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00:11:19.240Because I've seen just tons of black citizens on TV being asked who they support.
00:11:27.860And you've seen it both from right-leaning entities and left.
00:11:32.140You know, even Don Lemon, doing his interviews, it sure looks like a lot more than 20%.
00:11:39.900Or is it just that people are willing to do the interview, maybe have a certain perspective, and people who are not willing to do the interview, maybe add another one.
00:11:51.500So, you know, you have to wonder if the street interviews are really representative.
00:13:06.600Because he's fighting against the, you're going to take my bodily autonomy.
00:13:10.060And, you know, of course, the Harris campaign acts like he didn't say it and he doesn't mean it and he's going to lie and everything will change.
00:13:22.060I think he 100% is in favor of people having babies and using a little science to help it out and making sure that America can, you know, create its own citizens.
00:13:34.000I think he's completely down for this.
00:13:37.160My take on this is that it's 100% genuine, his actual opinion.
00:13:41.260And that he would really follow through with it.
00:13:45.360So that is a perfect response to the criticisms in that area.
00:13:52.360On top of that, there's some Florida bill.
00:13:57.120I don't know the details, but some abortion related thing.
00:14:00.880And Trump was asked how he'd vote just as a citizen of Florida, I guess.
00:14:07.100And Trump reminds us that he'd always been against limiting abortions to under six weeks.
00:14:14.820So I guess that's the current law in Florida.
00:14:17.180And he said he would be voting for whatever, you know, something that's longer than six weeks.
00:14:22.340He thinks he called that a terrible mistake when it happened in 2023.
00:15:25.200But can you survive if you don't have lots of young people who are willing to live there and stay there and move there?
00:15:33.660It would be kind of hard to have a high-tech environment if you had abortion laws that were at least to maybe 60% of the tech workers look like a place you'd never live.
00:15:52.420The test would be whether Florida is forced, for their own demographic reasons, to loosen up on this and get a little bit closer to what young people want.
00:16:05.080Because I don't think this is what young people want.
00:16:07.440Obviously, it's the left and the right have different opinions.
00:16:12.720But I would think there are probably two-thirds of young people, at least, would want a more, let's say, a more forgiving set of laws.
00:16:22.100So my question is, can Florida even survive as a state?
00:16:26.800And again, it's not an opinion on abortion.
00:18:48.860That the system wants to do what the system wants to do, and that requires a weak candidate so they can control it.
00:18:56.100But why did they have such smart candidates before?
00:19:02.880Is this so different than the past that they could have a Jimmy Carter and a Bill Clinton and an Obama, and they could be strong and brilliant, and the system was okay with them?
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00:20:22.840All right, so I saw somebody use the word lightweight, that Kamala Harris didn't even sort of look presidential, she looked lightweight.
00:20:46.140That was exactly the word I was going to use.
00:20:50.380I was going to say lightweight, but I saw somebody else use it, so that made me feel smart.
00:20:55.540Like, oh, okay, they saw the same thing.
00:20:58.140So she didn't look bright, she didn't look comfortable, she looked kind of lightweight.
00:21:21.380So it looked to me like she had the questions in advance.
00:21:27.000Now, I don't have proof of that, but I'll tell you what made me think she had the questions in advance.
00:21:33.140There was one point where she would look down, and she would be using her fingers to say points, like, you know, this point, this point, this point.
00:21:44.500I think that's a memory device for somebody who knew the question was coming and had said, all right, if you get this question, say these four things.
00:21:53.420And so she was actually counting them off on her fingers, well, they're, you know, physical fingers, like she was trying to recall them from memory.
00:22:01.640So it didn't look like somebody who had her own opinions and could easily speak to her preferences.
00:22:07.980It looked like somebody had to memorize the test.
00:22:14.840The real tell was Harris was asked the question that involved a little girl that I think was her grandniece or something.
00:22:24.740And she was watching Kamala Harris accept the nomination in a historic, you know, female person of color way.
00:22:32.320And the idea is that the iconic photo captured a young person of color and female being inspired by Kamala Harris.
00:22:42.100So she was asked about this, which is the ultimate softball question.
00:22:46.660They only had 18 minutes that they showed.
00:22:49.860Imagine out of the 18 minutes that one of the questions should be about somebody's photograph.
00:22:58.940But to her credit, Kamala Harris did not say, oh, yes, you know, it was a special day for us, blah, blah, blah, without first saying, and here's the part that tells me she was prepared.
00:23:44.360Well, now you can call out that there's also a special interest in it.
00:23:48.200But if you start with a special interest, I'm not even going to hear you if later you add in, but I'm really the president of all the people.
00:23:55.960I'd be, well, why did you start with a special part first?
00:23:59.280Just, like, sounds like you care about that more than you care about, you know, just doing the job.
00:24:06.340So to me, that sounded like she was well prepared for that specific question.
00:24:12.940Was she actually told the questions in advance?
00:25:27.800Is it possible that the wide shots showed the table with nothing on it?
00:25:32.640But is it possible that when they did the close-ups where you could see her from the chest up, that there actually was a piece of paper down there?
00:25:41.780Is it possible that, you know, since there was an edited event, is it possible she had notes?
00:25:47.520I also saw a part where, if you replay it, you'll see, maybe in the first third or so of it, there was a point where she started to say an answer, and then she did a hand gesture toward Tim Walsh.
00:26:02.080There was sort of the, you know, don't jump in hand gesture.
00:26:05.720It was like she was giving him the, you know, stand-down hand gesture that didn't make any sense unless there was an edit we didn't know about.
00:26:16.380Did he say something that got edited out?
00:26:19.440Because it was out of context that she was waving him off when he wasn't doing anything.
00:27:45.800The physical arrangement of the people at the table has been questioned reasonably, because they had Waltz on one end of the table opposite from Dana Bash, and then Kamala was between them on the far side of the table.
00:28:05.160Now, because of the dimensions of the perspective of the shot, plus the fact that Waltz is just a bigger human being than she is, he looked huge and in charge.
00:28:17.200If you were just looking at the pictures, you'd think it would be an interview with him, and his secretary came along to take some notes.
00:28:22.620It's sexist, yes, because the country is sexist, so it's worth mentioning.
00:28:29.540It's not my opinion, it's just what one imagines people are going to think in their little sexist brains.
00:28:35.360So, she was tiny and looked unimportant, just visually, and the visuals are kind of a big deal.
00:28:46.080She also made all kinds of weird, funny faces.
00:28:50.120When Waltz was talking, she wanted to show how proud and smiley she was, so she does the, I ate a lemon, but I enjoyed it face.
00:29:01.200You know, I'm doing it now, if you're just listening, you're missing the best part of the show.
00:29:04.700So, yeah, I ate a lemon, but I'm really happy about it.
00:29:54.720That wasn't in the top 100 of anybody's interest.
00:29:59.400Then she asked about the stolen valor, especially the part where he had used some words that indicated he'd been in a war zone, but he had not been in a shooting war zone.
00:32:10.300Now, do black voters care about her identity being, you know, as black as the blackest you could be versus living the life as a black woman?
00:32:27.160You know, if the entire game is identity politics, and it has been for years, if that's their game, doesn't it matter if you got the identity right?
00:34:19.460So it could be that Trump just ruined identity politics as a good strategy for running for office.
00:34:29.480He may have ruined it forever just by bringing up the question of, well, you know, maybe aren't you more of an individual?
00:34:36.880Well, you know, I'm not sure that you fit into this category everybody else says you fit into.
00:34:42.740Just adding some doubt into that, I think was brilliant.
00:34:47.980As much as Trump will be forever criticized for bringing up identity and black identity and stuff, things he shouldn't be talking about, you would think.
00:34:56.260I thought that worked because it entered, it created the conversation.
00:35:03.020It wasn't what he said about it that mattered.
00:35:05.680What mattered was you talked about it.
00:35:08.180If he could get you to talk about, well, I think she is.
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00:36:21.520Because we don't know how much got edited out.
00:36:25.040Is it possible that since she could have no good answer to that question, especially if there was any follow-up to it, that they just cut it out?
00:36:36.280I'm going to double down on my assumption that when there's a lack of transparency, and it's not individuals, it's, you know, organizations involved, that I think it's appropriate to assume they edited it out.
00:36:51.160Because what would make you think they didn't ask?
00:36:55.000How in the world would that not be one of the top 20 questions?
00:36:59.380And you'd probably get to 20 questions if you did talk to them for an hour.
00:37:03.920So I don't know how much they talked beyond the 18 minutes.
00:37:08.580And then Harris apparently was coached that when she was asked about her flip-flopping, so to speak, on topics, her answer was, my values have not changed.
00:37:21.880And I saw somebody smart say, okay, you just put a, you just gave Trump the kill shot.
00:37:30.360Trump wants you to believe that her old socialist views are still in play.
00:37:43.600What she meant to say is, maybe my policies have changed, but they're all coming from the same place, which is absurd and stupid and obviously not true.
00:37:54.080So it's a stupid thing to say, but it could convince stupid people.
00:37:59.460And since most of her voters, you know, are stupid, it could work out fine.
00:38:05.780But my values have not changed gives Trump the ultimate weapon, which is show what she said and then play, my values have not changed.
00:38:18.820Then show what she said again on another topic and then go right back to my values haven't changed.
00:38:24.740You do that on like five different super socialist stupid ideas she had in the past, and then you make sure that she said today, today, my values haven't changed.
00:38:37.160Nobody in the world is going to think that means that she's got different policies than she used to have.
00:38:42.520And by the way, as misleading as that might be, it's directionally true.
00:38:51.860It is directionally true that if you're willing to say over and over again, my values haven't changed, we as voters get to say, well, those other policies were based on those values, were they not?
00:39:06.040It seems like you're trying to not answer the question why you changed your mind, which makes it sound like you haven't, which makes it sound like you're some kind of Trojan horse.
00:39:16.900It's, you know, once you get inside the gate, Lord knows what happens then.
00:39:22.820So that could have, that could actually have taken her out of the race.
00:39:28.300Just think about the impact that would have if you saw her dumbass, you know, no fracking, et cetera, followed immediately by my values have not changed.
00:39:40.020There's no way you would think she would have a different policy, even if she does.
00:39:46.900Well, here's some other things we learned.
00:39:50.860I feel like we learned why she doesn't do debates or doesn't want to do many.
00:39:57.640And I think we learned why she doesn't do interviews.
00:40:26.760She, she was asked about Bidenomics and she said it was good work, which also sounded like a prepared answer.
00:40:35.980So as if she knew what the question was going to be, uh, by that was, it was good work.
00:40:43.200Anyway, so then, uh, Daniel Dale came on and did a fact check on her fracking claim.
00:40:49.840And, you know, as I said, showed that she had, uh, she had, uh, lied about having said in 2020 that she was in favor of fracking because she didn't, she only said Biden was in favor.
00:47:26.160Because you see people with machine guns, even though I don't think they have any, but guns, knocking on your door and saying, this is our apartment now or else you're paying us rent.
00:49:00.160Anyway, so somebody also on MSNBC, Ellie Vitelli, talked about Kamala Harris defending her switches and policy preferences.
00:49:22.020He said, quote, I thought she was smart to explain her policy positions as not a change in values, not a change in her deep inner mooring, but instead something almost situational in terms of taking in more information.
00:49:38.040In other words, MSNBC is adding word salad to her word salad.
00:49:44.060I feel like I'm at, what's that restaurant that has infinite salad?
00:49:50.860Salad, we'll talk about salad with some more salad.
00:49:54.700What does it mean that she's going to keep her values, but instead it's something about situational in terms of taking in more information?
00:51:20.000Apparently, CEO Mark Zuckerberg claimed somewhere this week that he didn't realize that the $400 million he spent on that whole getting out the vote thing in 2020 primarily benefited one party.
00:51:33.160So he's acting surprised that his $400 million was spent to make things more biased instead of a more fair election.
00:55:05.960So there's another case of someone who she's not the one who made the money.
00:55:10.520But if Adelson had never been married, there probably wouldn't be somebody there who's funding the Trump campaign.
00:55:17.540So why is it that we designed this system a few hundred years ago and we thought it was all about, you know, representative government and turned out to be basically billionaire cocks?
00:55:32.800So billionaire cocks and what they wanted to do with it is determining our system.
00:55:42.120You know, describe the system to your grade school child.
00:55:46.600Well, so you got these people who got billionaires.
00:56:49.560Elon Musk warns us that at the current rate of government spending, he says on X, America is in the fast lane to bankruptcy.
00:56:57.080And he says government overspending is what causes inflation.
00:57:02.260Wow, do we want him to be in charge of trimming the government?
00:57:06.260Imagine what you could do if you took a Elon Musk engineering approach to how much government do we really need and how should it be organized for the most efficiency.
00:57:16.920It would look completely different than what we have.
00:57:21.460So, I don't know how much he could get away with or whether he really will be, you know, Trump's helper to figure out how to streamline things.
00:57:30.440But you'd have to take off a massive, a massive part of the government spending.
00:58:49.860I mean, I get that the Congress passes the budget.
00:58:54.160So, I guess there is a conversation in that way.
00:58:56.020But they need to tell us what that is.
00:58:58.740Every time they pass a budget that is, you know, going to add to the debt, what they should say is this budget will cost each of you $10,000 in lost buying power because your dollars will be worth less.
00:59:15.440That's what they should say, but they don't.
00:59:58.960Now, unfortunately, they used their economic improvement to fund their military and didn't work out.
01:00:04.060But I would love to know a little bit more about what happened when Hitler just said, well, how about we're not paying back the rest of the world ever?
01:11:15.900Why would the U.S. be so concerned that Brazil had access to the voting machines?
01:11:22.020And apparently the U.S. intervened with at least two different manufacturers of microchips to make sure that the voting machines for Brazil went higher on the priority so they could get chips for their voting machines.
01:11:56.740That the CIA warned Bolsonaro, the last leader of Brazil, not to mess with the or cast doubt on the new U.S. State Department secured voting machines.
01:12:10.720So they threatened him not to cast doubt on the voting machines while making sure that they're they definitely had some voting machines.
01:12:19.480Now, let me ask the question I've asked many times.
01:12:22.060By now, you have a good answer for me because I've been asking you for so long and you thought about it and then you researched it and now you have a good answer.
01:12:30.680What's the advantage of the voting machines?
01:12:34.320Is it because they're more credible that the public will trust them?
01:13:15.200Because we can speculate about one potential reason, you know, without evidence.
01:13:21.820I don't have any evidence of this, but it looks exactly like the United States tried to install their own leader, a preferred leader, via the mechanism of having voting machines that maybe they had some backdoor to.
01:14:07.140Is it because we're so kind to other countries that we get really deeply involved in all of their affairs, whether it had a political angle or not?
01:15:03.300I mean, honestly, can you think of any reason that the U.S. would be so incentivized, especially the CIA, to make sure we got those American-driven machines in there?
01:15:19.460But I remind you, our elections are pristine.
01:15:23.440Nothing to worry about in our elections, because it's not like we've seen any bad behavior anywhere.
01:15:31.520So, all right, our elections are fine.
01:15:39.120Two AI companies, OpenAI and Anthropic, they've reached some kind of an AI safety agreement with the U.S. government.
01:15:46.580And what it involves, I don't know what else it involves, but key to this is that the government would have access to the models, presumably before the public did, so that they could test them and look for AI problems.
01:16:01.980So, do you feel better that there's an effort to have a regulatory body that will be overseeing AI?
01:16:51.700If somebody's job for the government is to check on the AI and tell you if it's safe, they know what the company wants and they know maybe what the government would want.
01:17:05.880So, suppose they know that the company would want them to not clamp down on that thing.
01:17:12.160And then suppose they get their paycheck from the government and they open it up and they go, huh, well, it's not bad, but I'll bet you open AI would pay about three times this.
01:17:26.380Should I be ever interested in increasing my exposure to the AI field of which I'm already in, but I'm working for the government, which would be the very cheapest, worst place you could ever work on AI?
01:17:39.580Now, suppose you have lunch with one of these regulators and you're from one of the AI companies.
01:17:46.680What do you have to say to them to get them to do what you want instead of actually regulating you?
01:17:52.560Well, you don't say, if you regulate me right, I'll give you a job later and you'll make a lot of money.
01:18:43.040So, in the beginning, you might get some regulators who are kind of tough on the companies, but I wouldn't even trust them because they would be government regulators, so I'm not even sure that's a good thing.
01:18:54.200They wouldn't know what danger would look like.
01:18:56.560And I don't think AI regulating will be any better than any other regulating.
01:19:03.880So, it's not going to save the world, but it might be a way for some people to make some money.
01:19:11.020All right, here's some science you might like, just because it's good news.
01:19:30.260So, they just use ultrasound at the right frequencies, and your pain just goes boop, turns off.
01:19:37.180I saw Brian Ramelli in a post just yesterday, and it wasn't about this, but just separately, he was saying the science already knows for sure that certain sound frequencies will cancel pain.
01:19:51.540And I read the post, and, you know, I like to repost a lot of Brian Ramelli's content because he's great, especially with the AI stuff.
01:20:01.460And I thought to myself, ah, hmm, I'm not sure I believe that.
01:20:08.100Like, I was a little skeptical that science knows how to turn off pain with, you know, just three frequencies or something.
01:20:19.040There's an actual study in which they're using frequencies to turn off pain.
01:20:22.520I don't know if it's the same thing that Brian was talking about, but now I have two sources that are strongly indicative that it's worth doing some research on.
01:21:42.080But there's a study that explains why I have that feeling, that it doesn't bother me at all as an adult, and also why it did when I was younger.
01:21:52.220And it's called the gambling framework.
01:21:55.920So, phys.org talks about this, I guess there's some science.
01:22:05.860And if people thought about a specific decision out of context, they might have regret.
01:22:11.900But if people thought in a portfolio manner that there are lots of things they did in the past, some work and some don't, and that's the way the world is supposed to work.
01:22:23.740Because we all know that you don't sign up to do everything right.
01:22:28.860Everybody knows your life is a series of wins and losses.
01:22:34.340And so, if you see it as a portfolio, just like the way I would invest, you know, I'll buy an index fund, so I'm diversified.
01:22:41.780So, if your life is likewise diversified, you did a bunch of things, some worked, some didn't, then you don't see it as regret.
01:22:51.000The same reason when I look at my index fund, I don't feel any regret if some members of the index fund went down, as long as the average went up over time.
01:23:02.520It doesn't even occur to me that I should have a feeling about regret if one of the stocks of my 500 stocks in the index went down.