Episode 2676 CWSA 12⧸01⧸24
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Summary
Dilbert and Scott Adams talk about a new statin that might not be as bad as you think, a woman who says she was mistreated by her bosses, and a story about a reporter who was on a performance improvement plan.
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all right uh well so there's news today that uh another study that says that statins might be more
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bad for you than good and that cholesterol might be more good for you than bad now I'm not going to
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make a claim that any of these claims or counterclaims are true I will make a claim that I'm not so sure
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anything in health care is real is anybody having the same crisis that I am that I'm not sure anything
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is real in health care and here's my problem anytime that the uh the treatment depends on somebody did a
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big study and there was a lot of data and there was a lot of variables and a lot of assumptions and
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when they were done they found a good solid 30 improvement if you took the drug I'm not sure any of
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those are real but if you do the test and people who take the drug
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because I think it would be hard to hide a cure
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but I'm not sure we can really measure a 30 improvement in anything
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it feels like the people doing the study could always find a way to make it 30 percent
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or look like it's 30 percent better in some way so I just don't believe anything that says well
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we'll give you a you know 26 improvement um but again I tell you do not believe anything that
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cartoonists tell you about health care so you know talk to your doctor I'm not I don't want to talk you
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enough or into any kind of drug but I'm just telling you that as a consumer of such things
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I really do not know what to believe anymore when it comes to health care
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well here's the story that New York Post seems to have
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managed to get wrong in my opinion but we'll see
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so there's an emmy-winning tv reporter uh rachel young kunis now she was abruptly fired uh according
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to New York Post and because her bosses were shortchanging her she she claims that male colleagues
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were getting uh all kinds of support and you know camera crews are being sent out and uh so the males
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were getting lots of support but uh she was not and so she's I don't know suing them or something
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now here's here's a tiny little thing that was also in the article
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she was on a performance improvement plan have you ever heard of that it's called a pip in corporate
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america a pip performance improvement plan is there anybody here who has ever been a manager
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and put anybody on a performance improvement plan do you know what that means it means you're one of
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that's why you're on it basically the performance improvement plan says you're going to be fired
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if you continue the way you've been going a pip is literally a performance improvement plan
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if you don't raise your level it's basically a one year it's like getting a one-year warning that
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they're going to fire you they're not really expecting you to improve your performance what they're
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expecting is to have covered their ass that they gave you a nice long warning and told you exactly
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what the problem was and then a year later they can say all right nothing changed goodbye
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and then they're covered so if you see a story about somebody who is who says she was fired or
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or at least mistreated because of sexism and in the very same story it says she was on a performance
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improvement plan i'm not so sure the sexism is the real story here can't rule it out i mean i wasn't
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there and it's certainly possible that you could be on a performance improvement plan
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and win an emmy you could definitely do that because the emmy is you know bs and you could
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definitely be on a performance improvement plan and also there's real sexism so i'm not sure there's
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real sexism but if you don't call out the the part about the performance improvement plan i'm not sure
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that the reader is getting served here i would like to know that they're that they're on an identifiable
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path to being fired oh and then there's a lot of sexism in the office that you need to sue over okay
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and again there might actually be legitimately all the sexism that that is part of the complaint it
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might be but it kind of looks like a coin toss to me
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all right here's a study according to side post there was a study done in scandinavia where they
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tried to see if women were more or less willing to engage with a man who is stronger versus weaker
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based on how much uh darkness there was and what they found out is if it's in a darkened environment
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women felt safer talking to men who didn't look dangerous
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and if they were in a darkened environment they were a little reluctant to talk to anybody who was
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so they spent money doing that test to find out if you're more afraid of big people in the dark
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just suggest they could have saved a lot of money by just asking me scott do you think women would be
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more afraid of a big person in the dark or more afraid of a chihuahua in the dark huh let's see
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more afraid of the bear or the chihuahua which would it be all right just ask me next time just ask
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well according to climate change dispatch there's a new study poking holes in the whole
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co2 induced climate change catastrophe i'd like to tell you the details of the study but i don't
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understand any of it um but it's yet another scientific um scientific attack against the
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idea that we can even know what's happening with our climate models so i don't believe science and i
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don't believe climate models and i don't believe anything that is a uh prediction of what's going to
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happen in a complicated environment so don't believe any financial prediction
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about a company for example don't believe a health prediction don't believe a science
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prediction that has lots of variables into the future so what all of these things have in common
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is that somebody is making a bunch of assumptions in order to do their complicated prediction
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it's always the assumptions that determine the outcome yeah only people who have worked in this
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in the field of predicting a lot of stuff no it's always the assumptions that determine the outcome
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as i did so that's why i know that well yeah elon musk is suing open ai as you know
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elon musk funded the open ai is beginning because the whole point of being open open ai was that it
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was going to be a non-profit because elon thought that ai was too important to you know have siloed in
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one company but uh it looks like they're trying to turn that into a for-profit situation and so
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musk is suing them according to the verge and we're not not suing them asking for a preliminary injunction
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don't listen to anything i say about legal stuff because i have no idea what i'm talking about
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but a preliminary injunction not so that would be different than suing right
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and they uh they want they want to stop them from oh and they also accuse them of antitrust
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issues um apparently according to most lawyers open ai and microsoft told investors not to fund
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um the competitors to open ai that's kind of a kind of a non-competitive thing if it's true
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so we'll see where that goes meanwhile there's something called the uh let's call it the trump
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effect but this is really an elon musk effect that there's a former high level uh united nations guy
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who wants to do a doge thing with the un united nations because the united nations wastes a bunch
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of money and doesn't get enough done according to morgan phillips of fox news
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fox news and uh apparently they think they have a lot of meetings and they don't accomplish anything
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well what did you expect when you decided to create a organization with like 400 member states
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how many how many countries are there let's say how many countries are there that are members of the un
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um this will be a good general knowledge test all right i'm going to take my guess because i don't
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i don't know the answer to this i'm going to tell you my guess to embarrass myself in public
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but then you can do your guess in the comments don't let don't look it up this is a general test
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okay you said in 190 i was going to say one 189 for some reason 189 is in my head
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and then somebody i saw sean say 190 is that is is it is it really 189
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i'm seeing i'm seeing lots of guesses that are in the high hundreds all right well let's say something
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like that in the high hundreds okay on paper if you were going to design a system
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in which 189 countries with completely different customs and priorities
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we're going to get together and have meetings to decide what to do
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were you going to assume that something efficient was going to happen about that
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i don't know i certainly think they could probably do something you know be more efficient but
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it's kind of designed in a way that would make efficiency kind of impossible but i'm not sure
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they need it you know it's good enough i think that you can always talk to the other country and
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there's always a some kind of a public process of conversation between countries so i think that
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has a little bit of value but uh imagining that you could make that efficient well i hope you can good
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luck i just think it's sort of naturally inefficient but maybe and the inefficiency i'm not sure makes that
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anyway um so democrats are worried because uh trump's surge with latino voters is changing the congressional
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battleground map you know i want to say this again but as far as i know
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uh since i make predictions you know on a regular basis and i do it publicly i feel like i have to
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say when i get one wrong you know it's incumbent upon me to say oh i predict that i got it wrong
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but likewise in order to provide value to you so you can judge whether my predictions are worth listening
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to i should tell you when i get them right and the thing that that i think is most useful
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is when i predict things that are just way outside of the domain of anything anybody's predicting for
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example predicting that trump would win in 2016 before that before that became popular
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um but by far one of the just out of the left field predictions that i got right
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is that latinos would become republican voters now i don't know if they are by a majority
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but certainly one of the biggest stories is that the democrats didn't understand that the
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the latino voters are by nature culturally really close to republicans and if you didn't live among that
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culture if you weren't around it all the time you wouldn't know it because if you just read the news
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you'd say oh a latino voter must be democrat but if you spend any time in the community
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as most californians californians do just naturally because we're you know we're we're saturated
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they're just the greatest people you know it's a hell of a good culture you'll be very happy
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culturally you'll be very happy with the latino influence
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anyway so i predicted that and uh i feel pretty happy about that one so i guess i'm just bragging
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so the big story that is the news it's real it's a slow news day so almost all of the news is about
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people's reaction to cash patel being named the head of the fbi or nominated nominated we'll see
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so of course andrew mccabe had to go on cnn to say it's the worst thing in the world it's a terrible
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development for the men and women of the fbi and also for the nation that depends on a high
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functioning professional independent fbi i can't take mccabe seriously or cnn about this
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you knew that the news was going to be what do you think i hate it what do you think i love it
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but what do you think i hate it but how about you i love it and then that would be all the news
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so it'd be a good day to have a day off from doing the news
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but there are some interesting things coming out of the cash patel thing
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um he's got he's got a great breadth of experience that seems relevant but not specific to the fbi
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so that gives the critics enough to say he has not been in the fbi for a long time like people should
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be i'm not sure that matters um but he is definitely uh loyal to trump he is definitely the right kind of
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brain he's very smart uh every time i hear him talk i get a good vibe from him and he said he wants to
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release he's been saying this he wants to release the ditty tapes and the epstein tapes
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and uh let us speculate all right so i think most of you who are watching this live stream would agree with
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the statement that you trust cash patel is that fair not for the country as a whole but just people
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watching this live stream most of you would think that's a good like a very good i would say a plus
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kind of an appointment that's what it feels like it feels like an a plus like for everything i want
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it's all there everything i want for that job it's all there so he's got the loyalty he's got the
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brains he's got the incentive he's got the experience he's seen what works what doesn't
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so we'll see um but here's what i don't think is going to happen i don't think he's going to
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release those things he says he's going to release i don't think he's going to let the
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ditty tapes out i don't think he's going to let the epstein tapes out if he has them uh
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i don't think that any of those secrets are coming out now i do believe that he's being honest when he
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says he wants to release them so i don't think there's any lying going on whatsoever what i believe
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is that this is another case of those you know getting the talk when when he calls his staff in
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and says all right let's get those ditty tapes to me and they go um there's something you need to know
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what um you don't know what's on those ditty tapes do you no but we should release them to the world
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uh you're really going to need to know what's on those before you make that decision and then he's
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going to hear what's really on them and then he's going to say oh damn it and then he's going to find
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a reason not to release them or they're going to be magically corrupted files or they can't find them
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or there's a lawsuit or somebody's preventing it or somebody's slow walking it
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that's the destiny tape all right it's such a slow news day there's a story about the
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um trist that's on the sex tape i'm not even going to say who's who is allegedly the other
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person on the sex tape because i there's no confirmation of that
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so i don't think anybody's any of us care about his sex life do we
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it was hard enough to care about destiny who he is it was harder to care about his opinion about
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politics and it's just impossible for me to care about what he does with his body
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in his spare time i don't think i could be less less interested in that anyway claudia was leaving
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for her pickleball tournament i've been visualizing my match all week she was so focused on visualizing
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that she didn't see the column behind her car on her backhand side good thing claudia's with intact
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the insurer with the largest network of auto service centers in the country everything was taken
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care of under one roof and she was on her way in a rental car in no time i made it to my tournament
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and lost in the first round but you got there on time intact insurance your auto service ace certain
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conditions apply so cash is uh cash will not be uh the expect that there will be no news from cnn or
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cnn or msnbc about the historic appointment of a non-white man to lead the fbi
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now i'm gonna hope that the republicans do what i like it when they do which is simply um nominate
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the person who looked like the best choice when you when you see cash patel nominated for this job
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i'll bet you there's not a single one of you who said it was a dei hire
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right i'll bet not one of you now how good is that as a a as a brand statement about republicans
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consider that consider that not one of you spent one second thinking hey it's just because he's brown
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he's getting this job they have to have more brown people i'll bet not one of you thought that
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and do you know why none of you thought that because it's not what's happening he's very
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obviously a lot of people's top choice for the job and that's the end of the story so republicans you
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are definitely um it would be so easy it would be so easy for the republicans to try to get credit for
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this wouldn't it like oh we got you know look look what we did we nominated somebody who's not a white
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man for this job it's historic i just hope they don't ever bring it up like it's okay for me to bring
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it up right because we're talking about just stuff having fun but it would be great if the republican just
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never mentioned it we we picked the best person and we're done
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so yesterday when i was uh posting on x my happiness that dei was being thwarted after 30 years of
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bothering me i've got 2.6 million views on that so far in one day 2.6 million views now by contrast a good
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post of mine would get 20 000 so this got 2.6 million so far it's it's climbing while i'm watching
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it so there are a lot of people who have the same opinion about being under the yoke of massive racial
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discrimination which we may be uh free from soon um there's stories that i don't believe really
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anything about him but there's reports that george clooney might be mad at obama for allegedly you
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know talking him into replacing biden and maybe that makes it george clooney's fault that harris
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lost and therefore it's george clooney's fault that trump is president it's not george clooney's fault
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whatever it is i'm pretty sure that the the main problem isn't george clooney
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but the poor poor bastard gets pulled into it but here's i was trying to write down all the different
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things i heard just today of what the democrats did wrong all right so this is based on just a
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a glance across today's news so these are various different um posts on x and stories in the news and
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stuff just this morning so just this morning this is how many reasons that i've read that people
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have speculated as to why the democrats lost uh they didn't have a good pod podcaster influence
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network uh they insulted men they were too smug and insulting to men uh the latino community drifted
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right did they drift did they drift or were they always there um the smug superiority i think that was
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um yeah smug superiority um they blew it on immigration that's what democrats are saying
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about themselves they they just blew it on immigration everything anybody could have seen it coming
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they treated immigration um they treated abortion like it was going to be a bigger button than
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immigration and they guessed wrong it turns out immigrate immigration was a much bigger button
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than abortion and they had that backwards um 2.7 million already wow i'm on my post let's see uh other
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reasons they got around that they had no message for the working class voters um they had a bad candidate
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they had terrible advisors and they wasted all their campaign funds
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there's so many reasons that the democrats failed they didn't do a single thing right
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nothing the most the most remarkable thing is that the election was as close as it was
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if you if you made a checklist of all the things you should do right in a campaign every one of those
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would be trump check check check yeah yeah check good yeah good communication yep very clear uh
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policies yep they love them um did you campaign in all the right places yes yes yes and you would go
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right down the line and it would be a solid black block of and i'm gonna say it again i think
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this recent campaign by trump will be seen as the best campaign in history
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i think i think i think it would be the best campaign in history
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but if you do everything right and then you only barely beat the person who did literally everything
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wrong that does tell you that the system as a maybe it needs a little work
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did i get i can't remember if i gave you my hypothesis uh it might be something i only said in the man
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cave that i do separately um did i give you my hypothesis of why the democrats are so crazy
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right now i mean after the election uh i'll say the unfast in case i i may have already done this
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but in a normal election you've got two liars competing against each other and everybody knows
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it's two liars they know their own they know their own candidate is exaggerating but they don't mind
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because they like where it's heading yeah but the other one's lying and vice versa so then when somebody
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wins everybody says well okay it wasn't what i wanted it wasn't what i wanted but you know at
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least i what the process was transparent etc but i don't think that's what happened this time
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i think trump was doing his usual salesman like hyperbole and he was directionally correct on
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everything but you know he plays fast and loose with some of the the details and the statistics like
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every politician does but what the democrats were doing was they built an entire reality
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that didn't have any basis of any any common sense whatsoever it was just just batshit crazy
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stuff and it just got it kept solidifying into a harder structure when it didn't have a basis
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there was no foundation to it it just didn't make any sense so the next thing you know it was just
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one crazy thing after another and trump is hitler and you know suddenly the democrats are pro-war and
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nothing made sense and then trump's over there just sort of saying common sense things like
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well you know you're not really a country if your border isn't protected and people are like hmm well
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that does make a little bit of sense so what we see what we're seeing right now this is my interpretation
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is the democrats are not coming off just the loss that would be bad enough and they're not just mad
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because trump is in charge which again would be bad enough they're coming off a gaslighting
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if you've never experienced being gaslit then you have no idea what they're they're going through
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their entire reality has to be restructured in their head and so literally the brain has to rewire itself
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to understand what's happening and it appears to be that some substantial number of democrats
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realized that they were in a gas-lit matrix like weird environment and that the dem and perhaps the
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republicans were not and that has everything to do with the fact that trump got more votes in total
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not just in the electoral college that was the big deal when he got more votes and also and also the
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republicans generally won i think that made the democrats say how in the world could anything we've been
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told be true and that's how they got out once they realized that more than more than half of the voters
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that voted were on the other side and they and they were looking at the same news they had to figure out why
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and their confusion and there's some stories the gateway pundit had stories about women who are
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getting sterilized because they don't want to lose the right to do it later
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you know it's just a handful of crazies but you you do expect massive mental
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problems the therapy the the screaming and i think the the first election
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people generally thought that that they still knew what they were doing but they lost and so that the
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the famous woman screaming with the beanie hat on um kind of captured how people feel this time it's
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different this time i think they're coming out of a genuine psychological bubble a gaslight you know
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gaslight structure and that the the way it disorients you can last it could last months
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because their brains actually literally physically have to be rewritten right like your brain changes
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physically when it changes at all that's the only it has to change physically or it's not changing
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so their brains are actually having to rewrite themselves to write themselves back into a reality
00:32:18.680
that makes sense with what they're observing and experiencing and that's really hard so good luck with that
00:32:25.560
that's when i found out my friend got a great deal on a wool coat from winners i started wondering
00:32:32.200
is every fabulous item i see from winners like that woman over there with the designer jeans are those
00:32:38.600
from winners ooh are those beautiful gold earrings did she pay full price or that leather tote or that
00:32:44.520
cashmere sweater or those knee-high boots that dress that jacket those shoes is anyone paying full price
00:32:51.240
for anything stop wondering start winning winners find fabulous for less meanwhile uh governor hochel of
00:33:01.320
new york says she's gonna help trump deport the uh illegals with criminal backgrounds
00:33:07.720
so she's talking tough as as best you can as a democrat with immigration someone breaks the law i'll be the
00:33:15.800
first one to call up by she says get them out of here i don't want them here i don't want anybody
00:33:20.760
terrorizing my citizens now that is the correct take so so yes thank you governor hochel um but it's
00:33:29.640
definitely trying to act tougher on immigration and i think that's the trump effect i think people realize
00:33:38.760
realize that if they're not talking commonsensically commonsensibly about immigration then they just look crazy
00:33:52.040
anyway um according to washington times uh mexican authorities broke up two migrant caravans were heading
00:33:59.480
this way which would suggest that when trump threatened to give them that 25 tariff
00:34:04.840
um that might have been effective now maybe they would have done it anyway but it came after the
00:34:12.200
threat so yeah so we'll see so that's happening so the trump effect seems to be closing up the mexican
00:34:22.840
border the trump effect seems to be getting new york state governor hochel on board at least with getting rid of
00:34:29.400
the criminals and i think probably that's all that's going to happen honestly um but incoming uh border czar
00:34:37.880
tom holman according to the gateway pundit um he said uh he's got a detailed and aggressive plan to
00:34:46.520
restore order in the border and after four years of disastrous open border policies he says
00:34:52.360
um but he's also going to go after uh foreign governments and ngos um and even elements of the
00:35:00.920
united nations for their role in fueling the migrant surge now how in the world does tom homan
00:35:10.600
from his job go after foreign governments ngos and elements of the united nations i guess that would be a
00:35:17.720
whole of government approach so it would have to be the the administration itself going after that i
00:35:22.760
guess but uh that's what has to happen the america has to get its independence back we we sort of sold
00:35:30.280
our independence to a a network of non-government organizations that that the left was funding
00:35:38.600
that would then manage the united states so we basically gave away our sovereignty to some paid entities
00:35:45.480
that were going to say the say what democrats wanted them to say oh this is fake news or that sort of
00:35:52.280
thing so yes we actually have to get our independence back from these foreign and non-government entities
00:35:59.960
so i don't know if that's just tom homan's job or if that's a whole government thing
00:36:07.000
so joe biden was shown uh yesterday photographed just going from one place to another holding a book
00:36:14.760
that is called the hundred war year on the hundred years war on palestine and uh people say it's a
00:36:21.480
book that suggests that israel should not exist and the president is just sort of casually walking with
00:36:28.920
that book in his hand like like that's the book he's currently reading now here's my first question
00:36:35.080
what was the last time you saw a president carrying merchandise from one place to another
00:36:41.800
like anything when do you see a president like a sitting president with anything in their hands
00:36:49.640
even on vacation well they don't care anything they don't carry their bath towel if they go to the beach
00:36:56.840
presidents don't carry stuff so why would the one thing the one thing that he knows he's going to be
00:37:02.040
photograph carrying be a book that's according to other people anti-israel
00:37:11.880
some people are saying that he's sending some kind of a message but now i'm wondering if it's not
00:37:17.320
ai i wonder if i look back in 10 minutes it's gonna have a community note on it and say that's not the
00:37:23.160
real book he had in his hands it's ai is it possible ai i i guess i just question everything
00:37:30.520
now but i don't see any use to it i mean he's such a lame duck and nobody cares i mean even elon musk
00:37:39.000
said that trump is the de facto president he said that on x um so why would he do this
00:37:48.760
this if he knows it's provocative but it can't possibly do anything useful it feels a little hoaxy
00:37:59.080
yeah it feels like it might have been a hoax we'll find out all right um
00:38:07.560
so the uh there's a former nato chief former nato chief
00:38:12.680
who thinks that the hezbollah israel ceasefire is because of trump it's another trump effect
00:38:22.760
so the trump effect is definitely making a difference at least according to this former nato guy
00:38:31.560
did you see the threat that trump gave to the nations that are trying to create their own
00:38:36.760
bricks b-r-i-c-s um currency and so trump puts out a statement that threatens them that if they try to
00:38:47.240
create their own currency to get away from the dollar as the you know sort of international trade
00:38:53.560
currency that uh if they try to do it well he's gonna just tear off the heck out of them
00:39:00.280
give them a hundred percent tariff and they should expect to say goodbye to selling into the wonderful
00:39:06.440
u.s economy they they could go find another sucker he says there's no chance that bricks will replace
00:39:14.360
u.s dollar now here's what i wonder so we're watching the trump effect work and i think everybody would
00:39:25.640
agree at this point that there really is a trump effect that you really are seeing you know ukraine
00:39:32.760
and russia say you know maybe trump can wind this down so people are kind of waiting for him because
00:39:39.480
they expect he's the common sense big dog getting off the porch and that uh as soon as he does there's
00:39:46.520
no point in doing anything until he gets there because everything's going to change do you think that uh
00:39:52.120
this is an overreach because the bricks countries seem pretty intent on doing their bricks thing
00:40:01.880
and i think they think it's probably important for their long-term survival um
00:40:09.480
uh it is a confusing it's a confusing topic i'm seeing in the comments bricks is not a threat to the u.s dollar
00:40:17.000
i don't have enough um grasp of that situation to say yes or no to that comment but
00:40:25.640
i just wonder if trump the trump effect is strong enough that he can make the bricks effort
00:40:32.040
go away with just a threat now they're gonna say this threat is empty because everything we buy from
00:40:41.480
other countries we sort of have to it's because nobody else makes it or doesn't they don't make it
00:40:47.080
affordably it's not like we buy from other countries because we just like it so i'm not sure how much
00:40:54.360
boycotting we could do if we tried but it'll be a good test to see if trump has that power
00:41:03.880
um representative uh this is a democrat representative jasmine crockett now she's pretty outspoken you've
00:41:11.960
seen her in some videos where she's saying some crazy democrat stuff but she's saying i don't expect
00:41:18.600
mass deportations uh i just really don't see it happening and she says she's talked to countless
00:41:24.600
farmers and they're going to say that they need their workers so she thinks basically that it'll be
00:41:31.080
limited to the illegals now you know what's interesting about that did you connect the dots yet
00:41:39.080
so it's a democrat who you might think would be the most anti-trump democrat like really really anti-trump democrat
00:41:59.080
jeremy there's one of my trolls is yelling in all caps that i believe something i don't believe
00:42:04.600
and therefore i'm wrong could you at least make up something that i do believe and then criticize
00:42:12.840
that but screaming the opposite of what i believe really loudly and drunkenly in the morning is not
00:42:22.520
getting you whatever you wanted i'm not sure what you wanted from that but being wrong about my opinion
00:42:28.120
and really being mad about it that's not getting you much so up your game a little bit
00:42:35.000
anyway jasmine crockett the democrat you'd expect to be very anti-trump and she's trying to be but
00:42:41.240
she's helping him accidentally here's how she's helping him accidentally the biggest thing that
00:42:48.280
people are complaining about with the incoming trump is he might be too aggressive in deporting people
00:42:55.400
and here's a democrat saying don't worry he won't be that aggressive in deporting people he'll only
00:43:01.720
deport the people that even you and i would want deported the criminals now is she the worst enemy
00:43:09.560
you've ever seen i want her to be against me because she really helped him there
00:43:18.280
if the son if the person you would think would be the most anti-trump just took his scariest policy and
00:43:25.320
said you know it's gonna be no big deal and probably the things he does are the things you
00:43:30.280
want him to do get rid of the criminals does she realize how dumb she was she's supposed to say
00:43:37.000
none of this is working and the world will fall apart and we'll lose all our workers and all that
00:43:40.840
and instead she just said that'll all work out he'll just get rid of the people you want him to get rid
00:43:46.520
of like i i think she had no idea that that was the most embracing thing you could have ever said about
00:43:56.360
him now of course trump and holman would say that's not true we're going to get rid of you know anybody
00:44:02.760
who's here illegally but she just told the democrats they don't have to worry about it what
00:44:11.480
this is a weird trump effect um then uh new york times there's a new york times article opinion piece
00:44:20.440
saying that the republicans built an ecosystem of influencers and some democrats want one too
00:44:27.080
and i saw it getting mocked because people said correctly republicans didn't build shit
00:44:34.200
no no no the republicans did not say you know what we need would be a network of loyal podcasters no a
00:44:44.440
network of podcasters emerged organically because republicans weren't getting the job done
00:44:52.520
republicans didn't do anything the podcasters were self-organized around common sense
00:45:01.960
what what do joe rogan and uh and me have in common
00:45:14.200
and me besides both having a podcast of sorts what do we have in common
00:45:22.840
common sense we we have all kinds of different preferences of lifestyle
00:45:27.800
you know very different lives and and stuff and backgrounds but we're bald yeah bald don't have hair
00:45:38.120
uh but we're both very organized around what is just common sense so i don't even see things as
00:45:45.560
as political i know hard to believe but i genuinely don't see things as political i see them as would that
00:45:52.840
work if it would work i'm in favor of it if it wouldn't work i'm not in favor of it i think that's
00:45:59.800
exactly where joe rogan is now i can't read his mind right you can't get in other people's minds that's
00:46:07.000
always unfair but if you watch him long enough it looks like he wants the country to do well
00:46:14.120
and he's in favor of things that are kind of obviously good ideas and against things that are
00:46:19.640
obviously bash you crazy that's me we have that in common right what what does jordan peterson want
00:46:29.320
same stuff wants the country to do well well the world canada too so the thing that written so so
00:46:39.240
here's the problem so let me restate it and then you'll see the problem the republican what they call
00:46:47.080
the republican network of podcasters it it grew up because there were a bunch of adults
00:46:55.400
i used to say dads but i'll desexify it and call it adults megan kelly's just killing it for example
00:47:01.960
in the podcasting space well i'll do it for let me do it for megan kelly and for roseanne and for the the
00:47:09.400
many women who were doing a great job in the podcasting space so i'll i'll modify from internet
00:47:16.680
dads to internet parents and i think that all of them grew it grew into that space and became what
00:47:25.240
they were and are because there was a need there was need there was a gigantic hole that just wasn't
00:47:34.280
being filled by um republicans saying what they thought needed to be said and so they filled the
00:47:41.000
hole but they filled it with common sense if you turn on megan kelly is it going to be bash you crazy
00:47:47.720
stuff no it's all going to be this is the law this makes sense what may you know right and you could go
00:47:57.240
right down the line you know the the conservative right leaning podcasters some of them are democrats
00:48:04.600
they just like common sense so they look like republicans now here's the fun part
00:48:12.040
the part where it says democrats want to replicate that situation okay how would that work
00:48:19.640
work so the right leading podcasters are organized around common sense would you agree with that
00:48:28.200
statement first of all that that's the the organizing principle is hey the country's in trouble we're not
00:48:34.280
following common sense let's go back to what we know works democrats can't do that the democrats were
00:48:42.520
literally the batshit crazy stuff they were the opposite of common sense on every topic on every
00:48:50.040
topic they were the opposite of common sense so what do you do if they were to put together a
00:48:59.960
podcasting network and there are plenty of left-leaning podcasts but if they were to make them even you know
00:49:05.640
more prominent somehow and they would be prominently batshit crazy so what kind of an organizing
00:49:12.040
principle is that yeah let's get all the bat shit crazy ideas and we'll put them all together and we'll have
00:49:17.960
this strong podcasting structure no it worked on the right because americans said well that makes sense
00:49:28.600
oh it doesn't look like joe rogan wants to lie to me you know what i just had this idea
00:49:35.800
it could be that the main thing that podcasters do differently from politicians is they have less
00:49:45.720
incentive to lie to you um so i saw somebody in the comments recently say that that using me as an
00:49:54.120
example that i don't have any reason to lie to anybody that's true like even if you suspected i was wrong
00:50:02.760
about something because everybody's wrong about the stuff right being wrong is no big deal
00:50:08.600
but when you see me being wrong you probably don't think i'm lying you probably just think oh he needs
00:50:14.840
to you know read up on this topic or something but when you see a politician saying something you know
00:50:20.360
isn't true you usually think they're lying so one of the things the podcasters did would was to
00:50:27.320
give you a place you could see views that at least people held the actual view like if you see you
00:50:35.160
know i hate to use every example being joe rogan so let's use the all in pod for example now they're
00:50:40.760
not all right leaning of course because jason represents a lefter version but uh they're just
00:50:47.800
chasing what makes sense and they're doing it in front of you and telling you how to think and that's
00:50:52.520
what i try to do so i don't think i don't think i don't think the democrat set of policies is based
00:51:01.080
on common sense and therefore they have no unifying you know trump trump is bad orange man bad it's not
00:51:09.480
really unifying so good luck with that democrats well like i said it's a weird day with no real news i was
00:51:18.920
trying to vamp a little bit stretch down you know make it last a little bit longer but there's not
00:51:24.360
much happening all the big news will drop tomorrow although i guess the holidays will get a little slow
00:51:31.880
but i'll say again it's kind of amazing that trump um this is how you know common sense has reappeared
00:51:41.080
the fact that trump can be the de facto president and even the democrats are not bitching about it
00:51:48.920
i have to give them credit and this is more evidence that the old gaslighting structure fell
00:51:55.640
apart because it would be so easy for democrats to say oh trump is not the elected president yet he's
00:52:04.520
not sworn in well he's elected but he's not sworn in so he can't be negotiating with all these world
00:52:10.280
leaders and having dinner with trudeau but nobody's saying that
00:52:17.800
isn't it isn't it like deafening the silence it's the most obvious thing because it's true
00:52:25.400
he's clearly doing a president's job before he's president but common sense tells us that's our very best
00:52:35.880
situation because common sense tells us that biden is checked out and that we need to show a better
00:52:43.320
face to the leaders of the other countries and if we can show them somebody who's capable and strong and
00:52:51.400
has very specific ideas that the country just backed by a major election yeah get to work right away
00:52:57.800
and watching trump um simply i don't want to say bully
00:53:12.360
watching him just step into the need in the same way that the conservative podcasters i believe
00:53:19.960
stepped into the the empty hole of you know what needed to be filled i think trump just says there's no
00:53:26.760
president you better start talking to me right away and you know he'll be polite and make sure that he
00:53:33.960
gets sworn in before the serious stuff happens but it certainly makes sense that he's getting really
00:53:39.560
serious and doing real work right now and i can't tell you how much i love that like when i see somebody
00:53:48.120
doing more work than uh we we hired them for that affects me like like that has one of the biggest
00:53:57.400
effects so even though trump is you know he's a he's a showman and he's a special kind of person you
00:54:03.720
know not like anybody else the fact that in both his elections he he hit the ground running and he was
00:54:11.000
presidenting like crazy before the swearing i have so much respect for that i just love that
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so i would like to also give you the following mental model and see if you agree with it it's one
00:55:30.520
thing to have a an opinion you know republicans had a lot of opinions and it differed from a lot of
00:55:37.640
democrats but i think you saw republicans do something that i'm not sure i've seen democrats do
00:55:48.440
you remember when uh roseanne took a bullet so to speak but then she came back now she has one of the
00:55:56.520
bigger more important podcasts you know when uh the left went after joe rogan and they went after him
00:56:03.800
hard and it turned him into the number one podcaster in the world
00:56:10.520
yeah and you've seen person after person who got canceled uh bannon bannon took a prison sentence
00:56:17.880
he didn't go down that they took their best shot didn't go down uh i got canceled didn't apologize
00:56:30.600
didn't go down and by the time trump took a bullet
00:56:38.200
and didn't go down that's when you knew it was for real
00:56:42.120
because we needed that many people on the same side to take a bullet and not go down
00:56:50.200
and some of the people that i'm talking about took a cannonball through the chest
00:56:55.960
and didn't go down and i think that makes it a lot safer for the people who have more to lose
00:57:03.400
you know i mean not everybody has the option of being as brave as you'd like to be you may have kids
00:57:09.720
you may have a family bills to pay you know we have our responsibilities
00:57:16.280
but i think that the the right the right leaning side of the country bought their success
00:57:24.760
by not going down jay badakaria yeah jay badakaria the people who didn't go down during the pandemic
00:57:32.760
they said i'm not going to get the vaccination for example they they they didn't go down
00:57:40.680
they they stood for it and they said you can do whatever you have to do but we're not going down
00:57:46.840
the january sixers went to jail for years but they didn't back down they didn't apologize
00:57:59.160
they didn't say i'm sorry and when they're released and i believe they will be fairly soon
00:58:05.800
they yet again will be more people on the right who took a cannonball through the chest
00:58:15.000
never back down so that kind of peter navarro went to jail didn't back down
00:58:22.680
yeah even even melania you know you'd expect melania to say uh can we have a conversation um donald
00:58:36.360
whatever you do do not run for president for a third time wouldn't it be easy for melania
00:58:44.200
to back down and try to talk about it no we don't know what private conversations they they had
00:58:49.480
but to me it looks like she's all in looks like she didn't back down her husband took a bullet
00:58:57.480
she still didn't back down so there when you see you know the bill lackman's
00:59:03.800
pouring in and uh you know a lot of the uh the tech leaders when you see elon musk risk elon musk
00:59:12.440
risked his entire fortune you know he risked everything right he risked everything didn't back
00:59:21.160
down did not back down so i think that maybe that's a power that the democrats can't understand
00:59:32.200
can't see directly and maybe we'll never fully appreciate that if you have an adversary
00:59:40.200
that you can put cannonballs to their chest and they just blink and don't go down you might as well
00:59:47.640
give up because we're not giving up we're not fucking giving up as i said in my uh my uh post on x they
01:00:00.360
got i guess 2.7 million views so far i waited 30 years for this i had to shut my mouth for 20 of those
01:00:09.400
years but i didn't back down i just waited i waited until i had the tools to do what i needed to do
01:00:21.160
and i did what i needed to do i'm very happy about it by the way does anybody ever wonder if i regret
01:00:29.400
getting canceled not there hasn't been a single second of my life that i regretted it not not one
01:00:37.080
time did i think you know maybe if i said it differently not once nope said what i wanted to say
01:00:45.880
took a bullet through the chest didn't apologize didn't go down and now we get our president trump
01:00:52.600
and that's the reward the golden age is here the golden age is here
01:01:03.080
well it was rather disruptive um i i may have i may have concealed from you the the degree of
01:01:12.280
effort that is required to recover from being fully canceled worldwide it requires a little bit of work
01:01:19.640
you know a little bit of work joshua lysek very very important to that so thank you joshua
01:01:34.440
just in general it was kind of a good year all right i'm going to talk to the locals people privately
01:01:41.880
because it's a sunday and we don't have much to say but uh everything's different now you can feel it
01:01:50.760
it's all coming together i don't know who's authoring this simulation but
01:01:56.760
sure is going my way a lot that's all i know for sure all right locals coming at you privately in 30 seconds