Episode 2637 CWSA 10⧸23⧸24
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In this episode of Dilber: The dopamine Day of the day, the thing that makes everything better, might be coming with a commercial message: Don t look at it. Plus, a robot that can smell gas, and a study that says watching the news makes you hate people.
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You might know that the Young Turks, Cenk Uygur, had asked for somebody to debate, somebody
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to say that Trump was the right answer for the country.
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And I was a little bit slow on responding to some emails because I volunteered.
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So I couldn't do it on Thursday, which is tomorrow.
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And I think he has some other people who volunteered to do that.
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But I will be a guest on the Young Turks on Monday.
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So I'll still get to talk about the same topic, but it will be Monday.
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And again, I just, I'm a fan without agreeing with his opinions of Cenk, because I just like
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his mental flexibility and I like the fact that he'll talk to anybody and he doesn't seem
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to be afraid of anything, at least in the conversation realm.
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Anyway, there's a study, according to SciPost, that excessive news consumption predicts increased
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So the more you look at the news, the more you hate people.
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You probably know what I'm going to say, but I'm going to say it anyway.
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Scott, we're going to spend a bunch of money on a study to find out if watching the news
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Have you spent five minutes looking at the news?
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Why don't you just spend five minutes looking at the news and you tell me if you don't hate
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Again, everybody in the scientific community, just ask me first.
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Meanwhile, according to SciTech, this will sound like the smallest story.
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Apparently, you know, science has been trying to create an artificial nose for a long time
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and they can kind of do it, but it's real complicated and has lots of, you know, lots
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But apparently now there's a way to make a simplified, very effective way to use some
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kind of an antenna and send out some kind of a signal and see what kind of a signal you
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get back and that will tell you what smells or gas is in the air and it does it really
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So pretty soon your robot's going to be able to smell things.
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This is a bigger deal for me because I don't have a sense of smell.
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You know, I lost my sense of smell some time ago.
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And if I had a robot in my house, I would want the robot to be able to know if there's
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Because, you know, the gas leak smells like rotten eggs, but I can't smell it.
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I was once, years ago, in my first marriage, I was in a condo and stepkids were doing their
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thing and I was doing my thing and my ex was out for the day doing whatever.
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And she comes home and she walks in the door and she's like, my God, you know, open the
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Couldn't smell a thing, but apparently she could.
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And so we, we managed to not blow up the entire block, but there had been, I think the, the
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So yes, I need a robot that can smell some stuff.
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Imagine if you had this smelling antenna in your location and then some criminals come in
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Would it be possible to use the electronic nose to then get a sample from the perps?
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And, and see if they're guilty based on their smell, because you may have recorded their smell
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at the location and there would be, it's probably like a fingerprint.
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So there's a whole bunch, you know, if you assume the smell is like for humans, the, the
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underappreciated sense, you know, my dog has super smell.
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It, if we had robots with super smell, I feel like a whole bunch of things would happen that
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So I think it's a big deal and you should trust science.
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And I, uh, I encourage you to always believe science, whatever science says, it's all true.
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If science says it, uh, next story is, uh, is from nature.
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The publication turns out that the journals with the high rates of suspicious papers flagged.
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Oh, so there's this startup that has some kind of mechanism for determining, uh, which of
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That's the name of the startup or the system that looks for, uh, research papers that look
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But if it's science, probably, you know, I'd be worried.
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They, they might find like a dozen papers or so that are just made up.
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I mean, imagine how shocking that would be if they found like, you know, maybe 20 science
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That would really rock your confidence, wouldn't it?
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But imagine if it was like 50, you know, what, what if they found 50 science papers that
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had been accepted as peer reviewed and then turned out to be just totally false?
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I mean, you can't, you know, see how many was it?
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And they've indexed more than 50,000 retracted papers.
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Now, these are just flagged, the 40,000 high risk, but the, but the tool is saying that
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there are 40,000 papers that you probably shouldn't count on.
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Suppose I created this system on paper and it never existed before.
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If you want to be a scientist, you got to publish papers.
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Cause then you can tell if the scientists are, you know, really up on their field and
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Scientists should be able to publish things that we're going to have a peer review.
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There'll be other scientists who will look at it.
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Not, not to totally make sure that's fine, but to weed out, you know, obvious quacks and
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Uh, and now we're going to give an incentive structure to the scientists that they will make
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lots of money if they publish, but they won't make lots of money if they don't.
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Well, yeah, I suppose anything that you want to be done, you want to have a little financial
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Now, how do you think that's going to turn out?
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Well, if you dropped a weasel into that situation, they would say, what if I just make up a bunch
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of papers, make them look like they're good, send them to my buddy, who's the cousin of
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He probably won't even look at it or I'll send it to somebody who always says yes.
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And they'll definitely get peer reviewed and then I'll get huge bonuses and I'll be paid
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Well, apparently not much because you don't hear about people who are shamed forever because
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So it seems to me that even on paper, what that should have led to, given the financial
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incentive, eventually all science will be fake.
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Because the fake science is so easy and it pays so well that eventually it will just overwhelm
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And even if there is some real stuff, you wouldn't be able to find it.
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So even on paper, this guarantees that science would go off the rails.
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You know, there might be a better idea out there.
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But even on paper, that was going to lead to doom, pretty much guaranteed.
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According to Modernity, which is some kind of publication, I think, witches are complaining
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I guess a lot of witches on the Reddit platform.
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They're complaining that they can't cast spells on Trump because, quote, he has some kind of
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So the witches are trying to put spells on him, but they're not getting through.
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So sounds like they're on to me, but I'll try to keep protecting Trump from the witches.
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But so far, so far, my protective spell is holding.
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But I've got a little protective bubble around Trump.
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You know, if a bullet is heading at his head, I can move it just off base, maybe hit his
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Wall Street Journal is now suing Jeff Bezos back to perplexity app.
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I keep talking about this app because this is a rare thing.
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Usually when I try an app, I would say one out of 20 of the apps that I try, I end up
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They're usually overrated or they're for some specific purpose or, you know, they don't work
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If you spend five minutes using perplexity, and by the way, I was getting so annoyed because
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whenever I brought up something about Google search, the people in the comments would say,
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And of course, my brain was doing the one in 20 thing.
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Yeah, there's a one in 20 chance I might like that app you're talking about that I've never
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But eventually, I said to myself, there's so much yapping about this app.
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When you got a lot of yap, you got to try the app.
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So let me tell you how I get ready in the morning.
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I used to try to talk to AI, regular AI like Chad GPT.
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But there's almost nothing I want to talk to AI about that doesn't require it to have access
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to the internet, to look something up, tell me what's new, tell me the weather, anything.
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I have no interest in its general patterns of words.
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You're not a person and you do not have information that is reliable.
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So, but if you use perplexity, it doesn't have conversation mode, but you can push a button
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to talk and you can push another button to listen to what it says.
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So I'll do things like I'll have something in my head and I'll be push the button.
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I'll say, is it true that the moon is really made of cheese and that somebody found that
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And then it gives me a little, a little customized news report.
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Doesn't seem to, it doesn't seem to show me any sponsored stuff, but maybe it does.
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So I'll be, I'll be real interested to see if these big media entities can kill it.
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Is there something that perplexity is doing that Google doesn't do routinely?
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Google shows the, the big publications, shows a link to it, right?
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Sounds like there might be something behind these lawsuits that's more than just protecting
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Well, Nicole Kidman, who's 57 years old, which is important to this story.
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She's doing a new movie in which she's an older woman having an intense love affair with a younger
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And the story is that she had to pause the filming.
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She had to pause the filming because she didn't want to orgasm anymore because she was getting
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so aroused by the sex scenes that she was having so many orgasms that she just had to take a break.
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Now, ladies and gentlemen, I give you the best marketing campaign for any movie in the history of movies.
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Do you believe that she was having continuous orgasms with people in the room not having real sex and
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moving the camera angles and move your elbow and you're on my hair and can you, can you turn a little
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No, I do not believe that she had any orgasms while she was filming it.
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I do believe that as soon as I read she had so many orgasms filming it, I said to myself, well, make a mental
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So, I'm going to give Nicole Kidman my highest grade for persuasion.
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If she used a piece of fiction to market her piece of fiction, I'm okay with that.
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If part of the entertainment is some BS in the marketing, that's fine.
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Meanwhile, Boeing expects to make a big third quarter loss and they've also got a big strike
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coming and I think they had a satellite blow up and they don't know why.
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I did hear somebody speculate that Boeing's problems may not be totally organic.
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Meaning that if you were China and you were trying to compete with the United States and
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you were trying to compete, especially in the really important areas, such as not just
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manufacturing, but manufacturing of high-tech stuff like airlines, and China has some new
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competitor to the Boeing products, that you would try to get your competitor to embrace
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Now, I don't have any evidence that China is behind the DEI practices of Boeing, because
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if they were, they'd have to be behind the DEI of everything in America.
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The thing about DEI is that it's no more believable as an organic thing than Black Lives Matter or
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I mean, it's no more believable than the Patriot Front.
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I do suspect that there's at least the possibility, so again, this is recreational speculation.
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That someday we might find out that one of our regional adversaries, and I'll say just economic
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adversary, may have planted the DEI flag in America to see what damage it could do, because
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they knew they wouldn't have the same problem in their country, so it wouldn't spread to
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Yeah, when I call it a virus, now you get it, don't you?
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Because when the actual virus came out of China, it was really, really bad for people.
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But DEI is basically a mental virus, you know, a mind virus, and it's one that China is immune
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So, they could unleash that virus on the rest of the world, and they would dominate all
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manufacturing forever, and essentially dominate the world without conquering anybody militarily.
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So, they could conquer most of the Western world with a DEI virus.
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It does mean that if you came to me and said, Scott, you're the head of China, and I've got
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this plan to dominate all manufacturing of high-tech and everything else so that we'll
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effectively run the world, because nobody can operate without our products.
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We'll fund anything that has to do with DEI, and of course, the people taking the money will
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And that will make people feel really guilty if they're not accepting this thing that's
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And it'll be like a virus, and it will destroy manufacturing in the United States without
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So, even the DEI people thought, hey, it's going to lift everybody up to equity.
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It would, in fact, crash the industry so everybody's poor, but about the same.
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So, I don't have any reason to believe that China was behind DEI, but again, on paper,
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if somebody had brought that idea to me and I were in charge of China, I definitely would
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have implemented that idea and said, you know what?
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I think this little idea virus will destroy the United States, at least as a manufacturing
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I wouldn't trust any of the anecdotal election reports.
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So there are other stories of machines that are reversing votes.
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I don't quite believe those because they're a little bit on the nose.
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They don't seem to ever get any, like, major media backing.
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And I wouldn't be surprised if it happened once, and that maybe there's some process where
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I'm just saying that it would be dicey to believe any of the individual reports.
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Most of them will be fake, but we don't know which ones.
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I did see a report today, and I saw the documents.
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But apparently NBC is helpfully sending out guides to people to tell them how to vote in
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And reportedly, and I saw the screenshot, so it's not being made up, NBC has wrong instructions
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It says that to vote by mail, you need a witness or a, what do you call it, the person who's
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So imagine if you were basing whether or not you voted on whether you had a witness.
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My first assumption is that the New Yorkers do not need a witness to vote by mail.
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And the second assumption is that the screenshot I said that I saw that seemed to come from
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NBC saying that you do need it, that that would be incorrect.
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Yeah, the word I was trying to think is notary.
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So the notice was that you need a notary or a witness.
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Now, that's a pretty big problem if it caused anybody to not vote because they didn't think
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I don't know who can't get a witness, but there's always somebody.
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According to Byron York, a little post on X, Gallup has been studying trust in media
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And apparently the Democratic trust in media and their confidence in the media spiked in
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Do you know what years the Democrats had the big spike in believing that the news is real?
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Well, 2016 and 2017, in the middle of the Russia collusion hoax, the biggest lies the media has
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That's when Democrats' trust in the media was sky high compared to historically, and Republican
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Now, doesn't that settle who the smart ones are?
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Democrats, the Republicans were completely right and remain completely right about the fake
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They actually trusted the news more, probably because it was on their side and they wanted
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But, oh my God, it's like we found the problem.
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And I often say you can't really have a conversation about anything important with anybody who thinks
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I mean, if you believe the Washington Post is like real news on politics, you would be so
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Remember, I tell you that if you know what happened, you don't know anything.
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But if you know who was involved, you might know everything.
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So, Bob Woodward, who many people who are smarter than me say has always been part of the intelligence
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apparatus of the United States, including his actions in the Watergate stuff.
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But if that's true, does it make sense that he just went on CNN and said that Joe Biden
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might get the Nobel Peace Prize for his good work in Ukraine, for preventing Americans getting
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Does that sound like something that somebody just thought was their own opinion and it would
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And he would think of himself, I can't read his mind, so I don't know what he's thinking.
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You don't get to be Bob Woodward if you're literally just stupid.
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So why would you say this, which is obviously ridiculous?
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I mean, it doesn't have any news value whatsoever.
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Let's see, is there any other propaganda happening?
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So there's a publication called The Atlantic, which is owned by Steve Jobs' widow.
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We need to make a distinction between news which is biased and pure propaganda.
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CNN is biased, but they do show quite regularly, and I give them credit, especially recently.
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They have Scott Jennings on almost every night, giving the Republican view of all the stories.
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And they've got two or three other people who look like they're pretty capable.
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I forget their names, but they're also Republican voices.
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So whenever there's a panel of five people, they throw in the one Republican.
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If you show me five left-leaning people and one right-leaning person at the table, I know what you're doing.
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You know, when Fox News does it, if they have, you know, the one Democrat on the five,
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and four of them are the opposite opinion, I'm fine with that because nobody's hiding anything.
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Hey, we're leaning in this direction, but we'll let you see the other side.
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Now, that is completely different than something like the Atlantic.
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But because they're both publications in some way, you know, media entities, we act like they're all legitimate.
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And we keep acting like we should talk about it like it's one of the media sources.
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It's not even close to being anything like news or just like it's not even biased news.
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It's just pure propaganda, at least on the political stuff.
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So Jeffrey Goldberg, who the smart people say, is one of the most famous political liars in America.
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Like he has a history of known gigantic lies where surely he knew he was lying when he did it.
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And there are a number of specific examples that the smart people like Glenn Greenwald, who watch this stuff, will give you.
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So if you want to know the examples, follow Greenwald.
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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.
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Now, it doesn't matter because you know it's made up.
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Is John Kelly, General Kelly, is he a reliable and credible source?
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You would be the opposite of that based on past experience.
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So no, there's no evidence that any of that happened.
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And the story is by the least credible person and the least credible outlet.
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So, but of course, it's news because propaganda is news too.
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Anyway, we really should have a list of the things which are not really even trying.
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You know, the Washington Post, sometimes a little bit will show a little bit of the other side.
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But I think when it comes to the political stuff, you could call them pure propaganda.
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They don't seem like they're trying too hard to show both sides.
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Anyway, the latest is that Kamala Harris will not be on Joe Rogan, but Trump will be, I think, on Friday.
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And she will not be on the all-in pod, which Trump has already done.
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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.
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If you have the option of only doing friendlies and not having anything that's unexpected, well, why would you?
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You know, she, Harris was at this, I guess they called it like a town hall with Maria Schreiber.
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And somebody in the audience asked if they could ask questions.
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And Schreiber told her, no, the questions are predetermined.
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So they've got an audience of question askers, but the questions are already written.
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So the audience was there as props to pretend that the questions have some, you know, some organic, organic history to them.
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But Maria was at least totally honest in public and said, nope, you do not get to ask questions.
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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.
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When people complain about Trump, it's weirdly that he'll be too capable.
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Now, they add to the too capable that he has bad intentions, which are not evident as far as I can tell.
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But if you add together very capable with, in their view, the propaganda view that he has bad intentions, that can be scary.
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But it's funny that they've completely stopped with the, you know, he's incapable stuff.
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It's just obvious that he has capabilities and he has strong, strong capabilities.
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Doesn't look so good compared to what Trump did.
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So it's now really clear that Trump was a highly capable operative.
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Maybe you don't like his policies, like if he didn't like what happened with abortion, for example.
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Nobody says he didn't put on the court people who would get done things his party wanted.
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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.
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Now, you could argue, well, he said he'd build the wall, but he didn't get it done.
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Well, that was entirely because Democrats pulled out all stops to stop him from doing the thing that even they want to do now.
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If they pull out all the stops to prevent you from doing something that everybody wants, it's not exactly his problem.
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But Harris, on the other hand, is the least capable candidate for president I think we've ever seen in American history.
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I would love to know if historians could even come up with a second one.
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Because we've got somebody who can't even go to an interview unless it's so friendly that they know the questions.
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That's the level that you could pick anybody at random and they could succeed.
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Can you memorize an answer to a question if we give you a week to memorize it?
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Well, now you can be president of the United States.
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She can just take prepared, memorized questions.
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And she can do angry yelling like Hillary Clinton did.
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And she can tell a bunch of lies about the other side.
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Nobody, she's never been, this is the most incapable candidate I've ever seen.
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Now, there may have been worse ones for Congress.
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But we've never seen anybody this bad in terms of just minimum capability.
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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.
00:37:21.480
If you looked at, you know, Clinton versus Dole.
00:37:34.300
But the Kamala Harris thing is not about the policy at all.
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It's about, I don't even know if we could survive having this level of leadership or lack of it.
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00:38:02.760
Let me tell you the most dangerous story of the day.
00:38:07.680
This is under the category of recreational belief.
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.
00:38:49.540
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.
00:39:12.440
Because the kraken is when you think, oh, no, now I know everything.
00:39:25.600
Now, in the end, Sidney Powell, I believe, was shown to be flawless.
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.
00:39:56.860
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.
00:40:09.300
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.
00:40:44.480
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.
00:41:05.880
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.
00:41:29.760
And usually, usually I have a strong inkling, but I don't have an inkling on this one.
00:41:52.540
And that the gay cartel is not something that's separate from the government.
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.
00:42:16.100
According to Patrick Byrne, the Venezuelan head of the cartels are basically a P. Diddy model of male rape.
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.
00:42:48.240
It's more like the main operating system of Venezuela is men fucking other men to keep them under control.
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.
00:43:16.880
Now, the gay part is probably more bisexual than gay, meaning that most of them are married, probably have regular marital relations.
00:43:32.220
Now, that doesn't have a lot to do with the bigger story.
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.
00:45:05.960
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.
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.
00:45:57.560
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.
00:46:11.720
I believe he's got a book out, so maybe this is, you know, some of this is related to that.
00:46:27.300
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.
00:46:45.080
Is the CIA the one highly capable organization in the world and everything I've ever been involved in was a mess?
00:46:55.640
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.
00:47:12.520
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.
00:47:46.220
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?
00:48:08.080
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?
00:48:34.500
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.
00:49:00.540
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.
00:50:07.360
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.
00:50:19.240
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.
00:50:36.640
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.
00:50:58.280
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.
00:51:12.960
It could be the end of, it could be the last time you see me, basically.
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.
00:51:31.260
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.
00:51:46.340
I do have some feelers out to see if I can get a better handle on it.
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.
00:52:34.120
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.
00:53:34.120
That can't possibly be an accident, given that we know how to avoid it.
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.
00:54:28.600
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.
00:54:42.520
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
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
00:55:26.280
And then probably black voters were saying, hmm, this wasn't exactly what I was expecting.
00:55:35.820
I think people are realizing that the stories about Trump are all lies.
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,
00:55:52.640
I just found out all this Trump stuff is bullshit and it's all based on hoaxes.
00:55:58.020
Now, again, are they organic or is somebody's campaign paying for them?
00:56:05.340
So something big is happening with black America.
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,
00:56:44.900
But I didn't realize that the Harris campaign was blaming Mark Cuban for suggesting it.
00:56:54.480
Do you think Mark Cuban suggested this exact idea?
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.
00:57:35.200
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.
00:58:13.460
You're sending your politicians to campaign for Harris?
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.
00:58:49.660
Is the government of Great Britain trying to kill Twitter?
00:59:01.280
If either of these things are true, then they must be punished.
00:59:13.220
But if this is true, there has to be a response.
00:59:21.160
Because this is really, really, really not okay.
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.
00:59:44.820
If Great Britain is trying to destroy freedom of speech in America, I don't want to protect your stupid fucking little island.
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.
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.
01:00:27.640
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.
01:00:42.320
Now, I know how ridiculous that sounds because, you know, the connections are so deep and so long.
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.
01:01:05.440
So, the next thing that Great Britain asks from the United States, the answer is no.
01:01:22.780
Well, the publication, The Hill Doesn't Know What Racism Is.
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.
01:01:59.700
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.
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.
01:02:28.540
So, you'd have to read his mind and imagine that he secretly was thinking race when he never mentioned it.
01:02:47.020
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.
01:02:59.520
That was all made up after the fact that there was some racial part of it.
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.
01:03:29.120
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.
01:04:21.740
Then there's Trump's rhetoric regarding migrants.
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.
01:04:41.740
Are we so dumb that we think he meant every one of them, the babies?
01:04:46.640
Was he blaming the babies coming across as being criminals?
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.
01:05:10.500
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.
01:05:25.780
If you replace them all with Americans, or not Americans, let's say, you replace them all with Irish people.
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,
01:05:49.440
You can just replace the Haitians with anything.
01:05:52.720
And if they were Irish, it would be the same complaint.
01:05:55.700
What, what is Trump going to be happy if the Irish are eating his pets?
01:05:59.580
Oh, I didn't realize the Irish were eating the pets.
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.
01:06:29.580
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,
01:06:39.660
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
01:07:18.380
who says she heard it from somebody who's dead now.
01:07:34.260
Maybe she worked there for a week and got fired.
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.
01:07:46.100
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,
01:08:03.580
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?
01:08:18.540
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.
01:09:01.720
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,
01:09:24.500
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.
01:09:46.340
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,
01:10:15.620
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,
01:10:42.740
And here they're trying to take away Trump's defense through, you know, clever,
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
01:11:30.900
I mean, just, I don't know, this one bothered me a lot.
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.
01:11:46.880
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.
01:12:09.180
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?
01:12:43.960
Yes, the little people do have troubles with lawyers.
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.
01:13:11.560
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.
01:13:23.300
It's the only place you'll ever be able to buy that calendar.
01:13:28.500
I'm going to talk to the locals people privately.