was last time, but it was just crazy energy. And you can kind of see why that
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because look at all the things that came together. First of all, everybody loves a comeback story,
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right? When Trump lost the last election, it looked like he not only lost, but he was going to go to
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jail. It looked like that's the biggest losing you could do. You lose the election and you might even
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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.
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But here's, here's my take on that. Trump's comeback story is also your comeback story, isn't it?
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Because if you were a Trump supporter when he went down and then he was just buried with
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legal challenges, did that feel personal? It felt personal to me because if, because if you're
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backing somebody and you know, you identify with them as your team and then you see them taken out
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just savagely. So if you thought this was sort of Trump's comeback, I would argue it wasn't just
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his comeback. He, he's the thing that identifies the comeback, but it was everybody's comeback,
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possibly the country. In many ways, it feels like the country coming back. And boy, do we love a
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comeback story, don't we? I mean, it's perfect cinema quality, the lowest you can go. And here he is,
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here he is. So not only is it a comeback story, but he survived an assassination attempt by what
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looked like divine intervention. Now, before you get on me about my own beliefs, I'm just saying what
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it looked like, right? The reality is way less important. But to many people, including me,
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it was just so suspiciously divine looking, that it's hard to get that out of your head.
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So basically you got, you got a comeback story. You've got a survival of an assassination.
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You've got the fist bumping in the American flag and possibly divine intervention.
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How in the world could that be better? I mean, that's the most energy you can put into one
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situation. And then on top of that, it's the greatest showman of all time. I think you'd agree
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with that, right? Trump is the greatest showman of all time. So if you give that many tools to the
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greatest showman of all time, what's he going to do with it? Well, he's doing what he, what he does.
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Yes. He's just riding this, you know, riding this beast to victory. It looks like now. So even the
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Democrats who talk about the enthusiasm gap, I saw a funny quote from, so I guess Jake Tapper was
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asking his cohorts there. What theme are we seeing at the convention tonight? And Chris Wallace said,
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is that a trick question? Testosterone. And, and he was, it was the most testosterone driven thing
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ever. Now, did we learn anything? Let's see if the Democrats learned everything. So leading with
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testosterone, which would include Hulk Hogan, Dana White, Trump himself, and the entire situation of
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surviving the assassination. That's probably one of the most male, most male things that you could ever
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do. And I think, and even there was some criticism from, I guess, Joey Reed or somebody. No, one of the,
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one of the other MSNBC people was saying that even J.D. Vance's moving statement about wanting to be
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buried with his relatives because, you know, this is his land. He wants to be buried where they are
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many generations. Uh, one of the hosts said, well, that's a white supremacist kind of a thing.
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Now you're going to say to yourself, wait a minute, hold on. What, why does wanting to be buried with
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your family qualify as white supremacy? Well, they were working really hard at this one. It goes like
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this. He's also married. So why does his male burial plot take more precedence than his wife?
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What about her wife's history? Which is by the way, not a terrible point. I mean, but it also is
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consistent with a, let's say, uh, a male frame on things. Let's put it that way. Not, not for good or
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for bad. It's just different. And it's more classic. It, it suggests a different time and it
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suggests a different way of organizing personally as, as well as every other way. So I think what
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happened was besides all the things that just give us so much energy is that the idea to make it more
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testosterone filled was a good one because I think that's how people felt right. When the, when the
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fist went up, you, you felt like fighting. He didn't yell, you know, be calm, yield fight. That's
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very male. All right. If a female politician gets nicked in an assassination attempt, it's very
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unlikely she's going to jump up, put a fist in the air and yell fight. Right. It was just a
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quintessential, the most male thing that ever happened in your life. You've never seen anything
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more male than that. Um, he was angry. I think that's what I liked the best is that he got shot
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and he jumped up angry. That's what I wanted to say. That's what I wanted to say. But he managed to
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channel that anger into a unity pitch. But first I have to tell you, uh, uh, uh, Molly Hemingway's
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joke. When Jake Tapper said, what theme are we seeing at the convention tonight? And Chris Wallace
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said, is that a trick question? It's testosterone. Molly Hemingway quipped, uh, I can see why that would
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be confusing for both of you. That was pretty funny. All right. So, um, the, the speech itself
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was long, I guess is one of the longest speeches. Um, but if there was ever a time when you wanted
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a long speech, it was this, because it didn't matter what he was saying, did it? That as long
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as Trump was talking, you felt connected to all the people in the, in the room and all the other
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people across the country. And so there's never been a better reason for a long acceptance speech.
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You just wanted to revel in it. You wanted to feel it. It didn't matter what he said. You just
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wanted to see him healthy. You wanted to see him in charge and you want to see the reaction. You want
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to see the energy. That's what you wanted. And he got it. He delivered. Now here's the least
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important fact about it. Daniel Dale, the fact checker for CNN said Trump had 22 lies.
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and here's one. He says that, uh, Trump claimed that the Democrats cheated in the 2020 election.
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And that's not true, which is a lie. That's a lie from Daniel Dale. Here, here's what would have
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been true. Trump claimed that there was cheating in 2020, but it hasn't been proven. That would be
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true. But if you're a fact checker and you say it's proven that the election was fair, you're not much
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of a fact checker because that can't be proven. You can only prove you didn't find anything. And it
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doesn't matter whether the election was legitimate or not legitimate. If you're the fact checker and
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you don't know that our elections are not fully auditable and you don't know that there's probably
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a hundred ways you could mess with them. If you didn't know that, you don't belong to be a fact
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checker. That's probably the most basic fact. Uh, and he probably thinks that January 6th was an
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insurrection. So I got real problems with the fact checker. The fact checker failed on the very first
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fact. What else did he say? He said, uh, uh, that Trump said that crime went up under Biden.
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Isn't that? And then he says, that's not true. Crime went down to which I say, first of all,
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that probably gets a little bit of the pandemic effect in there, which they like to forget.
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Uh, and secondly, isn't that because they stopped counting crime and made everything legal?
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You're the fact checker fucker. You better say that something changed in the way you're measuring.
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Now I famously said that all data is fake. This is a good example. So CNN gets on there and he gets
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fact checking and all the fact checking looked fake to me. Fake in the sense that the context was left out.
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If he had said someone up, someone down, I'd say, Oh yeah, maybe if he said, uh, they changed the way,
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you know, you can't really compare because a lot of things became legal that used to be illegal, like stealing
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up to $950. So that was a fake fact check. In my opinion, um, they fact checked him when he said that, uh,
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there were no wars when he was a president and Daniel Dale says, my God, no, there were 51 wars all over
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the country when Trump was president. Well, Daniel Dale, let me explain Trump talk.
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No wars means America was not in a war and not likely to get into one. That's what no wars means.
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If you thought he meant that no other little country in Africa was at war with his neighbor.
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No, he didn't mean that. He meant those were not relevant to us.
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Because I can't name 51 wars. Can you, uh, go ahead, name the 51 wars. They're not important
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to us. So the fact that he can't discern what is just sort of normal political talk. There were no wars.
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He really meant the United States and there wasn't anything that likely we were going to go into.
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So once again, uh, Daniel Dale can't tell the difference between a salesman's exaggeration
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and a fact. Um, there were a bunch of things that I think were just failing the fact check,
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but they're all directionally true. They were all directionally true in the usual way. They were all,
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you know, they were all the things you'd want him to do better on no matter how bad it was or no matter
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how Biden had done compared to him. They're all the things you want him to work on. I'd like to be
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better on crime, better on immigration. So any of those facts that they say he got wrong, totally
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irrelevant. And by the way, I've never seen facts matter less than at this convention.
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Matter less in the sense that it was about energy. It was about energy, really. It was just energy.
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And I've told you that Trump is an energy monster. He can take whatever energy you send him, flip it
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around and use it. And recent events have given him so much energy and he productively employed it,
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just like you, just like you thought he would. Well, on his unity pitch, of course, Democrats will
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say it was a dark, dark thing. I'm sure today they'll be saying that. But here's some of the
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things he said. I am running to be president of all Americans, not half of America. Good start.
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He also said together, we will launch a new era of safety, prosperity, and freedom for citizens
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of every race, religion, color, and creed. The discord and division in our society must be healed.
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As Americans, we are bound together by a single fate and a shared destiny. We rise together,
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we fall apart. Not bad. Now, those are just words, just words. But those are the words you want.
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That's what you want to hear. Do you know what the biggest story the convention's speech was,
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Trump's speech? The biggest story is what he didn't say. The biggest story is what he didn't say.
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He didn't give them red meat. He didn't say that the people coming across the border are all bad.
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He didn't say a lot of things he could have said. I don't even think he mentioned Biden, did he?
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Yeah. Peter Navarro did, which I think was a mistake, actually. Yeah, you don't want to give the
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other side red meat. And I think Trump succeeded in giving them nothing but fact checks that nobody
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cares about. So if they're focusing on the fact checks, Trump wins. And by the way, when Biden talks,
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literally everything he says are lies, but they're the big ones. If Trump tells you there are no wars in
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the world, but there were 51 little wars you don't care about, is that a big deal? No. If he tells you
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something about crime stats, but you think they should have been more clear, is that a big problem?
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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
00:28:01.600
you killed. That gets the opponent killed. And it almost happened.
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,
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.
00:32:45.920
We all knew it. You could have asked Scott. All right. How bad is it for Biden? Well,
00:32:54.960
after watching the most successful convention of all time from his opponent,
00:32:59.760
Biden hears that according to unusual whales on X, a federal appeals court has issued an order
00:33:06.080
temporarily halting the student loan repayment scheme that Biden had. Now that doesn't mean it's
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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Here's some more bad news. There's a story that Biden was trying to
00:33:24.800
talk to his supporters. And he was trying to make them feel more comfortable with him continuing to run.
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
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00:33:48.400
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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
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
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
00:38:39.040
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
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.
00:47:36.480
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.
00:48:07.440
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,
00:51:42.480
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.
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,
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
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citizenship to vote. That seems like a big deal. I don't know how many other places are having something
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like this. I saw that maybe Nevada went the other way. Anyway. And then this story, which is amusing,
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Hunter Biden is using the Trump defense to get in some of his troubles. The Trump defense,
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among others, is that the special counsel was not constitutionally appropriate. In other words,
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he's using exactly the argument that Trump successfully used on that Judge Cannon situation with Mar-a-Lago boxes,
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that Jack Smith was not appropriately and legally empowered. And so, and by the way,
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the Democrats mocked that defense until it worked. They mocked it. I think Joe Biden mocked it too.
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And now it's the only thing that might keep his son in the prison.
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So that's kind of perfect. Do you remember Max Boot? Max Boot? So he is a Washington Post columnist
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and one of the worst of the worst for the Russia collusion theory. He is the sort of person that you
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don't even imagine is trying to be a legitimate writer. He's just a Democrat, you know, maybe an
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intelligence asset or something. But he doesn't write like he's a writer. He writes like he's working
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for somebody who's not the Washington Post. At least that's what it looks like. So he's been the pusher
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of some major hoaxes and sometimes one of the major pushers of it. Well, some news about him.
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His wife, Sue Me, Sue Me Terry, but her first part is Sue Me. It's unfortunate. Anyway, she's a former CIA
00:58:14.640
analyst and she was his wife and she's been indicted for acting as an agent for the South Korean
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government without registering. So that would be a far a problem. And I believe that there's an indication
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that Max Boot has written on the topic of South Korea, maybe in a way that was compatible with
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what his wife wanted. We don't know that for sure. But she was being paid in expensive meals and handbags.
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She was being paid in expensive meals and handbags.
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Now, does that sound like she's a spy? Does that sound like she was just cheating on her husband?
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I started wondering, is every fabulous item I see from Winners? Like that woman over there with
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the designer jeans. Are those from Winners? Ooh, are those beautiful gold earrings? Did she pay full
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Because it sounds more to me like she just had a boyfriend. Because who was she eating the
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expensive dinners with? She wasn't eating the expensive dinners with her husband? Because
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that's not mentioned. I don't, you know, I'm not ruling it out. But wouldn't the husband be suspicious
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about eating dinners that they can't afford on a writer's salary? So the husband never, he wasn't
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alerted when his wife showed up with a handbag that he never could have afforded. And she probably
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couldn't either. Do you know how much an expensive handbag costs, by the way? Sadly, I had to learn this
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the hard way. An expensive handbag is many thousands of dollars. I mean, it could be $25,000. Now,
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I doubt it was that. But I mean, it easily could be $5,000 to $14,000 for a handbag.
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So I think there was $35,000 in total gifts that they calculated. But I'm not sure this is what it
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looks like. I think she simply had a boyfriend. That's what it looks like. Because who else gives
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you handbags and dinners? That's pretty boyfriend-ish. That doesn't sound like a spy situation to me.
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But maybe. I don't know. I'm just speculating. We don't really know.
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All right. Here's an interesting thing on AI. So China's government may be somewhat limited in their
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AI push, which they would think is critical to the future, as we all do, because they need to control
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political speech. So China has this extra problem that they have to teach AI to lie. Otherwise,
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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
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of China. Because I don't know that the United States will have as big a problem. But I will say
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more generally, I don't think governments can survive AI telling the truth. I don't think
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governments can survive if AI learns to tell the truth. Now, at the moment, it lies automatically,
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because it'll give you the common narrative. But if you're in China, are they training it only on
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Chinese propaganda? Or are they training it the way other people do on all the other things happening
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everywhere else? Are they training it on American data? So I don't think America uses Chinese, do they?
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I wonder if the American AIs use China data for training. I don't know. But this could be the
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biggest issue in AI that determines which countries survive is simply who's allowing it to tell the
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truth. Because if you have to stop it from telling the truth, I mean, it's probably not going to be
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very good. All right, I see you asking me about Kai, Kai Trump. How many of you saw Don Jr.'s daughter,
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Kai, give her speech, first speech ever in public, apparently, at the convention?
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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.
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It's hard to make that survive when the grandchild gets on and says, no matter what he's doing,
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he'll call me. Like he'll call me from the golf course, he'll call me from work, calls me all the
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time, make sure he knows how I'm doing. It's hard to survive that he's so selfish when you see the
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grandkids say, um, no, you're totally wrong about that. And then some other people say the same thing.
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I thought the Kai move was brilliant. And beyond that, I would say, we'll see if you had the same
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feeling. You always wonder about the future because you think that the kids are all messed up now.
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But every generation thought that. Every generation thinks their children are the ones that are messed up.
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But watching Kai, who is a very capable human, you really get back your confidence in the youth.
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It's like, okay, whatever it is that made her, her, we need some more of that. But it was very inspirational.
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I don't think there could be much more inspirational than seeing a young person nail it on the first
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try in the hardest place you could ever give a speech. But wow, what poise. And of course she's
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beautiful. Surprise. Of course, she's the camera just loves her. So yeah, she's, she's going to be a
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force to be reckoned with if she goes into politics. All right.
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Apparently Yemen sent a drone into Tel Aviv and actually caused a death and some, some injuries. So
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the Palestinians better give back are the hostages before he gets into office or they'll be held to
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pay. And I thought to myself, he's the only one that knows this isn't a negotiation.
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That's why Trump's better. Biden thinks it's a negotiation. It's not a negotiation. It's,
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we're going to end every one of you fuckers until you give back the, the, uh, the hostages. You get
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nothing until we get the hostages. And by the way, if it doesn't happen fast, we're just going to
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mow the lawn. Now, do the Palestinians believe he would act that aggressively? They might. I mean,
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that's all it takes. All it takes is they believe the, uh, they believe the threat. But here's the
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thing. If somebody has your hostages, that's not a negotiation. If you're the powerful one,
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especially if you don't think there's a good chance they're coming back.
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If you're the powerful one, you say, here's the deal. If we don't get them back, there's going to
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be a hell coming toward you that you've never even experienced before. Whatever gains you thought you
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got out of that, we're going to take them away. We're going to set you back a hundred years.
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But if you release the hostages, we'll talk. Biden never did that, did he? Did Biden ever give them
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a direct threat? You need a threat. You need to say, credibly, we will destroy your life for a hundred
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years. Give them back now. And by the way, that's not a negotiation. That's just what's going to happen.
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Choose. And then you have to do it. You know, I don't know what that would take. But now, of course,
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I don't want the poor Palestinian citizens to be, you know, wiped down or something. So ideally,
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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,
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on the, what was it, ISIS or was it Taliban? I can't remember. ISIS, I think. It helps that he's
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,
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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
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.
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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
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take, but it would be similar to a Gaza thing where you say, look, you're going to stop doing that.
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If you don't, Yemen's going to disappear because we can't live with this. This is an unsustainable
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situation for the world and for the United States. We want you to know that if you don't stop now,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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bunch of people who are in some cases, widowed in other cases, just don't have anything else that
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they would be doing on a Saturday night like me. So, so we've just, we're working on a cure for
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loneliness. Now I can't cure everybody, but I can cure a few hundred. So if you want to join that fund,
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it's the scottadams.locals.com is the link, but you'd have to be a member. And that's all I got for
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you today. Thanks for joining. And I'm going to say hi to the locals people, but I'm going to say
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bye to the rest of you. And, uh, thanks for joining.