The FBI raids the offices of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's top aides, and we start to figure out what s going on. I also talk about the dangers of tanks and drones, and why the U.S. should get rid of them.
00:01:58.460That if the FBI wanted to jail any mayor in America, it would take about 10 minutes of investigation to find out that they've done sketchy things with taxpayers' money.
00:02:12.020So why would they pick this particular one?
00:02:16.460So my question is, is this the one mayor that they've got some dirt on?
00:02:21.840Or is there something they don't like about this mayor?
00:02:27.400There's something that we don't know on top of there's something we don't know about what the alleged crimes are.
00:02:35.200So this story has layers is what I'm saying.
00:02:38.280And if the only thing you find out is that there's a crime and somebody is looking into it, I feel like we're going to be missing at least a layer or two.
00:02:47.860Because I don't think that they have a process of going after a crime because it's a crime.
00:02:54.000And I told you to watch the there's a show on Netflix called Wyatt Earp and the Cowboy Wars.
00:03:01.260It's based on real, real facts of the real Wyatt Earp and a war with some cowboys.
00:03:06.380And when you learn that the country has always had a crooked Department of Justice and always had crooked politics and the news was always fake, it really blows your mind to see that nothing changed since the 1800s.
00:04:06.380You think that the reason we do manufacturing in China is because the cost of labor is low.
00:04:14.120Turns out that hasn't been true for a long time.
00:04:17.180I'm sure the cost of labor is lower than America, but there would be other countries where it's even far lower.
00:04:25.260So they don't go to China because the wages are low because they could get lower wages in a lot of places.
00:04:33.620They go there because China has a massive educational advantage in how to build a factory.
00:04:41.060Because building a factory is its special skill, especially if you're building an assembly line and you're building the robotics and the manufacturing techniques that go into the building.
00:04:57.780So apparently the whole skill of tooling up a manufacturing site is something that there are tons of Chinese citizens who have been trained to do it.
00:05:09.880And in America, you could put them all in one room.
00:05:13.900So there's a skill in building manufacturing sites that we don't have and we're in trouble.
00:05:23.240Let's ask Lucky Palmer, who is a young billionaire type who's building a defense business himself with more high-tech defense stuff like drones and whatnot.
00:05:35.960But he says the United States says if we were to get in a war, we only have three weeks of ammunition.
00:05:45.420After three weeks of war, the United States would have to say, hey, I got an idea.
00:05:51.300Would you guys like to stop fighting because we're out of weapons?
00:05:57.100We just don't have the things that go in them, you know, like rockets and, you know, we don't have any missiles and rockets and bullets left.
00:06:06.220But you say to yourself, well, we can make more, right?
00:19:40.600And so some people say, what was Putin up to?
00:19:50.240You know, why would Russia try to, you know, fund these people if it looks like there was no effort to change them editorially?
00:19:59.300So there doesn't seem to be any evidence whatsoever that Tim Poole or Benny Johnson or Dave Rubin changed any of their opinions because of where their funding came from.
00:20:17.680But Lauren Chen, one of the owners with her husband, I guess, of Tenant Media, people are reporting that she seemed to be creating some division among the conservative world.
00:20:32.620But I would note that there tends to be at the moment a huge amount of division in the pro-Trump side of the world, more than I've ever seen maybe, probably more than I've ever seen.
00:20:44.000And you have to ask yourself, did that happen on its own?
00:21:40.280He wanted me to know how dumb I am and maybe some of you.
00:21:44.780So he said, and I'll say this slowly so MAGA can understand it.
00:21:51.400So if, period, Russia, period, wants, period, your, period, candidate, period, to, period, be, period, elected, period, then he, period, shouldn't, period, be elected, period.
00:22:04.000So the idea is that, you know, if Trump is supported by Putin, that should be enough, I mean, that should be enough by itself to tell you not to vote for Trump because of all that Putin support.
00:22:26.520Well, a few hours after Jay said that Putin endorsed Harris, so several million people danced on the living grave of Jay Black for being the most obnoxious wrong person on the Internet.
00:23:20.160I saw Jessica Tarlov on The Five say that the influencers like Tim Pool were getting $400,000 per month from Russia.
00:23:30.840Now, I have not looked into it, but I'm going to bet a very large amount of money that they did not get paid $400,000 a month apiece.
00:23:43.020Does anybody want to take the other side of that bet?
00:23:45.080I hate watching the news and thinking, okay, I don't even have to research that to know that's not true.
00:23:52.220No, it's not true that anybody paid them $400,000 a month, especially in not asking them to change their opinions whatsoever, which appears to be the case.
00:24:11.760So conservatives are divided, and I think there's lots of forces from the outside that are doing that, but I don't know if it's all Russia or it just happens on its own.
00:24:20.320So I finally figured out, with a little help, why it is that polls that should all look the same, let's say presidential polls, if they're all done scientifically and appropriately, they should all be pretty similar.
00:24:43.960So the pollsters can determine how to weight their results.
00:24:48.320So, for example, they could ask a bunch of people, and then they could, you know, find out that they had accidentally talked to too many people in one party, and they could either just report it, say, well, you know, we had too many people in one party, but here's what we got.
00:25:06.060Well, that wouldn't really tell you anything, because you expect the people in one party to vote one way, predictably.
00:25:11.960So if you were to take that approach, that would suggest you were not interested in a real answer, but rather were interested in influencing what people thought about the situation.
00:28:15.500Jordan Peterson is predicting that Biden is going to quit in a few weeks so that we can have, quote,
00:28:22.800Vice President Cackling Kamala as the first US DEI Barbie president.
00:28:28.240Well, Jordan Peterson, don't hold back.
00:28:34.080Tell us what you're really feeling here.
00:28:36.000I feel like you're just holding back too much.
00:28:40.120Well, I would add to that what others have added to it, I think, by now.
00:28:43.880That maybe the reason Hunter decided to wrap up his situation and plead guilty without saying he's actually guilty in that weird legal way,
00:28:54.380that maybe he just wants to wrap things up so his father will have time to pardon him before he leaves from office.
00:29:01.900And I think that is a reasonably good prediction.
00:29:10.280But if I had to make a small bet on it, I would bet that he will quit in time to give Kamala Harris a boost for having already been the first black woman president.
00:29:23.240So we might get one of those kind of through the back door.
00:29:31.400Biden was giving a little rally speech in favor of of Harris.
00:29:37.160And he said out loud that the Inflation Reduction Act was really just a fake.
00:29:43.440And it was really the Green New Deal bill, basically.
00:29:46.220And it didn't it wasn't really to reduce any inflation.
00:29:51.920So how long do we wait between the time that, you know, the Democrats make claims that the news supports to the to the point where the Democrats themselves can just say, well, you know, actually, we made all that up.
00:30:07.460It wasn't it wasn't even about inflation reduction.
00:30:09.920Now, it's not that we didn't figure it out.
00:30:13.420But when I say we, I mean the people who really paid attention to the news.
00:30:18.200But the average voter probably thought, hey, look at them reducing inflation.
00:31:22.200You barely can walk outside because your environment is dangerous.
00:31:25.860So the first thing that you'd want to fix is your environment when you walk outside.
00:31:33.240So you'd want to make sure nobody had guns.
00:31:36.160And you'd want to make sure all the poor people got fed so they don't need to rob you.
00:31:40.600And you would make a bunch of assumptions that might lean left.
00:31:45.220If you are Republican and you're either a strong man or a married woman who would feel like she has some protection, you would say, I don't need the government to protect me like on my own property because I'm married.
00:32:01.880And, you know, I got a strong husband, I've got the protection, but I am worried about the country.
00:32:08.580So Republicans and strong men and married women tend to be more concerned about people coming across the border.
00:32:15.420And women seem to be more concerned about, you know, what's in their immediate environment in terms of what they should be afraid of.
00:32:24.800So that feels to me like there's something to it.
00:32:28.880I don't know if they got exactly the right genetic explanation, but I do feel it can't be a coincidence that people who feel weak and unprotected are looking for the government to immediately give them some protection.
00:33:02.000It's, you know, everything's sort of in the general area that we thought it would be a little bit more, a little bit less.
00:33:06.640I think there was another job report that got, the July job report, I think, got revised down again, of course.
00:33:17.560Anyway, there's, I think I would describe the report as somewhat anemic, somewhat expected, but anemic, which means that we'll probably get a rate cut,
00:33:29.880which would be good for the stock market, but don't make any investments because of me.
00:33:36.060I'm not really good at investment advice.
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00:34:25.500How many of you have heard of a historian who predicts the outcome of elections in the United States, and he's been right pretty much every time?
00:34:49.740His name is Alan Lickman, and he's got this 13-point true or false questions that will tell you who's going to get elected.
00:34:59.700And he says right now that 8 out of 13 go in favor of Harris, so that his thing, which has never been wrong, is saying there's a strong signal for Harris to get elected.
00:46:03.900And do you think that the Asian Americans should be paying some fucking reparations when the only impact that black people have had on their lives,
00:46:11.660since, you know, they came in after slavery was a done deal,
00:46:15.300the only impact that had on their lives is that they got fewer jobs and they were victims of crime.
00:46:20.820And now they're going to pay the black Americans for something they had no connection to.
00:46:27.340And indeed, it should be paid the other direction.
00:49:35.880I only need you to make money so my stocks go up and the country does well and your employees get paid and then they can buy things from me.
00:50:56.980You could have just said, we're staying out of it.
00:50:58.740Don't you think that that automatically costs them business?
00:51:03.940Because the Republicans would say, all right, if I have a choice, I will no longer buy from your company because I wanted you just to make money.
00:51:12.200But now you're, if I give you money, you're going to be using it to destroy the country as I see it.
00:51:20.120So if I were the board, I would remove all 88 of them and I would do it right away.
00:51:25.800I mean, I wouldn't even wait till the end of the day.
00:51:27.400I would say, look, you are absolutely free to endorse anybody you want as long as you're not working here.
00:51:33.960Because if you're working here, you're just crushing our, our revenue potential forever, by the way.
00:53:14.900We're not talking about the people who walked across the border with the clothes on their back.
00:53:18.720Foreign born quite often means that you're a technical expert or a doctor or a scientist and you came to America because it's a better opportunity.
00:53:32.020Well, of course they're employed because they're here because they have those skills that are in high demand.
00:53:38.360So without knowing if the, quote, foreign born workers are mostly people who walked across the border with nothing, including an education and English ability,
00:53:49.860or people who were fluent in two or three languages and had a skill stack like you can't believe,
00:53:56.780and they would just rather work in America, to which I say, come on in, more the better.
00:54:03.020So it's not really clear that they're taking American jobs.
00:54:06.540It might have been there weren't Americans for those jobs.
00:54:44.140But here's my way I would approach it.
00:54:48.060I would approach health care the way I would approach a number of other topics, like transportation, for example, insurance.
00:54:54.760If you were to design a city from scratch with the understanding that only the federal government would have any regulatory or law authority over it, this would be similar to Trump's idea of using federal land to build some cities.
00:55:10.600If you built a city from scratch, one of the things you could do is you could design away the cost of child care.
00:55:19.640Now, I'm going to give you the bad version of how to do that, just so you can kind of understand it conceptually.
00:55:25.420But don't argue too much about the details.
00:55:29.840I'm just trying to sell you on the idea that you could design away a lot of expense.
00:55:48.700And there would be somebody there to watch it, but they'd be mostly volunteers.
00:55:52.780So if you're lonely and retired or unemployed at the moment or you're single and it's your day off and you just want to be around people in a productive way, you could go there and you could help out.
00:56:06.720Or you could just work out on some gym equipment that's there, but maybe they want to keep the males away from the kids.
00:56:32.520So if you create a situation where there are a few paid employees and somebody at the door to make sure that nobody gets in unless they're vetted somehow, you could create a situation where there's just a natural collection of people who are meeting each other, sometimes bonding even.
00:56:49.840And they could create a social life, they could get some oxytocin, they'd have purpose, they'd have a place to go, they'd have a schedule, things that people are really, really going to need, especially as the robots start taking our productive work.
00:57:04.500So you may say to yourself, but Scott, I have this or that complaint about that situation, to which I say, don't worry about the details.
00:57:14.860The only point is we're not organized in a way that we could lower that cost, but we could.
00:57:27.120Well, one way would be there are a lot of seniors who have extra rooms, empty nests, spouses died, and there should be far more of an effort to get them a college-age roommate who can't pay for rent.
00:57:42.360But they might be able to help out with some chores, and if you fall down and die, they'll call the 911.
00:57:49.180So there's just a whole bunch of ways you could organize that would take away expenses.
00:57:54.100What about the expense of transportation?
00:57:55.960Well, if you design your city so that you get the self-driving taxis if you need them, but mostly you can walk everywhere you want,
00:58:03.940if you had bicycle paths from every house to every school, you could completely eliminate driving kids to school and buses.
00:58:13.660They could just take their electric skateboard or bicycle and just park it at the school and come back.
00:58:19.380So you can think of a hundred different ways that you could just drive the cost of living down to practically nothing, and your quality of living would be through the roof.
00:58:32.020I always use my college experience as my example.
00:58:36.100My college experience was, on paper, the worst living condition.
00:58:40.120I was in this tiny little room with a roommate for the first couple of years, and you had to share a bathroom, and there's no kitchen there.
00:58:51.260You've got to walk through the snow to get food.
01:01:37.500It can be in the sense that if you raise the, if you raise the cost on a foreign producer, they might say, well, you're still going to have to buy it because you can't get it anywhere else.
01:01:51.580So I guess we'll just raise the price.
01:01:54.180So it depends whether you have a choice.
01:01:59.000If China was trying to sell table salt in the United States at 10% of what Americans make table salt for, if America makes it, I don't know, just making this up, then we should put a tariff on them.
01:02:35.720Now, you do lose the opportunity to get the lower price, but there's nothing to be passed on to you.
01:02:42.960You're simply not buying Chinese salt because why would you?
01:02:47.420Same price as the Morton salt and it's Chinese and, well, you might as well give it to America.
01:02:53.420Now, let's say it's a different situation.
01:02:55.680It's not something like salt that you can get anywhere.
01:02:57.900Let's say it's a specific component or material that if you didn't get it from China, you couldn't even build the thing you want to build with their material.
01:03:10.000Well, in that case, if you put a tariff on it, you're just paying for it because they're going to say, all right, where else are you going to get this?