Episode 2550 CWSA 07⧸29⧸24
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Summary
Paul and Yusong discuss whether Joe Biden's body double has been acting as a replacement for the real Joe Biden. Plus, a new theory about who's really in charge of the country, and whether it's good or bad.
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Excellent. Technology is working great. Thank you, Paul. And I'm just going to say it. I don't think
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that that Joe Biden we've been seeing walking to the helicopter looks like Joe Biden to me.
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So I'm going to be in the camp that says, yeah, the Biden body double has been active.
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Have you seen the one that looks tall? So there's one that looks tall. The sound is working. Must be
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the trolls. Trolls may be complaining. I just saw all the sound is working. Anyway, in my opinion,
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that does not look like Joe Biden. However, I could be wrong. And one way I could be wrong is
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some of the people are comparing his height to Jill. But where he's tall, she's wearing flats.
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And where he's not as tall, she's wearing heels. So maybe it's just an illusion. But even if you took
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Jill Biden out of the scene, he still doesn't look like Joe Biden to me. I mean, I've seen him enough
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times. I know what he looks like. It doesn't look like that. So I have a question of whether Biden is
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alive. And I'm not even 100% sure that we saw Joe Biden when he did that address. Probably because if it
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were a fake, it would have looked better, I think. I mean, he looked like he was barely capable.
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But maybe. So my guess is that Biden has maybe, you know, an hour a day that they can get him to do
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something if they drug him just right. But probably is just incoherent most of the day is my guess.
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We would see a lot more of him if he were coherent. I think you would all agree with that.
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So I think it's obvious that we don't know who's running the country. Now, that's not hyperbole,
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is it? I don't think that's hyperbole. You know, sometimes you say, oh, we don't know who's in
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charge of the country. But you know, you sort of really do. But in this case, we actually genuinely,
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no exaggeration, really don't know. Don't know. You know, the thinking is that Jill Biden's in charge,
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but probably not. You know, I don't know what is the role of Hunter. I don't know. But my guess is
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that the the various departments are just doing their thing like they're little dictators. And
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then they check with the boss every now and then. And the boss doesn't know anything. But if Hunter
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says, I don't think you should be doing that, they say you're not the president. And then they go do it.
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So I've got a feeling the government sort of running itself right now. And probably not with
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much risk, which is the strangest thing about it. You know, I feel like I, I should be worried about
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this. But based on everything that we have observed, I just don't know that Biden was ever that important
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to anything. Certainly, when he's not there, it doesn't seem to make an obvious difference. So
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we'll see. There's a study that says eating strawberries can reduce your risk of heart disease
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and all kinds of good things. Well, I eat a strawberry every day. And I like this study. One of the ways
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that you can tell whether a study is reliable, and I think I've taught you this before. So a study,
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you can tell it's reliable, if it agrees with what you wanted it to say. I eat a strawberry every day.
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What do I want the science to tell me? Oh, that it's very healthy. Let's see. Oh, I found a study
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that says it's very healthy. So do I believe that this study is good science? No, of course not.
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It's probably put together by the strawberry association or something. Usually these are.
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So no, you should not believe that strawberries are good for you because there's a study that says
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they're good for you. But I like strawberries, so I'm going to believe it. There's another study that says
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ivermectin might have a surprising potential against cancer. The American thinker has a big article on that.
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And so apparently there are several different types of cancer that, anecdotally,
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ivermectin looks like it might have some potential for, but I don't think we're at the gold standard
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for studying that. So I don't think that's a fact. But just in case, every morning I put a little
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ivermectin on my strawberries and I say, maybe, maybe, no, I don't really eat ivermectin on strawberries.
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But if it were delicious, I might give it a try. It can't be any worse than anything else I eat.
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All right. There's a study that says, by the way, I have a theme for today.
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The theme is that all data is wrong. Just in general. Now, that's a theme that is completely
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unbelievable to normal people. I know what you're thinking. Well, it's not all wrong. I mean,
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some of it's right. No, it isn't. No, it isn't. It's all wrong. All data is wrong and it always has been.
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Do you know who would agree with me? Everybody who's ever had to collect data for a living.
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They will all agree with me. Now, there aren't that many people in that category.
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But if you can find anybody whose job has been to collect data for anything, for science, for
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politics, for business, for anything, and say, is data real? Their first answer might be, of course it is,
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because they know what the right answer is. But they say, okay, but when you are collecting data,
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you know, when you can really see whether the data was real because you were in charge of collecting it,
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was that data real? Okay, well, you got me. That data wasn't real.
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But I think the other data is real. The stuff I don't know about. That is called Gelman amnesia,
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people. That's where you assume that, you know, the other stuff you haven't looked into is probably
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fine. No, it's not. No data is real. No data is real. All science is motivated. All business is
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motivated and all politics is motivated. Meaning that if the data doesn't agree with the person who's
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promoting it, they're not going to promote it. So you only see things that match the narrative
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of the person giving it to you, basically. That's the way we work. So with that in mind, Unusual Wales
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was reporting today on X that 2023 was the worst year for corporate bankruptcies since the great
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financial crisis. And 2024 is looking even worse. All right. So there's some data. Bankruptcies are
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looking like they'll be worse than ever. So that means that the economy is worse, right? Or that
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whatever's driving bankruptcies are worse? Maybe. But it could also be that we've had a huge burst in
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entrepreneurial activity. What would a huge burst in startups and new businesses guarantee that you had?
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A lot more bankruptcies. If you take more chances, you get more, you know, more bankruptcies. So is this
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telling us that everything was normal and the only thing that's changed is the bankruptcies, which would
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be pretty bad? Or is it misleading? Because we don't know if it's matched with an entrepreneurial boost,
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which we have heard about, right? You've heard there's a lot more startups and entrepreneurial
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things. So maybe it's actually a sign of good economic health. Because if the startups were,
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let's say, 10 times higher, and the bankruptcies were twice as high, that would be good news.
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Because sort of, I mean, it's not good news for the bankrupt, but it'd be sort of good news for the
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economy. Because I'd say, wow, you know, if all those things work, but you know, some of these are
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worse than usual, that would make sense. Now, I'm not saying that that's the specific problem with
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these bankruptcy numbers. I'm just telling you, there's no data that's real. Somebody collected
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it. It doesn't mean it's real. It doesn't mean it's right. It doesn't mean that the second person
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who studied it would get the same number. Data is not real. All right, here's another one.
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And on the internet today, there's this graph showing that the counties that Biden won,
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back in 2018 anyway, their GDP would have been 71% of the total GDP. So in other words, the Biden
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Democrat dominated areas of the country have 71% of all the money, the GDP. That's not the wealth,
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but that's sort of economic activity, let's say. Now, so what does that mean?
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Does that mean that Democrats have all the money and that Republicans are not the big money fat cats
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anymore, but the Democrats are the big money fat cats? Maybe. It might mean that. It could be,
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but far more likely is that the data was collected in a dumb ass way. The most likely explanation is that
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the data is useless. For example, if Apple computer happened to have their headquarters in one county,
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you'd get like all the Apple computer GDP, wouldn't you? It would just be in that one county. Now, it's also
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very Democrat. So you could argue that it is telling you something useful. But I don't really think this,
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this seems like too much of a confused piece of data because you got, you know, the, the places where
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Biden won, if you do, if you only won by a little bit, that would be called a win. So that would be
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like completely owning that county. But where they won by a lot would also be counted as one win.
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I don't like anything about the data. So I don't know anything specifically wrong with it, but
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everything on the, on the surface looks like, eh, I'm not sure you can really tell. I'll tell you what
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would be useful if you just did the, uh, the wealth of all voting Democrats versus the wealth of all
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voting Republicans. How much wealth do they have? Not just income. That would tell you something that
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that would actually be useful, but by county, no, I don't think so.
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All right. Uh, Venezuela had something they call an election and boy, is this going to be awkward
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for the United States? Let's see if you can figure out why this would be so awkward for the United States.
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Here's what happened. The, uh, the so-called, uh, leader, uh, president Nicholas Maduro.
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I remember when people were saying, oh, Venezuela is going to have an election. And I said,
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what? How can Venezuela have an election? They have a dictator. And people said, no, no,
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Sky, you're not up to date on this. They're going to have an election. And I said, no, they're not.
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They have a dictator. And then the smart people said, yeah, that they're really popular, uh,
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challenger. She's ahead in the polls. Looks like she's going to win. And I said, no, she isn't.
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So here's what happened. It looked like that, uh, challenger was way ahead in the polls.
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It looked like there was nothing that could possibly stop her, uh, except, uh, some poll
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watchers were bullied away from watching and allegedly some gang members trucked in a whole bunch of, uh,
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ballots, or they stole a bunch of ballot boxes.
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And there were reports of massive, massive, um, election rigging, which unexpectedly took Maduro, who
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I thought was a dictator, took him to a win. Isn't that interesting? So if you were to look at the, uh,
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the charts, it would look like Maduro was way behind, way behind, way behind. And then toward late at night,
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zoom, he zoomed into the lead, just barely, just enough. Lucky, lucky guy.
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Lucky that all the votes that came in later were pro Maduro. Now I know what you're going to say.
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People, people, stop it. Stop it. I'm not an idiot.
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I know what's going on here. Don't you? Yeah. I think we all see what's going on here.
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What's going on is that the challenger is a big old liar and she's claiming that this election was
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rigged, but actually she's probably an insurrectionist. If there's a protest,
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which I would call an insurrection to try to stop this totally fair and honest election.
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Now, why am I saying it's totally fair and honest? Duh, there's no court in Venezuela that has found
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it is not honest. Can, can we agree on that? No court in Venezuela has ruled that the election was
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rigged. So, uh, what's wrong with you? What's wrong with all of you insurrectionist doubters?
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I'm telling you the courts have not ruled anything about that. So obviously it's fine.
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Obviously the election is good. And beyond that, I can assure you that Venezuela assured us
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and its own citizens, you can't rig an election when everybody's watching. You can't do that.
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People, what are you thinking? Do you think that they could rig an election that was obviously going
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to go one way late into the night and then suddenly there's this weird increase in votes?
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Do you think they're going to get away with that? Everybody saw it.
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Well, I mean, if the courts don't rule that there was a problem
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and there are no challenges to it that the system recognizes, I would imagine that anybody who tried
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to get this election stopped from certified, you know, if they tried to block it from certification
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in Venezuela, I guess they would be insurrectionists, wouldn't they? I guess that's what we call them.
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Now, you all see how awkward this is, right? Because Venezuela just ran the blueprint of everything
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that Republicans have suspected about the US election exactly. It's an exact duplicate
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of what Republicans say happened in 2020. Now, do I know it's a duplicate? Meaning,
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do I know that the 2020 election was rigged? I don't. Neither do the Venezuelans.
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Right? The Venezuelans have a strong suspicion, but a suspicion is not proof. Where's the evidence?
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Where's the video? Who's got the video of these gangs allegedly stealing these ballot boxes?
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I haven't seen any. Have you seen any video? Has the media in Venezuela reported, you know,
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their investigative story? Because I don't know much about Venezuela and much about the dictatorship,
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but I'm assuming that they have a free and fair what? Are you telling me the media in Venezuela
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wouldn't be completely independent and objective? Well, this is the first time hearing this?
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Well, now you're just blowing my whole world view. I just assumed that the media would be uncovering
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any kind of problems there. Are you telling me that the media is controlled by the dictator?
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So, while certainly there are differences between Venezuela and the United States,
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your brain is going to have a hard time making a difference because this is going to look just like
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what people in the United States imagined, correctly or incorrectly, happened in 2020. It's also what
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they're going to be looking for to happen again, because there's widespread expectations that the American
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election will go exactly like this, meaning that the stealing will be so obvious and they'll get away
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with it again. Why? Because our courts will not find anything wrong with the election.
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It doesn't seem like that we're living in a simulation and the simulation is just messing with us at this
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point. I mean, what are the odds that Trump would get nicked by a bullet in the ear?
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Well, what are the odds that the Democrat candidate would be literally like a walking
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ghost that they tried to prop up, but they couldn't get away with it? What are the odds that any of this
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would be happening? What are the odds that Kamala Harris widely understood to be the worst candidate
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That she's the leading candidate and that some of the polls are saying that she looks close
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and other people have noticed that Kamala Harris went from the least popular
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to suddenly, my God, is she good. Look at all of her accomplishments. Have you seen the interviews
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on the street? There's a young man who stops young people who look like they're old enough to vote
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and says stuff like, do you know who's running for president? And they don't know.
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And they've never heard of Kamala Harris. And they don't know who the vice president of the United
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States is. This is our youth. They don't even know. So that's our system. Anyway,
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it's going to be fun to watch how that story is covered. Let me give you an idea how it might be
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handled. So I look for, you know, the usual suspects. When you know that there's a story
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that's negative for Democrats, there's going to be a handful of people who go first to try to
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redefine the story. Well, here's one, Michael McFall, who you can Google him yourself if you
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want to find out how much of a Democrat he is. But let's just say he would be one of the people
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you'd expect to go first and tell you how to understand this. So here's what he says. The
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situation in Venezuela right now reminds me a lot of the elections in Serbia in 2000 and Ukraine in 2004.
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Blah, blah, blah. So Michael McFall, Democrat, would like you to be thinking about these lesser,
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lesser developed, less secure countries. Yeah, if you're thinking of Venezuela,
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the thing to compare it to would be Serbia 2000 and Ukraine 2004. Because you don't want to compare
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it to the United States. Well, that would be crazy. Now, let's put our attention in the year 2000
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and 2004, Serbia and Ukraine. Let's talk about Serbia and Ukraine. But Michael, it reminds a lot
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of people of the United States and shut up. It's Serbia, it's Ukraine, Serbian Ukraine. Now, we'll see
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if other people pick up this Serbia-Ukraine thing so that we can say, thank God we don't have a system
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like that in the United States. Thank God. Well, there's a, according to Springer Link,
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that I guess is some kind of newsy website, there are something called zombie election monitors.
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Zombie election monitors. Now, that would be different from an election monitor who is sincere
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and has access to observe. And they say what honestly they say. That's not a zombie. That's
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somebody doing the job. But it turns out that worldwide, there are more zombies, which are
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people who simply pretend that they watched, but did not watch. In other words, there are election
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monitors who are organized and chosen specifically to make sure you don't know the election was stolen.
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So their job is to say, everything looked fine to me. But did you see the gangs come in and take away
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those big boxes of ballots? No, no. Didn't see that. Did you see them photocopying the ballots and
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running them through a second time? No. As a matter of fact, I didn't notice anything like that.
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So this election is clean, clean and unraged. So look out for the zombie fake election monitors. We
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probably have some of those. Anyway, so if you want to know how good the brainwashing machine is on
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the Democrats, here's a good example. So apparently Kamala Harris's favorability
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Her favorability increased dramatically in one week. Is that because of all the accomplishments
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she had that week? Did she have a really good week? Did she end a war? Did she cure cancer? No,
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no, no. All it took, all it took was the news to collectively say she's the greatest thing and
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everybody lie. And her popularity zoomed. So how much did it go up in one week? Let's see. According
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to ABC news, which of course I would not trust whatsoever as a news or polling entity, but it said
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43% of Americans say they have a favorable view of Harris. It's an eight point jump from last week.
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She had an eight point jump in popularity in one week. Now, first of all, I don't believe the poll.
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Second of all, if it's true, it's a brainwashing operation. That would be how powerful the brainwashing
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is. That's really powerful. Now, one of the problems that I have when I try to warn people
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that they live in a brainwashing environment, it's not politics, it's just brainwashing.
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So the best brainwashers win. People don't really understand how strong it is.
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People don't really know that you can change the majority of American minds in an hour,
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if you're doing the right brainwashing. So if you don't know how easily minds can be changed,
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you're not going to worry about brainwashing. If you know it can change everything and quickly,
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it's the only thing you'd worry about because it is the only thing that's a problem. Everything else
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flows from that. So the contemplation about who Kamala Harris will pick as her running mate,
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should she get the nomination we expect she will? Mark Kelly is coming out at the top of
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a poorly understood field of people that most people have never heard of.
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So he's an older, bald, white guy. Now, here's my take. America is clearly ready for a black president,
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right? Obama was president for two terms. We're clearly ready for a female president.
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I think Hillary Clinton actually won the popular vote. Did she not? So we're ready for black. We're
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ready for any minority, really. We're ready for female, of course. I think we're ready, almost,
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for LGBTQ. Probably not yet. You know, I still think it'd be tough to win LGBTQ. But we're close.
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And I would say, you know, if Richard Grinnell ran for office someday, you know, the odds are pretty
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good, right? You'd have a pretty good shot. So I think we're ready for most of those things. You
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know what we're not ready for? A bald white guy. Bald black guy, yes. Bald black guy, yes.
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Because that looks more like a look. But a bald white guy? I don't know if we're ready for that.
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And I'm not joking, by the way. I don't think it's a coincidence that presidents have had basically
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reasonably good hair forever. When, what is it? What percentage of the general adult older population
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is missing hair? 40, 50, 60 percent? And yet all of our presidents have good hair?
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I think there's a reason for it. I think they got to be tall if they're male. They have to be tall.
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And they have to have good hair. Or at least interesting hair, like Trump.
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So we'll see. Then there's this weird story about Mark Kelly has, of all things, he has
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some kind of ownership of a surveillance balloon company that allegedly has some Chinese investment
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in it, which should raise some eyebrows. I don't know that that's a problem. I mean, probably we're
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more worried about it than we should, but certainly I would want to ask a lot of questions before I
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could be comfortable with that. So we'll see. I don't think Mark Kelly's going to be the guy.
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If I had to guess, I'm just going to guess against the bald guy.
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That's what I think. Anyway, as you know, Democrats have been claiming that crime is down under Joe
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Biden. And what did I say when I heard that crime was down under Joe Biden? I said, no data is real.
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It's all made up. And if you'd like to know how they made it up, here's how. Half of the country
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doesn't even report their crime numbers to the FBI. Half of the country doesn't even report. So do
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you know what the FBI does when they want to give you the national crime numbers? They report the ones
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they have, and then they estimate the others. Now, do you think it's more likely that if crime went up,
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you might be less likely to report it in your city? Let's say you're the mayor and you have the power
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to report it or not report it, since apparently it's not a law that requires it. And your crime goes
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up, are you going to report it? Or are you going to say, you know, maybe we'll skip this year.
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If it goes down next year, maybe we report it. Of course you don't. No, these numbers on crime are
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completely useless because the FBI has to guess on half of them and they don't have any basis for
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guessing. This is the way the real world works, folks. If you think that people collect data,
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they find out it's accurate, and then they tell it to you, that's probably never happened ever.
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It's just not something that ever happens in the real world. All data is motivated.
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All data is estimates, guessing, assumptions. It's not real. So this is an especially good example.
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And then what about the stuff about the economy? Do you believe anything about the economy?
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Do you think that any news coming from the administration that's in charge,
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and then that administration produces some numbers that look good for the economy,
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do you think those are reasonable and reliable? No, of course not. All the economic numbers are
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completely non-trustable during an election year, probably always, but during an election year,
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it'd be absurd to believe them. And of course, they do the trick of where you start the calculation.
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By the way, this is how companies that manage your money, let's say they do investments for you,
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they're kind of a fund. This is how they do the trick too. So let's say you're an investment fund,
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and you've never made money for your clients more than they would have made if they just put it in
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the market on their own. So what do you do if the market in general is better than your fund?
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You don't do any advertising. Well, you don't do any advertising that says your record.
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But then, because things go up and down, you have a good month, and you have this like one good month
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because you had this one good stock that went up. Well, then you do some advertising.
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You say, compared to the regular market, we beat the regular market by 5% over the past year.
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And it's true. It's just that they waited for the one month they had a good year compared to the
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average. If you looked at five years, not so good, which means that one year was luck.
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So if you can decide, if you have control over where you start and end the analysis,
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you can make yourself look good or bad compared to anything, as long as both of them are in flux
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all the time, which is the case with economic stuff. So don't believe any economic stuff.
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Molly Hemingway tells us that P. Buttigieg has been lying about illegal immigration.
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He said that it's gone down, at least the illegal immigration from the Northern Triangle countries
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and Mexico has gone down. But in fact, it's up 140% from Trump's time, from 1.8 million to 4.3.
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How can they say it goes down when it's going up by lot? You can change the definitions of what it
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means to be illegal. So they changed the definition. They said, if we process you through the legal
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doorway where you say you are an asylum seeker and we say we're not sure, but until we're sure,
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you have a legal right to stay in the country. Those are called not illegal.
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So it's pretty easy to get the data to be anything you want if you can change the definition of words.
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Have you noticed that the Democrats massively changed the definition of words
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so that you don't know what's going on? What's that equity mean? Well, don't ask.
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Imagine trying to tell Democrats that all data is fake. All of it.
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Who would believe that? Who would believe that all data is fake?
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Nobody, really. I'm the only person who believes it. In fact, you don't believe it.
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I'm telling you it's true and you don't believe it. How could you ever convince anybody that all data
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is made up? It is. It's all made up. All the important stuff. Things that are unimportant, like
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maybe the engineer is measuring the tolerance of advice or something. That might be real.
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But all the political stuff. Economics. No, that's not real.
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All right. There's a report that Google was suppressing searches for Trump assassination.
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And I mistakenly tested mine and, you know, Trump came up right away. And I thought, oh,
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well, it looks like it's not happening on my end. But I was too sleepy when I did that because the real
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test was about the word assassination. And sure enough, you can type Trump assassinate and it doesn't
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auto-complete. So, no, I was wrong. Mine did not work. If you type in Trump, it immediately auto-fills
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with Trump. It's just the assassination that's the part it doesn't auto-fill. Now, Google's explanation
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was, they said, and I quote, there was no manual election taken, meaning they didn't do anything to
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suppress Trump assassination as a search. Our systems have protections against auto-complete
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predictions associated with political violence, which were working as intended prior to this horrific
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event. We're working on improvements to ensure our systems are more up to date. Of course,
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auto-complete is just a tool to help people save time and they can still search for anything they
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want. Does any of that sound real? Do you think it really, like, they have to research this?
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Or do you think they could just go ahead and say, oh, if you start typing assassination and it's
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Trump, maybe you should surface this brand new story that everybody's talked about for a month?
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It doesn't look like it should be that hard, but apparently all the other assassinations come up,
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you know, the historical ones. If you say assassination, it'll auto-fill with all the other people who've
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ever been assassinated except Trump. I think that what's happening is it's not about the assassination
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word. It's just anything that would be a story that would be favorable to Trump. So I don't believe
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Google's explanation. I would consider it a probable lie. Probable lie. Well, apparently the Democrats
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have decided that they're going to use the word weird to describe, I guess, J.D. Vance and Trump.
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Now, you might say to yourself, weird? That's like such a weak, overused, weird word. And Vivek
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Ramaswamy has a similar idea. He says, this whole they're weird argument from the Democrats is dumb
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and juvenile. This is a presidential election, not a high school prom queen contest. It's also a tad
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ironic coming from the party that preaches diversity and inclusion. Win on policy if you can,
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but cut the crap, please. Now, I guess I agree with what Vivek says, that it's juvenile and, you know,
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you should argue on policies. However, I'm going to tell you what you didn't expect. This is probably
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professional work. Remember when I spotted dark in the Clinton-Trump election? As soon as they all said
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Trump's speech is dark, I said, whoa, that's professional. That's not something that regular
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politicians come up with. That word makes you fear without any details. Oh, it's dark. Ooh,
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everything bad is dark. And then you put all the bad fear that you have for the dark into Trump.
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Very professional manipulation of minds. Weird is probably that good. And here's why. If you're
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saying to yourself, but Scott, I understand the dark thing, because even when I hear it, like,
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I can feel it. So I get what you said about it. But weird is just an overused, kind of a non-useful
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word, doesn't say anything. Here's what you might not know. Young women use that word a lot.
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If you're talking to a young woman about a topic that she's not interested in,
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and you say, oh, this or that happened, what is she going to say while she's looking at her phone?
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Looking at phone, now that's weird. And then you tell a story about a person who did a thing that
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isn't usually done. What does the young woman with the phone say about that person?
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That's weird. Weird is the universal word that young women use for everything that doesn't fit their
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model. And it's a good catch-all for their base. It wouldn't work on the Democrat side.
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I'm sorry. It wouldn't work on the Republican side. On the Republican side, what would work better
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would be something about disgust. Somebody is disgusting. Somebody is sloppy. So the kind of
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words that Trump would use, disgusting and sloppy. Because Republicans are more geared toward being
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disgusted. If I said, describe the opening of the Olympics, and I said it to Republicans,
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would they say weird? They might, because it's a common word. But far more likely, I would think
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they would say, I'm disgusted by it. I'm just disgusted. So if you're going to try to influence
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Republicans, you go for disgust. And I think there's science that backs that, by the way.
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And if you go to influence young female Democrats, weird is a good way to go.
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So it's actually very strong. And I've started using the word weird to describe whenever Democrats
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say that Trump is going to steal your democracy. And do you know why I use the word weird?
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Because it works on Democrats. I want them to feel weird when they say he's going to steal your
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democracy. See, if you say instead, but wait, let us make a list. Here's the list of things Trump
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wants. Here are the list of things Kamala Harris wants. All right, you can see from our two lists and
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my logic that one of these sides is not trying to steal democracy, but maybe you could argue that
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Democrats are. Nobody cares about your list. Nobody cares about your logic or your policies.
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But if you say, wait, did you just say that Trump is going to steal your democracy?
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That's weird. You're weird. That actually can change their minds.
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Because weird is the last thing you want to hear if you're a young woman.
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Men don't care so much. Men don't mind being weird. They're more likely to go rogue and
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buy a rifle and try to shoot the president. I mean, men are completely different. But women do not want
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to be weird. And if they are being weird, they want to be weird in a popular way. So if you say to
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me, Scott, they dyed their hair blue. No, that's weird in a popular way. That's weird in a popular way.
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So it's more about popular than weird. So they would say, I'm just expressing my feelings or
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whatever. There's nothing weird about that. And there isn't. But it's just the word is powerful
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on one side, but not the other. All right. When I found out my friend got a great deal on a wool
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coat from Winners, I started wondering, is every fabulous item I see from Winners? Like that woman
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over there with the designer jeans? Are those from Winners? Ooh, or those beautiful gold earrings?
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Did she pay full price? Or that leather tote? Or that cashmere sweater? Or those knee-high boots?
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That dress? That jacket? Those shoes? Is anyone paying full price for anything?
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Stop wondering. Start winning. Winners. Find fabulous for less.
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So apparently Biden is looking for free reforms on the Supreme Court. I'm not sure that that's a
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reform, but they want no immunity for crimes that a former president commits in office.
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And I wonder, do you think that Biden is still alive? Do you believe that Biden,
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while he is someone accused of lots of crimes in office, do you think that he wants to remove his
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own protection? I don't. To me, this is proof he's not the president. Because I can't see anybody who
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would say, you know, it'd be a good idea to work really, really hard to make me personally far more
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likely to go to jail when I'm 85. It's just not something you do. You just say, maybe the next
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administration can work on this, but I'd like to have my immunity once I retire. So I think it's
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evidence that Biden is not in charge. I can't imagine he would be in favor of that, because he
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would be in as much the target as any other president. And then he wants term limits for
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Supreme Court justices. I'm open-minded on that one. I'd like to hear the arguments on that.
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And binding code of conduct for the Supreme Court, again, it's all in the details.
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You know, could there be a code of conduct for the Supreme Court?
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I feel like the Supreme Court should come up with that on their own.
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I don't feel like that should be imposed upon them. Do you? You know, wouldn't you be more
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comfortable if the people who are supposed to be the standard bearers for our constitutional system,
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they're the ones who should say, you know what, we need a code of conduct.
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So we're going to publish one and try to stick to it. And I feel like on some level,
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they probably do have that, don't they? Whether it's written down or unwritten, but
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certainly they have understood conduct that they consider too far and, you know, what's allowable.
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Anyway, Elon Musk is reminding us of non-citizens coming into the countries. He's calling them
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illegals. I have also a little issue with using that word. Now, obviously, they've done something
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illegal, but, you know, we don't call, you know, if somebody got caught shoplifting once and they're
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a citizen, we don't really call them illegals, even if they did something illegal once. So I don't love
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that word, but it's not, it's, I'm not going to make it a mission to end it. So anyway, a few things
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you should probably know, according to Elon Musk, illegals in America can get bank loans, mortgages,
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insurances, driver's license, free healthcare in California and New York, and in-state college
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tuition for not even, so. And then Elon says, what's the point of being a citizen if an illegal
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gets all the benefits but doesn't pay taxes or do jury duty? Well, that's not true. If they have a job,
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they're going to pay taxes, aren't they? Do illegal employees not pay taxes?
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I thought they did. So I don't know if that's accurate. But he was reminded that sometimes they
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can vote. So if you get your driver's license, depending where it is, you might get an option
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to get a ballot. It doesn't mean it's legal to vote, but you'd be given the option.
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All right, here's an interesting story. As you know, people are calling the mega Trump-loving
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people a cult. Now, what's interesting about this is that it doesn't fit the definition of cult.
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So what did they do? Did the Democrats say, oh, well, now that you point out the definition of a cult,
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I can see that it doesn't fit. Specifically, what doesn't fit is a cult really, really needs to keep
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the cult away from other information so that their world is just whatever the cult leader tells them.
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But that's not the case with Republicans. Republicans see all the mainstream reporting,
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if only to know how to counter it. But they see it all. They're very aware of what both sides of the
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argument are. That is not true on the other side. The Democrats are socially and or functionally cut
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off from really half of the argument and always will be because they don't even want to look at
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Fox News for two seconds. I'm not going to go look at Breitbart. Are you crazy? They would say.
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But yet, Republicans are going to hear every story that's important that came out of the Washington
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Post or the New York Times. They don't trust those entities, but they certainly know what they're
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saying. It just doesn't work the other way. So I was saying that Joe Navarro, who's ex-FBI guy,
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and he's written some bestselling books on body language, which I've recommended.
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So he's real good on body language. If you want to look into his books, Joe Navarro,
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and I've recommended them in the past. But he's talking now, I guess he did a little video on
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this, that he's making the case for cults being more about a charismatic leader.
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So that would allow you to call the MAGA people a cult because they really, really like Trump.
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Do you see what's happening here? This is part of the brainwashing industrial complex. No,
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I'm not saying that Joe Navarro is connected to anybody who's asking him to do this. Everybody
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just knows what to do if they're on one side. And if you happen to be an expert on cults,
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you can be expected, and you're also, let's say, a Democrat, you can be expected that people will
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want to hear you say that Trump is a cult and that the Democrats are not. Now, the Democrats don't have
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a charismatic leader at the moment. They did under Obama, but they don't at the moment.
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But they do have a silo in what they have access to. And so because they have a silo,
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the news can simply act like a leader, the collective fake news, and just tell people what
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to believe. And then they believe it. And they get their fake data that they think is real.
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And they get their fake narratives that they think are complete. And they get their hoax videos that
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they don't know are edited. And they live in this little artificial, completely fake world in which
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they think that they're right and that the other side are narcissists and criminals and racists and
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maybe sexists too. And the only part they're true about is, yeah, there are sexists. That part's true,
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but not in a way that necessarily should be a crime against humanity. They just like the fact
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that men and women are different and that they celebrate that instead of running from it. So that's
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a little sexist, according to the Democrats, but not necessarily a crime, depending on your point of
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view. So charismatic leader is a cult. I don't think so. Let's see. Let's check on my
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hypothesis about what's happening. So the Atlantic, which is allegedly a publication, but really is
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just a propaganda entity, made the claim that, according to Breitbart, who's busting him on
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this, that they're claiming that Trump will end elections. So they're doing this fake thing
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where I guess the Atlantic's Brian Klass wrote. Well, it doesn't matter what he wrote. But the
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idea is that they took Trump out of context, saying that when he talked to the Christian group,
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that the election was a mess and that if he gets elected, he'll fix it. So you only have to vote for
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him once and you'll never have to vote again if you're a low propensity voter. You just have to
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get this one thing done. And then once he fixes elections so that they're fair and transparent,
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then maybe you don't need to vote again because that would be fixed and everything will be fine
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after that. Now, they turned that into he's going to end democracy and you'll never get to vote again.
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Now, obviously, he didn't say that. How do you know he didn't say that? The same way you can
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identify most of the hoaxes. Most of the hoaxes have the following quality. Would anybody say
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that? No. If you can say, would anybody say that? It's a hoax. Now, I want to take a minute to explain
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what I call brainwashing versus what would just be wrong, you know, bad information, what would be lying,
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which is not brainwashing, and what would be a conspiracy theory, which is not brainwashing.
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Brainwashing is when you know what you're doing. You're the brainwasher. You know you're telling
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something that isn't true, but it's so untrue that the people looking at it don't even need to do the
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research to know it's not true. Let me give you an example. Did you need to do research to know that
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the President of the United States did not, in fact, ever call neo-Nazis fine people with a
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premeditated, you know, talk that he thought about before he gave it? No, you don't have to research
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that. That's something that couldn't, didn't happen in any world. Do you have to research whether or not
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the President of the United States once speculated about the benefit of injecting or drinking bleach?
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No, you don't have to research that. Now, on the surface, that's obviously something that didn't
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happen. Do you have to research that a bunch of unarmed people tried to stage an insurrection
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with some paperwork changes about electoral college, and apparently no organized plan whatsoever for
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taking over, and when the President had offered more security and it was turned down ahead of the
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event? Do you have to do a lot of research to find out that wasn't an insurrection and it was just a
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protest? No, you don't. It's right there. If you just watch the news, you can see it with your own eyes.
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So brainwashing is telling you that something you can see clearly and obviously is not the case.
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Now, that's different from just lying. When they talk about the economy, that's just lying.
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And it has the effect of convincing people of something that's not true. But you wouldn't know
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necessarily that the economic numbers were a lie. You don't need brainwashing for that. A simple lie
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that somebody doesn't check would be sufficient. That's not really brainwashing. That's just a lie
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that you got away with. A conspiracy theory, let's say you see a lot of those on the right,
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those are not brainwashing. Those are people who got brainwashed. So those people who believe what they
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researched on their own usually, and maybe they want you to believe it too. But they're not trying
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to brainwash you. Their intention is they think they know the truth, even if they don't, and they
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would like you to know the truth too. Completely different than brainwashing. How about just
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people who don't have all the facts and, but they're sure about their opinion. And so they're
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trying to convince you of their opinion, but maybe they just didn't have all the facts. That's not
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brainwashing. That's just somebody who didn't have the facts who's making an argument, you know,
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basically what everybody is every day. So brainwashing. And the reason I used only three
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examples in my brainwashing test, which is doing really well in terms of popularity on X is the
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idea is you just take the three, the fine people hoax, the drinking bleach hoax, and the January 6th
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insurrection hoax. They all have the quality that you don't really need to research them to know
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they're not true. You have to be brainwashed to think those things are true. And the Democrats
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are. So that's brainwashing. And the summer hoax seems to be about project 2025. Yeah, that's as
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Jay Richard said on X, it's, it's basically, it's the Russia hoax for the year. You know,
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it's just without the Russia part. And how do they get away with saying something that's so
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easily demonstrated to not be true? Now, could you tell that the 2025 thing is fake
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without doing research? Is it obviously fake on the surface? It is not. It is not obviously fake
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on the surface. It's just a claim of something. And you'd have to do the research to know if it
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was true or not. It's not like did the president call neo-Nazis fine people? I don't have to research
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that. Of course he didn't. Of course he didn't. But if somebody says there's a document I haven't
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read, and has a bunch of policy things written by people who used to work for Trump, do I know for
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sure that's not Trump's plan? I don't really know. I mean, I'd have to look into it. It turns
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out if you look into it for one second. If you spend even a minute Googling it, you will find
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out it's not his plan. And in fact, the fact checkers even agree it's not his plan. So even
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their own fact checkers say it's not true. But why will they believe it and keep saying it,
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the Democrats? It's because they have demonized the news on the other side to such a degree
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that Democrats won't even sample it. Imagine a Democrat flipping through the channels and they
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hit Fox News. They're going to go, ugh, and hit that button as soon as possible to flip through
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it. Because they're just disgusted. They've been trained to avoid contact, which doesn't happen the
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other way, by the way. I don't see a lot of Republicans telling other Republicans to avoid
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contact. Well, some people tell me that, but I don't listen to them. Anyway, so that's the
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new summer hoax. And it only works because one side has demonized the other source of information
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so that they won't look at it. And they'll never see a contrary.
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Elon had a response to Gavin Newsom, something about professors sug on these nuts. Well, I missed
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that one. So I guess Elon had said something insulting to Newsom. Anyway, there's a story
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that China's got a special challenge with AI over there because they have to make the AI not tell
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people the truth. So they're furiously trying to program their AI so that it's not intelligent.
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Now, that doesn't even sound real, does it? Now, not intelligent specifically in anything that's
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political or maybe philosophical. So they want that part to just program their population. They
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don't want them finding out anything that's not government approved. So how in the world could AI
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ever work in China as well as it will work in the United States? Now, you know, the United States
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is doing the same thing, right? They're programming it so it doesn't agree with the Republicans ever.
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But I feel like there will at least be competing AIs. You know, Grok won't be that way. There's an
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unfiltered one that's not that way. So at least in the United States, you'll have access to one that
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hasn't been programmed to brainwash you. You know, whether you'll use it or not, I don't know,
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So apparently the G20, that's the 20 industrialized countries that get together now and then.
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I think the Daily Wire is reporting this. They've agreed to work together
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That's the way the article is written, to make the super rich pay their taxes. Okay,
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that's just propaganda. But sure, they don't have a broad agreement. But the finance ministers from
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those nations, they agreed toward working to tax the super rich. And so they're trying to coordinate
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as a world government to tax the super rich. Now, when I say tax the super rich, I don't mean income,
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but rather they will tax their wealth. So it'd be something like pay 2% of your total wealth every year.
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Now, do you know how many problems that would cause?
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And even though rich people could borrow it if they didn't have it immediately,
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there's going to be a lot of situations where their money is in assets in a business.
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What are they going to do? Sell part of their business to pay their taxes every year?
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So let's say the rich people have to get rid of their investments to pay. So they have to sell
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some stocks. Is that good? Don't the people who own stocks sort of like the fact that the rich
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people are buying them too? Because that makes the stock go up in value. So here's what's wrong
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with this philosophy, I think. The rich people's money is not sitting there doing nothing.
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The rich people are not using every bit of their money to buy luxury items. When they're not using
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the money, it doesn't sit there in a bag in the back room of their mansion. It's employed. So it's
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either sitting in a bank so that the bank can lend it out. In other words, it's part of the reserves
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to allow them to make loans. Or it's in the stock market where it's supporting the companies that
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are the subject of that stock. So you would have to take the money out of a productive places
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and give it to the government for this plan to work. Who is the best in the country at employing
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capital? If you had a billion dollars that just magically became available, you said, all right,
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we can give this billion dollars to, let's see, I'll give it to Paul Graham or the All In Pod guys,
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or I'll give it to Elon Musk. Okay, that's one option. The people who are really, really good at
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employing capital. Or you could give it to the government. Which one tells you the country is
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going to be better off. So this whole rich people bad, they must be punished. It's just part of this
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weird philosophical belief that, you know, success must be punished and everybody's got to have the same
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stuff in the end. So, and why are the G20 even talking about American taxes? I've got a message to the
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G19. The G19 would be all the questions, all the countries who are not America.
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Fuck you guys. Will you leave us the fuck alone? Get out of our internal politics. Stay away from our tax
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system. You guys are losers. Get the fuck away from our tax system. No, you G20 assholes should not have
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anything to do with our tax system. I don't want to hear your idea. I don't want to hear how much it
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makes sense. I don't want to hear how much your public likes it. I don't want to hear about anything
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from you assholes. Nothing. We'll work it out. I mean, we might do a good job on it. We might do a bad
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job. But no, you don't have any control over our tax fucking system. It's crazy. Dr. Jordan Peterson
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continues to be fascinating. And he says that people grow up, they mature basically when they
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get married. So he thinks it's better to get married young because then you'll mature and become
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a more complete citizen. And part of the maturation process, he points out, is that when you have
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something that's more important than yourself, you become almost immediately more mature. In other
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words, you know there's something, this child is more important than you, and then you start acting
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like you're not the most important thing in the world, and that's a sign of maturity. And I would
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agree with him on the basic outlines of that argument. But I would like to add my own provocative
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hypothesis. Now, this is not based on science, but it has a, let's say, the hypothesis is based on
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things we know to be true. And here's the hypothesis, that having children ages you
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biologically. I agree with the fact it makes you more mature. And I'm not saying that the physical
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aging is connected to that mental maturity. Those are separate. I'm saying that I think having children
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ages you, and here's why. I think that biologically we're meant to have children, that we've evolved or
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we're designed however you want to do it, to the point where having children is the most basic
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impulse for a man or a woman within a certain age range especially. And I think that when you have
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children, let's say you pump out three or four of them, that you feel your work is done.
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That as long as you've created the, you know, the extra people, that if you can get them to the
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point where they're self-sustaining, you know, they've got through their first 18 years and they
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can get a job on their own, that you feel like you're done. And I feel like your body says you're done
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too. And so, and again, there's no, there's no science to this. It's just my hypothesis based on
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observation. And I think that people who have not had children will exercise more and try to stay
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fit for having children so that they can look like a better deal for somebody who wants to have
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children. So part of it might be that the single people know they have to up their game a little bit
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to look like they're worthy of having children. And some of it might be that biologically, once
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you've had children, your body just says, you've done your job. Good job. And now you may live out
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the rest of your days and we don't need you. We're not being unkind. You certainly contributed with your
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children. We love that. Good for the world. Good for the population. But your job is kind of winding
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down now. And I wonder if that ages you. It's just a hypothesis. Now, I think you would find that
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people who had families live longer than single people. But that problem with the data, of course,
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all data is wrong. You're going to get a lot of single people who couldn't get married because they
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had, you know, physical issues. And people who had physical issues, which would translate to bad
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health, are less likely to find a mate who wants to have a bunch of kids with them. So, you know,
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data is not going to tell you much about this. It would be all dirty data. All right. There's a
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report, I don't know if it's true yet, that Lufthansa and Austrian Airlines are both canceling all their
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flights to Ben Gurion International Airport in Israel. Now, some people say, what do they know that we
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don't know? Is there a preparation for a war with Lebanon? I think the United States has already told
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Americans, you know, it would be a good idea if you got out of Lebanon. Hey, I've got a suggestion for
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you. No real reason, but you might want to consider booking a ticket out of Lebanon. And if I could give
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you some advice, maybe you want to get out of Lebanon really quickly, because Lebanon might not
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be a good place to be in a few days. Well, I've seen the experts talking about how if Israel were
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to attack Hezbollah, and Hezbollah, you know, sent some deadly rockets, especially recently, they never
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stopped. They're always sending rockets, but they don't always get through, or they don't always kill
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anybody. But recently, they did. It was pretty bad. Twelve people, I think, died, the most recent
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numbers. And some people say that Israel couldn't take that on, because if they attack Hezbollah, it's
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way bigger than Gaza. But then the Palestinians might revolt, and the Syrians might revolt, and Iran would get
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more involved, and suddenly it would be this giant regional war that Israel is not maybe equipped to
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handle. To which I say, how can they not have a war? War is guaranteed. War is just guaranteed. I don't
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know if it's today or tomorrow, but what country lets another country build up unlimited rockets,
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which they're actively using to lob into their population centers? If there's one thing I can
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guarantee you, the people lobbing rockets into Israel's population centers are going to get killed.
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They're going to be killed. There's no way around that. So Israel is waiting for their best
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opportunity. They probably have to mop up some things in Gaza and get, you know, maybe better control
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of that so their military forces are more free or something. But, oh yeah. Yeah, there's no way that
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Hezbollah is going to get away with this. Hezbollah is going down. And it might be, if you want to get
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political about it, a lot of people who know more than I do about Israel say that Netanyahu is popular
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enough while they're at war, but the moment Gaza winds down, there's no way he can remain in office,
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and he might have legal problems if he leaves office, and blah, blah, blah. So there's a tremendous
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incentive, some observers would say, for Netanyahu to want to widen the war because it could keep him in
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power. Now that's the cynical view. I would say, personally, I don't have a view of Netanyahu that says he
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would plunge his nation into war to protect his job. I don't know. I mean, I feel like somebody like him
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is so bought into, you know, the Israel, the entire Israel story, that he's not going to destroy
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the country to protect his career. I'd love to think that's just impossible for somebody in that
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position who's gone through what he's gone through, that's lived there, that's experienced, you know,
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experienced all of this. I think it's impossible for somebody like that to sell out the country.
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I just think it's impossible. There's just, your brain wouldn't allow you to do it.
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But I can't read minds, so I don't want to be making the mistake I always tell people not to make.
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I can't read his mind. But it sure would surprise me if he would put his personal, you know, career
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at this point, especially, if he would put that ahead of the survival of his nation. I mean,
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I don't see it. Maybe. Anything's possible, I suppose. But I don't see it. So I think that Israel
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taking out Hezbollah is guaranteed. It's just a matter of when they choose to do it. And whether
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the United States is directly or indirectly helping, we'll be helping, even if all it is is financially
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or replacing their weapons or something or giving them some satellite support or whatever they need.
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But I don't think we'll send humans in. And I'm also wondering at what point we see the drone swarms.
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Because it seems to me that Israel should have access to drone swarms of their own by now.
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And can't they use those to just put a ceiling over the border on Lebanon so they can just see
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every single, what would it be, a missile launcher? You know, it seems like you could get
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enough just permanent drones over that area that as soon as a missile launcher, you know,
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uncloaks or however they take it out of hiding, that you just drop a grenade on it as soon as it happens,
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But you would need just a lot of drones. You know, we're talking about, I don't know,
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10,000 in the air at the same time, but they could do it. And if they were to provoke a wider war,
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presumably the missiles would all come out at about the same time.
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And then you take them out. Not that it's easy. I'm just saying there isn't any way that Israel is
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going to put up with Hezbollah in the long run. There's just no way. And I think that Israel also
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has to make it clear that being a proxy for Iran is always a death sentence. Because otherwise,
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Iran will just keep making proxies. You got to make them at least think about whether you want
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to be an Iranian proxy if they all die. Oh, I think I'll be an Iranian proxy. Well, that gives you a
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life expectancy of 10 minutes. Drone is coming right now. So that would be,
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maybe it would tamp down on some of those proxy activities. I don't know. We shall see.
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All right. That's all I got for you today. Thanks for joining. We'll see if our Monday goes well.
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Here's another idiot. Scott, not knowing about people working under the table, is telling of his
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rich. What do you think it is that I don't know? Did you read my mind? You read my mind to know what
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I don't know? That's pretty good. That's pretty crazy.
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All right. I'm going to say hi. I'm just going to talk to the locals people privately. But
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those of you on Rumble and X and YouTube, thanks for joining. I will see you tomorrow.