Episode 2643 CWSA 10⧸29⧸24
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1 hour and 17 minutes
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148.17023
Summary
The dopamine hit of the day goes to Steve Bannon who is freed from jail, and I talk about how to communicate better with people who disagree with you, and how to manage your communication skills so you don t get talked over.
Transcript
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you should have them because i'm not such a good investor it turns out i wish i were but i'm not
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my early years didn't go well because i did some iris stuff but lately it's been just fine
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all right we got a show for you today boy do we have a show
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right row scott's got a problem here with his notes that apparently have been printed out of order
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if i don't fix that it's going to be a really weird day
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good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of human civilization it's called
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coffee with scott adams and there's never been a better time in the whole stinking world but if
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you'd like to take your experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny
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shiny human brains all you need is a cup or mug or a glass of tanker gels or stein a canteen jug or
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flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid i like coffee and join me now
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for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day and this one goes to steve bannon
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who is freed from jail i believe at this very moment steve this one's for you from all of us
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good stuff it's all coming together now can you feel it it's the golden age
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but you won't well here's some things that are happening yesterday i uh i was a guest on uh
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jenk's show jenk uger on the young jerks and uh he asked me to explain my support of trump and i did
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my best in our half hour that we we had together but i would like to just give a public shout out and
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compliment to jenk for number one uh hosting a number of people who disagreed with him you know
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separately i was uh i was separate from them but um his uh his treatment of me and my opinion was
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completely professional and uh admirable i'm glad i did that a lot a lot of you were warning me don't
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do it he's gonna talk over you and um there was none of that there was no talking over now one of
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the things i i try to teach my subscribers that i'll tell the rest of you too if somebody's talking
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over you sometimes that's on them you know there's some people who are just talker overs but it doesn't
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really happen to me that much and i think it's because you can manage it the first thing you have to
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do is make sure that you listen to them and not talk over them the second thing is don't say crazy
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shit if you say crazy stuff people will talk over you if you act like you didn't hear what they just
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said they'll say it again and talk over you so there's just some basic communication tools where you
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make sure you're listening to them you make sure you hear them and then make sure that you know that
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they've heard you you pace them a little bit and then the most important part is don't be an npc
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because if all you're doing is throwing in the the same talking point that everybody said
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a hundred times today you're gonna get talked over because nobody needs to hear it and people are
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thinking okay it's just a talking point let me talk over it so you have to be a little bit interesting
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and different so people want to know how you finish your sentence you've got to give the same
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consideration to whoever you're talking to that you don't over talk them which by the way i did so i'm
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going to give uh jank a double compliment because he didn't he didn't once try to over talk me but a
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couple times he said something that i couldn't let go that i i tried to over talk him a little bit
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um so great job thank you and uh bannon's out of jail as i mentioned so um we're going to be hearing
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from him and i feel like it's a sign yeah sure it was scheduled you know we knew for a long time that
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bannon was going to get out and about now but still it feels like a sign doesn't it can you feel it did
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you feel every single poll turning in trump's direction did you feel peter navarro get down
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the jail bannon get out of jail trump's lawfare collapsing
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biden collapsing you feel it now don't you yeah something big is happening
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well let's talk about some uh some surveys in science according to medical express there's a
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survey that finds americans are more afraid today than at any time in recent history and when i say
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afraid i mean sort of afraid of everything in the world coming to get them now they could have saved
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some money just by asking scott because i could have told them that and i would tell them why
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why are people more afraid number one we can see all the problems in our immediate environment
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which is the way we evolved but now we can see all the problems everywhere in the world
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i i didn't even know there was a supply chain problem happening uh somewhere in another country
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that's going to make me starve to death maybe so the fact that you know what where all the problems
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are and you're predicting problems 80 years in the future with climate change yeah you're simply
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being exposed to a thousand times more problems how about how about the fact that every time you open your
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phone the way that anybody gets clicks is by scaring you so not only do you have physical access to a
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thousand problems but they're going to go right to the top of your attention feed because those are
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ones that get clicks of course you're more afraid and so as long as hate is being monetized
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and then the then the last reason we're more afraid is that we understand more
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if you didn't know anything about the national debt wouldn't you be happier because there's nothing you
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can do about it so if you just didn't know we did we had any national debt wouldn't you be a little
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happier yeah so the more you know about how our election systems are run how money flows uh how real
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decisions are made uh how the medical world decides what's what treatment they're going to give you and
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what not once you once you learn that stuff the world is scarier because we were you know treated like
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children for most of you know most of society but lately we're not being treated like children because
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we have access to the the hard stuff all right there's a study uh by something called cathay
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cathay really that's the name of the entity that has this cafe that sounds like
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caffeine but anyway it's about uh brewing up benefits of coffee did you know that coffee
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among its many many benefits might preserve muscle mass as we age yeah i stopped exercising years ago and
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just doubled up on coffee and my muscles are just twice as big now so i'm just sucking up coffee to
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make my brain stronger and my muscles bigger and that's how i'm playing it um there's a study by the
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university of cambridge that says if you apply magnetic fields to both sides of the brain you get rapid
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improvement from depression that's amazing so just magnets on both sides of your head
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well i'm not going to let that science go by without testing it so i got a magnet out of my closet because
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i have a closet where i keep a lot of magnets yes i have a whole closet has a lot of magnets
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get over it i like magnets they're really cool look what they do they pull them apart
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and they come back together you can't do that it's cool so i thought i'd test it see if i get anything
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now you should not do this at home um so i'm going to do magnetic therapy on my head to see if it cures
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my depression at all now apparently i need to hold it on both sides that they've done it they've done it
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they've done it with just one device but there's something about having it on both sides that this
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seems to help so i'm going to give you a live demonstration see if it cures my depression at all
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actually pretty good i think the golden age is coming i think trump's going to win i think all
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of our problems are going to be solved okay so i'm not a really good candidate for testing for
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depression since i don't have any but maybe maybe you'll make me even happier than i am so
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hold on we're going to apply the magnets and see
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what did i just say i don't remember i i don't remember what i just say i hope made sense did it
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make sense i hope it wasn't crazy yet no don't tell me i screamed out some crazy ship
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all right well but more importantly scientists have created a revolutionary ultra thin film that absorbs
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99 of electromagnetic waves did you know that 99 of your electromagnetic waves can be absorbed
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by a thin film ultra it's ultra thin it's not even them now you want to know something cool
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if that ultra thin film that absorbs 99 of electromagnetic waves
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if it also made magnets not not attracted to each other if let's say you put it between two magnets
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if you can put it between two magnets and make them not do that
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you would have free energy forever because i've already designed an engine
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that is only one missing part because nobody's invented it yet
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a thin a thin barrier that can go between two natural magnets
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that does not exist there's no such thing as something you can put between two magnets
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unless it's a magnet itself and then that will just divert the magnetic field but there's nothing
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there's nothing that's a material that you could put between two magnets to even reduce their amount
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of attraction even a little bit you know wouldn't you think that oh okay if i put something thick in
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there that's not magnetic like lead like or a piece of gold or something you'd say well there's no way it's
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going to be exactly as magnetically attracted but it is it's exactly the same even with like a thick
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barrier between them this is the thing that got me most interested in understanding reality and that
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maybe everything we think about reality is wrong how in the world could no barrier slow down magnets
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it just suggests that what you think is reality is probably way off
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here's another study says intelligent men exhibit stronger commitment and lower hostility in romantic
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relationships according to psi post huh huh how could they have saved some money on this study
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well you could have asked me because it seems to me that in every situation that requires thinking
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that work with me here smarter people do well did you know that yeah if you take a smart person and you
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say hey we're going to try to make some lawyers who does better the smart people you take some smart
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people and say we're going to make some doctors out of you which ones do better the smart ones that's the
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smart ones if you want to do some advanced math do you pick smart people or dumb people to do it no
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smart people smart people if you want to have a relationship in which people work at it and
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figure out the nuances of it and really try to understand each other and try to master the
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the the skill of communicating in a way that's not offensive and all those other things you have to do to
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make a relationship work do you think that smart people do better or do you think the dumb people just
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nailing it no it's the smart people it turns out that being intelligent
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is beneficial in a wide variety of domains i know who knew right who knew i was just saying a
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interview with uh with conor mcgregor and someone was asking about how he knew how he knew something
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about how a fight was going to go because apparently he predicted the exact exchange in
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the fight and then he did it in one and uh you hear conor mcgregor talk and the first thing you say
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is oh this man does not have a phd the second thing you think is what he's saying is making a lot of
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sense and then the further the longer he talks the more sense it makes and then you end up saying oh
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that's why he's conor mcgregor there are a lot of guys who are strong and fast and tough and can take
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a punch but i think he's smarter than them and that's probably why he's you know the richest one who
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ever did that um all right what else is going on here
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so i saw a clip uh it was an msnbc clip in which one of the propagandists was uh making the point
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that if there are five generals that work for trump and all five of them say that trump said bad things
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behind closed doors what are the odds i mean what are the odds that all five all five generals lied i
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think it was uh betty assand who was saying that now let me do it the way he was doing it i mean what
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are the odds all five really really you think all five generals like the most trusted people in our
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military that's how they became just you think five of them all five of them just made stuff up and lied to
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the public is that what you think to which i replied on social media today well we had 51
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intelligence professionals lie about hunter's laptop we had hundreds of government and media pros
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lie about russia collusion when they knew it wasn't true we had thousands of government and media pros
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lie about the fine people hoax and dozens of other hoaxes thousands thousands
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fucking thousands of people lied about the fine people hoax thousands
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we had millions of medical professionals lie during the pandemic millions
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fucking millions fucking millions lied during the pandemic and we've got millions of scientists lying
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right now about the reliability of climate models now i won't get into the you know the debate on climate
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science but clearly they're lying about the reliability of the models at the very least they're lying
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about that so yes five lying generals is the lowest bar you could ever get because first of all generals are
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waiting for the big paycheck right all the generals want the big paycheck after you know retire it and
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get on that big board and sell some weapons you know what i mean
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so first of all i don't trust generals because they didn't get there the normal way they got there
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through political appointment they are political animals and every other entity that has officials has
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lied to us getting five generals to lie the same lie about trump is probably the easiest fucking thing you
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could ever do so now i don't trust the five generals and if you give me 25 i'm not going to trust them
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either we don't have a world in which we can trust our five generals sorry i don't make the rules
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that they may be the five generals who have the most influence on whether we go to war but that doesn't
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well the washington post story is getting more interesting so jeff bezos
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weighed in as you know the washington post decided it's not going to endorse a candidate even though many
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of the employees wanted to endorse harris and some of them quit in protest so bezos wrote a letter to his
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i think it was to his own employees but we got to see it and he said among other things quote it would be
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easy to blame others for our long and continuing fall in credibility but a victim mentality will not help
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complaining is not a strategy we must work harder to control what we can control to increase our credibility
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i'll tell you see that's one two three three sentences can can you tell why he's one of the richest
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people in the world in three sentences you can tell that jeff bezos is one of the richest people in the
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world or or if he isn't he's going to be the the level of just pure intelligence
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that comes out of everything he says it's sort of hard to miss all right let me let me point it out
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here it would be easy to blame others and have a victim mentality what's that sound like
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that sounds like everybody was ever successful as soon as you allow the victim mentality and you're dead
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that's rule number one rule number one is you got to get rid of the victim mentality now that happens to
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also agree with i'd say more of a republican conservative point of view is he also signaling
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that he's not going to be a slave to the left i feel like it i feel like he told us two things
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one is don't be don't have a victim mentality that's good that's a good entrepreneurial management thing to
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say good leadership secondly he's not your slave that that that's basically declaring his freedom
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he just said i'm not your slave in a way he said complaining is not a strategy okay that's a good
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reframe complaining is not a strategy in other words you can do it but i'm not going to listen to it
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and it won't make any difference if you have an idea i'll listen to an idea and if it's a good idea
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i might even do it but complaining is not an idea complaining is not a strategy
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i i want i swear to god i want to go take a job for working for bezos now like i just want to i want
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to apply for a job at his paper and then he says we must work harder to control what we can control
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yes control the parts you can control and stop complaining about the things you can't control
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what else he said uh he he pointed out how it used to be that uh the reporting profession the news
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was the second least respected entity but now congress was always number one least respected
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but apparently the news business has now surpassed congress as the least respected entity in the
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united states which he points out he also says that presidential endorsements do nothing to tip the scales
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and no undecided voters in pennsylvania's are going to say i'm going with the newspaper a's endorsement
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none what presidential endorsements actually do is create a perception of bias
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a perception of non-independence ending them as a principle decision okay do you see what he just did
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he let he left the world of fact and he went into the world of perception persuasion he said we were
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we're doing anti-persuasion we're persuading people that were biased because when you when you
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say this is how you should vote what am i supposed to think i'm supposed to think your entity is biased
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so even if it's not biased don't do things that make you look biased is that good advice yes yes
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that's really good advice um is it true though that the newspaper endorsements don't tip the scales
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um yes and no i'm going to say he's close enough to a yes that i'll give him the yes on that
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the no would be that there's a group think element that's not addressed uh if you mean if only one
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newspaper made one recommendation would it make much difference no because other newspapers are doing
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other things etc but if the newspapers collectively look at the big ones like the washington post and
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say oh we don't want to be on the other side of the washington post then it might make the majority
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of newspapers lean in one direction and if the majority is leaning in one direction that's telling
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you what is acceptable civil behavior so it could collectively but not individually
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um according to uh ian miles chung one of the uh editors that uh the then editor-in-chief was a
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guy named robert kagan i think he might be one of the ones who just left
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uh but he's married to victoria newland did you know that that an editor at the washington post
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was married to the person who is most often identified as the source of all government evil
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now i don't i don't personally know too much about her i'm just saying if you listen to glenn
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greenwald or mike benton's talking about you know who's starting the wars and who are the neocons and
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who are running the plays behind the scenes and you know overthrowing countries and doing all the bad
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stuff it's always victoria newland she's the major name that comes out of all those conversations as the
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you know the the center piece of all that now her husband was also the you know one of the main
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uh decision makers at the washington post which is one of the main newspapers now remember what i always tell you
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if the only thing you know is what's happening you don't know anything
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you don't know anything if you know who the players are well suddenly it all makes sense
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this is one of those cases now i also wondered somebody also mentioned that uh the the bezos uh
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divorce you know his wife took half his fortune and is pouring it into democrat lefty stuff
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um it might be that bezos has some reaction to that meaning that he might feel at the very least he
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might want to balance it out maybe it's personal we can't read his mind so we don't know that um
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there's no evidence is personal but if you put any of us in that situation it would be personal
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am i right if you switch places with bezos and your wife just took you know a hundred billion dollars
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from you that that he earned and she didn't and she's pumping it into things that he doesn't agree
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with you don't think you take that personally that your ex-wife spending hundreds of billions of
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dollars on stuff you don't want to be spent on after after you earned it all i would take that personally
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now that doesn't mean he is there's no evidence of that but wow you put me in that position i don't
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think i could be objective anyway um there's another newspaper the usa today is joining the
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washington post and la times in not endorsing a president this time so i thought it would be a
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good time to give you a little whiteboard explanation of what the media landscape has looked like and
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what it is becoming now this is the sort of thing that i sometimes forget that normies don't
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already know now normies would be people who just consume the news um most of my adult career i've
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been associated with newspapers and publishing so you know i've been sort of semi inside the circle
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and so i get to see it a little differently than you do so that's why i get to explain it to you
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legacy meaning how has it been up until now let's get you all centered up there
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so in the old days which are still partly the current days here's how i learned it when i when
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i learned about how everything works in the real world there there are or have been two entities called
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news makers that would be the new york times and the washington post now a news maker
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is somebody who if they have a major story then all the other news people have to cover it if a local
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newspaper broke a story the big ones could just ignore it if they wanted to and that happens a lot
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but if either the new york times or the washington post decides to make a big deal of it then all the
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others will fall in line because hey news just got made now the the the rest of the media um i will
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call them boosters so once the big entities tell you this is the news this is what you should think
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about and talk about then the others say okay this is what everybody's going to think and talk about
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today so we'll do that and they fall in line now this does not require any phone calls it requires no
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messaging it literally requires all the other people to just read the other papers which they do
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pretty much everybody in the news business is going to make sure that they're looking at at least
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the new york times but certainly the washington post now wall street journal sometimes is in this
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category but the but the wall street journal is a little more finance oriented and a little more
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independent a little more balanced doesn't quite fit here but sometimes it does
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the boosters i would say uh are are not doing a lot of original work they're just copying work from
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other people and boosting it and then it gets to what i call the propagandists the the people who talk
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about it and they frame it a certain way and they leave out context so they're they're opinion
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people but really they're propagandists they're not very few of them are trying to give you their
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best honest opinion they're promoting a side basically so msnbc doesn't really even pretend to
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be news they use the news to add opinions to it but they're not really a news organization they're
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propaganda the atlantic the daily beast rolling stone and pretty much all the pundits that you see all
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day long are propagandists now under this model how hard is it for the government to control the
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entire media landscape do you see how easy it is they only need two people all they need is whoever
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makes the decisions at the new york times and whoever makes the decisions at the washington post
00:32:45.120
if you want to if you want to learn more about that uh i can't remember the movie but meryl i think
00:32:50.960
meryl streep played the uh the owner of the washington post in kennedy's era i forget what that movie is
00:32:59.840
but there there's a movie you can find that's only a few years old um and it's fascinating because you
00:33:06.400
could see for example that uh kennedy would invite like the top people who owned the newspapers on his yacht
00:33:13.200
imagine imagine being a newspaper professional and somebody as charismatic as a kennedy invites you to
00:33:23.040
be their personal friend and spend the weekend on their yacht what are you going to write about them
00:33:30.560
right it is completely corrupt that they should not be riding anybody's yachts if they're going to
00:33:37.120
write about them so in the old days the government um in that case i don't think it was kennedy so much
00:33:44.640
it might have been the deep state that killed them that was running things but all you had to do was get
00:33:50.960
literally just two people and how hard is it to get two people on your side if you're a government well
00:33:58.080
you have all of the bribery possibilities all the jailing possibilities all of the you know access to
00:34:04.640
resources access to interviews you have all the power so there is there's no problem at all to get two
00:34:11.600
people to do whatever you want if you're the government right any government can make any two
00:34:16.160
people do anything they want but enter elon musk
00:34:22.400
and look what happens here's a model of how things are evolving you got fake news
00:34:36.880
and then you got some real news and it's coming from everywhere so it's coming from not only the
00:34:41.840
news makers but everywhere else and a lot of independent journalists now we have much more
00:34:47.360
far more independent journalists but both the fake stuff and the real stuff is being fed into the x
00:34:52.640
platform and then it gets um light basically the light is shined on it and then the fake stuff gets
00:35:03.120
called out not as fast as i'd like but it does get called out and the truth gets essentially adjudicated
00:35:11.760
through x and everybody pays attention to x if they're in the media so it makes a big difference
00:35:19.680
now they don't get the truth every time sometimes it's wrong but they get a lot closer than the media
00:35:27.040
that is designed to be fake yeah the stuff on the other side of the whiteboard is designed to create
00:35:33.200
fake news to hold the country together and have one narrative it's designed to be fake
00:35:37.840
fake with a little little real stuff sprinkled in but uh the musk uh x platform is putting the truth
00:35:47.680
back into the hands of the public because the public fights it down on x and something like the truth
00:35:53.600
emerges now enter jeff bezos what he says is he wants to add credibility and he wants to add some
00:36:06.000
conservative voices what does that sound like to you what what if what if he takes it to the extreme
00:36:14.640
and actually gets rid of all the um people who are just propagandists and instead replaces them with
00:36:21.280
people who are um credible but can represent the left and then some people who are credible who could
00:36:30.640
represent the right and then maybe have them fight it out in you know within their internal pages to give
00:36:37.600
you another sense of truth now here's the problem suppose he succeeds and i do expect he will because
00:36:49.040
he has the resources the brains the energy the the magic the skill everything so what what if the washington
00:36:56.320
post gets resurrected from the uh the trash heap of history where it is now and becomes an actual
00:37:04.080
place where people go okay okay i could go to x and get a version of the truth or i could go to washington
00:37:12.240
post and get a version of the truth but they're both pretty good because they're both trying to get the truth
00:37:18.320
do you see the problem yet here's my problem they're both in the space business in a big way rockets
00:37:34.160
they kind of have to do what the government wants them to do
00:37:39.520
they have two businesses oh really you could argue all of their businesses are completely dependent
00:37:44.960
and the government's not taking them down so are we really safe when billionaires
00:37:54.800
who depend on the government for some huge part of their business life are the ones you know designing
00:38:02.560
the systems of truth i'm not terribly comfortable with that you know if you tell me that musk is one
00:38:10.400
source and then there are other sources but they come from all different kinds of worlds
00:38:16.000
i would say oh that's good that's a competitive market so i won't worry about this one person having
00:38:21.680
a connection to the government you know and having to get approval for rockets and stuff like that
00:38:27.440
because they're they're non-rocket people also involved but what if there aren't
00:38:32.560
what what what if the truth becomes two billionaires who depend on the government
00:38:39.120
to say yes or no on their rockets that's not exactly where you want to be with your information
00:38:45.120
network so you you know it's good to have them but i think you'd want a lot more so that's where we're
00:38:51.600
headed and it also tells you why the government and lots of people the democrats especially are panicked
00:38:57.680
about x because it's creating for the first time an alternative path of news and knowledge
00:39:07.520
so that's happening well the uh joke by tony uh what's his name i can't remember the comedian who
00:39:18.240
told the off-color joke at the trump rally in madison square garty hinchley tony hinchley is that his name
00:39:27.040
i've never seen him work actually um but apparently the democrats have succeeded in making his joke
00:39:36.560
uh a national problem and uh getting all the puerto rican americans all angry so that they'll vote
00:39:44.160
against him and stuff um but now trump is going to be in pennsylvania in an area that apparently has a
00:39:52.720
sizable puerto rican american well puerto ricans are americans but puerto rican population and
00:40:02.960
people are asking him to apologize now this will be fun so you got trump the man who doesn't apologize
00:40:11.680
and you've got a few days before the election it's really tight and an important group of potential voters
00:40:19.360
is saying we need an apology and they're asking the man who doesn't apologize but maybe he needs to
00:40:27.280
to win the election what do you do what do you do well here's what i'd do everybody's going to give him
00:40:36.400
advice um but trump's going to do it trump's way and so far that's worked for him and he's knocking on the
00:40:44.080
door to a second uh second term so i don't think that we should be so arrogant as to imagine that
00:40:51.360
if we gave him a suggestion on how to handle it that our suggestion would be better than whatever
00:40:56.000
the hell he's going to do but it's recreationally uh fun to come up with what would you do if he were
00:41:03.200
in that situation so this will be more what i would do what he does is going to be better it's going to
00:41:09.040
be the trump thing but i'll tell you what i'd do i'd do something like this if i were the man who
00:41:14.880
couldn't apologize or not or don't want to and um i had this situation i i'd listen to the question
00:41:23.200
and be blah blah blah you know do you apologize for this blah blah blah here's what i'd say i don't
00:41:29.680
think it's a good idea for me to police comedy first sentence i don't think it's a good idea for
00:41:37.280
me to police comedy it's not really what you want your government to do in fact you probably want your
00:41:43.280
government to get as far away from that as possible because free speech is where you don't want me
00:41:48.400
me so i'll give you my opinion but don't ask me to please police comedy if you're asking was a
00:41:57.360
a mistake to let that joke go off in public oh i think we all agree on that yes that that wasn't
00:42:04.400
ideal so we can agree that a mistake was made but we don't police comedy comedy is not about hitting a
00:42:11.920
home run every time and we don't expect it to so policing a bad joke or a joke that went too far
00:42:19.440
that's not really where you want me to be involved but i'll tell you what i will do one of the things
00:42:25.520
that tony brought up is the fact that there's an enormous problem in puerto rico that i don't think
00:42:31.120
all of you were aware of which is partly why people are angry there is a massive um environmental
00:42:38.240
problem in puerto rico that's not being addressed so i'd like to announce today that should i become
00:42:45.440
president i'm going to make that a priority and we're going to clean that up so here's the apology
00:42:50.880
i'll give you i'm going to clean up your island hinge cliff is his name
00:43:00.400
tony hinge cliff sorry if i had the name wrong so how's that because you know what the president
00:43:08.640
should be promising puerto rico to help them clean up that ship they should help them clean up i mean
00:43:15.600
i i had no idea it was so bad my my entire attitude about puerto rico went from i don't know anything
00:43:22.000
about puerto rico to why aren't we doing more to help puerto rico who did that tony hinchcliffe did
00:43:28.880
why are we talking about uh why am i talking about i think we should put more money into puerto rico
00:43:37.040
a comedian so trump trump can be right twice he can say i'm not going to police comedy but you know
00:43:45.360
what he did raise an issue that's important enough i think we should all care about it why don't we help
00:43:55.920
what do you think that's a winning message i'm not going to police comedy i'm going to fix your island
00:44:02.480
what else do you want right what else do you want
00:44:13.280
what else you probably heard that uh kamala harris and she was talking to governor whitmer
00:44:27.840
and they did a little uh stage scene where they're sitting at a bar pretending to drink beers and
00:44:33.200
saying stuff and um harris said something about they need to get men but here's my point yes it's
00:44:41.600
true that the harris campaign needs to get more men if they want to win but why are men the only
00:44:50.000
demographic that don't get pandered every other group gets some pandering i i literally just suggested
00:44:56.960
some pandering for puerto rico you know black americans get some pandering women get some pandering
00:45:06.640
uh hispanics get some pandering where's my pandering i i'm just asking for a little pandering
00:45:14.800
i feel like my demographic men get lectured to everybody else gets bribed but i get shamed and lectured to
00:45:25.280
how about a little pandering why don't you get rid of dei pander me a little bit well how about that
00:45:40.000
here's my uh lesson to you on how persuasion and intelligence are not related in the way you think
00:45:46.880
they would you know earlier in my program here i mentioned how intelligence helps you with everything
00:45:55.280
here's my exception it doesn't help you with persuasion if somebody's brainwashing you they
00:46:02.960
can do it just as well sometimes better if you're smarter and part of the reason is that the smart
00:46:10.640
people are confident if you give me somebody confident i can really brainwash them because
00:46:16.880
they'll be confident that they weren't brainwashed someone who who knows that you have some superior
00:46:22.480
let's say knowledge or intelligence and and you're trying to persuade them they're going to think
00:46:28.560
that maybe you did so they're going to you know try to just reject everything because they're not
00:46:33.600
confident that they can sort out what's true and what's not so as sort of a default they're just like
00:46:39.680
i don't trust you everything you say and that can work out pretty well actually so smart people are
00:46:46.160
really easy to brainwash i'm going to give you an example
00:46:48.640
now i'm going to use an example from somebody that i like and respect
00:46:56.000
because i think that's important because otherwise you would get the message oh but really you're making
00:47:00.720
fun of this person they're really kind of stupid but they you know maybe they got a few smart things
00:47:05.520
but they're kind of dumb no this is a genuinely smart person smart from top to bottom all right i'm
00:47:12.480
talking about paul graham now he would be a famous investor silicon valley type forever um and i think
00:47:20.800
everybody would agree that he would be one of the one of the smart people in silicon valley now being one
00:47:26.880
of the smart people in silicon valley is way better than being one of the smart people almost everywhere
00:47:34.400
else right so we're talking about way smart right not normal smart we're in the the upper levels of
00:47:42.480
smart and he's decided he likes kamala harris as his first choice for president and in and of itself
00:47:52.240
that's just a difference of opinion so if if there were no reasons that went with it then i'd say okay
00:47:58.800
just a difference of opinion and i would ask myself is there something wrong with my opinion
00:48:06.720
um i would wonder that because he's smart enough that if he disagrees with me the first thing i say
00:48:14.000
is oh maybe i should rethink this you know if elon musk disagreed with me on something important
00:48:21.680
my first impression would not be well yeah elon musk is dumb
00:48:25.280
my first impression would be oh maybe maybe i should rethink this if if naval
00:48:33.680
ravikant came up with an opinion i didn't agree with which i think has never happened but if he ever did
00:48:41.200
the first thing i'd say is oh i must be wrong and then i would definitely you know dig into whatever
00:48:47.120
the hell he was talking about to figure out why i was wrong so i was paul graham is one of the people
00:48:52.400
that if he disagrees with you your first instinct should be what's wrong with me and then you
00:49:00.240
understand him a little better right so there's some people your first instinct should be what's
00:49:05.280
wrong with me if they disagree so here's something he said and my point here is that brainwashing
00:49:12.160
and intelligence unrelated brainwashing will go right through intelligence like it didn't exist
00:49:19.120
he said quote uh talk about trump he said the worst thing he did in my opinion
00:49:24.160
was when he tried to remain in power after he lost the 2020 election he knew he lost but he called mike
00:49:30.240
pence and blah blah blah where did he get the information that he lost the 2020 election
00:49:37.680
where's that come from we don't we don't have any way to know that and and we certainly don't know
00:49:44.400
that trump knew he lost because half of the country thinks he didn't lose and why would his opinion be
00:49:52.560
different than half of the country that agrees with him i'm going to be going over some election
00:49:59.520
irregularities next it'll be next in my presentation here but anybody who has been brainwashed into thinking
00:50:09.280
that we know who won any of our elections our our system is not even designed so you could know
00:50:16.800
it's intentionally designed and i say intentionally because you wouldn't keep it the same way for
00:50:21.920
decades and decades unless you meant it it's intentionally designed so you can't tell who won
00:50:28.640
now how would paul graham not know that now the answer is brainwashing
00:50:35.440
how would he think that he could read trump's mind and even though half of the country looked at
00:50:40.880
exactly what trump's looking at and came to the same conclusion as trump that trump alone would be the
00:50:46.880
one that's lying but 80 million other people who have exactly the same opinion because they looked at
00:50:53.760
exactly the same outcomes they're not lying but he's the only one how would you know that so these are
00:51:03.040
both examples of thinking past the sale so paul graham is thinking past the sale of what did trump do
00:51:13.360
once he knew he lost the election that is not the situation nobody's smart if they were working
00:51:21.280
without brainwashing as a force nobody's smart would take as an assumption that we could know how the
00:51:27.840
election went and that it was fair for sure we do know that the courts which are not designed to tell
00:51:33.600
us if an election is fair or not did not find anything wrong now uh cenk mentioned that yesterday
00:51:40.800
when i talked to him he said that the courts didn't find anything wrong 60 cases or something
00:51:46.480
if i'd had another 60 seconds to talk to him on that i would have said but nobody thinks courts have the
00:51:53.680
tools to know whether an election is rigged nobody thinks that if a state actor got into the machines
00:52:02.640
changed the result what's the court going to do nobody even brings them that case the court never
00:52:09.040
hears of it neither do you because the state actor was good at hacking so how do you catch the thing
00:52:14.720
that nobody catches it doesn't make any sense that you could have certainty about the election outcome
00:52:21.120
nobody can and you definitely can't have certainty about what trump's thinking about it
00:52:26.080
and if you're going to guess what he was thinking about it the smarter guess is that his guess matches
00:52:31.280
the 80 million people who who have the same bias that they wanted him to win and watch the same outcomes
00:52:43.520
so paul graham if i took a iq test and he took an iq test he would beat me he's smarter than i am
00:52:50.880
he knows a lot more than i do about business and lots of other things but uh this is a case of
00:52:56.480
brainwashing so if you looked at this and you said but but scott he he's dumb on this one little area
00:53:03.200
nope nope there's no lack of intelligence displayed this is pure brainwashing and you can see that it's
00:53:13.120
it got everybody it tell me the truth who besides me did you ever hear saying that we don't have the
00:53:24.400
ability to know who won you've heard people say oh it was definitely rigged which we don't have evidence
00:53:32.960
of and you've heard people say it definitely was not rigged which we could not ever know who besides me
00:53:40.640
you said no if you believe you have certainty about the outcome you're being brainwashed from one side
00:53:47.280
or the other it doesn't matter where your certainty is coming from but if you have certainty about a
00:53:52.560
system that was designed to uh prevent you from having certainty uh that's brainwashing yeah it's very
00:54:02.480
clean and clear this is one of those cases where you don't have to wonder you know is something else
00:54:08.000
going on no this is pure pure effective brainwashing and it took me a long time to figure out how to get
00:54:16.800
out of it it wasn't until i realized wait a minute nobody knows if any of our elections are fair how could
00:54:26.000
they because how could you know that somebody did something and got away with it getting away with it is
00:54:31.760
getting away with it so anyway uh us intel according to wired magazine are the intelligence people in the
00:54:43.760
usa say that the threats of the election are going to come from the inside and that we have insider threats
00:54:52.000
now an insider threat would be somebody involved with the election who decided to cheat
00:55:05.520
is saying that our elections are vulnerable to insiders cheating
00:55:12.960
now if it were true that you couldn't cheat you know without being easily and immediately caught
00:55:20.400
would the u.s intelligence people say it's our biggest risk
00:55:24.400
risk if they knew it was no risk at all and you would be caught immediately if you tried to do
00:55:29.840
something as an insider obviously it's a real risk they wouldn't bring it up if it weren't a real risk
00:55:37.280
i mean why would they it would be opposite to their interests so okay so even our intelligence people are
00:55:53.360
because if we could know then they would say don't worry about it if anybody tries to cheat you know
00:55:59.440
we'll catch it immediately but they didn't say that they said it's the biggest risk
00:56:05.280
if it's the biggest risk they're also telling us they can't catch it immediately and if they don't catch it
00:56:10.960
immediately that's the same as never catching it because we're going to swear in the president and
00:56:15.920
once the president's and all the investigations end because it's just better that way
00:56:23.040
also from wired cyber criminals pose a greater threat of disrupting u.s elections so the idea that
00:56:31.600
foreign adversaries would try to hack our elections wired is downplaying that although the foreign adversaries
00:56:39.680
are definitely trying to you know uh they're trying to be involved but not as uh grossly as changing
00:56:47.280
the vote count so it seems like they might be trying to influence and you know send in some memes and
00:56:53.200
you know maybe maybe game some things around the edges but it but according to wired and i agree with
00:56:59.760
this by the way it's less likely that china or russia for example or iran would hack into a machine
00:57:08.640
change the vote and and hope they could get away with that because i think they i think they would
00:57:14.880
say that the united states would take that as way over the line right it's one thing if we find that
00:57:21.840
russia did some memes we're like oh don't do those memes putin you and your memes but then we look at the
00:57:29.920
memes and they didn't make any difference because they were so stupid and they weren't viral so we're
00:57:34.800
like okay memes but if we found out that russia actually got into a machine and actually changed
00:57:42.880
the results and it actually changed the outcome of the election that would look like war so i agree
00:57:50.720
with wired that it's unlikely that they're that their adversaries would do that but um cyber criminals
00:57:59.920
might meaning that if you were let's say just a rich person and you wanted to rig the election
00:58:07.360
could you find a cyber criminal who would do it just for money they don't even care who wins and the
00:58:14.480
answer is i would assume so are you telling me that a billionaire and the best uh you know black hat
00:58:23.520
hackers can't hack our election systems with any of any amount of money to you know be able to obtain
00:58:31.040
and test systems you're telling me that a billionaire and the best hackers in the world
00:58:35.840
wouldn't be able to get into our systems of course they would of course they would and would we know
00:58:43.600
if they did of course we would not necessarily we might but not necessarily so so you got that risk
00:58:54.560
so you got the risk of the insiders coordinating you've got the risk of the cyber criminals and the
00:59:00.000
billionaires or whoever they're working for um and these risks are coming from our own government
00:59:07.840
this is not me the podcaster saying oh i think there's a risk this is our own intelligence people
00:59:13.840
saying here are two risks that if things went wrong we wouldn't necessarily catch it
00:59:23.200
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than you think then we've got uh let's see according to the griot we had some uh uh flaming ballot boxes
00:59:45.680
so um where'd that happen uh in oregon and in the state of washington a couple of uh
00:59:53.920
ballot boxes were set on fire now you might say to me scott it's only a few ballot boxes
01:00:00.720
and that's probably true and probably wouldn't change uh um probably wouldn't change the election
01:00:07.520
much but uh my understanding is there's also a lawsuit is it in georgia to prevent cameras on on
01:00:18.480
uh drop boxes why would they want to prevent camera surveillance on drop boxes i think the argument is
01:00:31.520
from who who exactly would be worried about dropping their own ballot and maybe their spouse's ballot or
01:00:39.040
even their neighbors too in the drop box because it's being watched by cameras do you think somebody
01:00:45.360
would not vote the entire world is watched by cameras obviously if you're trying to get the
01:00:51.360
cameras away from the drop boxes you think that they're corrupt now this is not a suggestion but
01:00:58.640
it's a semi-prediction there may be in this country enough people who don't want drop boxes to be part of
01:01:05.840
the election that they will make them not part of the election by setting them on fire in in numbers big
01:01:11.920
enough to remove it from the system how many drop boxes would have to blow up or catch on fire before
01:01:19.760
the entire election would be canceled we got two how about ten what what if ten drop boxes caught on fire
01:01:31.360
because they weren't being monitored by cameras so anybody could just drop walk up with uh
01:01:37.600
some some fluid in the match and drop it in and boom uh suppose suppose around the entire country
01:01:45.600
ten drop boxes caught on fire and maybe even some of the people got arrested
01:01:53.280
would ten be enough to say oh stop the election probably not probably not because somebody would say well
01:02:00.400
this drop box had only this many the election was this money what happens if it's a hundred
01:02:07.440
if a hundred drop boxes got set on fire would the election be cancelled
01:02:17.600
maybe maybe if a thousand of them got caught on fire would they cancel the election yes yes they would
01:02:25.600
do is it possible that a thousand drop boxes could be set on fire if the results of this election don't
01:02:34.320
look um like they were legit yes i don't recommend it you're going to go to jail for a long time if you do
01:02:44.640
this do not do not do not commit any crimes don't do anything violent don't set anything on fire
01:02:54.560
but we live in a world in which two of these have been set on fire and once the idea gets out there
01:03:00.480
it's hard to put it back in the box right so you could easily imagine that there will be a vigilante
01:03:07.920
who says i'm going to personally get rid of mail-in uh drop boxes and i'm going to drive around the country
01:03:17.280
and just for the cost of gasoline some for my car and some for the drop boxes and matches i'm going to
01:03:24.880
get rid of drop boxes forever and you just drive around and set them on fire for for two weeks
01:03:30.160
and it probably probably would take it out of the system so that might happen but um so that's a
01:03:40.400
small problem that could become a big problem and again don't do that don't do that very bad idea
01:03:48.880
uh new york in new york county in pennsylvania there's a report that 421 mail-in ballots
01:03:55.360
um may have gone to the wrong addresses well that's not too many right 421 but that's just
01:04:02.880
the ones got reported if over 400 got reported how many were not reported it's going to be a multiple
01:04:11.920
right five to one two thousand maybe two thousand votes that might not be right
01:04:21.920
all right uh let's see um also in uh york county according to the george account one of my favorite
01:04:32.160
accounts on x you should follow george um there is they received thousands of potentially fraudulent
01:04:39.600
voter registration forms from some third party group first happened in lancaster county and now in
01:04:46.560
new york county george asks what's going on uh george also says he's getting information from sources
01:04:55.440
that says it's happening in more counties and that these seem like obvious frauds well i don't know
01:05:04.400
maybe maybe it is but paul graham is sure that our our last election was fine
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um in virginia the governor wants to take 6600 uh non-citizens off the voter rolls but because
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there's a technicality that is too close to elections has to be within uh outside of 90 days that the
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government's not going to do it so now we know for sure that there are at least 6600
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non-citizens that if they had a ballot they could vote and probably wouldn't get caught
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there's 6 000 a lot in virginia i don't know uh then we've got yeah three of the states uh were suing
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to prevent drop box surveillance george george is one of them i guess uh so that's sketchy uh over in
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berkeley my neck of the woods uh according to the sfist um some mail-in ballots uh were robbed by a mail
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carrier and didn't make it to their destination now the current thinking is that it wasn't that that
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wasn't about the election it was just somebody stole a mail truck maybe for with the other stuff in it
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but the stuff's happened so that all looks like uh maybe not the most secure election system but but
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really the elections are determined by the news i would say could you say that's true so just as i
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showed you the old legacy news system the government would control the news makers new york times and
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washington post they control all the other news and the news tells you who to vote for doesn't it
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now if if the news doesn't care or let's say the people in charge don't care who gets in because
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they're they're both going to be easy to work with then you get this 50 50 election and then you
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maybe it doesn't matter who wins but but according to uh mrc newsbusters uh television hits on trump
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were 85 negative news versus 78 positive for harris if that's the only thing you knew
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that one of the candidates had overwhelmingly negative news coverage and one had overwhelmingly
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positive that's a rigged election right because our information comes from the news
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the news determines how we vote so if the news is rigged and this is clear evidence of a rigged news
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then it's a rigged election because you if you say that the news business is separate from the
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election business so it doesn't matter what happens in the news business that's not about the election
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rigging well that's not true the news is the election the reason that the news entities
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do the debates are because the news is part of the election our system the news is part of the election
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so if the news is rigged the election is rigged that's how it works if the news tells you the
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the hunter laptop is fake well that is a rigged election you know you could tell me but technically
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it's a different industry it's a different industry the news is separate no they're not they're completely
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connected to the people who are running in the elections there's no separation there
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let's see uh then we've got this uh undercover video stephen crowder's got another in the undercover
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video of what is alleged to be a democrat operative who's explaining to somebody who's got an undercover
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camera uh how they democrats allegedly stole the 2020 election in georgia uh and he talks about kicking
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out the gop poll watchers he talks about uh ballot harvesting and the uh 2000 mules thing
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etc here's my take on that not credible sorry not credible it sounds like somebody who watches television
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and then pretended that they knew this stuff on their own it's just all the television stuff
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if he came up with something that wasn't already on television
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but it just sounds like he's bragging or making it up so i can't say that i can't say that it's all
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false that i don't know because that would be a level of certainty that's inapplicable but if you're
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asking me if i think they have the goods my answer is no this does not look like the goods this is closer
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to the kraken meaning that it's closer to something that seems artificially too good to be true
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and then if you go out there and say it then a week later you find out that this guy's just a prankster
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or something so i'm gonna say don't believe that one um yeah um i should interview dinesh well i think
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the 2000 mule thing fell apart because they didn't have video that supported the claim and the people who
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looked at the phone traffic said it was uh too it was too um unreliable to make the claim that's all i
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know so there would be no point in interviewing him because that's the whole story right there anyway
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um trump said something that's just magnificently trumpian because he likes to tease things and make
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you all curious so he said that the uh madison square garden thing he said uh donald trump uh t well
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he he teased that he and matt gates share a quote little secret that's set to give republicans an edge
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saying quote our secret is making waves we'll reveal it once the race is won
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and i think our little secret we're going to do really well with the house
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our little secret is having a big impact he and i have it and we'll tell you what it is when the race
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is over huh so he has a little he has a little secret that involves
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i assume elections for the house what could that be uh i have i'm going to speculate just for fun
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i'm going to speculate that there might be some democrats who are going to win their election
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and then switch to republican because i can't think of anything else that would fit the hint
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and you saw that there were at least two republic two democrats who were running as democrats who were
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using their agreement with trump as part of their argument for winning as democrats you're aware of
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that right so if you've got any democrats that are pretending to agree with trump to get elected
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i would say they're at least on the fence about whether they should be democrats at all could it be
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that the thing that matt gates knows is that he's talked to several of them and he's already convinced
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them to turn republican you know maybe they've got some deals for some you know good committees or
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something i don't know what you can offer them but it could be that if the election comes down close in
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terms of democrats and republicans that there's going to be a second wave where some of the democrats
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that just came in just flip over to republican and the house flips now that would be a hell of a secret
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that would fit the category of it's already happening because all the mechanisms would be in place
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and it would fit that it's a secret they wouldn't want to talk about it until the people got elected
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and matt gates would be an obvious person who could be potentially a front person for that sort of thing
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and uh could be big and involve the house so that's my recreational guess if i had to put money on it
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so i wouldn't bet on myself because there are too many possibilities of what it could be but i'll throw
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one out because it fits all the it fits the hints so it's just fun all right uh if you didn't see a
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panel discussion on cnn that almost came to blows you really have to watch it uh because it had uh so
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cnn had uh what they call a pro-israeli analyst ryan gurdusky and what they call an anti-israel analyst at least
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who whoever wrote this post whose name i forgot to write down um and i guess
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i guess uh let's see meddy made a reference to the madison square garden thing as a hitler kind of a
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situation and i guess gurdusky did not like being lumped in with hitler and so in response he
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he he asked meddy hassan uh he hopes his his beeper doesn't explode
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and now a beeper exploding would be a suggestion that you're a hezbollah terrorist
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uh i think meddy said he was a palestinian but you know no indication he has any terrorist connections
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but uh here's my take if you call anybody a nazi who is not a nazi they can call you anything they
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want have i told you the rules about self-defense there are no rules of self-defense there are laws
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if you break a law you go to jail uh even if it's self-defense if uh if you do something that would kill
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you professionally well there goes your job but there's no there's no ethical or moral limit on
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what you can do in self-defense there are laws but no ethical or moral limits so if you go on television
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and somebody says you're a nazi and you respond by uh accusing them of being a terrorist
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all good all good all good that is absolutely acceptable not true by the way i i should remind
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you that there's no evidence that meddy hassan has any you know connections that you should worry about
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but yes you can say that he could call him a pedo if he wanted again he'd probably get sued if he did
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that but there's no rules if somebody calls you a nazi on television you can go you can unload
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your entire verbal clip verbal verbal yeah don't do anything physical
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that's the rule i i think we just have to agree on that there are some rules that if it's self-defense
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remember it gurdusky wasn't the one who started the name calling if he had started it i'd have a
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different opinion but if so if he's sitting there and he's invited on a show and somebody wants to
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call him a nazi on the national tv show you can say anything you want including calling somebody a
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terrorist absolutely he had it coming but it's not true and that ladies and gentlemen is everything i had
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to say today so i'm going to talk to the uh people on the locals platform by the way if you're not on
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