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In this episode of Coffee with Scott Adams, we discuss the recent plane crash in South Korea, drone sightings have dropped off, and Fiverr has been accused of shitting on white people. We also talk about a new invention that can desalinate water using recycled tires and a new kind of solar still that can make fresh drinking water.
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good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of human civilization
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paul your timing is perfect every time i really appreciate that
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well you probably heard there's a horrible plane crash in south korea um the only survivors were
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two of the flight crew and it was a boeing and i don't think we know the details yet
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but the landing gear wasn't down and it landed without landing gear and hit a barrier and
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exploded and it was just terrible um so there's not much to say about that except there's a mystery
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about why the landing gear wasn't down part of the mystery is that it's designed so it can't not go
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down if you want it because it'll work on gravity even if it doesn't work mechanically so it would have
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to be pretty broken you know sort of unusually broken in order not to go down properly
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um or or was it uh that they didn't put it down it seems very unlikely they didn't put down the
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because i don't know that seems unlikely so i guess there's just a mystery we'll find out what it is
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meanwhile according to chris harrison new york post the drone activity over new jersey has taken a holiday
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and the number of drone sightings has dropped off
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so can we eliminate the space aliens because i don't think they take a vacation at the end of the year
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all right all right i'm going to take a minor victory lap because i believe i was the one who
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suggested that the drone activity would cut way back on a holiday and that's that's one of your clues
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meanwhile at dalhose university is talking about this uh building a floating solar still
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that can desalinate water and generate some electricity the electricity makes isn't a big
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deal but the apparently there's an invention that takes a regular used tire and puts a little plastic
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dome over it and just floats it out into the salt water and it can desalinate just using the sun
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and uh it actually creates uh quite a bit of water so the the thing that's special about
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it is that desalinating without using expensive materials is hard but here they've kind of done
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it with plastic and a wick and an old tire and it makes a lot of water desalinated water that's kind
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of a big deal if you're living somewhere poor that doesn't have good water all you need is an
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old tire and some other materials and next thing you know you got fresh water it's kind of kind of
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impressive well do you know the company of fiber spelled f-i-v-e and then two r's fiber it's for
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finding um finding professionals to do small projects well they've got one of the typical
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anti-white commercials where there's a white guy who's dumb but thank goodness there's a black woman
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there to show you how dumb he is and how smart she is now uh i've been using fiverr so i've used it
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several times with great success i like the service i've gotten really good people to do projects from
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it but i'm going to cancel my account because i don't i'm not going to listen to your pr people
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shitting on white people white men white men specifically um so fiverr you can do whatever
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you want but i'm done with you so this is a hard cancel don't look for me to use you anymore after
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i'm i've got to wrap up a project but after that after that never again um i feel like you know and
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probably the uh the pr or the advertising people are the ones responsible for this anti-white guy
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commercial but you gotta you gotta put your foot down at some point at some point you just have to
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say that there's my limit right there i'm gonna cancel you and it's got to be hard to cancel i mean
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even if i want to use the service which i do it's a good service it's a genuinely good service it's a
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well-executed um site but no i can't i can't be part of that um well of course you want to talk
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about the h1b thing which has matured now so we've we have a lot more a lot more feel for what's going
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on so i'll give you a quick update it appears to me that the following people are all on the same page
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i think uh elon musk donald trump and stephen miller now if all three of them are on the same page and
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that page is that we we want to bring in the best employees where it makes sense but we don't want to
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bring in people that would lower wages or take jobs from americans and that's what the h1b and i think
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maybe the other visa systems were doing they're being abused so there seems to be general agreement
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that if you could use it to in the its best possible way it would be good for everybody
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but if you used it the way it's being used that's inappropriate i mean it's it's just bad for american
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workers so now that uh trump has clarified that uh he likes the h1b and he uses the h1b on his own
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properties but steven miller informs us that during the first administration they they fixed the h1b
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process or took a shot at it but under biden none of that is uh still in place so it appears that at
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least steven miller and as far away as the first administration of trump they were very aware the
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h1b can't stand right so they're they opposed it they changed it they tried to tighten it up i don't
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know if they're tightening would have worked elon musk has said that he also believes you can't use the
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current h1b process and says it's easily fixed by making it more expensive to hire uh foreign people
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and i thought to myself is it really that easy and i don't know how you'd make it more expensive
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basically a tariff right you'd have to put a tariff on people so if you're elon musk and you're saying
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oh i'd like to hire you know the top 0.01 percent of engineers from anywhere in the world and let's say
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i'm just i'm just making this up but let's say the government said sure you can do that but it'll cost
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you 20 more than it would and and that that's not going to the employee the employee's not getting
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the extra 20 that extra 20 is just going to go to the government because you didn't you didn't hire a
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citizen would that still work for everybody well if you were really getting the top
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0.01 engineer yeah you'd probably pay 20 over the over the market price again not to the employee
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but if you had to pay something to the government to to make up for it maybe that makes sense and then
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when it comes down to farm workers or people who would take your cubicle job nobody's going to pay
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extra for that you know what i mean nobody's going to pay extra for the same work for that they're going
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to hire american if they can do it at all so that might work i think that's in the category of things
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that are worth a try but i'm going to revise my current opinion as one idiot online called it backpedaling
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how many of you are offended by people who learn new things and then modify their opinion
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are any of you offended by that do you feel like i'm i'm less i'm less of a person if new information
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causes me to modify my opinion a little bit because i'm going to modify my opinion a little bit
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right here's what i think i think that this of course is a political and economic issue but it's
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also an emotional one and it's very personal to a lot of people it's not personal to everybody
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but to a lot of people it's really personal and if you ignore the personal part
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um you're not seeing the whole field so here's my current understanding and i called it what i learned
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this week all right it goes like this uh they're asking white american workers to accept dei which
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they are accepted right now in corporate america dei is pretty much everywhere even though some companies
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are backing off and we do think that the government will get rid of dei in the government
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but so far i haven't seen a direct statement that dei wouldn't be made illegal in corporate america
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so here's the thing that i think that i underestimated and this is one of those ivory tower things
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because you know if you're if you're out of the cubicles for a while as i am you can you can maybe
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forget how it felt like i tell myself i could never forget that but sometimes you have to you know you have
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to tap yourself on the shoulder and say hey hey are you really are you really remembering how this felt
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do you really remember how it felt i remember the details i remember my cubicle but do i remember how it
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felt after all these years and i think that's the thing that that i was absorbing a little bit now what i'm
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going to tell you nobody told me so so as far as i know this is not anybody's expressed opinion
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but i'll bet it's boiling around in you and it goes like this
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um accepting uh yeah asking american white american workers white male american workers
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specifically but asking white male american workers to accept dei which for the last several years has
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resulted in only six percent of new jobs going to white men six percent or is it white people in
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general but it's the the the level of discrimination against white men specifically but probably white people
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against white men is completely unacceptable so here's what what i took away from this that's new
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if you tell me to accept dei but also bring in somebody from another country to take my job or lower my salary
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that's uh obscene it's obscene it's obscene is it good for the economy or it could be if you did it right
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it's obscene it's an insult it's an insult it's an insult on top of the deepest insult you could ever have
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which is you know racism so i want dei to go away and i'm sure that trump's on the same page
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and certainly he'll do it for the government i do trust that that's going to happen for sure is he
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going to do it in the corporations is he going to just say i'm going to get rid of dei in every
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corporation it's going to be illegal and you better start getting rid of it now because if i have to tell
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you to get rid of it it's going to get expensive for you so nobody has said this but i'm going to
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say it i feel like white americans should trade h1b which i'm in favor of if it's corrected and it's
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done right just to be additive to the country but i don't think that white americans should accept it
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it because this is an insult and that matters and let me say it directly at some point the insult
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matters more than the gdp i've been looking at this as a gdp situation like if you if you have the best
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gdp then you know all boats rise and the country's stronger we can build a better defense so i've been
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sort of gdp focused i think that was a mistake i'm going to focus on the insult because i get you
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can't live in the country well let me say it directly i'll let the gdp fall to correct this
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it's not it's not worth the price period so if white americans wanted to hold hostage
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their their approval or acceptance or reluctant acceptance of h1b until dei is just absolutely
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dead and illegal and people are getting locked up for doing it i'm on board so i'm gonna i'm
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gonna just side with white american men workers um and i'm gonna say that if we don't have
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confirmation that dei is going to be absolutely eviscerated in corporate america
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no just say no to h1b and i'm in favor of h1b but as a negotiating position
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uh if if any of you white males or people who like white males want to say you know what it's too far
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it's too far as long as dei exists zero is the right number and we'll and and i will pay that price
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i'll pay the price gdp down two percent yep i'll pay that i will pay that all day long
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you gotta fix dei so imagine this how would you feel about it because the feelings do matter
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sometimes the insult is bigger than the economics and that's where we're at the insults bigger than the
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economics and by the way the economics of white people not being able to get jobs is pretty
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so i'm going to change my vote i'm opposed to h1b even the single person not one person unless unless
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trump can confirm that he's going to kill dei completely and he should be warning companies
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already you better get rid of that you got like two weeks before the law is coming for you because
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this is illegal got to stop it so let's negotiate let's negotiate so i hope that's a little closer to
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the core of what people are feeling there are people who are just saying we don't want to import people
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who will change the culture of the united states that's a different argument and i believe that
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importing people who would be positive to the culture of the united states
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is really indistinguishable from good economics so if you're bringing in people who you say
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you know you you can check culture as well you say you know are you excited about being an american
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you know what do you think of america you know i think you could get to very quickly are you somebody
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who has a cultural compatibility with our economic system but if you come and say you know honestly i'm
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a really good programmer and i'd like you to hire me but i really love communism too then how about
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no or or if you have some other belief that just clearly in conflict with the whatever we think are
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the cultural variables that made america what it is i think you can turn people down for economic reasons
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if they're not a cultural fit because the cultural the cultural engine is what's driving the economics
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so you got to get that right as well when i found out my friend got a great deal on a wool coat from
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winners i started wondering is every fabulous item i see from winners like that woman over there with
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the designer jeans are those from winners ooh are those beautiful gold earrings did she pay full price
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or that leather tote or that cashmere sweater or those knee-high boots that dress that jacket those
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shoes is anyone paying full price for anything stop wondering start winning winners find fabulous for less
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all right i don't know if we can get that right but but that would be the goal um msnbc of course continues
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to be the comedy the comedy news network they don't try but they're pretty funny so they had a little
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segment i saw today where um one of the hosts was warning uh people that uh elon musk and vivake
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in what reality are elon musk and vivake coming after white people so they did that thing that
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they do with all the news where they intentionally misinterpret it now of course they're not coming
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after white people they were talking about um they were talking about american culture in vivake's case
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um but that's not coming after white people it's not even close to coming after white people so
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uh and they said quote they come in for you they said y'all are white and lazy nope nope vivake did
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not call anybody white and lazy that did not happen in any world he did say that america
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you know might need a culture upgrade of its own and i think criticizing america if you're an american
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is always fair that we we can't stop doing that it's one of our superpowers we can criticize we can
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fight it out we can improve so even if you don't like what vivek said don't imagine that something else
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it's it's not about white people and it's certainly not saying that you know india is superior none of
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that happened in the real world that didn't happen you just criticized our current culture thought it
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could be better that's a fair conversation even if you disagree it's a fair conversation all right um but
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it turns out that uh the msnbc i finally figured out what those letters mean i think msnbc stands for
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misinterpreting some normal business of conservatives
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misinterpreting some normal business of conservatives because that's their entire program
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uh trump said the neo-nazis are fine people no he didn't he didn't say that it sounds like
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you're misinterpreting some normal business of conservatives um vivek ramaswamy is coming
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after white people no he's not he's not i i think you're misinterpreting some normal business of
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conservatives because they like to have conversations with each other about what's working
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well it made news that cnn was not mean to rfk jr in a clip so i feel like things are changing
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has gone now to i think something that is absolutely 100 percent non-political
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and i think the moms are weighing in in a way that is going to be really really important to the
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future uh i think there are enough moms who are seeing all these chronic illnesses with their kids
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that they have to deal with every day and you know they've got the the empathy but also the work it
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causes the disruption in family life all of that and i think they're done so cnn air just had a clip
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in which they uh talked to some mom who was uh saying saying she didn't like gmos and vaccines and
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corporate greed and uh zen honeycutt is the name of the mom and she ended up actually moving to a farm
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to grow their own food because they thought the food supply was poisoning them and found out that when
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they grew their own farm their own food suddenly the kids didn't have all those health problems
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now that's not the first time we've heard that story is it we we keep hearing about people as soon
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as they get off the regular food supply you know their their health improves immediately and cnn ran this
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um and really gave it i will i will compliment cnn they gave it its full due now they did ask the
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important question so cnn's uh person mina doors and asked uh esther if uh if all this makes her feel like
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a conspiracy theorist now that's that's sort of the question that the news you'd expect to ask because
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rfk jr has been called a conspiracy theorist he's not but he's been called that so asking somebody who's
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on the same side of him uh at least with some of these issues asking if it makes her feel like a
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conspiracy theorist i suppose that's a fair question but here's the answer that they they ran in full
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so her answer was i don't feel like a conspiracy theorist i feel that the conspiracy is to shut
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down information in order to protect the profits of the corporations that's the real conspiracy
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and cnn ran that good for you cnn if there's one thing we can agree on we got to fix the food system
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now was it um colin colin colin colin meanie colin meanie who's the uh advocate for better food
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in the united states i think he was saying that there's a story where the the the big food companies
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were absorbed by the big tobacco companies uh after it was obvious that tobacco was unhealthy so it looked
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like that industry didn't have a future they bought a bunch of food companies and then they used their
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evil to turn the food into the cheapest things they could make which weren't that healthy uh in some
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cases but it was cheaper uh and they made it more addictive so they made it unhealthy and addictive
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the cigarette companies they own they own some of the biggest food companies now should we be surprised
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that if you're eating cigarette company products that are made to be cheap but not necessarily healthy
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should we be surprised what's happening no we should not be surprised uh yeah not it's not colin meanie
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it's cali cali means thank you marcella so i apologize to cali i was confusing him with colin meanie cali
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means all right so by the way one of the things my friend carmen simon teaches is that a mistake
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is more memorable than something ordinary so by completely butchering cali means name you will
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now remember it because because the mistake makes it more memorable so all is good all is good that ends well
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anyway so we do have something that i think everybody can get on board on and if it turns
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out that trump because he was open to the big tent and rfk jr helping on something we all cared about
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if it turns out trump's the one that solves food
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he's going to be the most popular president of all time it's i mean that the size of that potential
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accomplishment it's almost incalculable and i don't think anybody else would have done it i don't think
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biden would have done it i don't think harris would have done it so if trump gets this done he's going
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to win moms he doesn't have to get elected again but he's going to win moms pretty hard
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so meanwhile uh as jonathan turley was pointing out um now that the uh america first legal got photos
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of the biden joe biden and i think the brother and and hunter meeting with all these biden business
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contacts in china and then we have all the bank records telling us where the money flowed
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so we have we have physical photos and we have the money flow and nobody has even suggested that
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that the biden's did anything to earn that money so i don't think we have to wonder if they were
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selling influence that question is pretty well answered at this point but as uh jonathan turley points out
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uh after years of ignoring the influence peddling scandal the media is not likely to suddenly pursue
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the story you know why the media is not likely to pursue the story your first impression would be oh
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they they back the uh they back the democrats so they don't want to do something that would be
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embarrassing to democrats that's not exactly why they're not covering the story
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they're not covering the story because they're the story the media is the story because it's been
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obvious for a long time that this was very true and if they hadn't if they hadn't covered it when it
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was a a hint and they hadn't covered it when it was you know pretty clear or they undercovered it you
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could argue that they did cover it but they they undercovered it um certainly once it's clear that they
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had a huge story that they didn't cover they can't cover it now if they cover it now it'll be
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obvious they were part of it part of the cover-up so they can't do a story that says uh breaking uh
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my management is accomplice in hiding this hiding these crimes like how do you tell that story breaking cnn
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totally guilty of being totally guilty of being an accomplice in these crimes because if you're
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helping them cover it what's that called if you're intentionally helping somebody to conceal a crime
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now i don't think we should arrest cnn for not covering the story but
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if it if it's in a gray area where you'd say to yourself i feel like that should be against the law
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to cover a crime and know you're doing it even if you're the news now free speech is a is sort of a
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bigger issue so i think i'd not make it illegal but it's certainly on the borderline it's got one
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i think that for many people the revelation that they find people hoax was always a hoax but more
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importantly that the news media knew it the whole time it's one thing to find out that the news had
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told you something that's fake or untrue it's completely different when you know that they
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knew it the whole time that's really different it's not a mistake if you know it the whole time it's
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propaganda once once the finding people hoax allowed additional people in the public to say wait a
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minute if that was pure propaganda what is the other stuff remember gel man amnesia where when you realize
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that the stories that you know about are fake you start thinking wait a minute if all the stories i know
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the truth about are fake what are those other stories also fake and so if you find out that the find people
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hoax was not just wrong but they knew it because it was propaganda what's that say about the rest of
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their stories it's i think the find people hoax really reframed and woke people up in a way that
00:31:28.820
nothing else could have meanwhile uh eric abenanti is reporting how on x um how there's a democratic
00:31:38.020
strategist um he marveled at how hispanics in south texas had the same uh view as a lot of what he called
00:31:48.740
cranky old white guys so jeffrey pollock said this he said quote so what hispanic voters did in many
00:31:56.580
ways across this country is vote with their wallets but there's also it is also clear when
00:32:01.940
you think about what happened in a place like south texas on the border they're sure that the economy
00:32:07.140
is a part of it but also there are clear hostility about immigration which to many of us in blue
00:32:12.740
states and sitting in a place like new york seemed like well how could that be possible he said that
00:32:18.340
if you were just looking into words the words they said if that's all you looked at you would think
00:32:22.900
maybe they were a bunch of cranky white guys from missouri now
00:32:32.820
what have i been telling people for i don't know eight years in a row if you actually had any contact
00:32:39.620
with the hispanic community they're not real woke they're not woke they want jobs security family god
00:32:51.140
they're they're just about as republican as you could possibly not all of them of course there's
00:32:55.540
there's no generality that's that's true but i'm gonna i'm gonna make a uh prediction
00:33:05.300
prediction goes like this you know how you thought that they were bringing in all these democrat voters
00:33:12.020
well they're definitely bringing in people that the census will count and if they don't vote i think that
00:33:17.780
works in favor of you know if there's a if there's a democrat there already it gives them more i don't
00:33:23.780
know gives them more opportunity for representatives so there's that but where they vote in the long term
00:33:32.740
i think that long term the immigrants that biden brought in are going to be dominant republican
00:33:38.900
i think the democrats imported millions of republicans and they don't know it because they didn't know
00:33:47.060
this i knew this right i mean if you've watched me for a while you know that i already knew
00:33:54.580
that if you actually talked to actual hispanic families you'd find that they're so compatible
00:34:00.900
with the political right that it would be hard to imagine that they would vote any other way
00:34:06.180
so i'm going to further i'm going to further predict that on you know year one through five we might not
00:34:13.780
see any difference but if you check back in 10 years people are going to say the biggest mistake
00:34:19.860
democrats ever made was importing millions of republican voters and not knowing that they were doing it
00:34:31.060
surprises are coming um and then uh eric gabinetti is also pointing out that uh another democrat
00:34:40.180
strategist doug sosnick um he said quote it doesn't matter what the republicans do
00:34:46.020
uh the democrats and we don't change who we are how our procedure and okay that's a word salad
00:34:57.300
he says democratic party for nine years now has stood for nothing other than beating trump
00:35:04.740
does that sound fair is it fair that the democrat party has stood for nothing but beating trump
00:35:11.140
that's what it feels like right feels like it um and he says that's been the only organizing principle
00:35:18.900
of the party when you ask a democrat um what are you for the answer is we're against trump
00:35:27.380
so he says we have a lot of work to do as a party well do they because trump can't run for election
00:35:34.500
again so if they put all of their energy into making sure that the next time they don't run against trump
00:35:41.700
do you think they'll figure out that they're not going to run against them again do you think
00:35:49.780
do you think that they'll really prepare for the last war instead of the next one like i can see this
00:35:56.100
world in which they get they really get ready to not blame trump the next time and then wait a
00:36:02.900
minute he's he's not running is he well we're very prepared not to blame him no um
00:36:12.100
i think there may be a quarter of the way to understanding what happened
00:36:18.020
well according to the post-millennium the house republicans want to pass a voter id law
00:36:24.980
for all the states now of course i'm in favor of it if it works but i have a question do we have any
00:36:32.340
any lawyers here who can answer this question can the federal government
00:36:39.060
get into the business of the states the way they run the elections i thought states had wide authority
00:36:45.460
on how they do their elections would it pass the supreme court if the federal government says no
00:36:53.060
states you must do your elections this way on some level yes because for example i think the federal
00:37:02.020
government tells them what date to have the election right so there must be some things
00:37:09.140
that the federal government already tells the states to do such as um you have to put everybody on
00:37:14.980
the ballot i don't know i'm just guessing there must be some things that the federal government requires
00:37:22.180
could they require this as well my understanding would be no because i thought states had
00:37:29.620
full control over this level of detail but i guess we'll find out so i wouldn't predict that it would
00:37:37.540
survive the supreme court um only for federal elections
00:37:42.740
i'm getting an opinion coming in only for federal elections but even federal elections don't the
00:37:51.940
states have wide leeway no wait they could if they wanted by using the commerce claw as a loophole
00:38:01.220
oh okay so that i've got a real legal opinion there so they could if they wanted by using the commerce
00:38:06.900
clause i don't know enough about that clause or how it's used but they might have a back door
00:38:13.380
all right uh up in canada this seems like a small story but it's big so you know if you have a coal
00:38:21.860
mine you got to load things in trucks and there's a whole bunch of loading things in trucks and the
00:38:26.740
trucks taking it somewhere um but they've now fully automated it with these big electric um loaders so
00:38:36.660
the news is not so much that this changes the world it's happening in canada not the united states
00:38:41.140
but what happens if the price of coal goes way down what's that do to the climate change people
00:38:50.100
because at the moment you know the reason that you would build an alternative to coal
00:38:54.740
you're going to start with what's it going to cost and if the price of coal goes way down because they
00:39:01.860
can automate a lot of stuff hmm does the cost of coal go way down and then does that change
00:39:08.740
energy decisions and make it even harder to fight climate change if you think that that's what's
00:39:14.580
happening i'm not so sure but um anyway something to watch
00:39:20.340
the price of coal might come way down could change things um
00:39:29.940
bank more encores when you switch to a scotia bank banking package
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learn more at scotia bank dot com slash banking packages conditions apply scotia bank you're richer
00:39:40.900
than you think so russia has a new drone so it's a uh it's a little buggy so it's on the ground it's not
00:39:48.900
a flying drone so it's on the ground but it has this uh 24 barrel buckshot thing that fires in the air
00:39:56.340
to shoot down uh drones that are in the air but not too high uh it can't get the highest ones but
00:40:04.420
so i see this and go wow there sure is a lot of innovation in drones
00:40:09.460
so now they run out this little buggy and it can look in the air and shoot down a drone
00:40:14.980
good idea if you're not if you're not standing underneath where the buckshot's going to come down
00:40:19.940
um but this makes me ask the following question so we've already decided that it's turning into
00:40:27.540
or maybe already is a drone against drone war would you agree that right now the current technology
00:40:36.020
allows one drone to kill one soldier in either direction because they've got these little suicide
00:40:41.780
drones and and then on top of that they're doing the the struggle for dominance of the technology
00:40:51.380
so this would be part of the struggle to get the technology right and of course the ukrainians
00:40:57.540
will come up with something to jam it and then they'll come some come up with something to unjam
00:41:01.940
it or work around the jam so it's going to be this this technological competition
00:41:06.580
so let me reframe this war in a way that helps trump when he goes to negotiate okay
00:41:14.340
so all this is is a negotiating reframe based on something we can observe
00:41:20.420
the the war between ukraine and russia has now evolved into a manufacturing competition and an innovation
00:41:30.020
competition if you knew that you were russia and their competition was now innovation and manufacturing
00:41:39.380
of drones but you got to be able to manufacture and you got to be able to innovate quickly
00:41:44.900
is that russia's strong point manufacturing and innovation
00:41:51.300
now imagine that their competition is ukraine but ukraine is backed by the united states
00:41:57.140
so now you have a competition between united states and russia on innovation and manufacturing
00:42:04.420
well it turns out we're not so hot at manufacturing are we not not like we used to be but can we correct
00:42:11.380
that faster than they can can we correct and innovate on drones faster than russia i think that pudin probably
00:42:21.380
assumes we can and i think there's a good argument that we can so if you're trump and you're having a
00:42:29.220
conversation with putin would it help to say look this has become a drone war and we're going to be able
00:42:36.500
to make better drones faster drones and more drones than you and you're completely aware of that because we
00:42:42.580
just have a more productive you know system in that regard so if it becomes a drone war and it's not
00:42:50.180
just a who has more people war and not who cares more war we're going to win so let's talk
00:42:58.580
i think as a negotiating position pointing out that we're going to out manufacture and now innovate and
00:43:04.580
that's going to make the difference that's basically going to be the war at this point
00:43:07.540
um that's a strong negotiating point so i'll just put that out there as a persuasion fact
00:43:21.940
we really don't have much going on today it was kind of a slow news day kind of a holiday sunday
00:43:28.820
um i but i want to go back to the uh the little dust up on the h1b stuff
00:43:34.820
uh still some work to do but i gotta say i mostly felt good about the quality of the argument i also
00:43:44.740
felt good that conservatives were somewhat united in the in the uh agreement that free speech and x
00:43:55.540
and a real healthy agreement or disagreement in this case um can move you forward
00:44:00.820
i feel like almost everybody on the right got smarter about immigration and h1b's would you
00:44:09.140
say that's true at least everybody everybody was involved in the conversation i think we all learned
00:44:14.100
something i did i definitely did and that feels like it moved things forward now the other thing that
00:44:22.420
happened is that trump is now weighed in if there are people who are mega and they're trying to
00:44:30.740
represent trump which seems to be their primary goal and trump now clarifies that he likes h1b
00:44:38.420
steven miller has clarified that clearly trump and steven miller need need a fix um elon musk says we
00:44:45.780
need a fixed everybody agrees we need a fixed i think that trump has enough leadership and enough
00:44:52.340
credibility at this point that he can simply get the mega folks to align with his view
00:45:01.300
so this was fascinating because i've told you before that one of trump's superpowers is that he's
00:45:07.940
watching he's always watching so if if his base is making a move he's watching so that entire
00:45:16.420
conversation i guarantee you he knew what was going on from start to finish and he wait he waits for it to
00:45:23.060
kind of die down which was exactly the right play i'll tell you again that whoever is advising trump
00:45:32.580
is really good like i don't know if it's a team team of people or if it's got one person he trusts the
00:45:38.900
most but the way he the way he cleverly stayed out of it until the the full emotion and arguments were
00:45:48.500
surfaced and then after we'd exhausted ourselves he comes in and he says here's the deal
00:45:54.580
i feel like that that was amazing like that that was completely inspiring are we still mad at each
00:46:03.940
other a little bit are people still disagreeing a little bit but i think we can respect the system
00:46:11.860
that got us to this place not the h1b system but we can respect the conversation we can we can respect
00:46:20.020
the fight because i don't think anybody was fighting to hurt anybody nobody nobody was in it to make the
00:46:27.380
world worse nobody was in it to do anything negative everybody was in it for america and we weren't all on
00:46:36.980
the same page about what works and what's practical and what issue are you talking about and are we
00:46:42.260
conflating things but we kind of sorted it out and i think this is where you know what i've called the
00:46:48.900
the internet dads but it's really moms and dads um i think that they were really really helpful
00:46:58.260
and i think that watching the fight and that knowing that we we recognize certain personalities as
00:47:04.660
as being more productive in their opinions that's why they have big accounts in most cases
00:47:10.420
um and i think that really really made a difference now i don't know if any of you changed your opinions at
00:47:17.140
all or or even that that matters but i'm curious uh in the comments did anybody modify even a little bit did
00:47:26.820
did anybody modify their opinion on the issue of foreign workers because as you know i did you know a
00:47:32.580
little modification i i i i didn't start out even talking about h1b i was just talking about we need
00:47:43.300
the best engineers but you have to talk about the system and once people who were closer to it said oh
00:47:50.020
no it's totally abused well i learned that and then i then i could you know move to a second opinion
00:47:56.900
which is that needs to get fixed so i feel like i i feel like i got pushed in a productive direction
00:48:05.620
and to the extent that i could do it i was trying to help push anybody who wasn't there also toward a
00:48:13.780
productive understanding of things they don't need to agree i'm not pushing anybody to agree with me
00:48:20.340
i'm only pushing to make you understand the ins and outs and one thing i wanted people to understand
00:48:25.460
is we don't really know the economics of this stuff and so if you're trying to argue on the pure macro
00:48:32.500
economics of it we're not really smart enough to know you know where to draw the line for that
00:48:38.500
but if it comes down to how it makes you feel that's a little easier and like i said as long as
00:48:47.460
dei is the dominant operating system of our economy which it is right now then i don't think any white
00:48:54.820
man should accept even one person from another country and if you want to use that to negotiate
00:49:01.700
really the things that everybody wants because everybody in the republican side wants to kill dei
00:49:06.260
and most of them want h1b fixed small percentage say don't bring in you know a culture that we don't
00:49:15.140
like but i think that we can just teach reach the the right i think we can get to the right place
00:49:22.100
by understanding that culture is part of the economic decision
00:49:27.620
claudia was leaving for her pickleball tournament i've been visualizing my match all week she was so
00:49:32.820
focused on visualizing that she didn't see the column behind her car on her backhand side good
00:49:38.740
thing claudia is with intact the insurer with the largest network of auto service centers in the country
00:49:43.940
everything was taken care of under one roof and she was on her way in a rental car in no time i made
00:49:48.900
it to my tournament and lost in the first round but you got there on time intact insurance your auto
00:49:55.300
service ace certain conditions apply all right um should be canceled and start from scratch
00:50:06.900
well you know i i think maybe elon's approach of just making it more expensive to hire
00:50:13.780
from another country it might be a simple elegant way to get what you want
00:50:18.500
because follow the money always works like monetary incentives pretty much will guarantee what the
00:50:26.820
what the future is um i think i told you yesterday some fake news that i need to correct uh some people
00:50:36.340
said that elon musk had a fake account anonymous account that he was using to interact on spaces and
00:50:44.500
some other things and apparently that's not true uh i did listen to one of the accounts that they said
00:50:51.380
was his and it was definitely his voice 100 his voice but um i think i understand that to have been
00:51:00.100
an ai generated voice today i'm not 100 positive what's going on there but um musk
00:51:08.100
uh unequivocally saying that he doesn't that's not him i don't think he would lie about that
00:51:17.620
so that would be a weird thing to lie about would seem out of character
00:51:22.900
so i believe him that those are not his own accounts yeah how do you have time to run another account
00:51:29.940
it's a bioweapon if we take all the good people well i don't think we're going to take all of anybody's
00:51:44.020
well actually elon musk has weighed into various spaces but it's usually one that
00:51:51.940
there's a guy who sounds a lot like him you know if that was just somebody who has the same
00:52:00.980
voice patterns i'd be really surprised because his voice patterns are so unique all right what
00:52:08.980
we got here uh china china kyrgyzstan and yubekstan will build a real way bypassing russia
00:52:18.820
so they're going to deliver stuff from china to the european union without going through russia huh
00:52:28.980
interesting yeah i i feel like putin can be made an ally of the united states simply by uh simply by
00:52:40.660
explaining to him that china isn't going to be his friend in the long term in the long term
00:52:45.860
i'm not so sure china's a friend although realistically china is really smart about a lot of stuff so i
00:52:57.620
don't think they want to cause any trouble with their their you know nuclear power with their biggest
00:53:02.740
border so i think they'll i think they'll be well behaved with russia do you think the indian
00:53:11.220
intelligence service might line up a few h1bs uh i mean i i think every intelligence service has a way to
00:53:24.020
um insinuate itself in every other system so it's that's not a special risk i don't think i mean it's
00:53:32.260
the general risk of everything all the time but maybe not a special risk of the h1b stuff
00:53:37.940
um canada is the playground what all right just looking at some of your comments
00:53:59.460
all right ladies and gentlemen i'm going to go talk to the people on locals a little bit privately
00:54:03.860
thanks for joining there'll be lots of news tomorrow i think tomorrow is going to be a real
00:54:10.100
newsy kind of a day and uh we'll catch up with you then but for now locals coming at you