Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2553 CWSA 08⧸01⧸24

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00:00:57.500 Oh, so good. Well, X had a good day or a good month. More views on the X platform than either

00:01:09.100 Facebook or Instagram. 13 billion views through June of this year. Facebook only had 12 billion

00:01:15.480 and Insta had 6 billion. Now, profitability hasn't showed up yet, but with those kind of

00:01:22.080 numbers, I think, I think Elon Musk is going to be okay in the long run. But speaking of

00:01:27.340 Elon Musk, in our totally normal world, we'll of course be talking about Trump's day yesterday.

00:01:35.920 But so Venezuela had their election and Maduro staying in power, it looks like. People are

00:01:42.900 saying the election was fake. But somehow this ended up in Maduro challenging Elon Musk to a

00:01:49.600 personal fight. And Elon Musk agreeing to the fight. And then Maduro telling his military to not

00:02:00.900 let Elon Musk into the country. Because I guess he's worried that Elon will fly in and come beat

00:02:06.620 him up. I don't know how any of this is real. How is any of this real? This is really happening?

00:02:13.200 And then, and then Elon posts this morning. I'm coming for you, Maduro. I will carry you to Gitmo on a

00:02:21.120 donkey. How is this real? How is this real? How is any of this real? Come on. And then let's talk

00:02:35.380 about Venezuela's election. You know what the news told you, right? That it was obvious that the other

00:02:44.260 team won, the one that's not in power, and that the election was rigged and cheated, right? How do you

00:02:52.500 know that's true? How do you know it was rigged? You do know that our CIA is trying like crazy to

00:03:01.360 overthrow the country, right? Do you know how they would do it? They would claim the election was

00:03:07.100 rigged. And then they would get the population all worked up. And then they would organize some kind

00:03:13.620 of a grassroots looking overthrow of the country. Exactly what you're experiencing. Now, I have no

00:03:24.300 idea what to think. I don't even know who to root for. I mean, I suppose it's better if the United

00:03:29.500 States conquers Venezuela indirectly like it has other countries. But we're not exactly the good

00:03:36.280 guys. I think we just want the oil. So I don't know who won, but I do know there's absolutely

00:03:44.260 no information from Venezuela that you should trust as true. Nothing about Venezuela you should

00:03:50.400 assume is true. I don't think there are any good guys. Like, I don't think it's the good guys versus

00:03:55.400 the bad guys. It's probably just all bad guys. At least at the political level. That's what I mean.

00:04:03.600 Well, meanwhile, the alleged mastermind of September 11th, KSM and I guess two others,

00:04:12.100 they worked on a plea deal where they will get life in prison instead of being executed.

00:04:16.900 Why do we care about that? Isn't that just saving money and torturing them for the rest of their 0.92

00:04:23.300 life? I don't mind torturing them for the rest of their life. I have no problem with that. I like

00:04:28.180 keeping them alive. There was a sci-fi where the evil ruler of the universe put somebody in suspended

00:04:38.040 animation forever instead of killing them so that they can live forever with the thoughts of what

00:04:43.900 they've done and suffer. It feels like that. I think I would be, you know, if revenge is what you 0.98

00:04:50.480 want, them being dead is sort of the end of their suffering. If you want them to suffer,

00:04:58.140 I kind of like the plea deal because it makes all the legal expenses go away. So it's good for

00:05:04.060 taxpayers. And it's not like they're getting out. So I don't know. I think that's okay.

00:05:10.300 Anyway, CNN has decided it's going to do away with what it calls its opinion section.

00:05:18.520 I didn't even know they had opinion writers. I thought they were all just news people

00:05:22.920 because they make so little distinction between opinion and news on CNN that it seems like almost

00:05:29.980 a hilarious outcome that they're getting rid of their opinion pieces. Do you know why they're

00:05:37.720 getting rid of their opinion people? Because they're terrible opinions. Their opinions are 0.80

00:05:43.720 probably so far off mainstream America. You know they are, right? You know it's going to be opinions

00:05:50.360 that are just not even close to what the bulk of the country is thinking about anything.

00:05:55.280 They just said, you know, let's just get rid of all of them. So that's funny.

00:06:00.000 Russia has apparently agreed to release that Wall Street Journal reporter, Evan Gershkovic and former

00:06:12.400 U.S. Marine Paul Whelan. So in some kind of a prisoner swap. Now, here's the question that we must ask.

00:06:20.680 Is the United States making a deal it didn't want to make because it wants to prevent Trump from making

00:06:28.900 this deal? I think that's all that's happening. I think the election is the reason the deal is

00:06:34.380 getting done. Because I think that Biden's team said, there's no way we can let Trump get in here

00:06:40.320 and make this deal. I also think Trump could have made the deal before the election. I don't know if

00:06:46.840 that's legal, but he could have just threatened Putin. He said, look, when I'm president, you'd better

00:06:54.180 give them back or they better be back before I'm president. So I think that Trump's, you know,

00:07:00.660 pending appearance or at least potential appearance as president might be enough to have caused this to

00:07:08.020 happen. Now, I don't know if that means that we made a deal we didn't want to make. Maybe it gave up

00:07:13.460 some people we cared about too much. But it's hard to imagine this would have happened just when it did,

00:07:20.240 just the way it did, unless the election was right around the corner. So I think this is election related.

00:07:29.200 Well, let's talk about Trump. He went to the, he agreed to talk to the National Association of BJs.

00:07:39.360 And I think he was quite alarmed to show up and found out that the BJ stands for black journalists. 0.87

00:07:45.580 So not at all what he was expecting, I don't think. Now I'm just joking. It's the National

00:07:51.500 Association of Black Journalists. And they invited him. They also invited Kamala Harris,

00:07:55.980 but she had a funeral to attend. So we shall take that as a reasonable excuse for not going.

00:08:02.860 And here's what everybody's saying. And then I'll add my own interpretation to it.

00:08:08.380 Number one, I love the fact that Trump was not afraid to go. He knew it was going to be

00:08:14.860 hostile. And he walked right into the middle of the monster, showed no fear whatsoever,

00:08:22.940 and stayed Trump. He walked in as Trump. He remained Trump. And then he walked out as Trump.

00:08:32.380 You tell me how many American politicians could have walked into the National Association of Black

00:08:38.380 Black Journalists, acted exactly the same as they always do, and then walked out. Harder than you 0.99

00:08:44.460 think. Because the impulse to pander would be through the roof, you know, just to say what they want to

00:08:51.340 hear. I don't think he said what they want to hear. That wasn't, you know, his regular stump message that

00:08:58.300 he's good for the economy for everybody. But he did make some news.

00:09:05.740 He did make his points. I think that if you watch the whole thing, you'd know that he's for securing the

00:09:10.380 border, reducing that inflation that he blames on Biden and Harris and restoring energy independence.

00:09:16.940 And I think that those are very popular things within the public. So in terms of his messaging,

00:09:24.140 I think he got it through. He said the important things he wanted to say to an audience that you

00:09:28.700 want to hear it. So it's very hard to even get your message to break through into the other side of the

00:09:34.940 media silo. But he got that through. Here are the fun parts. Oh, there were a lot of fun parts.

00:09:43.900 So the ABC host, whose name I can't remember, there were three black female hosts. One was Harris. 1.00

00:09:50.540 Harris. Why am I forgetting the last name from Fox News? Not Kamala Harris, but Harris Faulkner,

00:09:58.380 Harris Faulkner. And she was, you know, she was polite and nice to him because they have a,

00:10:04.460 you know, ongoing relationship. She had interviewed him before the event, et cetera. But the other two

00:10:09.660 were a little hostile. And the one that opened up was especially hostile. Now I sat there and I thought,

00:10:15.820 oh my God, she started her first question with a whole bunch of accusations. Any one of them could

00:10:22.380 be the whole show. And I thought, what's he going to do? That's a laundry list of accusations.

00:10:27.500 And I thought to myself, oh my God, he's just trapped in this. Because if he starts to defend

00:10:32.780 himself, if he defends himself against anything on that list, they'll just move to the rest of the list.

00:10:40.540 So it's like a trap that nobody can get out of. Nobody can get out of that trap. Nobody in the

00:10:45.500 world, no politician ever could get out of that trap. So then he got out of that trap

00:10:55.980 by going directly at her for how rude she was to invite him there. He comes there. He says that

00:11:02.620 they were 35 minutes late, made them wait. Their equipment wasn't working. And then she starts out

00:11:08.380 totally rude. Oh my God, it was perfect. It was as good as the Rosie O'Donnell.

00:11:15.500 In my mind, this was as good as the Rosie O'Donnell play. Did he look nervous? Nope.

00:11:23.580 Did he look completely comfortable the entire time he was under attack?

00:11:27.900 Yes, he did. He looked like a guy who could take a bullet in the fucking ear 1.00

00:11:33.340 and stand up and pump his fist and say, fight, fight, fight. That's the guy. That's the guy that 1.00

00:11:39.580 showed up. If shooting him doesn't make him stop, I don't think your list of insults will. But he did 0.51

00:11:47.340 not address anything on the list, which is exactly what he should have done. Instead, he addressed the

00:11:53.020 rudeness from the host and how unprofessional and terrible it was. How much did I enjoy that? 10 out

00:12:00.940 of 10. 10 out of 10. Who changed the conversation about all of politics? Trump did. Trump did. Do you

00:12:11.500 remember yesterday they had so little to talk about they had to say he's weird? Did you hear the word

00:12:17.260 weird yet today? I haven't heard it once, except when I said it. Nope. He managed to change the

00:12:24.940 entire cycle from, why are you being so mean to, from, from, you know, weird things and couches 1.00

00:12:31.180 to why are you being such a bitch, basically. So basically, she was just a total bitch. 1.00

00:12:36.860 And he just treated her like a bitch. That's what happened. Now, if you want to throw in, 1.00

00:12:42.300 oh, she's also black, I don't think it mattered. I think he treated her like a bitch, 1.00

00:12:48.140 because she was acting like a bitch. It had nothing to do with color. And how much did I 1.00

00:12:53.980 love the fact that he treated her like a bitch? I loved it. I loved it. What do you think the audience 1.00

00:13:01.580 thought? Probably a little bit mixed. We'll talk about that. You know, you can imagine that some of

00:13:08.860 the people were acting like they were entertained. Some of them were acting aghast. So it was sort of

00:13:15.500 a mixed, mixed bag. But I suspect that the male opinions were different than the female opinions.

00:13:21.980 You know what I mean? Because that was Trump coming home to an angry wife. You know what I mean?

00:13:28.140 That's what I saw. I saw Trump coming home to an angry bitch wife. And he treated her like the 1.00

00:13:35.020 bitch that she was, and went about his day. How much do I like that? I can't even explain how much 1.00

00:13:41.020 I like that. I like that so much, it's the best thing I've ever seen in politics. That's how much I

00:13:46.460 liked it. Now, it has nothing to do with politics either. It has everything to do with a human interaction,

00:13:52.700 where if somebody treats you the way she treated him, she should slap her fucking, not physically, 1.00

00:13:59.020 not physically, of course. But in terms of verbally, he should slap her down like a bitch. 1.00

00:14:05.180 And that's what he did. Now, if you tell me that the men sitting in the audience hated that, 1.00

00:14:12.380 did they? Did they? Did the men hate that? I don't know. I don't think they're going to tell you if

00:14:21.740 they liked it. I don't think they'll mention it. I don't think they're going to mention it to their

00:14:26.380 wives. You know, I kind of like the way, no, no, no, no, no, no. I think the men are going to get 1.00

00:14:31.740 quiet. I think they're going to let the women lead, and the men who are supporting the women, I guess. 0.97

00:14:40.140 So what else did he do? He mentioned that the people coming in the border, across the border,

00:14:45.980 are taking black jobs. So then the host wanted to trap him. We're going to trap him. 0.70

00:14:51.660 We're going to make you explain what these black jobs are. Oh, are you suggesting that black people 1.00

00:14:58.780 can only have low paying jobs? Is that what makes them black jobs? And he just ignores her stupid 0.99

00:15:06.460 fucking question. He's like, you know, black jobs, like jobs, everybody gets a job. Everybody knows what 1.00

00:15:13.100 he means when he says black jobs. He means that the black population, because of the current socioeconomic

00:15:19.500 situation, means that the migrants may be competing a little bit more with the people at the lower end

00:15:24.860 of the economic strata. That's where there's a disproportionate number of black employees. 0.90

00:15:31.180 Everybody knew what he meant. Nobody was surprised. Nobody was offended. But you have to act like it.

00:15:38.140 Let's act like we're offended. So we're all going to pretend after it's over that you're offended.

00:15:43.660 And that's the funny part. We'll talk about that in a minute.

00:15:47.740 Let's see. Then, of course, the best part was,

00:15:53.900 you know, this is you can't believe it went there. But of course, it's Trump. So he did.

00:15:58.620 So keep this context in mind. Kamala Harris was selected by Biden explicitly for being a black 0.95

00:16:07.820 woman. He said so. He said, I'm going to pick a black woman. And then he did. 0.95

00:16:13.660 And then Trump goes to an organization which is specifically for black journalists,

00:16:19.980 not for white journalists. It's an organization of black journalists. So he's going into a world where

00:16:25.900 the people are very clear on how race matters. And race is central to not only their organization

00:16:33.260 he was invited to, that was central to their organization, their race, but also the selection

00:16:39.100 of Kamala Harris. And certainly the energy behind her entering the presidency campaign is probably 50%

00:16:49.340 because she's black and 40% because she's a woman and 10% because policies or something. 1.00

00:16:56.220 So in the real world, everybody knows it's about her being black and female. Everybody. Everybody

00:17:02.700 who is acting like they didn't notice or something. Everybody. We're all on the same page. But some of

00:17:09.580 us have to pretend we're not. So he mocked her for allegedly identifying more as an Indian American

00:17:18.300 American, uh, earlier in her career. And there was lots of evidence where she sort of accepted that

00:17:25.100 explanation when she was in different, um, public settings. But of course, she's always identified as

00:17:31.660 both black and, uh, Indian American. So it's not like the reality matches exactly Trump's characterizing

00:17:40.140 it, but he characterized it in a way that everybody understands what he's saying, which is that she's

00:17:46.540 presenting herself as black because there's an advantage electorally. And that when she was 1.00

00:17:52.060 presenting herself as Indian American, maybe that audience wanted to hear it that way.

00:17:56.220 So she does present herself in the way that we'll get votes. And if that's the only thing that you're

00:18:02.300 pointing out, that's totally fair. Is that racist? Of course they wanted to make it racist because they

00:18:08.940 wouldn't make it. I mean, basically it was a setup to get them to say some things they could interpret

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00:19:18.200 So, he did give them their red meat, but he gave it to them in a fuck-you way, 0.99

00:19:24.360 which was so delightful. I just can't tell you how much I enjoyed it. He gave them their quotes, 0.99

00:19:30.840 but it was in a fuck-you way. It wasn't anything that was really racist. It was everything that 0.94

00:19:36.520 would make them talk about racism, but they would have to hear his points while they're doing it.

00:19:42.600 And his point is, maybe you're selling yourself to a black audience a little bit too hard.

00:19:49.640 What do you think the black audience thought when they found out? Well, I don't know if they found

00:19:55.320 this out, but somebody in the comments was saying she's 25% black because she's got a white grandfather. 0.75

00:20:03.320 Is that true? I don't know if that's true. So, we're talking about half black or 25% black.

00:20:09.240 I don't think it matters to me either way because I don't see her as either of those things.

00:20:14.360 Let me remind you, the only smart way to look at anything, there's only one of her. There's exactly one of her.

00:20:24.760 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. 1.00

00:20:32.840 There's only one of her. She's completely different than everybody else, just like everybody else.

00:20:38.280 Everybody else is unique and 100% completely their own person. But if she wants to sell herself as part of a group,

00:20:47.800 she's going to have to explain why she's maybe not even a majority in that group. Isn't that a fair question?

00:20:55.640 If identity is your primary game, and that's what the Democrats are pushing, it's their primary filter,

00:21:03.080 then you can talk about it. They're the ones who created the filter, not him. If he had created the

00:21:09.000 filter, that would be really racist, wouldn't it? If Trump were the only one talking about somebody's

00:21:13.960 race as they're running, that would be racist. But he's not. That's their game. He's simply entering

00:21:20.600 their own game and then winning at their game. So, they invited him to the home court, and then he won

00:21:28.920 the home court game. They don't like it. All right. He did mention that... This is so funny.

00:21:38.120 God, he's funny. He mentioned that he would definitely take a cognitive test, but he wanted

00:21:43.720 Kamala Harris to take one too, because he mentioned that she failed the bar exam for her lawyer license

00:21:52.040 the first time she took it. I guess she passed the second time, which is not that uncommon, by the way,

00:21:57.160 to fail the first one. But I thought it was brilliant and funny that he worked that in there,

00:22:06.280 that she should take a cognitive exam because she failed the bar.

00:22:09.720 You can't forget that. It's impossible not to remember that. So, the things that you remember

00:22:20.040 are that she was lying about her ethnicity, allegedly. The truth of it, of course, is more

00:22:27.000 complicated, but he can sell that interpretation. And that she didn't pass the bar exam the first time.

00:22:35.720 Okay. So, now, the fun part is the reactions. If you didn't take some time to look at CNN and

00:22:44.840 MSNBC to watch their horrified reactions, you missed a good show. To my mind, the gears of the machine are

00:22:53.880 all very obvious now. You knew that this was a setup so that all the commentators could act aghast.

00:23:02.120 So, it was like a competition this morning to see who could act the most offended. When none of them

00:23:07.880 are offended, none of them. In my personal opinion, nobody was offended because they didn't hear

00:23:14.520 anything offensive. It was just stuff that they thought they could interpret as offensive. So,

00:23:19.560 Joy Reid said she watched in absolute horror as a person named Trump acted exactly like he always acts,

00:23:33.560 saying normal things that everybody agrees with. God. Oh, my God.

00:23:38.280 And then there was, Trump is coming after black people like he always does. What? Trump's coming 0.98

00:23:49.320 after black people? That's happened exactly zero times that I'm aware of. And then there was, 0.77

00:23:56.040 my favorite was, I can't remember her name, another one of the black pundits on MSNBC said,

00:24:01.800 it was a shock and awe moment and it made my chest hurt. And I thought, that's gonna be tough to beat.

00:24:09.800 So, there was somebody who was in physical pain, much like a heart attack or chest hurt. I'm like,

00:24:15.320 all right, let's see if you can, let's see if you can top that for pretending to be offended.

00:24:21.480 So, one after another, everybody pretended to be offended.

00:24:24.280 Did the AP said Trump falsely suggest Harris misled voters about her race?

00:24:33.080 Well, let me ask you this. If you were to poll black voters, 0.72

00:24:39.160 what percentage of them would be fully aware of Kamala Harris's Indian part of her ethnicity?

00:24:46.840 What do you think? I think 60% would know and 40% would not.

00:24:54.600 40% would say she's black. 1.00

00:24:57.880 Now, is that misleading? I think so. To me, that would look misleading. Now, maybe not intentionally.

00:25:05.480 I guess that would be more of an argument. But I would think that the black public

00:25:12.840 maybe is not fully informed about her ethnic background. Now, keep in mind that I'm not saying

00:25:19.320 it should matter. I'm saying she's an individual like 8 billion other individuals should be judged

00:25:25.640 as an individual. But she's the one who made it part of the race. Joe Biden made it part of the

00:25:31.000 part of the conversation. I didn't. It wouldn't be part of the conversation if it were up to me.

00:25:41.000 Ari Melber on MSNBC said, we're not going to re-air this now. I'm just going to put up some check

00:25:47.720 because he made this false and racially incendiary claim. You know, that's convenient, isn't it? 0.99

00:25:54.360 Simply say he made a racial incendiary claim, but don't show it.

00:25:59.400 Don't you think you'd show that? I'm pretty sure they showed the everything else he said

00:26:08.520 that they didn't like. Maybe it's because the news is fake.

00:26:16.360 And let's see. This is what Kamala Harris said. The divisiveness and the disrespect. And let me just 0.99

00:26:22.040 say the American people, there's a better grin. John Pierre said it was repulsive and insulting.

00:26:28.360 Nobody has a right to say what someone else is. And then somebody named Alcindor. I was sitting

00:26:36.440 in the room and people were stunned. To take you behind the scenes, people were stunned. People

00:26:41.160 were gasping. Some people were shouting back him, saying, that's a lie.

00:26:47.960 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.

00:26:54.440 You know why? Because there's not one of these people who would give a fuck what I feel about 0.99

00:26:59.880 anything. Why do I care? I don't care whatsoever how angry they were. They wouldn't care if I were 0.98

00:27:09.080 angry. Are they the magic group? Is the National Association of Black Journalists a magical group

00:27:17.960 where their concerns and their problems are the special ones? No, they're not. I don't give a

00:27:23.240 shit about any of their problems. I don't care about their systemic racism, which is real, by the way. 0.99

00:27:29.880 I don't care that the legacy of slavery is bad news for people. That seems real. I got

00:27:36.760 fucking problems too. How about my problems are just as good as your fucking problems? 1.00

00:27:41.960 Well, I don't have that many problems, but other people do. There are other people who have a lot 0.99

00:27:45.720 of problems. And I don't think anybody's problems are special. I think everybody's got their own

00:27:50.440 little problem. If you've got an alcoholic parent that beat you as a kid, well, that's a little bit

00:27:56.120 bigger than your systemic racism problem because you can go to any Fortune 500 and you're the first in 0.99

00:28:01.080 line, right? So we don't fucking care how offended you are at all. And I think that's new. I feel like 0.98

00:28:09.880 that attitude is maybe becoming more prevalent. Don't pretend we care because we don't. We just don't

00:28:17.800 care that you're offended by it. We're going to talk about normal things in normal ways like normal

00:28:24.120 people. And if you're really, really offended by that, who cares? There's no interest to me

00:28:31.400 whatsoever. You don't have magical problems. So Trump managed to completely change the conversation

00:28:39.000 from everything about Kamala Harris is the best in the world to now the energy monster has taken over 1.00

00:28:45.880 the conversation as he does, the energy monster. He creates energy, aims at himself, and then turns

00:28:54.280 it into conversation about policies and other things that are useful. So let's see what else we got here.

00:29:05.960 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

00:29:18.200 up the illegal immigrants, comparing them to the KKK and said the images of Border Patrol agents evoked

00:29:26.680 slavery. So there's your border czar, who is not really a czar. Have you ever noticed you can't spell

00:29:35.960 crazy without czar? Like czar is four of the letters in crazy. I'm a little dyslexic, so it just looks

00:29:44.680 that way to me. It doesn't mean anything. Then we've heard that, separately, the Venezuelan gang,

00:29:52.360 this is something Trump said, Tren de Aragua has a green light to shoot U.S. cops, according to Homeland

00:30:01.640 Security. So now we have a Venezuelan gang that has some kind of alleged authority to kill American 1.00

00:30:09.160 cops. Are we going to be taken over? Is the invasion on? I don't know. Let's talk about the VP choice.

00:30:21.240 In my opinion, whoever Kamala Harris picks for VP will be a negative for her polling. I don't think 0.96

00:30:29.480 there's anything that would improve it. You know, you can think of situations where you got

00:30:33.960 some generic white guy running for office, Biden, and he can improve his situation by adding some

00:30:40.760 diversity to the ticket. So that's a real thing. But anything that Kamala Harris does is going to make 1.00

00:30:48.520 somebody mad. If she picks a man, like a generic white guy, then all the people who are happy because

00:30:58.920 she's a person of color, whichever one you'd like, are going to say, well, are you just picking him 0.99

00:31:06.440 because he's white? Like, why can't the person who would be next in line to be the next president

00:31:13.240 also be a woman or also be a person of color? Because if you think it's important that, you know,

00:31:20.120 that part of the country is represented, why would you just set up for the next white guy to be another

00:31:25.160 president? So she's going to have to explain how this is setting up the next presidency. That's 1.00

00:31:31.560 always part of the conversation with the VP. And it's going to be harder to explain.

00:31:37.480 Now, the person who keeps bubbling to the top is the Pennsylvania Governor Shapiro, who is Jewish. 0.88

00:31:45.080 And then today I'm reading the news saying that that might be a problem with Muslim supporters

00:31:51.880 in Michigan or maybe other places. Do you think it would be?

00:31:58.200 Maybe. I don't know. Maybe. But would it gain votes? Is there anybody who would vote for her that

00:32:06.120 wasn't planning to because she picked a Jewish running mate? I don't know. I don't know if anybody

00:32:12.840 would vote for that, who wasn't already going to vote Democrat. So I don't see any Republicans

00:32:19.720 jumping over and saying, oh, I'm a Republican and I'm Jewish. Let's go for the Jewish vice president. 0.98

00:32:28.680 That doesn't seem like a big reason to switch parties. So it seems to me that every choice

00:32:35.320 would be a slight negative and there's nobody really who could be a positive. If she hired another

00:32:41.240 hired or she picked another black woman, people would say, hmm, isn't that too much of one thing? 1.00

00:32:47.560 There's almost no way to go that doesn't make it look worse.

00:32:52.600 Anyway, here's what Hotep Jesus says about the NABJ. Hotep says, they want you focused on race and

00:33:02.600 gender in this election, so you don't demand discourse about economics, my black people, he says.

00:33:08.840 That is exactly right. You know, everything in the news is about focus and attention and distraction

00:33:15.720 and energy. And it's not much about what's true. So yes, once you can see the gears of the machine,

00:33:24.040 everything looks different, doesn't it? And would you agree that you can see the gears now?

00:33:28.520 You know, you can see the plays before they're executed. 0.96

00:33:36.680 Looking at somebody yelling, oh, Jenny, the all caps troll. Why does Scott, this is in all caps,

00:33:43.960 so I'll read it from Jenny the idiot. Jenny idiot says, why does Scott ignore the role of Musk, 1.00

00:33:51.160 owned X, when he says Kamala Harris has a clear path to victory because of the brainwashed media? 0.97

00:33:57.800 Scott used to say Twitter controlled the hive mind narrative. All right, so Jenny idiot, 1.00

00:34:03.720 you got your attention. And now you can maybe act like a regular person for a little while. 1.00

00:34:14.200 So let me answer that question. Currently, the mainstream media has enough control of Democrats,

00:34:22.600 as do social media, that I don't think X will make enough difference. Now, X does make a big difference

00:34:30.200 because it allows free speech. But I'm completely siloed. I don't know about you. But there are no

00:34:35.640 Democrats hearing me talk. And I have the potential to actually change people's opinions.

00:34:43.960 Because, you know, I'm good at reframing things, etc. So if I have no access to anybody on,

00:34:51.560 you know, the other voting, then how does X make any difference at all?

00:34:54.840 I'm completely siloed. The only ones I see are literally paid trolls. And there's one on every 0.93

00:35:04.520 post. One paid troll comes in and insults me in a broad, general way. So I don't think X is making 0.97

00:35:12.760 the difference you think it is. It's completely siloed. And we did see that all that mattered to

00:35:20.840 Democrats is that they got a black woman, as they would define it. And that seems to be all they

00:35:28.200 cared about. The identity seems to be the thing that matters. That's it.

00:35:35.320 So, by the way, you have to see Michael Moore. He was invited on one of the

00:35:42.600 left-leaning shows. I can't remember if it was CNN or MSNBC.

00:35:45.480 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

00:35:58.360 standing to say he was offended by that, he had to act extra, extra offended. So you have to look at

00:36:06.440 his mouth. Somehow he did a full clapper mouth where he was frowning harder than, I think,

00:36:13.080 the frown line exceeded his chin and went down to his neck. So he had to, I'm so sad. I'm so sad

00:36:22.360 about what I'm seeing. So sad. Anyway, you need to watch it with the sound turn off to watch the sad

00:36:31.320 faces. The sad faces. They're all fake. It's all theater. And I wouldn't care either way.

00:36:37.800 Anyway, so here's some great things that Trump said. He went to Pennsylvania and did a rally after

00:36:46.840 that. And he started bragging about his mugshot being the number one selling mugshot. And that

00:36:52.760 it beat Elvis and it beat Frank Sinatra. Okay, that's just perfect. Do you remember when you

00:36:58.120 thought the mugshot was going to be bad for him? And he's just compared it to two people you love,

00:37:05.320 you know, at least white people love, Elvis and Frank Sinatra. And he just put himself in that

00:37:13.160 category. And he said he didn't even really know what the other ones did. Like he wasn't even aware

00:37:20.520 of what they were charged with, but it didn't matter because they were just popular people and he's

00:37:24.200 popular. So he's in their same gang. That was just great because we just want to laugh about it.

00:37:30.920 Nobody takes it seriously on the right. All right. And here's my best line.

00:37:38.040 I'm going to say

00:37:41.160 this might be the funniest thing a politician ever said. Are you ready for this? This is my claim.

00:37:47.480 It's the funniest thing a politician ever said in a campaign. All right. So I'm building it up,

00:37:52.920 but I have to deliver now. Here's a quote from Trump. I think he posted this. Just yesterday,

00:38:01.240 it was reported that more than a thousand members of the savage Venezuelan gang, Trenda Aragua,

00:38:07.560 are plotting to conduct ambush attacks on police and law enforcement in the United States, 0.97

00:38:12.680 all while Harris and Biden sit in the White House and try to figure out who is dumber. 0.98

00:38:23.640 Okay. You can't beat that. 0.99

00:38:27.880 Remember I've told you, he always makes you think past the sale. What's the sale? The sale is that

00:38:34.600 they're so dumb that they're sitting there trying to decide who's dumber. 1.00

00:38:47.160 Now, that wouldn't be funny if we didn't have one of them with serious dementia 1.00

00:38:53.960 and one of them who is considered not the highest IQ person who ever ran for office and didn't pass the

00:38:59.880 bar on the first try. Now, so because he's got some real world evidence that they're neither of them

00:39:08.120 are the brightest candles, saying that they're sitting in the White House, first he draws this

00:39:15.800 incredibly dangerous picture of this gang from Venezuela that's going to be, you know, 1.00

00:39:21.160 ambushing police and law enforcement, you know, like the scariest thing you could ever think of.

00:39:26.440 And then he adds that Harris and Biden are sitting in the White House trying to figure out who is 0.99

00:39:30.680 dumber. You can't top that. You just can't top that. That, you know, that one of the things I 0.99

00:39:37.000 always say that he'll, he'll never get enough credit for, he's one of the greatest writers in

00:39:42.920 American history. Now you're going to say writers, you know, somebody wrote his books for him. No,

00:39:48.440 I'm not talking about the books. If you just look at his short form, which is kind of long form,

00:39:53.480 he does long posts. If you just look at his writing and you ignore, you know, there's a

00:39:59.080 spelling error every now and then, and you know, some grammar issues. If you just ignore that,

00:40:04.120 because editors fix that kind of stuff anyway, he just doesn't use an editor. If you just look at how

00:40:09.560 evocative his writing is, you can't top it. He is, he is legitimately, and this is coming from somebody

00:40:17.160 who writes for a living. He is legitimately one of the best writers I've ever seen. He just does it

00:40:23.320 his own way, which makes it voicey. Have you ever heard that term about writers? A writer is voicey.

00:40:31.480 It means you can feel the personality when they write. It's not some generic thing just talking

00:40:37.160 about a thing. And the wall is made of bricks. And the bricks were made in Canada. All right,

00:40:43.320 that's boring. Like he'll talk about the wall falling under you and crushing your chest. And

00:40:48.120 you know, like his writing is off the chart.

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00:41:05.560 you're richer than you think. Anyway, Pennsylvania court did a ruling that might be a big deal,

00:41:15.640 saying that the digital images of completed absentee and mail-in ballots are public record,

00:41:21.240 meaning that there might be some way to audit whether your vote got counted or something like

00:41:27.800 that. I'm not sure this is as big a deal as it's reported to be. But the reporting is that after the

00:41:34.520 election, voters and candidates can obtain the original images for inspection. I suppose you

00:41:40.360 could compare it to the totals? Or can you only get your own? So I don't know yet that this is really

00:41:47.240 a thing. But I will tell you this. If we live in a simulation, there's one thing that has to happen.

00:41:56.040 And God, the simulation is winking. If you can't feel the wink,

00:42:00.920 you're in a different reality than I am, which is possible. And it looks like this. Almost every day,

00:42:11.000 probably three times a day now, there's a story about the 2020 election and about something that

00:42:16.680 looks really, really suspicious. But on top of that story is usually something like we now know what to

00:42:24.600 look for next time. You know what I mean? So there's some places where things got tightened up

00:42:29.960 by legislation. Some places where maybe Laura Trump and her army of volunteers will be able to 0.99

00:42:37.880 maybe look for trouble. So they know exactly what they're looking for now. And they know where to

00:42:44.040 look for it. So the odds of any cheating, should it exist, hypothetically, if it exists,

00:42:51.560 the odds of getting caught at it this time are much higher than the last time. Would you agree

00:42:56.840 with that statement? The odds that the Republicans know where to look and how to look and when to look

00:43:03.960 and what to do about it and what would constitute a legitimate court case and what you should ignore,

00:43:10.280 the level of knowledge and skill is completely different. Now, is it enough?

00:43:20.440 I don't know. It would depend entirely upon how many ways there are to cheat, if there are any.

00:43:26.520 And that's unknowable. Because the only way to know that would be if the news was dependable and

00:43:32.520 could report on it. And we don't really have that kind of news. We only have opinion people at this

00:43:37.960 point. So we can't know. But boy, does the simulation need this election to be rigged.

00:43:47.000 Here's what it needs. It needs the election to be rigged so badly that Kamala Harris wins in another 1.00

00:43:54.440 late night surprise, everything looks suspicious way. And then we find out immediately how it was done.

00:44:00.760 And then the court reverses it. That's what we need. Because Trump needs to be cleared for 2020.

00:44:11.960 And the only way to do it is if this election is rigged and Republicans catch it.

00:44:16.920 And I think there's a really, really good chance that's going to happen. Because the cheating seems

00:44:25.320 almost guaranteed to me. Because the way Trump is treated, as though he's a monstrous risk to the

00:44:34.680 risk to the world. So that guarantees cheating. Let me say it again. When you say one of the candidates

00:44:41.080 is Hitler, and you actually sell that, and people agree that it's true, and those people are in 0.94

00:44:47.000 charge of the election, of course they cheat. Of course they do. You'd have to be a fucking idiot

00:44:54.600 to think that people are going to treat it like a normal election if they really believe 1.00

00:44:58.920 one of the candidates is Hitler. It's ridiculous. Now, do I have proof that the election was rigged? 1.00

00:45:05.800 No. No, I don't. Is it possible that it got rigged and nobody would notice? Of course it is.

00:45:12.680 I saw again yesterday somebody who said, comparing the US elections to Venezuela was so ridiculous

00:45:21.000 because our elections have all these checks and balances and audits and ways to know that they're

00:45:26.920 true and accurate. To which I said, who told you that? Where in the world would you learn something

00:45:34.040 so completely obviously false? You don't have to be an expert on any election stuff to know they

00:45:39.400 can't be audited. Tell me, how would you audit the illegal immigrant who, when they signed up for their 1.00

00:45:49.240 driver's license, they automatically got registered even though they're not, or they got a ballot,

00:45:55.000 I think, and then somebody else filled it in, or they filled it in. Is anybody checking on that?

00:46:01.000 No. And it's going to be a major, you know, giant part of the process. Do you think that they will

00:46:06.520 relax their signature matching thing again this year? Of course they will. Of course they will.

00:46:12.760 Because if they did signature matching with any credible process, it would throw out all the fakes.

00:46:18.680 So we know it's going to be rigged. Let's just say we know that. Everybody okay? That given the

00:46:27.720 situation, the fear of Trump, of course it's rigged. And by the way, I would rig it if I were in that

00:46:34.120 situation. I would rig it. So would you. If you cared, if you'd really been brainwashed to think you were

00:46:42.440 in charge of being the only person who could stop Hiller because you drove the truck with the fake

00:46:47.240 ballots just to pick some hypothetical, of course you'd do it. I would do it. You'd do it. We'd all

00:46:53.800 do it. So there's not any question that people are going to try to rig it. I think trying to rig

00:46:59.720 it is guaranteed. That's guaranteed. Whether they can rig it enough, whether they can rig it on time,

00:47:06.120 whether they can get not caught, whether getting caught makes any difference at all because the

00:47:11.960 courts might be so biased at this point that even being caught doesn't matter. Those are big questions.

00:47:18.760 But I think the simulation requires the election to be rigged and to get caught.

00:47:26.040 So that's my prediction. Kamala Harris will win 0.94

00:47:29.640 on election day and the election will be rigged and they'll get caught. What happens next is

00:47:41.640 anybody's bet, but there will be rigging and they will get caught. I think that's what's going to

00:47:46.280 happen. I can't really imagine a situation where they say it's too hot this time. We can't rig it

00:47:52.440 because they're watching. I don't think that's going to happen. I mean, you watch, you watch the

00:47:58.600 secret service try to protect the president. And I told you, no, it's probably just massive

00:48:04.040 incompetence. And maybe it's more than that, but so far it looks like it's just massive incompetence.

00:48:12.600 Do you think the elections are run better than the secret service?

00:48:16.760 Who thinks the election security people are more high end than the people guarding the

00:48:24.920 ex-president of the United States while he's running for president?

00:48:29.880 I think Trump should have had the best of the best. And even if some people were being shared

00:48:34.440 with other people because there was a big need for security that day,

00:48:38.920 Stiller would have been the best of the best.

00:48:42.760 Who runs our elections? The best of the best? 0.66

00:48:45.560 No. Probably the worst of the worst in some cases.

00:48:52.520 Anyway, Biden is not going to be at the DNC convention, somebody said. I don't know if

00:48:56.440 that's confirmed, but it does make sense, doesn't it? When was the last time we saw Biden?

00:49:03.640 We just forgot Biden exists, right? Because we're all assuming that Kamala Harris is running the

00:49:08.360 country along with staff. So I don't know if we'll see Biden again. Yeah, we might just not see him

00:49:17.320 again because they can't put him out for questions. That's not going to happen again.

00:49:23.320 So we'll see. All right. Well, Iran is allegedly planning their revenge. The news is saying that

00:49:30.520 top Iranian officials are going to get together. They're going to talk with people from Lebanon and

00:49:36.760 Iraq and Yemen, and they're going to figure out how they're going to collectively get back.

00:49:43.160 Let me see. So some top people from Iran are going to get together with some top potential

00:49:50.920 terrorists from Lebanon, Iraq and Yemen, and then they're all going to be in the same place. 0.79

00:49:57.960 Well, I've got a little security advice for the group. You should really think about Zoom.

00:50:03.320 Have you heard of it? Yeah. Yeah. I wouldn't really go to the same location

00:50:09.240 because I don't know if you've heard, but Israel's kind of pissed. 0.69

00:50:12.600 They're a little bit pissed off and I don't think there's anything that's not a target anymore.

00:50:18.120 So maybe you should do this on Zoom is what I'm thinking.

00:50:23.560 Anyway, the United States has deployed 12 warships to the Middle East.

00:50:28.840 That's exactly the kind of story that people like me should not report because when you heard that,

00:50:33.720 you said, oh, 12 warships to the Middle East. That must mean something. Well,

00:50:38.440 kind of depends what ships they are, doesn't it? Depends if they're just rotating out another

00:50:43.160 group of ships. I don't know if you can tell anything from that, but it's not nothing.

00:50:48.600 So we've got a presence there. In my opinion, a full war with Hezbollah is largely guaranteed at this 1.00

00:50:58.680 point because Israel will never have more moral authority. They might never have as much military

00:51:06.680 advantage, even though Hezbollah is really scary because they got a shitload of missiles. And if they 0.98

00:51:13.400 fire them all, Israel is going to take quite a hit. They can't stop them all. So I think Israel is 1.00

00:51:20.600 going to say, do we want to live forever with a growing threat? There's more missiles every day

00:51:26.280 in Hezbollah. Or do we want to take the fact that we're in this unique situation where there would

00:51:31.640 never be a better time to do a full attack? So I think they're going to probably look to degrade

00:51:40.200 Hezbollah to the point where they're no longer a threat they used to be. I don't know if they have 0.80

00:51:45.400 the military might to do it because the sheer number of rocket launchers now in Hezbollah is just

00:51:54.120 thousands and thousands. I don't know how much munitions it would take to find them and get them

00:51:59.800 all when they're hidden and everything else. But it does seem to me that we're reaching a point where

00:52:05.560 they could just blacken the sky with drones that have a hand grenade attached and they just hang

00:52:13.480 around and wait for somebody to pull out one of the missile launching machinery and then spot it and 0.93

00:52:20.760 kill it. This is exactly the kind of application for the AI drones. If I were going to put AI on a drone,

00:52:30.760 I would teach it to spot these missile launchers and then I would make it autonomous. And I wouldn't

00:52:36.760 care if it killed some people accidentally because it's war. Well, I mean, I care, but it wouldn't stop 0.96

00:52:42.280 me from doing it. So I think you might see a drone related war against the missile launchers like we've

00:52:52.200 never seen before. I don't know that there's any other way to combat them because I don't think they

00:52:57.320 want to go on the ground, do they? Ground assault? I'm not sure if that makes sense. But yeah, I would

00:53:04.760 expect that Israel is going to take out Hezbollah and that that's going to get pretty big. 0.96

00:53:11.960 Well, in Olympic boxing, a boxer who was recently considered too much of a man to fight as a woman 0.97

00:53:20.120 in other contests outside of the Olympics was allowed in by the Olympic rules. So this young lady,

00:53:27.880 um, fought, uh, another young lady, one of the young ladies had been recently considered not a lady. 1.00

00:53:38.760 Uh, and the one who had recently been considered not a lady, but I'm telling you, she's a lady. 1.00

00:53:44.760 Um, beat the living shit out of the other one with a few punches and the other one just gave up and took 0.95

00:53:49.640 off her helmet and said goodbye. I'm not going to do this now. Let me tell you all the things I think 0.99

00:53:57.720 about this. Boxing is the stupidest sport. I never want to see boxing in the Olympics or anywhere else. 1.00

00:54:09.640 Why is this a sport? Punching people in the head until they get brain damage. Why is that a sport? 0.99

00:54:16.120 Now, if it's going to be a sport, why do I care who punches anybody in the head and gives them brain 0.88

00:54:21.320 damage? I don't. You're all fucking idiots. If you go into boxing, unless, you know, unless it's your

00:54:27.560 only way out of poverty or something. So, I mean, I certainly understand Mike Tyson.

00:54:32.120 Yeah. Or if you're like, you know, a great athlete or something and it's really your gift,

00:54:37.720 I can see why you do it. But we really shouldn't encourage boxing. Now, I know what you're going to

00:54:43.640 say, but Scott, be more manly. Be more like the 300. I get it. I understand why you like it. But

00:54:55.240 if you're going to like boxing, I don't think you should be concerned that a woman got the 0.99

00:55:00.120 shit beat out of her by somebody somebody thinks is a biological male. Boxing is about big people 1.00

00:55:06.680 and better boxers beating the shit out of other people. Why do you care who they beat up? 0.97

00:55:13.800 Now, I would think that the smart people placed their bets on the boxer who is far more likely to

00:55:19.560 be victorious and just made some money on it. Everybody who was in that ring wanted to be there.

00:55:25.080 The woman who was always a woman wanted to be there. Now, of course, she didn't want to be 1.00

00:55:33.800 fighting somebody who was so mismatched. But I don't know. You get into that business,

00:55:39.880 somebody's going to punch you too hard. You're going to have to live with it. I don't care.

00:55:44.280 Don't care a bit, actually. Breitbart News is reporting there's a poll that says 72% of Americans

00:55:55.000 oppose electric vehicle mandates, but they believe that Kamala Harris supports them,

00:56:00.680 which is true-ish. The Biden administration wants to phase out gas cars. So that looks essentially like

00:56:08.680 a mandate. And I don't know if Kamala Harris has updated that opinion yet or changed it. I don't

00:56:15.240 think she's going to change it. So that seems like a really strong attack vector for Trump and he's used it.

00:56:24.840 Also, Breitbart, most voters say Kamala Harris supports the open borders, but by a solid majority,

00:56:34.040 the public is against it. 68% of voters oppose the open borders. And nearly half of Democrats,

00:56:41.560 49% of Democrats and 85% of Republicans. And I ask you, who are the people who are in favor of open borders?

00:56:50.840 That's only stupid people, right? Can we be honest? If you're in favor of open borders, 1.00

00:56:57.640 you're either stupid or you hate the country or your relatives haven't come in yet. I mean, 1.00

00:57:05.640 I suppose there's some self-interest involved. But if you were just an ordinary citizen looking at the

00:57:12.680 news and you didn't have a personal involvement, you would have to be just stupid to be in favor of 1.00

00:57:19.240 open borders. Like literally just fucking stupid. So is it because they don't know what the issue is? 1.00

00:57:26.520 Maybe they just are not informed what the issue is. Or maybe the brainwashing is so good that half of

00:57:31.640 Democrats are like, oh yeah, open that border. I don't believe that half of all Democrats are literally

00:57:41.720 fucking stupid. But they're saying something that is. So is that just the brainwashing? 1.00

00:57:47.320 Now, if there's one thing I like to say that most of you don't believe,

00:57:54.920 your intelligence does not protect you from brainwashing. Do you all know that?

00:57:59.480 I hear people say that only dumb people can get brainwashed. No. As a professional, 1.00

00:58:12.200 well, I'll say a trained hypnotist, I can tell you that smart people are really easy to hypnotize.

00:58:19.320 Do you know why? Because they're confident. The more confident you are, the easier you are to hypnotize.

00:58:25.960 If somebody is afraid, oh no, you might take over my brain. Then they put up their defenses.

00:58:32.200 But people who are smart think, well, you're not going to take over my brain.

00:58:35.640 Let's just see how this goes. Very easy to hypnotize. Yeah. And that's very consistent,

00:58:40.920 by the way. It's one of the few things that you can really depend on to be predictive. Smarter

00:58:48.120 smarter they are, the easier they are to hypnotize. So that's probably what's happening to half of the

00:58:54.600 Democrats. Now, my frame on all this is that this is a brainwashing competition,

00:59:00.360 and that the brainwashers on the left are fighting the brainwashers on the right. But on the left,

00:59:05.720 they're organized. On the left, it's more of a populist situation. So there's also some brainwashing,

00:59:12.600 but it's almost like people brainwash themselves on the right. In other words, somebody will see

00:59:18.600 a post on X and they'll say, oh, that's interesting. Then they'll do their own research,

00:59:23.400 find more people who claim that conspiracy theory is true, and effectively they brainwash themselves

00:59:29.240 by going down the rabbit trail of something that maybe turns out to be false. However, half of the

00:59:35.960 time, it turns out to be true. I don't know what the actual ratio is of conspiracy theories that

00:59:42.120 turned out to be 100% true, but it's at least half. Would you agree with that? I mean, jokingly,

00:59:49.240 we say all of them turn out to be true, but in reality, half, maybe 50% turn out to be true.

00:59:58.360 So whatever is happening on the Republican side is also a whole bunch of people believing things that

01:00:04.360 are not true, but not because somebody told them with the purpose of hypnotizing them.

01:00:11.000 It was people who thought something was true. And then other people got convinced it was true,

01:00:15.480 confirmation bias, basically. And that's very different. The left is a massive brainwashing

01:00:22.520 machine. Now, I said this on the post, and I don't remember if I said it live, so I'll say it live.

01:00:29.160 You need to know this fact to understand the world. Are you ready for this? This is one fact you should

01:00:36.200 never forget. It's not obvious, and you're going to disagree when you hear it. But think about it,

01:00:42.920 and it'll sink in. Are you ready? No government, whether a democratic forum or a dictator,

01:00:50.760 no government of any kind ever can survive a free press that does a good job.

01:00:59.080 It can't be done. Every government has to control their press to survive as a government. No

01:01:06.680 exceptions. America, Canada, Europe, pick a country that you think would never do that. Yes,

01:01:13.240 they are doing that. Different ways. Now, if you're a dictator, you just say,

01:01:17.400 if you do bad stories, I'll put you in jail. So the dictators have the easy way to do it.

01:01:22.760 How do you think we do it in the United States? Well, let's say you're an owner of a big media

01:01:29.560 enterprise, whatever it is. You could be the CEO, or you could be the owner if you just own it outright.

01:01:36.680 And your job is to talk to politicians and get the stories. And then the politicians say,

01:01:44.360 we're never going to talk to you unless you're kind of good to us. And then they say, oh, I can't

01:01:50.920 really be in the news business if I can't even talk to people. So they won't even talk to me. I'll

01:01:56.520 never even get an interview with the presidential candidate unless I play ball a little bit. All right,

01:02:02.600 I'll play ball a little bit. Then the CIA contacts you and says, you know, you've heard a story that's

01:02:10.840 kind of bad for the United States. It'd really be good if you were a patriot if you kind of didn't

01:02:17.720 tell that story. And then the publisher or the CEO says, oh, no, we are a news organization.

01:02:24.760 That is the news. We're going to tell the news. And then the CIA guy says, well,

01:02:28.440 I mean, you're free to do that. But probably there'll be situations in which

01:02:35.720 you'd like, let's say, the law to go your way. You know, maybe regulation is a little too strong.

01:02:42.360 Maybe there's something that you've invested in separately from your media entities that you'd

01:02:46.680 like to go a good way. But all that's going to start getting really tough for you.

01:02:50.840 The government's going to look at you as sort of an unfriendly entity. And suddenly you're going to

01:02:58.520 get audited. Your businesses will come under pressure. The Department of Justice will start

01:03:05.160 investigating things you've done. And it's going to be really, really tough for you to stay in business.

01:03:09.960 But if you write things that we like, you get to be invited to all the parties. The president will

01:03:18.040 have you over at the White House. So in a million different ways, they can either blackmail or bribe

01:03:25.480 media entities. And then at some point, it becomes like Stockholm Syndrome. Stockholm Syndrome is where you,

01:03:33.800 if you kidnap somebody, like Patty Hearst was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army decades

01:03:40.840 ago, it's a known thing that you end up identifying with your captors. So our media has been captured

01:03:50.200 for so long that I don't think they're aware that they're owned, at least most of them. I think they

01:03:56.520 look around and they say, okay, if I tell the story this way, I could probably get promoted and write a

01:04:02.440 book and be invited on all the shows. If I write the story this other way, as soon as there's a

01:04:09.640 financial problem in the company and they have to reduce the staff, I'm first in line to go.

01:04:16.360 So you don't have to explain it to anybody. Everybody understands at some point and it becomes a

01:04:21.560 Stockholm Syndrome. We've got to protect our side and it's all fake. So there is no country that has

01:04:29.720 real news. Does anybody disagree with that? There's no country that has real news and never has,

01:04:37.880 and never has. And anything that you believe in which some countries have free press, never. There is

01:04:46.040 no way the government can survive if the free press can tell the public the truth. Never. It's completely,

01:04:54.040 100% unsurvivable. So all news has to be fake everywhere all the time about the political stuff.

01:05:02.360 Other stuff could be real. How many of you didn't know that? Is there anybody here saying, really?

01:05:11.560 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.

01:05:21.160 It's not broken. The only way that we can have a strong country or anybody else, China, anybody,

01:05:29.480 is to have fake press. There's no other way. And once you realize that the gears of the machine are

01:05:37.240 that, well, then you can see it. Then it just becomes transparent.

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01:06:13.500 All right. So Zuckerberg says Meta is going to need 10 times more computing power to train

01:06:20.240 their next version of AI, Llama 4. So 10 times more than they needed for Llama 3. And that's just

01:06:28.240 one generation. 10 times more computing, which means 10 times more energy.

01:06:37.900 So you know how you may have seen that Vivek Ramaswamy is saying that the introduction of Kamala Harris

01:06:45.560 maybe was a bit of a surprise, bit of a blind spot for Republicans, and they weren't ready to run

01:06:50.640 against her. And that what they need is a new approach that's less Biden-focused and something

01:06:59.040 that's more future-oriented and optimistic and tells a better story of what Republicans will do.

01:07:07.900 Now, the first time I heard him say that, I said to myself, hmm, do they? Do they? Because it seems

01:07:15.300 like Republicans are saying exactly what they want to do. You know, close the borders and better on crime

01:07:21.280 and stop the wars and stuff. So I thought, well, if all those things are good things and they poll well,

01:07:27.780 why not just keep doing that? But because it's Vivek, I don't treat it the way I might treat it if it

01:07:36.320 were somebody I didn't respect intellectually. And so I thought about it a little bit more.

01:07:41.060 And I said, really? What would that look like? And I thought, oh, my God. It's obvious.

01:07:51.420 He's right. Here's what the story is that only the Republicans can tell.

01:07:57.720 It's energy. Energy is the only story. We're in a global competition for energy because if you don't

01:08:09.600 have energy, you're not going to be able to avoid wars because you know us. If we don't have enough

01:08:16.460 energy, we're going to go get it. And you might be in the way. So we might need a war. We need energy

01:08:23.920 to survive wars. If you don't have energy, you're not going to look very good as a defensive, you

01:08:30.140 know, operation. We need more energy to lower inflation because we're going to have to produce

01:08:36.420 a ton of it so that we can lower the costs. And then the energy costs gets into every product.

01:08:45.060 So energy would lower. It would be the most direct inflation fighting thing you could do is create more

01:08:50.380 energy. We're going to need that energy for electric cars, whether they're mandated or just

01:08:56.000 free market wants them. We're going to need it for the self-driving taxis, which Tesla and others

01:09:02.420 will be rolling out. Those will be mostly electric, I think. We're going to need it for robots.

01:09:09.880 Elon Musk is still talking about the mind-boggling size of the robot market. He thinks there could be

01:09:17.060 10 billion sold at $20,000 a piece, which is like $200 trillion or something. The size of the robot

01:09:25.100 market will be bigger than anything we've ever seen by a lot. And they all need electricity all day.

01:09:34.620 And the AI will need even more electricity, like crazy amounts. Like, you know, if you're new to the

01:09:41.580 topic, when I say AI is going to need more electricity, your brain says, oh, wow, we're

01:09:47.740 going to need 20% more electricity. No, no, it's more like a hundred times. It's like we're not even

01:09:54.880 close. We need something like a hundred times more energy than we have, and we need it really fast.

01:10:02.300 It's the only story. It's it. The only story is energy. And the Republicans can make that case

01:10:12.780 because Democrats don't have any energy story. They only have a climate change story, which is

01:10:18.400 the opposite of energy. It's like, how do we get rid of our energy? We cannot compete against China 0.99

01:10:25.140 unless we have a hundred times more energy. Not a chance, not a chance or anybody else.

01:10:33.460 So the only way we could have a dominant position in the world is if we unleash every bit of our

01:10:39.260 energy. And I've been calling Trump an energy monster because he attracts energy and then he

01:10:45.280 uses it for his messaging. But he needs to be the energy monster for the country.

01:10:51.140 He needs to be the energy monster, the person who opens Anwar, the person who pushes Gen 4 nuclear 0.67

01:11:00.740 energy into the American market faster. By the way, there is a Gen 4 nuclear reactor breaking ground

01:11:07.720 in the US, according to the new Atlas. Kero's power broke ground at Oak Ridge. So we'll be building our

01:11:14.240 first Gen 4. If you're new to this, Gen 4 would be nothing we've ever built. China's built one 1.00

01:11:20.800 and tested it. And Gen 4 basically doesn't melt down. Did you hear that? It doesn't melt down.

01:11:31.600 The Gen 3 that we have have never melted down either, but they have the potential to. If you

01:11:37.500 were to lose power for an extended period of time, it could melt down. That's like Fukushima. Fukushima

01:11:44.720 melted had its problems because the tsunami hit their backup generators, right? It was pretty dumb 0.99

01:11:51.620 to put the backup generators where a tsunami could potentially hit them. So it was a design problem 0.70

01:11:56.180 too. But I think that was a Generation 2. That wasn't even a Gen 3. So Gen 4 basically takes the risk

01:12:05.680 and a nuclear power. Enough, right? There's nothing that's zero risk. But it basically eliminates it. Then you're

01:12:13.320 going to say, but what about the waste? Gen 4 actually uses waste for fuel. Not all of it. So there's still some

01:12:19.840 waste. And I don't know about this design. Just some designs do. But they've learned to just store it in big

01:12:26.220 protected casks on site. You don't have to ship it anywhere. Everybody's happy. So that's a big

01:12:36.380 deal. So we need Trump to open up every form of energy and go crazy on it. Democrats can't compete 0.98

01:12:42.760 with that. He has to make the case that we're all dead if we don't 100 times our energy. And I think

01:12:49.100 that's true, by the way. I think we're in big trouble if we don't 100 times our energy.

01:12:57.660 President Biden said that, well, I don't know if he knows he said it, but in a post on X,

01:13:03.380 somebody posting for him said, my administration has seized more fentanyl at our border in the last

01:13:09.060 two years than in the prior five years combined. All right, people, you can all see the gears of the

01:13:16.040 machine. Is that a success? They seized more fentanyl than the last five years? No, that's

01:13:25.160 a giant failure. It means that so much fentanyl is coming across that even with the same staff,

01:13:31.700 you're catching twice as much. Yeah. So Sticks and Hammer pointed that out. And I think we can all see

01:13:39.940 the gears of the machine. Just purely a lie. This is just a misleading lie about their success.

01:13:46.880 And it's obvious. You don't have to be an expert. You can just look at this and go, oh,

01:13:52.620 seizing more drugs is bad news, not good news. It means more is coming in, so it's easier to catch

01:13:58.100 more. That's it. That's the whole story. And here's one that will surprise you, but not surprise you.

01:14:04.700 Did you know that the founder of the Patriot Front, that group that looks to us like feds,

01:14:13.380 and they march around with their masks and their matching outfits, and they just sort of appear

01:14:18.460 now and then, and all of us think that they're feds? Well, apparently the group's founder, Thomas

01:14:25.960 Rousseau, also participated in the famous Tiki March in Charlottesville, the Tiki Torch March.

01:14:34.700 Do you know what I've told you about the Charlottesville Tiki Torch March? Definitely 0.99

01:14:41.580 a fed operation. I don't believe for a minute that it was organized only by racists. Definitely

01:14:48.320 they're racists. But if the feds organize something, they make sure that the racists are, you know,

01:14:54.880 in the front of the operation. But maybe the real organization comes from behind the scenes.

01:15:01.240 So it looks like this guy has been important in two different things that, in my opinion,

01:15:09.620 look like fed operations. So is he a fed? No way to know. But the gears of the machine

01:15:18.720 seem to be somewhat obvious. Okay, it gets better.

01:15:23.120 So the FBI declassified 950 pages on their research into this Patriot group, the Patriot Front. And

01:15:36.600 we'll see if this surprises you. So we all suspect that it's a fed operation, but then the FBI studies

01:15:45.000 them. They've got 950 pages. How much do you think is redacted?

01:15:53.040 You've all seen the gears of the machine. Now finish the story. What percentage of it do you think was

01:15:59.520 redacted? A lot. How about nearly every page is fully redacted? Nearly every page is fully redacted.

01:16:12.680 And we suspected that the real problem is that it's a bunch of feds. 0.99

01:16:21.960 Yep. Anyway, so that's probably exactly what you think it is.

01:16:28.720 Claudia was leaving for her pickleball tournament.

01:16:30.900 I've been visualizing my match all week.

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01:16:58.460 Dr. Carlson said some provocative things.

01:17:08.460 He said he thinks that Bitcoin was created by the CIA.

01:17:14.240 And that the Satoshi rumor is just a CIA rumor, so you don't know the CIA created it.

01:17:20.700 Do you believe that?

01:17:23.960 If the CIA created Bitcoin, why would they do it?

01:17:27.620 Would it be because they have some secret way of monitoring your transactions?

01:17:31.700 And they knew that all the bad guys would use it?

01:17:34.640 And then they would have a hook on all the bad guys?

01:17:40.280 I don't know.

01:17:41.720 But according to Tucker, he thinks the Signal app

01:17:44.960 was also created by the CIA.

01:17:47.860 Now, again, these are his accusations.

01:17:50.980 I don't have any independent.

01:17:53.020 But I think he's treating these like they're both obvious.

01:17:57.100 As in, if you can see the gears of the machine,

01:18:00.140 you don't have to wonder who made Bitcoin.

01:18:03.320 And if you can see the gears of the machine,

01:18:05.840 you don't have to wonder who's creating

01:18:07.920 encrypted apps

01:18:09.340 for bad people to message.

01:18:12.100 It's probably exactly what you think.

01:18:14.540 It's the people who knew

01:18:16.200 that these would exist

01:18:17.320 invented at first

01:18:19.060 so that they could spy on everybody.

01:18:24.440 Now, I don't want to say

01:18:26.100 that these are true accusations,

01:18:28.080 especially against Signal

01:18:29.120 because it's a real company.

01:18:30.540 I don't have any evidence.

01:18:32.980 But Tucker's been pretty close

01:18:34.920 to the CIA world.

01:18:38.320 He knows more than you do

01:18:39.680 about what is normal

01:18:41.080 and typical and expected.

01:18:42.460 And while I don't have any proof

01:18:45.540 that Bitcoin was created by the CIA

01:18:47.880 or that the Signal app was,

01:18:50.260 I'm going to agree with him 0.98

01:18:51.920 that the gears of the machine

01:18:53.340 make that a reasonable question.

01:18:58.080 So that's as far as I can go.

01:18:59.900 It's a reasonable question.

01:19:00.900 Oh, my all-caps troll is back. 0.99

01:19:10.160 Dean Davis, the troll from hell. 0.79

01:19:14.280 I did delete him from the Locals app, 0.54

01:19:16.680 so we haven't seen him back there.

01:19:17.940 But he's gone to YouTube

01:19:20.700 to be a pest.

01:19:23.480 Does YouTube have a way

01:19:24.400 to block people on the app?

01:19:27.400 I'm going through the Rumble Studio,

01:19:29.660 so I can't block from this UI.

01:19:35.020 Anyway, this is a very important study.

01:19:39.000 Did you know that dolphins

01:19:40.540 have two brains?

01:19:42.640 Basically, it's connected,

01:19:43.880 but half of their brain sleeps

01:19:45.360 and the other half remains awake,

01:19:47.920 alert for danger

01:19:48.840 and to do the surfacing

01:19:50.680 to get air and stuff.

01:19:53.800 So dolphins have two brains,

01:19:55.740 and they only use one at a time.

01:19:59.100 So one sleeps

01:20:00.120 and the other one

01:20:00.780 takes care of business.

01:20:02.360 So here's my question.

01:20:05.220 Is that two animals in one body?

01:20:08.640 Why do we assume

01:20:09.700 that the left brain

01:20:10.520 and the right brain

01:20:11.240 have the same preferences?

01:20:13.320 They would have

01:20:14.040 different experiences.

01:20:16.060 Wouldn't the right brain

01:20:16.960 have the experience of,

01:20:18.240 let's say, some trauma?

01:20:20.300 You know, let's say

01:20:20.740 I got caught in a fishing line

01:20:21.960 and the other brain was asleep.

01:20:23.840 Wouldn't that dolphin 0.52

01:20:26.760 have a different personality

01:20:28.060 with one brain than the other?

01:20:30.400 That's two animals

01:20:31.420 in one skin.

01:20:34.900 Is that the coolest thing

01:20:36.160 you've heard recently?

01:20:38.120 Two animals in one.

01:20:40.840 Well, I don't know

01:20:42.340 if it was an accident

01:20:43.180 or they did it on porpoise. 0.63

01:20:45.620 And that, ladies and gentlemen,

01:20:47.420 brings me to the conclusion

01:20:49.040 of my prepared remarks.

01:20:50.280 I'm going to talk

01:20:51.020 to the locals people

01:20:52.300 who are my valuable subscribers

01:20:54.860 privately.

01:20:56.420 And I'm going to say goodbye

01:20:57.560 to the X and Rumble

01:20:59.120 and YouTube people.

01:21:00.440 Thanks for joining.

01:21:01.780 What a fun day of news.

01:21:03.920 All right.

01:21:04.340 Locals people,

01:21:05.780 coming at you.

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