Episode 2542 CWSA 07⧸21⧸24
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Elon Musk's $45 million a month for a super PAC for Trump is not true. Israel and Yemen are fighting over a drone attack, and a woman in Yemen wants to change her name to "Yemeni Woman."
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Ah, so good. So, so good. Well, the news is weird and not the most interesting thing in the world,
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but the important part is that there's nothing else good on television. There are no other podcasters
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doing anything right now. I'm really the best you got, if you want to talk about this sort of stuff.
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First, uh, Israel has attacked a Yemen, because Yemen attacked Israel first with a drone attack
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that killed, killed one and injured a bunch. And so Israel had been warning that if any of their
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many attacks, I guess Yemen has attacked Israel a bunch of times with missile type things. But
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Israel has successfully shot them down until this last one got through. And so Israel responded with a
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long range, um, air attack, which, uh, took out the, well, it was an attack on the port of, uh,
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who did I, who did I, who data, who data. You know, when you want to know the proper pronunciation
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of things around the world probably shouldn't watch this. I'm usually just guessing. Okay. It's called
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the port of, uh, anyway, so the port of got, uh, massively attacked giant fireball. Um, will that
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stop Yemen? Of course not. Of course not. Won't even slow them down. Now, Yemen of course is supported
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by Iran. Iran says, we don't know what you're talking about. Well, we're not giving any weapons
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to Yemen. Yet all those Iranian weapons keep showing up. Hmm. Huh. So, but the important thing
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is that, uh, Yemen, um, is changing their name to, uh, yeah, woman. Yeah, woman. Cause Yemen
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kind of sexist really, if you think about it. So it'll be, yeah, yeah, woman in the future.
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Um, do you know that story that every one of you heard, uh, that Elon Musk donated $45 million a
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month to President Trump's, to a PAC for President Trump? You remember that story? It's not true.
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Can you believe that? That story's not true. That that's been like one of the most basic stories
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you've seen in the news last several days. Elon Musk is going to do $45 million a month, a month
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in a super PAC for Trump. Nope, not true. How do I know? Cause Musk said it's not true.
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So here's what is true. There he is, he does have a fund, uh, but it's not specifically for Trump.
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It's for candidates who are basically putting merit above DEI. So what he does have is an anti-DEI fund,
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meaning that he will be supporting people who are, uh, in favor of, um, merit as opposed to,
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you know, identity, I guess. And, uh, he says it isn't funded at anywhere near that level of $45
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million. So that whole story, it was just bullshit. Does that just blow your mind a little bit
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that the things you think are like, well, okay, I know that for sure, but it took him a long time
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to debunk it, didn't it? You would think that would be the same day that Musk would have said,
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no, no, I didn't do that. I mean, it was such a big story. You'd think it would be 10 minutes
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later that there would be community note and he would debunk it anyway. So don't believe anything.
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So here's a theme, which I've been, uh, thinking about a lot, which is that a lot can happen
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between one presidential race and another. And especially in the Trump era, because it's a
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three race situation. It's his third time he's been in it. And to a large extent, it's, you know,
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the usual suspects, you know, lining up on one side, but there are a lot of new ones, a lot of new
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people in the Trump camp. And one of the things I started noticing as a pattern is there's something
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happening on the right that I don't think is happening on the left. And I don't know exactly
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why, but here's the pattern. And you tell me if, if this seems like a real pattern, tell me if you
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think I'm just imagining this. It seems to me that the people who maybe you could loosely say are pro
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Trump, or at least not anti-Trump, which ends up being pretty close to the same thing. Uh, don't just
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talk about the news. So both the left and the right have plenty of people who are pundits
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who just talk about the news. Both the left and the right have plenty of people who are politicians
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that take their various sides and talk like politicians. Both sides have, you know, biased
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people on TV who, you know, what they're going to say before they say it. So there's no point in
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having them because, you know, it's just going to be talking points kind of thing. But there's
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something happening on the right that is, seems new and different, which is a bunch of figures that
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I would consider teachers. So they're teaching you how to understand what you're saying. And that's
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different. That's different from just saying, Oh, I watched Trump's rally and I think he was acting
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like a dictator. And then somebody else will say, I watched that same rally and I interpret it as being
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exactly the opposite of what you just said. Now that's not any good for anybody, right? Like,
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what did you learn from that? Just two people lying and nothing, but I'm going to, I'm going to go
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through some examples. You see what I mean? For example, let's say Glenn Greenwald. Thanks to him,
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I have a whole new and better understanding of the connection between the CIA and our intelligence
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people and the media. And so now I can identify, thanks to Greenwald, when there's an obvious
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Intel related news event, you can look at the person, you could go, Oh, it's that network. Oh,
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it was that specific person who's been identified as, you know, an obvious Intel connected person.
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And then, then Greenwald will also tell you, Oh, this person pushed this thing that wasn't true.
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And this thing that wasn't true. And suddenly the news looks different, right? I'm not just taking
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sides. I've learned the gears of the machine, but just in that one domain, right? The connection
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between Intel and, and the media, but that's a big thing. I mean, it's a really big thing. If you
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don't understand that connection, I'll give you another one. Michael Schellenberger. Thanks to him
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and you know, not him exclusively, but Mark Schneider earlier. But Schellenberger is probably the biggest
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voice that convinced us that we weren't seeing nuclear energy correctly. That if you looked at it
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more rationally, you'd see that there, there are plenty of ways to handle the waste, the modern
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device, the modern, um, plants have never had a meltdown. You know, the, the current technology
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has never had a meltdown. It's the old technology that's had meltdowns. So there's a whole bunch of
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stuff we learned about the whole energy. And even in a sense, comparing it to climate change and what
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you can do that, I don't think the left learned. I didn't see a ton of people educating the left.
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Okay. Maybe you don't understand nuclear energy well enough. Let's explain what is really dangerous.
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What is really safe compared, you know, rational way. So, so Schellenberger is like a teacher, right?
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He's, he's a journalist, so he's breaking stories as well, but he, he treats it more like he's teaching.
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And that's, that's where I learned a lot of what I know on that topic. Likewise, Schellenberger taught
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us about the, and Matt Taibbi about the, uh, social media connection to the government.
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Now, if you didn't know about that, how deep that connection was, you would be really flying blind
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in understanding the world you live in. That's an important part of the machine to know that the
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social media entities have been until X, we hope, uh, have been so, let's say, cooperative with the
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government that it was effectively a restriction of your first amendment, you know, indirectly.
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So what about, uh, Mike Benton's? If you're not following Mike Benton's, you're crazy.
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He's done the best job of explaining what he calls the blob. Uh, that's not his own word for it,
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but the blob being the big military, industrial, uh, state department, intelligence, people,
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politics, and how the, how it's always, you know, worked as sort of a coordinated blob of power.
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Now, if you didn't know about that blob and how long that's been powerful and what they do and what
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they can do, what they can not do, you really wouldn't understand your world too well.
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You wouldn't at all. And Ben's does an amazing job of explaining that on a regular basis. Again,
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he's not breaking news, although often, you know, he puts together observations that you haven't seen
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before, but he's simply explaining how the machine works. Hey, everybody, here's the machine.
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Here's this moving part. And then this is connected to that moving part. Who's doing that on the left?
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You start to see the pattern. No, and there's more. Let's take, uh, the all in pod. So with Sachs and
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Chamath, uh, Peta, Petya, I hope I'm saying that close to right. David Sachs and the other guys. Uh,
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but, but those two in particular, um, Sachs and, uh, Chamath, they don't just talk about the news.
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They help you understand it. So when they're telling you about the news or also explaining the
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context and why that matters and what it's connected to, that's very different. It, you know,
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you don't see them doing just the biased political stuff. You know, you see them actually grappling with
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actual observations of real things and how it all connects to other things. Very important.
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Um, about, uh, uh, Cernovich, of course is, can't be compared to anything, but how many things has
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Cernovich explained to you like a teacher, you know, not just somebody breaking a news story,
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but a teacher, how this is connected to something else all the time. It's every day. How about, uh,
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Elon Musk himself? How often has Elon Musk explained something to you that you needed explained?
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Happens all the time. He doesn't just give you his opinion. He doesn't just take the side,
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Biden bad, Trump good, or anything like that. He just tells you how things are connected. You know,
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what, what works with what? Uh, and of course, Vivek is the, basically the, he's like a teaching
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machine. Vivek has all the connections. Well, what about this is connected to this? You should
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expect this. Vivek goes even further. He tells you that the machine predicts the following outcome
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and that he can play along and you can watch how the machine operates. You can see his prediction
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and then you can see if he called it right. This is a whole different level of what I think is
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happening on the left, although I might be blind to it. So it could be that I'm, I'm just not seeing it.
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But I asked the other day, you know, who else is doing this kind of thing? And, uh, I didn't see,
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I didn't see suggestions that I accepted as being in the same category. Let's take relationships and
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just the category of success. Jordan Peterson. Now, I don't know the degree to which he has
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as many followers on the left, but if you're on the right, you're always saying Jordan Peterson,
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if you're on social media and you're seeing him explain what makes sense from a human being
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in a civilization sense, almost again, like a machine, like, okay, a human has this, these drives
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and these motivations. And there's, you know, this chemical signature under this situation,
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very much like describing the gears of the machine. And if you do this, it will cause your dopamine to do
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this. And if your dopamine does this, you're going to do that. You know, I'm simplifying,
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of course, but, but to actually see the gears of the machine, it's everywhere on the right.
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Wouldn't you agree? Now, some of that turns into conspiracy theory,
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You know how play is good for kids? Apparently if you're a kid and you never get to go outside and
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play or play with your friends, you're just not going to develop right. So you need to play. It's
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important. You need to brainstorm. You know, you need to see different things. I think all the
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conspiracy theory is sort of people working through the machine. In other words, people who have the
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conspiracy theory are trying to apply it to what they've learned about the machine. You know, how the
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government really works, how the intelligence people really work, how the military industrial complex
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really works, how the press is really bullshit, and they take all those things they know about the
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machine, and then they take each news story, such as the attempted assassination of Trump, and you put
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it in the machine. And it's a way to test the machine. But some of it, I think, is closer to play
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than it is to knowledge. And that as much as you wish there were not weird conspiracy theories that
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turn out to be false and maybe mislead you, we all wish we were less misled by conspiracy theories.
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But I'm not sure that they're without value. I feel like a healthy society would understand how
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everything is connected. And then when a new thing comes up, they would apply that knowledge and say,
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you know what, this certainly opens the possibility of a second shooter or something, because we've seen
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that before. So I think even the conspiracy theories are people running through the right process,
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maybe not always getting the right answer, but running through the right process of knowing what's
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connected to what else. And I, of course, spend most of my time trying to do exactly this. I'm doing it
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right now. So what I'm doing right now, for example, is explaining. I'm telling you that there's something
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about the right that's functionally different, like two different cars are different, right?
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So there's something that made the people on the right way, way smarter and far more likely not to
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be fooled by fake news. In my opinion, the people on the right have learned a set of skills. And I would
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like to think that I'm part of that in the sense of teaching you how to identify fake news. And I put my
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own filters on stuff. So I say, when it's appropriate, I say, well, I've reminded you too
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many times that I have a degree in economics. So here's what an economist would say looking at this
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situation. Here's what a business person would say looking at this situation. And I think all of those
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filters give you tools. It allows you to say, all right, well, what did an economist say in this
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situation? Well, what does follow the money tell us in this situation? So, and you saw, I think, during the
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pandemic, maybe that's when things got solidified. But during the pandemic, would you agree that the people
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on the right may have ended up with pretty good, pretty good analysis of the machine? Because the people on the
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right didn't trust the machine. They said, wait a minute, money involved, these are the people we don't trust from
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other reasons. You know, too little time has gone by for the time it would take you to develop
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something that satisfied you. So what would be the logical outcome of that? So if you were to say,
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all right, Scott, let's take your proposition there. And let's say, if it were true, how would that turn
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out? Well, if it were true that the political right had turned into a teaching machine,
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a teaching machine, and the political left had turned into an identity machine with mostly just
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accusations. You're a white supremacist. I'm black. I'm a woman. I'm an LGBTQ. You're a bad person.
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Right. So we'll talk about their prediction. But if you were to predict what would happen if one side
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just started teaching and just getting smarter? Well, one thing you should assume is that it would
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start attracting other smart people. Because the smart people are going to say, why is this group
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sometimes wrong? You know, definitely sometimes has a lot of conspiracy theories. But why are they at
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least thinking through it the right way? Like, why is this different over this side? There's something
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that's rationally based. And I would also say that a big change, and this is probably Trump as much as
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anything, when I was young, I never would have been associated with the political right. And the
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primary reason was that I saw that their main driver was religion. And that religion was informing
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their policies to a degree that I wasn't comfortable with, because I didn't share the
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religious beliefs. But I think that the right has changed now, so that they accept the religious
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belief is sort of their business. In the rarest case, just really, it's just, I'd say at this point,
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abortion. It comes through. And it's, you know, it's a big decider in that case. But generally speaking,
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I would say the political right is trying to lead with what makes sense. And then also,
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can I enjoy my religion, please? Does it feel like that? Because there's no longer this moral
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majority, you know, you've all got to go to church, hey, everybody go back to church. It felt a little
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preachy to me in the past. And now it just feels like freedom. Oh, oh, you want to vote for a qualified
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government? I do too. All right. So we're on the same page. Oh, you would like to privately
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enjoy your religion in all the ways that are good, because you've shown that the religion works.
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Excellent. Please go do that. And do it a lot. Like, I want you to be just as religious as you want to be.
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I love it. As long as it's not informing all of my political opinions. And you can only pick a,
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you can only pick a president who's got your same religion and agrees with all that stuff. No.
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So I think if you look at the right, there, the rights, let's say the way they treat their own
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religious faith is now very compatible with any smart person, whether they agree with your religious
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faith or not, because it's freedom. It's just freedom. Of course, I want you to be free
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to practice your religion, if it agrees with me or not, as long as it's legal.
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the other side. Now, the other side, oh, well, to finish the thought, what you would expect is
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that the smart people would start streaming over to the right. People who don't identify with the
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religious part, but no longer see it as a big obstacle. It's simply part of freedom. And I think
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the all-in pod would be an example of that. I don't think I've seen any of them ever mention religion.
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It's just not necessary. Because you can be fully embraced in a pro-Trump way with any religion.
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It doesn't matter. Elon Musk doesn't seem to have a religion that matters, but he can be in favor of
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good policies and strong immigration. No problem with that. So I think what's happened is you're
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seeing the migration of the smartest people moving right, because identity is just fucking stupid.
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Let me say it again. Emphasizing identity is fucking stupid, and every smart person knows it.
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If I can be honest, every smart person knows that focusing on identity is fucking stupid.
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And in the long run, what's it going to get you? If you were to draw that up on paper and say,
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all right, let's see, I think we Democrats, we need to focus more on identity and intersectionality
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and race and gender and sexual preference. That's really going to be our focus. If somebody told
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you that before it ever happened, what would you predict would be the fate of their party,
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the Democrat Party? If you just saw it written down on a PowerPoint slide, we're going to change
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our focus to DEI and CRT and the SG. Well, I think you would predict, because you see the
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gears of the machine, you say, wait a minute, if you're focusing on your identity, doesn't
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this guarantee that sometime not that far in the future, that the Democrat Party will atomize
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into these different tribes that hate each other? Because won't the black people who are
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looking for their identity benefits maybe come in conflict with the white women who want
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theirs and the LGBTQ and here we are. So the right says, what's the best frame where everybody's
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better off? And the answer is nation. Nation is and always was the correct frame for bringing
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us together and making us a successful country. And the melting pot, in my opinion, was the strongest
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thing America's ever done as a concept. Strongest thing is to say everybody's American. And that's
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your primary overarching philosophy. Everybody's American. Let's start there. Now, what would
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you expect would be the fate of that party? Just what you say. You would expect that the right
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would turn into a highly capable machine because people of all types would say, wait a minute,
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I don't have to be black or white or anything. I could be over there. And wait, why is Elon Musk
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seemingly friendly to that side? He's so smart. Wait, what are these all-in pod guys doing?
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They all made so much money because they're so smart. Why are they over there? Right? So you're
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seeing this big magnet that's just sucking the smart, non-crazy people in one direction. And meanwhile,
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the poor Democrats, can you believe that they can't even figure out a presidential candidate
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right before the election? Have you ever seen anything in your whole life as incapable as the
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Democrats right now? And why is that? It's because of their identity issue. It's exactly what you would
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have known. Every one of you would have anticipated this, right? If I'd given you the test 10 years ago,
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all right, one group's going to focus on America. One group is going to focus on identity. You would
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have known exactly where this would turn out. There would be no mystery here at all. You'd say, oh,
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the identity people would start fighting with each other. Why? Because of their identity.
00:28:10.500
So sure enough, black Democrats seem to be wanting to keep Biden for whatever reason. I don't know if
00:28:18.900
the reasons are good or bad, but they get to have their own reasons and they want to keep them.
00:28:24.100
Meanwhile, there are a bunch of other people, maybe other identities who say, you know,
00:28:29.240
maybe time to get rid of them. But they use their identity to put Kamala Harris in place.
00:28:34.360
And it turns out nobody thinks she's really capable, at least capable enough to win. And now they can't
00:28:44.300
replace her because they focused on identity and they can't win with her. And they can't make any
00:28:50.400
decision because they just have two losing paths. And what do the Republicans have? Republicans ran
00:29:00.180
a primary. They used a process, which guaranteed that when we got to this date, everything would be
00:29:10.720
unified as much as possible. And that the Republicans would be just chugging along like this magnificent,
00:29:18.860
well-oiled machine with, by the way, I don't know how many times I'm going to say it because I like
00:29:25.460
saying it. Trump has really good advisors. We're going to talk about that in some more detail.
00:29:31.520
He has really good advisors and it's not an accident. It's because the smart people have
00:29:36.700
all been drawn to the same side because the smart people are running away from this identity argument.
00:29:42.540
They're running hard. So we're right where we expect to be. All right, let's give you some examples.
00:29:49.600
You know that if you learned how the hoax machine works, and I've been teaching you that,
00:29:57.200
how many of you knew that there would be a summer hoax? All right, you tell me. Let's see how educated
00:30:04.060
you are on how the world works. How many of you knew months before it happened that there would be a big
00:30:10.980
new summer hoax, which turns out to be the Project 2025 thing? You all knew, right? Every one of you
00:30:20.040
knew, oh, there's going to be a brand new summer hoax, and the media will play it up, and they'll act
00:30:25.240
like it's real, and it will be obviously not real. And sure enough, so here's Hakeem Jeffries
00:30:32.020
saying, let's be clear. He says this in a post on X. Let's be clear. Donald Trump is lying about
00:30:39.580
Project 2025. So Trump gives his big rally we'll talk about in some more detail. But one of the
00:30:49.380
things he said was, you know, they keep saying I'm in favor of this Project 2025 thing. No, those are
00:30:56.220
extremists. You know, some of them are, I know, and they're fine, and, you know, but the stuff in
00:31:02.100
there is extreme. And I see it like there's extremists on the left, there's extremists on the right,
00:31:08.180
and the 2025 stuff is, you know, a lot of it is extremists on the right, and I reject it. You can see
00:31:15.440
my plan. It's published. He's got his own plan of what he wants to do. Now, Hakeem Jeffries
00:31:22.800
tells you he's lying about his own platform. Let me ask you this. Has that ever happened?
00:31:32.140
Has anybody ever lied about their own platform? Certainly, you know, politicians lie, and they
00:31:39.700
might lie about individual things. But has anybody ever run for office with a whole different agenda
00:31:46.740
than the one that they said they have? I mean, usually you can tell what they want before you
00:31:52.680
elect them. But apparently, the left with their big summer hoax wants you to believe that Trump is
00:31:59.820
running for president, and that all of the Republicans around him that would have to agree
00:32:05.620
sort of on the, you know, what the platform is, that they're all in on this major hoax where they
00:32:11.880
really want to do this Project 2025 thing, or they think Trump wants to do it, and that the real thing
00:32:18.200
that the Republicans are going to do is ignore their own platform. You would have to know nothing
00:32:24.280
about Republicans to think that's the case. Now, you might say, you know, the team that does
00:32:30.880
hoaxes one after another, the Democrats, the hoaxers might tell you they're going to do one
00:32:35.560
thing and then do something else. Because I don't think that Biden ever said he was going to open up
00:32:40.520
the border, right? I don't think he said, I'll just let everybody come in. So you can certainly see
00:32:46.660
on, you know, individual things that they might not do what they said they were going to do.
00:32:50.280
But what if Republicans done that? Is that a Republican thing? Because remember, it wouldn't
00:32:57.400
be just Trump. It would have to be a whole constellation of Republicans had somehow gotten
00:33:04.040
together and there'd been no leaks, no whistleblowers, you know, no anonymous sources. And they'd all
00:33:10.680
colluded to pretend that they had one set of policies. But really, Hakeem Jeffries knows that
00:33:18.480
they have a secret set of policies that they don't. So you can all see all of the gears of that
00:33:27.440
machine, right? Probably every one of you right now this morning says, yeah, we knew the hoax was
00:33:34.580
coming. We knew how it's developed. We know, you know, that it's not Trump's thing. We know he's got
00:33:40.620
his own thing. We know the media is coordinated as a Democrat machine, essentially. So they're going
00:33:46.720
to say over and over that it's true and it's not. So now suppose you're a Democrat and you haven't
00:33:55.360
been trained in this way to see all the gears of the machine. You turn on the TV and the news says,
00:34:02.120
Hakeem Jeffries says Trump is lying and he's going to do all these Project 2025 things.
00:34:07.180
What would you do? If you had no background in training in what's really the way things work,
00:34:13.080
you'd say, man, what's in that thing? And then they'd give you some scary things that are in that.
00:34:18.920
And you say, oh my God, that sounds pretty dangerous. Yeah, it matters if you know how things work.
00:34:27.440
Here's another thing I was thinking about. Mike Benz once said there are three or four major
00:34:35.460
power sources. So a president is going to do well if those power sources support the president. For
00:34:44.740
example, the energy industry is one of the big power sources in the country. Now, Trump presumably
00:34:55.460
would be loved by the energy business because he would promote more drilling, drill baby drill and
00:35:02.280
fewer regulations. So one assumes that the energy industry would have a major preference for Trump
00:35:09.940
over Biden. Fair enough. You would all buy that, right? How about finance? Finance, I'm not sure has
00:35:19.600
ever, well, I don't know. I don't know the history. But if you say that Jamie Dimon is the sort of the big
00:35:28.800
name in finance. And he recently didn't say he was pro-Trump, but he did say on television when the
00:35:36.800
cameras were running, well, Trump has been right about a number of things. He said, you know, let's
00:35:43.640
be realistic. You know, if we're just being objective, Trump got a bunch of things right.
00:35:53.800
but it was kind of brave that he would say anything pro-Trump, even with caveats. So I feel
00:36:00.780
like finance might be leaning toward Trump a little bit and the Republicans just for a fiscal,
00:36:07.500
a little bit of fiscal control. Now, I'm not going to argue that the Republicans have better fiscal
00:36:12.980
control. I think they have an intention of better fiscal control. Actual performance,
00:36:19.700
not impressive. But just in terms of which groups are going to support which candidates,
00:36:25.680
I don't think Biden has a big advantage in the finance group.
00:36:30.340
Then look at tech. Another power source is all the tech people, high tech. It looks like Trump
00:36:38.020
either owns that or he's taking a big bite out of it. I mean, now we're seeing big venture capitalists
00:36:43.940
and, you know, Musk, of course, and far more people than you would have expected. And now J.D. Vance
00:36:49.920
is popular apparently in the tech world. And then the military industrial complex. This would be the
00:36:57.600
hardest one for Trump because he's anti-war and the military industrial complex makes money when
00:37:04.120
there's war. But Trump does have a play. If his play is, I'm going to be Reagan and I'm going to build
00:37:11.520
up our military. That's expensive. So you could imagine them saying, oh, we do like the wars because
00:37:18.760
we make a lot of money with the wars, but we also like the rebuilding. Maybe even better because we
00:37:25.940
have to, you know, build up our stockpiles of all kinds of shells and weapons and planes and replace
00:37:32.940
our old stuff. So of these four big sources, the energy, group, finance, high tech, and military
00:37:39.680
industrial complex. Trump either already has the dominant position or he has a good enough argument.
00:37:47.860
I've never seen that before. Now, again, who on the Democrat side is explaining to their people
00:37:56.840
that there are kind of four power sources in the country? If you don't understand how each of them
00:38:02.580
likes the candidates, you're going to be surprised at their outcome, right? Now, this is, you know,
00:38:07.980
Mike Benz is the godfather of this stuff. Now, doesn't that make you feel smarter? You're actually
00:38:15.940
learning how the machine works. All right. So here's some things about, so Trump gave his first big
00:38:25.060
rally since the assassination attempt. My observation is, how hard is it to go back in public after
00:38:35.420
somebody shot at you? Just ask yourself how easily you could do that. I don't know how easy it was
00:38:43.780
for Trump. It couldn't have been super easy, but you sure made it look easy. You made it look easy.
00:38:51.840
And yeah, as others who are smarter talk about bravery, bravery isn't about how you feel about it.
00:39:00.060
You know that, right? Bravery is not about how afraid you are. Bravery is doing it anyway.
00:39:06.240
So the only part you can measure is, did he do it anyway? Yes, he did. So we don't have to wonder
00:39:13.620
about, you know, what was in his internal dialogue in his mind. He did it. He did it. That's the end
00:39:21.560
of the story, right? It took bravery. He did it. So that was good. It didn't take long. He was back in
00:39:28.840
the saddle. One hopes he had better secret service protection by then. But he seemed very relaxed,
00:39:35.400
very happy, seemed to be on a just complete high. And I believe he's already modified his approach
00:39:42.300
into what I'm going to call presidential. There's a whole different mode when you're in pure campaign
00:39:51.060
mode. But at the moment, he doesn't even know who he's running against. Think about that. He doesn't
00:39:56.540
know who he's running against. Not really. So given that people are assuming he's going to win
00:40:02.940
under our current set of situations, he's running like he already won. He's running like he's already
00:40:10.900
in the position, and then he can soften his rhetoric. For example, apparently he removed from this
00:40:17.960
speech, he didn't say anything about January 6th. He liked to say the election was
00:40:26.300
rigged, blah, blah, blah, blah. The January 6ers are in jail for no reason, blah, blah, blah.
00:40:32.740
But he's not going to get those January 6ers out unless he gets elected. So he moves into
00:40:40.860
presidential mode, vastly increases the odds that he'll get elected, and then he can take care of
00:40:48.840
any January 6th people who maybe were in need of a presidential pardon. So being quiet about
00:40:56.140
for a few months might be the best play for the January 6ers. But it also is just less trouble.
00:41:03.300
Because he knows that if he starts questioning the 2020 election, it's going to look like a
00:41:08.420
backwards-looking approach. Nobody likes that. Even if you like Trump, I don't want him looking
00:41:14.200
backwards at 2020. Do you? So the closest he's getting to the election-rigging claims is to say
00:41:23.540
that the only way he could lose is if Democrats cheat. And I guess Don Jr. is saying similar
00:41:31.300
stuff. That is a very much improved approach for exactly where he is in the campaign.
00:41:39.980
Where he is in the campaign is don't give them any reason to have a weapon. So right now,
00:41:46.580
he doesn't need a new weapon. He needs to make sure he's not a target, that there's an opening,
00:41:51.760
that they can make something that hasn't happened yet happen. So it totally makes sense. And again,
00:41:58.040
I'm going to give my millionth compliment to his consulting team. This is the sort of change that
00:42:05.680
I'm pretty sure comes from advisors that he trusts. Obviously, the boss always has to get the credit
00:42:14.020
because the boss picks the advisors. The boss decides which advice to take. So it's always
00:42:18.820
the boss. But you can't choose good advice unless you've got great advisors. He's got great advisors.
00:42:25.240
I don't know who it is. I would love to find out after the race who are the main advisors because
00:42:30.440
they're killing it. They're just doing such a good job for him. I assume it's a team of people, but
00:42:37.380
they're just doing great. So yes, that was exactly what he should be doing is avoiding the January 6th
00:42:43.740
thing. It's just red meat. You don't need it. Get the power and then do what you need to do.
00:42:49.360
And here's the part I like the best. So the Democrats are trying to go with this vague,
00:42:56.340
he's going to steal your democracy. Trump joked about it. There we go. That is exactly right.
00:43:05.620
He should joke about it. And here's what he said. I'll paraphrase. He said,
00:43:09.840
the Democrats are saying, I'm trying to steal your democracy. He goes, how am I stealing your
00:43:17.000
democracy? And then there's this little pause for perfect timing. And then he says, last week,
00:43:24.400
I took a bullet for democracy. Crowd goes wild. Now, how much do I love that? Beyond words. That's so
00:43:32.240
good. Now, is it logical to say that he took a bullet for democracy? No, not really. That's not,
00:43:40.060
it's not really a logical connection. I mean, there was an assassin. We don't know all the details,
00:43:45.520
blah, blah, blah. Well, it wasn't exactly he took a bullet for democracy. But were you willing to argue
00:43:51.060
that point? No, it feels like it's right. It's the damnedest thing. It's a sort of a Trump only
00:43:58.860
democracy communication. It sounds like it's true and right and exactly the right thing to say.
00:44:04.880
I took a bullet for democracy. It's not exactly sensible. But why does it feel so sensible?
00:44:12.440
Can't you feel it? And it was a joke, but it also was a clarifier. It was a reframe.
00:44:20.660
And then he just sort of, you know, laughs and says, steal your democracy. That's crazy. Perfect.
00:44:29.460
Perfect. Because I want them to give examples. How is he stealing your democracy? Well, he's trying
00:44:37.340
to take the bodily autonomy rights away from women. Here's the response to that. You mean,
00:44:44.600
by taking the power away from himself, the federal government, and making sure it got moved closer
00:44:52.100
to the individuals, that's stealing your democracy? Because it looks to me a lot more like increasing
00:45:00.500
it. Right? If you're a republic, you know, the people in charge are making the decisions,
00:45:06.820
and that might include the federal government. If you're closer to a democracy, the people are
00:45:11.980
more in charge. And moving it to the States gets you closer to that. Now, that's not the best
00:45:18.100
explanation. But the point is, they don't even have examples. Even their examples are examples where
00:45:25.100
he's increased democracy, not decreased it by any reasonable standard. So I love the fact that he
00:45:33.260
asked the question, how am I stealing democracy? I love the fact that he's treating it as silly,
00:45:40.700
because that's presidential. It's presidential to say, you know what? It's kind of silly. Let's talk
00:45:49.020
about something that matters. That's presidential. Campaign would be, you say this? Well, I say you do
00:45:56.580
this. I say you're stealing the democracy. That's campaigning. President is, what are they talking
00:46:04.640
about? I took a bullet for democracy yesterday? Perfect. They could not have been better. This
00:46:10.720
was just perfect. And like he said, when he talked about Project 2025, he mocked it. He just mocked it
00:46:19.580
like it was, you know, what are you doing? What are you making stuff up for? Perfect. Exactly the right
00:46:25.520
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00:46:32.380
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00:46:37.400
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If you think that Trump is the scary dictator, and you see him making fun of his own comb over
00:47:52.700
in public, how do you hold those in your head at the same time? Do you think there was ever a time
00:47:59.640
when Hitler was giving a speech? And then he paused in the middle, he's like, you know,
00:48:05.400
and this would be my Hitler impression, except in English. You know, as I'm looking at all these
00:48:11.040
posters of me, as I'm giving this speech, I really made me rethink this whole mustache.
00:48:17.460
You know, honestly, it's kind of a weird mustache. Like, that never happened, right?
00:48:23.660
Did, did you ever see Stalin, Stalin giving a speech? He's like, well, you know, I've got this
00:48:32.800
big, beefy mustache. Looks kind of funny, doesn't it? No, no. So he doesn't have to say, he doesn't
00:48:40.720
have to, you know, complete the line and say, well, you know, nobody makes, nobody does self-referential
00:48:49.160
humor if they're a dictator. It's just that, you know, it, you know, the dictators act a certain
00:48:55.080
way and that's not how they act. And so by being, you know, opposite their stereotype of him, even if
00:49:02.960
it's just joking and even if it's just about his haircut, every time he does something that seems
00:49:08.380
opposite their stereotype, it works. And indirectly, subconsciously, in every way, he just has to be
00:49:16.180
opposite of whatever a dictator looks like in every way that you can do that. Making fun of his haircut
00:49:22.300
is just one way. He did, however, this was interesting. He, he did take a swipe at El
00:49:30.540
Salvador and President Bukele, who many people are saying is doing, doing a great job controlling MS-13
00:49:39.060
and crime is way down, et cetera. And even as he was doing that, I think yesterday, Matt Gaetz was
00:49:45.280
visiting and, you know, we have very good relationship with El Salvador at the moment,
00:49:50.660
it seems. But Trump took a swipe at him and he said that, that El Salvador is releasing their
00:49:58.060
criminals into the U.S. And that's part of the reason that the crime rate in El Salvador is down.
00:50:02.780
Now, I did see somebody on the left say, there's no evidence of that. Because he used to say it
00:50:10.240
about Venezuela, maybe he still does. And, and somebody said, but is there any evidence that
00:50:19.060
they're actually literally opening the jails and letting them go? And I would say, that's a good
00:50:24.720
question. That is a perfectly good question. I would like to know if Trump's claim is actually
00:50:33.480
backed by data. Cause I don't know. Do you? Is it, I don't know if it's provable or he just figures
00:50:40.140
the suspicion is good enough. Well, I think it's, it's compatible with his idea that too many criminals
00:50:47.420
are coming in and it helps his message. I think there's probably evidence anecdotally that at least
00:50:55.900
some people came here because they were in trouble with the law in their home country. Would it be fair
00:51:01.780
to say that we've picked up some number of people, you know, not a gigantic number, but people who
00:51:08.740
already were wanted in their own country? I mean, I've seen stories like that. So if we're picking up
00:51:14.840
people who are wanted in their own country, that's sounds a lot like they left the country because
00:51:20.920
they were criminals and they thought it'd be safer here, but you don't know. Every, every one of those
00:51:26.440
stories is unique. They may have had different reasons to come. So I'd love to see if there's some
00:51:32.900
backing to that, but it's also just interesting that he would, he would slap an ally. But let me tell
00:51:41.880
you, and so then Bukele commented on X and his only comment was taking the high ground, taking the high
00:51:50.500
ground, but basically he wasn't going to, you know, directly mix it up on that. Totally the right answer.
00:51:57.360
I'll tell you Bukele, if I'm even saying that right, El Salvador's leader, you got to say he's smart. I mean,
00:52:07.400
whatever else you like or don't like about him, he's smart and he does smart things and he just
00:52:13.440
does it one after another. So I think this might be a little bit of nagging.
00:52:20.800
I think Trump is going to first knock him down a few pegs because remember they're both leaders in
00:52:27.060
this part of the world. I don't think Trump wants anybody to be a higher level leader. You know,
00:52:33.840
anybody who gets more credit for being a leader. So I think he's going to first give him a little
00:52:38.960
brush, brushback pitch later. If assuming Trump is elected, I predict they will be best friends.
00:52:49.100
Anybody want to make a bet? I bet if Trump gets elected, I can guarantee you there'll be a point
00:52:55.860
where Bukele visits the White House and you're going to see them, Trump slapping them on the back
00:53:01.520
and saying, this guy's great. I love this guy. I wish we didn't have your criminals, but I love this
00:53:07.360
guy. So I wouldn't worry about it. I think Trump just, you know, gives people a brushback pitch and
00:53:15.440
then later embraces them. It's just part of his persuasion game. All right, let's talk about the
00:53:22.960
question of one or two shooters. I saw Bill Ackman got involved in looking at some of the analyses.
00:53:29.720
So there was an audio analysis that made it look like there was two shooters in addition to the
00:53:36.960
one sniper. There's no news that suggests that two of the good guy snipers tried to take out the bad
00:53:50.620
guy, which would mean that there were three different shooters. So two snipers that are on
00:53:58.700
Trump's side and then the one sniper who tried to kill him and that would be three guns. So
00:54:03.880
there doesn't seem to be evidence of a second shooter, but there is evidence that there were
00:54:12.500
three shooters. Just two of them were good guys. Apparently the police, and by the way, all this
00:54:19.880
could change. But apparently the police sniper, he missed. And apparently the secret service sniper
00:54:31.620
did a one in a million shot. Because by the time the police sniper missed, I guess the guy,
00:54:38.060
you know, Crooks was way down and just a little bit of his head was above the barrier. And it looks
00:54:46.640
like, it looks like the secret service guy with one shot hit a target that was, you know, maybe four
00:54:54.780
inches tall from a fairly sizable distance. So people are saying it was just an amazing shot by the one
00:55:03.200
guy. I'm kind of surprised that the first shot didn't at least make the shooter stop, but it did make him
00:55:10.380
shoot wildly. So one of them did their work. Now, the other thing we learned is that
00:55:18.200
the report is that the two different groups of police, one was local, one was nearby local in
00:55:28.260
charge of the sniper that was in the building instead of on top of it. And then there was a
00:55:33.060
secret service. Apparently they did not have the same communication channels.
00:55:39.600
Can you believe that? There were three entities and there was not one communication channel that
00:55:45.620
they were all on so that they could be coordinating. Now, who speculated that that would be the case?
00:55:54.220
Can you think of anybody who's been talking about this who said, you know, it could have been a
00:55:58.960
communication problem because they might've had different communication methods. Me. Yeah. I'm
00:56:05.720
the only person who said that that could be the answer. Do you know why nobody else said it? Because
00:56:10.680
the rest of you have bought into the secret service is so capable. There's no way that they're going to
00:56:17.680
have separate communication channels. Like even if they're working with the police, obviously people,
00:56:23.880
obviously they're going to be on the same communication channel. I mean, you couldn't have
00:56:27.760
three different police organizations working in an event and being on different communication
00:56:34.120
channels. That wouldn't work, right? Well, looks like that might've been the case.
00:56:41.820
Now, when I say different channels, it doesn't mean they couldn't all talk to each other.
00:56:46.480
It might mean that they weren't just automatically on the right ones. In other words, you might have to
00:56:51.480
dial a phone and get somebody to get somebody on the phone or something, but they didn't have a quick
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common communication. All right. Now, how's the Dilbert filter looking? Remember I told you from day one
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that, you know, certainly the conspiracy theory, multiple shooter thing is alive as a possibility,
00:57:12.920
not ruled out, but also alive is mass incompetence. And I know that some of you fought against it
00:57:19.920
mentally, you fought against it because you thought nobody could be that incompetent. And I said,
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do you remember? I said, I don't think you understand how, how incompetent organizations can be.
00:57:33.900
And I said, if there are two organizations, you're automatically going to have trouble.
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And if there are three, which there were, you're really in trouble.
00:57:47.180
Now, somebody else said that it seemed very unlikely that somebody could, you know, carry out this,
00:57:55.140
this assassination. If it were a conspiracy theory, there'd be too many people involved and you'd find
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out. And, and why do you think they would be capable?
00:58:04.380
Well, I'll use the Steve jobs, uh, frame for that. Steve jobs would say, if you want something done,
00:58:14.680
you want the fewest number of experts, engineers, usually you don't want, you don't want a hundred
00:58:20.620
engineers working on something. You want five, like five really, really good ones. Then you got
00:58:27.600
something. So I would say that, you know, if it turns out there's that crooks is part of a larger
00:58:33.260
conspiracy that the largest that conspiracy could be, would be five people. Meaning that you could
00:58:41.140
find, you know, four other people besides him who are super good at what they do and not going to talk
00:58:48.380
to anybody. You know, they're actual assassins and had done it for years and were experienced and they
00:58:54.460
had a getaway plan and they knew how to, they knew how to brainwash crooks and they knew how to take
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amount. And maybe, maybe, but once you get beyond five really handpicked, high capable people,
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everything's incompetent, everything, everything's broken. So why would the secret service be the one
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thing that was unaffected by what's breaking everything else in the world? Everything else in
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the world is full of incompetence. And sure enough, the secret service was apparently just full of
00:59:29.540
incompetence. It was exactly what my first guess was, huh? That looks like major incompetence.
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And so far it looks like that. So there's a rumor that Cheadle, the head of the secret service might
00:59:43.200
resign on Monday, but I'm not believing that yet. I do not believe she's necessarily going to resign.
00:59:50.920
And I'm not entirely sure that the world is better off if she does. I think she has to resign
00:59:57.060
eventually, but don't they sort of need her there to answer questions and to, you know,
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kind of explain fully with resources at her, at her disposal. So I don't think you want to do that
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too quickly, but I think it'll happen. Anyway, uh, it was fun watching on X as the experts were analyzing
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it. And, uh, and then other experts were debunking it and we're trying to figure out what's what.
01:00:24.360
So that was a lot of fun. And then there's the story of, um, had the Trump people been asking for
01:00:31.720
more secret service protection and was it denied? Well, Mayorkas, who appears to be the biggest liar in
01:00:38.640
the world. Um, so, so we have our, uh, um, our mentally ill guy back in the comments. So there's
01:00:52.800
a, some mentally ill guy who just writes the word fart a hundred times and, and he's spamming the
01:00:58.000
comments with them. So if you're listening to me, mentally ill guy, um, do you have anybody who can
01:01:04.680
help you put you back on your meds? Cause it looks like you're either deeply inebriated in the morning
01:01:12.740
or you need some adult to help you out. So whatever it is you think you're doing by writing the word
01:01:22.240
fart 400,000 times in the comments, it's not fun. It's not interesting. It's not useful. It's not funny.
01:01:32.780
It just sort of makes you look like a complete loser. So if you woke up feeling like a loser,
01:01:40.160
well, it looks like you are, you're a total loser. And if the only thing you could figure out this
01:01:46.460
morning to do was to come here and make the rest of us less happy, you need to get some help.
01:01:53.620
So if there's somebody around, Oh, there he is. He's back. So if there's somebody there
01:01:57.300
who could maybe help you get you back on your meds, that'd be great.
01:02:05.000
So Mayorkas said, uh, no, it's a baseless and irresponsible statement that, uh, that he
01:02:13.760
had turned down any extra help, but the Washington post says, uh, maybe you did turn down some
01:02:20.040
requests for help. And then the story got into, well, maybe they did give them some help,
01:02:26.720
but maybe they did turn down some help. So, and then the, uh, New York post, uh, says that
01:02:36.280
apparently for a long time, the, uh, Trump people have been asking for more resources and,
01:02:42.920
uh, have been told that they don't have them, that there are no extra resources in some cases.
01:02:48.560
Um, here's what I'm going to do. There we go. So I, I got rid of the, uh, the commenter. So, um,
01:03:05.640
so I, I can see the locals comments now, but not the rest.
01:03:10.500
So locals only will be commenting, uh, because, uh, somebody in rumble needs to figure out who that
01:03:17.280
user is and, and delete them, please. So Trump gave a interview and, uh, he is a little concerned.
01:03:29.360
Maybe that's an understatement. He is a little concerned that, uh, there was evidence that there
01:03:35.620
was a danger at the speech where he got almost killed and that nobody said, maybe you should
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wait a few minutes and don't go on until we take care of this. Now that is the big question. So the
01:03:45.660
big questions are, uh, why did it take a while to shoot once they identified the, the, uh, the
01:03:52.180
assassin? And then the second one, and I think the answer to that is they couldn't tell if he was
01:03:56.920
theirs or someone else's. So imagine you're the police, um, or imagine one of the good guy snipers
01:04:05.500
and you know that there should be a good guy sniper on that very roof. And then you see that there's
01:04:12.660
somebody with a gun who is peeking over the, the top of the roof. And all you can see is sort of a
01:04:19.800
face and, and a high powered rifle. And you say to yourself, well, that's exactly where there should
01:04:25.940
be a person with a high power rifle. That would be the secret service or the police. So from a distance,
01:04:33.760
you could easily imagine that they didn't want to shoot their own person.
01:04:37.760
Now it's the weirdest situation because everybody knew there should have been a good guy sniper on
01:04:43.600
that very roof. So if you, it's sort of like that Yanni and Laurel thing, you know, if you expected a
01:04:49.780
good guy sniper and then you look in the roof and there's a guy with a rifle and you can't see much
01:04:55.660
because he's beyond the crest of the thing, you just see a head and a gun. How long would it take
01:05:01.620
you to know he's a bad guy? Probably he'd have to shoot. Probably they couldn't tell. And there
01:05:08.780
might've been some back and forth. I don't know that. I'm just speculating at this point. So one
01:05:13.420
question is why did it take a while to shoot? The other one is why didn't, why did they let Trump go
01:05:19.260
on stage? These are still big open questions. And here's a weird story I wasn't expecting, but NBC is
01:05:28.180
reporting that the Clintons, Bill and Hillary, uh, have privately been supporting president Biden to
01:05:35.120
stay in the job, which would mean that Obama would be on the other side from Hillary Clinton.
01:05:41.440
If the reporting is true and who knows if it is, but, and the reason, uh, Mike Benz again,
01:05:48.980
pointing this out that they, that there's a, uh, the big Clinton, what's it called? The Clinton,
01:05:55.420
Clinton global initiative wants to raise money to help Ukraine.
01:06:03.280
So the Clintons apparently have a gigantic amount of money, uh, at risk depending on which way Ukraine
01:06:10.920
goes. So if, uh, so if Obama's in charge, I'm sorry, if, uh, Biden is in charge, then it looks
01:06:19.560
like the Clintons could do their thing, raise massive amounts to, uh, rebuild Ukraine. But we
01:06:26.300
all assume that the raising massive amounts is so that they can, you know, redirect some to their
01:06:32.240
cronies, keep a taste, make a bunch of money. We don't really think that's for the benefit of
01:06:38.300
Ukraine. It's for the benefit of the Clintons and whatever their power source is. So it looks like
01:06:43.360
there might be a disagreement between the Obama wing and the Biden wing and the Clinton wing.
01:06:49.280
So basically total chaos. But if the Clintons are still pushing for Biden to stay in office,
01:06:56.320
I'm going to stay with my prediction that Biden will stay in office. Now you probably didn't think
01:07:01.960
we would get this far with him still in office and people are still saying, but wait, uh, weren't we
01:07:08.200
told that Biden was going to resign this weekend? Well, it's Sunday, right? That all the reporting
01:07:18.020
was, he's going to resign on the weekend. That would be today. Do you, how many of you think he's
01:07:25.240
going to resign today? Because if Biden resigns today, that would mean that the reporting was
01:07:32.460
accurate. Would you bet on that? Would you bet on that reporting being accurate? Because it looks
01:07:40.580
like the reporting might've been part of forcing Biden out. In other words, if enough people say
01:07:46.740
he's definitely going to quit on the weekend, then the, the people who fund him and raise money for him
01:07:52.180
are going to say, okay, we'll, we're not going to raise any money because he's going to quit.
01:07:55.340
And then he has to quit because he doesn't have any money or he can't raise it. So a lot of people
01:08:02.400
quite reasonably said, uh, the Democrats are lying about his intentions of quitting because that's
01:08:09.520
part of the process of forcing him to quit. Now, if he, if he's still on the job tonight,
01:08:14.980
it means that at least the weekend he's report was wrong. And that was my prediction that he's going to
01:08:24.620
stay in. So I think he has too much ego and other, uh, maybe even, you know, risk of jail and risk of
01:08:33.340
protecting his family and everything else. I think Biden's too invested. I don't, I don't think he can
01:08:39.340
leave. So we'll see. All right. Uh, so there's, uh, did you know that a single data center and we're
01:08:51.780
going to need a lot more data centers because AI is going to just suck the energy out of the country
01:08:55.820
and already is by the way. So there's already a surging demand for energy because of AI. Uh,
01:09:03.620
I wonder how long it's going to take before AI causes inflation. That's going to happen, right?
01:09:11.380
Because AI is going to, uh, vastly increase the amount of energy that's needed,
01:09:18.460
but we're not going to be able to create that much more energy fast. So the price of energy will
01:09:24.620
go up and that that will affect everything we do. So it could be the AI is going to be this massive,
01:09:31.220
uh, inflation driver. That's just my take. We'll see if that happens anyway. Uh, according to McKinsey
01:09:38.780
and company, um, one data center can use as much power as 80,000 us homes. And we're building a lot of
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data centers. So that's a lot of 80,000 homes that will have to compete for energy somewhere.
01:09:53.700
All right. Uh, Chris Brennan writes an article in USA Today, an opinion piece.
01:09:59.720
And he says, it's time for Biden to drop out so the Democrats can run a historic two woman ticket.
01:10:06.140
Okay. Now, do you remember how long was it several years ago when I started saying that, uh, Democrats were the party of women?
01:10:17.240
And sure enough, you know, there's definitely a male female difference now. The, the Republicans are sort of testosterone,
01:10:27.940
sorry, testosterone driven. Um, but with lots of female support, but basically women who still like men can be Republicans.
01:10:38.220
And, uh, it seems, uh, it seems like there's no real chance that they could win with that. What do you think? Uh, do you think if, and they're talking about,
01:10:52.520
let's say, uh, Whitmore, Governor Whitmore being, uh, the VP. So if Kamala Harris is the head of the ticket and the backup is a woman,
01:11:03.500
Whitmer or somebody else, do you think that's a stronger package than what they have now?
01:11:09.720
I mean, Biden's a weak package, but if they ran two women, what would happen to the rest of the men
01:11:17.400
in the Democrat party? Wouldn't the rest of them leave? Let me put it this way.
01:11:25.900
If two women were the candidates, especially these two women for the Democrats, how many
01:11:32.960
Republican women would say, you know what, you know, I don't love their policies, but I love the fact
01:11:40.220
that it's two women. So I'm not going to vote Republican because, you know, I think it's time
01:11:46.460
for a woman. I think none. I don't think any, I don't think anybody who was, you know, either an
01:11:54.840
independent leaning right or already Republican. I don't think there's any woman who would say,
01:12:00.720
oh, it's women. Uh-oh, I'll go vote for them. That's just so not Republican. That's just not
01:12:06.880
what any Republican would do. But what about the Democrat men? If you're a, if you're a Democrat
01:12:15.000
man and you see that things have gone so female in your party that there's not even a man running
01:12:21.740
anymore, would that feel like the last straw? I feel like that's where you would, you'd use that
01:12:29.080
as your, your, uh, fake because it's like, all right, you're not even trying for men. All right,
01:12:34.580
I'll go to the Republican party. They seem to still like men. I think that's what's going to happen.
01:12:40.460
But I do not believe that the ticket will change. I think I'm, I'm going to still go with my prediction
01:12:45.860
that on election day, Biden will be the top of the ticket. Kamala will be number two. And the
01:12:52.260
Democrats will hilariously and absurdly say, hey, everybody just know that you're really voting for
01:12:57.760
Kamala. That was my prediction from a while ago. I'm going to stick with it. All right. Uh, there's
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new robot for Biden. There's a, it's called Carmen, C-A-R-M-E-N. It stands for a cognitively
01:13:13.560
assisted robot for motivation and neuro rehabilitation. So it's basically a, a literal
01:13:21.760
tabletop robot that, uh, helps you with your cognitive abilities if you're failing. So it
01:13:27.800
can give you a little tests and memory stuff. And, uh, I'm no product developer, but I don't
01:13:34.980
think this has a chance to survive. I think it's, yeah. And here's why.
01:13:43.560
But if you are the kind of person who, um, was not already doing a lot of things that
01:13:51.560
got your, your mind engaged, you're not going to want to use this little robot testing you.
01:14:00.040
So if you were already not the kind of person who said, you know what, I just need to keep
01:14:04.860
my mind engaged at a certain age. So I'm going to read books. I'm going to get involved in
01:14:09.400
this, this project, this task, I'll keep working, whatever it is I do. If you're not that kind
01:14:15.000
of person, you're not going to use a personal robot to test you every time you sit at your
01:14:19.460
breakfast table. I don't see how this could possibly work. Honestly, it just seems to me
01:14:25.400
that the people who would need it are selected to be exactly the people who would never use
01:14:30.260
it because they were already not intellectually curious and driven. So we'll see. Anyway, my,
01:14:38.140
my help, uh, could be Biden's new running partner is the dementia robot. All right. I'm going to close
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with this story and I'm going to read it entirely. Um, and it's from, uh, wall street apes is who
01:14:54.200
brought it to my attention on X, but, uh, John Dawson wrote a, an opinion piece on, uh, I guess it was
01:15:02.280
on X. And, uh, I just want to read it to you because it's just so good. And it'd just be a feel good way
01:15:12.060
to start your Sunday. All right. You ready for this? So what you need to know about John Dawson is
01:15:17.540
he's a, a, a young black man. And he says the following, and I quote, you say white supremacy
01:15:27.100
is plaguing our country. And as a black man, when I walk around in central Texas, when I go, when I go
01:15:33.320
to all these other States, I'm like, well, where is this? Where is it? I don't see it. I'm going into
01:15:39.220
white restaurants. I went into a coffee shop in the middle of a podunk town. They had less than a
01:15:44.200
thousand people. And all these white people were just so nice and they make delicious coffees.
01:15:50.080
Might I add, like I'm looking around, I'm like wondering, where is this? Right. When I go up to
01:15:57.080
Dallas, uh, when I go to Houston, when I go to California, it's just like, I don't see it.
01:16:02.860
Especially when I see people with MAGA hats, here it comes. They're always so respectful and maybe
01:16:08.580
they're just trying to hide their racism, right? That's another comment that people make is,
01:16:13.880
oh, well, you don't know what they say behind closed doors. I don't care. That's what he says.
01:16:20.260
He says, I don't care. If you're going to make fun of me behind closed doors, why would I choose to
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assume you're making fun of me behind closed doors and then live under that umbrella of oppression
01:16:34.560
because you said something meanie weenie behind closed doors and I'm supposed to live under that?
01:16:42.640
This guy's brilliant. That's ridiculous. It's like this perpetuation of a victimhood that even if it
01:16:49.900
doesn't affect you, you should make sure it affects you. Oh, this is perfect. It's ridiculous. It's
01:16:55.480
basically trying to perpetuate people to live in this, this low society, even though they're not
01:17:01.100
experiencing it in reality. Now, I could give you my own comments about this, but it's too perfect.
01:17:08.700
It's just too perfect. So I'm going to end on that. And I'm going to talk to the local subscribers
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privately. Thanks for joining. I hope we can get rid of our, we'll get rid of our troll later and then I
01:17:24.400
can look at the rest of your comments. But thanks for joining everybody. I'm going to say goodbye to
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YouTube and Rumble and X and talk to the local subscribers and we'll see the rest of you tomorrow.