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00:00:58.280 Number one, do we say happy Veterans Day?

00:01:04.080 I guess we say happy, right?

00:01:06.600 So let's take a moment to show some respect to all of our veterans of various wars and whatnot.

00:01:14.920 It's your day today, but still, some people have to go to work.

00:01:19.540 And luckily for you, I do not take holidays off.

00:01:27.960 So here I am, as always.

00:01:30.580 Well, the stock market's hitting some record highs.

00:01:33.320 Bitcoin was up to $82,000.

00:01:35.840 Last I checked, Tesla stock is screaming.

00:01:40.240 Trump Media stock is doing great.

00:01:42.500 And Paul Krugman predicts economic doom.

00:01:48.600 Paul Krugman.

00:01:51.640 Paul Krugman is pretty sure that Trump's going to destroy the economy.

00:01:56.160 Because when you want to know what's going to happen in the future, you've got a Paul Krugman.

00:02:02.880 Now, Paul Krugman is kind of famous for having bad takes on economics, despite having a Nobel Prize in it.

00:02:09.520 So I wouldn't worry about the economy, as long as Paul Krugman thinks it's an economic noob.

00:02:15.240 Did you know that the University of British Columbia is reporting that they figured out how a small device could turn CO2 into valuable fuel?

00:02:27.160 And all you would need is a temperature differential.

00:02:31.600 So how cool is this?

00:02:33.400 If you have a temperature differential, then you can create energy.

00:02:37.460 So that's what a sterling engine is.

00:02:39.760 It's where you've got a big difference between, let's say, an ocean would be a certain temperature, and maybe the land would be heated by the sun, maybe 50 degrees hotter or something.

00:02:51.780 So if you have a big difference in temperature, you can make enough electricity that you can convert CO2 into fuel.

00:03:00.020 And you could even do it on the moon.

00:03:02.180 Or not the moon, but maybe Mars.

00:03:03.780 So there might be a way to use sunlight to produce fuel on Mars.

00:03:12.160 How cool is that?

00:03:14.900 I don't know.

00:03:15.940 To me, it just seems really cool every time we come up with a new way to make Mars practical.

00:03:23.060 So I guess we'll be turning CO2 into fuel, and who knows what else.

00:03:27.760 Today we're waiting for, unless it's already happened, I haven't heard it,

00:03:31.020 but Judge Marshawn is going to rule on the immunity question, and whether or not there's going to be a trial, and whether to cancel it.

00:03:40.520 I feel like it's going to be good news for Trump, but I don't know.

00:03:45.060 The legal system seems to be a little bit corrupt, so I don't know.

00:03:50.860 We'll wait for that.

00:03:54.780 I love watching the news find out that Trump was right about something that they called fake news.

00:04:01.020 So at one point, Trump was claiming during the recent hurricane that Republicans were not getting the same amount of resources as Democrats,

00:04:10.960 because FEMO being run by the government has more Democrats in it right now.

00:04:16.260 And, of course, he was widely debunked.

00:04:19.020 And it turns out that somebody got fired because they were, in fact, in writing, telling people not to knock on the doors of people who had Trump signs in their lawn.

00:04:31.660 So Trump was right.

00:04:33.680 I don't know if he was right about the scale of it, but he was right that resources were being allocated based on political preference.

00:04:41.300 That was actually true.

00:04:43.740 And I was watching a little clip of all the people who were calling him crazy for claiming that.

00:04:49.800 One of them was Abby Phillip on CNN.

00:04:53.240 And Abby Phillip first came to my attention for pushing the find people hoax.

00:04:59.460 And since then, she's been promoted, of course.

00:05:02.800 If you push fake news, you get promoted.

00:05:06.760 And now she's got a regular show. 0.65

00:05:08.840 And she seems to be the one most protecting the obvious hoaxes.

00:05:15.400 And honestly, she looks like she believes them.

00:05:17.900 So when I see her saying, oh, that's a fake story and that's a hoax, she's wrong a lot of times.

00:05:28.980 But she actually looks like she believes what she's saying.

00:05:32.180 So I don't know what's up with that.

00:05:33.840 So I don't know how you could believe the find people hoax if you were in the news business.

00:05:37.920 But she seems very dedicated to believing all the hoaxes.

00:05:42.340 There's a report titled Equity Everywhere, some group called Do No Harm.

00:05:52.040 Looked at the DEI policies of the government, federal government, and found out there's just a ton of them.

00:05:58.980 There are more than 80 federal entities with some kind of DEI in them.

00:06:04.020 And the idea here is that Trump's going to rip the DEI out of the government, which I'm pretty sure he'll do.

00:06:12.340 But the reason he would do it is because it's illegal.

00:06:16.260 It should be illegal to have racial preferences and hiring or anything else.

00:06:21.360 But it's all over in the government and corporate in the corporate world.

00:06:26.140 So here's what I'm really wondering about.

00:06:28.960 Several big companies have pared back their DEI efforts, mostly from pressure from the public.

00:06:37.160 But what happens when the government makes it illegal to do it in the government?

00:06:42.340 I've asked this before, but I think this might be a big deal.

00:06:46.660 Because if you're like me, you think this DEI stuff can never be removed.

00:06:51.560 It's like it just sort of became like a stain on the country and it'll just sort of always be there.

00:06:57.760 But there is a possibility that if you make it illegal in the government, it's going to be really hard for a corporation to do it.

00:07:07.360 Because how do you defend something that your government says, no, this is illegal, this is racial discrimination, so stop doing it?

00:07:15.580 Are they going to keep doing it?

00:07:18.880 For a while, yes, they will.

00:07:21.760 But it makes me wonder if there are any lawsuits or anything that would be more easily won if the government has declared it illegal.

00:07:29.860 Seems like that would help.

00:07:31.980 We'll see.

00:07:32.480 There was some fake news on the Internet.

00:07:41.080 It showed a screen image that looked like a Trump post saying that he offered amnesty to hot women.

00:07:48.020 And that he offered amnesty to hot Latinas and Eastern European women will be granted amnesty. 0.62

00:07:57.180 Everyone else has to go back.

00:08:00.740 Everyone else has to go back.

00:08:02.920 And people believed that that was true.

00:08:05.300 That he was going to grant amnesty to hot women and send everyone else back. 0.93

00:08:10.960 Now, I'm not opposed to the idea.

00:08:13.540 I'm just telling you it was not true.

00:08:14.960 If we wanted to talk about the merit of the idea, well, that's another conversation entirely.

00:08:25.080 I saw a report that Trump and the GOP are aiming for a shock and awe start to their administration.

00:08:33.840 In other words, to make sure that on day one they're doing some big, successful things.

00:08:40.420 Now, what do I call that?

00:08:42.840 I have a name for that.

00:08:44.140 I call it the new CEO move.

00:08:46.840 And Trump did it the first time he got elected as well.

00:08:50.320 And what it is is really important that your first impression on a job sort of becomes the permanent impression.

00:08:58.420 So whatever you're doing in the first week or so, if it's a big failure, then you're going to look like the big failure administration.

00:09:05.640 But if your first week is full of wins, then it looks like, whoa, the wind's up their back.

00:09:11.800 He's a legend.

00:09:12.520 Everything he touches turns to gold.

00:09:14.600 You better make a deal with him.

00:09:16.220 And it can really make a difference, not just in the popularity of the party, but in how much they can get done.

00:09:22.920 Because if you become the person who's solving problem after problem, and then you show up to negotiate the end of some war here or there, it's going to be different.

00:09:34.220 Oh, this is the person who solves every problem.

00:09:36.740 Okay.

00:09:37.020 I guess our war is over.

00:09:40.140 So, yes, it does look like Trump is gearing up to make big, big moves really fast.

00:09:47.500 And it should be a lot of crowd pleasers.

00:09:50.300 You know, closing the border, crowd pleaser.

00:09:53.060 Ending the war in Ukraine, crowd pleaser.

00:09:56.600 There's a lot of good things he can do right away.

00:09:58.880 Ending DEI.

00:10:00.320 It needs to be a crowd pleaser for me.

00:10:02.080 Here's a question that will plague me.

00:10:07.000 One of my wrong predictions, the wrongest that it could be wrong, was that there would be so many claims of election integrity cheating that we wouldn't know who was president because we'd have to work through all the claims.

00:10:21.700 But it turns out there were hardly any.

00:10:24.540 And now we are left to wonder why.

00:10:28.060 Is it because Trump won?

00:10:30.580 So, everybody who would have complained just said, hey, I think I'll just be quiet about this.

00:10:35.580 We got what we wanted.

00:10:37.280 I don't think so.

00:10:39.200 Because we didn't know he'd win when the election was happening.

00:10:43.680 So, if there had been claims, they still would have stacked up.

00:10:46.880 And apparently, there are a number of, you know, anecdotally, there are a number of stories where the observers stopped something from happening that would have turned into a claim if they had been able to, let's say, move the observers out of the room or something like that.

00:11:05.760 But they weren't.

00:11:06.360 So, I guess we'll never know, or maybe in some future election we'll know, if it was the existence of the observers plus the very clear and loud threats from the Republicans that if you mess with this election, you're going to jail.

00:11:24.540 Well, was that enough?

00:11:27.660 Was that enough to just stop the cheating?

00:11:32.360 And then the other question is, maybe the cheating would only be in, you know, one precinct.

00:11:39.680 You have to worry about Maricopa all the time.

00:11:42.040 What if it just happened in one place?

00:11:45.240 The current projection is that Carrie Lake is behind and won't be able to catch up in the counting.

00:11:53.440 So, she might lose in Maricopa, but people have some questions.

00:11:59.360 Why is it taking so long in Maricopa?

00:12:02.560 Why doesn't the result look like what you'd expect it to look like?

00:12:07.340 I'd expect if Trump won in Arizona that Carrie Lake would win as senator. 1.00

00:12:13.540 But what if Trump wins and Carrie Lake doesn't win?

00:12:16.680 Well, then you can have a question.

00:12:18.740 Now, that doesn't mean that's impossible.

00:12:21.060 There's plenty of precedent for, you know, split ticket kind of stuff.

00:12:25.380 But it would raise a question.

00:12:27.540 It's like, hmm, maybe we need to explain this.

00:12:30.320 Because in my view, she seems like a very strong candidate.

00:12:33.220 If you could just look at the candidate and say, oh, that Gallego guy, you know, he's really got it in.

00:12:39.660 You know, he's got the goods.

00:12:40.960 But I don't think that's the case.

00:12:43.640 So, there are questions.

00:12:47.480 It would be wonderful to find out that even Maricopa was completely copacetic.

00:12:52.940 Everything worked.

00:12:53.640 There's a, I just saw it in the comments, there's a meme going around showing that all of the states that Trump won require ID to vote.

00:13:06.020 And all of the states he lost don't require ID to vote.

00:13:11.240 The implication being that all of those states cheated.

00:13:14.780 And they had, you know, non-voters voting, people who didn't have ID.

00:13:21.000 And I would say that you cannot conclude that.

00:13:26.220 All right.

00:13:26.460 So, the results do not suggest that.

00:13:28.320 What the results do suggest is that blue states don't require ID and red states do.

00:13:36.420 So, Trump wins the red states.

00:13:38.200 He doesn't win the blue states.

00:13:39.540 It doesn't mean anything about ID.

00:13:42.160 It doesn't mean they cheated.

00:13:44.320 It would look that, it would look exactly the same if there was massive cheating or no massive cheating.

00:13:50.380 Trump would still win the red states, and he'd still lose the blue states, with or without cheating.

00:13:57.420 Unless it was, you know, something really weird happening.

00:14:02.960 Anyway, so I'm willing to accept the possibility that I was 100% wrong and that there would not be massive cheating in the election.

00:14:13.520 I just don't know why.

00:14:15.860 Is it because it was never going to happen?

00:14:17.800 Was there never any cheating in prior years?

00:14:22.800 Or would this be the one year that the cheaters say, we better take this one off?

00:14:28.260 Is it possible you got a cheater's holiday?

00:14:31.300 Meaning that maybe they always cheat and have since I've been born.

00:14:36.300 But this was the one time they said, you know, we're either going to have to cheat a lot better or take an election off because they're looking pretty closely.

00:14:46.060 I don't know.

00:14:48.320 And then my next question would be, the one thing that I don't think observers can check, not easily, is what happens if something happened within the machines?

00:14:58.520 What happens if everything that you could observe was fine, but then when the final count got transmitted to some central place, maybe it got tweaked on the transfer?

00:15:10.120 How would you know?

00:15:10.800 Now, the fact that we're not hearing any complaints along those lines would suggest that maybe there's some way to know.

00:15:19.080 And I wasn't aware of it.

00:15:20.900 Is there a way to know if the electronic machines are correctly tabulating?

00:15:25.580 Now, many of them have a paper ballot as well, so you can compare.

00:15:31.660 In those cases, yes.

00:15:33.460 But once you transmit it, can you be sure that it transmitted correctly?

00:15:38.720 I don't know.

00:15:41.180 So I have many questions about was I ever correct in my assumptions about how leaky the election was,

00:15:47.820 or was I completely correct and they cleaned up the rack because they knew they were being watched?

00:15:53.880 Which would be very convenient for me to be wrong or right, right?

00:15:59.880 So I have to ask myself, I better question my whole take on this.

00:16:08.060 However, let's look at that claim that there are 15 million fewer votes this time,

00:16:16.380 and that therefore that proves that 2020 was rigged because where'd all those votes go?

00:16:22.580 Well, according to Newsweek, there is no missing 15 million votes.

00:16:28.140 So they've said it's false, and others have said it's false.

00:16:33.180 Now, here's their argument.

00:16:36.080 The disparity between 2020 and 2024 appears to be a mixture of ballots still being counted,

00:16:43.660 certain voter blocks switching, contests yet to be called,

00:16:48.340 and slightly lower, yet still very high, national turnout.

00:16:52.120 So the courted number of 15 million, quote, missing Democrat voters is not real.

00:17:02.500 Do you buy that?

00:17:04.860 Does that explanation totally answer all of your questions?

00:17:10.880 Well, let's look at it another way.

00:17:12.740 As of Sunday morning, Trump had more popular votes than I think any Republicans gotten in

00:17:22.040 so long that you can't remember.

00:17:26.100 So Trump got about almost 75 million popular votes so far.

00:17:30.900 I think they're still counting them.

00:17:33.040 And that was even more than he got in 2020, which was also a record over 2016.

00:17:40.000 But not that much.

00:17:43.440 You know, that looks more like just the difference in population.

00:17:47.100 Now, but President Biden still has scored the largest raw count of the popular vote of any

00:17:52.820 contender in history in 2020.

00:17:56.600 So Trump seems to be winning with 75 million, whereas Biden was winning one with allegedly 81 million.

00:18:07.240 Do you think that between last election and this election, that there would be 5 million-ish fewer people to vote against Trump?

00:18:22.200 Does that sound real?

00:18:24.860 I would say the claim that there are missing votes, in my opinion, is still completely alive.

00:18:34.280 The claim that there are 20 million is definitely debunked, and the claim that there will be 15 million missing votes,

00:18:42.800 I think that's definitely debunked.

00:18:45.980 But if we get down to, let's say, 1 to 5 million votes that you expected to be there that aren't,

00:18:56.260 that would be more than enough to throw any election.

00:18:59.320 I mean, it would only take a million votes if they were in the right places to completely change an election.

00:19:04.760 So we're not going to be able to rule out the missing vote hypothesis.

00:19:10.320 I hate that.

00:19:11.740 I wish we would know for sure, because I think, you know, if it's within a few million of prior elections,

00:19:18.720 it will be easy to dismiss it and say,

00:19:21.860 well, people weren't as excited this time.

00:19:26.400 You know what I mean?

00:19:27.740 If you just got a few million that are unexplained,

00:19:32.940 any explanation will be fine, because it would be a small percentage of the total.

00:19:37.540 But it doesn't mean there was no shenanigans.

00:19:40.840 It just means we don't know.

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00:20:44.420 Rasmussen asked voters what were their most important issues.

00:20:52.560 And 32% said illegal immigration.

00:20:55.720 That was the top answer.

00:20:58.020 27% said rising prices.

00:21:01.020 Now those would be my opinions as well.

00:21:05.820 Rising prices I put in the domain of the economy in general.

00:21:09.400 And, of course, border security.

00:21:12.400 So on the two most important things, Trump had, you know, the better policies people thought.

00:21:18.300 So that alone should have explained how we won.

00:21:21.740 If you needed any other reason, how about the top two things that voters wanted Trump was offering?

00:21:28.540 How about that?

00:21:31.200 That'd be enough.

00:21:32.340 I mean, we have 50 different reasons that people are offering for why things went the way they are.

00:21:37.560 Well, one of them could just be one of them addressed the top interests of the country.

00:21:41.860 And the other one didn't.

00:21:44.520 So what are the other issues?

00:21:47.180 24%.

00:21:47.700 24%.

00:21:49.700 24%.

00:21:51.540 24%.

00:21:52.240 That is nearly one quarter.

00:21:55.180 It's very close to 25%.

00:21:56.540 25%.

00:21:57.340 And if you heard from me that 25% of respondents on a poll had a certain opinion, what would you think about that opinion without even hearing it first? 0.98

00:22:10.540 You would say 25% of the people who respond to any poll have the dumbass answer. 1.00

00:22:17.300 That you can't even understand how anybody could be that dumb. 0.99

00:22:20.760 24% said that the biggest issue was protecting our democracy. 0.99

00:22:26.540 Protecting our democracy.

00:22:32.080 It's like a completely made up issue.

00:22:34.820 And it turns out that more Republicans voted for protecting our democracy by putting Trump in charge than Democrats.

00:22:41.740 So it's this completely made up fake news propaganda thing that we've been listening to for a year or more.

00:22:49.460 And 24% of the country actually bought into the idea that that was real.

00:22:56.320 Do you know what else 24% of the country could be convinced is true?

00:23:02.220 Abso-fucking-lutely anything.

00:23:05.760 Anything. 0.76

00:23:06.840 24% of the country, you could absolutely convince that there is a live UFO in the Oval Office.

00:23:13.740 Yeah, you could.

00:23:15.640 Anything.

00:23:16.560 You could convince 24% of the public that Biden died a year ago.

00:23:21.400 Anything.

00:23:22.120 There's nothing you couldn't convince them.

00:23:24.120 24% can be convinced of anything.

00:23:28.760 And so sure enough, the people having their mental breakdowns think that Hitler got into office and they're losing their freedom.

00:23:36.220 But when asked to list the freedoms they've lost, everything goes quiet.

00:23:43.900 And they say stuff like abortion, which is fake news because Trump says he's not going to do a national abortion ban.

00:23:53.000 Very clear about it.

00:23:56.120 So they have to make up entire issues that are the opposite of Trump's policies in order to be afraid.

00:24:03.980 Why would you do that?

00:24:05.440 Why would you make up a problem that's the opposite of the person's policy?

00:24:12.560 It's like you're just looking to hurt yourself somehow.

00:24:16.360 Anyway, and 14% said abortion rights were the number one question.

00:24:21.800 And then I say, yes, it's the number one question for the states, not for the federal government and not for Trump.

00:24:32.000 So 14% couldn't even find the right topic, basically.

00:24:39.080 25% get the wrong answer.

00:24:41.620 14% don't understand the question.

00:24:43.720 It was like you didn't even understand the question, or you had no idea what's going on.

00:24:51.540 Anyway, a lot of people have been asking me in the last few days, how am I going to explain my support for Trump when I see my Trump-hating family?

00:25:01.180 Do any of you have that problem?

00:25:04.820 Are any of you dreading the holidays or already kicked out of your family because of your Trump support? 0.98

00:25:11.780 And you're wondering how to deal with your crazy family members? 0.98

00:25:16.940 All right. 0.96

00:25:17.660 Well, here's what I would do.

00:25:21.880 I would, first of all, see if you can grab a clip from, I believe, today.

00:25:27.580 Is it today or soon?

00:25:29.400 Biden will be meeting with Trump.

00:25:33.120 There will be, I assume, pictures of them smiling and shaking hands.

00:25:38.240 And then they'll have a private conversation.

00:25:40.300 And then Biden will brag, he'll brag about how well they turn over power, peacefully.

00:25:49.120 Now, when your relatives say, how could you, how could you elect Hiller and take away all our democracy?

00:25:55.980 The first thing you should say is, you realize that as soon as the election was over, the Democrats who were making those claims acted like it never happened.

00:26:05.620 Right?

00:26:06.140 They acted like it never happened because otherwise they couldn't smile and shake hands and peacefully transfer power.

00:26:14.500 They should be telling, they should be telling the country if everything they'd been saying up to that point was true, that your democracy is going to be gone.

00:26:22.880 What Biden should be doing is holding a, you know, like a mourning in the, you know, a mourning as if like a death in the Oval Office.

00:26:32.440 He should refuse to talk to Trump, now or ever.

00:26:37.620 They should look for every possible way to reverse the election.

00:26:41.600 And they should be working as hard as they can to save us from losing our democracy. 1.00

00:26:48.900 But instead, Biden's going to be smiling like a dumb fuck, shaking hands and bragging about how he gave over power peacefully. 1.00

00:26:57.800 To Hiller. 1.00

00:26:58.680 To Hiller.

00:26:59.940 Peaceful.

00:27:00.880 Peaceful transfer to Hiller.

00:27:02.440 So, if you're talking to your relatives, say, I'd like you to explain to me how the entire government just started acting like it was normal that Trump was going to be president.

00:27:14.960 How'd that happen?

00:27:16.540 Because the frame you want to give your family is that we live in a hoaxocracy.

00:27:21.060 And that neither the left news or the right news are even intended to be accurate.

00:27:26.800 They're meant to be narratives.

00:27:27.720 If you go in and say, I read real news and you read fake news, your argument will fail and you will be kicked out of the family.

00:27:38.180 If you go in and say all news is fake when it comes to politics.

00:27:42.160 And the way that I came to like Trump is not believing anything and making up my own mind.

00:27:52.620 And then you show that the news and the politicians were clearly lying because they're just treating him like a normal president now.

00:28:01.080 Clearly they were lying, obviously.

00:28:02.600 So, the next thing you don't want to do is point them to the AmericanDebunk.com site because that's got a good write-up of everything from the fine people hoax to the other hoaxes and how they were played.

00:28:14.500 So, what you could do is say, here's the frame I would put on it.

00:28:20.840 People are going to ask you and your family, how could you do this?

00:28:25.000 And what you should say is, I'd love to explain it.

00:28:28.940 Would you be willing to actually listen?

00:28:30.540 And then instead of talking about policies, you talk about the propaganda and brainwashing situation on social media and in the news and say that both sides are just full of propaganda and fake news and that if you wanted to find out how badly you'd been duped, look at the AmericanDebunk.com.

00:28:54.880 And then you could say, and I'm not saying that I haven't been fooled by any hoaxes, I'm sure I have.

00:29:02.820 But if you don't understand that you're in a full 100% saturated hoaxocracy, then you're kind of lost.

00:29:13.000 You won't understand the Trump support.

00:29:15.420 You have to understand that none of the news is real or nothing makes sense.

00:29:20.080 The moment you realize the news is not real and not trying to be real, that's important, they're not trying to be real, then everything makes sense.

00:29:28.900 Everything you observe suddenly makes sense once you realize that.

00:29:34.360 Did you know there are two websites for people to make suggestions to our government?

00:29:41.020 One to discuss policy.

00:29:42.440 So if you've got an idea for a policy that you think Trump could do something about, executive orders are great, but it could be anything else, that's up.

00:30:01.880 If you want to discuss who should be nominated, you should look at mahanow.org.

00:30:10.840 So as in Make America Healthy Again, mahanow.org.

00:30:18.480 And then slash nominees-for-the-people.

00:30:23.820 I think you'll be able to find that at mahanow.org.

00:30:27.920 So at least one of these was set up by RFK Jr., maybe Nicole Shanahan, I'm assuming.

00:30:37.940 I'm not sure about the other one.

00:30:39.840 I saw something that said maybe both of them were the work of RFK Jr.

00:30:45.540 But I've been saying for a while that what makes Trump special, among other things,

00:30:50.820 is that he listens to the public just better than anybody ever has.

00:30:57.080 He can read a room, he adjusts, he does ask for opinions.

00:31:01.260 You know, here's something that you hear everybody say when they say they've spent time with Trump.

00:31:06.840 They will say that he is interested in your opinion and listens very carefully to it and solicits it.

00:31:13.620 And that was exactly my experience.

00:31:16.140 So, you know, famously, I always tell you, I met him in 2018 because I was a supporter.

00:31:21.620 And in the summer, the politics gets low.

00:31:24.760 So I think the White House was just, you know, bolstering support among supporters.

00:31:29.700 So I got invited in and I got to just sort of hang with him for half an hour and just shoot the breeze.

00:31:36.340 And where Trump took the conversation was my opinion.

00:31:40.960 So instead of telling me, you know, what you'd expect if you listened to everything from the Democrats,

00:31:47.140 you would expect that he's a narcissist and that I would walk in and he would tell me how great he is,

00:31:52.840 slap me on the back and send me home.

00:31:55.180 Right?

00:31:56.280 Like with having no interest whatsoever in me, he would just, you know, tell me he's great,

00:32:02.080 give me his weird handshake and send me home.

00:32:04.080 And it's the opposite of that.

00:32:07.480 He sits down and he starts asking me questions about my business model for Dilbert.

00:32:12.700 Yeah.

00:32:12.920 Then he asked me some, some political questions, you know, the stuff that was in the headlines.

00:32:19.220 He asked me who he thought he was going to run against.

00:32:22.280 I said Kamala Harris.

00:32:23.760 He said he thought it would be Biden.

00:32:25.380 He was right.

00:32:27.280 You know, the second bite of the apple, I was right.

00:32:29.660 But he was right that it would be Biden the next time.

00:32:32.540 And he listened to my answers very carefully.

00:32:37.620 Like you are very aware that he is giving you his full attention and is actually interested in the answer to his question.

00:32:47.480 I don't know how many other presidents do that.

00:32:51.140 And so it certainly, it certainly kicks the hell out of the whole narcissist thing.

00:32:56.460 Because if you ever met a narcissist, they don't do that.

00:32:59.940 They don't say, let's spend this half hour listening to you.

00:33:04.920 They fill it up with their own thing.

00:33:09.780 Anyway.

00:33:10.260 So I think this is great that there's a website that you can make those suggestions.

00:33:16.000 Looks like the border security guy is going to be Tom Homan again.

00:33:21.500 Republicans seem to love Tom Homan.

00:33:23.860 So he was in that job under the first Trump administration.

00:33:27.280 And he's going to close down that border and deport things, deport people as Trump requires.

00:33:37.140 Jim Jordan was asked about the mass deportations.

00:33:40.280 He had a pretty good answer.

00:33:41.540 You might want to use this one yourself.

00:33:43.800 So Jim Jordan says that there are 1.3 million people in the country who have been ordered deported already.

00:33:50.380 Because they lost their asylum claims.

00:33:53.980 And he says that Trump will start there.

00:33:56.940 Well, if the courts have already ordered 1.3 million to go home, how long would it take to round up the criminals?

00:34:04.340 And the 1.3 million that the courts have said have to leave.

00:34:07.340 It's going to take all four years.

00:34:12.020 You know, even if you wanted to do mass deportations, and I don't actually think anybody wants to, you know, if you really talk to people privately, do you need all 20 million to go home?

00:34:24.500 You know, we're going to be 10 million short workers if you do that, and they're paying taxes.

00:34:28.520 So most people, I think, in the real world, if they were in charge, they would go after all the ones that are a big problem or have been legally ejected, and you'd be in good shape.

00:34:47.460 So if we just do that, we'll be fine.

00:34:49.380 And then Jim Jordan was emphasizing again that Trump's going to focus on getting the work done, and he's not going after political enemies.

00:35:03.140 I do wonder if it even makes sense for Trump to deny that he's going after political enemies.

00:35:10.720 Or would it be better for them to think that he is?

00:35:13.880 And so they shape up and then just not do it. 0.98

00:35:17.360 I mean, so part of me wants to say, you fools, don't you know that Trump is not going to go after political enemies? 0.98

00:35:28.120 But first of all, I don't know that. 0.98

00:35:30.680 Who knows?

00:35:32.500 I do know that there would be huge resistance to it from Republicans.

00:35:37.120 I would resist it.

00:35:38.580 If it were just lawfare and it's just revenge, oh, I'm going to resist that hard.

00:35:43.520 I don't want to be associated with that in any way.

00:35:47.360 But there may be a few characters that have earned a little special treatment.

00:35:58.020 It's not going to be Rachel Maddow, and it's not going to be Joy Reid.

00:36:01.200 I mean, honestly, if Trump went after Joy Reid, I would stop everything I'm doing and say, I don't know what this is, but you need to stop that right away.

00:36:12.020 Like that does not fly.

00:36:14.860 You don't get to go after somebody who said bad things about you.

00:36:19.500 Nope, nope, nope.

00:36:20.680 But there are other people like the January 6th committee who probably broke real laws.

00:36:27.500 I mean, it looks like it from my perspective.

00:36:29.720 I don't have proof of that.

00:36:30.700 But I think there is evidence of information that was held back.

00:36:35.700 And, you know, there are some claims there that I think need to be looked at.

00:36:39.360 Because if the January 6th committee was corrupt, and it certainly looks like they were, the damage to the country is just enormous.

00:36:51.460 So I think that needs to be looked at.

00:36:54.260 But no, certainly not people in the news.

00:36:59.980 Well, we're looking for a Speaker of the House.

00:37:02.840 And I guess it's down to, who is it?

00:37:06.300 Cornyn, Thune, and Rick Scott.

00:37:10.640 I'm looking at the people who are backing each of them.

00:37:13.940 And I'm noticing that Rick Scott has the backing of Elon Musk so far, RFK Jr.

00:37:22.440 I think Cerno, Mike Cernovich was for Rick Scott.

00:37:27.100 And I mentioned that Rand Paul was endorsing him.

00:37:30.520 And I look to Rand Paul as my guide on this decision.

00:37:37.140 And as I told you before, wouldn't you love to be in this position?

00:37:40.880 To have lived your life in such a way that you are so credible that somebody will just take your word for a very important decision.

00:37:51.500 That's where Rand Paul is for me.

00:37:54.180 So if Rand Paul says, I know these three people, this one's the right answer, I'm done.

00:38:00.520 I'm done.

00:38:01.520 Is there somebody that has higher credibility who has a different opinion?

00:38:06.140 I haven't heard anybody.

00:38:07.960 There are lots of other people backing other people.

00:38:10.300 Rick Scott is actually in the minority now.

00:38:13.040 I think Thune has the most backing.

00:38:15.220 But who's backing Thune that I would say, oh, oh, if you're backing Thune, I guess I'm in.

00:38:23.000 Who would that be?

00:38:24.980 Who's backing Cornyn?

00:38:26.580 And again, I don't know anything about Thune or Cornyn.

00:38:29.500 But who's backing Cornyn that as soon as I hear that name, I'd go, oh, oh, I'll take a look at Cornyn.

00:38:36.300 If you told me that Elon Musk had backed one of them, I'd say, oh, I better look at him.

00:38:40.440 If RFK Jr. was backing one of them, I'd say, I'm going to look at him.

00:38:44.160 If Cernovich was backing somebody else, I'd say, oh, better look at him.

00:38:47.840 But if you give me Rand Paul Cernovich, Elon Musk, and RFK Jr., and they're all for Rick Scott, I don't have any further questions.

00:38:57.500 That's all I need here.

00:39:01.920 Because if you've got somebody who's more credible than the people I just mentioned, and also plugged in so they would know the characters, there's nobody more credible than those people that I just mentioned.

00:39:17.320 So to me, even not knowing anything about the three people who are up for it, I feel like the decision's easy.

00:39:25.560 I do.

00:39:26.220 All right.

00:39:30.720 Bernie Sanders continues to entertain.

00:39:33.400 You know, I have a love-hate relationship with Bernie Sanders because I think his policies are not necessarily good for the country.

00:39:40.500 But, you know, the country apparently decided that he's not going to get his way, so that's okay.

00:39:46.580 But he is a good truth teller.

00:39:48.160 He is a populist.

00:39:49.980 I do believe he wants what's good for the country.

00:39:52.360 And so he's fun to watch.

00:39:55.280 And he says that Harris lost because Democrats abandoned the working class.

00:40:01.560 And I think the DNC national chair labeled it BS and Nancy Pelosi got mad at him for saying that.

00:40:11.140 Now, there are a lot of reasons given for why things didn't go well.

00:40:16.120 And as I've said, the answer is everything.

00:40:19.420 Every single thing the Democrats did was bad compared to Trump.

00:40:26.740 They were less organized.

00:40:28.460 They had less time.

00:40:29.380 They had a worse candidate.

00:40:30.620 They had a candidate who couldn't talk. 1.00

00:40:32.280 They had policies that were ridiculous. 0.98

00:40:34.280 They had a VP who wasn't as good as Trump's VP. 0.98

00:40:36.880 Trump got nearly assassinated.

00:40:40.380 She got the job without going through a primary.

00:40:46.080 There wasn't actually anything.

00:40:49.200 There was not a single thing that Harris did better than Trump.

00:40:54.020 Am I wrong about that?

00:40:55.980 Is that just me being biased and, you know, my confirmation bias is kicking in?

00:41:00.640 Or is that just objectively true and a smart Democrat would admit it if they were talking to you privately?

00:41:08.660 I think every single thing about her campaign, if you lined it up on a chart, okay, okay, you know, this to this, this to this.

00:41:17.340 The only place she might win is in ground game and in funding.

00:41:24.920 And guess what?

00:41:26.320 I sound like Biden now.

00:41:27.460 Guess what?

00:41:28.600 The ground game didn't matter.

00:41:30.640 And the superior funding didn't matter because Trump got the free, the free publicity better, which he teases her because he says he'll help pay off her debts.

00:41:41.360 He has lots of money left over.

00:41:43.140 He has money left over.

00:41:45.480 So he handled his money better.

00:41:48.860 He did everything better.

00:41:50.220 He had better.

00:41:50.740 He had better slogans.

00:41:52.040 He had better focus.

00:41:53.900 He had better debates, in my opinion.

00:41:57.280 So if you're looking for the mystery of how Trump won, how about the strongest politician that we've ever seen ran against the worst politician we've ever seen, and every single thing he did was really good.

00:42:14.020 And every single thing she did that mattered, because it turned out the funding didn't matter, was suboptimal.

00:42:22.240 So it's sort of like you can pick your own reason, because you got 50 of them.

00:42:29.060 Everything was less.

00:42:31.860 Everything they did was less.

00:42:33.360 All right.

00:42:36.220 David Axelrod says that the only group Democrats gained with in the election were white college graduates.

00:42:44.200 So how would you like to be the Democrat Party, the party of minority interests and the working class, and the only people you gained with were the people who are supposed to be your enemies?

00:43:00.140 Are you supposed to be working on behalf of rich white women? 1.00

00:43:05.800 Is that the Democrat Party?

00:43:07.440 Is the party of rich white women with good educations? 1.00

00:43:09.840 So he said, Axelrod said, the Dems have become the party of suburban college-educated smarty pants.

00:43:19.400 Now, why would it be that that group would be moving in that direction when all the other groups are moving in the other direction?

00:43:29.660 Now, your first thought would be, well, abortion, obviously.

00:43:32.300 Nope, it's not abortion, because it didn't affect the other women, and all women would be in the same boat abortion-wise. 0.59

00:43:41.760 So if there's only one group of women who went toward Harris, it's not because of abortion, because that would be more of a general move.

00:43:53.260 So it wasn't that.

00:43:54.040 But here's why I think the suburban college-educated smarty pants women are the ones who moved toward Harris. 1.00

00:44:07.660 They're the most hypnotized.

00:44:10.760 Because everybody who watches the news or social media is under some kind of influence, including me and you.

00:44:16.320 But if you went through college, you're really getting it, like you're really, really, really getting it.

00:44:23.920 But then the question would be, what about the white men who went to college?

00:44:30.840 Because apparently they didn't go in Harris's direction either.

00:44:33.620 They also went more toward Trump.

00:44:35.000 What about them?

00:44:36.140 Why would the men who had the same, largely exactly the same influence, go in a different direction?

00:44:45.380 Now, you might say abortion, but like I said, abortion doesn't seem to explain much.

00:44:52.960 It didn't seem to influence the election that much.

00:44:57.260 Here's what I think. 0.99

00:44:59.720 I think men are harder to bullshit, and they care less about woke stuff. 0.99

00:45:07.360 And that was probably the difference. 0.99

00:45:09.040 In other words, men had a natural defense to being hypnotized, to be woke, and being hypnotized about anything else.

00:45:18.940 So they can be hypnotized.

00:45:20.500 Men, of course, could be just as hypnotized as women. 0.89

00:45:23.480 But I think they had a little natural immunity in this case.

00:45:29.200 It's a hypothesis, by the way.

00:45:31.380 It's my sexist hypothesis.

00:45:33.100 And part of it is that men, when they speak privately, it's different than what they say publicly.

00:45:42.960 I don't know about women. 1.00

00:45:44.580 But I just think men were less hypnotizable.

00:45:49.220 And maybe that was the whole story.

00:45:50.680 Anyway, there's a claim in the New York Post that some say that Biden, when he was still running, his internal polls had Trump winning 400 electoral votes.

00:46:07.960 Now, this comes from an ex-Obama official, so we don't know if that's true.

00:46:11.860 But wouldn't that have been amazing if Trump won 400 votes?

00:46:16.080 But you know what is the best thing about Biden dropping out?

00:46:19.160 Yeah.

00:46:20.680 Here's what I wouldn't have wanted.

00:46:23.180 I would not have wanted a President Trump who won because the competitor was having dementia.

00:46:31.200 There's no credibility there, right?

00:46:34.820 If the person you beat didn't even look like they could have done any job, including working at McDonald's, like literally couldn't have done a job at McDonald's,

00:46:44.200 if that's who you beat, then you're not really that credible as a leader. 0.98

00:46:50.680 But if you beat, you know, the, as I call her, vagina Jesus, Harris, she's got the black woman thing going on and the black Indian thing going on. 1.00

00:47:05.360 And she's, you know, she's young and she's picked and she's proven and she's had some experience in the right kind of jobs. 0.98

00:47:13.960 If you beat her and you beat her, like, conclusively, well, then you get a mandate.

00:47:19.900 That's a mandate.

00:47:20.900 That's a mandate.

00:47:21.840 I don't know if beating the dementia patient gives you a mandate.

00:47:24.480 It would, people would claim it, but you wouldn't feel it.

00:47:29.560 With the Harris victory, you actually feel the mandate.

00:47:33.600 If he beat Biden, you just say, well, everybody would beat Biden.

00:47:38.060 I mean, he wasn't even there.

00:47:41.500 So it turns out that the best thing that could have been done for Trump is trading out Biden.

00:47:46.620 Nothing could have been better for Trump and the Republicans than having a clean win.

00:47:51.980 You know, you could argue she only had 107 days, but I'm going to go with Bill Maher

00:47:56.400 because I think he spoke the common sense on this.

00:47:59.780 Are you kidding us?

00:48:00.920 She was the vice president of the United States and she had 107 days and we were all concentrating

00:48:05.520 intensely.

00:48:06.760 Of course, she had time to introduce herself to the country.

00:48:10.400 Now, she didn't have time to work her way into your mind so deeply that it's like Trump,

00:48:16.700 the first name that comes to your mind when you think of a variety of things.

00:48:20.840 But I don't know if that would have helped.

00:48:22.480 You know, the indication is the more we knew about her, the worse she was.

00:48:28.900 So I think maybe the short time to do the thing worked in her favor.

00:48:33.820 It was probably the best they could have done.

00:48:35.420 Keep her out of the news.

00:48:39.020 Anyway, then let's see.

00:48:42.920 Morning Joe is blaming white progressives for Harris's loss.

00:48:47.480 And so this is Morning Joe.

00:48:51.700 So he's actually, it's almost like he's criticizing himself, but doesn't realize it.

00:48:55.960 He goes, what on earth is Latinx?

00:48:58.640 No Latino person uses the word Latinx, but people spouted this because they felt they had

00:49:03.040 to.

00:49:04.440 And so he's basically saying that this one group, the white progressives, got everything

00:49:09.720 wrong, to which I say, Morning Joe, where are the white progressives getting their news?

00:49:19.940 Where are they getting their news?

00:49:22.320 They're getting it from Joe.

00:49:25.060 The news people are absolutely just dead set that people are making up their own mind without

00:49:33.200 information.

00:49:33.880 The only information that voters have comes through social media and the news, and most

00:49:39.640 of the social media is based on the news.

00:49:42.460 So if they can't see that they are the problem and that the candidate is actually downstream from

00:49:48.920 them, they're just never going to be able to correct, which is great, because if they

00:49:54.440 don't correct, that's good for me.

00:49:55.760 So as long as they're pretty sure the problem is white people, they're not going to correct. 0.74

00:50:06.900 Now, here's what I mean.

00:50:08.000 I think if you watch the fake news long enough, you know it's fake news, and that's really the

00:50:17.520 big problem, is just that we live in a hoaxocracy.

00:50:20.260 All right, then I saw an article by Michael Tomoski, who's speculating that why Trump won is that

00:50:28.760 even though we think the mainstream media is all anti-Trump, that really the right-wing media is

00:50:35.640 stronger than the left.

00:50:39.320 Do you buy that?

00:50:41.500 Do you buy that the right-wing media is now stronger than the left-wing media?

00:50:47.200 The right-wing media had something like 88% negative stories about Trump and almost no

00:50:54.920 negative stories about Harris, and it is the most viewed news.

00:51:02.200 Now, Fox News is bigger than any of the individual other news entities, but it's because it's operating

00:51:08.440 with Breitbart and the Gateway Pundit and just the news.

00:51:13.780 There are only a handful of entities, and most of them are small compared to Fox News.

00:51:24.460 I see some of it.

00:51:26.520 We'll talk about that in a minute.

00:51:28.560 There's somebody in the comments yelling in all capitals that Bill Pulte's giving away money

00:51:35.380 to people was a scam.

00:51:37.240 Now, I know Bill personally.

00:51:40.200 I was very close to the whole process of the giveaway.

00:51:44.740 Here's how the scam worked.

00:51:47.180 If I give you money, will you enjoy it?

00:51:50.480 Yes.

00:51:51.360 Okay, I'm going to give you some money.

00:51:52.980 Did you enjoy it?

00:51:54.100 Yes.

00:51:54.800 I think I'll do it again.

00:51:56.700 Hey, does anybody else want some free money?

00:51:59.200 Hey, I do.

00:52:00.260 All right, here's some.

00:52:01.580 Did you enjoy it?

00:52:02.920 Yes.

00:52:03.480 That really helped.

00:52:04.200 That was his scam.

00:52:07.280 He literally thought that if he just gave money to people and made them happy, that they

00:52:13.680 would be happy.

00:52:15.520 And then he did that.

00:52:17.860 Now, if you're yelling at me in all caps that you think there was some trick to it, that he

00:52:23.280 was buying supporters.

00:52:26.120 Was he buying supporters? 0.99

00:52:28.440 Well, only if you want to be a jerk about it. 0.99

00:52:30.800 He was giving money away, his own money to people and asking nothing in return, except 0.99

00:52:37.380 that they had described a need that sounded genuine.

00:52:41.540 And did that make him get lots and lots of supporters?

00:52:45.540 Of course it did.

00:52:47.960 So are you telling me that you shouldn't do things that are kind and generous and good

00:52:51.600 for people because you'll be a scammer because you might be popular for doing that?

00:52:56.360 No.

00:52:57.220 I'd like everyone to scam me that way.

00:52:59.160 Can you please scam me by giving me money that is exactly what I need to solve my problems? 1.00

00:53:05.200 So back down, you're being like just a dumbass. 0.99

00:53:10.160 And by the way, if Bill Pulte gets picked for the HUD, I'm hoping that he would take that 0.99

00:53:17.460 job.

00:53:18.260 I'm getting ahead of myself.

00:53:19.980 But if he's available for it, I think he would add one to two points to the GDP.

00:53:26.960 I mean, honestly, I think you're looking at one of the biggest opportunities the country's

00:53:33.480 ever had.

00:53:34.200 To put somebody with his mindset and his background and his skill and his brain behind housing,

00:53:41.520 you know, our biggest, most expensive problem that we really, really need to fix, but is

00:53:45.540 also connected to employment in the deepest way.

00:53:48.180 And it's now going to be connected to the robot world in the deepest way.

00:53:52.860 I mean, you need, you need at least a Bill Pulte in that job to get all the, you know, squeeze

00:54:00.140 all the goodness out of it. 0.88

00:54:01.280 So if you could not do dumbass things like pretending that giving your own money away to people who 0.91

00:54:08.920 need it is some kind of a scam, we really don't need that. 0.95

00:54:14.280 Like you're talking about trillions of dollars on the line here.

00:54:18.020 So don't, don't start dumb rumors that could cost the country a trillion dollars.

00:54:24.340 That's not helping.

00:54:25.380 All right.

00:54:29.340 Sure.

00:54:30.020 Let's see.

00:54:35.200 Oh, so here's what the, the writer, Michael Tabaski said.

00:54:40.820 He was, he said, people are incredulous how a majority of voters could have believed this

00:54:47.740 or that.

00:54:48.960 And the writer says that weren't they bothered that Trump is a convicted villain, 0.96

00:54:54.460 convicted, convicted, convicted felon. 1.00

00:54:59.300 He calls him an adjudicated rapist. 0.99

00:55:02.380 He said he invocated violence against Liz Cheney or 50 other examples of his disgusting 0.99

00:55:08.620 imprecations.

00:55:10.080 Why didn't people see that he was obviously disqualified for all that?

00:55:14.380 To which I say, huh?

00:55:16.480 Sounds like somebody who wasn't seeing enough of the right wing media. 1.00

00:55:20.800 Because if you followed the right wing media, you would know all this is bullshit. 0.98

00:55:24.460 If you followed the left wing media, which he doesn't think is strong, you would think 0.98

00:55:29.820 all these things are real things.

00:55:31.520 These are real things. 0.99

00:55:33.220 This is just shit made up by the right ring, right wing media. 1.00

00:55:39.400 Anyway. 0.99

00:55:39.880 Donna Brazile said, we got to do a better job of reaching the voters where they are and 0.99

00:55:46.940 not try to make pretend that this is one simply because Donald Trump is a better liar. 0.70

00:55:53.420 So, so Donna Brazile is one of my favorite pundits. 0.98

00:56:01.240 She, you know, no matter where she is, she's, she's always interesting. 0.73

00:56:04.280 I even liked her when she was on the five for a while as the, you know, the, the, the lefty 0.94

00:56:09.100 person, because she's always interesting.

00:56:12.300 And, but look at this turn of a phrase. 0.99

00:56:16.460 We can't pretend that, that Trump only won because he's a better liar. 0.87

00:56:23.520 Do you see what's in that phrase? 1.00

00:56:26.520 Better liar. 0.99

00:56:27.460 She literally just called her own team liars and said they lost to a better liar. 0.99

00:56:37.560 Now, actually she's saying, don't, don't say this, but she's suggesting that Democrats 0.86

00:56:43.800 know they're liars, but they didn't lie well enough.

00:56:48.340 And I've actually had that thought because they went all in on the, he's Hitler and he's 0.96

00:56:54.620 a racist, but since they'd already dialed that up to 10, they didn't have anywhere to

00:56:59.180 go.

00:57:00.300 So there was nothing they could say that could move the dial because the dial was set at

00:57:03.860 10.

00:57:04.280 They, they'd already said it there.

00:57:06.560 So I think it's hilarious to see that she would use the phrase better liar.

00:57:14.520 So at least the people who are the deepest into politics know it's a competition between 0.83

00:57:19.740 two liars, basically.

00:57:21.160 Apparently, according to Harry Enten on CNN, Trump created the most diverse Republican 0.92

00:57:34.280 Party of all time.

00:57:38.040 So because Trump won on all the categories except for the educated white women, he made, he made

00:57:46.680 the Republican Party the most diverse it's ever been in all history.

00:57:52.080 At the same time that the mainstream media is painting him as Hitler and a racist, he basically

00:57:58.800 took the Nobel Prize in diversity without, I was going to say without trying, but that's 1.00

00:58:06.460 that's, that's fake.

00:58:08.220 That would have been incorrect.

00:58:10.220 He was trying.

00:58:11.300 He was doing it the way a Republican does it. 0.54

00:58:14.940 Do you know how a Republican increases diversity?

00:58:19.220 Ask Morgan Freeman.

00:58:21.780 Morgan Freeman will tell you how to increase diversity and decrease, you know, racial animosity.

00:58:27.440 You know what you do?

00:58:29.060 You stop talking about it.

00:58:31.900 You just ignore it.

00:58:33.520 You just do all the things that you should do.

00:58:35.940 You make the economy better.

00:58:37.700 Oh, guess what?

00:58:38.580 It helps everybody.

00:58:39.720 You improve, let's say, competition for school.

00:58:43.640 Oh, guess what?

00:58:44.580 Everybody had a better deal because of that.

00:58:46.560 If you just do everything right, keep on the wars, pay down the debt, just the things that

00:58:51.420 everybody needs, it turns out that everybody likes it.

00:58:55.840 Surprise.

00:58:57.100 Things that are good for everybody are good for everybody.

00:58:59.820 And that was enough.

00:59:01.620 That's how you build diversity the Republican way.

00:59:04.080 You just say, who's telling you you can't get an ID?

00:59:08.300 You can get an ID.

00:59:09.860 Who's telling you you can't get a job in America?

00:59:12.740 You can get a job in America.

00:59:15.260 And just sort of ignore it until it goes away.

00:59:18.720 Now, the spin that I put on it is that as long as you focus on groups, like group averages,

00:59:27.440 you're in sort of an absurd, crazy land that doesn't make sense in 2024 or five.

00:59:34.400 But if you focus on individuals, you solve every problem.

00:59:38.860 Every problem.

00:59:40.340 Because individuals have unique problems. 0.95

00:59:43.020 If you said, let me solve all the black people problems. 1.00

00:59:48.200 Well, what would that be? 0.73

00:59:50.780 Because you've got plenty of black people in great jobs.

00:59:54.000 They've got great educations. 0.98

00:59:55.840 You know, they're killing it.

00:59:57.020 They're, you know, they've got good families and stuff.

00:59:59.520 So how'd they do that?

01:00:02.900 If you just say, here's somebody who's undereducated, so I need to give them a skill.

01:00:08.340 It shouldn't matter what the race is. 0.92

01:00:10.620 So ignoring, ignoring the differences in the averages is where we need to get to.

01:00:16.540 Trump's already there.

01:00:17.540 And it paid off.

01:00:19.940 And again, it's the Republican way to do the long-term payoff. 0.80

01:00:24.440 You know, you move abortion out of the Supreme Court, you're going to get killed in the next 0.93

01:00:29.940 election.

01:00:31.200 But eventually, the states will work it out, and it won't become a problem every time for

01:00:36.720 the Republicans at the federal level.

01:00:39.980 And same here.

01:00:41.760 If you just make sure that you get the economy right, and you're not overtly discriminating

01:00:46.260 against anybody, still there is, you know, systemic racism, still there, but there are

01:00:53.660 so many ways to get around it that it would be like it isn't there.

01:00:59.020 So a specific example is, if you assume systemic racism exists, but you also got a good education,

01:01:07.400 you know, in some job that people have in demand, you're going to do great.

01:01:13.860 And maybe even your race and ethnicity and your sexual preference might even be a plus if

01:01:20.040 it's a big corporate job or something like that.

01:01:24.960 All right.

01:01:25.600 So, yes, the most diverse group by simply not making a big pandering deal about it.

01:01:37.000 Stephanie Ruhle on MSNBC says that Musk and the disinformation from people like him and

01:01:43.900 his ex-platform created the Trump presidency.

01:01:46.520 Really, it was just Elon Musk saying things that weren't true.

01:01:53.640 He was the one.

01:01:55.000 It wasn't MSNBC.

01:01:56.600 It wasn't the fact that people saw through MSNBC and they could see that he wasn't the

01:02:01.700 monster.

01:02:02.960 You know, I don't know how much this mattered.

01:02:06.080 I don't know if there's any way to know, but early on in the election, I had speculated

01:02:12.620 that if you could get rid of Trump's worst criticisms, you know, that he's selfish and 0.91

01:02:20.880 he's a selfish racist, that you could get rid of that by putting him in contact with 0.95

01:02:27.360 ordinary people. 0.99

01:02:29.160 Because if you spend two minutes with him, you just don't pick that up like that's anything.

01:02:34.900 You just think, oh, he's really interested in me.

01:02:37.780 He seems like a nice guy.

01:02:39.220 Oh, he's serving French fries at McDonald's.

01:02:41.640 Oh, isn't that funny? 0.99

01:02:42.840 He's in that garbage truck, just like a garbage guy. 0.99

01:02:45.760 You know, no, he went to the black barbershop. 0.99

01:02:49.000 And sure enough, Trump did all these things where it put him in direct contact with voters.

01:02:54.560 And then if you, even if you're just watching it, you're seeing him act like just a person.

01:02:59.720 And then all those things about he's Hitler and everything else, you're trying to reconcile

01:03:04.900 that.

01:03:05.460 But the visual of him acting like a regular person who's respected and respects the ordinary

01:03:11.580 people is so much more powerful than, hey, he's Hitler, he's Hitler, he's Hitler. 0.94

01:03:17.240 You know, it's so ridiculous that people don't believe that naturally.

01:03:21.720 So I think that that was the genius of the campaign is that they made that adjustment.

01:03:29.380 I think it really worked.

01:03:31.340 And by the way, let me say this again.

01:03:33.880 What's the name?

01:03:34.740 Is it?

01:03:36.640 Wiles is the name of his chief of staff.

01:03:38.980 Do you remember me saying for the past year that it seems screamingly obvious that the

01:03:47.260 Trump campaign was the best run it's ever been?

01:03:52.040 And it's just like screamingly capable.

01:03:54.900 Like you could just, everything they did seemed like just the right move all the time.

01:04:00.560 Now, that's a pretty good person to pick as your chief of staff.

01:04:05.820 You know, the woman who pulled that off.

01:04:08.540 Yeah, Susie Wiles. 1.00

01:04:09.700 So Susie Wiles as chief of staff, and he doesn't make a big deal about the first woman.

01:04:17.400 That's the way to do it.

01:04:19.380 That's how you do it.

01:04:21.320 Yeah.

01:04:21.620 You just pick the best people and make sure that people know they're the best people and

01:04:26.600 you just move on.

01:04:27.680 And guess what?

01:04:29.440 Women now know that they can be the chief of staff and who didn't know that anyway? 1.00

01:04:33.220 Anyway, even on CNN, though, and I'll give CNN credit for that, their opinions are not

01:04:41.080 unified about what happened.

01:04:43.560 So Fareed Zakaria, he says he blames the Democrats for not doing enough about illegal immigration

01:04:49.740 or not, even not understanding how big a deal it was.

01:04:53.740 He didn't like the lawfare against Trump.

01:04:55.800 He thinks that moves the voters.

01:04:57.680 And the deeply illiberal woke culture of censorship.

01:05:01.460 So according to Fareed, it was the way the Democrats acted.

01:05:12.100 And I'm thinking, OK, that's close.

01:05:15.060 But again, why did they act that way?

01:05:20.220 You know, I'm still waiting for somebody on CNN or MSNBC to say, you know what?

01:05:26.560 Maybe the voters act the way we tell them to act.

01:05:30.280 Because the voters act the way they tell them to act.

01:05:35.780 Most people don't come up with their own opinions.

01:05:38.080 That's very rare.

01:05:39.220 They watch their TV and they say, that sounds right to me.

01:05:42.040 That's my opinion now.

01:05:44.740 Anyway, according to Breitbart, 40% of women under 30 voted for Trump.

01:05:49.000 Now, it's not over half, but it would suggest that Trump is not, he's not poisoned to women voters.

01:05:59.880 40% is a good, healthy message that, you know, a small tweak would get them over half.

01:06:05.280 And Representative Jim Jordan says he's opened to the possibility of asking Jack Smith, the special counsel, to testify.

01:06:17.760 I think that would be a good idea.

01:06:22.720 I feel like if the Republicans hold the House, I think maybe they should talk to the January 6th people and talk to the lawfare prosecutors.

01:06:35.800 And maybe see if there's something the public needs to know about that whole situation.

01:06:42.040 That's what I think.

01:06:42.960 Well, I'm going to end early today.

01:06:48.280 That's all I got for you.

01:06:51.500 And I'm going to talk to the locals people privately.

01:06:55.220 Remember, the Dilbert calendar is now available and it's November.

01:06:59.120 So this is when you want to order it.

01:07:01.120 They will be, they're being printed right now.

01:07:03.940 They'll be produced mid-November.

01:07:06.540 So if you've already ordered it, look for yours to arrive mid-November.

01:07:10.680 If you order it today, it'll still get there probably by the end of November in time.

01:07:16.440 But the only link for it is at Dilbert.com.

01:07:20.420 It'll take you to the sales page.

01:07:22.360 It is not anywhere else.

01:07:24.920 All right, everybody.

01:07:26.080 I'm going to talk to just locals privately.

01:07:29.080 Thanks for YouTube and X and Rumble for joining.

01:07:32.500 We'll see you tomorrow, same time, same place.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - November 11, 2024

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