Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2577 CWSA 08⧸25⧸24

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00:00:09.560 All right, good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization.

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00:01:21.120 Have you ever had that experience where you might drink coffee every day, but every now

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00:01:36.960 Well, let me tell you one science-y thing, and then we'll talk about all the real news.

00:01:45.280 So there's some windows that have been created by University of Seoul in South Korea.

00:01:51.540 What's so special about the windows?

00:01:53.880 Well, they would be replacement windows for your home or business, but they make electricity

00:01:59.160 from the friction of raindrops on the electrodes.

00:02:03.340 Have you ever heard of that before?

00:02:04.320 Apparently, as the raindrops go down the window, it creates electricity.

00:02:11.160 Now, the question I would have is, how much electricity can you make out of raindrops going

00:02:15.960 down a window?

00:02:17.020 It doesn't feel like a lot, but it also has some magical properties for blocking some of

00:02:22.960 the light, so it cools down the room and you don't overheat.

00:02:26.740 And also, the windows will defrost themselves, and they're not even powered windows.

00:02:32.360 Amazing.

00:02:32.720 Okay, that was boring.

00:02:34.780 I was just trying to wait until everybody gets in here.

00:02:38.080 So, as you know, Israel has done a preemptive attack on Hezbollah.

00:02:44.440 Hezbollah was reportedly preparing for a big rocket attack on Israel.

00:02:48.820 Israel spotted the preparation.

00:02:51.340 This is the official fog of war story.

00:02:53.360 By the way, if you don't know, I say this often, I assume it's, you know, I imagine it's assumed

00:03:01.120 by everybody, but it's worth saying.

00:03:03.660 Anything you hear about military action is probably wrong in some important way, or there's some

00:03:12.360 context missing, or it will be revised tomorrow, or the death count is completely made up.

00:03:17.540 So, anytime you're in a war situation, I can tell you what the headlines say.

00:03:22.700 I can't tell you what's true, because the headlines are not based on what's true.

00:03:27.880 It's all fog of war.

00:03:29.800 A lot of lying goes on when it's war.

00:03:31.520 But, one of the things that this suggests, if it's true that Israel destroyed, quote,

00:03:39.140 thousands of Hezbollah rocket launchers, how much work did it take to destroy thousands

00:03:45.540 of rocket launchers?

00:03:48.060 And the question I have is, I assume they're all hidden until they're used.

00:03:52.900 And the question is, how quickly can they unhide them and set them up to fire?

00:03:57.660 And how accurately can Israel identify them?

00:04:02.700 Because you would think that by this time, you know, in our technological advancement,

00:04:09.200 that Israel would have essentially eyes all over Lebanon.

00:04:14.940 So, in other words, they'd have drones and satellites and whatever else it took to have

00:04:19.220 a good look.

00:04:20.300 Then you add AI.

00:04:21.300 So, imagine you have AI plus, you know, full surveillance of all the terrain around the

00:04:29.760 dangerous parts of Lebanon.

00:04:32.540 Couldn't the AI tell you that somebody is getting ready for a rocket launch and let a

00:04:38.260 human approve it or not, and then send a guided missile?

00:04:41.620 So, the question is, are we at a technological point where Israel's Iron Dome can stop almost

00:04:50.800 everything that's incoming, but also they can destroy on the ground anything that, you know,

00:04:58.120 is set up to fire?

00:04:59.140 However, I'm starting to think that might be close to the situation, which would be kind

00:05:05.840 of a surprise, because I wouldn't imagine they would have had that capability.

00:05:09.720 But if you don't see Hezbollah make a big attack, it could be, because they can't.

00:05:18.760 Now, again, remember, this is fog of war and speculation, and I don't know anything about

00:05:23.400 anything military.

00:05:24.160 So, I'm just throwing out there all the possibilities.

00:05:28.180 I can't really put in odds on any of it.

00:05:30.840 But there is some possibility that Israel can knock down whatever's coming at them and destroy

00:05:37.580 anything that's setting up to come at them.

00:05:40.680 So, but I've also heard that Hezbollah has 200,000 rocket launchers or 200,000 rockets or

00:05:47.640 missiles.

00:05:48.380 I'm not sure which that was.

00:05:49.400 But if they have 200,000 missiles, I don't know how, what that would imply in terms of

00:05:54.420 missile launchers.

00:05:56.620 Maybe, what would be the ratio of missiles to missile launchers in Lebanon?

00:06:03.780 20 to 1?

00:06:04.860 10 to 1?

00:06:05.640 3 to 1?

00:06:07.100 Anyway, so there'd be a whole bunch of stuff that they would have to blow up if they wanted

00:06:11.060 to get rid of most of the risk.

00:06:13.140 But they might have the ability to do that.

00:06:15.280 We don't know.

00:06:15.740 Meanwhile, Hamas and Israel, representatives have met in Cairo to negotiate.

00:06:27.160 Negotiate.

00:06:28.220 I love the fact that both sides are pretending to negotiate because nobody wants to take you

00:06:34.000 seriously unless you're willing to say the words, I certainly would like to negotiate an

00:06:39.560 end to this.

00:06:41.600 But here's the problem.

00:06:42.960 Neither side really wants it to end.

00:06:44.820 And the citizens certainly do.

00:06:48.020 Yeah, all the residents want it to end.

00:06:50.480 But not the governments.

00:06:53.880 Israel wants to keep on doing what it's doing.

00:06:58.120 And it's got a lot of work to do.

00:06:59.960 So it doesn't want it to end yet.

00:07:02.740 You know, eventually, yes.

00:07:03.840 But not really this year.

00:07:06.920 And does Hamas really want it to end?

00:07:09.660 Well, again, the citizens, yes, they do.

00:07:13.420 But does the leadership?

00:07:15.720 I doubt it.

00:07:17.280 Because the leadership's dead whether it ends or not.

00:07:20.020 So they might as well stick it out.

00:07:22.480 If anybody thinks that the leadership of Hamas is going to be alive five years from now, I think

00:07:28.740 that's a very small chance because they're already trapped in Gaza.

00:07:32.420 We think.

00:07:34.220 We don't know for sure.

00:07:35.940 So I would say negotiations are nothing but theater.

00:07:39.760 All right.

00:07:39.960 The big story, the most alarming story you've probably heard about is the founder of the

00:07:44.040 Telegram encrypted messaging app has been arrested in Paris.

00:07:49.640 Now, we don't know all the details.

00:07:52.320 It's alleged that they might charge him with terrorism and fraud.

00:07:57.280 The real problem is he didn't allow American spooks to have access to the back door of the app.

00:08:05.420 Now, if you really want to know what's going on here, you need to follow Mike Benz, B-E-N-Z.

00:08:11.460 And if you're not, you're not seeing the big picture.

00:08:14.100 Because if you think it's a little story about this one app and this one founder, and maybe

00:08:20.340 they did or did not do something that was bad, that's not the story.

00:08:25.120 This is a symptom of the real story.

00:08:28.020 The real story is, and I'll give you, I'll try to do like the poor man's version of what

00:08:34.900 Benz explains better.

00:08:36.880 The fact that the U.S. economy is, you know, one of the wonders of the world is really because

00:08:46.380 our military and our State Department control other countries really successfully.

00:08:51.720 Not everyone, for example, we're obviously not controlling China or Russia, but all the

00:08:58.860 vast other smaller countries, we control them to the degree that we need their natural resources

00:09:05.420 or do we need them as markets or something.

00:09:08.080 So we couldn't produce much of anything without having really strong relationships with a lot

00:09:16.120 of countries.

00:09:17.100 And the best way to have a strong relationship with a smaller country, if you're America,

00:09:22.160 is to make sure that your CIA overthrew their government and put in friendly ones.

00:09:27.480 So if you imagine that the American economic engine runs on its own, it doesn't.

00:09:34.060 It runs because our government are really good bastards and they're doing really sketchy things

00:09:41.800 in other countries all the time for the benefit of our industries.

00:09:47.300 Now, that would also benefit rich people and people in power and stuff like that.

00:09:52.480 So there are lots of common interests.

00:09:54.560 But the reality is that for you to have the American life that you have, it's probably necessary

00:10:03.340 for people to do some really sketchy things to other countries and in other countries.

00:10:10.620 And that's our basic situation.

00:10:13.240 And that would include to all kinds of collusion and cooperation with even European countries.

00:10:19.320 So we're not talking about just, you know, small, you know, African countries.

00:10:23.960 We're talking about serious big countries and working with them.

00:10:28.200 Now, it seems that there's a worldwide effort to suppress and ban any kind of app that would

00:10:35.500 give you a free speech.

00:10:37.760 Unfortunately, as I've said before, there is no kind of government, no dictator, no democracy

00:10:44.300 that can really allow free speech.

00:10:48.900 You really can't.

00:10:50.800 So if you're a dictator, that's more obvious.

00:10:54.000 You can't allow free speech because somebody will try to take over.

00:10:57.460 But what if you're a democracy?

00:10:59.520 Well, if you're a democracy, you can't allow it because then the communists might use it

00:11:04.120 to take over.

00:11:05.540 So these encrypted apps are how people organize.

00:11:08.480 So if your enemies can't organize to take over your country, well, then you can stay in

00:11:14.340 power.

00:11:14.820 But it doesn't matter who you are.

00:11:17.140 It doesn't matter if you're a democracy or a dictator.

00:11:20.000 You really can't let your enemies organize on these apps.

00:11:25.020 Now, if it sounds like I'm making an argument in favor of taking away your freedom of speech,

00:11:31.760 I'm not trying to.

00:11:33.480 I'm trying to tell you facts.

00:11:35.140 So the facts would tell you what are the odds of your free speech going away.

00:11:39.900 And the fact is, it's 100%.

00:11:42.220 Every single government wants your free speech to go away.

00:11:46.860 No exception.

00:11:48.100 There's no such thing.

00:11:49.160 Well, I'm not entirely sure about El Salvador.

00:11:52.880 I mean, there might be some tiny exceptions.

00:11:55.120 But I guarantee you, the United States doesn't want all of us to have free speech.

00:12:00.320 I mean, seriously, there's no hyperbole to that.

00:12:02.920 That's just a fact that the government of the United States could not survive complete free speech.

00:12:09.740 Now, the way we do it in the United States is our so-called news is completely dominated by unseen powers.

00:12:19.820 So they can brainwash and hypnotize the public to get what they need.

00:12:25.060 So as long as the public can be, and you can see it pretty clearly, can be almost immediately brainwashed to believe anything by a majority.

00:12:35.880 It doesn't mean everybody gets brainwashed.

00:12:38.060 It means they brainwash enough so that in our pretend democratic system, it looks like the majority is getting what they want.

00:12:44.900 But, of course, that's just based on brainwashing.

00:12:47.840 Literally brainwashing.

00:12:49.580 There's no hyperbole there.

00:12:51.180 It's just literally brainwashing.

00:12:53.360 And, by the way, every company, every country needs to brainwash its citizens to survive.

00:13:01.240 Every democracy, every dictatorship.

00:13:04.780 They do it differently, but it's still massive brainwashing so the government can survive.

00:13:10.440 It wouldn't otherwise, no matter how awesome they are.

00:13:14.100 If you had the most awesome, freedom-loving government, it wouldn't last a year because that freedom would allow their enemies to organize, and there's always an enemy.

00:13:28.460 So some other country would just organize their street protests the way the CIA organizes street protests in other places.

00:13:37.520 They would buy up some important people, bribe them, take over the country.

00:13:42.300 So it's all the same situation.

00:13:45.520 Every country that wants to stay a government the way it is, they pretty much have to take away your free speech.

00:13:51.620 It's just they do it in different ways.

00:13:53.620 In America, it seems like they hadn't been doing it, but we didn't realize that we had been massively brainwashed so that we weren't really asking for more.

00:14:02.180 We thought we had what we needed.

00:14:03.640 We weren't even close.

00:14:05.960 We weren't even close to having what we needed in free speech.

00:14:09.180 Never will be.

00:14:11.920 Anyway, here's what the smart people say about this Telegram founder being arrested.

00:14:16.600 First of all, you should know that Tucker interviewed the founder who got arrested about a year ago, I think.

00:14:22.420 And the founder talked about how the, I believe it was the U.S. FBI, had been working them really hard to incorporate some code in Telegram that would give them a backdoor.

00:14:35.520 Everything you suspected about everything is just completely true.

00:14:40.480 So you suspected that the encrypted communication apps were all being compromised by intelligence agencies?

00:14:49.600 Yep.

00:14:50.600 Yeah, of course.

00:14:51.660 And that shouldn't surprise you, because remember, I just told you, they have to.

00:14:57.700 They have to.

00:14:59.460 If the United States government didn't control all of the apps and the social media programs, except for X at the moment, if they didn't, they probably couldn't stay in power.

00:15:10.360 It would be that destabilizing.

00:15:12.220 Now, so I think we saw from, was it Mike Benz, who tells us that WhatsApp and Meta are completely compromised.

00:15:24.540 And if you're on WhatsApp, so are the feds.

00:15:27.200 And it may be the deal that Zuckerberg had to make, these are the allegations.

00:15:32.480 I don't have any personal knowledge about it.

00:15:34.540 But the allegation is that Zuckerberg caved to the intelligence State Department interests, and that their platform is open for our team to look at it.

00:15:47.320 So it would look like, say, the smart people that arresting this Telegram founder may be a way to threaten Elon Musk, as in, you know, this could happen to you.

00:16:03.040 Because the Telegram founder is charged with, I believe, not so much doing things himself that are illegal, but not getting rid of the people on the platform who are doing illegal stuff.

00:16:18.380 So if all it takes is some government to say, you haven't done enough to get rid of the illegal people, so we'll put you in jail.

00:16:27.160 Doesn't that make Elon Musk arrestable right now?

00:16:33.040 I think it does.

00:16:34.940 I think it makes him arrestable right now.

00:16:39.200 So if I were him, I'm not even sure I would go to another country right now.

00:16:43.360 I mean, he's a special case.

00:16:45.080 Maybe he's not in as much danger, but it doesn't look safe to me.

00:16:52.020 Now, quite honestly, I wouldn't travel to most countries right now because it's totally not safe.

00:17:00.720 If you were political in any way and what you say in public is not popular with the government, and I would expect that would be the case in my case, I would not feel safe going to Europe at all because I assume Europe would just work with the United States and pick me up on some bullshit charge.

00:17:19.980 So, yeah, I don't think international travel is making much sense at the moment.

00:17:25.340 And this does seem like a direct threat to Musk.

00:17:30.000 So what else?

00:17:35.400 You need to follow up on Mike Benz for that.

00:17:38.060 I'm just going to recommend him.

00:17:40.320 And once you see the full chilling nature of it, it's amazing.

00:17:46.560 Now, the reason I don't describe it to you is it's really complicated.

00:17:51.300 There are maybe 20 different entities.

00:17:56.680 You would have to understand how they operate and work with each other and where the funding comes from.

00:18:02.120 Maybe it's 100 different entities.

00:18:04.700 But you would have to really understand this big, complicated network of, you know, American State Department and CIA-funded cutouts and NGOs and everything.

00:18:14.940 And then once you see it, the picture is very clear that they are a coordinated group to suppress free speech.

00:18:25.200 That seems to be the primary purpose of most of it is to suppress free speech.

00:18:31.220 They would call it disinformation, but of course, that's not what it is.

00:18:35.040 Now, remember I tell you that if you don't know the players, everything is confusing.

00:18:40.180 For example, did you know that Steve Jobs' widow, Lorene Powell, is she owns the Atlantic and apparently some other media holdings?

00:18:50.900 And so the Atlantic would be the type of publication that would write about politics and especially about the political leaders themselves.

00:18:58.560 Did you know that Kamala Harris is a close friend of Lorene Powell Jobs?

00:19:07.140 So much so that Lorene was once in one of her family photos.

00:19:11.120 At her 2017 sign swearing in, this is according to the Mays account on X, that when Kamala Harris was being sworn in, she had her family on stage, but also Lorene Powell.

00:19:29.200 They're so close that she put her in the family photo while she was getting sworn in.

00:19:34.140 Now, if you didn't know that they're best buddies, you might read the Atlantic and there'd be some bad story about Trump and you'd say, wow, that Trump is a monster.

00:19:47.680 But if you knew that the publication was the best friend of the competitor, you'd say, oh, never mind.

00:19:54.140 Why would I pay attention to that?

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00:20:13.160 There's a new poll, Farley Dickinson University.

00:20:17.200 Now, of course, this is not true, but their new poll says Harris is up 7% over Trump after the national convention.

00:20:26.640 Now, I don't know if they're oversampling Democrats, which is typically what the fake polls do this time in the election cycle.

00:20:34.280 Probably.

00:20:35.680 But there's really no chance that that's real.

00:20:38.940 Would you agree?

00:20:40.880 That's sort of a zero chance that that poll is real.

00:20:44.240 Now, if tomorrow there's two more polls from completely different companies that look similar, I would say, whoa, something happened.

00:20:52.360 But I doubt it.

00:20:54.760 I mean, I would place a pretty big bet that it's not real.

00:21:00.520 But it's in the news.

00:21:03.100 I don't know if you saw a story that Trump was mentioning that he would be willing to go to a black barbershop and get a haircut.

00:21:12.380 That's part of his campaign.

00:21:15.500 And what do you like?

00:21:18.700 What do you think about that idea?

00:21:20.280 Now, you might recognize that that's an idea that I floated a while back.

00:21:25.340 But I'm not saying it's happening because I was pushing that idea.

00:21:30.960 You know, I think.

00:21:31.500 I think that came came up organically.

00:21:36.040 But how much would you love that?

00:21:40.380 I mean, I would love it so much.

00:21:43.880 You know, I'd love it more if he agreed to have his head shaved.

00:21:48.740 Imagine being in a black barbershop and the black barber says, you know what?

00:21:54.600 I got to be honest.

00:21:57.000 You want me to, you know, be honest.

00:21:59.640 I think I think you ought to go for the shaved head look.

00:22:03.180 You know, you're at you're at that stage where this would be a good idea.

00:22:06.640 What if he took the advice and sat there and let the black barbershop shave his head while casually answering questions about politics?

00:22:16.520 It would be the most watched video of all time.

00:22:23.840 There would literally never be a more watched video in the whole world.

00:22:28.640 I think that would be number one.

00:22:30.900 And now I think there's almost no chance anything like that's going to happen.

00:22:35.200 But it's so interesting to know that it could.

00:22:38.060 And because Trump is really the only individual I could imagine who would see that and take advantage of it.

00:22:47.900 I don't think he will.

00:22:49.720 I mean, I'd bet against it.

00:22:51.620 But just the fact that that's possible is just kind of wild.

00:22:55.900 I just love it.

00:22:57.480 So as I often say, by the way, I have a hypothesis of why Trump doesn't look scary to me.

00:23:07.380 And doesn't look scary to most of you who are watching this, probably, or you wouldn't be here.

00:23:13.260 But does look genuinely scary to Democrats.

00:23:18.220 And yesterday I was taking a long walk and it just sort of hit me.

00:23:21.440 And here's what it is.

00:23:23.880 If you did not understand persuasion and the techniques of persuasion,

00:23:29.380 you would define everything he's doing as narcissism and something evil.

00:23:34.040 And I thought, holy cow, is that all it is?

00:23:38.460 That if you don't know how persuasion works, you think that the show, because he's always putting on a show,

00:23:44.880 you think that the show is some like evil dark thing because you wouldn't have anything to understand it.

00:23:51.740 So let me give you an example.

00:23:54.920 When Trump tells you that he's, you know, the greatest at something,

00:24:03.380 if you saw, if you believe that that was just him being an ordinary person,

00:24:08.260 telling you something he thought was factually true,

00:24:11.700 you'd say to yourself, what kind of a narcissist are you?

00:24:16.560 Right?

00:24:17.060 If your only filter was that it's an ordinary person talking and they said great things about themselves,

00:24:25.120 you'd say, hmm, narcissist.

00:24:27.920 But if you understood persuasion and you knew that Trump is always giving a show,

00:24:35.920 it's literally he's putting on a show.

00:24:38.000 Once you understand it that way, everything he does makes sense completely differently.

00:24:42.100 It's just part of the show to say that he can do everything and he's better at everything.

00:24:47.980 And when he does things like, you know, have his doctor say that he's the healthiest human who ever lived

00:24:54.480 or his crowd size is the size of Montana or whatever he says.

00:24:59.620 When I hear those things, I just smile.

00:25:02.440 I go, oh, there he is.

00:25:03.400 He's playing a role.

00:25:05.120 He's putting on a show and his show is directionally correct almost every time.

00:25:12.100 I mean, I can't think of an exception.

00:25:15.460 Does he pass the fact check?

00:25:17.500 No, no, because he's not in fact check mode.

00:25:21.960 He's in show mode.

00:25:23.700 When you're putting on a show, you're a little fast and loose with the facts.

00:25:28.180 You might exaggerate things.

00:25:29.460 You might leave something out.

00:25:30.560 You might leave out some context.

00:25:32.420 It's politics.

00:25:33.480 It's show.

00:25:33.920 So when Trump is putting on the show, if you understand it as a show and you understand that

00:25:40.640 what he's persuading toward is just directionally, you know, not in the detail, it's more of a

00:25:47.200 directional thing, then you're fine with it.

00:25:49.820 And he doesn't look like a narcissist.

00:25:51.740 He looks like a good showman.

00:25:52.940 And he's in on his own joke.

00:25:55.960 When he makes fun of his own haircut and says things like he's more attractive than Kamala Harris or things like that,

00:26:03.500 if you didn't know anything about persuasion and you didn't know he was trying to put on a show,

00:26:09.740 you'd say, oh, my God, what's wrong with that guy?

00:26:12.460 He looks dangerously narcissistic.

00:26:14.380 So I think the way the Democrat leaders and persuaders get away with the character attacks is that their base doesn't understand that persuasion is happening and that it's a show.

00:26:29.240 Once you do, you just enjoy the show.

00:26:31.420 And I think that's where most of you are.

00:26:34.580 All right.

00:26:35.640 Let's talk about an interesting thing with AI.

00:26:38.140 There's a company that makes an AI little agent, you know, a little app that's going to answer questions.

00:26:44.080 And do some stuff for you.

00:26:45.900 But apparently, instead of sending you to a useful link, it started rickrolling people.

00:26:52.320 Now, rickrolling, if you've never heard that term, famous Internet term, is where you pretend you're going to send somebody to some useful information.

00:27:01.240 But instead, it goes to a page featuring a very old video of Rick Astley singing his 1987 hit, Never Going to Give You Up.

00:27:10.480 Now, why did that ever become a wildly popular Internet thing to do?

00:27:15.940 I don't know.

00:27:17.980 But it is.

00:27:19.700 So it turns out that the AI was sending customers to a rickroll link.

00:27:28.960 Now, why would it do that?

00:27:30.460 Well, obviously why?

00:27:33.420 The LLMs, or the brains of the AI as we currently have it, looks for pattern recognition and whatever happens most often.

00:27:42.740 So it's going to complete a sentence with whatever is the most common way to complete the sentence.

00:27:48.940 The most, apparently on the Internet, so many people have been rickrolled that the LLM thought that was the most common thing to do, is to promise you're going to send them to a real link and send them to a Rick Astley rickroll link.

00:28:02.860 Now, apparently it's easy to fix.

00:28:06.580 You just put it in a line of code that says don't do that.

00:28:09.520 But the fact that you had to put it in the line of code suggests to me that we're never really going to have like these little agent, intelligent agents, based on the LLM pattern recognition technology.

00:28:25.200 Someday there might be something like AGI that would be a different technology for intelligence.

00:28:29.980 And maybe that could do it.

00:28:32.500 But honestly, I spent a lot of hours trying to make one of those agents myself, and I don't think the technology can do it.

00:28:40.920 I think the companies offering it are ahead of the technology, and it's just not there.

00:28:46.200 And the problem is that it's just pattern recognition, and that's too dangerous.

00:28:52.340 Anyway, the UK, the sky is full of acidic gas.

00:28:57.120 So apparently there's this massive sulfur dioxide cloud over the UK that's coming from Iceland, because Iceland had these volcanoes that are going nuts at the moment.

00:29:08.720 So if you're in the UK, you can't walk outdoors.

00:29:11.620 Now, I think that's probably God telling the UK to fuck off for trying to ruin free speech and destroy the country.

00:29:19.600 So listen to God.

00:29:21.700 God's trying to get it done.

00:29:23.360 Speaking of God, makes me think of RFK Jr.

00:29:30.860 I'm fascinated by the fact that even God tried to shut that guy up.

00:29:36.020 And here I'm talking about his voice issues that he had.

00:29:38.900 They're better now.

00:29:39.800 He did some kind of process that improved it to the point where he could run for president.

00:29:44.260 But literally, you know, you could say nature, but, you know, most of you would prefer the God model.

00:29:53.000 God tried to shut him the fuck up and failed.

00:29:57.140 And then the Democrats tried to shut him up.

00:30:00.920 Well, here's the thing.

00:30:02.520 If God couldn't shut him up, what good are the Democrats going to do?

00:30:06.820 Well, they're going to fail.

00:30:08.560 God couldn't get it done.

00:30:09.800 So if God can't do it and the entire Democrat Party can't shut up RFK Jr., I think he's meant to be here.

00:30:20.880 There's something that feels like fate around that guy that just feels very genuine.

00:30:27.220 There's something right about where we are, meaning that he has completely changed our priorities for some of us to understand that we've got to fix the food and the medicine situation, and we really have to.

00:30:41.660 Somebody asked me, like, how would you do it?

00:30:45.560 Like, what would be the mechanism?

00:30:47.260 Does he have any way to actually fix that stuff?

00:30:49.840 And the answer is actually yes.

00:30:51.640 Yes, he does.

00:30:53.300 Because if you got rid of conflict of interest, made sure the free market worked, added some transparency, a few other things that are fairly easy to figure out, such as there are about a thousand different chemicals that are legal in American food, that if you were in Europe, they'd say, uh-uh, you're not going to use any of these thousand.

00:31:16.580 They're either discouraged or illegal in Europe.

00:31:18.600 So there's fairly quick ways to get to a lot of stuff.

00:31:23.160 You could just say, okay, we're going to be like Europe, and you can't put stuff in there unless we're really sure it's good for you.

00:31:31.220 So I can't say enough about how awesome the RFK Jr. twist on the world is.

00:31:39.400 What I feel like is RFK Jr. just ripped a hole in the fabric of reality.

00:31:44.540 I don't think I've ever seen anybody make that much difference in that little time.

00:31:51.160 You know, that whole one person can't change anything.

00:31:53.940 That's so wrong.

00:31:55.980 So wrong.

00:31:57.380 I like to remind people of this all the time.

00:32:00.020 As soon as you think one person can't make a difference, you have to understand that it's always one person.

00:32:07.460 It's just always one person.

00:32:09.700 It's one person who's willing to take a bullet.

00:32:11.920 That's what it takes.

00:32:14.660 And RFK Jr. is willing to take a bullet.

00:32:17.760 Do you know who else is willing to take a bullet to help the country?

00:32:21.280 Trump.

00:32:22.140 He literally did it once already, and he's still in it.

00:32:25.900 So you got RFK Jr. who is willing to campaign without full Secret Service protection as a Kennedy, the most dangerous thing you could ever do.

00:32:34.620 So Trump, willing to take a bullet twice, once he did, and now he's at it again.

00:32:41.260 And then you throw Elon Musk into the mix.

00:32:44.220 Do you think Elon Musk is unaware of his danger?

00:32:46.800 No, he's not.

00:32:47.380 He's got security.

00:32:48.900 So you got three men on the same team at the moment who all are willing to take a bullet, like literally, not even any.

00:33:00.500 There's no hyperbole here.

00:33:02.260 Those are three men who very publicly, very obviously, very, you know, 100% sure, have set themselves up in a situation where they don't want to take a bullet, obviously.

00:33:15.200 But they're willing.

00:33:18.400 Now, let's compare that to Kamala Harris.

00:33:21.760 Doesn't look the same to me.

00:33:23.860 Indeed, I think Kamala Harris wants Trump to take a bullet and RFK Jr. to take a bullet and maybe Musk too so that she can be president.

00:33:33.920 So that's opposite.

00:33:36.340 You got three people who would take a bullet and one person who really wouldn't mind if you took that bullet because it would put her in the presidency.

00:33:45.200 There's no way these are similar.

00:33:47.820 They're just not similar.

00:33:49.160 They're opposites.

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00:34:20.220 Well, there's a study from the Loma Linda University Health Group saying that pescatarian diets are the best for reducing death in the elderly.

00:34:34.740 Now, they were studying the elderly in particular, I guess.

00:34:36.980 But they said if you're eating fish and vegetables and limited to that, that you've got the best risk of living, you know, best longevity.

00:34:46.780 Do you believe that?

00:34:48.580 Does that study sound credible to you?

00:34:52.480 Here's the first thing you should have known.

00:34:57.880 It wasn't a randomized controlled trial with a placebo.

00:35:03.160 Do you think there's a placebo fish that they fed half of them?

00:35:07.240 All right.

00:35:07.740 Some of you will eat an actual pescatarian diet.

00:35:12.380 Some of you will be eating placebo fish.

00:35:15.400 No.

00:35:16.340 No.

00:35:16.920 It's not a randomized controlled test.

00:35:19.660 In science, the randomized controlled trial gets you the closest you can get to what's real, and then only if it's repeatable.

00:35:29.820 It still has to be repeatable to be really confident that something is going on there.

00:35:35.000 And it has to be, it has to sort out causation from correlation.

00:35:39.100 Here's what's wrong with this study.

00:35:40.800 It's not a randomized controlled trial.

00:35:42.460 That's the first thing.

00:35:43.620 But number two, what is there about people who have a pescatarian diet?

00:35:48.000 Let's see.

00:35:49.220 Who could we ask?

00:35:50.620 Scott?

00:35:51.960 Scott, can you tell me why you have a pescatarian diet?

00:35:55.300 Okay.

00:35:56.200 It's because I decided that I would adjust my lifestyle in all domains toward whatever seems like it would be the healthiest.

00:36:04.840 Oh, Scott.

00:36:06.220 So are you saying that choosing a pescatarian diet is not because you like the flavor of it, it's only because you're doing hard things to be healthy, as science suggests?

00:36:18.380 Yes, that is correct.

00:36:19.780 So is that the only thing you're doing to stay healthy?

00:36:23.140 No, that would be stupid.

00:36:25.000 I also do weight-resistant training.

00:36:28.200 Oh, okay.

00:36:30.100 Why do you do that?

00:36:31.100 Well, because I'm the kind of person who will look at the science and decide to have a pescatarian diet, and then I'll look at the science and decide that lifting weight and resistance training is good for me.

00:36:41.400 Oh, and there's a study showing that again, too.

00:36:44.700 Do you do anything else?

00:36:45.780 Yes.

00:36:46.160 I make sure I get enough vitamin D, and if I don't, I've had my blood tested, and then I supplement.

00:36:51.600 Oh, oh, well, that's good.

00:36:54.080 Do you eat a lot of candy?

00:36:55.300 Because I'm not sure the pescatarians would care if you ate candy.

00:36:57.860 No, I don't, because the science says that's bad for me, and I could go on and on and on, but here's the thing.

00:37:06.220 Pescatarians pick healthy other lifestyles, so the science is not reliable.

00:37:13.860 Let's talk about the voting.

00:37:16.880 The Ohio Secretary of State said he's found 597 non-citizens are registered to vote, and 138 have already voted.

00:37:26.520 I guess that would be the mail-in votes.

00:37:29.260 Now, you might say 597 is not many, but if 138 of 597 have voted, it does suggest that maybe the non-citizens are going to be more of a factor, maybe not in that state, but that there's some massive intention that they vote.

00:37:46.720 Now, of the 138 non-citizens who voted, how many of those do you think were actually the actual non-citizen who filled out the mail-in ballot?

00:37:57.340 I'm going to say almost none.

00:37:59.260 So this would suggest, prove really, in my opinion, this is proof, that there is a concerted effort, probably organized, to collect the ballots of non-citizens and inject them into the system.

00:38:17.580 Now, maybe I'm getting ahead of myself, but I would cancel the election based on this.

00:38:24.660 I would just cancel it.

00:38:26.440 And I would say, oh, it looks like we can't run an election under these conditions.

00:38:30.480 So we need to rejigger what an election is, probably go back to paper ballots, forget about the mail-in stuff,

00:38:37.660 except for the other people who can't be there, like military and shut-ins and stuff like that.

00:38:45.840 But how many signals do you need that the system isn't working?

00:38:50.420 If this were the only thing, then I'd say, oh, okay, we're good enough.

00:38:54.660 But you know it's not going to be the only thing.

00:38:57.100 You know that this is the beginning of a long list of, well, this happened and that happened and our voter rolls and blah, blah, blah.

00:39:05.180 I don't think there's any chance that the losing team is going to accept the election this time.

00:39:11.460 So I'll double down and triple down on that prediction.

00:39:15.780 But you want to know some good news?

00:39:18.540 There's an organization called the Fair Election Fund, and they're going to pay large amounts to election whistleblowers.

00:39:27.960 Hmm.

00:39:28.860 If you're an election whistleblower, you should know that the Fair Election Fund,

00:39:33.900 and you can just Google them, not too hard to find,

00:39:37.760 they plan to spend $5 million vetting and paying whistleblowers with a focus on poll workers and observers.

00:39:46.140 But also any voter who documents fraud can qualify as well.

00:39:51.900 Now, does that sound like an idea you've heard before?

00:39:54.600 It was one of the things I was suggesting.

00:39:59.280 Now, it doesn't mean that my suggestion is why they're doing it.

00:40:01.980 I'm not saying that.

00:40:03.000 It could be it's just an obvious thing.

00:40:05.480 So obvious things end up happening.

00:40:08.360 But here's what I like about it.

00:40:10.180 If you announce it ahead of time, then anybody who's going to cheat, almost everybody who cheats,

00:40:18.280 if you assume that there's any cheating in elections at all,

00:40:21.420 if you assume it happens, you're probably assuming that there's almost always an accomplice.

00:40:27.240 I feel like it would be hard for one person to pull off cheating.

00:40:33.200 But if you had accomplices, like even if you were a ballot collector,

00:40:39.160 like if you were harvesting ballots, there would be at least a few people who knew about it.

00:40:44.440 Do you think there's any ballot harvester who was never told one person

00:40:47.380 and that even the people who were getting harvested couldn't tell it was a ballot harvester?

00:40:52.700 Everybody who's cheating in an election probably has some witnesses.

00:40:58.560 Now, here's the cool part.

00:41:01.660 Most of those witnesses would not become whistleblowers.

00:41:05.620 But if they're looking at, you know, getting a quarter of a million dollars for a really good one,

00:41:10.600 I don't know what the actual awards are.

00:41:13.260 It would be hard to trust your accomplice, wouldn't it?

00:41:16.640 So what's beautiful about this is that it's organized and promoted before the election,

00:41:21.520 which means that all of the accomplices have to look at each other and say,

00:41:25.720 if we cheated in the election, maybe we get paid our, you know, $5,000 or whatever we're getting paid,

00:41:33.700 because probably they're getting paid.

00:41:36.640 But if we do that and make the $5,000,

00:41:40.820 this guy sitting right next to me could make a quarter of a million dollars by sending me to jail,

00:41:45.640 and I don't know him that well.

00:41:46.680 This could really change the nature of what happens in the next few months.

00:41:56.980 So keep an eye on that.

00:41:59.020 I would wait to see if this organization is vetted, though.

00:42:04.320 So if you see Laura Trump, maybe she looks into it,

00:42:06.980 maybe she says, you know, this looks solid to me,

00:42:10.200 then I would really think he had something.

00:42:14.520 But I'd probably wait to get a little bit more vetting on them,

00:42:20.800 because I don't know who's behind it or how they got funded.

00:42:26.440 Apparently, according to Robbie Starbuck,

00:42:29.440 the Department of Homeland Security

00:42:32.560 has just put out its strategic plan for the next several years.

00:42:38.840 Do you know what their number one goal is,

00:42:40.660 and their strategic plan in the Department of Homeland Security,

00:42:44.160 whose primary job is to keep you safe?

00:42:46.800 Yeah, it's DEI and ESG.

00:42:48.900 So it's not to protect America.

00:42:50.620 It's to make sure that America can get beaten, I guess.

00:42:57.020 Now, this does assume that Department of Homeland Security

00:43:02.720 will become increasingly incompetent because of DEI.

00:43:07.560 Now, not because any diverse people are less good at doing things.

00:43:12.520 It has nothing to do with the people.

00:43:14.640 It's just the system.

00:43:16.280 And it would have an artificial goal of getting more diversity.

00:43:21.780 And whenever you have a distorting goal

00:43:23.860 that's more important than doing your main mission,

00:43:28.480 it's going to be bad.

00:43:30.360 So we're seeing that the country is suffering

00:43:32.580 a mass incompetence problem everywhere.

00:43:35.720 I think DEI is probably most of that.

00:43:38.980 Not all of it.

00:43:40.520 Some of it may have to do with young people

00:43:42.780 not being prepared, et cetera.

00:43:44.820 But DEI is probably most of the incompetence

00:43:48.160 in the United States right now.

00:43:50.260 And if you're new to me,

00:43:52.120 it's not because any specific person's got bad genes

00:43:56.100 or any group is bad

00:43:57.800 or any gender is better or worse

00:44:00.980 or any race is better or worse.

00:44:02.520 It has nothing to do with any of that.

00:44:04.000 It has nothing to do with your genes.

00:44:06.380 It has to do with the system.

00:44:08.400 And if the system is designed

00:44:09.920 to artificially need people from a group

00:44:14.120 that isn't big enough to give everybody

00:44:15.960 a highly qualified candidate,

00:44:19.320 they're still going to go for the diversity.

00:44:22.800 So it means they'll lower their standard.

00:44:24.780 So what we should see on paper,

00:44:27.120 the way it's designed,

00:44:28.240 is massive incompetence

00:44:29.620 in every element of American life.

00:44:32.140 You should see that.

00:44:33.440 That's very predictable.

00:44:34.660 And sure enough,

00:44:35.800 you all observe it happening.

00:44:37.180 But some companies are rebranding,

00:44:42.340 such as, let's see,

00:44:44.040 Activision and Blizzard

00:44:45.100 got a lot of heat for their DEI stuff.

00:44:47.720 So it looks like the accusation is

00:44:50.300 that they're just going to keep doing

00:44:52.260 their DEI stuff,

00:44:53.580 but they're going to call it another name

00:44:55.340 so they can keep doing it.

00:44:58.540 Huh.

00:44:59.340 So Robbie Starbuck is an activist.

00:45:02.800 He's being,

00:45:03.660 I mean, he didn't start out that way,

00:45:05.320 but he's being an activist on this DEI stuff.

00:45:09.140 And companies are rebranding it

00:45:11.620 to call it something else

00:45:12.740 to get out of the heat.

00:45:14.720 Well, that happens to be exactly

00:45:17.400 the topic of a Dilbert comic strip this week

00:45:21.160 where Dilbert's company

00:45:24.220 is going to come under fire

00:45:25.940 from an internet activist

00:45:28.060 called Robbie Starbuck.

00:45:30.500 So Robbie Starbuck doesn't know it yet,

00:45:32.480 but he's going to be appearing

00:45:33.280 in that Dilbert comic.

00:45:34.360 I think it's this week.

00:45:35.320 And Dilbert's company

00:45:38.760 will come under fire

00:45:39.720 from Robbie Starbuck.

00:45:40.900 And what will they do?

00:45:42.660 They will get rid of their DEI program.

00:45:45.860 No, they won't.

00:45:46.540 They'll just change the name.

00:45:48.840 Just like everybody else.

00:45:53.380 Did you know that Mongolia

00:45:54.920 has a really good birth rate,

00:45:57.620 way better than almost everyone else

00:46:00.200 in the world?

00:46:00.840 And do you know why Mongolians

00:46:02.700 are having lots of kids

00:46:04.040 and other places like the United States

00:46:06.060 are below replacement value?

00:46:09.300 Well, we don't know all the reasons,

00:46:11.740 but there's one obvious reason

00:46:14.620 that's jumping out.

00:46:16.180 Apparently in Mongolia,

00:46:17.420 and I learned this from an account on X

00:46:19.300 called More Births.

00:46:20.860 It's all one word,

00:46:22.580 More Births.

00:46:24.720 And apparently it's an account

00:46:26.300 that follows, you know,

00:46:27.360 what creates higher levels

00:46:30.360 of repopulation.

00:46:31.820 And apparently for the last 68 years,

00:46:36.180 Mongolian leaders

00:46:37.400 have been giving out

00:46:39.320 like government awards,

00:46:40.940 the order of maternal glory to mothers.

00:46:44.080 So the country did a massive campaign

00:46:46.760 to brainwash the citizens.

00:46:48.840 Again, brainwashing is pretty much universal

00:46:52.340 if you're a government.

00:46:53.740 To brainwash the citizens

00:46:55.300 and to believe in that motherhood

00:46:56.740 was among the highest levels

00:47:00.040 of achievement in life.

00:47:02.600 So that,

00:47:03.440 and apparently if you have four kids,

00:47:06.100 if you're a Mongolian mother

00:47:08.240 and you have four kids,

00:47:09.680 the president will personally

00:47:11.160 give you an award.

00:47:12.860 Personally.

00:47:14.880 Just try to hold that in your head.

00:47:17.360 That if you have four kids,

00:47:19.920 the president of Mongolia shows up

00:47:22.540 and gives you an award personally.

00:47:24.460 Because they're so happy

00:47:25.980 that you could have four kids.

00:47:27.580 They're so big on motherhood.

00:47:29.080 If you have six kids,

00:47:30.460 it gets wilder.

00:47:32.400 Like you get,

00:47:33.480 you're like a national treasure.

00:47:35.640 Now,

00:47:36.440 if we treated American mothers

00:47:39.000 as national treasures

00:47:41.160 for having,

00:47:43.300 you know,

00:47:43.620 at least replacement number of kids,

00:47:45.960 do you think we would be more of it?

00:47:47.740 Well,

00:47:50.260 American culture is so different

00:47:52.000 that I don't know

00:47:53.020 if you could make that tweak.

00:47:54.380 You know,

00:47:54.540 we've got a lot going on.

00:47:56.260 So I don't know

00:47:56.980 if you could just make that tweak

00:47:57.980 in America.

00:47:58.840 But the larger point

00:48:00.500 is that incentives work.

00:48:01.900 If you incentivize a thing,

00:48:04.840 you're going to get more of it.

00:48:06.900 And the United States,

00:48:08.200 as I've said a number of times,

00:48:10.340 you know,

00:48:10.580 what are the forces working against

00:48:12.560 people having more babies?

00:48:14.580 And the answer is everything.

00:48:16.720 100% of everything happening

00:48:18.800 in the United States

00:48:20.100 is anti-baby.

00:48:22.380 You know,

00:48:22.640 we're worried about the climate change

00:48:25.120 and the future

00:48:25.920 and the pollution is killing us all

00:48:28.680 and our food supply

00:48:29.580 is making us unable to have babies

00:48:31.360 and we're all overweight

00:48:32.740 and obese

00:48:33.420 and, you know,

00:48:34.360 where social media

00:48:35.440 makes us hate each other

00:48:36.620 and the Democrats

00:48:37.520 and the Republicans

00:48:38.440 won't even date

00:48:39.540 and the economy is so bad

00:48:41.800 you couldn't possibly have a child

00:48:43.120 and also take care of yourself.

00:48:44.740 And I could go on

00:48:46.160 and on and on and on.

00:48:47.660 You know,

00:48:48.020 TikTok makes you look like a star

00:48:49.600 for not having a baby.

00:48:51.060 Bill Maher just did a monologue

00:48:53.540 about being single

00:48:55.340 and loving it

00:48:55.900 and how awesome it is.

00:48:57.800 So,

00:48:58.000 we've got a lot of work to do

00:49:00.960 if we want to have babies.

00:49:02.660 Maybe we'll just go to robots

00:49:03.920 and we don't care.

00:49:07.060 But elevating the status of mothers

00:49:08.860 seems pretty important.

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00:49:34.920 So,

00:49:35.480 speaking of Bill Maher,

00:49:36.920 he said on his show

00:49:38.120 that he just found out

00:49:39.500 that Project 2025

00:49:40.980 being attributed to Trump

00:49:43.400 was a hoax.

00:49:45.840 He just found out.

00:49:47.140 Hold that in your head.

00:49:52.340 He just found out.

00:49:54.720 He's one of the main people

00:49:56.260 who talks about politics

00:49:57.540 and teaches

00:49:58.380 both Democrats

00:49:59.780 and sometimes others

00:50:00.960 how the world works.

00:50:03.100 And he just found out

00:50:04.700 that it's a hoax,

00:50:07.600 that Trump didn't write it,

00:50:09.060 and that there are things in it

00:50:10.240 that he disowns

00:50:11.880 completely and directly.

00:50:13.880 And then he went through it

00:50:14.980 and said,

00:50:15.400 well,

00:50:15.680 oh,

00:50:16.080 there's this one part

00:50:17.520 where he wants to do

00:50:18.400 a federal ban on abortion.

00:50:20.300 And Bill Maher says,

00:50:22.380 oh,

00:50:22.660 that might happen.

00:50:24.700 No,

00:50:25.200 that might not happen.

00:50:27.000 Trump is completely

00:50:27.900 against that.

00:50:29.700 That might not happen.

00:50:31.620 No.

00:50:32.020 And genuinely against it.

00:50:34.820 You know,

00:50:35.000 as I've said before,

00:50:36.180 if you were to look

00:50:37.000 at the totality

00:50:38.320 of what Trump has done

00:50:40.040 in terms of women's

00:50:41.660 bodily autonomy,

00:50:43.860 he said,

00:50:44.600 keep me out of it.

00:50:47.180 He's doing,

00:50:48.140 in every way,

00:50:49.400 he's the opposite.

00:50:50.580 Doesn't want to mess

00:50:51.500 with birth control.

00:50:53.280 Doesn't want to have

00:50:54.200 a federal ban.

00:50:55.680 Doesn't want the Supreme Court

00:50:57.320 to be in charge

00:50:58.040 of the women's bodies.

00:50:59.480 Wants the states to do it,

00:51:00.800 which essentially moves it

00:51:02.040 further from him.

00:51:04.180 Trump is very consistent

00:51:05.780 in saying,

00:51:06.400 leave me out of this.

00:51:08.540 And leave the president

00:51:09.460 out of it.

00:51:10.880 And somehow,

00:51:11.820 the brainwashing

00:51:12.520 is so good

00:51:13.400 that they can turn that

00:51:14.500 into Trump wants

00:51:15.920 the opposite

00:51:16.420 of what he wants.

00:51:18.020 And the entire party,

00:51:19.740 including Bill Maher,

00:51:20.580 believed it.

00:51:22.020 So,

00:51:22.620 amazing.

00:51:23.740 But,

00:51:24.300 so now Bill Maher

00:51:25.460 has found out that,

00:51:26.600 I think he said

00:51:29.240 that he knows

00:51:29.780 that the fine people

00:51:30.860 hoax is a hoax.

00:51:32.940 He knows

00:51:33.780 that the

00:51:34.540 January 6th

00:51:36.680 thing,

00:51:37.220 I think it was

00:51:37.600 Megyn Kelly

00:51:38.240 who informed him

00:51:40.080 on live,

00:51:40.740 not live,

00:51:41.420 but on a podcast,

00:51:42.860 that his understanding

00:51:43.740 that only the Republicans

00:51:45.200 doubted elections

00:51:46.340 was completely false.

00:51:48.480 And that there's,

00:51:49.500 there's a whole,

00:51:50.380 you know,

00:51:51.160 whole compilation

00:51:52.420 clips of Democrats

00:51:53.800 doubting the election

00:51:54.920 when Trump got elected.

00:51:56.440 He wasn't aware

00:51:57.500 of that,

00:51:58.580 that it's completely

00:51:59.460 normal for the losing

00:52:00.660 party to say

00:52:01.460 the election was rigged.

00:52:03.480 That's pretty important

00:52:04.900 if you think

00:52:05.600 the January 6th

00:52:06.600 thing was an insurrection.

00:52:08.060 That's really important.

00:52:10.000 So,

00:52:10.420 so I wonder

00:52:11.500 if there's a breaking point.

00:52:14.760 And I think Bill Maher

00:52:15.740 has maybe some

00:52:16.660 personal feelings

00:52:17.540 about Trump

00:52:18.180 that go beyond politics.

00:52:19.980 but I feel like

00:52:21.100 there's got to be

00:52:21.740 a breaking point

00:52:22.660 where once you realize

00:52:24.520 that you have been

00:52:25.320 hoaxed by the same team

00:52:27.180 over and over again

00:52:28.780 and that it's not

00:52:30.220 coming from Republicans.

00:52:32.100 In other words,

00:52:33.120 is there a Republican hoax?

00:52:36.760 I mean,

00:52:37.040 I don't even know

00:52:37.520 if there are any.

00:52:39.100 So,

00:52:39.720 it makes me wonder

00:52:41.100 if,

00:52:41.600 if there are all these

00:52:42.520 cracks in the wall,

00:52:44.040 you know,

00:52:44.260 the brainwashing

00:52:45.200 wall of propaganda.

00:52:47.300 If there are enough

00:52:48.140 cracks,

00:52:48.660 could it just fall?

00:52:49.460 I feel like

00:52:51.760 the,

00:52:52.060 the Kennedy revelations

00:52:54.440 about what the Democrats

00:52:55.820 were doing

00:52:56.300 to deny him,

00:52:57.940 you know,

00:52:58.380 any shot,

00:52:59.580 I feel like

00:53:00.820 that woke

00:53:01.240 a bunch of people up.

00:53:03.700 And,

00:53:04.320 it seems to me

00:53:05.060 that everybody's

00:53:05.700 got a different,

00:53:06.860 you know,

00:53:07.180 a different breaking point

00:53:08.360 if they've seen

00:53:09.280 enough hoaxes

00:53:10.020 and realized

00:53:10.440 that they've been hoaxed.

00:53:12.220 We might be

00:53:13.080 getting close to it.

00:53:14.600 And,

00:53:15.160 I don't know

00:53:15.520 that you could see

00:53:16.240 yourself getting close to it.

00:53:18.300 But,

00:53:18.500 it feels like

00:53:19.920 reality,

00:53:22.620 reality is about

00:53:23.680 to dissolve.

00:53:26.120 It feels like,

00:53:28.340 especially what Kennedy did,

00:53:30.480 that the entire

00:53:32.440 fake understanding

00:53:34.600 of the world

00:53:35.320 we're in,

00:53:36.240 it might just

00:53:37.360 crumble all at once.

00:53:39.740 It looks still solid

00:53:41.480 at the moment,

00:53:42.240 but it would be

00:53:43.440 more like a window.

00:53:44.700 You know,

00:53:44.920 it's okay

00:53:45.460 until it's not.

00:53:47.020 If it crumbles,

00:53:48.080 it's just going to fall apart

00:53:49.160 at the same time,

00:53:49.940 which could be

00:53:50.580 destabilizing.

00:53:52.220 It's not necessarily

00:53:53.280 good in the first moment.

00:53:55.540 So,

00:53:56.140 I would look for

00:53:56.960 maybe a gigantic

00:53:58.220 mental,

00:53:59.540 almost mental illness

00:54:02.000 that comes down

00:54:02.820 of realizing

00:54:03.480 what has been done

00:54:04.540 to you.

00:54:05.440 Now,

00:54:05.740 most Democrats

00:54:06.440 will never know

00:54:07.320 that they're the

00:54:08.540 subjects of

00:54:09.420 massive brainwashing

00:54:10.460 operations.

00:54:11.740 And everybody is,

00:54:12.720 really,

00:54:12.960 not just Democrats.

00:54:14.720 But,

00:54:15.060 we're getting close.

00:54:17.660 And then,

00:54:18.160 now we find out

00:54:18.880 that there's

00:54:19.280 a new Russia hoax.

00:54:20.880 So,

00:54:21.200 H.R. McMaster

00:54:22.060 has some kind of

00:54:22.680 book out,

00:54:23.200 a memoir.

00:54:24.200 Wall Street Journal

00:54:24.940 is quoting

00:54:25.780 one of the sentences

00:54:27.580 from it

00:54:28.180 that they pulled out.

00:54:29.400 So,

00:54:29.660 this is the headline

00:54:30.360 sentence

00:54:31.040 in the story

00:54:32.200 about H.R. McMaster's

00:54:33.860 memoir.

00:54:34.640 Quote,

00:54:35.320 I cannot understand

00:54:36.400 Putin's hold on Trump.

00:54:37.900 Well,

00:54:38.220 there it is.

00:54:39.900 So,

00:54:40.180 McMaster's,

00:54:40.900 was the guy

00:54:41.640 that the people

00:54:42.380 who knew more

00:54:42.900 than I did

00:54:43.520 at the very beginning

00:54:44.780 of the Trump administration

00:54:45.760 said,

00:54:46.440 watch out for that guy.

00:54:48.340 That guy is,

00:54:49.460 that guy is broken.

00:54:51.120 You know,

00:54:51.300 he's not on Trump's team.

00:54:52.660 He just looks like he is.

00:54:54.460 And,

00:54:54.980 I don't know about that,

00:54:56.400 but I do know

00:54:57.400 that if he's pushing

00:54:58.240 another Russia collusion

00:54:59.740 hoax in his memoir,

00:55:01.220 he's not one of the good guys.

00:55:03.620 Because,

00:55:04.340 that's not cool.

00:55:08.620 Meanwhile,

00:55:09.180 Elon Musk warns us

00:55:10.240 that Chuck Schumer's plan,

00:55:12.180 which he said out loud,

00:55:13.300 apparently,

00:55:14.080 is that

00:55:14.940 if the Democrats

00:55:16.800 get control

00:55:17.580 of the House

00:55:18.280 and the Senate,

00:55:19.840 they will do away

00:55:20.720 with the filibuster,

00:55:22.540 at least for

00:55:23.360 non-financial stuff,

00:55:25.200 which would mean,

00:55:26.980 and specifically,

00:55:28.620 he wanted to

00:55:29.380 get a couple things

00:55:30.700 through,

00:55:31.120 what was it,

00:55:31.720 the passing

00:55:32.980 of the voting rights bill

00:55:34.240 and abortion

00:55:35.040 legislation.

00:55:36.320 legislation.

00:55:37.000 So,

00:55:37.180 I guess that would be

00:55:37.960 legislation to make it

00:55:39.260 legal everywhere.

00:55:42.180 Now,

00:55:42.820 as Elon Musk

00:55:44.380 points out,

00:55:45.940 that if they,

00:55:46.740 if they got control

00:55:47.960 of both houses,

00:55:48.960 and then they also

00:55:51.120 got rid of the filibuster,

00:55:52.880 that the Democrats

00:55:54.040 would have the power

00:55:55.620 to form a

00:55:56.300 one-party system

00:55:57.520 in the country forever.

00:55:58.740 because they could

00:55:59.980 just keep passing

00:56:00.780 laws

00:56:01.400 that favored Democrats

00:56:03.720 in every way

00:56:04.440 that they could think of

00:56:05.440 until it became

00:56:06.420 impossible for a

00:56:07.520 Republican to win

00:56:08.280 an election.

00:56:09.660 Right?

00:56:11.180 I mean,

00:56:11.920 you could,

00:56:12.240 you could easily

00:56:13.020 imagine

00:56:13.560 that there'd be

00:56:14.700 a whole host

00:56:15.420 of laws

00:56:16.080 that they could

00:56:16.780 pass

00:56:17.380 that just had

00:56:18.100 one purpose

00:56:18.780 to make sure

00:56:19.540 they stayed in power.

00:56:21.380 So,

00:56:22.040 yes,

00:56:22.760 that is a

00:56:23.660 gigantic risk.

00:56:25.900 So,

00:56:26.180 there was a

00:56:26.820 survey I saw

00:56:28.180 online,

00:56:28.800 a little graph

00:56:29.380 of America's

00:56:30.320 trust in mass media,

00:56:31.860 which is very

00:56:32.800 different by

00:56:33.500 parties.

00:56:34.700 So,

00:56:34.800 the Democrats,

00:56:35.520 73% of them

00:56:36.820 trust mass media.

00:56:38.680 Those poor

00:56:39.700 bastards,

00:56:42.100 73%

00:56:43.380 of Democrats

00:56:44.900 think the news

00:56:45.760 is real.

00:56:47.480 73%

00:56:48.660 think the news

00:56:49.980 is real.

00:56:51.520 The news

00:56:51.900 hasn't been real,

00:56:53.100 maybe ever,

00:56:54.260 but certainly

00:56:54.680 not real now.

00:56:56.680 Independence,

00:56:57.680 36%,

00:56:58.160 think they

00:56:59.600 can trust

00:57:00.020 the mass media,

00:57:00.780 Republicans,

00:57:01.540 10%.

00:57:02.420 What would

00:57:05.160 explain

00:57:05.720 that only

00:57:06.760 10% of

00:57:07.480 Republicans

00:57:07.940 trust the

00:57:08.620 media,

00:57:09.340 and 73%

00:57:11.000 of Democrats

00:57:11.680 do?

00:57:13.740 Well,

00:57:15.200 my hypothesis,

00:57:16.980 I've told you

00:57:17.460 before,

00:57:18.540 is that I

00:57:19.360 think

00:57:19.720 all conservatives

00:57:21.280 and Republicans

00:57:22.180 see both

00:57:23.640 sides,

00:57:24.760 because they're

00:57:25.500 going to see

00:57:25.820 the mainstream

00:57:26.420 message,

00:57:27.000 because you

00:57:27.440 can't miss

00:57:27.900 it,

00:57:28.160 it's just

00:57:28.560 everywhere,

00:57:29.440 and then

00:57:30.020 they're going

00:57:30.300 to go to

00:57:30.700 Fox News

00:57:31.420 and Breitbart

00:57:32.100 and they're

00:57:32.640 going to come

00:57:33.000 to my podcast

00:57:34.000 and then

00:57:34.700 they're going

00:57:34.960 to see the

00:57:35.360 other side.

00:57:36.740 If you see

00:57:37.580 both sides,

00:57:39.440 it's hard to

00:57:40.880 trust the

00:57:41.340 mass media.

00:57:42.540 Let's go back

00:57:43.160 to Bill Maher's

00:57:44.620 learning on

00:57:47.040 his own,

00:57:47.480 apparently.

00:57:48.160 He did his

00:57:48.580 own research

00:57:49.080 and found

00:57:49.460 out that the

00:57:49.980 Project 2025

00:57:51.500 thing was

00:57:52.380 a fake,

00:57:53.580 basically.

00:57:54.120 It wasn't a

00:57:55.560 Trump document

00:57:56.300 like he thought

00:57:56.880 it was.

00:57:57.640 Now,

00:57:58.060 if he had

00:57:59.100 been a

00:57:59.900 Republican,

00:58:01.000 would he have

00:58:01.320 known that

00:58:01.760 already?

00:58:02.820 Yes,

00:58:03.100 he would.

00:58:04.820 Pretty close

00:58:05.620 to all

00:58:06.280 Republicans know

00:58:07.360 that Trump

00:58:07.820 was not

00:58:08.240 involved with

00:58:08.800 the Project

00:58:09.280 2025 thing.

00:58:10.320 Why do

00:58:12.560 they know

00:58:12.840 that?

00:58:13.660 Well,

00:58:14.700 first they

00:58:15.300 watched the

00:58:16.080 mainstream media

00:58:17.300 say Trump

00:58:17.880 did it,

00:58:18.640 and then they

00:58:19.440 went to the

00:58:19.900 regular news

00:58:20.680 and turned

00:58:21.440 on Fox

00:58:21.980 News and

00:58:23.020 said,

00:58:23.360 no,

00:58:23.540 he didn't

00:58:23.800 do that.

00:58:24.400 Here's Trump

00:58:24.920 denying he

00:58:25.460 did it.

00:58:26.180 Here's the

00:58:26.520 people who

00:58:26.900 did it.

00:58:27.700 They have a

00:58:29.180 strong connection

00:58:29.900 in the

00:58:30.820 Republican Party

00:58:31.600 and Trump,

00:58:32.160 but it's

00:58:32.600 their own

00:58:32.940 work.

00:58:34.260 Now,

00:58:34.740 everybody who

00:58:35.740 saw the

00:58:36.260 news on

00:58:36.720 both sides

00:58:37.620 knew the

00:58:38.040 truth.

00:58:39.060 Everybody.

00:58:39.460 If you

00:58:40.440 saw both

00:58:40.920 sides,

00:58:41.420 you did

00:58:42.140 know for

00:58:42.620 sure that

00:58:43.620 it wasn't

00:58:44.020 Trump's.

00:58:45.980 So that's

00:58:46.700 probably the

00:58:47.120 whole story.

00:58:48.320 The whole

00:58:48.680 story is that

00:58:49.240 one side is

00:58:49.900 siloed so

00:58:51.360 that the

00:58:51.740 brainwashing is

00:58:52.760 super effective

00:58:53.600 and one side

00:58:55.040 is not

00:58:55.440 siloed.

00:58:56.440 What about

00:58:56.840 the 10% of

00:58:57.940 Republicans who

00:58:58.900 trust the

00:58:59.500 mass media?

00:59:01.440 I think

00:59:02.120 that's people

00:59:02.560 who checked

00:59:02.920 the wrong

00:59:03.280 box.

00:59:06.100 10% is

00:59:07.280 roughly the

00:59:07.780 number of

00:59:08.100 people who

00:59:08.440 thought they

00:59:08.780 were answering

00:59:09.140 the wrong

00:59:09.540 question.

00:59:11.500 Right?

00:59:12.520 If you took

00:59:13.380 10 people and

00:59:14.100 asked them

00:59:14.480 any simple

00:59:15.140 question,

00:59:16.760 just a

00:59:17.560 simple

00:59:17.880 question,

00:59:18.940 nine of

00:59:19.440 them might

00:59:19.780 say,

00:59:20.140 oh,

00:59:20.520 okay,

00:59:21.240 here's the

00:59:21.660 simple answer.

00:59:22.640 One of

00:59:23.060 them would

00:59:23.440 misunderstand

00:59:23.820 the question

00:59:24.720 and answer

00:59:25.760 opposite of

00:59:26.600 their own

00:59:27.060 opinion.

00:59:28.160 Because that's

00:59:28.940 people.

00:59:29.900 10% of

00:59:30.580 people are

00:59:30.940 fucking

00:59:31.240 idiots about

00:59:32.620 everything.

00:59:33.800 So when I

00:59:34.160 see 10% of

00:59:35.140 Republicans trust

00:59:36.200 the media,

00:59:37.000 I don't

00:59:37.900 think they

00:59:38.240 do.

00:59:39.300 I don't

00:59:39.700 think there

00:59:40.120 are 10%

00:59:40.680 of Republicans

00:59:41.380 who trust

00:59:41.880 the media.

00:59:43.120 I think there

00:59:43.600 might be 10%

00:59:44.320 who answered

00:59:44.740 the question

00:59:45.240 wrong because

00:59:45.660 they misheard

00:59:46.420 it.

00:59:47.540 They had a

00:59:48.180 hearing problem

00:59:48.800 maybe.

00:59:49.840 Something like

00:59:50.280 that.

00:59:53.020 Anyway,

00:59:53.640 I would say

00:59:54.240 that there's

00:59:54.840 another reason

00:59:55.640 or root cause

00:59:56.980 and I'm just

00:59:57.500 going to put

00:59:57.880 that out there.

00:59:58.520 Why would

00:59:59.580 it be that

01:00:01.920 so many

01:00:03.660 Democrats

01:00:04.880 would not

01:00:05.480 even be

01:00:05.940 willing to

01:00:06.440 sample Fox

01:00:07.400 News just

01:00:08.380 as an

01:00:08.960 example of

01:00:09.540 an alternative?

01:00:11.360 Here's my

01:00:11.980 hypothesis.

01:00:13.100 I think it

01:00:13.740 has to do

01:00:14.200 with the

01:00:14.600 personalities

01:00:15.240 on Fox

01:00:15.920 News.

01:00:17.100 Now, I'm

01:00:17.800 not talking

01:00:18.160 about all

01:00:18.540 of them,

01:00:18.920 so I'm

01:00:19.160 going to

01:00:19.260 make a

01:00:19.560 distinction.

01:00:20.520 If you

01:00:21.060 watch the

01:00:21.520 five,

01:00:22.740 and probably

01:00:23.200 also

01:00:23.540 Gottfeld,

01:00:24.360 I think

01:00:25.820 that they

01:00:26.080 have a

01:00:26.340 pretty good

01:00:26.860 Democrat

01:00:27.420 viewership.

01:00:29.280 The reason?

01:00:30.540 Because all

01:00:31.120 the characters

01:00:31.660 are fun.

01:00:33.600 The, you

01:00:34.180 know,

01:00:34.600 Gottfeld

01:00:35.040 and his

01:00:35.540 little crew

01:00:36.260 and the

01:00:36.660 crew of

01:00:36.980 the five,

01:00:38.080 they're just

01:00:38.580 fun people.

01:00:40.220 So you

01:00:41.060 wouldn't mind

01:00:41.480 watching it

01:00:41.980 because it's

01:00:42.300 a fun show

01:00:42.980 and it's

01:00:43.220 well-produced.

01:00:44.540 People will

01:00:45.300 watch fun

01:00:46.040 shows with

01:00:46.680 interesting

01:00:47.100 people that's

01:00:47.940 well-produced

01:00:48.580 when they

01:00:48.880 don't disagree

01:00:49.460 with them,

01:00:50.260 even when

01:00:50.740 they disagree

01:00:51.220 with them.

01:00:52.060 Want to

01:00:52.440 hear an

01:00:53.060 example?

01:00:54.200 Okay.

01:00:54.860 Me watching

01:00:55.560 Bill Maher's

01:00:56.180 show.

01:00:57.500 Right?

01:00:58.520 Perfect

01:00:58.940 example.

01:00:59.900 Why do

01:01:00.240 I watch

01:01:00.640 his show?

01:01:01.300 Because he's

01:01:02.000 an interesting

01:01:02.480 character who

01:01:03.240 has interesting

01:01:03.860 characters on

01:01:04.640 and it's

01:01:05.360 a well-produced

01:01:06.080 show.

01:01:07.160 That's all

01:01:07.880 it took.

01:01:09.140 But imagine

01:01:09.760 you're a

01:01:10.720 strong Democrat

01:01:13.740 and you're

01:01:14.300 flipping through

01:01:14.780 the channels

01:01:15.320 and Hannity

01:01:16.380 comes on.

01:01:17.880 Now,

01:01:18.060 I think

01:01:18.260 Hannity is

01:01:19.260 really talented.

01:01:20.700 He's got

01:01:21.240 amazing talent

01:01:22.780 stack.

01:01:23.220 He's got

01:01:24.040 talent across

01:01:24.800 a number

01:01:25.480 of different

01:01:25.980 domains that

01:01:26.840 is the reason

01:01:28.660 he gets paid

01:01:29.160 so much.

01:01:30.240 But if he's

01:01:30.860 your exposure

01:01:31.460 to Fox

01:01:32.000 News,

01:01:33.720 he's a bit

01:01:34.820 of an

01:01:35.560 off-putting

01:01:36.200 character if

01:01:37.160 he's saying

01:01:37.700 things you

01:01:38.780 don't agree

01:01:39.280 with and

01:01:40.460 also with

01:01:41.020 arrogance.

01:01:42.300 Now,

01:01:42.520 arrogance would

01:01:43.440 be maybe what

01:01:44.200 they would

01:01:44.540 see.

01:01:44.900 It's not

01:01:45.160 necessarily

01:01:45.560 what I see

01:01:46.100 when I

01:01:46.380 watch it.

01:01:47.060 When I

01:01:47.440 watch it,

01:01:48.000 I see him

01:01:48.440 putting on

01:01:48.800 a show.

01:01:50.480 So, I

01:01:50.860 mean, a show

01:01:51.320 is a show.

01:01:51.800 I don't see

01:01:52.540 arrogance when

01:01:53.220 I see a show.

01:01:53.840 I see a show.

01:01:54.820 Same with

01:01:55.400 Trump.

01:01:56.180 So, it

01:01:56.780 doesn't hit me

01:01:57.320 that way.

01:01:58.320 So, I

01:01:58.960 could watch

01:01:59.400 him and

01:01:59.620 say, oh,

01:01:59.900 this is

01:02:00.240 interesting.

01:02:01.060 Different spin.

01:02:02.120 But I

01:02:02.560 can definitely

01:02:03.420 understand why

01:02:05.220 if you're

01:02:05.540 flipping through

01:02:06.060 the channels

01:02:06.560 and you run

01:02:07.080 on, you

01:02:07.580 know,

01:02:07.720 Gottfeld of

01:02:08.280 the Five,

01:02:09.320 you say, oh,

01:02:09.780 these are fun

01:02:10.280 people, well

01:02:10.960 produced, funny

01:02:11.940 stuff.

01:02:12.460 I'll watch

01:02:12.820 this.

01:02:14.860 That could

01:02:15.400 be it.

01:02:16.240 I mean, it

01:02:16.520 could come

01:02:17.140 down to a

01:02:17.620 few personalities

01:02:18.440 or the

01:02:20.040 channel turners

01:02:21.260 for the

01:02:21.640 Democrats.

01:02:24.180 Anyway, and

01:02:25.180 I'm not

01:02:25.480 making any

01:02:26.000 suggestion that

01:02:26.700 Fox News make

01:02:27.480 any changes.

01:02:28.280 I'm no expert

01:02:28.920 on TV

01:02:29.440 programming.

01:02:30.740 You know,

01:02:31.100 Hannity has a

01:02:31.860 huge audience.

01:02:33.480 I wouldn't

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01:03:38.200 Anyway, I saw

01:03:39.080 there was some

01:03:39.800 little disagreement

01:03:41.000 between RFK Jr.

01:03:42.460 and Olbermann.

01:03:45.120 And the funny

01:03:46.380 thing is I'm

01:03:47.000 blocked by

01:03:47.760 Olbermann.

01:03:48.600 So I couldn't

01:03:49.660 see what Olbermann

01:03:50.540 said first.

01:03:51.980 But the only

01:03:52.720 thing I saw,

01:03:53.460 and it's even

01:03:53.900 funnier that I

01:03:54.680 don't know what

01:03:55.060 it's a response

01:03:56.240 to, but Kennedy

01:03:58.240 posted back on

01:03:59.700 X to Olbermann,

01:04:01.140 again, not

01:04:01.860 knowing what, I

01:04:02.680 don't know what

01:04:03.060 Olbermann said

01:04:03.680 because I'm

01:04:04.040 blocked, but

01:04:05.040 Kennedy said,

01:04:06.000 quote, you

01:04:07.080 were never

01:04:07.460 my friend.

01:04:10.140 Now, I so

01:04:11.120 want to know

01:04:11.620 what Olbermann

01:04:12.260 said, that

01:04:13.680 RFK Jr., the

01:04:15.440 most polite

01:04:16.260 guy in all

01:04:17.980 of politics at

01:04:18.840 the moment,

01:04:20.200 you know, with

01:04:20.560 the exception of

01:04:21.260 his running

01:04:22.100 mate who's

01:04:22.580 super polite,

01:04:23.920 that he would

01:04:25.760 say that to

01:04:26.400 Olbermann in

01:04:27.060 public, you

01:04:27.580 were never my

01:04:28.200 friend.

01:04:28.540 did Olbermann

01:04:29.880 say he used

01:04:30.560 to be friends

01:04:31.100 with him?

01:04:32.700 You were

01:04:33.320 never my

01:04:33.840 friend.

01:04:34.900 That's a

01:04:35.500 really harsh

01:04:36.080 thing to say,

01:04:36.860 isn't it?

01:04:37.580 If you're

01:04:38.200 running for

01:04:38.620 president, and

01:04:39.760 you're really

01:04:41.000 the nicest, most

01:04:41.900 honest guy, and

01:04:43.120 you just go

01:04:43.600 after this one

01:04:44.200 asshole, you

01:04:45.180 were never my

01:04:45.740 friend.

01:04:47.040 I just love

01:04:47.940 that slap

01:04:48.480 down.

01:04:50.080 Anyway, if you

01:04:55.360 wondered how

01:04:55.860 powerful propaganda

01:04:57.020 is, there's

01:04:59.580 never been a

01:05:00.360 better example

01:05:00.960 than taking

01:05:01.880 Kamala Harris

01:05:02.900 from the least

01:05:04.880 favorable

01:05:05.520 politician, even

01:05:07.060 for Democrats,

01:05:08.300 and making

01:05:09.380 her the

01:05:10.000 superstar in

01:05:11.160 just two

01:05:11.740 weeks, or

01:05:12.360 whatever it

01:05:12.820 was.

01:05:13.860 Now, you've

01:05:14.460 seen the

01:05:14.880 charts where

01:05:15.680 her unfavorability

01:05:16.820 was high, and

01:05:17.560 her favorability

01:05:18.280 was low, and

01:05:19.260 then suddenly

01:05:19.760 it went

01:05:20.080 zoop, and

01:05:21.540 they closed

01:05:22.720 like in two

01:05:23.420 weeks.

01:05:23.740 Now, some

01:05:25.500 of it is

01:05:26.200 just people

01:05:26.780 who are

01:05:27.940 anti-Trump, and

01:05:29.180 they finally got

01:05:29.800 somebody who

01:05:30.360 could survive

01:05:31.000 the election.

01:05:32.180 So Biden was

01:05:33.180 a special case.

01:05:34.320 He wasn't a

01:05:34.820 Democrat.

01:05:35.580 He was a

01:05:36.100 dying guy.

01:05:37.520 So you can

01:05:38.220 see how

01:05:38.740 whoever it

01:05:40.140 was would

01:05:41.000 get people

01:05:41.480 excited, but

01:05:42.800 did that really

01:05:43.580 change their

01:05:44.240 impression of

01:05:44.940 her as a

01:05:45.400 person?

01:05:46.380 It went

01:05:46.740 from unfavorable

01:05:48.300 to favorable?

01:05:50.880 Oh, here's

01:05:51.720 somebody's posting.

01:05:53.140 Thank you.

01:05:53.740 Keith

01:05:54.300 Oberman said

01:05:55.100 to my old

01:05:55.780 friend, Robert

01:05:56.520 Kennedy Jr., you're

01:05:58.040 an effing

01:05:58.460 anti-American

01:05:59.280 disaster.

01:06:01.060 To my old

01:06:02.000 friend.

01:06:02.860 And then

01:06:03.100 Kennedy says,

01:06:04.040 you're never

01:06:04.440 my friend.

01:06:08.940 Okay.

01:06:10.120 That's sort

01:06:10.940 of what I

01:06:11.380 assumed he

01:06:12.120 was responding

01:06:12.780 to, but

01:06:14.000 that is,

01:06:17.120 I don't

01:06:17.740 know, it's

01:06:17.980 just kind of

01:06:18.440 perfect.

01:06:19.520 Just too

01:06:19.940 perfect.

01:06:20.260 Anyway, that's

01:06:23.120 a lot of

01:06:23.400 propaganda.

01:06:24.140 The only

01:06:24.500 thing I was

01:06:24.860 going to

01:06:25.060 add is when

01:06:25.580 you look at

01:06:26.060 the extent

01:06:26.860 of the

01:06:27.340 movement, it

01:06:28.500 looks like

01:06:29.060 20% of

01:06:30.300 people changed

01:06:31.080 instantly.

01:06:32.780 And as a

01:06:33.380 hypnotist, I've

01:06:34.180 often told you

01:06:34.740 this, 20% of

01:06:36.160 the public can

01:06:36.800 be hypnotized

01:06:37.680 very quickly

01:06:38.780 to believe

01:06:39.940 anything.

01:06:41.200 And it's

01:06:41.800 very consistent.

01:06:42.700 It's around

01:06:43.260 20%.

01:06:44.140 So if

01:06:45.240 you're

01:06:45.520 introducing a

01:06:47.080 new candidate

01:06:47.780 or whatever,

01:06:48.540 80% of the

01:06:49.300 people are

01:06:49.720 going to be

01:06:50.080 doing whatever

01:06:50.660 they were

01:06:50.960 going to do.

01:06:51.860 80% were

01:06:53.020 going to vote

01:06:53.720 the way they

01:06:54.520 were going to

01:06:54.840 vote, and

01:06:55.340 you could

01:06:55.800 change out

01:06:56.320 the candidate

01:06:56.880 and it

01:06:57.200 wouldn't make

01:06:57.520 any difference.

01:06:58.960 But 20%

01:06:59.980 can absolutely

01:07:02.000 be changed

01:07:02.720 from yes to

01:07:03.580 no, from

01:07:04.320 up to down,

01:07:05.740 almost instantly

01:07:06.780 with propaganda

01:07:08.580 and brainwashing.

01:07:09.920 And when you

01:07:10.240 look at the

01:07:10.740 number of

01:07:11.120 people who

01:07:11.620 went from

01:07:12.860 Conal Harris

01:07:13.920 unfavorable

01:07:14.740 to zoop

01:07:15.460 and close

01:07:16.400 the gap,

01:07:17.380 it looked

01:07:17.860 like it was

01:07:18.380 about that

01:07:18.840 20% of

01:07:19.620 the Democrats.

01:07:21.520 So it

01:07:22.560 very much

01:07:23.120 looked like

01:07:23.800 the hypnosis

01:07:25.040 worked as

01:07:25.780 hypnosis

01:07:26.200 does on

01:07:26.920 20% right

01:07:27.980 away, but

01:07:29.140 didn't make

01:07:29.580 much of any

01:07:30.140 difference to

01:07:30.720 the 80%,

01:07:31.460 which is

01:07:31.960 exactly what

01:07:33.520 a hypnotist

01:07:34.200 expects.

01:07:36.800 California,

01:07:37.660 of course,

01:07:38.020 is a

01:07:38.540 useless

01:07:39.560 hellhole,

01:07:40.420 and you

01:07:41.020 should never

01:07:41.440 open a

01:07:41.980 business or

01:07:42.840 buy a

01:07:43.540 house here.

01:07:44.500 And believe

01:07:44.860 me, I

01:07:45.340 am serious

01:07:45.840 about that

01:07:46.580 because you

01:07:47.880 can't get

01:07:48.260 insurance for

01:07:48.940 either one,

01:07:49.900 and the

01:07:50.380 laws are

01:07:52.460 just too

01:07:52.800 dangerous.

01:07:53.520 I mean, it's

01:07:53.840 just not a

01:07:54.280 place you'd

01:07:54.680 want to open

01:07:55.100 a business

01:07:55.600 or buy a

01:07:56.500 home at

01:07:56.980 the moment.

01:07:58.780 Getting

01:07:59.300 insurance here

01:08:00.060 is nearly

01:08:00.460 impossible.

01:08:01.720 If you

01:08:02.100 did, it's

01:08:02.640 priced beyond

01:08:04.180 any reasonable

01:08:04.880 market rate.

01:08:08.080 But the

01:08:08.580 California

01:08:09.060 insurance people

01:08:09.820 say they're

01:08:10.380 going to

01:08:11.120 maybe do

01:08:11.840 some major

01:08:12.580 California

01:08:13.220 insurance

01:08:13.740 reforms to

01:08:15.340 attract

01:08:16.080 insurers.

01:08:18.280 Now, do

01:08:19.140 you think

01:08:19.460 that the

01:08:19.880 California

01:08:20.500 insurance

01:08:21.260 people,

01:08:23.320 whoever is

01:08:24.080 working on

01:08:24.560 that, do

01:08:25.080 you think

01:08:25.400 that they

01:08:25.720 have good

01:08:26.200 ideas that

01:08:27.520 will turn

01:08:28.020 around this

01:08:28.580 situation so

01:08:29.380 that people

01:08:29.720 like me can

01:08:30.360 get affordable

01:08:31.320 insurance?

01:08:31.720 Well, maybe

01:08:36.200 before DEI

01:08:37.700 caused a

01:08:38.400 massive

01:08:38.960 incompetence

01:08:39.780 crisis, I

01:08:40.460 would have

01:08:40.660 said there's

01:08:41.040 a good chance

01:08:41.580 this could

01:08:41.960 happen.

01:08:42.800 I'm glad

01:08:43.260 the people

01:08:43.660 are working

01:08:44.140 on fixing

01:08:44.720 it because

01:08:45.300 they all

01:08:45.600 recognize it's

01:08:46.280 broken.

01:08:47.080 My current

01:08:47.780 view is that

01:08:48.480 California is

01:08:49.200 probably a

01:08:49.880 DEI garbage

01:08:50.980 bet.

01:08:51.460 Again, has

01:08:52.300 nothing to do

01:08:52.900 with any

01:08:53.280 individuals or

01:08:54.240 their genes

01:08:54.920 or their

01:08:55.260 chromosomes.

01:08:56.200 It has

01:08:56.660 nothing to do

01:08:57.220 with your

01:08:57.500 culture, your

01:08:58.160 color, or

01:08:58.740 your gender.

01:08:59.860 Nothing to do

01:09:00.680 with that.

01:09:01.960 DEI is a

01:09:03.420 fucking state

01:09:04.280 killer.

01:09:05.120 It's a country

01:09:05.960 killer if you

01:09:06.700 let it, but

01:09:07.360 it's definitely

01:09:07.880 a state

01:09:08.420 killer.

01:09:09.320 And it's

01:09:09.580 because the

01:09:11.040 pool of

01:09:11.460 applicants is

01:09:12.880 too small at

01:09:14.180 the moment and

01:09:15.180 might be because

01:09:16.120 of systemic

01:09:16.720 racism, but

01:09:18.000 it's too

01:09:18.320 small.

01:09:19.240 And if you

01:09:19.980 hire them

01:09:20.420 anyway, which

01:09:21.260 you know is

01:09:21.760 how it works

01:09:22.240 in the real

01:09:22.660 world, you

01:09:23.640 can have

01:09:24.000 massive

01:09:24.600 incompetence.

01:09:26.260 So what

01:09:26.960 are the odds

01:09:27.480 that our

01:09:27.940 California

01:09:28.940 insurance experts

01:09:30.440 are a bunch

01:09:31.600 of people

01:09:32.780 who are

01:09:33.220 hired for

01:09:33.760 their

01:09:33.980 capabilities

01:09:34.680 and their

01:09:35.180 qualifications

01:09:35.880 and their

01:09:36.500 merit?

01:09:37.560 Almost none.

01:09:39.500 Almost none.

01:09:40.660 So without

01:09:41.120 knowing anything

01:09:41.960 about who's

01:09:42.660 involved, your

01:09:44.940 highest likelihood,

01:09:46.280 well into the

01:09:47.380 80% range, is

01:09:49.960 that it's full of

01:09:50.560 unqualified people.

01:09:52.140 Not because of

01:09:53.160 their race, not

01:09:54.580 because of their

01:09:55.080 gender, not

01:09:56.400 because of their

01:09:56.860 sexual preference,

01:09:57.700 just because the

01:09:58.780 system guarantees

01:10:00.480 it if you

01:10:02.280 don't have

01:10:02.580 enough diversity

01:10:03.340 and you want

01:10:04.020 it.

01:10:06.440 Well, the

01:10:07.240 Navy is saying

01:10:08.020 that they've

01:10:08.480 sidelined 17

01:10:10.460 ships because

01:10:11.460 they can't get

01:10:12.020 enough people.

01:10:14.620 They just

01:10:15.360 don't have

01:10:15.820 enough volunteers

01:10:17.100 for the

01:10:17.840 military, for

01:10:19.100 the Navy, to

01:10:20.100 run their

01:10:20.960 mostly merchant

01:10:22.000 vehicles, so

01:10:23.000 they would be

01:10:23.340 the ones,

01:10:24.120 merchant marines

01:10:24.800 are the ones

01:10:25.180 that supply all

01:10:26.220 the other

01:10:26.560 ships.

01:10:26.820 They don't

01:10:29.600 have enough

01:10:29.960 people, so

01:10:31.960 they just

01:10:32.600 can't run as

01:10:33.560 much supplies

01:10:34.300 as they'd

01:10:34.720 like.

01:10:35.140 They ran

01:10:35.500 into people.

01:10:36.820 Now, yesterday

01:10:37.660 I told you

01:10:38.260 that the Navy

01:10:38.900 ran into

01:10:39.460 pants, which

01:10:42.520 is the funniest

01:10:43.060 story.

01:10:43.780 I didn't even

01:10:44.260 want to know

01:10:44.600 the details of

01:10:45.520 why.

01:10:46.400 I just love

01:10:46.960 the fact that

01:10:47.440 our Navy ran

01:10:48.060 into pants.

01:10:50.840 To me, that's

01:10:51.700 just hilarious.

01:10:53.200 Well, we're

01:10:54.560 going to still

01:10:55.100 send them to

01:10:55.740 fight.

01:10:56.820 But they're

01:10:58.840 going to be

01:10:59.160 pantless.

01:11:00.380 Now, do you

01:11:01.140 know who used

01:11:01.680 to fight without

01:11:02.260 pants?

01:11:03.680 The Vikings.

01:11:05.260 Yeah.

01:11:06.220 I know this

01:11:07.080 is true because

01:11:07.900 it sounded

01:11:08.720 funny when I

01:11:09.460 read it, and

01:11:10.640 that's how I

01:11:11.200 judge history.

01:11:12.660 Is that

01:11:13.080 history funny?

01:11:14.520 Yes, it is.

01:11:15.200 Well, therefore,

01:11:15.780 I believe it.

01:11:17.160 Now, I don't

01:11:17.680 know if any

01:11:18.100 real historians

01:11:18.880 say this, but

01:11:20.160 I'm pretty sure

01:11:20.860 I read somewhere

01:11:21.580 that the Vikings

01:11:22.580 would get so

01:11:23.740 aroused by

01:11:24.900 battle that

01:11:26.460 they would

01:11:26.960 run naked

01:11:28.280 and fully

01:11:29.360 erect into

01:11:30.920 their battles.

01:11:32.700 Now, I

01:11:33.500 would not

01:11:33.880 want to be

01:11:34.380 fully erect

01:11:35.080 running into

01:11:35.640 a sword

01:11:36.080 battle.

01:11:38.680 I mean,

01:11:39.780 say no

01:11:40.460 more.

01:11:41.540 But,

01:11:41.860 reportedly,

01:11:43.340 that happened.

01:11:43.800 So I think

01:11:44.120 maybe we have

01:11:44.820 that possibility

01:11:45.700 with our Navy.

01:11:47.180 We'll just

01:11:47.820 send them out

01:11:48.380 pantless and

01:11:49.860 aroused and

01:11:50.540 see what

01:11:50.900 happens.

01:11:52.240 I don't see

01:11:52.940 how that

01:11:53.240 could go

01:11:53.560 wrong.

01:11:55.180 But, why

01:11:55.800 do you think

01:11:56.160 there's such

01:11:56.580 a shortage

01:11:57.080 in the Navy?

01:11:58.560 Well, huh,

01:11:59.880 why would

01:12:00.380 there be a

01:12:00.800 shortage in

01:12:01.380 the Navy?

01:12:02.920 What could

01:12:03.560 cause that?

01:12:04.520 Could it

01:12:04.920 be because

01:12:05.780 if you're

01:12:06.240 white,

01:12:06.900 joining the

01:12:07.500 military is

01:12:08.760 the dumbest

01:12:09.200 fucking thing

01:12:09.800 you could

01:12:10.100 ever do?

01:12:11.180 That's right.

01:12:11.880 If you're

01:12:12.260 white and

01:12:13.120 you join the

01:12:13.640 military and

01:12:14.460 the military

01:12:14.920 is all about

01:12:15.740 the DEI,

01:12:17.120 you're stupid.

01:12:19.180 All right?

01:12:19.480 I mean, I'd

01:12:20.000 hate to think

01:12:20.480 that that's your

01:12:20.960 best option.

01:12:22.060 I mean, let

01:12:23.160 me revise

01:12:23.680 that.

01:12:24.700 If it's your

01:12:25.380 best option,

01:12:26.140 it's your

01:12:26.440 best option.

01:12:27.240 And that

01:12:27.540 would be

01:12:27.820 true for a

01:12:28.280 lot of

01:12:28.480 people.

01:12:29.100 But if

01:12:29.640 you don't

01:12:30.280 have to

01:12:30.740 go in

01:12:31.020 the military

01:12:31.520 and you're

01:12:32.480 white and

01:12:33.000 you're male,

01:12:34.500 why would

01:12:35.240 you put

01:12:35.540 yourself in

01:12:36.060 the very

01:12:36.460 worst place

01:12:37.340 for you to

01:12:37.820 succeed?

01:12:39.080 You are the

01:12:39.800 one that

01:12:40.140 they're going

01:12:40.400 to hold

01:12:40.640 back.

01:12:41.880 They're going

01:12:42.420 to directly

01:12:42.920 discriminate

01:12:43.460 against you.

01:12:44.100 You'd be

01:12:44.420 crazy to

01:12:44.940 join the

01:12:45.260 military.

01:12:45.840 Or any

01:12:46.460 big company

01:12:47.300 that has

01:12:47.700 DEI.

01:12:48.420 or DEI

01:12:51.020 by any

01:12:51.440 other name,

01:12:52.020 Activision.

01:12:52.740 You know

01:12:52.940 who I'm

01:12:53.180 talking to.

01:12:54.540 And that,

01:12:55.280 ladies and

01:12:55.560 gentlemen,

01:12:56.000 brings us

01:12:56.420 to the

01:12:56.800 conclusion of

01:12:57.440 my prepared

01:12:58.080 remarks.

01:12:59.100 And that

01:12:59.740 means I'm

01:13:00.300 going to go

01:13:00.640 talk privately

01:13:01.480 to the

01:13:02.080 wonderful people

01:13:03.960 in my

01:13:05.660 subscription

01:13:06.300 locals

01:13:07.300 group.

01:13:09.180 Which,

01:13:09.720 by the way,

01:13:10.300 we have the

01:13:11.360 most fun

01:13:11.820 time in our

01:13:12.340 man caves

01:13:13.000 hanging out.

01:13:15.760 A lot of

01:13:16.960 us don't

01:13:17.280 have a lot

01:13:17.800 of human

01:13:18.100 contact.

01:13:19.220 So it's

01:13:19.720 fun to

01:13:20.020 hang out

01:13:20.320 with each

01:13:20.640 other in

01:13:21.620 the evening.

01:13:22.660 So if

01:13:23.160 you'd like

01:13:23.520 to be part

01:13:23.940 of that,

01:13:24.260 if you're

01:13:24.600 feeling lonely,

01:13:26.240 I can help

01:13:26.980 solve that a

01:13:27.520 little bit.

01:13:28.740 And thanks

01:13:29.680 for joining

01:13:30.120 on X

01:13:30.800 and YouTube

01:13:31.520 and Rumble.

01:13:33.540 I've got

01:13:34.140 some news

01:13:34.580 coming up

01:13:35.060 about the

01:13:35.520 Dilbert calendar

01:13:36.240 for 2025.

01:13:37.500 It's not

01:13:37.880 ready yet,

01:13:39.120 but we're

01:13:39.840 really close.

01:13:40.960 And it's

01:13:41.160 going to be

01:13:41.440 fun when I

01:13:41.900 tell you

01:13:42.160 about it.

01:13:42.700 Wait for

01:13:43.000 that.

01:13:44.620 All right.

01:13:45.660 Coming to

01:13:46.160 locals only

01:13:47.040 privately in

01:13:47.900 30 seconds.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - August 25, 2024

Episode 2577 CWSA 08⧸25⧸24

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