Episode 2553 CWSA 08⧸01⧸24
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Summary
Venezuelan President Maduro challenges Elon Musk to a fight, 9/11 masterminds get a plea deal, and the X platform gets more views on the internet than either of them combined, and we talk about how we should all be thankful for it.
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of the dopamine the other day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous
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Oh, so good. Well, X had a good day or a good month. More views on the X platform than either
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Facebook or Instagram. 13 billion views through June of this year. Facebook only had 12 billion
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and Insta had 6 billion. Now, profitability hasn't showed up yet, but with those kind of
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numbers, I think, I think Elon Musk is going to be okay in the long run. But speaking of
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Elon Musk, in our totally normal world, we'll of course be talking about Trump's day yesterday.
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But so Venezuela had their election and Maduro staying in power, it looks like. People are
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saying the election was fake. But somehow this ended up in Maduro challenging Elon Musk to a
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personal fight. And Elon Musk agreeing to the fight. And then Maduro telling his military to not
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let Elon Musk into the country. Because I guess he's worried that Elon will fly in and come beat
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him up. I don't know how any of this is real. How is any of this real? This is really happening?
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And then, and then Elon posts this morning. I'm coming for you, Maduro. I will carry you to Gitmo on a
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donkey. How is this real? How is this real? How is any of this real? Come on. And then let's talk
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about Venezuela's election. You know what the news told you, right? That it was obvious that the other
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team won, the one that's not in power, and that the election was rigged and cheated, right? How do you
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know that's true? How do you know it was rigged? You do know that our CIA is trying like crazy to
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overthrow the country, right? Do you know how they would do it? They would claim the election was
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rigged. And then they would get the population all worked up. And then they would organize some kind
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of a grassroots looking overthrow of the country. Exactly what you're experiencing. Now, I have no
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idea what to think. I don't even know who to root for. I mean, I suppose it's better if the United
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States conquers Venezuela indirectly like it has other countries. But we're not exactly the good
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guys. I think we just want the oil. So I don't know who won, but I do know there's absolutely
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no information from Venezuela that you should trust as true. Nothing about Venezuela you should
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assume is true. I don't think there are any good guys. Like, I don't think it's the good guys versus
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the bad guys. It's probably just all bad guys. At least at the political level. That's what I mean.
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Well, meanwhile, the alleged mastermind of September 11th, KSM and I guess two others,
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they worked on a plea deal where they will get life in prison instead of being executed.
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Why do we care about that? Isn't that just saving money and torturing them for the rest of their
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life? I don't mind torturing them for the rest of their life. I have no problem with that. I like
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keeping them alive. There was a sci-fi where the evil ruler of the universe put somebody in suspended
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animation forever instead of killing them so that they can live forever with the thoughts of what
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they've done and suffer. It feels like that. I think I would be, you know, if revenge is what you
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want, them being dead is sort of the end of their suffering. If you want them to suffer,
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I kind of like the plea deal because it makes all the legal expenses go away. So it's good for
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taxpayers. And it's not like they're getting out. So I don't know. I think that's okay.
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Anyway, CNN has decided it's going to do away with what it calls its opinion section.
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I didn't even know they had opinion writers. I thought they were all just news people
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because they make so little distinction between opinion and news on CNN that it seems like almost
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a hilarious outcome that they're getting rid of their opinion pieces. Do you know why they're
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getting rid of their opinion people? Because they're terrible opinions. Their opinions are
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probably so far off mainstream America. You know they are, right? You know it's going to be opinions
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that are just not even close to what the bulk of the country is thinking about anything.
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They just said, you know, let's just get rid of all of them. So that's funny.
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Russia has apparently agreed to release that Wall Street Journal reporter, Evan Gershkovic and former
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U.S. Marine Paul Whelan. So in some kind of a prisoner swap. Now, here's the question that we must ask.
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Is the United States making a deal it didn't want to make because it wants to prevent Trump from making
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this deal? I think that's all that's happening. I think the election is the reason the deal is
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getting done. Because I think that Biden's team said, there's no way we can let Trump get in here
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and make this deal. I also think Trump could have made the deal before the election. I don't know if
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that's legal, but he could have just threatened Putin. He said, look, when I'm president, you'd better
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give them back or they better be back before I'm president. So I think that Trump's, you know,
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pending appearance or at least potential appearance as president might be enough to have caused this to
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happen. Now, I don't know if that means that we made a deal we didn't want to make. Maybe it gave up
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some people we cared about too much. But it's hard to imagine this would have happened just when it did,
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just the way it did, unless the election was right around the corner. So I think this is election related.
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Well, let's talk about Trump. He went to the, he agreed to talk to the National Association of BJs.
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And I think he was quite alarmed to show up and found out that the BJ stands for black journalists.
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So not at all what he was expecting, I don't think. Now I'm just joking. It's the National
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Association of Black Journalists. And they invited him. They also invited Kamala Harris,
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but she had a funeral to attend. So we shall take that as a reasonable excuse for not going.
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And here's what everybody's saying. And then I'll add my own interpretation to it.
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Number one, I love the fact that Trump was not afraid to go. He knew it was going to be
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hostile. And he walked right into the middle of the monster, showed no fear whatsoever,
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and stayed Trump. He walked in as Trump. He remained Trump. And then he walked out as Trump.
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You tell me how many American politicians could have walked into the National Association of Black
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Black Journalists, acted exactly the same as they always do, and then walked out. Harder than you
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think. Because the impulse to pander would be through the roof, you know, just to say what they want to
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hear. I don't think he said what they want to hear. That wasn't, you know, his regular stump message that
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he's good for the economy for everybody. But he did make some news.
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He did make his points. I think that if you watch the whole thing, you'd know that he's for securing the
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border, reducing that inflation that he blames on Biden and Harris and restoring energy independence.
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And I think that those are very popular things within the public. So in terms of his messaging,
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I think he got it through. He said the important things he wanted to say to an audience that you
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want to hear it. So it's very hard to even get your message to break through into the other side of the
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media silo. But he got that through. Here are the fun parts. Oh, there were a lot of fun parts.
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So the ABC host, whose name I can't remember, there were three black female hosts. One was Harris.
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Harris. Why am I forgetting the last name from Fox News? Not Kamala Harris, but Harris Faulkner,
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Harris Faulkner. And she was, you know, she was polite and nice to him because they have a,
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you know, ongoing relationship. She had interviewed him before the event, et cetera. But the other two
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were a little hostile. And the one that opened up was especially hostile. Now I sat there and I thought,
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oh my God, she started her first question with a whole bunch of accusations. Any one of them could
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be the whole show. And I thought, what's he going to do? That's a laundry list of accusations.
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And I thought to myself, oh my God, he's just trapped in this. Because if he starts to defend
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himself, if he defends himself against anything on that list, they'll just move to the rest of the list.
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So it's like a trap that nobody can get out of. Nobody can get out of that trap. Nobody in the
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world, no politician ever could get out of that trap. So then he got out of that trap
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by going directly at her for how rude she was to invite him there. He comes there. He says that
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they were 35 minutes late, made them wait. Their equipment wasn't working. And then she starts out
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totally rude. Oh my God, it was perfect. It was as good as the Rosie O'Donnell.
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In my mind, this was as good as the Rosie O'Donnell play. Did he look nervous? Nope.
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Did he look completely comfortable the entire time he was under attack?
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Yes, he did. He looked like a guy who could take a bullet in the fucking ear
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and stand up and pump his fist and say, fight, fight, fight. That's the guy. That's the guy that
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showed up. If shooting him doesn't make him stop, I don't think your list of insults will. But he did
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not address anything on the list, which is exactly what he should have done. Instead, he addressed the
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rudeness from the host and how unprofessional and terrible it was. How much did I enjoy that? 10 out
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of 10. 10 out of 10. Who changed the conversation about all of politics? Trump did. Trump did. Do you
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remember yesterday they had so little to talk about they had to say he's weird? Did you hear the word
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weird yet today? I haven't heard it once, except when I said it. Nope. He managed to change the
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entire cycle from, why are you being so mean to, from, from, you know, weird things and couches
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to why are you being such a bitch, basically. So basically, she was just a total bitch.
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And he just treated her like a bitch. That's what happened. Now, if you want to throw in,
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oh, she's also black, I don't think it mattered. I think he treated her like a bitch,
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because she was acting like a bitch. It had nothing to do with color. And how much did I
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love the fact that he treated her like a bitch? I loved it. I loved it. What do you think the audience
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thought? Probably a little bit mixed. We'll talk about that. You know, you can imagine that some of
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the people were acting like they were entertained. Some of them were acting aghast. So it was sort of
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a mixed, mixed bag. But I suspect that the male opinions were different than the female opinions.
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You know what I mean? Because that was Trump coming home to an angry wife. You know what I mean?
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That's what I saw. I saw Trump coming home to an angry bitch wife. And he treated her like the
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bitch that she was, and went about his day. How much do I like that? I can't even explain how much
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I like that. I like that so much, it's the best thing I've ever seen in politics. That's how much I
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liked it. Now, it has nothing to do with politics either. It has everything to do with a human interaction,
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where if somebody treats you the way she treated him, she should slap her fucking, not physically,
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not physically, of course. But in terms of verbally, he should slap her down like a bitch.
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And that's what he did. Now, if you tell me that the men sitting in the audience hated that,
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did they? Did they? Did the men hate that? I don't know. I don't think they're going to tell you if
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they liked it. I don't think they'll mention it. I don't think they're going to mention it to their
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wives. You know, I kind of like the way, no, no, no, no, no, no. I think the men are going to get
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quiet. I think they're going to let the women lead, and the men who are supporting the women, I guess.
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So what else did he do? He mentioned that the people coming in the border, across the border,
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are taking black jobs. So then the host wanted to trap him. We're going to trap him.
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We're going to make you explain what these black jobs are. Oh, are you suggesting that black people
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can only have low paying jobs? Is that what makes them black jobs? And he just ignores her stupid
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fucking question. He's like, you know, black jobs, like jobs, everybody gets a job. Everybody knows what
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he means when he says black jobs. He means that the black population, because of the current socioeconomic
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situation, means that the migrants may be competing a little bit more with the people at the lower end
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of the economic strata. That's where there's a disproportionate number of black employees.
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Everybody knew what he meant. Nobody was surprised. Nobody was offended. But you have to act like it.
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Let's act like we're offended. So we're all going to pretend after it's over that you're offended.
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And that's the funny part. We'll talk about that in a minute.
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you know, this is you can't believe it went there. But of course, it's Trump. So he did.
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So keep this context in mind. Kamala Harris was selected by Biden explicitly for being a black
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woman. He said so. He said, I'm going to pick a black woman. And then he did.
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And then Trump goes to an organization which is specifically for black journalists,
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not for white journalists. It's an organization of black journalists. So he's going into a world where
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the people are very clear on how race matters. And race is central to not only their organization
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he was invited to, that was central to their organization, their race, but also the selection
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of Kamala Harris. And certainly the energy behind her entering the presidency campaign is probably 50%
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because she's black and 40% because she's a woman and 10% because policies or something.
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So in the real world, everybody knows it's about her being black and female. Everybody. Everybody
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who is acting like they didn't notice or something. Everybody. We're all on the same page. But some of
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us have to pretend we're not. So he mocked her for allegedly identifying more as an Indian American
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American, uh, earlier in her career. And there was lots of evidence where she sort of accepted that
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explanation when she was in different, um, public settings. But of course, she's always identified as
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both black and, uh, Indian American. So it's not like the reality matches exactly Trump's characterizing
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it, but he characterized it in a way that everybody understands what he's saying, which is that she's
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presenting herself as black because there's an advantage electorally. And that when she was
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presenting herself as Indian American, maybe that audience wanted to hear it that way.
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So she does present herself in the way that we'll get votes. And if that's the only thing that you're
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pointing out, that's totally fair. Is that racist? Of course they wanted to make it racist because they
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So, he did give them their red meat, but he gave it to them in a fuck-you way,
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which was so delightful. I just can't tell you how much I enjoyed it. He gave them their quotes,
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but it was in a fuck-you way. It wasn't anything that was really racist. It was everything that
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would make them talk about racism, but they would have to hear his points while they're doing it.
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And his point is, maybe you're selling yourself to a black audience a little bit too hard.
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What do you think the black audience thought when they found out? Well, I don't know if they found
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this out, but somebody in the comments was saying she's 25% black because she's got a white grandfather.
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Is that true? I don't know if that's true. So, we're talking about half black or 25% black.
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I don't think it matters to me either way because I don't see her as either of those things.
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Let me remind you, the only smart way to look at anything, there's only one of her. There's exactly one of her.
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That's it. You don't have to talk about how black she is or how Indian American or how American or how female or what age.
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There's only one of her. She's completely different than everybody else, just like everybody else.
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Everybody else is unique and 100% completely their own person. But if she wants to sell herself as part of a group,
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she's going to have to explain why she's maybe not even a majority in that group. Isn't that a fair question?
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If identity is your primary game, and that's what the Democrats are pushing, it's their primary filter,
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then you can talk about it. They're the ones who created the filter, not him. If he had created the
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filter, that would be really racist, wouldn't it? If Trump were the only one talking about somebody's
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race as they're running, that would be racist. But he's not. That's their game. He's simply entering
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their own game and then winning at their game. So, they invited him to the home court, and then he won
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the home court game. They don't like it. All right. He did mention that... This is so funny.
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God, he's funny. He mentioned that he would definitely take a cognitive test, but he wanted
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Kamala Harris to take one too, because he mentioned that she failed the bar exam for her lawyer license
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the first time she took it. I guess she passed the second time, which is not that uncommon, by the way,
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to fail the first one. But I thought it was brilliant and funny that he worked that in there,
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that she should take a cognitive exam because she failed the bar.
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You can't forget that. It's impossible not to remember that. So, the things that you remember
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are that she was lying about her ethnicity, allegedly. The truth of it, of course, is more
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complicated, but he can sell that interpretation. And that she didn't pass the bar exam the first time.
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Okay. So, now, the fun part is the reactions. If you didn't take some time to look at CNN and
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MSNBC to watch their horrified reactions, you missed a good show. To my mind, the gears of the machine are
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all very obvious now. You knew that this was a setup so that all the commentators could act aghast.
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So, it was like a competition this morning to see who could act the most offended. When none of them
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are offended, none of them. In my personal opinion, nobody was offended because they didn't hear
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anything offensive. It was just stuff that they thought they could interpret as offensive. So,
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Joy Reid said she watched in absolute horror as a person named Trump acted exactly like he always acts,
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saying normal things that everybody agrees with. God. Oh, my God.
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And then there was, Trump is coming after black people like he always does. What? Trump's coming
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after black people? That's happened exactly zero times that I'm aware of. And then there was,
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my favorite was, I can't remember her name, another one of the black pundits on MSNBC said,
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it was a shock and awe moment and it made my chest hurt. And I thought, that's gonna be tough to beat.
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So, there was somebody who was in physical pain, much like a heart attack or chest hurt. I'm like,
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all right, let's see if you can, let's see if you can top that for pretending to be offended.
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So, one after another, everybody pretended to be offended.
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Did the AP said Trump falsely suggest Harris misled voters about her race?
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Well, let me ask you this. If you were to poll black voters,
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what percentage of them would be fully aware of Kamala Harris's Indian part of her ethnicity?
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What do you think? I think 60% would know and 40% would not.
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Now, is that misleading? I think so. To me, that would look misleading. Now, maybe not intentionally.
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I guess that would be more of an argument. But I would think that the black public
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maybe is not fully informed about her ethnic background. Now, keep in mind that I'm not saying
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it should matter. I'm saying she's an individual like 8 billion other individuals should be judged
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as an individual. But she's the one who made it part of the race. Joe Biden made it part of the
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part of the conversation. I didn't. It wouldn't be part of the conversation if it were up to me.
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Ari Melber on MSNBC said, we're not going to re-air this now. I'm just going to put up some check
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because he made this false and racially incendiary claim. You know, that's convenient, isn't it?
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Simply say he made a racial incendiary claim, but don't show it.
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Don't you think you'd show that? I'm pretty sure they showed the everything else he said
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that they didn't like. Maybe it's because the news is fake.
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And let's see. This is what Kamala Harris said. The divisiveness and the disrespect. And let me just
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say the American people, there's a better grin. John Pierre said it was repulsive and insulting.
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Nobody has a right to say what someone else is. And then somebody named Alcindor. I was sitting
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in the room and people were stunned. To take you behind the scenes, people were stunned. People
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were gasping. Some people were shouting back him, saying, that's a lie.
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All right. Let me say it as clearly as I possibly can. I don't give a fuck what any of them felt about it.
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You know why? Because there's not one of these people who would give a fuck what I feel about
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anything. Why do I care? I don't care whatsoever how angry they were. They wouldn't care if I were
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angry. Are they the magic group? Is the National Association of Black Journalists a magical group
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where their concerns and their problems are the special ones? No, they're not. I don't give a
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shit about any of their problems. I don't care about their systemic racism, which is real, by the way.
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I don't care that the legacy of slavery is bad news for people. That seems real. I got
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fucking problems too. How about my problems are just as good as your fucking problems?
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Well, I don't have that many problems, but other people do. There are other people who have a lot
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of problems. And I don't think anybody's problems are special. I think everybody's got their own
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little problem. If you've got an alcoholic parent that beat you as a kid, well, that's a little bit
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bigger than your systemic racism problem because you can go to any Fortune 500 and you're the first in
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line, right? So we don't fucking care how offended you are at all. And I think that's new. I feel like
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that attitude is maybe becoming more prevalent. Don't pretend we care because we don't. We just don't
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care that you're offended by it. We're going to talk about normal things in normal ways like normal
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people. And if you're really, really offended by that, who cares? There's no interest to me
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whatsoever. You don't have magical problems. So Trump managed to completely change the conversation
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from everything about Kamala Harris is the best in the world to now the energy monster has taken over
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the conversation as he does, the energy monster. He creates energy, aims at himself, and then turns
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it into conversation about policies and other things that are useful. So let's see what else we got here.
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There's some now, of course, people are going to look into Kamala Harris's background. There's Fox
00:29:12.200
News at a flashback where in which Harris was comparing ICE, you know, the people collecting
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up the illegal immigrants, comparing them to the KKK and said the images of Border Patrol agents evoked
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slavery. So there's your border czar, who is not really a czar. Have you ever noticed you can't spell
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crazy without czar? Like czar is four of the letters in crazy. I'm a little dyslexic, so it just looks
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that way to me. It doesn't mean anything. Then we've heard that, separately, the Venezuelan gang,
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this is something Trump said, Tren de Aragua has a green light to shoot U.S. cops, according to Homeland
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Security. So now we have a Venezuelan gang that has some kind of alleged authority to kill American
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cops. Are we going to be taken over? Is the invasion on? I don't know. Let's talk about the VP choice.
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In my opinion, whoever Kamala Harris picks for VP will be a negative for her polling. I don't think
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there's anything that would improve it. You know, you can think of situations where you got
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some generic white guy running for office, Biden, and he can improve his situation by adding some
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diversity to the ticket. So that's a real thing. But anything that Kamala Harris does is going to make
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somebody mad. If she picks a man, like a generic white guy, then all the people who are happy because
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she's a person of color, whichever one you'd like, are going to say, well, are you just picking him
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because he's white? Like, why can't the person who would be next in line to be the next president
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also be a woman or also be a person of color? Because if you think it's important that, you know,
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that part of the country is represented, why would you just set up for the next white guy to be another
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president? So she's going to have to explain how this is setting up the next presidency. That's
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always part of the conversation with the VP. And it's going to be harder to explain.
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Now, the person who keeps bubbling to the top is the Pennsylvania Governor Shapiro, who is Jewish.
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And then today I'm reading the news saying that that might be a problem with Muslim supporters
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in Michigan or maybe other places. Do you think it would be?
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Maybe. I don't know. Maybe. But would it gain votes? Is there anybody who would vote for her that
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wasn't planning to because she picked a Jewish running mate? I don't know. I don't know if anybody
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would vote for that, who wasn't already going to vote Democrat. So I don't see any Republicans
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jumping over and saying, oh, I'm a Republican and I'm Jewish. Let's go for the Jewish vice president.
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That doesn't seem like a big reason to switch parties. So it seems to me that every choice
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would be a slight negative and there's nobody really who could be a positive. If she hired another
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hired or she picked another black woman, people would say, hmm, isn't that too much of one thing?
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There's almost no way to go that doesn't make it look worse.
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Anyway, here's what Hotep Jesus says about the NABJ. Hotep says, they want you focused on race and
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gender in this election, so you don't demand discourse about economics, my black people, he says.
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That is exactly right. You know, everything in the news is about focus and attention and distraction
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and energy. And it's not much about what's true. So yes, once you can see the gears of the machine,
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everything looks different, doesn't it? And would you agree that you can see the gears now?
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You know, you can see the plays before they're executed.
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Looking at somebody yelling, oh, Jenny, the all caps troll. Why does Scott, this is in all caps,
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so I'll read it from Jenny the idiot. Jenny idiot says, why does Scott ignore the role of Musk,
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owned X, when he says Kamala Harris has a clear path to victory because of the brainwashed media?
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Scott used to say Twitter controlled the hive mind narrative. All right, so Jenny idiot,
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you got your attention. And now you can maybe act like a regular person for a little while.
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So let me answer that question. Currently, the mainstream media has enough control of Democrats,
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as do social media, that I don't think X will make enough difference. Now, X does make a big difference
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because it allows free speech. But I'm completely siloed. I don't know about you. But there are no
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Democrats hearing me talk. And I have the potential to actually change people's opinions.
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Because, you know, I'm good at reframing things, etc. So if I have no access to anybody on,
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you know, the other voting, then how does X make any difference at all?
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I'm completely siloed. The only ones I see are literally paid trolls. And there's one on every
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post. One paid troll comes in and insults me in a broad, general way. So I don't think X is making
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the difference you think it is. It's completely siloed. And we did see that all that mattered to
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Democrats is that they got a black woman, as they would define it. And that seems to be all they
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cared about. The identity seems to be the thing that matters. That's it.
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So, by the way, you have to see Michael Moore. He was invited on one of the
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left-leaning shows. I can't remember if it was CNN or MSNBC.
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But he was one of the few white people that they invited on to talk about how offended they were
00:35:51.720
about what Trump said. And because he was one of the few white people, so he didn't really have
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standing to say he was offended by that, he had to act extra, extra offended. So you have to look at
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his mouth. Somehow he did a full clapper mouth where he was frowning harder than, I think,
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the frown line exceeded his chin and went down to his neck. So he had to, I'm so sad. I'm so sad
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about what I'm seeing. So sad. Anyway, you need to watch it with the sound turn off to watch the sad
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faces. The sad faces. They're all fake. It's all theater. And I wouldn't care either way.
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Anyway, so here's some great things that Trump said. He went to Pennsylvania and did a rally after
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that. And he started bragging about his mugshot being the number one selling mugshot. And that
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it beat Elvis and it beat Frank Sinatra. Okay, that's just perfect. Do you remember when you
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thought the mugshot was going to be bad for him? And he's just compared it to two people you love,
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you know, at least white people love, Elvis and Frank Sinatra. And he just put himself in that
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category. And he said he didn't even really know what the other ones did. Like he wasn't even aware
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of what they were charged with, but it didn't matter because they were just popular people and he's
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popular. So he's in their same gang. That was just great because we just want to laugh about it.
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Nobody takes it seriously on the right. All right. And here's my best line.
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this might be the funniest thing a politician ever said. Are you ready for this? This is my claim.
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It's the funniest thing a politician ever said in a campaign. All right. So I'm building it up,
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but I have to deliver now. Here's a quote from Trump. I think he posted this. Just yesterday,
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it was reported that more than a thousand members of the savage Venezuelan gang, Trenda Aragua,
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are plotting to conduct ambush attacks on police and law enforcement in the United States,
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all while Harris and Biden sit in the White House and try to figure out who is dumber.
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Remember I've told you, he always makes you think past the sale. What's the sale? The sale is that
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they're so dumb that they're sitting there trying to decide who's dumber.
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Now, that wouldn't be funny if we didn't have one of them with serious dementia
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and one of them who is considered not the highest IQ person who ever ran for office and didn't pass the
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bar on the first try. Now, so because he's got some real world evidence that they're neither of them
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are the brightest candles, saying that they're sitting in the White House, first he draws this
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incredibly dangerous picture of this gang from Venezuela that's going to be, you know,
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ambushing police and law enforcement, you know, like the scariest thing you could ever think of.
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And then he adds that Harris and Biden are sitting in the White House trying to figure out who is
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dumber. You can't top that. You just can't top that. That, you know, that one of the things I
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always say that he'll, he'll never get enough credit for, he's one of the greatest writers in
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American history. Now you're going to say writers, you know, somebody wrote his books for him. No,
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I'm not talking about the books. If you just look at his short form, which is kind of long form,
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he does long posts. If you just look at his writing and you ignore, you know, there's a
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spelling error every now and then, and you know, some grammar issues. If you just ignore that,
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because editors fix that kind of stuff anyway, he just doesn't use an editor. If you just look at how
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evocative his writing is, you can't top it. He is, he is legitimately, and this is coming from somebody
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who writes for a living. He is legitimately one of the best writers I've ever seen. He just does it
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his own way, which makes it voicey. Have you ever heard that term about writers? A writer is voicey.
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It means you can feel the personality when they write. It's not some generic thing just talking
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about a thing. And the wall is made of bricks. And the bricks were made in Canada. All right,
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that's boring. Like he'll talk about the wall falling under you and crushing your chest. And
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you're richer than you think. Anyway, Pennsylvania court did a ruling that might be a big deal,
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saying that the digital images of completed absentee and mail-in ballots are public record,
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meaning that there might be some way to audit whether your vote got counted or something like
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that. I'm not sure this is as big a deal as it's reported to be. But the reporting is that after the
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election, voters and candidates can obtain the original images for inspection. I suppose you
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could compare it to the totals? Or can you only get your own? So I don't know yet that this is really
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a thing. But I will tell you this. If we live in a simulation, there's one thing that has to happen.
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And God, the simulation is winking. If you can't feel the wink,
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you're in a different reality than I am, which is possible. And it looks like this. Almost every day,
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probably three times a day now, there's a story about the 2020 election and about something that
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looks really, really suspicious. But on top of that story is usually something like we now know what to
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look for next time. You know what I mean? So there's some places where things got tightened up
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by legislation. Some places where maybe Laura Trump and her army of volunteers will be able to
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maybe look for trouble. So they know exactly what they're looking for now. And they know where to
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look for it. So the odds of any cheating, should it exist, hypothetically, if it exists,
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the odds of getting caught at it this time are much higher than the last time. Would you agree
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with that statement? The odds that the Republicans know where to look and how to look and when to look
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and what to do about it and what would constitute a legitimate court case and what you should ignore,
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the level of knowledge and skill is completely different. Now, is it enough?
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I don't know. It would depend entirely upon how many ways there are to cheat, if there are any.
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And that's unknowable. Because the only way to know that would be if the news was dependable and
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could report on it. And we don't really have that kind of news. We only have opinion people at this
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point. So we can't know. But boy, does the simulation need this election to be rigged.
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Here's what it needs. It needs the election to be rigged so badly that Kamala Harris wins in another
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late night surprise, everything looks suspicious way. And then we find out immediately how it was done.
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And then the court reverses it. That's what we need. Because Trump needs to be cleared for 2020.
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And the only way to do it is if this election is rigged and Republicans catch it.
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And I think there's a really, really good chance that's going to happen. Because the cheating seems
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almost guaranteed to me. Because the way Trump is treated, as though he's a monstrous risk to the
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risk to the world. So that guarantees cheating. Let me say it again. When you say one of the candidates
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is Hitler, and you actually sell that, and people agree that it's true, and those people are in
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charge of the election, of course they cheat. Of course they do. You'd have to be a fucking idiot
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to think that people are going to treat it like a normal election if they really believe
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one of the candidates is Hitler. It's ridiculous. Now, do I have proof that the election was rigged?
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No. No, I don't. Is it possible that it got rigged and nobody would notice? Of course it is.
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I saw again yesterday somebody who said, comparing the US elections to Venezuela was so ridiculous
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because our elections have all these checks and balances and audits and ways to know that they're
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true and accurate. To which I said, who told you that? Where in the world would you learn something
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so completely obviously false? You don't have to be an expert on any election stuff to know they
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can't be audited. Tell me, how would you audit the illegal immigrant who, when they signed up for their
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driver's license, they automatically got registered even though they're not, or they got a ballot,
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I think, and then somebody else filled it in, or they filled it in. Is anybody checking on that?
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No. And it's going to be a major, you know, giant part of the process. Do you think that they will
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relax their signature matching thing again this year? Of course they will. Of course they will.
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Because if they did signature matching with any credible process, it would throw out all the fakes.
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So we know it's going to be rigged. Let's just say we know that. Everybody okay? That given the
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situation, the fear of Trump, of course it's rigged. And by the way, I would rig it if I were in that
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situation. I would rig it. So would you. If you cared, if you'd really been brainwashed to think you were
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in charge of being the only person who could stop Hiller because you drove the truck with the fake
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ballots just to pick some hypothetical, of course you'd do it. I would do it. You'd do it. We'd all
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do it. So there's not any question that people are going to try to rig it. I think trying to rig
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it is guaranteed. That's guaranteed. Whether they can rig it enough, whether they can rig it on time,
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whether they can get not caught, whether getting caught makes any difference at all because the
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courts might be so biased at this point that even being caught doesn't matter. Those are big questions.
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But I think the simulation requires the election to be rigged and to get caught.
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So that's my prediction. Kamala Harris will win
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on election day and the election will be rigged and they'll get caught. What happens next is
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anybody's bet, but there will be rigging and they will get caught. I think that's what's going to
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happen. I can't really imagine a situation where they say it's too hot this time. We can't rig it
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because they're watching. I don't think that's going to happen. I mean, you watch, you watch the
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secret service try to protect the president. And I told you, no, it's probably just massive
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incompetence. And maybe it's more than that, but so far it looks like it's just massive incompetence.
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Do you think the elections are run better than the secret service?
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Who thinks the election security people are more high end than the people guarding the
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ex-president of the United States while he's running for president?
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I think Trump should have had the best of the best. And even if some people were being shared
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with other people because there was a big need for security that day,
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Who runs our elections? The best of the best?
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No. Probably the worst of the worst in some cases.
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Anyway, Biden is not going to be at the DNC convention, somebody said. I don't know if
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that's confirmed, but it does make sense, doesn't it? When was the last time we saw Biden?
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We just forgot Biden exists, right? Because we're all assuming that Kamala Harris is running the
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country along with staff. So I don't know if we'll see Biden again. Yeah, we might just not see him
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again because they can't put him out for questions. That's not going to happen again.
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So we'll see. All right. Well, Iran is allegedly planning their revenge. The news is saying that
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top Iranian officials are going to get together. They're going to talk with people from Lebanon and
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Iraq and Yemen, and they're going to figure out how they're going to collectively get back.
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Let me see. So some top people from Iran are going to get together with some top potential
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terrorists from Lebanon, Iraq and Yemen, and then they're all going to be in the same place.
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Well, I've got a little security advice for the group. You should really think about Zoom.
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Have you heard of it? Yeah. Yeah. I wouldn't really go to the same location
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because I don't know if you've heard, but Israel's kind of pissed.
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They're a little bit pissed off and I don't think there's anything that's not a target anymore.
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So maybe you should do this on Zoom is what I'm thinking.
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Anyway, the United States has deployed 12 warships to the Middle East.
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That's exactly the kind of story that people like me should not report because when you heard that,
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you said, oh, 12 warships to the Middle East. That must mean something. Well,
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kind of depends what ships they are, doesn't it? Depends if they're just rotating out another
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group of ships. I don't know if you can tell anything from that, but it's not nothing.
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So we've got a presence there. In my opinion, a full war with Hezbollah is largely guaranteed at this
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point because Israel will never have more moral authority. They might never have as much military
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advantage, even though Hezbollah is really scary because they got a shitload of missiles. And if they
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fire them all, Israel is going to take quite a hit. They can't stop them all. So I think Israel is
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going to say, do we want to live forever with a growing threat? There's more missiles every day
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in Hezbollah. Or do we want to take the fact that we're in this unique situation where there would
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never be a better time to do a full attack? So I think they're going to probably look to degrade
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Hezbollah to the point where they're no longer a threat they used to be. I don't know if they have
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the military might to do it because the sheer number of rocket launchers now in Hezbollah is just
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thousands and thousands. I don't know how much munitions it would take to find them and get them
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all when they're hidden and everything else. But it does seem to me that we're reaching a point where
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they could just blacken the sky with drones that have a hand grenade attached and they just hang
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around and wait for somebody to pull out one of the missile launching machinery and then spot it and
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kill it. This is exactly the kind of application for the AI drones. If I were going to put AI on a drone,
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I would teach it to spot these missile launchers and then I would make it autonomous. And I wouldn't
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care if it killed some people accidentally because it's war. Well, I mean, I care, but it wouldn't stop
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me from doing it. So I think you might see a drone related war against the missile launchers like we've
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never seen before. I don't know that there's any other way to combat them because I don't think they
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want to go on the ground, do they? Ground assault? I'm not sure if that makes sense. But yeah, I would
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expect that Israel is going to take out Hezbollah and that that's going to get pretty big.
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Well, in Olympic boxing, a boxer who was recently considered too much of a man to fight as a woman
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in other contests outside of the Olympics was allowed in by the Olympic rules. So this young lady,
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um, fought, uh, another young lady, one of the young ladies had been recently considered not a lady.
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Uh, and the one who had recently been considered not a lady, but I'm telling you, she's a lady.
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Um, beat the living shit out of the other one with a few punches and the other one just gave up and took
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off her helmet and said goodbye. I'm not going to do this now. Let me tell you all the things I think
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about this. Boxing is the stupidest sport. I never want to see boxing in the Olympics or anywhere else.
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Why is this a sport? Punching people in the head until they get brain damage. Why is that a sport?
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Now, if it's going to be a sport, why do I care who punches anybody in the head and gives them brain
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damage? I don't. You're all fucking idiots. If you go into boxing, unless, you know, unless it's your
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only way out of poverty or something. So, I mean, I certainly understand Mike Tyson.
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Yeah. Or if you're like, you know, a great athlete or something and it's really your gift,
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I can see why you do it. But we really shouldn't encourage boxing. Now, I know what you're going to
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say, but Scott, be more manly. Be more like the 300. I get it. I understand why you like it. But
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if you're going to like boxing, I don't think you should be concerned that a woman got the
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shit beat out of her by somebody somebody thinks is a biological male. Boxing is about big people
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and better boxers beating the shit out of other people. Why do you care who they beat up?
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Now, I would think that the smart people placed their bets on the boxer who is far more likely to
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be victorious and just made some money on it. Everybody who was in that ring wanted to be there.
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The woman who was always a woman wanted to be there. Now, of course, she didn't want to be
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fighting somebody who was so mismatched. But I don't know. You get into that business,
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somebody's going to punch you too hard. You're going to have to live with it. I don't care.
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Don't care a bit, actually. Breitbart News is reporting there's a poll that says 72% of Americans
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oppose electric vehicle mandates, but they believe that Kamala Harris supports them,
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which is true-ish. The Biden administration wants to phase out gas cars. So that looks essentially like
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a mandate. And I don't know if Kamala Harris has updated that opinion yet or changed it. I don't
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think she's going to change it. So that seems like a really strong attack vector for Trump and he's used it.
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Also, Breitbart, most voters say Kamala Harris supports the open borders, but by a solid majority,
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the public is against it. 68% of voters oppose the open borders. And nearly half of Democrats,
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49% of Democrats and 85% of Republicans. And I ask you, who are the people who are in favor of open borders?
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That's only stupid people, right? Can we be honest? If you're in favor of open borders,
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you're either stupid or you hate the country or your relatives haven't come in yet. I mean,
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I suppose there's some self-interest involved. But if you were just an ordinary citizen looking at the
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news and you didn't have a personal involvement, you would have to be just stupid to be in favor of
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open borders. Like literally just fucking stupid. So is it because they don't know what the issue is?
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Maybe they just are not informed what the issue is. Or maybe the brainwashing is so good that half of
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Democrats are like, oh yeah, open that border. I don't believe that half of all Democrats are literally
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fucking stupid. But they're saying something that is. So is that just the brainwashing?
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Now, if there's one thing I like to say that most of you don't believe,
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your intelligence does not protect you from brainwashing. Do you all know that?
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I hear people say that only dumb people can get brainwashed. No. As a professional,
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well, I'll say a trained hypnotist, I can tell you that smart people are really easy to hypnotize.
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Do you know why? Because they're confident. The more confident you are, the easier you are to hypnotize.
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If somebody is afraid, oh no, you might take over my brain. Then they put up their defenses.
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But people who are smart think, well, you're not going to take over my brain.
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Let's just see how this goes. Very easy to hypnotize. Yeah. And that's very consistent,
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by the way. It's one of the few things that you can really depend on to be predictive. Smarter
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smarter they are, the easier they are to hypnotize. So that's probably what's happening to half of the
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Democrats. Now, my frame on all this is that this is a brainwashing competition,
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and that the brainwashers on the left are fighting the brainwashers on the right. But on the left,
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they're organized. On the left, it's more of a populist situation. So there's also some brainwashing,
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but it's almost like people brainwash themselves on the right. In other words, somebody will see
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a post on X and they'll say, oh, that's interesting. Then they'll do their own research,
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find more people who claim that conspiracy theory is true, and effectively they brainwash themselves
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by going down the rabbit trail of something that maybe turns out to be false. However, half of the
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time, it turns out to be true. I don't know what the actual ratio is of conspiracy theories that
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turned out to be 100% true, but it's at least half. Would you agree with that? I mean, jokingly,
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we say all of them turn out to be true, but in reality, half, maybe 50% turn out to be true.
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So whatever is happening on the Republican side is also a whole bunch of people believing things that
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are not true, but not because somebody told them with the purpose of hypnotizing them.
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It was people who thought something was true. And then other people got convinced it was true,
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confirmation bias, basically. And that's very different. The left is a massive brainwashing
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machine. Now, I said this on the post, and I don't remember if I said it live, so I'll say it live.
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You need to know this fact to understand the world. Are you ready for this? This is one fact you should
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never forget. It's not obvious, and you're going to disagree when you hear it. But think about it,
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and it'll sink in. Are you ready? No government, whether a democratic forum or a dictator,
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no government of any kind ever can survive a free press that does a good job.
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It can't be done. Every government has to control their press to survive as a government. No
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exceptions. America, Canada, Europe, pick a country that you think would never do that. Yes,
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they are doing that. Different ways. Now, if you're a dictator, you just say,
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if you do bad stories, I'll put you in jail. So the dictators have the easy way to do it.
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How do you think we do it in the United States? Well, let's say you're an owner of a big media
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enterprise, whatever it is. You could be the CEO, or you could be the owner if you just own it outright.
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And your job is to talk to politicians and get the stories. And then the politicians say,
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we're never going to talk to you unless you're kind of good to us. And then they say, oh, I can't
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really be in the news business if I can't even talk to people. So they won't even talk to me. I'll
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never even get an interview with the presidential candidate unless I play ball a little bit. All right,
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I'll play ball a little bit. Then the CIA contacts you and says, you know, you've heard a story that's
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kind of bad for the United States. It'd really be good if you were a patriot if you kind of didn't
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tell that story. And then the publisher or the CEO says, oh, no, we are a news organization.
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That is the news. We're going to tell the news. And then the CIA guy says, well,
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I mean, you're free to do that. But probably there'll be situations in which
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you'd like, let's say, the law to go your way. You know, maybe regulation is a little too strong.
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Maybe there's something that you've invested in separately from your media entities that you'd
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like to go a good way. But all that's going to start getting really tough for you.
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The government's going to look at you as sort of an unfriendly entity. And suddenly you're going to
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get audited. Your businesses will come under pressure. The Department of Justice will start
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investigating things you've done. And it's going to be really, really tough for you to stay in business.
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But if you write things that we like, you get to be invited to all the parties. The president will
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have you over at the White House. So in a million different ways, they can either blackmail or bribe
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media entities. And then at some point, it becomes like Stockholm Syndrome. Stockholm Syndrome is where you,
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if you kidnap somebody, like Patty Hearst was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army decades
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ago, it's a known thing that you end up identifying with your captors. So our media has been captured
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for so long that I don't think they're aware that they're owned, at least most of them. I think they
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look around and they say, okay, if I tell the story this way, I could probably get promoted and write a
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book and be invited on all the shows. If I write the story this other way, as soon as there's a
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financial problem in the company and they have to reduce the staff, I'm first in line to go.
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So you don't have to explain it to anybody. Everybody understands at some point and it becomes a
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Stockholm Syndrome. We've got to protect our side and it's all fake. So there is no country that has
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real news. Does anybody disagree with that? There's no country that has real news and never has,
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and never has. And anything that you believe in which some countries have free press, never. There is
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no way the government can survive if the free press can tell the public the truth. Never. It's completely,
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100% unsurvivable. So all news has to be fake everywhere all the time about the political stuff.
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Other stuff could be real. How many of you didn't know that? Is there anybody here saying, really?
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Wait, you're telling me we can't fix it? No, you can't fix it. It is fixed. The fake news is the fix.
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It's not broken. The only way that we can have a strong country or anybody else, China, anybody,
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is to have fake press. There's no other way. And once you realize that the gears of the machine are
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that, well, then you can see it. Then it just becomes transparent.
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All right. So Zuckerberg says Meta is going to need 10 times more computing power to train
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their next version of AI, Llama 4. So 10 times more than they needed for Llama 3. And that's just
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one generation. 10 times more computing, which means 10 times more energy.
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So you know how you may have seen that Vivek Ramaswamy is saying that the introduction of Kamala Harris
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maybe was a bit of a surprise, bit of a blind spot for Republicans, and they weren't ready to run
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against her. And that what they need is a new approach that's less Biden-focused and something
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that's more future-oriented and optimistic and tells a better story of what Republicans will do.
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Now, the first time I heard him say that, I said to myself, hmm, do they? Do they? Because it seems
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like Republicans are saying exactly what they want to do. You know, close the borders and better on crime
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and stop the wars and stuff. So I thought, well, if all those things are good things and they poll well,
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why not just keep doing that? But because it's Vivek, I don't treat it the way I might treat it if it
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were somebody I didn't respect intellectually. And so I thought about it a little bit more.
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And I said, really? What would that look like? And I thought, oh, my God. It's obvious.
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He's right. Here's what the story is that only the Republicans can tell.
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It's energy. Energy is the only story. We're in a global competition for energy because if you don't
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have energy, you're not going to be able to avoid wars because you know us. If we don't have enough
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energy, we're going to go get it. And you might be in the way. So we might need a war. We need energy
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to survive wars. If you don't have energy, you're not going to look very good as a defensive, you
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know, operation. We need more energy to lower inflation because we're going to have to produce
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a ton of it so that we can lower the costs. And then the energy costs gets into every product.
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So energy would lower. It would be the most direct inflation fighting thing you could do is create more
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energy. We're going to need that energy for electric cars, whether they're mandated or just
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free market wants them. We're going to need it for the self-driving taxis, which Tesla and others
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will be rolling out. Those will be mostly electric, I think. We're going to need it for robots.
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Elon Musk is still talking about the mind-boggling size of the robot market. He thinks there could be
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10 billion sold at $20,000 a piece, which is like $200 trillion or something. The size of the robot
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market will be bigger than anything we've ever seen by a lot. And they all need electricity all day.
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And the AI will need even more electricity, like crazy amounts. Like, you know, if you're new to the
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topic, when I say AI is going to need more electricity, your brain says, oh, wow, we're
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going to need 20% more electricity. No, no, it's more like a hundred times. It's like we're not even
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close. We need something like a hundred times more energy than we have, and we need it really fast.
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It's the only story. It's it. The only story is energy. And the Republicans can make that case
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because Democrats don't have any energy story. They only have a climate change story, which is
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the opposite of energy. It's like, how do we get rid of our energy? We cannot compete against China
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unless we have a hundred times more energy. Not a chance, not a chance or anybody else.
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So the only way we could have a dominant position in the world is if we unleash every bit of our
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energy. And I've been calling Trump an energy monster because he attracts energy and then he
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uses it for his messaging. But he needs to be the energy monster for the country.
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He needs to be the energy monster, the person who opens Anwar, the person who pushes Gen 4 nuclear
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energy into the American market faster. By the way, there is a Gen 4 nuclear reactor breaking ground
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in the US, according to the new Atlas. Kero's power broke ground at Oak Ridge. So we'll be building our
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first Gen 4. If you're new to this, Gen 4 would be nothing we've ever built. China's built one
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and tested it. And Gen 4 basically doesn't melt down. Did you hear that? It doesn't melt down.
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The Gen 3 that we have have never melted down either, but they have the potential to. If you
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were to lose power for an extended period of time, it could melt down. That's like Fukushima. Fukushima
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melted had its problems because the tsunami hit their backup generators, right? It was pretty dumb
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to put the backup generators where a tsunami could potentially hit them. So it was a design problem
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too. But I think that was a Generation 2. That wasn't even a Gen 3. So Gen 4 basically takes the risk
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and a nuclear power. Enough, right? There's nothing that's zero risk. But it basically eliminates it. Then you're
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going to say, but what about the waste? Gen 4 actually uses waste for fuel. Not all of it. So there's still some
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waste. And I don't know about this design. Just some designs do. But they've learned to just store it in big
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protected casks on site. You don't have to ship it anywhere. Everybody's happy. So that's a big
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deal. So we need Trump to open up every form of energy and go crazy on it. Democrats can't compete
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with that. He has to make the case that we're all dead if we don't 100 times our energy. And I think
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that's true, by the way. I think we're in big trouble if we don't 100 times our energy.
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President Biden said that, well, I don't know if he knows he said it, but in a post on X,
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somebody posting for him said, my administration has seized more fentanyl at our border in the last
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two years than in the prior five years combined. All right, people, you can all see the gears of the
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machine. Is that a success? They seized more fentanyl than the last five years? No, that's
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a giant failure. It means that so much fentanyl is coming across that even with the same staff,
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you're catching twice as much. Yeah. So Sticks and Hammer pointed that out. And I think we can all see
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the gears of the machine. Just purely a lie. This is just a misleading lie about their success.
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And it's obvious. You don't have to be an expert. You can just look at this and go, oh,
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seizing more drugs is bad news, not good news. It means more is coming in, so it's easier to catch
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more. That's it. That's the whole story. And here's one that will surprise you, but not surprise you.
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Did you know that the founder of the Patriot Front, that group that looks to us like feds,
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and they march around with their masks and their matching outfits, and they just sort of appear
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now and then, and all of us think that they're feds? Well, apparently the group's founder, Thomas
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Rousseau, also participated in the famous Tiki March in Charlottesville, the Tiki Torch March.
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Do you know what I've told you about the Charlottesville Tiki Torch March? Definitely
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a fed operation. I don't believe for a minute that it was organized only by racists. Definitely
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they're racists. But if the feds organize something, they make sure that the racists are, you know,
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in the front of the operation. But maybe the real organization comes from behind the scenes.
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So it looks like this guy has been important in two different things that, in my opinion,
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look like fed operations. So is he a fed? No way to know. But the gears of the machine
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seem to be somewhat obvious. Okay, it gets better.
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So the FBI declassified 950 pages on their research into this Patriot group, the Patriot Front. And
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we'll see if this surprises you. So we all suspect that it's a fed operation, but then the FBI studies
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them. They've got 950 pages. How much do you think is redacted?
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You've all seen the gears of the machine. Now finish the story. What percentage of it do you think was
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redacted? A lot. How about nearly every page is fully redacted? Nearly every page is fully redacted.
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And we suspected that the real problem is that it's a bunch of feds.
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Yep. Anyway, so that's probably exactly what you think it is.
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He said he thinks that Bitcoin was created by the CIA.
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And that the Satoshi rumor is just a CIA rumor, so you don't know the CIA created it.
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If the CIA created Bitcoin, why would they do it?
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Would it be because they have some secret way of monitoring your transactions?
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And they knew that all the bad guys would use it?
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And then they would have a hook on all the bad guys?
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But according to Tucker, he thinks the Signal app
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But I think he's treating these like they're both obvious.
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As in, if you can see the gears of the machine,