Author Joel Pollack joins me to talk about his new book, The Agenda: What Trump Should Do in His First 100 Days, and how he s applying the Scott Adams Approach to Life to his new project.
00:17:19.100But when I started tuning in to you and learning about how you approach the world, it made things so much better.
00:17:25.700I found myself so much less frustrated by everyday problems.
00:17:29.540The idea that there's kind of a user interface for reality, that we can be the authors of our own experience, that changed the way I think about everything.
00:17:37.300And so that's why when I was feeling miserable about Trump being convicted, which is really a terrible thing to happen in a democracy, I said, well, okay, he's going to have a mandate for radical changes when he gets into office because of this terrible thing that's happened.
00:17:52.500And that's often what we get as viewers when we come to your show every day is we get unexpected analysis of what's happened in the news.
00:18:01.700You often take a point of view that's different than the standard conservative view, for example, or standard, you're not a conservative, but standard view of someone who likes Trump or is partial to Trump.
00:18:11.700And you also just say, look, there's positive energy in some negative events sometimes.
00:18:17.560And I think that's what enabled me to write this.
00:18:19.940If I hadn't watched you for eight years, I turned this book around in 10 days.
00:18:23.480You know, they were, the publishers were, they said, if you want to get this out before the election, you have to do it by June 11th.
00:18:28.880And I started writing on June the 1st.
00:18:30.800And, you know, it's not possible unless you've got that Scott Adams energy.
00:18:35.460I mean, honestly, so I want to thank you for the opportunity to talk about the book, but also just thank you for everything you do for your viewers and for the country, because I really do think you've cracked the code about how to live a happier life.
00:19:58.080There's a study that says that people who smoke a lot of marijuana are less obese.
00:20:02.560So there's a high correlation, according to a study, if studies were real and if you believe them and if they were better than a coin flip and if anybody really thought that there was no money involved with the people who did the study.
00:20:14.920And if you were inclined to believe everything you see in the news, you would say to yourself, wow, smoky weed might make you thinner.
00:20:21.980First of all, we don't know if the data is true, because remember, all data about everything important is fake.
00:21:28.040It might be true that if you're getting your pleasure one way, you don't need another.
00:21:31.660This is why I don't judge people who are drug addicts, partly because I don't believe in free will, but partly because I think that if you don't have access to some other pleasure, you're going to get it any way you can.
00:21:47.940And I don't judge that because I think that's everybody.
00:21:50.940And the people who are judgy, maybe they do have easier access to regular pleasure.
00:21:55.840And somebody else doesn't, but everybody's going to get it.
00:22:00.180You're going to get your minimum pleasure per day or die trying.
00:22:05.400Well, Star Wars has canceled future plans for the Acolyte after one season.
00:22:14.200So that was their, some say extremely gay version of Star Wars, which by the way, the creator of it says, the creator of it says, yeah, it was intended to be a little extra gay.
00:22:27.240Um, but I don't know if it was the extra gayness or just being bad, but, uh, it was roundly, uh, criticized and I guess it's going away.
00:22:38.760Meanwhile, over at Harley Davidson, you've heard this story, but here's the update.
00:22:42.600They had apparently a pretty aggressive DEI woke culture there that the new CEO had brought in.
00:22:49.200And, uh, that got a lot of external pressure from customers and, um, Robbie Starbuck in particular was making a, uh, public social media example of them as somebody who had gone too far in their wokeness.
00:23:04.640But, uh, Harley Davidson is apparently reversed all of it.
00:23:09.760So, and Robbie Starbuck gets the, the win on this.
00:23:13.280I think this would be a second in a row, uh, very similar to, uh, John Deere tractor.
00:23:19.200So in both cases, Starbuck, uh, went after that's a person, Robbie Starbuck, um, went after both of them on social media, simply to explain people what was going on.
00:23:31.500So it's not like he was a critic per se.
00:23:34.480He just shined a spotlight on the thing and they died.
00:23:38.560So, so both John Deere and Harley Davidson completely folded on all their extra DEI wokeness stuff.
00:23:46.620As soon as the public got a good look at it, just think about that.
00:23:51.600As soon as the public got a good look at it, they had to completely just get rid of it.
00:23:56.340So that should tell you something, but they have.
00:23:59.980And so I'm going to join with, uh, others who have said, uh, this would not be the time to criticize Harley Davidson.
00:25:02.160I do expect that once they realized that they had a misstep, if you could call it that, that they acted in the way that a sensible, realistic person who wants to make the world a better place would act.
00:26:53.760But if I had to guess, I might be a little bit better at detecting things in people's personal actions.
00:27:03.160Because, you know, there's a wide, wide range of how good people are at this.
00:27:08.720You know, can you read people's faces?
00:27:11.340You know, can you intuit what's going on?
00:27:13.780If you're, let's say if you have Asperger's, for example, you wouldn't be as good as it.
00:27:17.800You know, you would have other skills, but maybe not that.
00:27:21.560So what it feels like, based on a lifetime of experience, is that I'm kind of good at it.
00:27:29.640And it's been my observation about Kamala Harris being what I think is obviously inebriated in a number of videos where she's operating in an official capacity.
00:27:43.240I've had lots of other people who I would consider experts in that domain weigh in.
00:27:50.320So people who have worked in rehab, people who have themselves been addicts, people who are police officers who have dealt with hundreds of inebriated people.
00:28:01.200And to a person, every one of them says, yeah, that's obviously inebriated.
00:28:06.460The only conversation is what is the source of the inebriation?
00:28:10.060But I haven't seen anybody who looked at the videos that I've looked at who said, no, in that video, she's just being joyous.
00:28:19.920No, no, no, you're, I think you're over-interpreting this, Scott.
00:28:23.820In that video, she's just being silly, having a good time.
00:31:30.880His campaign team appears to be rolling on a new line this week.
00:31:34.760By alleging that his Democratic rival has a, quote, drinking problem.
00:31:40.280Then they go on talking about one of the campaign people mentioned.
00:31:43.620That she might have a drinking problem, etc.
00:31:45.740And then it closed by saying that there's no evidence of this drinking problem.
00:31:49.820Wait, the entire point of the drinking problem claim is that there are at least half a dozen videos that clearly show, in my opinion, her looking inebriated in public during the course of her official duties.
00:32:10.420Did Newsweek not know that that's what we were looking at?
00:32:13.820Because most of them are being forwarded around like crazy.
00:32:45.540If you see a drunk stumbling in the streets, are you going to say, well, there's no evidence that that person who's stumbling and, okay, they just fell in the bush.
00:32:55.540Okay, they got a bottle in their hand.
00:32:57.360But there's no evidence they drank the bottle.
00:33:00.500Yeah, it's half empty and it's in their hand and they're stumbling and they fell in the bush.
00:33:04.260But I don't see any proof that that person's an alcoholic or that there's any drinking going on there at all.
00:33:12.060So, I thought that was pretty funny of Newsweek.
00:33:46.820So, I have to just reiterate the Mike Benz view about the 2020 BLM riots.
00:34:01.500Did you know that the CIA has released documents that show the technique used by our CIA to destabilize and take over other countries?
00:34:14.040And what it involves is, you know, bribing or getting control of leaders of movements that could start trouble on the streets, such as Black Lives Matter.
00:34:25.240And that it's a normal, repeated process.
00:34:30.660It's the most normal process to bribe the leaders of movements so you can put muscle on the street, opposing whoever's in charge of that other country, so that it's easier to take them down.
00:34:45.840So, did you know that John Podesta, and I think there was at least one CIA asset, maybe more, that they ran before Trump got elected the first time?
00:35:00.200They had a big meeting in which they did wargaming of what would happen if Trump, you know, lost or he won barely, and then what would happen if he just unambiguously won?
00:35:11.560And they actually wargamed how to take him out of office if he won fair and square.
00:35:21.680We know the people, and we even know what their solution was.
00:35:27.820And I believe the solution was to create unrest.
00:35:31.420So, exactly what the CIA does in other countries, they had already wargamed that they would try to take out President Trump if he got totally legally elected.
00:35:43.140They would use their same technique they use externally, internally.
00:36:02.740Apparently, it was the Democrats and maybe the CIA who may have inspired their leaders with money or bribes or whatever it took to get their people on the streets.
00:36:14.460And, you know, you heard that Soros was funding Black Lives Matter.
00:36:19.380Well, I heard it from Black Lives Matter.
00:36:22.600Soros would be, allegedly, the bank for all those people.
00:43:19.040And that turned out to be probably a good idea because Biden did the entire dump of every debunked hoax he ever talked about during his life.
00:43:32.380He talked, he spread the fine people hoax again, the most debunked hoax in American history.
00:43:37.540He did the, there's going to be a bloodbath if he isn't elected.
00:43:41.920That, of course, was a different context.
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00:56:33.360And she looks like a leaderly, you know, persona.
00:56:37.760So, the fact that she looked perfectly fine and in control and, dare I say, presidential,
00:56:46.640doesn't change the fact that those other videos really look drunk.
00:56:51.100So, if there's some other explanation for the videos that make her look drunk, I'm open to that.
00:56:56.860But if they're fake videos, I'd really like to know that before I go too far.
00:57:01.620So, if somebody does have any pushback to that, based on the videos, not just based on there's no proof, but based on the videos, I'd like to know.
00:57:11.560So, I guess Kamala Harris has declined the offer to do a debate of Fox News with Trump.
00:57:20.360So, that may have more to do with Fox News.
00:59:30.180So, that's like a major part of the Biden administration saying they wanted her to be successful as a vice president, but they couldn't figure out how to help her, and she was not successful.
00:59:55.840The DNC platform on the website apparently mentions Biden's second term 19 times, but doesn't even mention Kamala Harris once.
01:00:05.140Are they incompetent, because they have not updated their website, to get rid of the Biden second term stuff, especially by the DNC, the time of the DNC, and to update it with all of Kamala Harris's ideas?
01:00:24.760So, I put my Dilbert filter on this one, and I say, what would happen in a Dilbert world?
01:00:30.720In a Dilbert world, since they don't know exactly what the Kamala Harris policies would be yet, if they got rid of Biden, they would have nothing, and that would look even worse.
01:00:46.580If they tried to tweak Biden's and just put in her name instead of his, then it would be the wrong policies, because her policies might have some nuances that his didn't.
01:00:56.660And if they're not done coming up with her policies, they can't just erase everything that's there and put in all of her new policies, because that would just create targets for somebody to shoot at.
01:01:08.800The longer she goes without telling you any of her policies, the better she is.
01:01:14.900You know, when she tried and said, how about my policy of price controls on food?
01:01:21.020She couldn't even get a Democrat economist to agree with it.
01:01:25.800So, I don't think you need much more proof that the less she tells the public about her policies, the better.
01:01:33.520So, instead of having a blank, which would raise questions, they just left the old Biden language up there, and then every reasonable person says, oh, you know, they'll update that later.
01:01:44.360But they haven't gotten to it as dumb as it sounds to not have her named on the platform, it actually was the right play.
01:02:11.320Meanwhile, there's a founder of the, there's a Harris Super PAC, so somebody who's big on getting money for Harris, who says that they have some internal polls.
01:02:25.120I guess the PAC itself has some internal polls.
01:02:28.060And it says our numbers are much less rosy than what we're seeing in the public.
01:02:34.600So, if you do your own private internal polling, apparently it says that Kamala Harris is losing big.
01:02:45.340But if you were instead to look at the public polling, it says the opposite.
01:02:53.660Now, Rasmussen has been on this for a while, because Rasmussen has continuously shown that Trump had a solid lead.
01:03:02.980And Rasmussen kind of makes fun of the other polls, because they're so obviously rigged.
01:03:07.280What they do is they just oversample Democrats.
01:03:11.120So, instead of saying, you know, they're whatever the number is, 32% Democrats.
01:03:16.000So, instead of saying the 32% of the people we talked to are Democrats, they would just have more of them.
01:03:22.460And so, if there are more Democrats, Harris gets more votes in the poll.
01:03:26.220So, it's apparently the polls are rigged that obviously, because even when you read the poll, you can tell, you know, the numbers of people who are polled.
01:05:01.520If all you had to do was do a really good job in making sure you got the best candidates, you would end up with something that represented the country.
01:05:10.140Say the people who believe that works.
01:05:11.440Say the people who believe that works.
01:05:13.880But those of us who have had one minute of experience in the real world know that what that means is massive discrimination against white people.
01:05:22.380And you can say it out loud now, at a convention, that you were going to massively discriminate against white employees.
01:05:31.460Now, she didn't say that, but in the real world, that's clearly what happens when you set your sights on getting a, quote, browner labor movement.
01:08:15.240I'm not sure you get your money back on that one.
01:08:17.460But as she would tell you, that's a good return on investment.
01:08:22.560So yesterday, we found out that that shooter, the attempted assassination guy, Thomas Crooks,
01:08:28.040was not shot first by the Secret Service sniper.
01:08:33.060He was shot first by the local police sniper or local police who saw him and took the first shot.
01:08:41.900And the first shot might have hit the gun and disabled it, but it was the Secret Service who did the headshot.
01:08:47.860Why did it take so long for us to find that out?
01:08:53.140I can't even believe, you know, certainly I always warn you about the fog of war.
01:08:58.980You know, when the story about the shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania first came out, you know, I always do the beware all the early stories are fake.
01:09:08.220But we got weeks into it, weeks into it, without finding out who shot the shooter first.
01:09:16.540How in the world did we not know that until now?
01:09:22.180And I guess Representative Clay Higgins dug into it and he may have uncovered that.
01:09:29.300Well, Vladimir Putin continues to be a clever bastard.
01:09:33.280So he put on a notice to the world that Russia will be a safe haven for people trying to escape Western liberal ideals.
01:09:46.020Now, if you separate the question of whether that's a practical idea, you know, is anybody going to actually move to Russia to get extra freedom?
01:09:56.480Maybe not, maybe not, but is it smart for Putin to make the offer?
01:10:35.240Somebody in the UK being given a jail term for free speech who says to themselves, OK, I can either go to jail or if I can somehow stay released on bail or whatever.
01:12:55.440You know, war is not a clean business.
01:12:57.520So I wouldn't give them even the slightest bit of criticism if what they did is try to release them militarily and it ended up in their deaths.
01:13:30.820I feel like the news should at least report that or at least they should act like they're curious why they don't know how and when they died.
01:13:41.560Because I feel like if they had died a while ago, Israel would say that we recover the badly decomposed bodies of some hostages who had died.
01:15:46.420You didn't really need to do that study.
01:15:48.440You could have just asked me because I can tell you with complete authority and certainty why legal contracts are written in weird jargon that even lawyers have trouble reading.
01:16:42.100But because you can't do that, you know, contracts are written so that things refer to other things and things have contingencies and they're so complicated that you would need a lawyer to know that any negotiated change won't have more impact than you hoped it would.
01:17:01.400But the most important part is to make everybody sound smarter than they are.
01:18:24.380So what I found with my lawyer is I would just write it in my own English and I would give it to him so that he'd know what I wanted in my contract.
01:18:33.320And then he would rewrite it into weird legalese.
01:18:37.700And then I would say, that's terrific.