In this episode of What s up with That, we talk about some science, politics, and why anecdote beats science. Plus, a story about why you should have a growth mindset, and how it can improve your life.
00:09:26.260This Project 65, so they're aligned with Mark Elias, they're running ads in every swing state saying that if any attorney represents Trump in regards to election integrity matters, they might lose their licenses.
00:09:46.840That that's a real thing that's happening.
00:09:48.380That I would say one of the strongest things about the American structure is that we'll give a genuine, at least we'll try, to give a real defense even to somebody who's guilty.
00:10:05.740But here's a case where even if somebody's innocent, they're going to take out the defense.
00:10:13.060They're going to attack the defense, even if they're defending somebody innocent.
00:10:17.220So this is another case of the Democrats making you think past the sale, which to me is the biggest story of the year.
00:10:28.460So, you know, the hypnotist take is he's making you think that Trump did steal the election in 2020 or claimed it was stolen when it wasn't.
00:10:40.040Now, nobody knows if that was election election was stolen.
00:10:45.960So they're making you think past the sale.
00:10:49.040If if if Trump was right, and I don't know that either, that the election was rigged, then everything Trump does looks completely different.
00:10:58.080If it was not only not rigged, but it was possible for a human being to know that it wasn't rigged and one of those human beings was Trump and he knew it wasn't rigged and he knew it was fair and there's no evidence for that point of view whatsoever.
00:11:14.700Well, then he's got some he's got some questions that need to be answered.
00:11:19.080I would say for sure I would be very uncomfortable with Trump if I believed he knew he lost.
00:11:27.180But because I'm not a fucking idiot, I know that nobody can know if he won or lost because we don't have a system that would tell you that one way or the other.
00:11:36.420We do have a system that gives you a result.
00:13:32.720But then they take all they know about everything in the world, and if they can be convinced that the election was definitely fair, well, they're either hypnotists or I'm wrong, and they're just fucking idiots.
00:14:38.400And Trump does his hyperbole and, you know, does his exaggeration, but I'm not aware of anything Republicans are doing that are in the neighborhood of how completely evil some of this looks.
00:14:49.520Anyway, but maybe I'm just in a news bubble and I don't see it.
00:14:55.360According to Just the News, there was going to be a giant spike in out-of-pocket costs for patients, for health care.
00:15:04.960But I think for Medicare drug spending.
00:15:08.420Yeah, but the Biden administration moved $5 billion around to delay that so you wouldn't know that your health care prices spiked before the election.
00:15:18.160Okay, so that should be grounds for, I would say, grounds for impeachment.
00:15:26.020Now, I don't think there's any impeachment rule that would impeach you for this specifically.
00:15:30.400But what if it's true that your government did essentially a financial fraud in order to win the election?
00:15:40.920Because I would consider this a financial fraud if the reporting turns out to be true.
00:15:49.080Again, what is it that Republicans did that was as bad as that?
00:15:54.460If he asked Democrats, they'd say, well, Trump made the Republicans turn down the excellent, excellent bipartisan border bill.
00:16:03.740But, of course, if you're a Republican, you know it was not an excellent, excellent bipartisan bill.
00:17:59.420Well, according to the Daily Wire, Trump has filed an FEC complaint saying the Washington Post is illegally boosting articles that are good for Kamala.
00:18:12.440So the Washington Post decided not to endorse anybody publicly.
00:18:17.040But the allegation is that the Washington Post has been somehow boosting those stories.
00:18:25.640So the Washington Post pays to boost stories critical of Trump.
00:18:31.760I don't know how they, who do they pay?
00:18:33.640Aggressively ramped up its paid advertising campaign, boosting, oh, okay.
00:18:41.220So they were basically doing an advertising campaign for their own newspaper, the Washington Post.
00:18:46.980And in it, they were boosting the anti-Trump articles, it sounds like.
00:20:23.720Well, I guess I won't take care of that right now then.
00:20:29.240So does the Trump campaign have a case?
00:20:33.000Well, probably not because I doubt the news industry is going to get punished for being biased, punished in any way for being biased.
00:20:40.340But here's a good story from, so David Axelrod was trying to dunk on Elon Musk.
00:20:50.440And he looked at something that Elon Musk had claimed on the X platform, and he said, so this is David Axelrod, well-known Democrat strategist type person.
00:21:03.720He said, it used to be that Twitter at least tried to police this information.
00:21:07.940Now its owner traffics in it, all as he invests hundreds of millions of dollars to elect Trump and make himself a power-wielding oligarch.
00:22:00.760He was responding to an Insurrection Barbie post.
00:22:05.360So he's essentially accepting what she said and then boosting it.
00:22:10.920I don't know if Insurrection Barbie is a here or is she, actually.
00:22:14.040But Insurrection Barbie said, if you don't vote and Harris wins, she will grant amnesty to every single foreign national they have allowed in here.
00:22:22.560They will nuke the filibuster, pack the Supreme Court, make D.C. and Puerto Rico states, and America will be California.
00:33:01.800Now, I just want to know, who thinks you can audit our election?
00:33:08.640If a programmer got in and changed the bits on the counting machines, who catches that?
00:33:14.920If we have known cases of non-citizens voting, which we do catch in small numbers, you know, a dozen here, a dozen there, how many got away?
00:33:27.580Do we have a system that catches every one of them?
00:33:30.440Does our audit catch every one of them?
00:33:32.060How could you possibly think we have an auditable system?
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00:35:57.760I don't think we would necessarily catch something really small.
00:36:00.740But Ian Bremmer pointed me toward a podcast that he had with a woman who apparently is in charge of making sure that our elections are fair and free.
00:36:14.340And she works for a group called CISA, C-I-S-A.
00:36:18.660Now, among other things, I guess their job is to make sure elections are fair and free because the states do their own versions of elections.
00:36:25.540So you'd need some kind of an auditor to come in and make sure they have resources that they need and that sort of thing.
00:36:44.580Yeah, CrowdStrike is part of their cybersecurity infrastructure for CISA.
00:36:50.180So one of the ways they make sure that your elections are fair and clear is they get some CISA software working on those machines, some CrowdStrike, CrowdStrike software working on those machines.
00:37:03.920Has anybody ever heard of CrowdStrike?
00:37:07.240Does that name ever come up in politics?
00:37:11.340Yeah, if you, for all of you, those of you who follow Mike Benz, these names all have a different meaning.
00:37:18.540These are not the groups that you look to for credibility.
00:37:23.500These are exactly the groups you look to to reduce credibility.
00:37:29.120But remember, I always tell you that if you know what's happening, you don't know anything.
00:37:35.700So if I just told you, oh, the government has a whole entity that's their whole purpose is to make sure the elections are good, that would be telling you what's happening.
00:38:58.220There are engineers who know how things work, and then there are things called managers who don't know how anything works or how anything is put together.
00:39:08.900If you talk to the engineers, they'll say things like, well, the reason CISA has such a big operation is there are so many places that our elections could be vulnerable.
00:39:30.960And the reason is there are so many ways our elections can be rigged that they're all over the place.
00:39:39.180To which I say, so, engineer, are you telling me, therefore, that it's completely secure because CISA is in so many places that there could be problems?
00:39:51.220How would an engineer answer that question?
00:39:53.160An honest engineer would say, well, really, the fact that there's dozens and dozens of holes we have to plug is kind of a strong indication that there are holes we haven't plugged that we don't yet know about.
00:40:09.360Because I would ask, were all of the holes that you plugged today, were all of them always plugged?
00:40:18.220Well, no, that's why we had to have CISA.
00:40:21.020So you're saying that in the past, we had holes which we knew, and until CISA came, they were not plugged.
00:40:54.960How do you know you plugged all of them?
00:40:59.000Well, we're not aware of any that need to be plugged.
00:41:02.320At any time during the process where you were plugging the holes that are now plugged, was there any time when you had half of them plugged and you were unaware that there might be some other things that would come up?
00:42:03.800Are you telling me that if you admitted the elections were not secure, you would get fired?
00:42:11.100Well, yes, of course, because it's my job to make sure they're secure.
00:42:13.700So I'm supposed to believe that the elections are secure because I'm listening to a manager, not an engineer who could actually know what's going on.
00:42:24.720I'm talking to a manager who would get fired if you said the opposite.
00:44:45.780The message I got was that they're not secure.
00:44:48.060Because if you're going to send somebody to tell me that the elections are secure, why don't you send me somebody who's not a fucking liar?
00:44:56.800Because CBS are clearly fucking liars.
00:44:59.740They have no credibility whatsoever in the news business.
00:45:02.880If you want to tell me that something is secure, don't send the biggest fucking liars in the world to tell me they're secure.
00:46:06.280I don't see any possibility that she's bringing anybody together, and what it feels like is that she just mugged me, and she's telling me it's time to unite.
00:46:18.420To which I'm saying, how about you give me back my wallet, and then we will talk about uniting.
00:46:24.800Nope, I got your wallet, and I'm going to shoot you in the arm.
00:46:56.600Nate Silver, as you know, famous pollster, thinks that maybe the polls are bunching for the purpose of being credible.
00:47:08.280Yes, the polls are bunching for the purpose of being credible, which I told you a year ago, and every month since then, the polls will bunch to pretend to be credible.
00:47:19.800And then the polls bunched to pretend to be credible.
00:47:22.960And Nate Silver calls it out because it's obvious.
00:47:29.760But as Alex Castellanos says, who's also, he told Fox News this, and he's worked for various campaigns, so he knows what he's talking about.
00:47:40.180He says, I think they're missing a massive shift in voter registrations underneath all of this.
00:47:46.260Thirty-one states have voter registration by party, and 30 of them in the past four years have seen movement toward Republicans.
00:47:56.060So he doesn't think it's like a wave, but maybe a wavelet.
00:47:59.860So the idea is that you don't catch the last-minute sentiments.
00:48:11.020And that you can't have so many people registering to be Republican unless they're going to vote Republican.
00:48:17.940So it is reasonable to assume that nearly all of the Republicans who registered for the first time did it for the purpose of voting for Trump.
00:48:28.280So I don't think the polls have that in their numbers.
00:48:32.380And the reason they wouldn't have the new registrations is because they're going to look at how people voted in prior polls to figure out how they're going to vote this time.
00:48:42.640And all the unlikely voters who have newly registered, they don't have a history.
00:48:50.440So when the pollsters try to put the old history into the new prediction, they can't do it.
00:48:57.040Because now the history is destroyed by the fact that something new happened, a whole bunch of people registered,
00:49:03.480which is unusual for Republicans to have more registrations than Democrats, at least lately.
00:49:08.700Nancy Pelosi wants you to think about Trump's cognitive ability.
00:55:27.160Well, a former MSNBC anchor who got canned by MSNBC, Mehdi Hassan, he's mad at both Biden and Attorney General Merrick for not putting Trump on trial before the 2024 presidential election.
00:55:46.120Well, if he'd done it before the election, Trump would have already cleared all of those election claims because they would have already been turned over by the courts
00:55:55.500or people would have forgot about him.
00:55:58.240But again, he's making you think past the sale.
00:56:01.440So if he makes you think that they should have put him in jail sooner, he's making you think, well, he's obviously guilty.
00:56:19.540All I saw was even people on CNN, like Fareed Zakario, saying he doesn't think some of these would be even taken to court except it was Trump.
00:56:32.720So, yes, don't let him think past the sale.
00:56:35.700Everything is making them think past the sale.
00:56:38.600If the 2020 election was fake or not, their entire argument depends on you not thinking about that.
00:57:12.620How do you think the Democrats would have done getting votes from men if they had gone, you know, you really need to be a vegetarian right before the election?
00:57:26.280I don't think that would have helped their vote with young men.
00:57:29.880I think young men like their meat for the most part.
00:57:58.700So, the post-millennial says that Kamala Harris has a separate message she's sending on the campaign to the Muslims versus the Jews, the American Muslims and Jews.
00:58:15.400And that she is a little more pro-Israel with the Jewish Americans, a little more pro-Palestinian with the Muslim Americans.
00:58:24.160Now, that's no big surprise, right, because they're politicians.
00:58:27.480But I wondered, does Trump ever do that?
00:58:31.420I'm trying to think, has Trump ever had two messages for two different groups of people?
00:58:38.440It seems like with all the politicking, there must have been some time it happened.
00:59:09.040When I watch somebody give different messages to different groups, that strikes me as dishonest.
00:59:14.260When I just think that Trump, even though he is directionally accurate, but fails the fact checking, you know, quite a bit, that the directional accuracy is the part I cared about.
00:59:34.080You know, somebody was challenging me on how much wall he got built.
00:59:38.080I think Cenk was saying he didn't build much wall.
00:59:40.620To which I say, but he tried to build a wall.
01:00:56.340Governor Wall says there will come a day when you're going to be sitting on that rocking chair and the little ones are going to ask you, quote, when everything was on the line, there was somebody running who asked to be a dictator.
01:01:20.260What did you do to stop that from happening?
01:01:22.360Well, here's what the youngster should have said.
01:01:25.220Grandpa, were you part of the great lying of the 2020s?
01:01:31.760Were you one of the ones who said that Trump wanted to be a dictator and he wanted to overturn the Constitution and use the military against our people?
01:01:40.180Grandpa, did you really say that bullshit?
01:02:51.980But anyway, so Claire McCaskill, possibly the dumbest person on MSNBC, the dumbest network
01:03:01.900and the dumbest show, she was mocking Elon Musk, who might be one of the smartest people
01:03:07.040in the world, and said, quote, he thinks because he can do rockets and electric cars
01:03:12.080that he can figure out how to get people to vote.
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