Real Coffee with Scott Adams - July 27, 2024


Episode 2548 CWSA 07⧸27⧸24


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56 minutes

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602

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Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are in a dead heat in the polls, and there's a new conspiracy theory about processed meat being poisoned. Plus, the latest on all the latest hoaxes and crazy news from around the world.

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00:00:00.080 You know, I feel sorry for those podcasters who give you nothing on a weekend morning.
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00:00:52.320 Oh, my God, that was good.
00:00:54.440 Sometimes you want it, but sometimes you need it.
00:01:01.620 Well, let's check in on all the hoaxes and crazy news.
00:01:08.080 Let's see.
00:01:10.060 The latest we're learning, we'll, of course, get to all the big hoaxes about Trump, the new ones.
00:01:15.840 Apparently, science thinks that processed meat is really, really bad for you, like extra bad, worse than usual, mostly because it has enormous amounts of salt in it, but maybe other things.
00:01:28.380 But I just give this as more evidence that our food supply is poisoned, meaning that if you're looking for food that isn't literally bad for you, good luck.
00:01:43.300 I mean, it's a struggle.
00:01:45.520 It's pretty much just vegetables and a cow that you slaughtered yourself in your backyard with Thomas Massey.
00:01:51.940 Nothing else seems to be healthy.
00:01:53.480 So there's that.
00:01:56.780 This is interesting.
00:01:57.940 One of the people that Kamala Harris is allegedly considering for her VP pick is this Mark Kelly, Arizona senator.
00:02:07.580 But we find out today that he owns a company that makes spy balloons that happen to be funded by China or Chinese partners.
00:02:23.120 That's right.
00:02:24.220 He has a Chinese funded spy balloon business.
00:02:28.160 Not that it really matters, but it's kind of funny.
00:02:31.240 I think the simulation is trying to tell us and we're just not listening.
00:02:35.940 It's like, how many times could you be tapped on the shoulder?
00:02:40.900 Hey, you live in a simulation.
00:02:44.220 No, I don't.
00:02:45.440 Really?
00:02:46.940 Watch what I do with the news.
00:02:49.100 Tap, tap, tap.
00:02:49.800 Do you see what I just did with the news?
00:02:51.800 I just made her likely choice for vice president, owner of a spy balloon company.
00:02:58.760 Yeah, that's nothing.
00:03:00.700 Funded by the Chinese.
00:03:02.480 Okay, I'm not seeing a thing.
00:03:03.900 I'm not noticing anything unusual.
00:03:06.460 This is just reality.
00:03:08.720 Everything's perfectly normal.
00:03:12.260 All right.
00:03:13.080 Next story.
00:03:14.860 Wall Street Journal says in their latest polling that Trump and Kamala Harris would be roughly tied if you consider the margin of error.
00:03:24.520 They do have Trump up, too, but that's within the margin of error for what they were doing.
00:03:30.460 Does that sound true to you?
00:03:33.600 Do you think the election's basically tied?
00:03:38.640 Maybe.
00:03:40.200 Rasmussen, of course, has very different numbers.
00:03:42.320 But here's what they didn't do.
00:03:45.380 They didn't include the other people running.
00:03:49.380 Why do you poll?
00:03:51.000 Why does anybody poll without the other candidates that we know are going to be in the race?
00:03:56.080 What is even the purpose of that?
00:03:57.820 If we know those other candidates are going to be in the race, especially RFK Jr., if you know he's going to be there, why would you ever do a poll where you leave him out?
00:04:09.720 Except to get this result, I suppose.
00:04:12.680 Maybe the result would look different.
00:04:14.240 So we don't trust any of that polling stuff.
00:04:20.480 News out of Arizona.
00:04:23.100 Apparently, Republicans have done such a good job on the ground doing voter registration.
00:04:29.640 The Republicans, I think Charlie Kirk was talking about this on X, now have over a quarter million voter registration advantage over Democrats.
00:04:38.920 Is that possible?
00:04:41.000 Really?
00:04:41.640 Because we heard that Scott Pressler was having enormous success in Pennsylvania.
00:04:48.540 So that would be two battleground states where the ground game of the Republicans looks like it's better than the ground game of the Democrats.
00:04:57.440 Now, of course, there's also the get out the vote and the collect the ballots.
00:05:01.300 You know, there's a lot more to it.
00:05:03.320 But, you know, I told you that Lara Trump just looks like the real deal. 0.99
00:05:11.640 I mean, she looks like a predator. 1.00
00:05:13.840 And I say that in a complimentary way.
00:05:16.940 Well, you have to spend about 30 seconds with her because I've talked to her a few times for interviews.
00:05:24.480 And in about 30 seconds, you know, she's the real deal. 1.00
00:05:28.360 Like, if you were in the way between something she wanted, you better get out of the way.
00:05:36.080 That's sort of the vibe she gives right away.
00:05:38.500 So I'm not surprised if she is the secret weapon.
00:05:44.100 I have a feeling that the Democrats don't know it's coming.
00:05:46.760 But we'll see.
00:05:48.880 We'll see.
00:05:49.360 It's too early to know.
00:05:51.060 But I suspect Lara Trump is just slaying behind the scenes there. 1.00
00:05:58.120 Trump is going back to Butler, Pennsylvania, the site of where he was nearly assassinated.
00:06:04.500 And he's also announced that the Secret Service will now be at least okay with doing an outdoor event.
00:06:15.540 Remember, they said maybe don't do outdoor stuff.
00:06:19.980 And Trump said okay.
00:06:21.660 But apparently that's changed.
00:06:23.780 And now he's back to outdoor events.
00:06:27.060 We don't have a date for that yet.
00:06:28.260 But he says he's going to go back to Butler.
00:06:31.680 Now, is that smart?
00:06:34.300 Yes.
00:06:35.100 If we're going to, you know, I'll try to be consistent and grade the candidates on their persuasion as well as their policies.
00:06:44.600 Persuasion-wise, A+.
00:06:46.600 Because that big bump that Trump was getting for taking a bullet and still jumping up and yelling fight in front of the big American flag,
00:06:56.220 which touched almost all of us.
00:07:00.260 But he lost a lot of that energy because of the Kamala Harris stuff that's going on.
00:07:08.900 And he can at least force the news to get back to it.
00:07:16.360 Oh, my troll's back.
00:07:18.380 So I have a troll who has been bugging me for days now.
00:07:23.200 And he was on the locals platform.
00:07:25.160 But here's what's interesting.
00:07:26.780 Somehow he'd found a way to get on my private platform and had checked the box for free internet or no free service.
00:07:36.900 So I think he's a hacker or maybe he works for locals somehow.
00:07:42.020 But somehow he got into my system and actually gave himself access without paying.
00:07:47.200 So when I looked to get rid of him, I couldn't find him because I was looking on the paid subscribers.
00:07:53.440 There won't be any that are unpaid.
00:07:55.620 And somehow he'd managed to hack my system from the inside.
00:07:58.860 And now he's back in the comments.
00:08:03.340 So I'll need to talk to the locals, people, to see if they can close that security problem.
00:08:11.300 But very impressive.
00:08:13.140 Very impressive.
00:08:14.180 I can't tell exactly what he's up to.
00:08:16.000 If he's from another country, state actor or just a clown. 0.55
00:08:23.000 I can't really tell.
00:08:24.180 It's very interesting, though, the level of penetration that he got.
00:08:29.020 And it's a full-time job.
00:08:32.420 He's here every day.
00:08:33.900 So every time I come on, he comes and starts screaming the same stuff.
00:08:38.180 So I haven't quite figured out if he's a Chinese actor or a Democrat or just some kind of maybe mentally unstable, but has some technical skills, apparently.
00:08:52.100 So that's an interesting side story.
00:08:54.400 But you'll see him in the comments.
00:08:56.000 So today he'll be your mascot.
00:09:02.460 Anyway, so Trump, according to RFK Jr., so that's not the most confirmed source for this.
00:09:15.380 But he says that he thinks that today, maybe, Trump is going to announce his plan to authorize the U.S. government to buy a million Bitcoin as a strategic reserve asset.
00:09:27.700 And RFK Jr. says he applauds that announcement.
00:09:30.960 Now, I don't know if that's true because it's coming from RFK Jr. about Trump.
00:09:36.160 But wouldn't that be interesting?
00:09:39.680 Now, I don't know enough about the specifics of that plan or what he has in mind or why you would even need it.
00:09:46.360 I'm not sure why you need a reserve.
00:09:48.900 But I love – I just love the topic.
00:09:52.740 I love the fact that he's persuading in the crypto world.
00:09:57.200 I love the fact that you know he's well advised, you know, because he's got – at this point, he's got J.D. Vance.
00:10:03.200 He's got all the all-in-pod guys if he needs any help.
00:10:06.880 He's got – you know, Elon Musk would probably give him some crypto advice.
00:10:10.980 He's got – he's got lots of advice, you know, if a fake, et cetera.
00:10:16.320 So Trump can actually go in and make a dent in a topic that could bring in a whole bunch of crypto lovers and young people especially.
00:10:26.420 It changes the topic into some new area that is fun to talk about for people who care about that stuff.
00:10:32.780 And it might make total economic sense.
00:10:35.120 I just want to hear the argument.
00:10:36.240 I have not heard the argument, so I'm not judging the policy.
00:10:41.020 I'm judging the persuasion.
00:10:42.820 Persuasion, A+.
00:10:44.280 Very well done.
00:10:48.400 Speaking of persuasion, Trump also said today that for all those who want to save TikTok in America, vote Trump.
00:10:56.460 So he wants to keep TikTok.
00:10:58.140 I remind you that one of his biggest donors owns a substantial part of TikTok.
00:11:04.680 And I remind you that TikTok, in my opinion, is something that China can manage to change the – really program the brains in America. 0.97
00:11:18.340 So policy-wise, it's a gigantic mistake.
00:11:22.520 Gigantic.
00:11:23.960 So I want to say that unequivocally.
00:11:28.320 Giant policy mistake.
00:11:30.000 But in terms of persuasion, excellent.
00:11:35.860 Yeah, if you're trying to win an election, you probably want to be pro-free speech because they're trying to make him a dictator.
00:11:43.000 You want to say more freedom, not less.
00:11:46.060 And it's more freedom to allow TikTok even if it's a malignant tumor of an app.
00:11:51.900 So it is exactly the right campaign position.
00:12:00.060 I hate to say it.
00:12:01.720 It's just bad for the country.
00:12:04.400 But if you took the position that freedom is better than lack of freedom, it's defensible.
00:12:13.220 So when I say it's a bad idea, that's an opinion.
00:12:16.660 It's not a fact.
00:12:17.520 There are some policies where you can say, okay, that's a fact.
00:12:21.180 That's a bad idea.
00:12:22.440 It's not a fact.
00:12:24.580 You know, it's a preference.
00:12:26.500 So I have a preference for getting rid of it.
00:12:28.740 I think it would be good for children, good for the country.
00:12:31.620 But freedom is not nothing.
00:12:34.500 Free speech is not nothing.
00:12:36.240 So I can't hate the guy who wants more free speech.
00:12:39.720 And it's also true that if you banned one, it might open the door for, you know, X to come under fire next.
00:12:48.300 So that's a reasonable argument.
00:12:50.700 So he has an argument.
00:12:52.620 And his argument would be based on principle.
00:12:55.740 And it's a principle I agree with.
00:12:58.060 I just think this particular special case, because of China's influence, probably more than we need.
00:13:06.600 So we can agree to disagree on that.
00:13:09.720 But here's a story that I think you're going to hear a lot more of.
00:13:13.080 I think it was the Daily Mail.
00:13:14.620 Had a big story about how Kamala Harris is the ultimate pointy-haired boss, a reference from Dilbert.
00:13:21.580 Meaning that she is so bad that only four of her initial 71 staffers are still on the job for her vice president job. 1.00
00:13:36.240 And the rest either quit or were fired.
00:13:38.380 And there are stories from the insiders saying that she yells at people and she curses and she bullies and she devalues people. 1.00
00:13:48.280 And then when she doesn't prepare for events, then she blames her staff that she's not prepared.
00:13:55.320 And basically sounds like the worst boss in the world.
00:13:58.000 Now, should you believe this?
00:14:03.220 So you've heard all these anonymous stories, right?
00:14:07.140 They're all sort of anonymous.
00:14:08.840 And it just conveniently fits into one particular party's preferences.
00:14:14.620 So here's one that you should put a little bit of a little bit of a question into.
00:14:23.580 If you're going to be a smart consumer of news, how different is this from the way Trump was characterized by Democrats in his first year of office?
00:14:33.880 It's the same, isn't it, isn't it, isn't it?
00:14:37.880 The knock on Trump was that he was hard to work for and there was a lot of yelling and chaos and, you know, all that.
00:14:47.880 So were we not told nonstop that Trump was a bad boss and he couldn't hire good people and had to fire people all the time, right?
00:14:59.840 Now, did you believe that?
00:15:03.880 Well, I didn't.
00:15:05.800 To me, all that sounded like was being a tough boss who knew how to fire people and he didn't have as many options as other people did for who to hire.
00:15:14.920 So he probably had to do more firing than other people because he had a smaller pool to hire from.
00:15:21.840 So, which is, you know, my complaint about DEI.
00:15:24.580 So Trump had a DEI-like problem without the DEI, meaning that his first term, a lot of people didn't want to work for him because he was controversial.
00:15:37.180 So he still had to hire.
00:15:39.180 He didn't have a choice of just leaving positions open.
00:15:42.040 So he had to lower his standard for whom he might hire and it showed.
00:15:47.000 It showed up pretty quickly.
00:15:48.320 But then he had to do a bunch of firing to normalize things.
00:15:52.840 So by the end of his term, I didn't hear a lot of people complaining about his management, did you?
00:15:59.280 Do you know how that just disappeared?
00:16:00.900 I think maybe some of the complaints were valid in the beginning because he had such a hiring problem.
00:16:09.020 But after a few years, I think people said, you know what?
00:16:12.960 It wouldn't be so bad working in that administration.
00:16:15.660 I think he just had better people at the end and probably everything looked better at the end.
00:16:20.420 So I don't know if Harris has a similar situation where the reporting on it might be a little bit hyperbolic.
00:16:27.800 But I would keep an eye on this one.
00:16:29.600 My suspicion is there's going to be a lot more of this.
00:16:33.760 But I would just be careful you don't buy a hook, line, and sinker without some pretty good witnesses who give you their names, basically.
00:16:46.320 All right.
00:16:47.020 The new hoax of the day you've all seen, right?
00:16:50.620 So Cenk Weger is falling for the hoax or pretending to.
00:16:54.960 It's hard to tell with him.
00:16:55.980 So you tell me, is he pretending that he's fooled by this or is he really fooled by it?
00:17:05.100 All right.
00:17:05.540 So Trump, here's what Cenk says.
00:17:08.980 Trump is accused of endangering democracy.
00:17:11.600 And then he says this today.
00:17:13.320 Now, this is a quote from Trump.
00:17:16.220 Trump, so the quote is accurate.
00:17:19.520 I'll tell you the quote is accurate.
00:17:21.680 But see if you can tell if this is true or not or if anything's missing, for example.
00:17:27.640 So the quote is this.
00:17:29.060 Christians, get out and vote just this time. 0.98
00:17:32.100 You won't have to do it anymore.
00:17:34.060 Four more years.
00:17:35.140 You know what?
00:17:35.620 It'll be fixed.
00:17:36.600 It'll be fine.
00:17:37.700 You won't have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians.
00:17:41.980 So Cenk's take on it is that the guy who is accused of endangering democracy has said out loud that after he gets elected, there will be no more elections.
00:17:54.700 Is that what you heard?
00:17:57.620 Is that untrue?
00:17:58.440 So I woke up this morning to that hoax, and the first I saw of it was Cenk. 0.98
00:18:06.820 And so without doing any research, not knowing what was behind it, I gave Cenk the following lesson on hoax identification.
00:18:16.340 And here's what I told him.
00:18:18.740 Number one, no one would say that, including Trump.
00:18:22.520 If you hear something that somebody said, and no one would say that, including Trump, it's almost certainly a hoax.
00:18:33.380 Do you know why?
00:18:34.340 Because no one would say that.
00:18:36.400 Let me give you an example.
00:18:38.280 Neo-Nazis are fine people. 0.94
00:18:40.420 No one would say that, including Trump.
00:18:43.900 Literally no one would say that.
00:18:45.620 How about inject bleach?
00:18:49.440 No one would say that, including Trump.
00:18:52.520 And of course, no one did say that.
00:18:54.940 So do you think that he would say that you won't have to vote again if he gets elected?
00:18:59.300 Of course not.
00:19:00.900 No one would say that, including Trump.
00:19:04.320 So that's your first clue.
00:19:05.620 If you miss that clue, you're probably in trouble.
00:19:10.280 That's pretty big.
00:19:11.880 Secondly, it's obviously out of context.
00:19:15.340 If you couldn't tell by listening to that clip, you know, if you heard the clip,
00:19:19.680 if you couldn't tell it was lacking context, really?
00:19:24.100 You really can't tell that that's obviously lacking context?
00:19:29.820 And number three, it's too on the nose.
00:19:35.120 Cenk even knows it's too on the nose because he starts by saying that he's accused of endangering
00:19:40.280 democracy.
00:19:41.500 Oh, he's accused of endangering democracy.
00:19:44.320 And then there's a quote with the context removed that seems to be exactly on the nose for something
00:19:52.360 you'd expect to hear from somebody who's endangering democracy.
00:19:57.060 Okay.
00:19:57.660 Those are three really clear signals that this is a hoax.
00:20:01.780 Nobody would say that, including Trump.
00:20:04.280 Context is obviously missing because you don't see what happened just before and just after.
00:20:10.720 And it's so on the nose, that should just be an obvious tell.
00:20:15.840 Now, how many of you saw that?
00:20:19.120 And immediately before you knew the context, and of course, it's a hoax.
00:20:24.220 Before you knew the context, how many of you identified it on the surface?
00:20:29.220 As soon as you saw, oh, add a context.
00:20:31.980 Too on the nose.
00:20:32.940 How many of you saw it immediately?
00:20:36.680 I think that most of you have been trained because I've trained you to spot this kind 0.99
00:20:41.440 this way a hundred times.
00:20:44.940 I mean, I talk about it all the time.
00:20:46.660 This one just glaringly stood out.
00:20:49.320 So this was so glaring that I put myself on the line and said, I have not researched this,
00:20:56.480 but it has three tells for hoax.
00:20:59.120 Now, I posted that before I knew.
00:21:01.120 Of course, there was some context.
00:21:04.040 The context was he was talking about the election process itself needs to be tightened up so people
00:21:09.880 are confident in the election process.
00:21:12.320 And if you vote, you'll get it done in this next term.
00:21:16.680 And then, you know, that'll be done.
00:21:19.400 You don't have to vote again.
00:21:20.640 He didn't say don't be a voter.
00:21:23.100 He was talking about specifically that work would be done and you could do it in one term
00:21:28.120 and you don't have to vote for it a second time because it would already be done.
00:21:32.520 Now, do you think that the Democrats are going to understand that?
00:21:37.320 Well, I think they're going to treat it as a recreational hoax and they're going to treat
00:21:43.380 it like it's real, even though they don't believe it is.
00:21:46.520 But in that same talk, he said a little mumbly, I'm a Christian.
00:21:54.680 But if you want to hear it the other way, it sounds like I'm not a Christian.
00:21:59.900 Okay.
00:22:00.960 Michael Ian Black said that he believed that Trump was saying that he was not a Christian
00:22:07.480 to a group of Christians.
00:22:09.440 Let me try to explain this, Michael Ian Black.
00:22:16.460 Here's how you know this is a hoax without doing any research.
00:22:20.620 Nobody would say that, including Trump.
00:22:24.900 Nobody would stand in front of a bunch of Christians, somebody who has held the Bible in his hand 1.00
00:22:30.840 and told about his faith, who's gone to church and is trying to win the Christian vote and has
00:22:35.680 always been identified as a Christian.
00:22:37.360 Do you think that he stood in front of them and said, I'm not a Christian, and he just
00:22:42.000 sort of threw it in the middle of a sentence?
00:22:45.180 Nobody would say that.
00:22:47.280 Nobody would do that, especially Trump.
00:22:51.940 And I'm not sure if it's on the nose, but if you believe that he just makes up his own
00:22:58.040 religion, well, yeah.
00:23:01.820 Now, I, too, in the beginning of the Trump presidential saga, I, too, wondered if he really believed.
00:23:14.940 I kind of wondered, do you really believe in God or is this sort of convenient to get elected?
00:23:19.940 And I don't know the answer to that, because that's an internal thought.
00:23:24.440 But I will tell you, it would be hard for him to go through that Butler, Pennsylvania assassination
00:23:29.820 attempt without feeling God was maybe around.
00:23:35.780 So, I don't know if he always believed.
00:23:40.120 He went to church as a youth, has never disavowed it, has promoted it, has said he is a number
00:23:48.120 of times.
00:23:49.260 He's been consistent, and he certainly had an experience recently that if you weren't totally
00:23:55.060 on board, it probably pushed you on board.
00:23:57.900 I mean, I'm a non-believer, and even I looked at that and said, okay, maybe I should go back
00:24:04.900 and rethink my entire belief about reality after that.
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00:24:27.900 All right.
00:24:30.920 So, I somewhat accidentally created a viral sensation yesterday.
00:24:37.080 Let's take a look at it.
00:24:39.140 See if I can make that show up on my screen.
00:24:42.200 There we go.
00:24:43.320 So, I posted on X this little hand-drawn chart from my whiteboard.
00:24:48.080 It's just a line from left to right showing the far left of politics to the far right.
00:24:54.040 And then I just put a big oval circle where I thought Kamala Harris would be on that versus
00:25:00.740 Donald Trump.
00:25:01.760 Now, the way I drew it and presented it was with some humility, meaning I'm not saying this is what it is.
00:25:13.160 I'm saying this is how I feel about it.
00:25:15.620 And then I asked people in the comments to redraw it themselves or to say, is this what you see?
00:25:22.200 So, my presentation was not, this is a fact, you must enjoy it.
00:25:27.200 It was, this is how it feels to me, you know, anecdotally, subjectively.
00:25:33.060 How does it feel to you?
00:25:34.080 So, my picture, I'll just describe it.
00:25:36.880 I had Harris, not all the way to the left, because you could get even further left than her, but 0.52
00:25:42.320 pretty far left on the left part of the thing.
00:25:47.100 And I had Trump slightly over the middle and extending into maybe halfway into the far right.
00:25:56.460 So, that there's still plenty of room on the far right of Trump that he does not endorse.
00:26:01.000 I'd call that the Heritage Project 2025 area.
00:26:05.780 There's still a lot of overlap, of course, between what any conservative wants, whether
00:26:10.300 their heritage or anybody else.
00:26:12.260 But the stuff in the Project 2025 that was more extreme than Trump is ever likely to embrace,
00:26:20.300 that would still be plenty of room on the right.
00:26:22.920 Now, is my impression of where America is and where these two candidates fall correct?
00:26:28.700 No, that's not what I'm, that's not my point at all.
00:26:32.140 I was actually curious if other people would be seeing the large picture differently.
00:26:39.740 And wow, did people get excited about it, good and bad.
00:26:45.240 Last I checked, it had about 7 million views.
00:26:49.540 Now, to put that in context, a good post on X from me would be 100,000.
00:26:55.060 So, to get to 7 million, that's, I think I've done that once, maybe twice.
00:27:03.820 Very rare, you know, for someone who posts all day long and I'm always on X, very rare.
00:27:10.260 Maybe one in, I don't know, one in several hundred posts would ever have that much action.
00:27:16.300 So, there's something about this topic that makes people crazy, crazy happy and crazy unhappy.
00:27:24.140 Like, they're just feeling this one.
00:27:26.260 And I didn't see any big accounts necessarily that were reposting it.
00:27:31.360 You know, sometimes if Elon Musk posts something, it goes wild.
00:27:34.820 But I didn't see anything like that.
00:27:36.280 I think this is organically really interesting to people.
00:27:39.520 And I think probably it's interesting because people can feel its persuasive effect.
00:27:48.600 And even more than I expected.
00:27:50.720 I thought it was just going to be interesting and maybe I'd learn something about how other people were thinking about this.
00:27:56.120 But apparently it's bigger than that.
00:27:58.440 Apparently this, if you could sell this chart as being true, I think people would be, think it would be determinative of the race.
00:28:08.040 It seems that important.
00:28:10.860 And maybe it's because nobody's really drawn this picture where you just try to show visually where are the two candidates on a map of the rest of the world.
00:28:20.660 So, keep an eye on this one.
00:28:23.120 This one might make a dent in the universe.
00:28:25.980 We'll see.
00:28:27.820 And again, I'm not saying that my impression is right.
00:28:30.860 But what I'd love to do is I'd love to see a top 10 policy list that would either debunk or confirm where I've drawn the circles.
00:28:42.760 In other words, if you said, here are 10 Kamala Harris policies, and then you look to where I've drawn them on the graph, would you say, yeah, I think all those would be somewhere in that hole, you know, in that oval.
00:28:56.200 And the same with Trump.
00:28:58.200 Is there anything that would stand like way outside his circle?
00:29:01.300 If so, then I'd have to redraw the circle.
00:29:05.320 So, anyway.
00:29:10.080 So, do you remember when Mark Cuban was arguing that nobody wants equity, they just want equality of opportunity?
00:29:19.440 And people like me were saying, no, no, no.
00:29:22.060 I don't think you're paying attention.
00:29:24.320 Specifically, equity is what's being asked for.
00:29:27.040 And they do not mean equity of opportunity.
00:29:30.520 They do mean outcome.
00:29:32.300 And I think Mark Cuban was quite insistent that that couldn't be the case.
00:29:35.920 But there are videos that are going around now of Harris saying specifically, and in no uncertain terms, no.
00:29:46.900 They're talking about equity of outcomes, that we want people to have the same things.
00:29:52.900 She says it directly and often and in the clearest possible words.
00:29:57.120 There's no ambiguity whatsoever.
00:29:58.500 Now, let me explain to people who are not good with, as I said in my post, if you're not good with math or economics or history or psychology or thinking in general, let me explain how this equity thing would turn out.
00:30:16.560 It means that if you do everything right and you work hard to build an average or above average life, the inheritance wants to take that from you and also from your family and give it to people who didn't earn it the way you did.
00:30:34.480 That's what that is.
00:30:36.060 If you don't understand that that's what it is, then you've got some big surprises coming.
00:30:40.840 I would love to see a conversation on the street with, let's say, my town.
00:30:46.860 Let's say if you went down to my town, which is pretty blue, and you just stop somebody and say, are you a Democrat?
00:30:54.080 They say yes.
00:30:55.260 Now, in my town, there's a good chance if you randomly stop somebody, they're driving a high-end car.
00:31:02.360 You know, they're doing well.
00:31:03.720 And if you said to them, now, do you support Harris?
00:31:07.180 Yes, I do.
00:31:07.880 She's great.
00:31:08.360 And if I said, do you understand that she wants what you've worked hard to have to go away and have it transferred to people who didn't work as hard or do what you did, do you think they'd understand that?
00:31:23.040 That is very specifically what she's saying.
00:31:25.720 Now, you might say to me, if you're a Democrat watching this, which is very unlikely because the silos are pretty hard, you'd say, but Scott, no, she doesn't want to take it away from people.
00:31:38.360 She wants the people who don't have the opportunity to be boosted so that they can be as good as that person that you were talking to.
00:31:48.920 How are you going to do that?
00:31:51.100 Where's the money coming from?
00:31:52.460 It's coming from the person I'm talking to because there's no magic money.
00:31:58.580 It's coming from people who have money.
00:32:00.380 So the people who have money have to give up their money to people who didn't work as hard and didn't make the right choices.
00:32:08.180 And if you keep rewarding people who don't work hard and make the wrong choices, how does that work out?
00:32:13.280 Well, it's called communism.
00:32:18.100 And the way it works out is hundreds of millions of people starve and die.
00:32:22.840 There's no other way that goes.
00:32:25.640 So first of all, do people understand that if you have an average or above average life, she wants to take that away from you so that the people who are below average can be lifted up?
00:32:37.580 There is no other way to do it.
00:32:40.120 There's no magic that you can put on the people below the average that will bring them up unless there's a massive transfer of money from the people who have it to the people who don't.
00:32:52.220 There's no other way to get there.
00:32:53.340 Now, you might want to do it, but you should very much understand it.
00:32:59.840 You need to understand that if you're the nice person who has new clothes and I ask you, what do you think about this?
00:33:07.880 You're going to lose your new clothes.
00:33:10.280 That car you have, you're not going to have that anymore because high-end car, when there's somebody starving, can't have that.
00:33:18.320 That's not equity.
00:33:19.020 So it fails in the long run, but people who are not good at math or economics or history or psychology or management or thinking in general would maybe not know that.
00:33:36.380 So we still have a mystery about Mark Cuban.
00:33:40.560 Does he really not know the news or is he pretending not to know?
00:33:46.180 We don't really know.
00:33:47.360 It's kind of a mystery.
00:33:49.020 Um, my view is that he's smart and way too smart for the things that he's saying in public about politics.
00:33:57.480 There's like a huge disconnect between how smart he is natively and obviously and the things he's saying about politics.
00:34:04.860 So I don't know if that means he's aware that he's saying things that are ridiculous or, you know, maybe some of it's just hyperbole in politics and he wants his team to win for, for reasons.
00:34:19.020 Don't know.
00:34:19.480 Don't know.
00:34:19.580 It's still a mystery.
00:34:23.440 Some of you have assumed he's blackmailed and I have no evidence of that, but it would explain everything we see.
00:34:31.760 And I do assume that most billionaires get blackmailed by the government.
00:34:36.560 I think that might be routine, actually.
00:34:41.740 Harris says she wants to increase taxes on, let's see, 0.55
00:34:47.180 corporations, the top 1%, and, of course, state taxes.
00:34:53.760 Here's the thing that bothers me.
00:34:55.260 When people say we want to raise taxes on corporations,
00:34:58.340 it's sort of a Bernie Sanders thing, too.
00:35:02.180 Are her voters so dumb that they think corporations have some magic extra money
00:35:11.480 that doesn't come from people?
00:35:15.100 Do they not understand that corporations have stockholders, for example, or owners,
00:35:22.560 and that you're not taking money from a corporation with the corporate taxes.
00:35:29.440 You're taking it from the people who have stock in the corporation.
00:35:35.260 You're taking it from the paychecks of the people at the corporation.
00:35:40.940 Because if the corporation has less money,
00:35:44.200 then when the people go on strike and say,
00:35:46.360 hey, give us some of your excess profits,
00:35:49.020 they say, what excess profits?
00:35:51.560 We just gave it all to the government with our higher taxes.
00:35:53.960 So, does she actually not know that?
00:36:00.160 Or does she just hope that her voters are too dumb to know? 0.99
00:36:03.640 There's no such thing as magic money from corporations.
00:36:06.860 And if you raise their taxes, it comes from people.
00:36:09.400 It's just a tax on people.
00:36:11.140 Just a different group of people.
00:36:15.380 Anyway, here's what I'd like to see.
00:36:18.380 I'd like to see her say, here's the budget that would get you to a balanced budget and solve everything.
00:36:27.360 If she can't do her job, why should we be penalized? 0.79
00:36:31.640 Let me say it again.
00:36:33.060 It's the job of the government to balance our budget.
00:36:36.780 Would you agree?
00:36:38.720 It's their job.
00:36:40.220 I think you'd all agree.
00:36:41.880 If the government can't balance my budget,
00:36:45.220 why are they penalizing me?
00:36:46.900 Shouldn't they be penalized?
00:36:51.900 Because I was just doing my job.
00:36:54.480 I haven't failed at my job.
00:36:56.200 I showed up for work.
00:36:57.200 Here I am.
00:36:57.760 Look, look, I'm doing this right now.
00:36:59.500 I'm working on the weekend.
00:37:00.960 I'm doing my job.
00:37:03.060 So, if she doesn't do her job,
00:37:05.540 and the Congress doesn't do its job to balance the budget,
00:37:09.280 I have to pay the penalty
00:37:10.760 for her not doing her job in Congress.
00:37:15.720 Same with Trump, right?
00:37:16.900 If Trump doesn't balance the budget,
00:37:18.620 why do I have to pay the future tax on that,
00:37:24.360 which will be the deficit?
00:37:28.500 Yeah.
00:37:28.760 I think, wasn't it Warren Buffett who said he could solve the deficit in one minute?
00:37:37.900 Just pass a law that says that Congress can't get paid, personally,
00:37:41.480 they can't get paid unless they balance the budget.
00:37:44.060 That's not a bad idea, is it?
00:37:49.140 I feel like we need that.
00:37:50.580 I feel like Congress literally should not be paid.
00:37:54.220 They should get no paychecks unless they balance the budget.
00:37:57.600 It's the most basic thing they have to do.
00:37:59.640 If you can't do the most basic thing, no pay.
00:38:02.000 I'm totally in favor of that.
00:38:07.220 There's a sketchy sounding story about this big cartel leader who was arrested.
00:38:12.780 I'm going to tell you that I don't believe the official story.
00:38:19.240 So, the official story is that two leaders of the Sinaloa cartel,
00:38:24.340 I guess they would be the biggest one,
00:38:26.580 were arrested.
00:38:29.920 And the way it happened is that one of them was in on the plot
00:38:33.960 and fooled the other one.
00:38:35.440 And the one was the son of a famous cartel boss.
00:38:43.400 So, one of the sons got on an airplane with the head of the Sinaloa cartel
00:38:51.100 and told them they were going to some Mexican site,
00:38:54.800 but fooled them and landed in Texas.
00:38:57.880 And then the authorities were waiting for him and picked him up.
00:39:00.800 So, it was El Chapo's son and then the head of the Sinaloa.
00:39:06.680 Now, do you believe that one of the cartel members,
00:39:12.960 knowing he would be arrested too,
00:39:16.060 decided to work with the authorities to arrest the top Sinaloa person,
00:39:24.320 but also get himself arrested?
00:39:26.340 While his family, presumably, would be back in Mexico,
00:39:33.820 vulnerable to revenge from the team of the guy who got taken by this hoax.
00:39:43.300 None of this sounds true to me.
00:39:47.500 Does it sound true to you?
00:39:50.240 There's something wrong with this story.
00:39:53.000 I don't know what it is,
00:39:56.560 but there's something that doesn't quite add up with this story.
00:40:00.600 Now, I don't believe this at all.
00:40:05.060 So, I don't know what the truth is,
00:40:07.080 but I don't believe the official story at all.
00:40:10.220 So, I'll just put it that way.
00:40:11.600 There's something about this very much missing
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00:41:05.300 All right, there's a new report
00:41:20.000 that the Pentagon's
00:41:21.560 is missing $8.2 billion
00:41:24.220 that they had an accounting error.
00:41:26.740 So, hey, guess what?
00:41:27.960 We got another $8.2 billion
00:41:29.360 to give to Ukraine
00:41:30.480 because of our weird accounting error.
00:41:32.240 Glad we found it.
00:41:33.880 Okay.
00:41:34.160 Okay.
00:41:35.300 Isn't the Pentagon missing
00:41:37.060 like a trillion dollars
00:41:38.260 that they can't account for?
00:41:40.860 Is there any way
00:41:43.260 we can get the military
00:41:46.440 to do real accounting
00:41:48.200 for what it's spending?
00:41:49.340 And how big is the black budget
00:41:52.840 for the CIA and the intelligence people?
00:41:56.160 How big is that thing?
00:41:59.400 I think we need a major
00:42:03.260 redo of all of that.
00:42:05.300 Anyway,
00:42:07.060 here's an effect
00:42:12.900 that I'm seeing in this election
00:42:14.200 that I've never seen so much before.
00:42:17.120 And I've given it a name.
00:42:19.100 I'm going to call it silo lying.
00:42:22.260 Silo.
00:42:22.780 You know what a silo is?
00:42:24.000 Where the farmer puts their grain,
00:42:26.720 this big, tall building.
00:42:27.760 Now, you've probably noticed
00:42:30.080 that the people on the left
00:42:32.360 do not have access
00:42:33.880 to the full news.
00:42:35.360 They only see the lies
00:42:36.740 that are told
00:42:37.280 by the fake news on the left.
00:42:39.140 So they're never going to see
00:42:40.520 Fox News debunk it.
00:42:42.140 They're never going to see me debunk it.
00:42:43.720 They're never going to see
00:42:44.340 Breitbart debunk it
00:42:45.940 or any of the conservative pundits.
00:42:49.860 They just have no access
00:42:50.880 to those people
00:42:51.840 or those sources.
00:42:53.780 But it doesn't work
00:42:54.740 the other way.
00:42:56.580 Republicans see
00:42:57.660 pretty much all the arguments
00:42:59.000 on the other side
00:42:59.940 because that's
00:43:00.880 the mainstream argument.
00:43:02.660 But then in addition,
00:43:04.040 they put in the work
00:43:04.880 to see things
00:43:05.620 that are very much
00:43:06.680 on their side.
00:43:07.500 So they may be right
00:43:08.620 and they may be wrong,
00:43:09.500 but at least
00:43:11.300 they see both sides
00:43:12.360 and that's very different.
00:43:14.100 They don't have
00:43:14.640 a silo problem
00:43:15.720 the way the left does.
00:43:18.180 So there's something
00:43:19.400 I'll call silo lying,
00:43:21.920 which is that,
00:43:23.660 I'll give you one.
00:43:25.040 So Joe Biden falsely claimed,
00:43:27.640 and this is Breitbart
00:43:29.140 doing a fact check on him,
00:43:31.660 that Joe Biden falsely claimed
00:43:33.660 that migrant crossings 0.58
00:43:34.720 were lower than when Trump left office.
00:43:38.420 Now, they do a fact check
00:43:40.120 and show you that's not true.
00:43:42.060 Now, did it work?
00:43:43.840 Did it work for Biden
00:43:45.460 and will it work for Harris
00:43:47.180 to continue to claim
00:43:49.080 they did better than Trump
00:43:50.480 eventually on immigration?
00:43:54.800 And the answer is
00:43:55.900 it will totally work
00:43:57.020 because I'll bet
00:43:58.120 there's almost no,
00:44:00.140 very close to zero,
00:44:02.540 Democrats who will ever go
00:44:05.040 and look into it.
00:44:06.420 They won't Google it.
00:44:07.680 They won't look at
00:44:08.380 the source material.
00:44:09.420 They'll never see Breitbart.
00:44:10.900 They will never know.
00:44:12.960 So you can tell a lie
00:44:14.460 that maybe you just
00:44:15.400 never would have told
00:44:16.460 20 years ago
00:44:17.680 because everybody would say,
00:44:19.460 oh, we'll just check the source.
00:44:20.760 That's not true.
00:44:22.460 Nobody's going to check the source.
00:44:25.060 They're in their silo
00:44:26.220 and any lie in the silo works.
00:44:28.600 Now, it's not just about immigration.
00:44:30.360 Here's some more.
00:44:34.020 Here's another silo lie.
00:44:35.560 So the Harris campaign
00:44:37.360 is claiming that
00:44:39.420 she won't ban fracking.
00:44:43.200 But, you know,
00:44:44.700 earlier, not too long ago,
00:44:46.260 according to the Daily Wire,
00:44:48.260 there are videos in which
00:44:49.980 she's saying very directly
00:44:51.100 ban fracking.
00:44:52.160 Now,
00:44:54.200 will people in the silo
00:44:56.820 know that she was ever
00:44:58.520 a full-throated backer
00:45:00.700 of banning fracking?
00:45:02.260 Or will they only hear
00:45:03.540 that she's not going to ban it
00:45:04.880 and the people in Pennsylvania
00:45:06.720 where it matters will say,
00:45:07.980 oh, she said she's not going to ban it.
00:45:09.620 We're fine with that.
00:45:10.880 No, they will be in their silo.
00:45:12.840 They'll never see
00:45:13.960 the other side of that story.
00:45:15.520 So that's a silo lie
00:45:17.340 that she won't ban fracking.
00:45:20.000 Now, we don't know.
00:45:20.820 Maybe she won't.
00:45:22.660 But it's important
00:45:24.100 that she is,
00:45:24.980 at one point recently,
00:45:27.320 recently,
00:45:28.200 a full-throated supporter
00:45:29.580 of banning it.
00:45:31.720 Here's another one.
00:45:33.660 Jennifer Aniston
00:45:34.380 is accusing J.D. Vance
00:45:36.920 of wanting to ban
00:45:37.920 in vitro fertilization.
00:45:40.840 And Braebar News
00:45:41.660 is fact-checking this one, too.
00:45:43.800 So Jennifer Aniston 0.99
00:45:44.740 is saying this in public,
00:45:46.060 that she thinks J.D. Vance
00:45:47.180 wants to ban
00:45:47.860 in vitro fertilization.
00:45:51.600 What does Vance actually say?
00:45:54.060 He says,
00:45:54.980 pretty much every Republican
00:45:57.540 that I know
00:45:58.180 is pro-fertility treatments.
00:46:00.140 So that's not true.
00:46:02.460 And it doesn't seem true
00:46:04.120 for anybody
00:46:04.960 that Vance even knows.
00:46:07.620 Now,
00:46:08.520 will anybody on the left
00:46:10.760 see that debunk
00:46:12.220 when they're reading
00:46:13.960 Breitbart,
00:46:14.600 which they're not going to do?
00:46:16.200 No.
00:46:17.240 Will anybody on CNN
00:46:18.540 or MSNBC 0.85
00:46:19.680 fact-check
00:46:20.800 Jennifer Aniston?
00:46:22.440 Of course not.
00:46:24.340 Of course not.
00:46:25.660 They might even repeat it.
00:46:27.260 So that's a silo lie.
00:46:29.320 Something that you could
00:46:30.220 very easily
00:46:31.100 just Google
00:46:32.200 and in five seconds
00:46:33.360 you'd find out
00:46:34.000 it wasn't true.
00:46:35.380 But they won't.
00:46:37.340 So they're safe
00:46:38.060 in the silo.
00:46:39.820 How about another silo lie?
00:46:41.220 Let's see.
00:46:44.900 Trump accused Harris
00:46:46.160 of donating
00:46:46.720 to the Minnesota Freedom Fund
00:46:48.380 to bail out
00:46:50.000 dangerous criminals.
00:46:51.220 This was,
00:46:51.820 was that during
00:46:52.900 the big riots
00:46:54.000 of the Antifa days,
00:46:57.960 I think.
00:46:59.460 And then she tried
00:47:02.120 to say that wasn't true.
00:47:04.640 So her people
00:47:06.840 will hear that
00:47:07.400 that's not true
00:47:08.140 and that Trump
00:47:08.840 told a lie about her.
00:47:09.860 But what is true
00:47:11.660 is she did
00:47:12.380 encourage people
00:47:13.660 to donate
00:47:14.280 to that fund
00:47:14.980 which might be
00:47:16.640 slightly different
00:47:17.380 than donating
00:47:18.140 to it herself
00:47:19.420 but not really
00:47:20.300 in any important way.
00:47:22.320 You know,
00:47:22.560 asking other people
00:47:23.460 to donate
00:47:24.120 is sort of
00:47:25.540 donating your time
00:47:26.480 to the donating
00:47:27.200 of the fund
00:47:27.860 which is the same
00:47:28.800 as donating
00:47:29.360 for all practical purposes.
00:47:30.660 So that's a silo lie.
00:47:33.820 You can count
00:47:34.820 on her people
00:47:35.680 never looking that up.
00:47:39.980 All right.
00:47:41.080 And I would argue
00:47:42.100 that everything
00:47:42.900 that Harris says
00:47:43.980 about economics
00:47:44.980 and everything
00:47:45.460 Biden said
00:47:46.040 about economics,
00:47:47.120 those are all
00:47:48.060 going to be silo lies.
00:47:49.960 He'll say things like,
00:47:51.560 I was better
00:47:52.780 on gas prices
00:47:54.300 than Trump
00:47:54.900 and nobody's
00:47:56.940 ever going to check.
00:47:57.720 perfect silo lie.
00:48:01.620 Let's talk about
00:48:02.460 Christopher Wray.
00:48:03.800 You remember
00:48:04.140 the other day
00:48:04.740 he brought up some,
00:48:06.660 he said there was
00:48:07.220 some question
00:48:08.000 about whether
00:48:08.620 it was a bullet
00:48:09.320 that hit Trump's ear.
00:48:11.320 Now,
00:48:11.720 what I hadn't noticed
00:48:12.680 at the time
00:48:13.340 was that he wasn't
00:48:14.040 asked that question.
00:48:15.980 He found some way
00:48:17.460 to work it
00:48:17.980 into an answer
00:48:18.640 where it didn't
00:48:19.540 really even make
00:48:20.420 any sense
00:48:20.920 to be talking about it.
00:48:22.560 And there's nobody
00:48:23.520 serious who thinks
00:48:24.600 it was anything
00:48:25.160 but a bullet
00:48:25.780 including the FBI
00:48:26.880 who later
00:48:28.020 had to correct
00:48:29.500 and say,
00:48:30.420 we don't know
00:48:30.820 if it was a bullet
00:48:31.460 or a bullet fragment
00:48:32.480 but it was bullet.
00:48:34.300 Right?
00:48:36.060 And
00:48:36.540 why would he
00:48:39.060 bring that up
00:48:39.860 as others have noted?
00:48:42.000 The only reason
00:48:43.040 I can think
00:48:43.540 to bring it up
00:48:44.140 is to change
00:48:44.800 the outcome
00:48:45.220 of the election
00:48:45.800 because it would
00:48:47.340 take from Trump
00:48:48.380 a heroic moment
00:48:50.560 and turn it
00:48:51.920 into a hoax
00:48:53.420 basically.
00:48:54.860 Make it sound
00:48:55.620 like nothing
00:48:56.160 really was dangerous
00:48:57.120 just some glass
00:48:58.240 in his ear.
00:48:59.520 Really different
00:49:00.300 than a bullet
00:49:01.000 missed your ear
00:49:01.540 by a quarter
00:49:02.360 of an inch.
00:49:02.960 Those are really
00:49:03.560 different things.
00:49:05.040 So,
00:49:05.680 I can't think
00:49:06.960 of any reason
00:49:07.540 he would bring that up
00:49:08.360 other than
00:49:08.760 to hurt Trump
00:49:09.540 and to me
00:49:10.380 that would be
00:49:10.800 a firing offense.
00:49:12.760 Now,
00:49:13.240 will he be fired?
00:49:14.080 Of course not
00:49:14.660 because he doesn't
00:49:15.900 work for Trump
00:49:16.620 but it's a firing offense.
00:49:18.760 This would be him
00:49:19.680 getting into
00:49:20.260 the political
00:49:21.080 commentary
00:49:22.420 in a serious way.
00:49:24.460 I mean,
00:49:24.740 it's a big story.
00:49:26.540 So,
00:49:26.820 if he debunked
00:49:27.720 the bullet
00:49:28.780 on the ear
00:49:29.780 that would really
00:49:31.420 be a big chunk
00:49:32.540 of the
00:49:33.020 sort of emotional
00:49:34.220 energy
00:49:34.680 that Trump
00:49:35.540 has managed
00:49:36.060 to gain
00:49:37.740 at this point.
00:49:39.400 So,
00:49:40.140 that's terrible
00:49:40.980 behavior.
00:49:43.160 Biden apparently
00:49:44.080 is going to announce
00:49:44.920 sometime this week
00:49:46.000 if Biden is still alive
00:49:47.140 according to Politico
00:49:48.600 some term limits
00:49:50.640 for the
00:49:51.280 Supreme Court
00:49:52.360 and
00:49:54.120 which,
00:49:55.180 by the way,
00:49:55.640 I don't know
00:49:56.100 if that's a terrible idea.
00:49:58.780 How do you feel
00:49:59.420 about term limits
00:50:00.560 for the Supreme Court?
00:50:04.960 Because it does seem like
00:50:06.560 wouldn't it be nice
00:50:08.340 to know
00:50:09.020 when somebody
00:50:09.740 is going to retire
00:50:10.440 instead of all
00:50:12.400 the guesswork?
00:50:13.420 We have this weird
00:50:14.320 situation
00:50:14.880 where you have to
00:50:15.660 force somebody
00:50:16.800 to retire early
00:50:17.820 just so the correct
00:50:19.120 president can
00:50:19.900 replace them?
00:50:21.740 That's no good.
00:50:23.700 And then we
00:50:24.280 don't know
00:50:25.340 will the next
00:50:26.640 president have
00:50:27.440 two or three
00:50:28.300 retirees?
00:50:30.200 Don't know.
00:50:31.240 But wouldn't it be
00:50:31.860 nice to know
00:50:32.520 because when you vote
00:50:33.540 it would be nice
00:50:34.660 to know if you're
00:50:35.260 voting for two
00:50:35.920 or three
00:50:36.420 nominees.
00:50:38.540 So,
00:50:39.460 I understand
00:50:40.160 the argument
00:50:41.620 for lifetime
00:50:42.340 appointments.
00:50:42.940 but I don't
00:50:45.580 know if
00:50:46.160 when the
00:50:47.140 lifetime
00:50:48.020 appointment
00:50:48.540 idea came
00:50:49.320 up,
00:50:50.080 did people
00:50:50.620 live this
00:50:51.120 long?
00:50:53.240 In other words,
00:50:55.000 what was the
00:50:55.620 life expectancy
00:50:56.360 when it was
00:50:57.720 first created
00:50:58.440 as a lifetime
00:50:59.240 appointment?
00:51:00.740 You know,
00:51:01.300 if people
00:51:01.780 weren't living
00:51:02.720 much past 70
00:51:03.860 and it was
00:51:05.920 sort of unusual
00:51:06.620 for them to live
00:51:07.380 past 70,
00:51:08.220 then a lifetime
00:51:09.160 appointment
00:51:09.600 makes a lot
00:51:10.140 of sense.
00:51:11.580 And you
00:51:12.160 don't want
00:51:12.620 them to be
00:51:13.060 thinking about
00:51:13.600 their job
00:51:14.040 afterwards.
00:51:14.920 That makes
00:51:15.360 a lot of
00:51:15.640 sense.
00:51:16.340 So,
00:51:16.700 I'd like to
00:51:17.620 hear the
00:51:17.860 argument,
00:51:18.340 actually.
00:51:19.680 I think it's
00:51:20.720 not crazy
00:51:21.440 to think about
00:51:23.480 term limits.
00:51:24.480 It might be
00:51:25.080 bad for
00:51:25.620 Republicans,
00:51:26.620 but it
00:51:26.940 doesn't seem
00:51:27.400 crazy.
00:51:28.940 So,
00:51:29.500 I'm open
00:51:29.900 to the
00:51:30.180 argument.
00:51:33.180 I'm not
00:51:33.820 decided on
00:51:34.600 the argument.
00:51:35.080 I'm just
00:51:35.340 open to hear
00:51:35.860 it.
00:51:37.260 But Biden's
00:51:38.540 also talking
00:51:39.040 about some
00:51:39.440 ethics
00:51:39.900 code and
00:51:40.720 some kind
00:51:41.720 of change
00:51:42.300 about the
00:51:43.280 constitutional
00:51:43.900 change to
00:51:44.840 the limited
00:51:46.040 immunity for
00:51:46.940 the president.
00:51:49.580 But I
00:51:50.280 can't imagine
00:51:50.860 that there'll
00:51:51.240 be a
00:51:51.600 constitutional
00:51:52.100 change about
00:51:53.000 anything.
00:51:54.020 Does anybody
00:51:54.820 see our
00:51:55.300 country being
00:51:56.060 coordinated
00:51:56.740 enough that
00:51:57.500 two-thirds
00:51:57.960 of the
00:51:58.240 country would
00:51:58.760 agree to
00:51:59.300 anything?
00:52:00.680 Is that
00:52:01.320 even possible
00:52:02.020 to get
00:52:02.380 anything
00:52:02.700 changed
00:52:03.220 constitutionally?
00:52:04.360 I think
00:52:04.940 we're way
00:52:05.300 too divided
00:52:05.900 for that to
00:52:06.380 be a
00:52:06.600 possibility.
00:52:07.840 So,
00:52:08.040 maybe these
00:52:08.520 are just
00:52:08.820 for
00:52:09.100 just for
00:52:10.560 the
00:52:10.860 campaign
00:52:11.440 and just
00:52:11.800 for the
00:52:12.020 looks of
00:52:12.380 it.
00:52:14.200 Harris
00:52:14.720 came out
00:52:15.220 condemning
00:52:15.800 flag-burning
00:52:16.540 about those
00:52:17.460 anti-Israel
00:52:18.720 people.
00:52:20.320 She said,
00:52:20.720 I condemn
00:52:21.140 any individuals
00:52:22.120 associating with
00:52:23.140 the brutal
00:52:23.620 terrorist
00:52:24.180 organization,
00:52:25.180 Hamas. 0.73
00:52:25.840 Oh,
00:52:26.340 she's against
00:52:26.940 terrorists. 0.53
00:52:27.580 That's good.
00:52:28.640 Which has
00:52:29.280 vowed to
00:52:29.760 annihilate the
00:52:30.480 state of
00:52:30.840 Israel and
00:52:31.340 kill Jews. 1.00
00:52:32.540 Pro-Hamas 0.99
00:52:33.020 graffiti and
00:52:33.780 rhetoric is
00:52:34.320 abhorrent and
00:52:35.380 we must not
00:52:36.020 tolerate it in
00:52:36.640 our nation,
00:52:37.180 said Harris
00:52:38.300 in a
00:52:39.640 statement
00:52:39.900 issued by
00:52:40.340 our office.
00:52:41.480 I condemn
00:52:41.900 the burning
00:52:42.300 of the
00:52:42.600 American flag.
00:52:43.400 That flag
00:52:43.740 is a symbol
00:52:44.240 of our
00:52:44.520 highest ideals.
00:52:46.000 Blah,
00:52:46.100 blah,
00:52:46.220 blah.
00:52:46.640 I think
00:52:48.120 she easily 0.71
00:52:48.760 beat Trump
00:52:49.780 on the
00:52:50.200 persuasion
00:52:50.760 because we
00:52:53.940 all like
00:52:54.520 that both
00:52:55.460 of our
00:52:55.760 candidates are
00:52:56.480 opposed to
00:52:57.440 burning
00:52:57.680 flags.
00:52:58.960 But Trump
00:52:59.460 said maybe
00:53:00.100 there should
00:53:00.440 be a year
00:53:00.900 in jail
00:53:01.360 at the same
00:53:03.600 time that
00:53:04.060 people are
00:53:04.400 accusing him
00:53:04.980 of maybe
00:53:05.360 trying to be
00:53:05.960 a dictator.
00:53:07.260 That was
00:53:07.880 just a
00:53:08.240 mistake.
00:53:09.260 Even if
00:53:09.860 he believes
00:53:10.260 it and
00:53:10.840 even if
00:53:11.220 you believe
00:53:11.620 it, even
00:53:12.340 if you
00:53:12.640 agree,
00:53:13.140 there's still
00:53:13.540 a mistake
00:53:14.120 if you're
00:53:15.100 running for
00:53:15.460 office to
00:53:15.960 put something
00:53:16.440 out there
00:53:16.780 that people
00:53:17.200 could hate
00:53:18.200 but nobody's
00:53:19.180 going to vote
00:53:19.600 for you for
00:53:20.820 it, but they
00:53:21.540 might vote
00:53:21.980 against you
00:53:22.500 for it.
00:53:24.720 But Harris
00:53:25.540 is smarter
00:53:26.220 so she just
00:53:28.700 condemned it
00:53:29.500 in the most
00:53:30.740 vigorous way
00:53:31.560 without going
00:53:32.860 after free
00:53:33.480 speech.
00:53:33.900 it was
00:53:35.520 better.
00:53:36.200 So she
00:53:36.860 gets the
00:53:37.240 win on
00:53:37.660 this topic.
00:53:39.260 On the
00:53:40.160 most annoying
00:53:40.720 news of
00:53:41.220 the day,
00:53:42.340 you remember
00:53:42.820 Peter Strzok
00:53:43.600 and Lisa
00:53:44.240 Page and
00:53:45.660 how there
00:53:46.040 were suggestions
00:53:47.280 that Strzok 1.00
00:53:47.960 may not have
00:53:48.580 been on the
00:53:49.100 up and up
00:53:49.600 in all the
00:53:50.820 Russia collusion
00:53:51.740 nonsense,
00:53:52.580 but apparently
00:53:53.900 they sued
00:53:54.820 the government
00:53:56.060 because the
00:53:57.320 Trump
00:53:57.660 administration,
00:53:58.340 they say,
00:53:59.440 had violated
00:54:00.020 their privacy
00:54:00.680 by sharing
00:54:01.260 some texts.
00:54:02.020 Now, some
00:54:03.320 people say
00:54:03.860 they were
00:54:04.200 unlikely to
00:54:04.940 win that
00:54:05.320 case, but
00:54:06.600 it could
00:54:06.900 have been
00:54:07.180 expensive,
00:54:08.100 and so the
00:54:09.140 Biden
00:54:09.520 administration
00:54:09.960 said they
00:54:10.820 would settle
00:54:11.240 it, and
00:54:12.280 reportedly
00:54:13.360 Peter Strzok
00:54:14.120 is going to
00:54:14.480 get $1.2
00:54:15.300 million before
00:54:17.100 the lawyers
00:54:17.740 get their
00:54:18.180 money and
00:54:18.680 before he
00:54:19.080 pays taxes.
00:54:20.420 Is there
00:54:20.820 taxes on
00:54:21.420 that?
00:54:21.700 I don't
00:54:21.940 know how
00:54:22.300 that works.
00:54:24.620 And people
00:54:25.200 think that
00:54:25.680 Lisa Page
00:54:26.500 probably gets
00:54:27.220 something like
00:54:27.740 that.
00:54:28.320 We don't
00:54:28.660 know.
00:54:28.880 But I
00:54:33.100 understand why
00:54:34.200 the government
00:54:35.600 settles
00:54:36.400 cases, because
00:54:38.140 it's just
00:54:38.460 easier to
00:54:39.040 settle.
00:54:40.240 But it
00:54:41.000 sure looks
00:54:41.620 like they're
00:54:42.020 just paying
00:54:42.660 off their
00:54:43.400 own operatives,
00:54:45.940 as in,
00:54:46.960 thank you for
00:54:47.600 all the
00:54:47.960 terrible service
00:54:48.940 that you
00:54:49.280 did that
00:54:50.240 was bad
00:54:50.700 for Trump.
00:54:51.760 Here's your
00:54:52.300 reward, a
00:54:53.400 million dollars.
00:54:55.720 So that's
00:54:56.780 what it looks
00:54:57.220 like.
00:54:57.620 But it
00:54:58.560 could be
00:54:58.960 just the
00:54:59.540 way things
00:55:00.040 shake out.
00:55:02.960 Now, you're
00:55:04.560 probably asking
00:55:05.200 me, Scott,
00:55:06.420 what is the
00:55:07.260 end of that
00:55:07.880 comic, that
00:55:08.800 Dilber comic
00:55:09.460 that you
00:55:09.840 teased on
00:55:10.460 X?
00:55:11.680 And let's
00:55:14.000 take a look
00:55:14.460 at it.
00:55:15.660 See if I
00:55:16.420 can find
00:55:19.580 it for you.
00:55:20.320 So I
00:55:20.660 showed you
00:55:20.980 the first
00:55:21.460 two panels
00:55:22.700 of a Dilber 1.00
00:55:23.340 comic on
00:55:24.020 my X
00:55:24.540 platform, and
00:55:25.560 I was
00:55:25.800 teasing.
00:55:26.100 But since
00:55:27.340 you came
00:55:27.760 here alive,
00:55:28.580 I'm going
00:55:28.800 to show
00:55:29.080 you how
00:55:29.420 that ended.
00:55:33.460 Here's
00:55:33.920 what it
00:55:34.140 looks like.
00:55:36.680 Uh-oh.
00:55:39.780 Just
00:55:40.220 happened.
00:55:42.540 All right,
00:55:43.120 let me fix
00:55:43.620 this.
00:55:44.520 Back to
00:55:45.000 X.
00:55:47.900 And
00:55:48.380 boom.
00:55:49.560 All right,
00:55:50.900 so Tina
00:55:51.520 says to
00:55:52.320 Ashuk,
00:55:52.880 the intern,
00:55:53.680 I've given
00:55:54.320 up on
00:55:54.820 dating apps.
00:55:55.620 Would you
00:55:55.860 like to
00:55:56.160 go to
00:55:56.380 lunch with
00:55:56.760 me?
00:55:57.420 And Ashuk
00:55:58.040 looks at
00:55:58.480 her and
00:55:58.680 says,
00:55:59.420 no, that
00:56:00.300 might lead
00:56:00.800 to having
00:56:01.180 kids who
00:56:01.840 I'm told
00:56:02.500 would be
00:56:02.960 killed by
00:56:03.440 climate change.
00:56:04.900 And Tina
00:56:05.220 says, I'll
00:56:05.940 pay for
00:56:06.280 lunch.
00:56:07.280 And Ashuk
00:56:07.700 says, I'll
00:56:08.700 need a little
00:56:09.180 something for
00:56:10.520 my time as
00:56:11.280 well.
00:56:12.800 I'll need a
00:56:13.360 little something
00:56:13.800 for my time.
00:56:15.480 Anyway, I
00:56:16.280 thought that
00:56:16.640 would capture
00:56:17.180 the dating
00:56:17.980 world.
00:56:19.520 And that,
00:56:20.480 ladies and 0.98
00:56:20.740 gentlemen,
00:56:21.260 brings me to
00:56:21.980 the conclusion
00:56:22.620 of my
00:56:23.240 prepared remarks.
00:56:25.000 I'm going to
00:56:25.320 talk to the
00:56:25.960 subscribers on
00:56:27.320 Locals privately
00:56:28.440 in a moment.
00:56:30.220 But thanks for
00:56:31.020 joining on
00:56:31.580 X and Rumble
00:56:32.580 and on
00:56:35.260 YouTube, too.
00:56:36.400 We will see
00:56:37.520 you later.