Episode 2632 CWSA 10⧸18⧸24
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1 hour and 21 minutes
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148.52725
Summary
Scott Adams is back with a special episode of Coffee with Scott Adams, featuring the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better: coffee. This morning, Scott talks about the crumbling Florida housing market, and why he thinks it s a good thing that Florida is the best state in the country.
Transcript
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Good morning everybody and welcome to Coffee with Scott Adams, the highlight of human civilization.
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It's called, that's right, it's called the simultaneous sip.
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I don't know if that's where it belongs, but it's just something I've been doing.
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Well, meanwhile, the Florida housing market is crumbling, according to one report.
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But then the very first comment I saw in the X post about it was, that's not true.
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So if I told you that all data is fake, so either the Florida housing market is crumbling or it's just fine because it's the best state.
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Well, here's my opinion, my opinion somewhere in the middle, which is here are three things you don't want to happen at the same time.
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You don't want to have a state that has lots of hurricane expense because that's going to cause the second thing, which is incredibly high insurance.
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Which is also going to be related to a third thing, which is you have to move your entire house and maybe repair it once every two years, depending where you live in Florida.
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Like, how is it that the one state that's famous for having the least mobile, you know, least capable humans are seniors, you know, the most respected, but least physically capable.
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Is in the place where we're pretty sure there's going to be two hurricanes a year that are going to get your get you pretty excited.
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So I do wonder if you combine the rising insurance costs, which would be tough on the people with fixed incomes, especially, and then you add to it.
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Hey, grandpa, how many times do you want to pack up the station wagon and figure out another state to be in for a couple of weeks?
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Or live without electricity for a little while.
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Now, I'm in California, so I expect the lights to go out any minute, you know, in a forest fire to take everything.
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So it's not like, you know, it's not like I'm bragging about my state or anything.
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I just wonder if Florida is as sustainable as we hope it is.
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DeSantis is doing a great job, as far as I can tell.
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But, boy, I'd worry about the insurance cost mixed with senior citizens.
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Anyway, according to something called Futurity, let's call it, it could be pronounced many different ways.
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They say that diet and exercise can reverse liver damage.
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Now, I would have to think that that would depend how much liver damage we're talking about and what kind.
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But, once again, I'm starting to get a hint that good diet and exercise is good for your health.
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Now, I'm going to keep track of this for the rest of you, so you don't have to.
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But, just in case it turns out to be true, that exercise and eating right is good for your health in a whole variety of ways, I will get back to you.
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Just because 100% of every scientific study since the beginning of time has confirmed it, it might not be.
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Anyway, there's another report that Chinese scientists use their special quantum computers.
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Nobody wants a quantum computer, unless you want to crack military-grade encryption, which, according to Tom's Hardware, which I guess is some kind of a site, they've cracked military-grade encryption.
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If that were true, do you think they would let you know about it?
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That would be the most secret thing of all secret things that ever needed to be secret in the history of secrets.
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Even an alien landing in China and offering all of their technology would be slightly less secret than having their quantum computers already be able to unencrypt military encryption.
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So, I'm going to be a little skeptical whether they have that at some practical level where they can actually use it.
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So, I don't know what the real story is, but the most amazing part of the story would be if it were true that somehow it got out.
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I feel like they would just slay the families of anybody who let that secret out.
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Speaking of electronic warfare, we'll get to all the fun politics in a bit.
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According to New Atlas, there's a new electronic warfare system that can make it look as though there are lots of jets and bombers coming your way when there aren't.
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So, in other words, they can fool the enemy radar electronically into thinking that there's something physical coming at them in a big wave.
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Now, I'll tell you, when I read these stories, I can't tell how many of them matter.
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Because if everything's just going to be swarms of AI drones, why would anybody use anything else?
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Because, you know, it might be mutually assured disaster or destruction, I mean.
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But it seems like that's the weapon you'd use if you could make enough of them.
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And they're kind of cheap, you know, relatively speaking.
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And you wouldn't want to irradiate anything if you didn't have to.
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So, it seems like swarms of drones would be the future.
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Now, I get that what we're doing is good for the whole world, and that's my point.
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Isn't everybody in the world better off if the Houthis are not blocking the shipping lanes?
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So, shouldn't everyone be in on this in one way or another?
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And if they're not, you know, maybe it does make sense that the United States is the world's police person.
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On the other hand, you could argue that the Houthis wouldn't be mad except for American slash Israel policies in the Middle East.
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I'm just going to say that it seems like everybody who wants to pay lower prices would be in favor of the United States striking the Houthis.
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Argentina allegedly is having a great miracle revival thanks to their new president, Javier Mille.
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And they're saying that it's now 10 months in a row in Argentina of a trade surplus, which would be miraculous because they were trade deficit until then.
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And it's a $16 billion surplus since he took office.
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But you know what's missing in the story is how he did any of that.
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So, how do you tell me a story about the miraculous economic success without mentioning anything he did or any expert opinion as to why that worked or if it would work somewhere else?
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So, I would like to be the first, well, maybe there are others, but I'm going to put down a little skeptical flag on the Argentina stories.
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I feel like the Argentina miracle might be overblown, might be exaggerated, because there's just something missing in the story.
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You know, there's a dog not barking or there's a key that's not in the lock or there's a tumbler that didn't fit or something.
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There's something about this Argentina thing that's a little too, a little too convenient, a little too perfect.
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Can you really just change the president and then the whole economy changes overnight?
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So, I'm going to say there's something going on in Argentina that might be great, so I'm not going to criticize it at all.
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I just think there might be maybe more to the story.
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It's a little too fast, a little too good, too fast.
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If you live in the real world long enough, you don't see this.
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For those of you who are over, I will randomly pick an age, over the age of 50.
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And you've just observed how a real world works, how fast anything happens in the real world.
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And then you compare how you think anything happens in the real world to the miracle in Argentina.
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And do you think 20 years from now, the historians will say, yeah, damn it, it was just that one guy.
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And now everybody just borrowed those same techniques.
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Because once he made it obvious that if you do those things, everything goes great, and it goes great immediately, then everybody started doing it.
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Do you think that's what it's going to look like in 20 years?
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So here's one of those things where age is absolutely a different filter on everything.
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I would say, wow, you get the right guy in the office and good stuff happens.
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If I were 25, at my current age, I'd say, nothing happens that way, ever.
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An overwhelming majority of young Americans are worried about climate crisis, according to The Guardian.
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So, and apparently it's both left and right-leaning kids.
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So I don't see how you're going to get a lot of human reproduction.
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And they think that if they did have money and the American dream and they could buy homes and have happy lives and stuff,
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that their children would burn up in a fireball once they were gone.
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Like, why exactly would anybody have any babies?
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You know, one of the things that we don't like to admit about our history in the United States
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is that the single biggest, well, except we had good geography and, you know, we had some luck,
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but a big part of the reason that the United States has worked for decades
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is that we do really good brainwashing, you know, both on ourselves and internationally as well.
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And part of the brainwashing was if you do these things, you get these outcomes and, you know,
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you really want to have a better toaster, even though you didn't really need a better toaster.
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But, hey, your neighbors have really good toasters and look at all these features.
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Then you buy it and then the economy is good and then people have jobs and it's self-fulfilling.
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So basically the engine of any country, unless you have severe shortages, you know, as long as you have resources,
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And the CIA, who just managed our country to make us all patriotic and just assume,
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I grew up watching Leave It to Beaver and Father Knows Best.
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And so I just assumed that what people do is they go, they get married.
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And in my, I'd say, 20s, I felt uncomfortable with the idea that I wasn't rushing to get married
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because I was so brainwashed that there's just one way to do it.
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Now, I would argue that if the brainwashing goes away, you'd say, oh, that's great.
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Everything's good now because I'm a free thinker with less brainwashing.
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I would argue the only reason you survived is because of the brainwashing.
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And if you do too much free thinking, you're dead.
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You know, you pretty much need, you know, somebody brainwashing people in some stable, productive, useful way.
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I like Trump because when he brainwashes, to me, you know, based on all my filters on life,
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he looks like he brainwashes in a way that's unambiguously good for you.
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And it might be bullshit, but if he tells you the economy is better than you thought,
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you're going to spend a little more and then the economy becomes better than you thought.
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So it's all this really productive bullshit brainwashing that's just what I love.
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I'm like, yeah, tell me some more of that bullshit.
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So you don't really get a choice of the truth versus the lies.
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You kind of get a choice of which brainwashing you prefer.
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By nearly a two-to-one margin, according to Rasmussen,
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voters say that a candidate's competence matters more than caring.
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That voters, by a big margin, two-to-one, say they care about competence more than caring?
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Because it seems to me that, you know, Kamala is pushing the caring thing pretty hard.
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And the data would say that she's pushing the wrong button.
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That she should be pushing the competence button.
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If she had a competence button, the election probably wouldn't look like this.
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That the voters rated Trump slightly higher than Kamala on.
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Trump was rated higher on competence and caring.
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How is it even slightly possible that he could lose the election?
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But if you're winning on both competence and caring, let's talk about the third thing we care about.
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If he got your competence and you got your caring, now list the third thing you care about.
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Now, here's an interesting fact you might not know.
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What would you call it with one word that would capture both competence and caring?
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Give me one word that is a regular English word that is the definition of competence and caring put together.
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If you put competence and caring, there's one word for that.
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Now, slightly different definition for charisma, which is power and empathy.
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So, I'm saying competence and power are the same in this context.
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And I'm saying that caring and empathy are the same.
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Which means that charisma is literally what Trump seems to have more of, according to the voters.
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Trump goes to that, what is that, Al Smith big dinner that the presidential candidates traditionally go to.
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Kamala Harris does a recorded, she tries to do a comedy thing with somebody else doing the comedy.
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Falls completely flat, complete disaster in a comedy context.
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And she just looked like she was a fish out of water.
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Trump gets up there with a bunch of jokes that were written, obviously, by his staff.
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He reads the jokes, and as he's reading them, he's realizing that his jokes suck.
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And so he starts making fun of his joke writers, as well as the jokes, as well as the people in the jokes, because some people like the jokes.
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And all of a sudden, it didn't even matter what the joke was.
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He made it about just his personality, and if he liked his personality, because he's bigger than life, then it was all good.
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So he took the worst material in the world, the jokes, they were truly terrible, and he made the whole thing work.
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Even looking like it wasn't working, he made that work, because he talked about it not working, and then that became the thing he was talking about.
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Harris has all the production Hollywood people in the world putting together this nice little package so that there could be no awkwardness, no mistakes.
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She wouldn't be revealed for having no sense of humor whatsoever, because the other person in the video would be, like, adding the humor parts.
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Well, not exactly the definition of charisma, but he was the more interesting.
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Then did you see that Trump visited a barbershop in New York City?
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And you may remember that I had been recommending that Trump use his charisma on a retail level, you know, instead of talking to people who are professional talkers, talk to actual voters.
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Because every time we saw him talking to anybody in any kind of on-the-street setting, it was a home run.
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If somebody hits a line drive that's so hard it never goes down, it's like a frozen rope.
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Every time Trump talks to a voter, it's a frozen rope.
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I mean, he just clocks it, and you never see it go down.
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And so the obvious thing would be, we'll do more of that.
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But his super superpower, the superpower you just don't see in politicians, is his pirate ship.
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And by pirate ship, what I mean is that he can assemble people from every walk of life, and as long as they're sort of, you know, philosophically good Americans wanting to be, you know, on the side of doing good things, and usually also liking him, he loves you.
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And you can tell, and then you love him back, because you don't get a lot of love.
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And if you don't see that he can go anywhere and get the same reaction, you're missing his magic.
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Even Kamala Harris, even Kamala Harris's name incorrectly so many times, I'm starting to forget it.
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But even she can go to the, you know, the 19-year-old female group of whatever sorority and get a great reception.
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So he goes to the black barbershop, which is, of course, you know, ratings gold.
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And then, I don't know about you, but the only video I saw was from, it looked like viral videos from the people who were in the barbershop, the attendees.
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I didn't want to see ABC News camera, here is Trump, interacting with some voters.
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I wanted to see the voters take a picture of it with their own cameras in their hands and put it up on their social media and say, look what just happened to me.
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And did you see, if you watched even a second of it, and you should, did you see the comfort and love that was so easily being exchanged in that environment?
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So, you know, hey, barbershop, you're on the pirate ship.
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There's a study that says that Campaign Music Matters, Mark Harvey, writing about this in, where was that?
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But I guess he's an associate professor and director of graduate business programs at the University of St. Mary.
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And he's studied this and says that it does make a difference, that you can measure it, and that associating music, such as when the candidates come out before a rally or something, makes a difference.
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Now, he could have asked me, and he probably could have asked you.
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So, it does make a difference, but we don't realize how much, maybe.
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It's more about, it's more dramatic than you think.
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Because we're so tuned and trained by music, that music puts us in a mode, you pair that mode with anything, and then you like the other thing.
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Anyway, so one of the questions that people are criticizing Kamala Harris for in the Brett Baer interview was that when did Harris know that Biden was no longer capable of doing his job or running for president, and that Harris just sort of avoids it?
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And at first she said, well, he's not running for president, and blah, blah, he does a great job, and basically just avoided the question awkwardly.
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So, I wanted to take a whack, because I like to, no, not in a Jeffrey Toobin way, but I'm going to take a try at being Kamala Harris and answering that question.
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So, I'm doing this in the context of persuasion training and communication in general.
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So, do you think that a more capable candidate could answer the question, you know, why didn't you say something sooner about Biden if everybody knew that he was failing?
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If I were Kamala Harris and you asked me that question, this seems like a kill shot.
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It seems like a question that's like, do you still beat your spouse?
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It just feels like you can't answer this question.
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Mr. Adams, when did you first know that Biden was, you know, not capable of serving a second term?
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And I'd say, well, let me say for sure, I think we all noticed there were some physical changes in his movements.
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And we also noticed that sometimes he'd need a little extra time to find a word.
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So, what you were seeing in public is the same thing we were seeing.
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But, as I think you noticed in public as well, we were not seeing any impact on his judgment.
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In other words, neither in public nor in private was he making any decisions or policy decisions that would make any difference or that were in any way off kilter from the consensus in the room.
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So, we were watching very carefully to see if his physical impact had any impact on his judgment.
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And I don't think anybody's even suggested the situation where it has.
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I haven't heard anybody privately say they thought his judgment was impaired.
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But, having said that, it also seemed that the physical decline couldn't be ignored if we were looking at another four years.
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So, if you're asking me, do I think that he has the mental and physical acuity to make it for the rest of the term?
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He's being watched more than anybody in the world because that's what presidents do.
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If something changed suddenly, and all of a sudden I saw that his judgment declined, there are steps to take care of that.
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But I can tell you, in my personal opinion, I've seen nothing that would alarm me about his judgment so far.
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And I think the country appreciates that a younger generation is probably a better risk management situation.
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My only point is, I think that is an answerable question.
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The fact that she can't do it speaks to her competence.
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Because you can imagine, not a normal politician.
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But you could probably come up with five names of politicians that could pull that off.
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He's already done one pro-Trump, you know, pro-voting rally.
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And he needs hand counting and in-person voting and voter ID.
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Now, here's the part where I think it's funny that there will be 80 million Americans who
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are going to say to themselves, I disagree with Elon Musk on this question of computers
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Now, I'm not saying that just because he's, you know, the most notable, you know, technologist
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in the world, that doesn't mean he's right about everything every time.
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But this one's just so obvious that he's right.
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Now, actually, more people are concerned about the election integrity than is the mix of
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So there's a majority who are actually concerned.
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So Elon goes on and he says, I'm a technologist.
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And I'm like, the last thing I would do is trust a computer program because it's just too
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And it's really difficult to hack paper ballots.
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And he goes on, in-person voting with ID, which, by the way, every country has.
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I mean, like almost every country that has democratic elections requires in-person voting
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And then he sums it up by saying, it's super weird to not have that.
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Because it makes you wonder what the reason is.
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When he says it's super weird not to have it, your brain wants to argue with him and
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And then he says that the Democrats are fighting paper ballots tooth and nail and I wonder why.
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He goes, I wonder why they're fighting the thing that we know works.
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Is it because electronic voting machines are cheaper?
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Is it because they're easier to maintain than paper?
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Is it easier to train, to train people to use paper or to train people to maintain the machines?
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As far as I know, no journalist, and I'm going to put this in quotes.
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Because we don't have any journalists, as far as I can tell, who have access to the right people.
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We have lots of great independent journalists now, but they don't always have the same access to the same people.
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But none of the mainstream journalists have ever asked anybody why electronic voting machines are used.
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That the biggest question in this election is whether it'll be fair and rigged or whether or not it's secure.
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And nobody has ever asked why, given that we know exactly the wrong way to do an election, and we know the right way, why do we do it the way we're doing it?
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Nobody's ever asked the question, except Elon Musk in a Pennsylvania rally, and me every other day on X.
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Anyway, so here are some cheating methods that are alleged to be available in our current system.
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Now, I'm going to say alleged, because that's the only way I can stay monetized.
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So my personal belief doesn't matter to what I'm going to say.
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I'll say that these are all things that have been alleged in a way that I haven't seen debunked to my satisfaction.
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So the allegations are not proven, but neither are they debunked to my satisfaction, based on my knowledge.
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But the number of drop boxes appears to make a big difference in election results, which should not, because it should be the voters' opinions that make a difference, not the number of boxes.
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Nobody signed up for the number of boxes system.
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So before, when they had a lot of boxes, the Democrats would win.
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But now when they have fewer boxes, maybe the Republicans will win.
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Although, as has pointed out, if someone is going to cheat using any of these boxes, meaning put in ballots that are not real ballots or harvest them or do that sort of thing,
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if anybody were going to misuse them, they could still find the 78 ballots, boxes.
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You know, the fact that they went from 500 to 78 isn't going to stop a motivated, you know, person.
00:37:55.160
But the point is, if the number of boxes matters to the outcome, then what kind of a system do we have?
00:38:02.480
What kind of a system should it matter the number of boxes on the sidewalks that collect the ballots?
00:38:13.420
We have a republic, if you can keep it, not a number of boxes system.
00:38:24.840
the number one reason people distrust the election of 2020 is because it came down to 40,000 votes and four major cities.
00:38:34.220
And in each of those Democrat-controlled cities, removed Republican poll watchers,
00:38:40.160
sent home the media, told us they would stop counting.
00:38:44.140
And then when we woke up, the following ballots were counted and overnight without impartial observers.
00:38:49.780
Now, so this is a claim from Insurrection Barbie.
00:38:54.840
So I don't know who the person is behind the account.
00:39:00.440
This is a way of saying what I've heard a million times, but I'd not ever heard it this way.
00:39:08.140
So I'd always heard it in, you know, there were some places in some swing states that mattered a lot.
00:39:15.340
But I didn't know that it was four out of four major cities and that they were the ones that made the difference.
00:39:21.920
Is that, is this an accurate way to explain what happened?
00:39:29.420
I have to admit that the entire time I've been hearing this story,
00:39:37.220
because I guess I'd been hearing it explained a little differently.
00:39:44.120
I knew that in at least one place, they claimed there was a water break and they counted things overnight.
00:39:51.680
I thought I heard that there was a second place that happened.
00:39:55.700
But I thought to myself, well, maybe they just took a break.
00:39:58.860
And their, their story was that, that other ballots come in late at night.
00:40:03.220
And they just counted them and maybe they shouldn't have sent the people home.
00:40:08.020
But, you know, beyond that, that's all we knew.
00:40:11.060
So I would lack any direct evidence that anything illegal happened.
00:40:18.360
So I haven't heard the story with direct evidence.
00:40:21.160
So if you're only using indirect evidence, you know, kind of a statistical thing.
00:40:25.900
I had never heard it described in a way that triggered my pattern recognition.
00:40:33.700
So if you just say, we think it happened in this place.
00:40:36.580
And then there's a story that doesn't involve water main breaking,
00:40:40.660
but there was another place that counted them overnight.
00:40:43.220
And by the way, there were several places that, you know, the results changed overnight.
00:40:48.920
That sounds like this sort of loose, you know, thing that happened that you really can't tell.
00:40:54.960
Well, if it happened in several places, I would say to myself, if it's in several places,
00:41:00.500
it's just maybe how the system works because it's spread everywhere.
00:41:04.720
But if you tell me that the four key cities were the four that had this very specific thing happened,
00:41:11.480
if anybody had ever said it in these exact words before,
00:41:15.660
it would have completely changed how I thought about it from day one.
00:41:19.680
And, and I've read about this story a hundred times.
00:41:22.060
So if, if this is the right way to say it, boy, does it look different in my head.
00:41:32.120
Elon Musk commented on Insurrection Barbie's post, and he said, quote,
00:41:40.960
Now, I was probably reckless of him to say that,
00:41:43.800
because when you say sunlight is the best disinfectant,
00:41:46.060
disinfectant, it's only going to be hours before MSNBC turns that into,
00:41:51.360
Musk recommends drinking bleach to cure electronic voting machines.
00:42:04.180
So I, I, uh, I divided all the ways that our election is susceptible to cheating into three
00:42:15.500
There's a cheating before the election, there's a cheating during the election,
00:42:19.200
and then there's a cheating after the election.
00:42:22.780
So let me go through the three categories of cheating.
00:42:25.320
Now, again, I believe none of these would be available or somewhat, but they would be mostly
00:42:31.760
unavailable if Elon Musk's plan of in voting, voting in person with ID and, um, doing it in
00:42:40.500
If all that happened, most of this couldn't happen, but some of it could like, so before
00:42:45.300
the election, we were inundated with fake news that half of the country believes is real
00:42:52.220
How in the world do we depend on voting when we have a system where half of the country
00:43:04.040
It's not even attempting to be real when it, when it comes to the political stuff, it's not
00:43:11.360
Now, if half of the country doesn't know that and, and our knowledge is what drives the entire
00:43:17.540
election, you could say that the fake news is, is a rigged election.
00:43:25.460
If you've brainwashed people all in one direction now, because it's also a free market, you've
00:43:31.760
got your Fox news, your bright Barts and, you know, lots of independent people who are, you
00:43:36.800
know, balancing things out, but it's really about the brainwashing competition.
00:43:44.680
We think it's about the votes, but the real cheating happens in the brainwashing.
00:43:49.360
So the cheaters are the people who lie the most effectively and the mainstream media is
00:43:58.460
You, you heard that the crime rate numbers that were allegedly down, but everybody who
00:44:04.460
had eyeballs and lived in the rural world knew they were up.
00:44:09.340
But not until, not until after the debate, when Trump got fact checked and now half of the
00:44:16.560
country, because they believe news and they think data is real and they heard it first,
00:44:22.240
they think crime is down because Biden did a good job.
00:44:35.380
So we also know that Google and Meta are allegedly gaming their systems in big ways.
00:44:43.040
Again, what is the point of having an election if the information that you would use to make
00:44:48.900
your decision is all fake or biased or anawack or manipulated or algorithmically controlled?
00:45:00.540
The decision is made by the brainwashers and how effectively they brainwash.
00:45:06.360
Then you've got the states that are trying to block the no cheating laws.
00:45:13.180
So wherever, wherever somebody is trying to tighten up the election laws, so it's not easy
00:45:18.640
to cheat, there are people working really hard in the government to stop that so that it is
00:45:26.020
Now, there's always some second reason, like, well, that would be disruptive or, well, we're
00:45:34.660
not sure you have the authority to, you know, it's always some technical reason.
00:45:39.760
But coincidentally, it all goes toward the same direction of making sure it's easier to
00:45:44.740
So now you've got Georgia Republican Party, they're appealing a decision because there's
00:45:53.880
Fulton County, they wanted some stuff to make the elections more secure, got turned down.
00:46:03.040
It has stuff to do with, like, you know, voter IDs and voter rolls being corrected and stuff
00:46:10.040
But in every case where this seems like it's a really big effect and there's an obvious
00:46:19.680
The Daily Wire says that Michigan's voter rolls list 8.4 million voters, but there are only
00:46:36.340
Now, what's the point of having an election with such a leaky system?
00:46:45.300
You know, of course, we know that the Mark Elias and all the legal maneuvers that have
00:46:49.880
happened in the past and the present make a big difference in the effects.
00:46:53.920
We know the lawfare against Trump is, of course, election interference, but it doesn't get counted
00:47:01.480
And the lawfare could make or break the entire thing.
00:47:06.100
I mean, if the lawfare took Trump completely out, what does the vote matter?
00:47:13.460
It's just we call it something different because it happened before the election day.
00:47:21.380
And now the judge has denied the request to delay publication of the evidence against Trump
00:47:32.180
So that's all going to be dumped right before the election.
00:47:35.400
That's election interference, because we know that the the judges and the DAs and all
00:47:40.500
these Soros Democrat people are just doing every single decision, it seems like not everyone.
00:47:46.520
But it seems like a lot of decisions are going against one person.
00:47:53.040
Then during the election, here are the allegations.
00:47:59.420
Allegedly, in 2020, there were a bunch of extra ballots printed by a ballot printing company,
00:48:05.380
sent on trucks to one place, filled out by the millions, and then shipped off to be counted.
00:48:11.720
There is seemingly a credible account that that's exactly what happened, and that there's a door
00:48:22.440
that won't be unlocked, even though the court has ordered it, that has at least some of all those
00:48:28.380
fake ballots, but we're not allowed to look at them, which is enough to tell me it's true.
00:48:34.700
If we had opened up the door and, you know, somebody checked, I'd say, oh, okay, maybe true,
00:48:40.580
maybe not. But if they won't open the door, after a court order, still don't open the door,
00:48:47.200
just to look. All they have to do is look at them, and they'll be able to tell if they're fake.
00:48:51.300
No, I believe it. Now, I don't know for sure, but if you're not going to open the door,
00:48:56.940
I believe you're guilty, government. Government is always guilty until proven innocent. All they
00:49:02.000
have to do is open the door, prove their innocence, but they don't do it. All right.
00:49:08.580
Then the overseas ballots, obviously, that's a gigantic hole. You can vote by email overseas
00:49:16.600
without an ID. Of course, there will be cheating. I would imagine it will be massive.
00:49:23.240
How about the election machines? If Elon Musk thinks that they're vulnerable, why would I doubt him?
00:49:29.300
What about non-citizen voting? Some say there will be a lot of them. Some say that someday there might
00:49:39.180
be a lot of them, but only if they become citizens. And Democrats say, well, there might be some,
00:49:45.720
but it's not any big thing because they know it's illegal. But there is enough suggestion that
00:49:53.320
maybe their names are being used or they're getting ballots that somebody could harvest.
00:49:58.860
So I would suggest that that's certainly a big hole, but we don't know how big.
00:50:03.720
We've got the dead people voting, the people who moved down to state voting. That's the problem with
00:50:08.340
the voter rolls. We know the voter rolls are a mess in a number of places. We've got the possibility
00:50:14.600
that the post office can do shenanigans and throw away votes if they know they're from
00:50:19.380
a place that has more support from one candidate. How would you know? Well, they say some people in
00:50:26.180
some states can check their ballot to make sure it was received. How many people do that? And if they
00:50:32.280
did do that, would there be time to fix any of it? No. If you checked and found that your personal
00:50:38.460
ballot had not been delivered, all you would be able to do with that is vote again. You just maybe vote
00:50:46.580
in person or send in another one if you have time. But it wouldn't stop any process because you wouldn't
00:50:52.220
even talk to your neighbors and your neighbor might be doing the same thing. Like, oh, wow,
00:50:57.500
my vote didn't get in. So you could have massive knowledge that votes had not gotten in without
00:51:04.200
anybody knowing that it's a massive knowledge that you'd only know the way you knew. And maybe you had
00:51:10.140
one co-worker happened to. But you wouldn't know it was big if it happened. Now, I'm not saying I have
00:51:16.380
evidence that's ever happened. I'm giving you the point that even if you had massive, allegedly,
00:51:23.080
hypothetically, if you had massive cheating, there's no way to catch it. There really isn't.
00:51:30.060
You could catch it maybe 20 years later after the fact, like we think we know that JFK's election was
00:51:36.120
rigged, but they didn't catch it when it happened. It always takes too long. Everything gets certified
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And then you got that kicking out the observers, that could happen again.
00:52:05.120
And the late night counting after the observers are gone, I suppose that could happen again.
00:52:10.900
So that's what you could do during the election. Here's what you could do after the election,
00:52:15.820
if hypothetically you had rigged it. If you had rigged it, you're still, your part of the rig is
00:52:22.960
after the election because you got to hold your position and make sure it doesn't get reversed.
00:52:28.040
So the first thing you do is make sure that the elections are not fully auditable,
00:52:32.440
which is the case. So there's not really any practical way to know that every vote got in
00:52:40.160
and it wasn't rigging. As Elon Musk says, if you change one line of code, where do you catch that?
00:52:50.340
Who's going to catch that? How about the courts? The courts really, really don't want to get
00:52:56.940
involved in election stuff. They have a sort of a reflex to be a separate branch of government and
00:53:03.600
not have too much influence over the elections. And I appreciate that. But it also means they're
00:53:09.180
going to be so slow that the president will be installed, whoever it is. And they're going to say
00:53:18.680
that you have no standing and there's a technical problem with your case, et cetera. And that might all
00:53:23.180
be true. But my point is the courts are not a tool that could be used in a short term of, in a brief
00:53:30.080
period between election day and inauguration day. Nothing could happen that fast in the court system.
00:53:37.980
We don't have any kind of court that can do that. I mean, you can do a, you can do an emergency
00:53:42.020
Supreme Court thing. You could do that in time, but they wouldn't have any time to research.
00:53:49.920
You wouldn't be able to do an investigation. Nothing like that. And if you did, you'd know that everything
00:53:55.640
would disappear. Oh, the video of that Dropbox, we lost it, which has happened. That's literally something
00:54:02.520
that happened. So you could just delay after the election. And even if you were finding things,
00:54:09.220
and even if you did investigate, you would find things, it wouldn't matter. Because we don't have a fully
00:54:15.760
auditable system, nor do we have a second line of protection, which would be, well, we didn't fully
00:54:22.920
audit it, but we caused some sketchy things and we took it to court. That won't work. Because the court
00:54:29.200
needs way better than sketchy things, and it's not really the tool that determines elections. And then, of course,
00:54:36.340
the Department of Justice would punish anybody who protests. So citizens would be helpless,
00:54:42.720
because if they protest, they'd be arrested. That's what January 6th was about, to make sure that you
00:54:47.700
knew that if you disagree with the government, they'll put you in jail. And the fake news would,
00:54:54.800
of course, rally around whatever result they liked, if they liked it, and tell you the election was fine.
00:55:01.440
And if you doubted it, you were a bad citizen, and possibly, you know, some kind of conspiracy
00:55:06.900
theorist. So here's my statement I would like to make publicly. My public statement.
00:55:17.380
Don't design a laughably ridiculous election system and ask me in advance to accept the vote count.
00:55:23.660
You could ask me to accept the vote count if you had designed in advance a secure system. I would do
00:55:35.140
that. You could ask me in advance, would I accept it? And I would say, yeah. As you've described that
00:55:42.220
system, that Elon Musk design system where people show up and show their ID and they vote on the same
00:55:48.240
day. Yeah, I'll tell you in advance. I trust it.
00:55:53.660
But don't design a system which is laughably porous, laughably porous. I mean, just absurdly porous.
00:56:04.960
And then ask me to confirm it in advance. Because that's just a little bit too much signaling that
00:56:11.500
you plan to rig it. I mean, you might as well just say, hey, Scott, I'm going to shove this all the way
00:56:19.320
up your ass until it comes out your mouth. But I'd like you to agree with it in advance.
00:56:26.340
The absurdity level of this is beyond anything that is even describable. It's indescribably absurd
00:56:34.860
to ask people to confirm in advance that they'll accept the result from a system that is designed like
00:56:42.060
this. It looks like it's designed to hide the result. That's what it looks like. I mean, if you
00:56:51.000
were from another planet and you didn't know anything about politics and you said, okay, you
00:56:56.420
advanced aliens, take a look at this system. And they'd say, all right, what are you trying to do?
00:57:04.540
Well, we're trying to elect some people and make sure that it's a secure system. So take a look at
00:57:10.420
our system. They'd say, well, how are you doing it now? We'd say, well, we've got these electronic
00:57:15.500
machines that the alien would be, well, hold on, hold on. You mean the kind that you can change with
00:57:22.760
one line of code? And we'd say, yeah, yeah, very secure. And the aliens would say, what are you
00:57:27.940
talking about? You just told me you could change it with one line of code. How many people do you
00:57:32.820
think have access to any given machine? Well, you know, we check, you know, and the alien would
00:57:39.140
just slap you around and say, are you kidding? That's your system. That's your system for a secure
00:57:45.440
election. But we've been brainwashed into thinking we live in the system where all the smart people are
00:57:50.960
in charge. They took care of you. They took care of the hard things so you don't have to. You don't
00:57:59.020
have to worry about the security of the election because the smart people are taking care of it.
00:58:03.460
It's boring. It's boring. People don't even ask questions. You don't need to know why we do it
00:58:08.980
this way. It's boring. It's boring. We'll just take care of it. Well, let's talk about Trump on tariffs.
00:58:16.340
The Wall Street Journal said this about it, that Trump's plan remains shrouded in uncertainty.
00:58:23.400
He has called for an across-the-board tariff of 10%, later suggested 10% to 20%, and at least once
00:58:31.420
even said 50% to 200%. They go on. He has proposed a tariff of 60% on goods from China, or maybe more.
00:58:41.500
He has also proposed reciprocity, or U.S. tariffs that match those of its partners. That should spare
00:58:47.200
Mexico and Canada, which under a U.S.-Mexico-Canada agreement negotiated in Trump's first term,
00:58:52.980
don't change tariffs on the U.S., but Trump has separately said autos from Mexico could face
00:58:58.820
or would face 100% tariff. Mexico imposes no tariff on U.S.-made autos. In short, they summarize,
00:59:16.080
Perfect. It's almost like he could write a book called The Art of the Deal.
00:59:22.980
If you knew what he had in mind, it wouldn't work. It's only the fact that you think he might put a
00:59:29.820
200% tariff on you that you're going to take him seriously at all.
00:59:36.420
This makes me laugh because it's so perfect. This is exactly what I want Trump to do.
00:59:43.800
I want Trump to go in public today and say, maybe 10%, maybe 200%, maybe 50%,
00:59:49.380
maybe your cars, maybe not, maybe China, maybe Germany, maybe Russia, I don't know, maybe 10%,
00:59:55.300
maybe 50%. That's exactly what I want him to do until he gets in the room. I mean, the trade
01:00:02.900
negotiators. You put the trade negotiators in the room, and the trade negotiators play good cop,
01:00:08.760
and the good cop says, you know, you heard what Trump wants to do. I mean, he wants to tariff you
01:00:15.860
so hard. He loves tariffs. You've never even met somebody who likes tariffs as much as he does.
01:00:21.140
He thinks it's a win every time he does it. I'm trying to talk him out of it because I know it's
01:00:25.580
bad for you, and I'm sort of on your side. But damn, I cannot talk. He loves the tariffs. He can't
01:00:31.220
stop talking about it. He wants 10. He wants 80. He wants 60. He wants cars. Did you see what he said
01:00:36.980
he's going to do with China? My God, if you give me a great deal, there's some chance I can take it
01:00:43.200
back to the boss and talk him down on these tariffs. But you're going to have to give me a lot. You're
01:00:48.380
going to have to give me more than you've ever given me because Trump is on the warpath with these
01:00:52.860
tariffs. I don't know how I'm going to talk him out of it unless you really work with me.
01:01:05.160
All right. The European Union is at war with America. I think they're giving Apple a hard
01:01:12.700
time. They're giving Tesla a hard time and his other companies and don't have to free speech
01:01:18.960
in America directly and indirectly. I've really sort of had it with the European Union,
01:01:24.100
and I think maybe we should just stop funding Ukraine and let the European Union fall because
01:01:30.300
if you're going to attack the United States, we need to kind of send a message. Don't attack
01:01:36.440
our companies. Just back the fuck off, European Union. Now, I don't know if I'm going too far on
01:01:45.020
that, but anyway. So yeah, European Union, you're not my friend. Poly markets, you know,
01:01:53.080
the poly market, betting market, as I have been trying to warn you, betting markets are not
01:01:59.700
reliable when it comes to predicting what's going to happen. Trump has a big lead in the poly markets
01:02:06.060
market, but now there's a report that some big accounts put in $30 million and they look like
01:02:11.280
they might even be related as in there might even be one person or one entity. So it might be somebody
01:02:16.440
gaming the system or it might be somebody who's rich who's just playing. You can't tell, but you
01:02:23.560
cannot assume that the poly markets is telling you anything useful.
01:02:46.440
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Have you all heard the hoax about the enemy within and Trump going to use the military to
01:03:10.180
You know, I've been hearing that for like, what, a week or something? And I've literally just been
01:03:16.500
ignoring it. And the reason I ignored it is because as soon as you hear it, you know, it's based on
01:03:22.260
something and a context and it's a hoax. And I thought, surely I will not have to get involved in yet
01:03:29.080
another hoax that's something taken out of context. But sure enough, it's turned into the major message
01:03:36.120
coming from the Democrats and from Harris. And their claim is, and by the way, I don't even need
01:03:42.780
to explain how it's a hoax. Because as soon as you hear it, you don't even need it to be explained.
01:03:50.400
Do you really believe that Trump said he wanted to use the US military to get rid of political
01:03:56.420
enemies like Adam Schiff? How many of you think that's a real thing that could have happened in
01:04:03.560
the real world that maybe, just maybe has slipped out? And he really said that. Does anybody think
01:04:09.600
that? That's the actual story that idiot cunt Harris is pushing on the country. I mean, this is
01:04:20.200
really cuntish behavior. I mean, you're just a piece of shit if you do that. Because the level of division
01:04:26.220
that that could create is just off the chart. Now, do you know the real story? So the real story
01:04:34.120
is that it's two separate stories. And they just put them together. So separate story number one
01:04:42.260
is that Trump did say that Adam Schiff and some of his cronies were the, he calls them the enemy within,
01:04:50.100
meaning that he considers that they're external enemies, you know, and adversaries, of course,
01:04:57.780
but that he also has people inside our government who are bad actors. Now, I agree that when he's
01:05:04.900
talking about Adam Schiff, he's not talking about just a Democrat senator who votes the other way.
01:05:12.260
Adam Schiff has been part of two major hoaxes that by any reasonable definition were attempts to
01:05:19.080
overthrow the government. Absolutely. He is the worst lying, you know, negative thing that we have
01:05:29.060
in the country. So the first thing is that Trump did say that that's like an enemy within. I completely
01:05:35.160
agree with that. Anybody who knows what Adam Schiff lied about from Russia collusion to what the laptop
01:05:42.920
to, how many lies is that one guy told? There are really the dangerous kind, the super dangerous
01:05:50.200
kind. Yeah, absolutely. There's an enemy from within. And what's wrong with that? It's pretty much
01:06:00.660
exactly what Harris is saying. She's saying Trump's the enemy. She's saying that the white supremacists
01:06:06.940
hiding in the mountains, you know, they're the enemy within. It's just words. Everybody knows that
01:06:12.100
what Trump thinks of Adam Schiff. He just reiterated what he thinks. He used those words, enemy within.
01:06:20.140
Then, separately, the question of if there was some kind of, you know, mass protest that is related to
01:06:27.840
the turnover of power. Trump said he wanted to make sure that there was nothing dangerous happening.
01:06:33.360
So he'd do whatever he needed, you know, including if that meant calling in the military.
01:06:39.020
But it would be calling in the military to avoid all danger. It would be calling in the military to
01:06:44.860
make sure no Democrats got hurt. It's literally the opposite of calling in the military to take out
01:06:52.400
the enemy within. It would be bringing in the military to make sure that everybody was protected,
01:06:57.380
including the enemy within, including Adam Schiff. Meaning that the military wouldn't say,
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well, you can kill, you know, don't kill anybody except Adam Schiff. No, the military would be
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protecting Adam Schiff. That would be the job of the president and the military. If he called them,
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that would be, you know, last resort. Now, I don't think he would call them because probably the
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National Guard could do the job, which he said. But if you had to call in the military to keep the
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peace, wouldn't it be nice to have the option? I mean, you could argue that maybe you should never
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do that. But it's certainly the right instinct to reduce the level of violence. So then Harris puts
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them together and makes it act like, but she does it with, she tries to convince you with her face and
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crying. So instead of saying, I think Trump wants to use the military to shoot Democrats. She does it
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like this. He wants to, but, but he wants to, he wants to bring the military, the military people,
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the military. And she just makes it act like if I say it with a more tortured face,
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it'll be more believable. And so she takes the liar face to the highest level.
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He wants to, wow, wow, wow. Very convincing. Anyways, I wanted to mention that if you,
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if you heard that Jim Gaffigan, who is the comedic host at that Al Smith dinner thing that Trump was
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doing the jokes at, um, he did, he did poke at Harris, um, sort of that her package wasn't funny,
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so to speak. But, uh, then he said this joke. He said, the Democrats have been telling us, uh,
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uh, Trump's reelection is a threat to democracy. In fact, they were so concerned of this threat.
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They staged a coup, ousted their democratically elected incumbent and installed Kamala Harris.
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He said, sometimes prayers take three and a half years in George Clooney op-ed. Now,
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if you heard that completely out of context, you would say to yourself, um, is he a Trump supporter?
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Because the main claim, the single biggest claim Democrats are making is that Trump is the one who's
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going to steal your democracy. And Gaffigan's joke does what jokes do often is they reveal a truth
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that the Democrats are the one who have demonstrated a willingness to steal democracy and just did it
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right in front of you. Now, if you didn't know anything about anybody, you would say that's a very
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pro-Trump person who's sort of sneaking in. Probably one of the most powerful jabs you could ever make
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at the democratic brainwashing operation, that the whole steal your democracy is, is projection,
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basically. I mean, basically, he doesn't say it's projection, but he's saying it's projection.
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Now, I would like to give you a little behind the scenes knowledge.
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So, um, I know Jim Gaffigan a little bit. I worked with him on a commercial for Barnes and Noble
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many years ago when neither of us were very well known. And, uh, I thought that he might've
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remembered that he worked with me one day. So when he got much more famous and I was at a show of his
01:10:31.660
in Vegas, um, with my ex at the time, I thought, Hey, I think I'll see if I can say hi to him after
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the show. So I, uh, handed a note to the, one of the ushers and I said, Hey, I'm, I'm so-and-so.
01:10:47.340
I think I told him I was the creator of Dilbert or something. And, uh, I said, I know Jim Gaffigan.
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Can I say hi after the show? So, uh, he gave him the note and, uh, the message came back. Uh, yeah.
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Yeah. He says, come on back. Now, here's what I didn't know at the time. He did not remember that
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he'd ever met me, but apparently he liked Dilbert and he thought, Oh, the Dilbert guy wants to say
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hi. That'd be fun. So my ex and I went backstage afterwards. And, uh, when we figured out, Oh,
01:11:21.740
you don't remember me. It was just like, that was funny. So then we talked a little bit about
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politics because he was apparently aware of my Trump, um, support at the time. This was the first
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election. So this is back in the, uh, 2016. And so we had this long conversation about politics.
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He listened, uh, listened very, um, politely, respectfully to any opinions I had, didn't
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really push back on anything. Um, had his own opinions, which, you know, are his opinions.
01:11:54.400
So it's not for me to give them, but here, here's what I can tell you. I have no idea who he,
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who he supports. I have no idea. And that's my compliment to him. If you can talk to somebody
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for, you know, I don't know, an hour and a lot of it's about politics. And when you leave,
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you're not sure who they're going to vote for. That's pretty good. That's pretty good. He was
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very honest about what, what, um, holes in his own knowledge he had. You know, there's some things
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I knew that he hadn't heard. He absorbed it all. He had genuine curiosity. He wasn't, you know,
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he wasn't mocking me or putting me down for my opinions, which you might expect from somebody who
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you assume would be Democrat leaning. And I think he is actually, but I don't know. Like if I had to
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guess, probably lifelong Democrat, but could be a Republican. And that's my compliment. When you say
01:12:52.440
that people are independents, you rarely mean it, right? There, there aren't real independents,
01:12:59.060
people who actually might vote one way or the other, depending on what makes sense. He might be,
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he might be the real deal. So I don't know. I don't know. But this joke is, um, if you didn't know
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that he's a genuinely open-minded person who is seeking reality, which he is, I can confirm that he is
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seeking reality. Um, it might get different, but I, I think he would hit both sides with equal gusto.
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And I don't think this reveals anything. It doesn't reveal anything about his, who he would
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vote for because he might have equal, equal complaints on both sides. Well, you probably heard
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that Israel, uh, they say they got lucky. Some people say it might've been more planned, but,
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um, Sinwar, the head of Hamas and the person who was most responsible for everything, I guess,
01:13:53.180
including October 7th, uh, has been killed in an operation. And, um, so a lot of people are speculating
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that that will change things because once the, the main person behind Hamas is dead, and probably a lot
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of their lieutenants and underlings are dead as well, that it might be time that Hamas would say,
01:14:16.760
hmm, maybe we should talk about exchanging these prisoners for a ceasefire. I'm here to tell you,
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forget about that. Nothing like that's going to happen. They're not going to get more flexible
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because you killed their leader. It's like, if you've paid no attention to the Middle East ever,
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you might think that, but no, killing somebody's leader just about never makes things better.
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Just about never. But if you kept killing the leaders and you got down several layers of
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capability, well, then it can make a difference. You know, I've speculated before that the,
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the top two or three people in any successful organization probably make a big difference.
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But once you get to that, sort of that fourth, you know, then, then, uh, you know, chance comes
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into it. Or what are the odds? The fourth one's like a superstar. Because in order to make something
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like Hamas or Al Qaeda work, you know, with limited resources and everything, somebody at the top has to
01:15:21.180
be really good at whatever they're doing. And if you get rid of the top two or three, you're probably
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not going to have somebody who is as good as the founders. Probably not. Right. So I think Israel's
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moving in the right direction. Netanyahu said Hamas will no longer rule Gaza. Um, so they're very clear
01:15:41.960
that, uh, all of Hamas has to be dismantled. Um, it looks like the only, the only idea that I saw
01:15:49.620
this sounded feasible is that you do what I called, uh, years ago, I called it a filter fence
01:15:55.800
that if you can't, if you can't bring peace to the population, the way the population is,
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and you can't kill them all because you're not monsters. Um, the only thing you can do is create
01:16:08.640
peaceful zones that are entirely gated and then let in the people that, you know, are safe,
01:16:14.900
but only if you know they're safe, like babies. Yes. So just really, really, really carefully know
01:16:23.880
they're safe. And then you build a safe community and then you expand the number of safe ones,
01:16:28.940
but you'll always have this mixed one that you're trying to shrink, which has a lot of bad people in
01:16:35.240
it. And you keep trying to, you know, whack them all the bad ones, but you know, they're going to come
01:16:39.260
back. And then eventually you build some communities where people have something to hope for something
01:16:44.580
to live for something that's working out, something you can make peace with. And then you could talk
01:16:49.900
about the politics, but you can't really just pacify it the way it is. You can't just say,
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all right, Hamas, it looks like, uh, you got nothing but rubble. So, uh, make a government.
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We'll see if nothing like that's going to happen. So the, I think it was Petraeus who described the
01:17:08.500
idea of, you know, building the walled cities that are safe and only letting in the safest,
01:17:13.100
most vetted people. And then once in, you make sure you control the schools because you're going
01:17:18.800
to have to control the brainwashing to make sure they don't re-radicalize just over the internet
01:17:24.360
or something. So that's going, uh, Ukraine's government, according to the Brussels signal,
01:17:34.000
uh, they're alarmed by rising desertions. So the allegedly the first eight months of this year,
01:17:40.240
they had, uh, 46,000, uh, soldiers desert. Uh, some say it might be more, but here's my question.
01:17:50.820
If you were a Ukrainian or Russian soldier, shouldn't you desert?
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You should desert right away because the war is over.
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The war is over. It's going to be something like the current borders.
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And if you give your life for the status quo, you're an idiot. Why would you give your life
01:18:18.720
for the status quo? Nobody does that. So desertion is the number one thing you should do. Now, I suppose
01:18:27.180
if only one side deserted massively, then the borders would change. But I feel like the Ukrainians and the
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Russians should be talking to each other at the fighting level. At, at the soldier level, they
01:18:40.880
should be making a deal for a mass desertion on the same day and just both sides do it. Because,
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you know, I'm sure that the, the, the officers would, you know, try to have you killed for
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deserting. But not if you all do it. If everybody deserts and just says, Hey, you know, we're done.
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Our leaders have completely failed us and we don't need to wait four months for Trump to do something.
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Let's just desert. Now, of course that could never happen. Or could it? My point is, if you,
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every person who dies from, you know, from really a while ago, but everybody dying from now on is
01:19:24.260
completely wasted. You can't make an argument that it was somehow to somebody's benefit. It was just
01:19:31.020
poor management on both sides. Poor management is killing people. It's not Russia. You know,
01:19:40.200
Russia is the, maybe the tool that's killing them, but it's bad leadership that's killing people.
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Because nothing's going to change on the borders. So it's just a leadership death trap.
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That ladies and gentlemen is my prepared remarks for today. I thought it was awesome. I hope you
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enjoyed it. And I'm going to talk to the local subscribers privately, by the way, if I haven't
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01:20:20.060
Oh, here's a funny thing. So on a, if you're a local subscriber, or also if you subscribe on X to the
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01:20:36.340
give you one that was 10 years from the publication date, 10 years earlier. And both of them are about
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robots today. So 10 years ago, the comic was about a walking robot that was the supervisor of WALL-E.
01:20:50.240
And this week, 10 years later, we see the optimist robots walking and right on the verge of taking
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