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00:00:50.440 Anyway, other news.

00:00:52.940 You might know that the Young Turks, Cenk Uygur, had asked for somebody to debate, somebody

00:01:03.220 to say that Trump was the right answer for the country.

00:01:05.760 And I was a little bit slow on responding to some emails because I volunteered.

00:01:11.920 So I missed, I missed my spot.

00:01:15.120 I overbooked.

00:01:16.120 So I couldn't do it on Thursday, which is tomorrow.

00:01:20.360 And I think he has some other people who volunteered to do that.

00:01:24.640 But I will be a guest on the Young Turks on Monday.

00:01:28.100 So I'll still get to talk about the same topic, but it will be Monday.

00:01:35.140 I believe the Young Turks starts at 8 p.m.

00:01:38.540 Easter time on Monday.

00:01:40.200 So I'll be a guest.

00:01:40.920 And again, I just, I'm a fan without agreeing with his opinions of Cenk, because I just like

00:01:52.900 his mental flexibility and I like the fact that he'll talk to anybody and he doesn't seem

00:01:57.960 to be afraid of anything, at least in the conversation realm.

00:02:02.000 So I just kind of like that.

00:02:03.880 So it doesn't matter if we agree.

00:02:05.760 I can, I can still appreciate that.

00:02:07.420 Anyway, there's a study, according to SciPost, that excessive news consumption predicts increased

00:02:17.000 political hostility.

00:02:19.520 Huh.

00:02:20.500 So the more you look at the news, the more you hate people.

00:02:27.400 You probably know what I'm going to say, but I'm going to say it anyway.

00:02:31.880 You didn't really need to study that.

00:02:35.200 You could have just asked me.

00:02:37.420 Scott, we're going to spend a bunch of money on a study to find out if watching the news

00:02:42.000 makes you hate people.

00:02:43.500 And I would say, yes.

00:02:45.300 Have you spent five minutes looking at the news?

00:02:47.880 Well, no, we haven't.

00:02:49.800 Well, you should do that.

00:02:51.300 Why don't you just spend five minutes looking at the news and you tell me if you don't hate

00:02:55.140 the world more.

00:02:56.680 Oh, good.

00:02:57.600 We'll just save some money.

00:02:58.640 We'll do it your way.

00:03:00.740 Again, everybody in the scientific community, just ask me first.

00:03:05.400 I can save you a ton of money.

00:03:08.120 That whole study, unnecessary.

00:03:12.620 Meanwhile, according to SciTech, this will sound like the smallest story.

00:03:17.780 Way bigger than you think it is.

00:03:20.080 Way bigger.

00:03:20.780 Apparently, you know, science has been trying to create an artificial nose for a long time

00:03:27.200 and they can kind of do it, but it's real complicated and has lots of, you know, lots

00:03:32.860 of components and stuff.

00:03:33.980 But apparently now there's a way to make a simplified, very effective way to use some

00:03:41.060 kind of an antenna and send out some kind of a signal and see what kind of a signal you

00:03:46.220 get back and that will tell you what smells or gas is in the air and it does it really

00:03:50.780 well.

00:03:52.480 So pretty soon your robot's going to be able to smell things.

00:03:57.180 This is a bigger deal for me because I don't have a sense of smell.

00:04:03.040 You know, I lost my sense of smell some time ago.

00:04:05.980 And if I had a robot in my house, I would want the robot to be able to know if there's

00:04:12.160 a gas leak.

00:04:13.500 Because, you know, the gas leak smells like rotten eggs, but I can't smell it.

00:04:16.980 I was once, years ago, in my first marriage, I was in a condo and stepkids were doing their

00:04:24.360 thing and I was doing my thing and my ex was out for the day doing whatever.

00:04:30.900 And she comes home and she walks in the door and she's like, my God, you know, open the

00:04:35.300 windows.

00:04:36.040 The house is going to blow up.

00:04:38.060 You know, it's filled with gas.

00:04:39.720 And I said, really?

00:04:43.320 Couldn't smell a thing, but apparently she could.

00:04:45.960 And so we, we managed to not blow up the entire block, but there had been, I think the, the

00:04:52.700 pilot or something on the, on the oven was on.

00:04:56.140 So yes, I need a robot that can smell some stuff.

00:05:00.280 They might even be able to sniff out disease.

00:05:04.620 But think of the other things they could do.

00:05:07.740 Imagine if you had this smelling antenna in your location and then some criminals come in

00:05:15.600 and they do some crimes, but there's no video.

00:05:19.600 Would it be possible to use the electronic nose to then get a sample from the perps?

00:05:27.340 Should you ever catch them?

00:05:28.920 And, and see if they're guilty based on their smell, because you may have recorded their smell

00:05:34.660 at the location and there would be, it's probably like a fingerprint.

00:05:37.620 So there's a whole bunch, you know, if you assume the smell is like for humans, the, the

00:05:44.860 underappreciated sense, you know, my dog has super smell.

00:05:48.800 It, if we had robots with super smell, I feel like a whole bunch of things would happen that

00:05:55.760 you don't see coming.

00:05:56.980 So I think it's a big deal and you should trust science.

00:06:01.400 And I, uh, I encourage you to always believe science, whatever science says, it's all true.

00:06:12.120 If science says it, uh, next story is, uh, is from nature.

00:06:18.440 The publication turns out that the journals with the high rates of suspicious papers flagged.

00:06:24.620 Oh, so there's this startup that has some kind of mechanism for determining, uh, which of

00:06:31.380 the scientific papers are bogus.

00:06:33.800 It's called Argos, Argos.

00:06:36.180 That's the name of the startup or the system that looks for, uh, research papers that look

00:06:42.780 like they're not good.

00:06:45.240 Let's see.

00:06:46.100 Uh, how many did they find?

00:06:47.500 I mean, there can't be that many, right?

00:06:49.100 Cause we all trust science.

00:06:51.720 So I mean, sure.

00:06:53.060 Nothing's perfect.

00:06:53.860 But if it's science, probably, you know, I'd be worried.

00:06:59.120 They, they might find like a dozen papers or so that are just made up.

00:07:05.040 I mean, imagine how shocking that would be if they found like, you know, maybe 20 science

00:07:10.800 papers that were just made up.

00:07:12.460 That would really rock your confidence, wouldn't it?

00:07:15.280 But imagine if it was like 50, you know, what, what if they found 50 science papers that

00:07:22.700 had been accepted as peer reviewed and then turned out to be just totally false?

00:07:27.340 I mean, you can't, you know, see how many was it?

00:07:31.120 Um, they flagged more than 40,000.

00:07:34.120 High risk and 180,000 medium risk papers.

00:07:39.380 And they've indexed more than 50,000 retracted papers.

00:07:45.300 Okay.

00:07:47.680 That's a little worse than I thought it was.

00:07:50.540 Now, these are just flagged, the 40,000 high risk, but the, but the tool is saying that

00:07:56.660 there are 40,000 papers that you probably shouldn't count on.

00:08:00.460 Now, let me ask you this.

00:08:06.820 Suppose I created this system on paper and it never existed before.

00:08:13.140 It goes like this.

00:08:14.660 If you want to be a scientist, you got to publish papers.

00:08:19.040 Well, all right.

00:08:19.920 So far, so good.

00:08:21.540 Yeah.

00:08:21.900 And that makes sense.

00:08:22.860 Cause then you can tell if the scientists are, you know, really up on their field and

00:08:27.300 stuff.

00:08:27.840 Good.

00:08:28.400 Yeah.

00:08:28.580 Scientists should be able to publish things that we're going to have a peer review.

00:08:32.700 There'll be other scientists who will look at it.

00:08:34.980 Not, not to totally make sure that's fine, but to weed out, you know, obvious quacks and 1.00

00:08:41.180 stuff.

00:08:42.000 And I think to myself, yeah, that makes sense.

00:08:44.960 That does make sense.

00:08:46.780 Yeah.

00:08:47.620 Uh, and now we're going to give an incentive structure to the scientists that they will make

00:08:53.860 lots of money if they publish, but they won't make lots of money if they don't.

00:08:59.580 Oh, okay.

00:09:01.400 Well, yeah, I suppose anything that you want to be done, you want to have a little financial

00:09:05.420 incentive for sure.

00:09:06.580 So sure.

00:09:07.380 Sure.

00:09:08.420 Now, how do you think that's going to turn out?

00:09:12.740 Well, if you dropped a weasel into that situation, they would say, what if I just make up a bunch

00:09:19.200 of papers, make them look like they're good, send them to my buddy, who's the cousin of

00:09:24.960 my brother-in-law to do the peer review?

00:09:27.960 He probably won't even look at it or I'll send it to somebody who always says yes.

00:09:31.800 And they'll definitely get peer reviewed and then I'll get huge bonuses and I'll be paid

00:09:37.200 to speak at events.

00:09:39.940 What would stop you from doing that?

00:09:42.900 Well, apparently not much because you don't hear about people who are shamed forever because

00:09:48.760 their papers didn't, you know, were retracted.

00:09:51.780 So it seems to me that even on paper, what that should have led to, given the financial

00:09:59.460 incentive, eventually all science will be fake.

00:10:03.020 Because the fake science is so easy and it pays so well that eventually it will just overwhelm

00:10:12.800 anything that's real.

00:10:14.700 And even if there is some real stuff, you wouldn't be able to find it.

00:10:18.060 It'd be lost in all the wrong stuff.

00:10:20.940 So even on paper, this guarantees that science would go off the rails.

00:10:27.220 Now, I don't have a better idea.

00:10:29.340 You know, there might be a better idea out there.

00:10:30.840 Maybe this Argo system is part of it.

00:10:33.020 But even on paper, that was going to lead to doom, pretty much guaranteed.

00:10:41.060 According to Modernity, which is some kind of publication, I think, witches are complaining 0.99

00:10:47.560 on the Reddit platform.

00:10:50.020 I guess a lot of witches on the Reddit platform.

00:10:53.240 They're complaining that they can't cast spells on Trump because, quote, he has some kind of

00:11:00.340 protection around him.

00:11:02.520 So the witches are trying to put spells on him, but they're not getting through.

00:11:06.320 Got some kind of protection.

00:11:07.700 So sounds like they're on to me, but I'll try to keep protecting Trump from the witches.

00:11:16.360 It's taking a lot of energy.

00:11:18.680 But so far, so far, my protective spell is holding.

00:11:23.180 Let's see if that continues.

00:11:25.220 Don't tell the witches, by the way.

00:11:27.340 Don't tell them what's going on.

00:11:28.880 But I've got a little protective bubble around Trump.

00:11:33.420 It does, it can deflect a bullet. 0.98

00:11:37.680 You know, if a bullet is heading at his head, I can move it just off base, maybe hit his 0.92

00:11:42.560 ear a little bit. 0.69

00:11:43.520 But I can't do everything.

00:11:44.860 I mean, it's not magic.

00:11:46.380 Oh, it is magic.

00:11:47.860 Yeah, it's magic.

00:11:48.900 It'll work fine.

00:11:49.540 Wall Street Journal is now suing Jeff Bezos back to perplexity app.

00:11:56.640 I keep talking about this app because this is a rare thing.

00:12:02.480 Usually when I try an app, I would say one out of 20 of the apps that I try, I end up

00:12:13.120 continuing to use.

00:12:14.400 They're usually overrated or they're for some specific purpose or, you know, they don't work

00:12:20.180 or something.

00:12:21.960 But I tried this perplexity app.

00:12:24.100 It's the one that is sort of AI plus search.

00:12:29.040 And I can't go back.

00:12:32.120 If you spend five minutes using perplexity, and by the way, I was getting so annoyed because

00:12:38.080 whenever I brought up something about Google search, the people in the comments would say,

00:12:42.640 try perplexity.

00:12:45.000 If you try it, you'll never go back.

00:12:47.100 It's so good.

00:12:48.060 Why haven't you tried perplexity?

00:12:50.040 And of course, my brain was doing the one in 20 thing.

00:12:53.120 Yeah, there's a one in 20 chance I might like that app you're talking about that I've never

00:12:57.300 heard of and I don't know what it does.

00:12:59.600 But eventually, I said to myself, there's so much yapping about this app.

00:13:04.200 I got to try this app.

00:13:06.140 When you got a lot of yap, you got to try the app. 0.55

00:13:09.900 Yeah, that's what I say.

00:13:11.060 So I tried it and it is so sticky.

00:13:17.700 Wow.

00:13:19.660 So let me tell you how I get ready in the morning.

00:13:24.660 A common thing I do.

00:13:26.340 I used to try to talk to AI, regular AI like Chad GPT.

00:13:31.260 But there's almost nothing I want to talk to AI about that doesn't require it to have access

00:13:36.800 to the internet, to look something up, tell me what's new, tell me the weather, anything.

00:13:43.520 I have no interest in its general patterns of words.

00:13:48.580 Yes, you have general patterns of words.

00:13:51.120 You're not a person and you do not have information that is reliable.

00:13:54.940 So what are you?

00:13:59.600 What's even the point of AI?

00:14:01.720 At least for casual use.

00:14:03.620 I don't even know.

00:14:05.400 So, but if you use perplexity, it doesn't have conversation mode, but you can push a button

00:14:13.040 to talk and you can push another button to listen to what it says.

00:14:16.040 So I'll do things like I'll have something in my head and I'll be push the button.

00:14:22.120 I'll say, is it true that the moon is really made of cheese and that somebody found that

00:14:28.360 out in the 50s?

00:14:29.160 Whatever it is.

00:14:29.820 I'm just making that up.

00:14:31.520 And it cogitates for a moment.

00:14:34.720 And then I pick push the speaking button.

00:14:37.680 And then it gives me a little, a little customized news report.

00:14:43.600 And it's great.

00:14:44.680 It's just great.

00:14:47.420 And everything I ask, it shows me the sources.

00:14:50.680 Doesn't seem to, it doesn't seem to show me any sponsored stuff, but maybe it does.

00:14:55.520 It just doesn't have anything labeled.

00:14:59.220 So I'll be, I'll be real interested to see if these big media entities can kill it.

00:15:05.640 And why wouldn't they be going after Google?

00:15:09.280 Is there something that perplexity is doing that Google doesn't do routinely?

00:15:13.040 Google shows the, the big publications, shows a link to it, right?

00:15:18.840 They both just summarize them and show links.

00:15:21.720 So I don't know.

00:15:23.720 Sounds like there might be something behind these lawsuits that's more than just protecting

00:15:28.960 intellectual property.

00:15:30.100 Well, Nicole Kidman, who's 57 years old, which is important to this story.

00:15:37.420 She's doing a new movie in which she's an older woman having an intense love affair with a younger

00:15:44.440 man.

00:15:44.840 And the story is that she had to pause the filming.

00:15:49.020 It's called Baby Girl.

00:15:50.100 That's the name of the movie. 0.58

00:15:51.120 She had to pause the filming because she didn't want to orgasm anymore because she was getting 1.00

00:15:56.740 so aroused by the sex scenes that she was having so many orgasms that she just had to take a break.

00:16:03.240 Now, ladies and gentlemen, I give you the best marketing campaign for any movie in the history of movies.

00:16:15.820 Do you believe that she was having continuous orgasms with people in the room not having real sex and 0.93

00:16:24.640 moving the camera angles and move your elbow and you're on my hair and can you, can you turn a little 0.65

00:16:30.820 bit in this direction?

00:16:31.640 I do not.

00:16:33.920 I do not.

00:16:35.460 No, I do not believe that she had any orgasms while she was filming it.

00:16:40.520 I do believe that as soon as I read she had so many orgasms filming it, I said to myself, well, make a mental

00:16:48.080 note.

00:16:48.500 I might want to watch it.

00:16:50.340 I might want to watch it.

00:16:52.140 So, oh my God, that's good marketing.

00:16:55.300 So, I'm going to give Nicole Kidman my highest grade for persuasion.

00:17:02.420 I don't care if it's true.

00:17:04.220 By the way, it's a movie, right?

00:17:06.200 She's creating a piece of fiction.

00:17:08.500 If she used a piece of fiction to market her piece of fiction, I'm okay with that.

00:17:17.300 I'm totally okay with that.

00:17:18.840 It's fiction.

00:17:19.660 It's fun.

00:17:20.180 It's entertainment.

00:17:20.760 If part of the entertainment is some BS in the marketing, that's fine.

00:17:26.660 It's just part of the show.

00:17:28.400 Go ahead.

00:17:31.060 Meanwhile, Boeing expects to make a big third quarter loss and they've also got a big strike

00:17:36.860 coming and I think they had a satellite blow up and they don't know why.

00:17:41.920 So, Boeing's have a lot of problems.

00:17:44.120 I did hear somebody speculate that Boeing's problems may not be totally organic.

00:17:49.680 Meaning that if you were China and you were trying to compete with the United States and

00:17:56.180 you were trying to compete, especially in the really important areas, such as not just

00:18:02.360 manufacturing, but manufacturing of high-tech stuff like airlines, and China has some new

00:18:08.760 competitor to the Boeing products, that you would try to get your competitor to embrace

00:18:15.140 DEI.

00:18:15.900 Now, I don't have any evidence that China is behind the DEI practices of Boeing, because

00:18:23.600 if they were, they'd have to be behind the DEI of everything in America.

00:18:27.900 And then I say, but are they?

00:18:32.740 The thing about DEI is that it's no more believable as an organic thing than Black Lives Matter or

00:18:40.920 Antifa were.

00:18:41.660 And those were both fake, as far as I know.

00:18:44.980 I mean, it's no more believable than the Patriot Front.

00:18:49.740 So, I don't know.

00:18:52.180 I do suspect that there's at least the possibility, so again, this is recreational speculation.

00:18:59.720 It's not based on any knowledge.

00:19:01.280 That someday we might find out that one of our regional adversaries, and I'll say just economic

00:19:09.540 adversary, may have planted the DEI flag in America to see what damage it could do, because

00:19:17.960 they knew they wouldn't have the same problem in their country, so it wouldn't spread to

00:19:22.160 them.

00:19:22.880 It would be the ideal virus.

00:19:24.680 Yeah, when I call it a virus, now you get it, don't you?

00:19:30.140 Because when the actual virus came out of China, it was really, really bad for people.

00:19:35.180 But DEI is basically a mental virus, you know, a mind virus, and it's one that China is immune 0.99

00:19:41.480 to. 0.91

00:19:42.500 They're immune to it.

00:19:43.520 So, they could unleash that virus on the rest of the world, and they would dominate all

00:19:50.020 manufacturing forever, and essentially dominate the world without conquering anybody militarily.

00:19:56.100 So, they could conquer most of the Western world with a DEI virus.

00:20:01.840 Does that mean that they were behind it?

00:20:04.120 No, it doesn't.

00:20:04.940 It does mean that if you came to me and said, Scott, you're the head of China, and I've got 0.56

00:20:13.900 this plan to dominate all manufacturing of high-tech and everything else so that we'll

00:20:18.560 effectively run the world, because nobody can operate without our products.

00:20:22.880 Here's what we'll do.

00:20:24.560 We'll fund anything that has to do with DEI, and of course, the people taking the money will

00:20:30.600 be happy to take the money and spread it.

00:20:32.320 And that will make people feel really guilty if they're not accepting this thing that's

00:20:37.400 so obviously good for everybody.

00:20:39.760 And it'll be like a virus, and it will destroy manufacturing in the United States without

00:20:44.840 benefiting anybody.

00:20:46.460 So, even the DEI people thought, hey, it's going to lift everybody up to equity.

00:20:51.760 It would, in fact, crash the industry so everybody's poor, but about the same.

00:20:56.280 We'd all be poor and starving and cannibals. 1.00

00:20:58.040 So, I don't have any reason to believe that China was behind DEI, but again, on paper,

00:21:05.100 if somebody had brought that idea to me and I were in charge of China, I definitely would

00:21:11.780 have implemented that idea and said, you know what?

00:21:15.000 I think this little idea virus will destroy the United States, at least as a manufacturing

00:21:20.800 superpower.

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00:22:26.080 There's a video that's coming out of Seattle.

00:22:33.180 PJ Media has it.

00:22:34.540 And it apparently shows the ballot machine not working.

00:22:42.260 So this is Oregon.

00:22:44.740 And here's what I want to say about that.

00:22:48.660 I wouldn't trust any of the anecdotal election reports.

00:22:53.820 So there are other stories of machines that are reversing votes.

00:22:58.420 I don't quite believe those because they're a little bit on the nose.

00:23:02.600 They don't seem to ever get any, like, major media backing.

00:23:08.760 And I wouldn't be surprised if it happened once, and that maybe there's some process where

00:23:13.760 it's immediately corrected or something.

00:23:15.900 So I can't say there isn't a problem.

00:23:21.040 I'm just saying that it would be dicey to believe any of the individual reports.

00:23:25.580 Most of them will be fake, but we don't know which ones.

00:23:28.140 I did see a report today, and I saw the documents.

00:23:33.700 I can't be specific about it.

00:23:35.520 But apparently NBC is helpfully sending out guides to people to tell them how to vote in

00:23:41.340 their state.

00:23:42.960 And reportedly, and I saw the screenshot, so it's not being made up, NBC has wrong instructions

00:23:50.560 for some New York state residents.

00:23:52.900 It says that to vote by mail, you need a witness or a, what do you call it, the person who's

00:24:01.180 an official witness.

00:24:02.860 Now, I think that's not true.

00:24:05.880 So imagine if you were basing whether or not you voted on whether you had a witness.

00:24:11.120 That's kind of a big mistake.

00:24:15.960 So I'm taking a few assumptions.

00:24:17.940 My first assumption is that the New Yorkers do not need a witness to vote by mail.

00:24:23.460 And the second assumption is that the screenshot I said that I saw that seemed to come from

00:24:28.100 NBC saying that you do need it, that that would be incorrect.

00:24:32.880 Notary, sorry.

00:24:33.720 Yeah, the word I was trying to think is notary.

00:24:35.980 So the notice was that you need a notary or a witness.

00:24:39.580 And apparently that's just not true.

00:24:41.800 Now, that's a pretty big problem if it caused anybody to not vote because they didn't think

00:24:47.840 they could get a witness.

00:24:49.580 I don't know who can't get a witness, but there's always somebody.

00:24:55.660 So I don't know what to believe.

00:24:56.900 Let's see.

00:24:57.860 According to Byron York, a little post on X, Gallup has been studying trust in media

00:25:06.560 over the years.

00:25:07.780 And apparently the Democratic trust in media and their confidence in the media spiked in

00:25:15.820 two years in the recent past.

00:25:18.800 Do you know what years the Democrats had the big spike in believing that the news is real?

00:25:24.840 Well, 2016 and 2017, in the middle of the Russia collusion hoax, the biggest lies the media has

00:25:33.860 ever told to you.

00:25:34.940 That's when Democrats' trust in the media was sky high compared to historically, and Republican

00:25:42.660 trust went into the toilet.

00:25:44.060 Now, doesn't that settle who the smart ones are?

00:25:52.320 That kind of settles it, doesn't it?

00:25:55.120 Because these two were not close.

00:25:57.720 Democrats, the Republicans were completely right and remain completely right about the fake

00:26:04.200 news.

00:26:04.980 Democrats were completely wrong.

00:26:07.520 They actually trusted the news more, probably because it was on their side and they wanted

00:26:13.020 to trust it.

00:26:14.260 But, oh my God, it's like we found the problem.

00:26:19.560 And I often say you can't really have a conversation about anything important with anybody who thinks

00:26:27.100 the news is real.

00:26:29.700 I mean, if you believe the Washington Post is like real news on politics, you would be so

00:26:35.820 lost, so lost.

00:26:37.560 Well, here's your propaganda update.

00:26:42.360 Remember, I tell you that if you know what happened, you don't know anything.

00:26:46.240 But if you know who was involved, you might know everything.

00:26:51.440 So, Bob Woodward, who many people who are smarter than me say has always been part of the intelligence

00:26:59.200 apparatus of the United States, including his actions in the Watergate stuff.

00:27:07.560 But if that's true, does it make sense that he just went on CNN and said that Joe Biden

00:27:14.420 might get the Nobel Peace Prize for his good work in Ukraine, for preventing Americans getting 0.99

00:27:21.460 into a ground war?

00:27:24.260 Does that sound like something that somebody just thought was their own opinion and it would

00:27:30.700 be good to say on TV?

00:27:31.840 Or does that sound like propaganda?

00:27:38.700 And he would think of himself, I can't read his mind, so I don't know what he's thinking.

00:27:44.540 But does it look like that was a real opinion? 0.99

00:27:48.940 Because he's not stupid. 1.00

00:27:50.320 You don't get to be Bob Woodward if you're literally just stupid. 1.00

00:27:58.180 He's not stupid. 1.00

00:28:00.180 So why would you say this, which is obviously ridiculous? 0.99

00:28:04.880 The only reason you would do it is propaganda. 0.63

00:28:07.820 I mean, it doesn't have any news value whatsoever.

00:28:10.660 There's no news.

00:28:12.020 It's literally just weird propaganda.

00:28:14.280 Let's see, is there any other propaganda happening?

00:28:19.540 So there's a publication called The Atlantic, which is owned by Steve Jobs' widow.

00:28:25.400 And here's the thing.

00:28:31.380 We need to make a distinction between news which is biased and pure propaganda.

00:28:37.960 CNN is biased, but they do show quite regularly, and I give them credit, especially recently.

00:28:47.940 They have Scott Jennings on almost every night, giving the Republican view of all the stories.

00:28:54.060 And they've got two or three other people who look like they're pretty capable.

00:28:58.820 I forget their names, but they're also Republican voices.

00:29:02.800 So whenever there's a panel of five people, they throw in the one Republican.

00:29:06.020 And I don't mind bias when it's transparent.

00:29:12.720 If you show me five left-leaning people and one right-leaning person at the table, I know what you're doing.

00:29:22.020 You're not making it even.

00:29:23.880 I get it.

00:29:24.720 But it's also completely transparent.

00:29:27.480 You know, when Fox News does it, if they have, you know, the one Democrat on the five,

00:29:32.640 and four of them are the opposite opinion, I'm fine with that because nobody's hiding anything.

00:29:38.800 Hey, we're leaning in this direction, but we'll let you see the other side.

00:29:43.920 Now, that is completely different than something like the Atlantic.

00:29:49.420 The Atlantic is just a pure propaganda entity.

00:29:52.540 But because they're both publications in some way, you know, media entities, we act like they're all legitimate.

00:30:02.480 The Atlantic is not legitimate.

00:30:04.760 And we keep acting like we should talk about it like it's one of the media sources.

00:30:09.340 It's not really.

00:30:11.080 It's not even close to being anything like news or just like it's not even biased news.

00:30:16.800 It's just pure propaganda, at least on the political stuff.

00:30:21.520 So Jeffrey Goldberg, who the smart people say, is one of the most famous political liars in America.

00:30:29.240 Like he has a history of known gigantic lies where surely he knew he was lying when he did it.

00:30:37.980 Now, that's the accusation against him.

00:30:39.580 And there are a number of specific examples that the smart people like Glenn Greenwald, who watch this stuff, will give you.

00:30:48.560 So if you want to know the examples, follow Greenwald.

00:30:53.500 But his latest hoax is that General John Kelly says that Trump said that Hitler did some good things and he wishes he had some generals like Hitler or something like that.

00:31:06.020 Now, it doesn't matter because you know it's made up.

00:31:08.520 How do you know it's made up?

00:31:10.440 Because it's in the Atlantic.

00:31:13.060 You don't have to wonder if it's made up.

00:31:15.940 It's in the Atlantic.

00:31:17.900 That's all you need to know.

00:31:19.780 Is John Kelly, General Kelly, is he a reliable and credible source?

00:31:26.140 No, not even a little bit.

00:31:28.980 You would be the opposite of that based on past experience.

00:31:33.840 So no, there's no evidence that any of that happened.

00:31:36.080 It's in the least, the least credible outlet.

00:31:41.220 And the story is by the least credible person and the least credible outlet.

00:31:46.400 So, but of course, it's news because propaganda is news too.

00:31:51.960 Anyway, we really should have a list of the things which are not really even trying.

00:31:57.420 You know, the Washington Post, sometimes a little bit will show a little bit of the other side.

00:32:05.120 But I think when it comes to the political stuff, you could call them pure propaganda.

00:32:11.380 They don't seem like they're trying too hard to show both sides.

00:32:14.060 Anyway, the latest is that Kamala Harris will not be on Joe Rogan, but Trump will be, I think, on Friday.

00:32:23.760 And she will not be on the all-in pod, which Trump has already done.

00:32:29.940 And those are not the wrong decisions.

00:32:34.320 If I were in charge of the Harris campaign, I would tell her not to do those because she has the option of only doing friendlies. 1.00

00:32:41.900 If you have the option of only doing friendlies and not having anything that's unexpected, well, why would you?

00:32:49.120 Why would you?

00:32:49.520 You know, she, Harris was at this, I guess they called it like a town hall with Maria Schreiber.

00:32:59.080 And somebody in the audience asked if they could ask questions.

00:33:03.640 And Schreiber told her, no, the questions are predetermined.

00:33:07.380 So what's the audience for?

00:33:09.880 So they've got an audience of question askers, but the questions are already written.

00:33:14.380 So the audience was there as props to pretend that the questions have some, you know, some organic, organic history to them.

00:33:28.300 But Maria was at least totally honest in public and said, nope, you do not get to ask questions. 1.00

00:33:35.920 These are predetermined.

00:33:36.820 So you've got one person running who is, in my opinion, the most capable persuader, maybe one of the most capable presidents we've ever had.

00:33:49.000 When people complain about Trump, it's weirdly that he'll be too capable.

00:33:55.840 Now, they add to the too capable that he has bad intentions, which are not evident as far as I can tell.

00:34:01.880 But if you add together very capable with, in their view, the propaganda view that he has bad intentions, that can be scary.

00:34:11.800 But it's funny that they've completely stopped with the, you know, he's incapable stuff.

00:34:18.680 It's just obvious that he has capabilities and he has strong, strong capabilities.

00:34:23.720 He was president.

00:34:24.680 He showed it.

00:34:25.740 We see what Biden's done.

00:34:27.220 Doesn't look so good compared to what Trump did.

00:34:29.260 So it's now really clear that Trump was a highly capable operative.

00:34:35.820 Maybe you don't like his policies, like if he didn't like what happened with abortion, for example.

00:34:40.740 But nobody says he didn't get it done.

00:34:44.160 Nobody says he didn't put on the court people who would get done things his party wanted.

00:34:51.360 So if you just look at stuff he did, even if you don't like it, you still have to say he got it done.

00:34:57.640 Now, you could argue, well, he said he'd build the wall, but he didn't get it done.

00:35:02.840 Well, that was entirely because Democrats pulled out all stops to stop him from doing the thing that even they want to do now.

00:35:10.680 So, I mean, is that really?

00:35:12.860 If they pull out all the stops to prevent you from doing something that everybody wants, it's not exactly his problem.

00:35:22.280 I mean, that's something else going on.

00:35:25.200 But Harris, on the other hand, is the least capable candidate for president I think we've ever seen in American history.

00:35:33.720 I would love to know if historians could even come up with a second one.

00:35:38.340 Because we've got somebody who can't even go to an interview unless it's so friendly that they know the questions.

00:35:44.360 That's the lowest level of capability.

00:35:48.180 That's the level that you could pick anybody at random and they could succeed.

00:35:54.140 All right.

00:35:54.820 We're going to pick you at random.

00:35:56.340 Can you read from this teleprompter?

00:35:59.800 Yes.

00:36:00.380 Yes, I can.

00:36:01.080 Okay, good.

00:36:01.880 You can do a rally.

00:36:03.740 Can you memorize an answer to a question if we give you a week to memorize it?

00:36:11.940 Yeah.

00:36:12.700 Yeah, I can do that.

00:36:13.560 I can do that.

00:36:15.220 Well, now you can be president of the United States.

00:36:18.520 It's literally all she can do.

00:36:20.640 She can just take prepared, memorized questions.

00:36:23.940 And she can do reading off a teleprompter.

00:36:26.940 And she can do angry yelling like Hillary Clinton did. 1.00

00:36:31.600 And she can tell a bunch of lies about the other side. 0.94

00:36:37.300 Nobody, she's never been, this is the most incapable candidate I've ever seen.

00:36:43.000 Now, there may have been worse ones for Congress. 0.91

00:36:46.480 I'm sure there have been.

00:36:48.000 But we've never seen anybody this bad in terms of just minimum capability.

00:36:55.040 Yeah.

00:36:55.700 I usually am picking, you know, when I'm looking at president candidates, I usually think I'm picking something like their policy preferences.

00:37:06.780 Because usually I think, well, you know, Bush versus Gore.

00:37:11.900 Very highly qualified, capable people.

00:37:16.820 It really was about the policies, right?

00:37:21.480 If you looked at, you know, Clinton versus Dole.

00:37:28.600 Very qualified people.

00:37:30.560 Highly qualified.

00:37:32.060 So it's about the policies.

00:37:34.300 But the Kamala Harris thing is not about the policy at all. 0.54

00:37:38.040 It's about, I don't even know if we could survive having this level of leadership or lack of it.

00:37:43.260 I mean, that is bad stuff.

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00:38:02.100 All right.

00:38:02.760 Let me tell you the most dangerous story of the day.

00:38:05.860 You ready?

00:38:07.680 This is under the category of recreational belief.

00:38:13.180 I'm going to tell you a tale.

00:38:16.620 But I'm not going to tell you I believe it.

00:38:19.280 I don't disbelieve it.

00:38:22.160 I don't disbelieve it.

00:38:24.340 But I definitely don't believe it.

00:38:26.100 And I'd be looking for your help to tell me if there's some reason I shouldn't believe it or some reason I should.

00:38:35.820 All right.

00:38:36.140 So this is based on a post by Patrick Byrne.

00:38:40.440 You know him.

00:38:41.280 He was the CEO of overstock.com.

00:38:44.500 But his resume is very impressive.

00:38:48.160 I've taken a look at it.

00:38:49.540 And you can tell that he's a really smart guy and he's been really connected in a lot of things, you know, for real.

00:38:58.740 So his ability to see behind the curtain would be better than most.

00:39:03.200 But here's what we have to decide.

00:39:06.560 Is what I'm going to tell you another kraken? 0.90

00:39:10.560 Or is it the truth?

00:39:12.440 Because the kraken is when you think, oh, no, now I know everything.

00:39:17.180 And then you go out and you talk about it.

00:39:19.220 And then you become Sidney Powell.

00:39:21.400 And then you lose everything and you get sued.

00:39:24.460 And, you know.

00:39:25.600 Now, in the end, Sidney Powell, I believe, was shown to be flawless.

00:39:33.900 Am I correct?

00:39:35.420 Now, she was going to lose her license or something.

00:39:38.000 But I don't think any of the claims she made about the election ever became a legal problem that was confirmed by a court.

00:39:48.180 In other words, I don't know that her accusations were debunked.

00:39:53.480 Maybe you do.

00:39:54.380 I don't know.

00:39:55.320 So I just don't know.

00:39:56.860 But here's roughly what Patrick Byrne will tell you.

00:40:03.080 You can look on his account and you'll find it today.

00:40:05.940 It's brand new.

00:40:06.740 It just happened hours ago.

00:40:09.300 And it's a six part, but small parts, you know, like six minute things, something like that, in which he describes a little bit of the history of Venezuela and how that affects our elections.

00:40:25.580 I know.

00:40:26.660 I know.

00:40:27.600 I hear your thoughts.

00:40:29.380 I hear them.

00:40:30.940 I get it.

00:40:32.920 It's the kraken, isn't it?

00:40:34.380 It's definitely fake, isn't it?

00:40:37.940 Well, I don't know.

00:40:39.440 I have no way to know.

00:40:41.220 So I'll just tell you roughly what he says.

00:40:44.480 And if this doesn't make you interested enough to listen to the whole thing, then you're dead inside.

00:40:51.160 Because the story he tells is so freaking interesting that recreationally, you're going to love it, even if it turned out, you know, not to pass the fact check.

00:41:04.140 And I don't know.

00:41:04.960 I really don't know.

00:41:05.880 So, for legal purposes, allow me to say the following.

00:41:12.320 Every company, person, or country that I mention in this context is just because of something I heard, not because I think it's true.

00:41:22.400 My opinion on whether it's true is suspended.

00:41:26.940 I don't know.

00:41:28.460 I really don't know.

00:41:29.760 And usually, usually I have a strong inkling, but I don't have an inkling on this one.

00:41:36.380 It's really weird.

00:41:38.140 So here's the story.

00:41:42.080 Venezuela is not a regular government. 0.99

00:41:46.100 And that for years, it's been a gay cartel. 0.99

00:41:52.540 And that the gay cartel is not something that's separate from the government. 0.98

00:41:56.680 It is actually the government. 0.96

00:41:58.480 And that the generals in Venezuela are the head of the cartel.

00:42:02.480 And it's the richest, most powerful cartel in the world.

00:42:06.600 The president would, again, also be head of the cartel.

00:42:10.760 So, but here's the fun part. 0.98

00:42:16.100 According to Patrick Byrne, the Venezuelan head of the cartels are basically a P. Diddy model of male rape. 0.98

00:42:27.600 Right. 0.98

00:42:28.320 So, the way Venezuela is being held together is that the people in charge, who are generals or, you know, presidents and stuff, are literally just raping the other men to keep them in line.

00:42:42.200 And that it's so common that it's not even like there are a few bad eggs. 0.99

00:42:48.240 It's more like the main operating system of Venezuela is men fucking other men to keep them under control. 0.99

00:42:57.060 Is that true? 0.99

00:42:59.020 Well, I would have said the Diddy thing wasn't possible.

00:43:02.020 You know, prior to the Epstein stuff, I would have said that's not something that happens in the real world.

00:43:10.740 But I guess it does happen in the real world.

00:43:13.240 I just don't know if it happens in Venezuela.

00:43:16.880 Now, the gay part is probably more bisexual than gay, meaning that most of them are married, probably have regular marital relations. 0.99

00:43:27.080 But apparently, there's a lot of male raping. 1.00

00:43:30.900 That's the claim.

00:43:32.220 Now, that doesn't have a lot to do with the bigger story.

00:43:35.840 And again, this is Patrick Byrne's claims.

00:43:38.360 These are not my claims.

00:43:40.180 I have no idea what is true and what's not.

00:43:43.560 But the story goes like this.

00:43:45.740 Sometime in the past, when the Venezuelan cartel wanted to make sure that it had a good control over Venezuela,

00:43:53.960 it sent three engineers to start a company, a software company for election machines.

00:44:03.080 And although they started it in the United States, so it would look like a U.S. company registered in Delaware,

00:44:09.900 they would actually be sort of under the control of some Venezuelan characters.

00:44:15.240 And then that software, allegedly, in different forms, ended up in all voting machines.

00:44:24.260 So even companies that have different names, and I'm not even going to name the names because you know all the names of the companies,

00:44:31.400 that the Venezuelan fake software, meaning software that was designed to rig elections,

00:44:39.440 and that was the only purpose for the company, was to design rigable machines.

00:44:45.760 And that that rigable software, although it has been rewritten in other languages, is on all the machines.

00:44:52.480 So that there isn't any voting machine anywhere that doesn't have Venezuelan software.

00:44:59.060 Now, do I think that's true?

00:45:01.400 I don't know.

00:45:03.020 I don't know.

00:45:03.960 It's a hell of a story.

00:45:05.380 It gets better.

00:45:05.960 There's also a claim that the hardware for most or all of these machines, which looks like it's coming from Taiwan,

00:45:16.440 is actually from mainland China, and they just launder it through Taiwan, so you think it came from Taiwan.

00:45:24.700 So the claim is that our elections are determined by Chinese hardware and Venezuelan cartels.

00:45:34.240 And that every country that uses any kind of voting machine is controlled by Venezuela. 0.89

00:45:42.840 In other words, Venezuela gets to decide who is the president in every country that uses voting machines.

00:45:50.480 And that somehow Castro was part of that as well.

00:45:53.540 Now, that's a pretty big claim, isn't it?

00:45:57.560 So I can't really wrap my head around that as all being true.

00:46:03.940 I will say that if you look at the materials, you know, you look at the video that Patrick Byrne did.

00:46:09.960 By the way, I think he has a book.

00:46:11.720 I believe he's got a book out, so maybe this is, you know, some of this is related to that.

00:46:16.040 But it all hangs together.

00:46:21.600 So that doesn't make it true.

00:46:24.060 But it would explain so many things.

00:46:27.300 And one of the things I always think about is that in my world, you know, I see the world through a Dilbera filter.

00:46:32.900 That whenever I hear something like, oh, our CIA is super competent and, you know, they've got control of everything.

00:46:41.380 I always say to myself, do they?

00:46:44.340 Do they?

00:46:45.080 Is the CIA the one highly capable organization in the world and everything I've ever been involved in was a mess?

00:46:53.740 But not the CIA.

00:46:55.640 No, everybody's good except, you know, everybody's bad except the CIA.

00:46:59.300 They're just they're just nailing it every year, maybe.

00:47:04.360 But the other possibility is that they're terrible.

00:47:08.900 What if they're terrible?

00:47:11.120 They might be.

00:47:12.520 If they're terrible, then it would be entirely possible that some criminal entity is running all of our elections and several elections around the world.

00:47:21.780 But the American version of this is that the CIA is the one overthrowing all the countries and maybe the CIA is behind the voting machines.

00:47:31.880 Now, one possibility is that that's exactly why this story exists.

00:47:38.340 So that you don't suspect that the CIA is behind everything.

00:47:43.160 What?

00:47:44.080 What?

00:47:45.460 Maybe.

00:47:46.220 So what we what we can't determine, and if any of you have any insight into it, it'd be great, is is this the great reveal?

00:47:59.540 Or is it just another diversion so that you don't expect the real bad guys?

00:48:04.500 What do you think?

00:48:08.080 You're going to have to hear the whole video to have an informed opinion because I'm just giving you the highlights.

00:48:14.800 But I feel like it would be reasonably impossible to confirm the following facts or to debunk them.

00:48:25.480 Number one, do we know that the hardware is made in China and just labeled as Taiwan?

00:48:30.620 There's probably some source for that.

00:48:32.580 I don't know what the source is.

00:48:34.500 But is it true if you took every every voting machine everywhere and looked at the software, even though the language might be different, that it's basically the same line for line code and that it came from a Venezuelan source?

00:48:53.160 Those seem like things that you could possibly find out are true or false.

00:48:58.140 And I haven't.

00:48:59.760 So I don't know.

00:49:00.540 But I'll tell you, it's such a mind effort that, you know, when the Epstein thing comes out, you have to, like, change everything you think about everything.

00:49:12.040 And the Russia collusion story comes out, and you have to change everything about how you see the world.

00:49:18.520 Then the 51 intel people who said the Biden laptop thing was fake, and then you've got to change everything you're thinking about the world.

00:49:28.100 And then the diddy thing comes out, and you have to change everything you think about music.

00:49:33.040 And then this comes out right in the middle of all that.

00:49:36.460 And now I have to change everything I think about everything, if it's true.

00:49:44.420 But if it were a diversion or a way to discredit people like me, because if I talk about it, then I get discredited later.

00:49:53.240 So I've already said enough that the Atlantic could write a hit piece about me, say that I'm pushing a story about Venezuelan cartels running the elections.

00:50:05.120 Do you see how this works?

00:50:07.360 Now, this is not something that CNN or Fox News would do, because, again, they're biased, but they don't operate as a purely propaganda entities.

00:50:16.240 You know, they're transparent.

00:50:19.240 But the Atlantic or the Washington Post are kind of a different animal.

00:50:24.200 I've already given them enough that they could write a story that would seem like I believe it, and I'm pushing it, and maybe I'm part of a Russian propaganda or a Venezuelan gang.

00:50:35.260 Right?

00:50:36.640 Don't you think you could take what I've already said, and then if nobody was going to check what I said originally, because people don't, you could just write an article and people would believe it.

00:50:46.240 Oh, he's pushing this thing.

00:50:49.340 So my interesting situation is this.

00:50:53.760 I'm drawn to risk.

00:50:55.920 So sort of a flaw of mine.

00:50:58.280 When something's dangerous, I tend to go toward it.

00:51:01.800 And it was very dangerous for me to even tell you that Patrick Byrne has a story to tell and the basic idea of what it was.

00:51:12.280 Very dangerous.

00:51:12.960 It could be the end of, it could be the last time you see me, basically.

00:51:17.060 It could be that dangerous.

00:51:19.000 But I tell you for sure that I genuinely don't know if it's true.

00:51:25.320 I genuinely, I don't even have a, I don't even, I'm not even leaning in one direction.

00:51:30.600 And that's rare.

00:51:31.260 So the fact that I'm not even leaning in one direction is also telling me something.

00:51:37.700 But I'm not entirely sure what it's telling me.

00:51:41.520 Now, I haven't seen anybody debunk it.

00:51:44.740 That doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

00:51:46.340 I do have some feelers out to see if I can get a better handle on it.

00:51:51.540 If I find out something, I'll let you know.

00:51:54.000 But I don't suspect that if you look at all the claims about our election systems, you know, these included, it's certainly hard to imagine that we're going to have a good result.

00:52:05.360 And here's what, let's see, Speaker Johnson said.

00:52:15.280 He said he doesn't expect that we'll have a result in the election.

00:52:21.920 So Mike Johnson, the Speaker, said he expects Democrats to refuse to certify election results if Trump wins.

00:52:29.440 Now, would that be unusual?

00:52:31.420 Turns out, no.

00:52:32.500 That would be normally what they do.

00:52:34.120 So according to Johnson, the post-millennium has this story.

00:52:39.900 Quote, Democrats have now made it a tradition to object to electors, certain states of electors, and they have done so every single time a Republican president has won in the last quarter century.

00:52:52.980 Now, I didn't know that, that the Democrats have called foul on every single time a Republican won.

00:53:00.760 And of course, it would work the other way as well, right?

00:53:04.440 If the polls say that Trump's going to win, but Harris wins in the last minute, and, you know, votes come in at the middle of the night.

00:53:13.660 So under what scenario would either side certify this election?

00:53:18.560 So we have an election system that's designed, and everybody knows it, to guarantee that both sides think it was rigged.

00:53:32.600 How do you do that accidentally?

00:53:34.120 That can't possibly be an accident, given that we know how to avoid it.

00:53:41.320 Where is this coming from?

00:53:42.720 It's very confusing.

00:53:43.580 Well, here's a story that I don't have any insight into, so I was kind of sitting it out, but I'm observing.

00:53:53.020 MSNBC has been talking to some citizens about the election, and they ran a package in which they were talking to some black voters about how they felt about Obama saying that black men may be sexist,

00:54:09.580 and that's why they're not supporting Kamala Harris, and I saw one of the black men who was being interviewed saying that he was deeply offended by that.

00:54:21.960 Deeply offended.

00:54:24.120 And I wondered how common that is.

00:54:28.600 You know, it's anecdotal, so I don't want to make too much of it, but I don't have a sense of what would be insulting to other people.

00:54:35.000 You know, you usually know what would insult you, but not somebody else.

00:54:39.160 Do you think that was deeply offensive?

00:54:42.520 I mean, it was clearly a slight, but do you think people will actually vote differently because they were so treated?

00:54:55.400 I feel like, again, this is totally anecdotal, but it feels like black America is having some kind of awakening.

00:55:03.580 And you see it in a whole bunch of ways at the same time, and a lot of it had to do with the migrants coming in 0.74

00:55:10.800 and watching the people that they thought were their biggest supporters bring in somebody, let's say, with even, at least in the short term, bigger problems

00:55:22.660 and diverting resources to them.

00:55:26.280 And then probably black voters were saying, hmm, this wasn't exactly what I was expecting.

00:55:34.320 So I think that's going on.

00:55:35.820 I think people are realizing that the stories about Trump are all lies.

00:55:40.320 I think black Americans figured that out.

00:55:42.260 They figured out the hoaxes.

00:55:43.320 There are a whole bunch of videos where there'll be a black creator, you know, content creator, who's doing a video saying, 0.99

00:55:52.640 I just found out all this Trump stuff is bullshit and it's all based on hoaxes. 0.99

00:55:56.480 There's a whole bunch of them. 1.00

00:55:58.020 Now, again, are they organic or is somebody's campaign paying for them?

00:56:02.500 I don't know.

00:56:03.800 But there's a lot of them.

00:56:05.340 So something big is happening with black America. 0.99

00:56:08.720 I think it's probably in a good direction.

00:56:13.920 I saw that the Amuse account on X had some information that, you know, when Kamala Harris did the Catholic church event,

00:56:24.460 but she made a video instead of showing up in person, the Al Smith event, whatever it is.

00:56:29.160 And it was kind of a little bit blasphemous because it showed Molly Shannon acting like a Catholic schoolgirl, 0.99

00:56:37.620 seemingly mocking the faith a little bit.

00:56:40.920 And that was generally considered a huge fail.

00:56:44.900 But I didn't realize that the Harris campaign was blaming Mark Cuban for suggesting it.

00:56:52.140 Do you think that's true?

00:56:54.480 Do you think Mark Cuban suggested this exact idea?

00:56:57.480 I'm going to say no.

00:57:01.260 Here's what might be true.

00:57:03.180 It might be true that he said something like, you know, play it for fun or, you know, make sure you have fun with it,

00:57:11.840 but do a video or, you know, maybe something like that.

00:57:15.980 I don't think that he suggested the specific failed skit.

00:57:20.660 Do you think that Mark Cuban was writing the jokes for the skit and decided how to cast it and that it would, you know, I don't think so.

00:57:31.480 I don't think so.

00:57:32.280 He may have suggested doing a video.

00:57:35.200 Which might have been the suggestion when he found out that she wasn't going to attend in person.

00:57:41.960 Because a video would be better than just skipping it.

00:57:46.100 So he may have been involved, but I feel like maybe they're looking for, you know, dumping off a little blame on him.

00:57:52.560 And that my best guess is that that's overblown.

00:57:58.100 Did you know that the British government seems to be trying to defeat Trump?

00:58:04.720 The claim is that members of the British government are coming over to the United States to help campaign for Harris.

00:58:12.460 Like, really?

00:58:13.460 You're sending your politicians to campaign for Harris?

00:58:18.000 I don't know how much of that is true.

00:58:20.660 And apparently the Labour Party over there in Great Britain has somebody, according to, let's say,

00:58:29.860 according to Paul Thacker, who's worked with Matt Taibbi on this story,

00:58:33.860 there's some documents showing that the Labour Party's political front's objective

00:58:39.100 was to, quote, kill Musk's Twitter through, quote, advertising focus, meaning harassing the advertisers.

00:58:47.840 Is that true?

00:58:49.660 Is the government of Great Britain trying to kill Twitter?

00:58:54.800 Now called X.

00:58:57.040 And are they interfering in our election?

00:59:01.280 If either of these things are true, then they must be punished.

00:59:05.920 They must be punished.

00:59:10.260 Yeah, they're our best ally.

00:59:12.100 Sure.

00:59:13.220 But if this is true, there has to be a response.

00:59:18.480 And it has to be big.

00:59:21.160 Because this is really, really, really not okay.

00:59:27.960 Great Britain.

00:59:29.080 So here's what I think.

00:59:31.020 If Great Britain is trying to kill freedom of speech in America, I would pull out a NATO and I wouldn't defend them.

00:59:40.060 Period.

00:59:41.960 There's a bottom line here.

00:59:44.460 Right. 1.00

00:59:44.820 If Great Britain is trying to destroy freedom of speech in America, I don't want to protect your stupid fucking little island. 1.00

00:59:52.660 You can all fuck off. 1.00

00:59:54.720 You can all become Russian. 1.00

00:59:55.940 I don't care. 0.99

00:59:56.900 But don't ask me to spend a fucking penny if you're trying to remove our only last remaining source of free speech. 1.00

01:00:05.460 Fuck every one of you guys. 1.00

01:00:08.500 Every one of you. 1.00

01:00:10.460 And by the way, the citizens of Great Britain, you better do something with your government.

01:00:18.680 It's not my job to change your government, but I can certainly suggest that my government stop protecting you.

01:00:27.300 Yeah.

01:00:27.640 If you're going to come after us and destroy our system, I'm out.

01:00:33.820 So I think we should have an actual conversation, like literally, about whether we're protecting Great Britain anymore.

01:00:41.180 Whether we can work with them.

01:00:42.320 Now, I know how ridiculous that sounds because, you know, the connections are so deep and so long.

01:00:49.500 But, no, this is a, that's a red line.

01:00:53.440 This is a solid red line that they're crossing.

01:00:56.500 Now, Musk says he's going to fight back and, you know, maybe something can be done in the courts, but I doubt it.

01:01:02.360 This is a line.

01:01:04.040 Man, you crossed the line, buddies.

01:01:05.440 So, the next thing that Great Britain asks from the United States, the answer is no.

01:01:11.660 I don't even care what it is.

01:01:13.860 Just, just no. 1.00

01:01:15.580 Fuck off. 1.00

01:01:16.860 Leave us the fuck alone. 1.00

01:01:19.340 We're not going to forget that. 0.99

01:01:22.780 Well, the publication, The Hill Doesn't Know What Racism Is.

01:01:26.420 There's an article by Cheyenne Daniels.

01:01:28.960 And she's talking about Charlemagne was laughing at Laura Trump when Laura Trump said that President Trump has never said anything racist.

01:01:39.160 And then the writer, Cheyenne Daniels, wants the reader to know several examples which prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that Trump is racist and he said racist things.

01:01:51.800 So, here are the things that The Hill allowed a writer to write were racist.

01:01:57.540 Number one.

01:01:59.700 So, she said, despite his comments about the Central Park Five in the 80s, the Central Park Five, no race was ever mentioned, nor did he specifically mention the Central Park Five. 0.85

01:02:13.120 He did a full-page ad saying that, you know, they're criminal animals or, you know, are preying on the population and maybe you should have the death penalty.

01:02:24.460 Race wasn't even part of the conversation.

01:02:26.300 This is completely made up.

01:02:28.540 So, you'd have to read his mind and imagine that he secretly was thinking race when he never mentioned it.

01:02:35.800 He talked about behavior.

01:02:38.400 The behavior in the city is terrible.

01:02:40.800 Too many criminals. 1.00

01:02:42.140 Maybe we should kill them. 1.00

01:02:44.360 Behavior. 1.00

01:02:45.700 That's the opposite of race.

01:02:47.020 If you don't say anything about race and the story didn't have any racial element, except that race was, you know, people were different races, I guess.

01:02:57.180 But he didn't even mention that.

01:02:59.520 That was all made up after the fact that there was some racial part of it.

01:03:03.440 Then there's the birtherism conspiracy theory.

01:03:07.460 What the hell does that have to do with race?

01:03:10.300 Birtherism. 0.95

01:03:10.780 He said the same thing about Canadians.

01:03:15.020 The most common criticism in politics is that the politician you're running against is not a legal resident of wherever they are.

01:03:25.700 So, you see it a lot in more local politics.

01:03:29.120 Like, this person has a house here, but I don't think they really live here.

01:03:33.560 This person spent one month a year in the state, but they're running for senator.

01:03:37.600 It's the most common thing people say is that you were born somewhere else or your background doesn't make you capable to be president based on national origin.

01:03:51.740 Now, I don't think it's true that Obama is not a citizen.

01:04:00.120 In my opinion, he's very much a citizen, very much an American.

01:04:04.420 But it's not racist to question his birth certificate.

01:04:09.840 Race isn't even part of the conversation.

01:04:12.200 Again, who's bringing in the race?

01:04:14.020 It wasn't Trump.

01:04:15.680 It would be the same complaint about anybody.

01:04:18.860 Then there's what else is in the list?

01:04:21.740 Then there's Trump's rhetoric regarding migrants.

01:04:29.420 Is there some quote I should say?

01:04:32.200 I'm not aware of any racist rhetoric about migrants.

01:04:36.900 I am aware that Trump says there are too many criminals coming across. 0.99

01:04:41.740 Are we so dumb that we think he meant every one of them, the babies? 0.99

01:04:46.640 Was he blaming the babies coming across as being criminals? 0.98

01:04:49.680 No, obviously, he didn't mean all of them.

01:04:53.700 Obviously, he didn't mean that there are more criminals in this racial group.

01:04:57.980 But there might be more criminals who are being released from jails.

01:05:01.800 I don't know if that's true or not, but that has nothing to do with the race.

01:05:05.160 It would be whether or not they were in jail.

01:05:07.740 So there's no evidence of that.

01:05:10.500 That's just something that happens on the fake news.

01:05:12.940 And the last one is his recent embrace of a conspiracy theory about Haitian migrants eating people's pets.

01:05:21.320 What is the racial component of that?

01:05:25.780 If you replace them all with Americans, or not Americans, let's say, you replace them all with Irish people. 1.00

01:05:34.000 But if you were under the impression that this specific little island and their specific culture allowed them sometimes to eat pets where other people would say that's terrible,

01:05:44.680 well, it would still be about the activity.

01:05:47.640 It wouldn't be about the race.

01:05:49.440 You can just replace the Haitians with anything. 1.00

01:05:52.720 And if they were Irish, it would be the same complaint. 1.00

01:05:55.700 What, what is Trump going to be happy if the Irish are eating his pets? 0.98

01:05:59.580 Oh, I didn't realize the Irish were eating the pets.

01:06:03.820 That's okay.

01:06:05.220 No, it had nothing to do with the race of the people doing it.

01:06:08.240 It was the eating the pets part, which, by the way, there's not as strong evidence that there was much of that happening.

01:06:14.680 So, it amazes me that somebody could write an article in a major publication and not even have a passing understanding of what racism is.

01:06:26.660 That's weird.

01:06:29.580 You know the story about Trump worked at McDonald's and he won the news cycle, but Kamala Harris said that she had actually worked at McDonald's,

01:06:37.740 and that's part of why Trump did his thing.

01:06:39.660 But the source, according to the free bacon, free bacon, the free beacon, not the free bacon.

01:06:48.620 Free bacon is way better than free bacon, but the free bacon is a publication.

01:06:53.060 According to them, the Canadian woman who told the New York Times that Harris' dead mother mentioned her McDonald's job

01:07:02.840 is a campaign surrogate who has been to the White House and shares a sage at rallies.

01:07:08.200 And the New York Times never mentioned that the one and only source for Kamala Harris' claim

01:07:14.600 is one of her campaign surrogates,

01:07:18.380 who says she heard it from somebody who's dead now.

01:07:22.040 Do you think she worked at McDonald's? 0.50

01:07:31.560 Here's what's possible.

01:07:34.260 Maybe she worked there for a week and got fired. 1.00

01:07:38.560 Or, you know, being late or something.

01:07:40.680 If you're just starting at McDonald's, you only have to be late a few times and you get fired.

01:07:44.580 So, it's pretty easy to get fired.

01:07:46.100 So, I'm not saying she got fired, but if you believe she worked there based on a campaign surrogate

01:07:54.260 saying she talked to somebody who was dead who once mentioned it,

01:07:58.820 well, I'm not sure I would believe that.

01:08:03.580 Meanwhile, Tucker Carlson says he's going to join Trump, I think, twice in Georgia for the campaign rallies.

01:08:10.260 Now, do you think that Tucker Carlson could have joined Trump if he was still working for Fox News?

01:08:17.380 No.

01:08:18.540 So, it turns out that getting canceled allows Trump to have the pirate ship that he does.

01:08:27.840 Because he's got RFK Jr. that was basically canceled by the Democrats.

01:08:34.040 He's got Tulsi Gabbard who just decided that she's going to register as a Republican.

01:08:40.540 Vivek wasn't canceled, but, you know, he certainly understands that world.

01:08:44.540 And I was canceled, and it certainly makes me more all in on Trump.

01:08:51.620 So, it seems that if you cancel the wrong people, they become stronger.

01:08:59.980 So, didn't see that coming.

01:09:01.720 Anyway, so did you know that there is an effort by something called the 65 Project?

01:09:17.880 And they're doing ads and stuff telling people that if they're lawyers and they work for Trump,

01:09:22.480 they're going to be in big trouble.

01:09:24.500 So that Trump can have no good lawyers in the future when they go after him for a lawfare.

01:09:28.960 Well, the good news is that America First Legal is going to go after the people going after him.

01:09:37.580 So, America First Legal is going to investigate.

01:09:40.060 This is according to Just the News website.

01:09:43.740 News site.

01:09:44.500 Just the News.

01:09:46.340 So, they're going to investigate the group that's threatening lawyers associated with Trump.

01:09:50.780 I don't know if investigating gets you anything,

01:09:53.100 but we should put a little transparency on this to find out.

01:09:58.020 But, you know, as dirty as you think politics is, and it seems plenty dirty,

01:10:04.660 the fact that somebody is trying to make it impossible for somebody to get good legal representation,

01:10:12.040 this affects me at like a deeper level.

01:10:15.620 Because the Constitution is pretty clear, and the laws are pretty clear that even if you're guilty,

01:10:22.260 you get to have a good lawyer and you get to have a defense.

01:10:25.880 I don't think there's anything more basic to what keeps America together

01:10:31.960 than the fact that if you get arrested or I get arrested or somebody we hate or somebody we love gets arrested,

01:10:38.800 they're all going to get a defense.

01:10:42.740 And here they're trying to take away Trump's defense through, you know, clever,

01:10:48.880 just warning people away and threatening them.

01:10:51.760 And I don't, it's hard to imagine anything that's more deeply evil and un-American than this.

01:10:58.260 You know, all the other stuff I talked about, propaganda, you know, lying,

01:11:03.640 maybe the elections have some problems, et cetera, those are all terrible.

01:11:08.560 And, you know, the P. Diddy thing is, you know, beyond belief almost.

01:11:12.060 But I almost feel worse that there would be any American that is being systematically denied

01:11:21.880 the best level of lawyer support.

01:11:28.540 This is so deeply troubling.

01:11:30.900 I mean, just, I don't know, this one bothered me a lot.

01:11:34.080 So good for America First legal.

01:11:35.720 They continue to be superstars and they are the answer for all the lawfare that's been used against the Republicans.

01:11:43.660 So we've got some fight back happening.

01:11:46.880 Meanwhile, Carrie Lake's office was on lockdown because somebody mailed them a suspicious package

01:11:55.280 with a substance in it and a message that suggested it might be anthrax.

01:12:00.540 Now, I don't have a confirmation that it was anthrax.

01:12:02.960 Probably not.

01:12:04.640 Probably not.

01:12:06.460 But, wow.

01:12:09.180 I don't think it's ever been more dangerous to be a Republican.

01:12:14.440 How many Democrats got shot at or poisoned this year?

01:12:20.800 None.

01:12:21.980 I mean, I hope none.

01:12:24.160 But Trump got shot at.

01:12:25.820 Carrie Lake got suspicious package. 0.99

01:12:30.680 It's getting dangerous.

01:12:32.460 Dangerous to be a Republican, I'll tell you.

01:12:34.600 So try to stay out of jail.

01:12:42.440 All right.

01:12:43.960 Yes, the little people do have troubles with lawyers.

01:12:47.840 That's true.

01:12:49.480 All right.

01:12:49.860 Ladies and gentlemen, that is the end of my prepared remarks.

01:12:54.580 I'll remind you that I'm going to be on the Young Turks on Monday, 8 p.m. Eastern time, 5 p.m. California time.

01:13:03.720 And so I'll have a conversation about what's good or bad about Trump.

01:13:08.900 And I hope you join that.

01:13:11.560 And, of course, if you don't know that the Dilbert calendar is available, it's available now.

01:13:16.740 You can buy it only at the link at Dilbert.com.

01:13:19.960 So go to Dilbert.com and follow that link.

01:13:23.300 It's the only place you'll ever be able to buy that calendar.

01:13:26.040 So thanks for joining, everybody.

01:13:28.500 I'm going to talk to the locals people privately.

01:13:32.060 And I'll see the rest of you tomorrow.

01:13:37.020 Same time, same place.

01:13:38.580 I'm going to talk to the locals.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - October 23, 2024

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