Episode 2580 CWSA 08⧸28⧸24
Episode Stats
Length
1 hour and 18 minutes
Words per Minute
144.40465
Summary
Elon Musk has a new chip that could revolutionize the way we communicate with each other and the world, and it s being developed in the lab. Meanwhile, record crops are being grown all over the world and there s a growing concern that climate change is a big deal.
Transcript
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I can feel every organ in my body, body, everything in my body.
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Well, the X platform is testing a new video conferencing tool, says TechCrunch.
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So when Musk says that X is going to do everything, he's pretty serious about that,
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which is fascinating because X could end up being his most valuable property.
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It's a long game, but imagine if you could go to X, you could do your payments.
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You can call them, you know, without using the phone company.
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You've got encryption, although we don't trust encryption.
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One of them is that he's a sort of a late follower for these, but he's highly qualified.
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You know, assuming his engineers are well qualified.
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So that if you come in late to any of these businesses, you can look at all the things
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So he doesn't have to be, you know, better at Zoom.
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He just has to also offer it because it's, you know, once you're in X, you're just going
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So his strategy for basically owning all of those businesses simply because people were
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Anyway, there's a competitor to the Neuralink chip.
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You know, the one that gets inserted in your skull and they put little wires into your brain.
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Well, according to New Atlas, there's a different version that's more, the smaller and more minimally
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But this one doesn't have wires into your brain.
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Instead, it learns what patterns of electrical signals your brain gives off under different
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So it's just reading your electrical signals in your brain without any wires.
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Now, I've seen this technology before, maybe years ago.
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I actually tested one where you put a little strap on your head and it could sort of read
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your brain, but it didn't work at all back then.
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And but imagine if you could, it says 91% accuracy in determining the text you're trying to write
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So probably you're going to need the Neuralink model to really do the good stuff.
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But you might have this minimally invasive thing that doesn't have to be drilled so far
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Well, according to climate realism, Bloomberg is reporting that there are record crops coming
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Or to put it a different way, some of it is because of higher CO2, which is good for plants.
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So one of the lesser recognized aspects of climate change is it's really good for farming
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So the more CO2 you can pump into the air, the less you'll pay at the grocery store.
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I mean, in theory, I don't know if that actually is going to be the case, but in theory.
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And the good news is farming looks pretty strong around the world.
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Well, the Biden-Harris administration, according to the Washington Free Beacon, when children
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are taught about climate change, they're taught that on NASA's environmental page for children,
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lots of fun and games and films and stuff, but it warns them that the world is undergoing
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cataclysmic warming, sea levels are rising, global ice coverage is diminishing, and their
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Now, I don't think that's true, but imagine you're a young person and you go through a
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school system that tells you that the climate is doomed and nobody's really working to fix
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Now, people are working to fix it all over the place.
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And then, let's say you graduate from that system, and then you find yourself a girlfriend.
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Are the two of you going to be thinking about having children and bringing them into this
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world that's already been destroyed and we're just waiting for the doom in the end?
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I don't know why you would have children if you believed that climate change was going
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The What's Up With That webpage or entity, I think Watt is the name of the person, W-A-T-T.
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Apparently, there's reportedly sea levels are plunging in temperatures in an unexpected way.
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Now, it's unexpected because the temperature is supposed to be going up, and it's embarrassingly
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unexpected because for the years prior to that, the headlines were claiming
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the sea was boiling, that the ocean was warming up so much and so quickly that it could only
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And then, with additional CO2 in the air, the ocean started, allegedly, cooling down for
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And there's no way to explain it, because the current models say, hmm, that can't really happen.
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Now, I get that any given year can be a fluctuation.
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But if it's true that they said, hmm, a few years of warming means climate change,
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Well, either they both mean nothing, or they both mean something, and you can't explain it.
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Remember I told you that all data about important things is fake?
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Anyway, my takeaway from this is it's difficult to have a conversation with anyone who believes
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If you believe any of these two things, I don't think I could have a real conversation
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If you believe that the news business is even trying to be real, like even in their own minds,
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trying to be real, if you believe that, I can't really have a conversation with you.
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If we could get on the same page where, you know, inexplicably somebody could convince
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me the news is real, or inexplicably I could convince them it's not, well, then we could
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Likewise, if I meet somebody who believes that scientists can accurately measure the temperature
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of the earth and all of the ocean, as well as the air, and then predict it into the future,
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I can't really have a conversation with that person.
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Because they don't know how anything works in the real world.
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In the real world, it's obviously true you can't do this.
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It's really, really super obvious to people who have enough experience operating in the
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real world and know that all corporate and government stuff is bullshit.
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So, no, you can't measure it accurately enough.
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Now, if you tell me, but Scott, you don't understand how good our technology is.
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I'm talking about it being implemented by human beings and being really complicated and lots
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of moving parts and too many variables and assumptions.
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No, humans can't measure the temperature of the earth.
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I don't know if we ever will be able to, but we definitely can't do it now.
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And if you've bought into the notion that humans have that capability, again, I'm separating
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from the kind of thermometer telling you the temperature.
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But they're really different than being able to accurately measure the temperature of the
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So, no, I can't have any conversation with anybody who believes that that's a possible
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Popular Mechanics says that there's so much energy in the ocean that it's like the world's
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So, if you could put a generator in the ocean that's got a lot of movement, especially up
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and down, the up and down can move some floaty thing up and down that will cause a generator
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I'm not sure I completely buy into the ocean being a viable source because the ocean is so
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It feels like it would just rip apart any mechanical thing too quickly.
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You know, windmill is great if you had, you know, some perfect level of wind all the time.
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But if it's like sometimes really heavy and sometimes not, you know, that's a lot of pressure
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But it turns out that off the coast of Oregon, there's a big test to see if they can really
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generate some meaningful electricity in a practical way.
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Suppose they figure out a way that they can just use the oceans up and down to make like
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The interesting part is that's probably all you need to make sea cities, right?
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And now, arguably, you could use batteries and you could use solar and you could have
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electricity that way in your little city that you've built on the ocean.
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But I would much rather have some kind of pumps that work with the ocean itself in case
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So, this might open up the entire ocean to, you know, some serious populating.
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Did you know that the U.S. grid is adding just tons of batteries and solar and stuff like
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You don't need the details, but wind, solar, and batteries are being just installed at a
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So, just in case you weren't paying attention, all of the green energy stuff is really coming
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You know, I think green is one of those things that would be nothing for 80 years until it's
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So, we might be, you know, entering the beginning of the everything phase.
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How many years have solar panels been invented?
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Because I remember when I was maybe 12 years old, I bought a little science kit that had
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Maybe 80 years after solar panels are invented, they might take off.
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And that wouldn't even be that surprising, 80 years after the invention of the solar panel.
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Remember that press that some people think is real?
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So, here's what Politico said in the headline on X platform, talking about their own article.
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They said, quote, Vance tries to tether Harris to Biden during the Michigan rally.
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So, VP candidate Vance is trying to say that Kamala Harris is somehow tethered to the current administration.
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I mean, how can Politico, you know, I mean, it's quite a good fact check.
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Because Kamala Harris isn't tethered to anything.
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Well, the community note said, and I quote, Harris is currently President Biden's Vice President.
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So, the community note had to remind Politico that Vice President Harris is the Vice President.
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Yeah, Vance is trying to tether her to the Harris-Biden administration.
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As Molly Hemingway pointed out, the funniest part is that the community note provided a source.
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And the source was the White House, the White House page that shows who's the Vice President of the United States.
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Anyway, Joe Rogan is not too happy about MSNBC.
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Apparently, they took some words of his that he said about Tulsi Gabbard, and they spliced it.
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So, it looked like Joe Rogan was saying good things about Kamala Harris.
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Now, how much more corrupt can you be than literally changing the person he was talking about?
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But, they have lots of stories that interest me.
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So, Zero Hedge has this story today that Warren Buffett sold $982 million of his stock in Bank of America.
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Warren Buffett sells nearly a billion dollars of Bank of America shares.
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Well, if you read that by itself, your takeaway would be, oh my goodness, Warren Buffett thinks Bank of America is no longer a good investment.
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What's wrong with the information that I just gave you, that Warren Buffett is going to sell nearly a billion dollars of Bank of America shares?
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Well, what you should say is, how much does he own?
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Remember, if you only see the percentage in the story, it's trying to mislead you.
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If you only see the raw number without the percentage, it's trying to mislead you.
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The one and only thing that you could see as potentially real news, and even then it's the only potential, is if they tell you the number and the percentage.
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What would you guess would be the percentage if it's big enough to be a story?
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If they're making it a headline story, don't you assume it's a pretty big percentage?
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Now, a quarter is a big percentage, but it's not telling you he doesn't like the stock.
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If he kept selling another quarter, another quarter, then maybe yes.
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But it's far more indicative that he just has something else he wants the money for, or that he took enough profits, or it's too much of a percentage of his total portfolio.
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But you could say it's just equally because Apple went up so much, he didn't want that much of his total portfolio to be in one company, so he trimmed some off.
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So if you don't know sort of the background about why he's doing it, what the number is, you haven't learned anything.
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I haven't read the story, but the headline for an opinion piece, I think, is, what if ultra-processed foods aren't as bad as you think?
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I don't know anything about who wrote it or why they wrote it, but do you trust the media at all, presumably who have connections to the food industry, because, you know, everything big is connected to everything else, maybe with advertisers, maybe not, I don't know.
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But do you trust the story that says, what if ultra-processed foods aren't as bad as you think?
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To me, that looks like, I don't think I'm going to read that, because first of all, they don't have an answer.
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If they had an answer to the question, they'd say, news research shows ultra-processed foods are good for you.
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So if they don't have an answer for it, they're just trying to maybe make you less afraid, why would they do that?
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I'm just saying that I wouldn't trust this story enough to even read it.
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There's no credibility in a story like that in a place like our media.
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It doesn't mean it's false, and it doesn't mean anybody's lying.
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I'm just saying, as a consumer, you certainly can't trust it.
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Sure, we know the press is bad, but what about social media?
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Well, according to an account called Disinformation Expert Lizzie on X,
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Google now has an option for your news searches,
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so you can search if you're looking for left-leaning bias or right-leaning bias.
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They would just say right-leaning news and left-leaning news.
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So what would happen if you clicked on the right-leaning news?
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Because that means that Google would be deciding which entities of right-leaning news are the good ones.
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Well, according to Disinformation Expert Lizzie,
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But you'd have to look a little further to find the Daily Caller, Breitbart, Federalist,
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And some, you know, more, let's say, right-leaning, right-leaning sources.
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So Google has found a way to show you what you want to show, what you want to see,
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Do you think that the people who programmed this didn't know which sources
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Or are they just telling you you should see the Russia Today source is more credible
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All right, I saw yet another one of these interviews on the streets
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where people were asked if they were supporters of Kamala Harris,
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because vice presidents are not noted for accomplishments.
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But it turns out that the people trying to answer
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I just, well, you know, I'm comfortable having a woman of color.
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So they kind of default to the fact that they don't know anything
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about her policies or anything about her accomplishments,
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And the people on the street, their supporters,
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they don't know anything about policies or accomplishments.
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Just, it's time for a person who's a woman and a person of color.
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you know, with the people who used to be Democrats,
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but in many cases, very effective, like a pirate ship.
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where there's this mass brainwashing of primarily women,
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that they don't need to know about the policies
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And then they can hear all the hoaxes about Trump.
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I'd rather have somebody who's got that identity that I like.
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Ben Shapiro points out that Harris has allegedly
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reversed her 2020 positions on all of these things.
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EV mandates that you have to have an electric car at some point.
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And now she says maybe more police would be a good idea.
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I don't think any of her followers have any idea
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she does seem to be at least a little bit in favor of,
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I think I know most of these are actual switches.
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are not going to have a lot to do with the election.
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Because whatever it is that voters are thinking
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Now I don't think there's anything I can think of