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00:01:08.740 well let's talk about the news uh the jet crash with the helicopter in dc

00:01:16.660 is creating a massive fog of war as in what the heck is going on and can we trust the news and who's

00:01:23.880 lying and what's what so we'll give you a few of the things we know there's some new video angles

00:01:30.960 which would show to a non-pilot such as myself it would look like it was an easily avoidable problem

00:01:40.320 because when you see the video it looks like the helicopter is heading straight for the airplane

00:01:47.080 had to be aware of it you know seems like the visibility was good and was also flying hundreds

00:01:55.600 of feet higher than allowed with an instructor on board how do you fly in illegal space in a crowded

00:02:06.240 area in illegal space it wasn't legal to be where it was how do you do that with an instructor on board

00:02:12.580 in the context of instructions so we got questions it may be that we have lots of things wrong now

00:02:21.160 countering the narrative that it was easy to see which kind of suggests that there was some

00:02:27.640 intentionality there that's not proven but uh i saw another expert saying that if you think it's easy

00:02:35.320 to spot airplanes coming you know toward you it's harder than you think and it depends on whether

00:02:42.760 you're seeing their i don't know the landing lights are fitting in with the city lights uh the direction

00:02:49.980 they're going whether or not there's any lateral movement so apparently there are situations in which

00:02:56.240 if you're looking at it from a distance as we are you'd say to yourself how could you not see that

00:03:02.100 you're heading right for it for i don't know five seconds in a row five seconds is a pretty long time

00:03:08.100 to not react but if you were in the pilot seat and especially if you are testing out some night vision

00:03:16.360 goggles the night vision goggles will interfere with your peripheral vision a little bit and there's just

00:03:24.280 a ton of things going on at that particular airport and it was a training flight so if you don't have

00:03:31.220 the the most trained person for a night flight in that area and there's a lot going on and it might be

00:03:38.420 just a coincidence of how the the lights from the vehicles the vehicles the aircraft lined up it's

00:03:46.900 possible it was nothing but a mistake but even trump is having trouble believing that you could be flying

00:03:53.960 hundreds of feet above the altitude that's legal and allowed when you're you're an extreme rule

00:04:02.920 following entity i would think that a military aircraft in the civilian space would be not just a rule

00:04:11.960 follower but an extreme rule follower am i wrong i can't imagine anybody being more more extreme about

00:04:21.320 following every rule and the the altitude rule isn't like every rule that's really really important

00:04:30.360 the where are you you can't get the where are you wrong that's the most important thing where are you

00:04:37.320 and you know in relationship to the other planes so there's certainly some question about the

00:04:42.600 intention of the uh intention of the pilot there's questions about how could you possibly do be doing

00:04:49.720 something so out of the norm um in terms of the altitude and then there's talk about uh trump of course

00:04:58.360 mentioned dei and he also mentioned that the helicopter was now where it belonged it was too high

00:05:05.000 and he said not too complicated to understand is it well he's right about one thing if you can see so

00:05:15.000 clearly that there was a mistake of piloting

00:05:20.680 and you know dei is sort of the baseline for a lot of our uh understanding of what's wrong with the world

00:05:29.640 doesn't mean every single situation is a dei problem does not mean that this is a dei problem

00:05:37.400 what it does mean is that whenever there's a system problem and this this appears to be we're not sure

00:05:43.160 it might be an individual problem but it seems even more more likely there's a system problem as in

00:05:50.520 there were far too few people working in the tower which meant that uh one person was doing the job of two

00:05:58.040 in a number of cases so it's the hardest airport the most dangerous airport that's getting busier and

00:06:04.040 more complicated every day while the staffing that handles it is going down while the dei requirements

00:06:11.000 are probably what keeps them from staffing up because if they have to stick to the dei rules they have

00:06:16.840 to say no to some large pool of people who might have been you know qualified so dei definitely is

00:06:24.840 crippling the maximum effectiveness of any group that's going hard at it we just don't know if it

00:06:31.560 affects some specific case so i'm going to be i'm going to be as scrupulous as i can

00:06:38.920 in not saying that the specific case is a dei problem unless we get to a point where it's overwhelmingly

00:06:46.680 obvious we're not there however as of this morning i was unable to identify for sure whether we even

00:06:56.840 know the names of the pilots in the helicopter to know you know was there any weird dei thing happening

00:07:04.040 that could have had some element so as long as i don't know as long as i don't know i don't know

00:07:12.680 so not knowing is okay you don't have to have an opinion so i'm going to hold hold my opinion on any

00:07:18.520 dei stuff until we know what's happening now some people said that the reason we don't know the name of

00:07:24.840 the third member of the helicopter some are speculating that it's a trans pilot and that

00:07:32.760 that might be somehow connected to the main the main mystery maybe it's a trans maybe the trans was

00:07:40.040 mad uh the trans pilot was mad because uh trump is going to get rid of trans members of the military

00:07:48.360 and maybe it was a like a terrorist attack or maybe it was a suicide that's way too soon way too soon so

00:07:57.000 i'm not going to jump on that bandwagon yet and if i had to guess based on what people have told me

00:08:05.160 in the comments the reason that we don't know the names of all three helicopter pilots is because

00:08:11.160 only the families have told us the first two meaning that there might be one family who just

00:08:18.760 doesn't want to make it public but that doesn't mean there's any bad reason for it just means they

00:08:23.240 don't want to be public the military itself uh apparently has not released any of them now i need

00:08:30.200 to fact check on all of this because the news is so unreliable in this fog of war phase of anything

00:08:38.200 just so unreliable and social media isn't much better or maybe worse i don't even know uh so don't trust

00:08:46.280 anything that's about a specific pilot i would say it's way too fast for that now when trump puts out

00:08:55.800 the dei red meat there was a time when i would have said oh trump that's a mistake too soon too soon but

00:09:05.640 you know i don't feel like that anymore because i think dei is such a critical threat to the country

00:09:11.640 that every time you can bring it up to tell people what a disaster it is now quickly we have to fix it

00:09:19.000 i'm on board with that now of course because politics is politics the slimy and hypocritical democrats

00:09:28.200 decided that trump bringing up dei while the disaster was still sort of in its warm phase

00:09:37.720 that it was too soon and you know it was terrible and he's being a terrible person because he's

00:09:42.360 politicizing a tragedy now am i wrong that the people criticizing him for politicizing a tragedy

00:09:51.480 are also politicizing the tragedy and at the same time am i blind and deaf and stupid because to me it

00:10:01.640 looks like they're doing actively doing the thing they're complaining about it'd be like i'm going to

00:10:08.280 complain about your complaints nobody should be complaining now god i hate it when people complain 0.73

00:10:13.720 um are you doing the thing um are you doing the thing are you doing the complaining about the complaining

00:10:23.960 that's not the high ground the high ground is not complaining about somebody's complaining

00:10:30.040 during the tragedy those are equally political equally political and you know what when the stakes are high

00:10:39.480 and this is life and death because the dei actually could kill people um i'm not i don't have any problem

00:10:48.360 with politicizing the tragedy i don't have any problem with it there are definitely cases where politicizing

00:10:55.320 a tragedy is just wrong because there's no real political element to it but this does have one the the dei question

00:11:03.560 is a yes this is the right question yes we want to know what went wrong yes it's a valid hypothesis and

00:11:12.840 it's not just a valid hypothesis you could put it in the top five right there are at least five different

00:11:20.040 ways we could end up understanding what happened and they might be completely different you know so we

00:11:25.560 don't know how this is going to roll out but if you're not including one of the most obvious

00:11:31.880 baseline causes of any kind of breakdown of any kind of system in the united states

00:11:37.240 well i don't think you're being honest you're not being honest at all now let me be clear i am

00:11:43.640 currently right now as i speak politicizing the tragedy while it's too soon does that make me

00:11:53.080 better or worse than the democrats who are politicizing the strat the tragedy by saying that trump is

00:11:59.640 politicizing the tragedy no we're all equal we're all politicized the strategy or the tragedy the

00:12:09.080 only thing i'll say in my defense is i don't think i'm better than you i don't think i'm better than

00:12:15.400 the democrats i don't think i'm better than trump it's just not in my mind it's not a it's not a contest

00:12:22.600 did did uh what's his name did david axelrod one of the complainers about the complaining um

00:12:33.240 you know does he does he really not think that he's part of the problem and politicizing it

00:12:38.120 of of course he knows he's politicizing it so it's just so dumb when democrats come out with this

00:12:45.000 uh axelrod said trump's trump's craven remarks so let me think have the democrats learned nothing

00:12:55.800 have they learned nothing because didn't they learn all of this last year that if the only thing you

00:13:04.040 have is insults like he is a racist he's a dummy he's craven he's politicizing if that's all you have 0.88

00:13:13.240 did you not learn that that's not enough and that it doesn't work and that maybe you need popular

00:13:21.160 policies for once maybe you should try that common sense thing that's doing so well maybe anyway

00:13:29.080 uh trump had a little interaction with cnn's caitlin collins on the question about the air disaster and

00:13:38.440 uh so caitlin collins uh pressed trump about uh quote blaming democrats and dei for the air crash

00:13:50.040 and so collins says quote don't you think you're getting ahead of the investigation right now

00:13:55.800 and trump says don't think so at all and uh he said i don't think the names of the people

00:14:01.080 uh you mean the names of the people that are on the plane you think that's going to make a difference

00:14:06.200 trump says you think that's going to make a difference i don't know how it would make a

00:14:13.240 difference but it gets better um then caitlin collins said does it comfort their family to hear you

00:14:20.920 blaming dei policies here was trump's answer i think that's not a very smart question

00:14:28.680 there you go that is how you handle a not smart question you got to go after the question

00:14:41.640 and uh you probably heard uh some of you if you watched uh the five yesterday you saw greg

00:14:47.960 gotfeld talking about a good way to answer these dumb questions these these stupid gotcha questions

00:14:53.960 is ask a better question this is trump's version of ask a better question i think that's not a very

00:15:00.760 smart question i love that i love that oh don't you think you're being political that's not a very

00:15:08.600 smart question next question um very very good technique to criticize the question and not answer it by the

00:15:19.400 the way i don't think i don't think the not smart questions deserve answers i think you should say

00:15:25.800 in the interest of everybody's time could you ask a question that's sort of on point and then just run

00:15:32.200 out their time so you might see some you might see some of the uh confirmation people doing that

00:15:37.800 because it's really good cash patel did a version of that he did a version of it by asking for a

00:15:44.760 clarification on um i don't know some rules and i think what he was doing is essentially calling

00:15:52.440 attention to the fact that the questions were ridiculous so i like that let's burn up all their

00:15:59.080 time telling them that their questions are ridiculous because that's the truth i mean that's that's far more

00:16:06.520 on point and useful than simply trying to answer an unanswerable gotcha question anyway so do you

00:16:15.960 think that the democrats have learned anything about their approach that basically it's just yelling at

00:16:21.800 people and calling them names well according to end wokeness there was a recent event looked like a

00:16:28.120 msnbc hosted event in which uh the candidates for the dnc chairmanship so that would be the

00:16:35.960 head of the democratic party at least organizationally head and uh every single candidate i think there

00:16:44.360 were maybe 10 of them or so on stage every one of them uh raised their hand when asked if they thought

00:16:52.520 that uh racism and misogyny were partly to blame for kamala harris losing and they're all like oh yeah

00:16:59.800 oh yeah it was the racism and the misogyny yep that's why kamala harris lost now think about this

00:17:07.640 these are the people who are running to be you know the the guiding strategic heads of the party

00:17:13.880 and every one of them thinks that the problem the reason that kamala harris lost was racism and

00:17:20.600 misogyny they're uh not even close now i'm not saying that racism and misogyny don't exist

00:17:28.600 i'm saying that if she'd been qualified she would have already be president like obama

00:17:35.400 no matter what you want to say about obama politically he's gifted

00:17:40.760 right so if you're good like trump is trump is politically gifted bill clinton was politically gifted

00:17:50.120 we keep watching the politically gifted people win no matter what else they got going for him

00:17:55.160 trump could be a felon but politically gifted so he's your president obama could be the worst 0.54

00:18:01.800 person in the world but politically gifted he's your president kamala harris could have done 1.00

00:18:07.880 everything wrong as long as she was politically gifted as in could talk in public the the female 1.00

00:18:15.320 thing and the minority thing were absolutely an advantage i mean it's the one thing that gets people 0.97

00:18:21.960 to cross over to the other party more than anything i mean obama proved that by winning nearly all the

00:18:28.520 black votes so yeah the fact that kamala harris couldn't turn her gender and her ethnicity into a 1.00

00:18:36.440 plus it shows the weakest political gifts we've seen in a long time so anyway apparently the democrats have

00:18:45.480 learned nothing um so cash patel is going through the confirmation process as is tulsi gabbard as is

00:18:55.960 rfk jr i'm not sure when the votes happen for any of them but it should be soon but uh i'm here the the

00:19:02.120 democrats seem really worried about cash patel and i think the problem is that he's dedicated to find out

00:19:09.960 what's true which looks like an existential threat to a lot of the democrat party um knowing that

00:19:18.600 somebody's going to go for the truth no matter what it costs that would be the scariest thing for

00:19:25.480 the democrats because wow the things we're going to find um cash mentioned uh the fbi lying to the

00:19:33.240 fisa lying to get fisa at you know approvals um how the assassination attempt doesn't appear to be

00:19:42.840 as transparent as you think you should be there's something going on there so we've got lots of

00:19:47.240 questions but remember i always tell you if you only know what happened you don't know anything if you

00:19:54.440 know who is involved well then you might know everything so if i told you that there was a senator

00:20:00.680 who pushed really hard on cash patel because he didn't think he was the right person for the job

00:20:06.280 what would that tell you all right there's a senator who pushed really hard against cash patel

00:20:13.640 because he didn't think he was the right person for the job if only if the only thing you knew is what

00:20:18.200 happened and that's what happened you'd say to yourself huh i guess i would question whether he's

00:20:24.920 the right person i mean there are two sides to every story but if there's a senator i mean

00:20:31.080 a senator that's pretty credible a senator says he's not capable i mean i'd listen to that right

00:20:37.400 and then you find out who the senator is it's adam schiff they only send adam schiff when they need

00:20:45.560 the designated liars now i've told you this before there's a small clump of democrats that only go out

00:20:53.480 to lead the charge when it's complete it's a complete lie the regular the regular democrats will do the

00:21:01.480 small lies and maybe the the political stuff like oh we love we love climate hysteria you know they all

00:21:09.000 do that so those are safe safe political lies but if you need to do somebody something that's just

00:21:16.440 bat shit crazy and the the the most obvious lying that you could ever do you send raskin you send 0.92

00:21:25.160 swalwell you send adam schiff you send um brennan you send clapper and if that doesn't work you get

00:21:34.520 the better the worse than watergate guys because they'll say they'll reliably tell you that whatever

00:21:40.360 the republicans did lately is worse than watergate so if you don't know that there's a designated liar

00:21:48.200 group that they only bring out when there's no they have no truth on their side they just have

00:21:54.280 no argument based on truth they have to just completely make something up adam schiff appears

00:22:01.000 every time every time it's not like they use him once in a while no every time they need to lie

00:22:10.600 more than normal lies he appears it's the same fucking guy if you haven't noticed by now that he's 0.92

00:22:17.400 a designated liar and not like a regular politician indeed i think that's the only reason he gets

00:22:24.120 support i think he's found his niche which is he can do the the serious lying you know not just the

00:22:30.760 routine stuff so he goes after cash which makes me think cash is exactly the right person for the job

00:22:39.560 i'm done with my research if you tell me that adam schiff is trying to derail it he's my man

00:22:47.640 i'm done i honestly i didn't know enough about cash to have much of an opinion beyond you know

00:22:53.800 beyond the vibe i was getting that looked positive to me but as soon as you tell me adam schiff doesn't

00:22:58.920 want him in that job and really really doesn't want him in that job yeah he's my man uh that's the end

00:23:05.960 of my that's the end of my thinking on that topic well tulsi gabbard might be having a hard time with 0.99

00:23:12.760 the confirmation process uh i think the edwards nodon issue might be the thing that uh is a stopper

00:23:20.360 we'll see so i don't know i don't know if people are going to go to the you know all the way to the

00:23:27.880 wall for her i hope they do but uh we'll see i think the democrats might want to feel like they

00:23:35.720 they got a win so they might they might kind of double down at whoever they think there's a little

00:23:41.720 crack in the defense so they might just go hard at tulsi because they would also fear

00:23:47.800 uh any disclosures or honestly that she brought to the job uh and uh i saw a comment from uh

00:23:56.600 tristan levitt on axe who's talking about uh you know how tulsi was put on the uh what's it called

00:24:05.320 the quiet skies program which means that if she tried to travel by air she would get all kinds of

00:24:12.440 extra attention to slow things down and you know might make it hard to even get on your flight so

00:24:18.520 real pain in the ass why do you think she was put on the quiet skies program well according to tristan 0.88

00:24:25.000 levitt um he says so just to be clear the new york times is reporting that tulsi gabbard was subjected

00:24:31.800 to enhanced screening in the quiet skies program because checks notes that's what he wrote checks notes

00:24:40.040 she attended a meeting that mickville that mick mulvaney was in and he invited her to go along to the

00:24:47.560 vatican uh and it was being uh organized by the pope's second in command

00:24:56.360 so she traveled with a well-known american you know political person mick mulvaney um who's legal

00:25:06.520 right he's he's a legal citizen he's a public figure he was chief of staff at one point right

00:25:13.080 for trump this is a well-known public figure and he went to a meeting in the vatican which is one of the

00:25:19.560 most common things that anybody does and uh it was arranged by the pope's second in command

00:25:26.520 that's as up and up as you can get unless i suppose the pope scheduled it himself which doesn't happen

00:25:32.280 and that was it that was that they visited the vatican and that was enough to put her on this

00:25:41.240 program so clearly it was punitive punitive it was using the government as a weapon i don't think

00:25:50.280 there's any other way to see it um she went postal so the thing we don't know just to comment on your

00:26:02.200 comments i'm seeing going by i have not seen confirmation that the pilot unnamed was a trans

00:26:10.680 person i i would say and here's what i'd be afraid of i i worry there's a kraken forming you know a

00:26:18.760 kraken is when you think you found oh i found how the election was was a rigged and then you find out

00:26:25.960 that the thing you know is definitely not true it's called the kraken uh could it be that the bad

00:26:33.000 guys are trying to lure the republicans into saying it's a trans it's a trans so here's what i'm going

00:26:39.960 to tell you it is suspicious that we don't know the third name if that's still true that would be

00:26:46.680 suspicious that does not mean it's a trans pilot it if i had to place a bet i'd bet against it but

00:26:56.600 only 60 40. so i'd say 60 chance it's not trans 40 chance the simulation is giving you a story

00:27:09.240 that is so on point with the times that it's hard to understand that it could be that on point

00:27:16.840 so the whole two on the nose thing i'm gonna i'm gonna wait on this so for two reasons i'm gonna wait

00:27:25.400 because i don't have confirmation so fog of war just makes sense to wait but number two i don't want

00:27:31.240 to be the person who went too hard at dei before i had data like that doesn't make you the winner

00:27:39.080 you know if you go after dei based on a specific incident and you don't even have all the facts yet

00:27:45.880 you're not the winner you're not winning just to be clear about that that is not winning

00:27:51.960 now if it turned out that the the dei element to it is just glaringly obvious and we don't know that

00:28:01.000 we don't know that but if it turned out that it was hard to avoid that being part of the story i'm all in

00:28:09.080 but i'm gonna need a lot more confirmation that what i think i know is what i know

00:28:15.480 or something like that well rfk junior um still going through the process and uh there was a

00:28:25.880 senator uh hoyer and looper i guess or something like that if i have the name right and here's my

00:28:31.320 first question is this just a social media phenomenon or are all the women in the senate 1.00

00:28:40.120 fucking bitches can can somebody tell me is this just social media playing with my head 1.00

00:28:47.560 because they don't really look they seem they seem like they're just screaming shrews

00:28:56.120 and i don't think they always act like that right i would guess that 99 of the time

00:29:03.720 you can't tell the difference between the men and the women they would say the same things have the 0.95

00:29:07.560 the same attitudes same emotional but not this time like the confirmation you're getting a lot of

00:29:15.960 really angry faces to the point where it's easy to make memes of a like hank seth just listening to all

00:29:23.240 that and even the still pictures i don't think you could get a still picture of a man

00:29:29.480 that look like the still pictures of elizabeth warren you know it looks like rabid dog at your at your door

00:29:43.880 what's this

00:29:47.480 i love it when i see in the comments somebody trying to attack me for something they imagined that i thought

00:29:54.680 in the past if you want to attack me and my credibility you should at least talk about something

00:30:02.280 that was real not not something you completely made up

00:30:07.960 you could do better than that all right

00:30:13.160 so i don't know what's happening with the women in in the senate uh it could be a social media thing 1.00

00:30:20.840 meaning that the social media is you know making them look worse than they are because they picked

00:30:26.920 the pictures just right or something but it's hard to it's hard to not notice the pattern

00:30:35.240 anyway um elizabeth warren worried that uh rfk juniors um preference to put the uh the liability on the 0.98

00:30:47.000 manufacturers of the meds the vaccinations in particular could bankrupt them is that a problem

00:30:55.800 is it a problem that our vaccination the the only people who know how to do it they could become

00:31:01.320 bankrupted if we require them to i don't know take the liability well you can see why they're protected

00:31:10.840 like you can understand the argument but there needs to be some kind of penalty

00:31:15.880 and here's what i would throw into the mix i don't know if this is a good idea let me just throw it

00:31:23.640 into the mix i would not want to bankrupt a company because they did something wrong with vaccinations

00:31:33.320 not the company because i don't want to punish the shareholders and i don't want to punish the

00:31:39.400 company employees who didn't have anything to do with the decisions

00:31:42.600 but i would definitely punish the paychecks of the executives so is there a way to hold the bonuses

00:31:51.960 and paychecks of the executives to some kind of performance if you could do that then i would feel

00:32:00.280 that maybe i mean if that process were honest i would feel that maybe the pharma companies would do

00:32:06.920 everything they could do to avoid doing something wrong that hurt people but if it happened anyway

00:32:14.520 which is always a big risk with this kind of science if it happened anyway depending on who

00:32:21.240 made what decisions you know i think you should go after the you know the pay or the compensation of

00:32:27.320 people who made the wrong decisions but do you really want to get rid of the company if the company is

00:32:33.480 one that routinely develops drugs you do want so i'll just throw into the mix bankrupting the companies

00:32:42.040 probably a bad idea but bankrupting the people who make the wrong decisions is more like business as

00:32:50.760 usual so we should do a lot more business as usual and i don't think we have a way to punish any of the

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00:34:05.800 one of the things that time magazine was saying about uh rfk jr and the whole process about uh

00:34:13.320 rfk jr calling the food poison for the processed foods um

00:34:19.720 so according to time magazine jamie ducharme rfk jr is saying that ultra processed foods are poison but

00:34:26.840 he won't ban them um so if you don't want to ban them what would you do label them maybe label them or

00:34:35.400 maybe you ban certain parts like the red dye that got banned maybe you don't ban the food maybe you

00:34:43.400 ban some stuff that gets added to the food that that would be okay with me um however time magazine

00:34:51.720 goes on to point out that some ultra processed foods are actually good for you do you believe that

00:34:58.040 do you believe that some ultra processed foods are good for you you mentioned that cereal is one of the

00:35:04.040 ones that's good for you do you believe that cereal is good for you i don't know anybody who thinks

00:35:09.880 that now i i wouldn't be surprised if there's a study funded by the cereal people that says cereal is

00:35:18.760 good for you but here's my advice don't believe any entity that takes advertising time magazine takes

00:35:28.920 advertising therefore you should not believe anything they say about food quality or pharma

00:35:35.800 because they're not a credible entity if they're getting paid by the very people that you you think

00:35:41.240 they should be criticizing so no don't believe any any platform that takes advertising cannot be

00:35:49.640 somebody who tells you whether the products that advertise the most are good for you or not no no no

00:35:56.440 doesn't matter who it is doesn't matter if it's they're on your team or the other team

00:36:01.320 if they take advertising money don't believe anything they say anything about food or alcohol or

00:36:09.400 or anything that you can buy to put in your body nothing nothing zero it as soon as you let yourself think

00:36:18.120 well sometimes they're right you're lost nope you can't think that way you just have to assume it's all

00:36:25.480 non-credible some of it might be true but you're not going to know what so just treat it all like it's

00:36:32.360 non-credible the biggest surprise i got out of this process is learning that in my opinion bernie

00:36:37.720 sanders is way more corrupt than i knew so he's one of the ones who gets the most money from the

00:36:44.280 pharma industry and is also going the hardest at rfk jr with the worst arguments huh let's see somebody that

00:36:53.560 i respected for you know at least his stick-to-itiveness and his consistency and things like

00:37:00.760 that you know there were things about bernie that i genuinely appreciate i don't think he should have

00:37:05.960 been president but some qualities that you know i could say you know i'm gonna give the same standard

00:37:14.280 i use for trump which is i'm not here to judge everything he's ever done i'm just judging it in the

00:37:20.360 context of doing the job so under that under that theory sanders was additive to the process even

00:37:28.280 though he had different opinions i like the you know i like the exchanges but here's the exchange with

00:37:36.600 kennedy um sanders said will you guarantee to do what every other major country is

00:37:42.840 it's a simple question bobby and then kennedy said the problem of corruption is not just in the

00:37:50.760 federal agencies it's in congress too as he's talking to congress almost all the members of this

00:37:57.240 panel the ones who are asking questions right there are accepting including yourself meaning sanders

00:38:04.520 millions of dollars from the pharmaceutical industry to protect their interests sanders says oh no no no no

00:38:12.120 no no no no let me in case you didn't catch that i'd like to repeat it again bernie sanders said oh no

00:38:21.400 no no no no no no no that's a one two three four five six no's no no no no no no no no no no

00:38:31.560 now that makes sense these are the guys who keep saying answer yes or no apparently that's all they can do

00:38:38.920 the reason i think it's used it's reasonable it's reasonable to answer yes or no to complicated

00:38:43.960 questions is apparently that's how they do it are you influenced by all the vast amount of money that

00:38:51.720 the pharma people give you no no oh no no no no no no no no no no no no no have i mentioned no no no no

00:39:01.080 no no no no no no no no anyway so um sanders said i ran for president like you i got millions and

00:39:10.600 millions of contributions they did not come from the executives not one nickel of pac money from the

00:39:15.960 pharmaceutical industry they came from workers uh and then kennedy said in 2020 you were the single

00:39:23.960 largest recipient of pharma dollars now do you think that sanders is being honest when he says

00:39:33.000 i got it from the employees not from the executives how do you think the employees decided who to give

00:39:40.440 their money to do you think the executives had any influence over where the money went or do you think

00:39:47.320 that the way we record things is if some individual in is is at home and they send in a they send in

00:39:55.800 a payment on their personal checking account and they donate to sanders do you think that gets recorded

00:40:01.320 as a pharma contribution because the person has a job at pharma i could use a fact check on that

00:40:10.520 but my assumption is that would not be shown as a pharma donation am i wrong about that

00:40:18.200 that if it's just an individual donation i mean i've donated i donated to trump did it ask me

00:40:25.880 what kind of job i have no no i just donated so i do believe that um sanders got a lot of

00:40:34.360 small donations from individual people i think you know directionally that's true but how in the world

00:40:40.120 could he be listed as the biggest recipient of uh of pharma money now you might say why would the

00:40:50.840 socialist guy who wants uh health care to be universal and and the government's in charge why why would that

00:40:59.400 guy get money from big pharma well how could you make the most money if you were big pharma

00:41:06.600 i think you could make the most money if a hundred percent of the government

00:41:13.240 if a hundred percent of health care was paid for by the government because that would probably increase

00:41:18.120 by one-third the number of people who use your products and you wouldn't have to worry about

00:41:22.600 whether the government would say yes to your vaccinations because you've already bribed all 0.74

00:41:27.480 the congress people of course they'll say yes so i would think that the most profitable thing

00:41:33.800 for pharma would be some some kind of a single-payer governments in charge of everything

00:41:39.320 health care because that gets a third more people and even if the government negotiates a little on price

00:41:46.440 i think they still come out ahead because they're definitely gonna government's gonna say yeah you

00:41:50.760 got to get these shots yeah these are good because they're paid off so it does make sense

00:41:57.960 that sanders being the one who wants universal health care would get the most money 1.00

00:42:02.200 there's a perfectly straight line reason for that so um my take on this is

00:42:10.200 i didn't realize sanders was this corrupt i'm actually a little bit disappointed

00:42:15.160 a little bit disappointed so yeah uh bernie either back off of rfk jr or

00:42:23.960 i you just get out of this conversation now it also makes sense why he was being so stupid about the 0.52

00:42:29.160 onesie remember that he showed a what he was he was talking to rfk jr at the confirmation hearings

00:42:36.120 he put a visual of a onesie which is basically a baby's one-piece clothing

00:42:42.600 and had the anti-vaccination thing on it and he kept saying do you approve this onesie do you

00:42:48.440 approve it do you approve this message on this onesie now that might be the stupidest thing that 0.84

00:42:53.640 anybody ever said about anything in any public setting and you say to yourself hmm you know even

00:43:00.360 when i don't agree with sanders he's never been that stupid why why would somebody act that stupid 0.76

00:43:07.880 and the reason is you're getting paid nobody would act that stupid accidentally unless they were a

00:43:15.240 stupid person sanders is not a stupid person so when he goes in public and does the stupidest thing

00:43:21.320 you've ever seen and really pushed it really pushed it he didn't just take a casual swipe at it he was

00:43:28.200 yelling do you approve this onesie what about this onesie um that's got to be paid that's got to be

00:43:35.880 pay for play you know indirectly not not that they paid him for his specific statements but indirectly

00:43:43.000 somebody who's taking money from an industry how do you explain that any other way when the smart

00:43:49.160 person acts like a moron aggressively in public there's got to be some other force

00:43:55.480 you didn't suddenly become stupid on one question i don't think

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00:44:15.880 think so um here's what we learned the people were definitely not on the side of america elizabeth warren

00:44:24.280 sanders mcconnell um and here's how i'd like to fix all of this i think that when the tv news shows

00:44:36.120 us a a senator grilling a confirmation or you know a person who's trying to get confirmed that the chyron

00:44:43.720 should always say whenever the politicians on screen how much they got from the industry that's

00:44:50.920 the topic of the day now if you just do that i don't even care that they take the money

00:44:57.800 as long as wherever they go they get tagged with how much they're bought then everybody can see it

00:45:04.440 and then you can make up your own mind but imagine being an unsophisticated viewer of tv and you think

00:45:10.440 that the people who are going after rfk junior are a random a random group of politicians they're not

00:45:18.760 random these are the ones who are taking the most money from the very industry that's that question

00:45:26.120 if you don't know that when when you're watching them talk you're missing the whole thing again

00:45:31.000 if the only thing you know is what happened some senators asked some tough questions you don't know

00:45:36.760 anything if you know who the players are and specifically how much they're getting paid by

00:45:42.440 each industry well then you might know everything i think it's really that simple

00:45:48.760 i guess canada and mexico might face 25 percent tariffs by saturday because of their lack of keeping

00:45:56.360 the borders closed and trump is even thinking of a 10 percent tariff on additional tariff on china

00:46:04.200 because of their failure to do the fentanyl thing now you know i have a personal connection

00:46:12.200 to the fentanyl thing because my stepson died of an overdose in 2018 and so i'm i'm not objective

00:46:21.400 about this topic you know i'm going to just be as honest as i can i cannot find objectivity

00:46:28.200 on this particular topic i try pretty harder than the other stuff but i'm just going to surrender to this

00:46:33.800 one i'm not objective on this question so when i hear that trump is monetizing fentanyl overdoses

00:46:42.680 with a 10 percent tariff i say to myself

00:46:49.400 like i i get why you're trying to put pressure on china and i appreciate it i get that but it just

00:46:56.360 feels like monetizing the death of hundreds of thousands of americans now monetize you know toward

00:47:03.800 the national debt i guess but i don't know it's creepy but i understand it i understand it it is pressure

00:47:15.240 um i've told you how i would handle it i would handle it through embarrassment i i would do something

00:47:22.280 like closing the embassy and i would say look if you're not going to take care of the fentanyl problem

00:47:27.960 right away we can't really have a normal relationship with you and i think that's what we've done wrong

00:47:33.720 up to this point we've acted like we have it's like some kind of normal relationship but oh we have this

00:47:40.760 one problem you know with some details not working out in this one problem fentanyl now fentanyl is not

00:47:47.720 like the other problems if you're intentionally part of the killing of a hundred thousand americans a

00:47:53.720 year close the embassy i want every country to know that china essentially are murderers and you can't 0.99

00:48:01.800 have a normal relationship with them now closing it might cause too many problems for american

00:48:07.080 companies operating over there and of course there would be immediate reciprocity etc but that's the

00:48:14.040 fight i wouldn't mind i wouldn't mind the fight where we're just going to embarrass their management

00:48:19.560 as murderers and uh and just say look that's what you have to deal with and i would also tell american

00:48:27.320 companies that they just can't do business over there anymore they just can't do it now the existing

00:48:33.240 businesses i wouldn't stop them because that's there's too much invested over there but we just have to

00:48:40.760 stop treating china like it's some normal company country when it's killing 100 000 people a year 0.99

00:48:47.320 with the help of the cartels that's not normal that's not normal so i'm not happy treating it that way

00:48:56.440 i saw a great moment where thomas massey was teaching congress how inflation works

00:49:04.040 works and he dunked on jamie raskin in a way that was so um i don't know how to say it perfect it was

00:49:16.360 perfect but it's it's how a smart person dunks on a dumb person so let me tell you the situation you

00:49:24.600 can characterize it yourself so massey's doing a public display where he's got a glass of tea and he adds some

00:49:32.120 regular water to it and he says here you can see that if i added water to it it diluted the tea he

00:49:39.000 said that printing money is just like that if you add money just by printing it then the money that's

00:49:46.040 already there will get diluted and will be worth less just like the tea is worth less because it's

00:49:52.040 full of water now or over diluted so um and then massey further made his point that that's the cause of

00:50:01.480 inflation and not not some weird things like oh just energy is high or oh just something happened

00:50:08.200 with the supply chain oh it's you know there's just a special case oh it's the bird flu you know it

00:50:15.720 seemed like a lot of our individual expenses have some kind of individual reason but he but massey to his

00:50:23.000 point everybody would be affected by printing money and a dilution of cash he said that's why

00:50:32.760 the entire the entire country has higher costs than everything i'll say everything but almost

00:50:39.320 everything um because it affects everything kind of equally now that's pretty good right he's explained

00:50:47.400 how printing money dilutes what you have and how it affects everything and so since it does affect

00:50:53.160 everything that's more evidence of his point there's not a bunch of special cases that's something that

00:50:59.960 has to do with printing money jamie raskin thinks he's got him this is the fun part so raskin who

00:51:09.000 you should know is one of the other designated liars he's one of the ones that you bring out if shifts on

00:51:14.040 vacation ship uh so so raskin says how do you explain that there's inflation in the entire globe

00:51:26.680 gotcha gotcha oh thomas massey thomas massey with your little old mit degree you think you're smart

00:51:35.240 well watch it watch me kneecap you right in front of the whole world yeah oh thomas massey you think

00:51:40.600 that america printing money in america is what's causing our inflation but you know try to explain

00:51:48.360 how all the inflation is going up all over the world thomas massey gotcha gotcha thomas massey

00:51:57.160 coolly looks at raskin and says they all printed money during the pandemic it's all the same

00:52:05.800 they printed money and and and more than that probably the only thing that kept us

00:52:14.200 solvent was that everybody made this same mistake at the same time so our money didn't become worthless

00:52:21.400 compared to other money we all went down with the same mistake and that's why you don't challenge

00:52:31.560 that's why you don't challenge the technical understanding of an mit graduate in public

00:52:40.360 unless you've tested that out that that's sort of the thing you want to test out behind closed doors

00:52:45.080 it's like all right next time they say this watch what i do i'm gonna i'm gonna pull out the how do you

00:52:50.680 explain the other countries thing then somebody would stop you and go ah there is an explanation for the

00:52:56.200 other countries because they all printed money so the fact that raskin thought that you know trying

00:53:04.520 to dunk on massey in public was going to work out i don't think he understands what a thomas massey is

00:53:14.840 let me explain what he is so in in addition to being in congress

00:53:19.480 he's the smart one he's not gonna start you know making a big deal about a topic that he hasn't looked

00:53:28.200 into what do you think he didn't look into it do you think there's something that an m i an mit

00:53:36.360 trained engineer can't master do you think he can't figure out the complexities of printing money

00:53:42.360 he's just the wrong person to challenge on facts and how the facts fit together that how they fit

00:53:51.800 together is the the magic part so yeah i just love that um we've got we got some new economic data

00:54:02.840 i don't know who to blame for it it's too early for trump too late for biden uh but personal income

00:54:08.760 is up a 0.4 which is what people expected but personal spending is up 0.7 hmm why would spending

00:54:17.800 be higher than the raise in income well it could be optimism optimism is one of the reasons you spend

00:54:25.400 more than you have because you think well i'll get more later uh but it could be that people don't

00:54:31.640 have enough money so they're just things are expensive and they they can't live without

00:54:38.040 insurance but insurance went way up so so we don't know that just i'll remind you that all data is fake

00:54:46.600 so who knows well the big banks have uh have uh gone through the usual cycle

00:54:56.040 so here's what the usual cycle is trump blames big banks for debanking conservatives banks laugh at it

00:55:05.720 and say oh no you're crazy we we didn't uh no we what are you what are you talking about we didn't

00:55:15.080 debank any conservatives and then the receipts start coming in uh well yeah you debanked uh these people

00:55:22.680 people and uh here's some more people you debanked and here's some more and here's some more and here's

00:55:28.680 some more and here's some more and then what did the bank say did they say oh my but we didn't even

00:55:35.560 know we did this you know it happened in you know different decisions in different areas and you know

00:55:40.520 now that you pointed out wow wow we really shouldn't have done that uh we apologize we're going to make

00:55:46.920 it up to those people we debanked because in retrospect that looks like a mistake and you're quite

00:55:52.120 right in your criticisms so we'll go forward with this improvement so that didn't happen they went

00:56:01.160 from no we don't debank conservatives then it was proven that they did they went all the way to oh oh

00:56:08.120 you talked about the things that the government makes us do so the the current claim is that the

00:56:15.240 government the biden government in particular uh was putting pressure on them to make sure that they

00:56:20.680 weren't uh allowing uh sketchy gun dealers and people who were in the crypto field but you couldn't

00:56:28.840 tell if it was real or a scam so apparently the fines for having a banking relationship with somebody

00:56:37.240 who the government doesn't think you should have a banking relationship with are pretty extreme so the

00:56:43.000 banks were just covering their asses and now they're going to blame the government for making them

00:56:48.600 debank conservatives so apparently they're more conservatives in the obviously in the gun dealer

00:56:54.760 space um but yeah so it starts with it's not happening and then it goes to we had to do it because

00:57:03.880 the government made us do it i don't know what's the step after that go back to it didn't happen

00:57:10.040 oh banks you better do better when i found out my friend got a great deal on a wool coat from

00:57:18.280 winners i started wondering is every fabulous item i see from winners like that woman over there with 1.00

00:57:25.080 the designer jeans are those from winners ooh are those beautiful gold earrings did she pay full price

00:57:31.640 or that leather tote or that cashmere sweater or those knee-high boots that dress that jacket those shoes is

00:57:38.200 anyone paying full price for anything stop wondering start winning winners find fabulous for less

00:57:46.680 um trump is doing a terrific job of explaining birthright citizenship by simply saying it was intended

00:57:54.120 for children of slaves it was intended for the slaves themselves not just their children but his point is

00:58:01.400 good you know i think limiting it to the children is you know directionally it's in the right direction now

00:58:10.600 i'm no supreme court person but i think i think trump's argument might fly in the supreme court

00:58:21.080 on one hand it says very clearly that anybody born here seems to be a citizen but the

00:58:28.120 jurisdiction they're under part because that's part of it you know you have to be under the jurisdiction

00:58:34.200 of the laws of the united states or under the jurisdiction of the united states so there's

00:58:38.280 some argument that if you're not here legally you are not fully under the jurisdiction obviously

00:58:46.600 the law would apply to you still but you're not under the jurisdiction so so the argument would be that

00:58:52.760 over that word jurisdiction and since the original purpose of it was for slaves and children of slaves

00:59:02.360 i think the originalists on the court are going to agree that there's a reason no country in the world

00:59:08.840 does it the way we do it and it was never intended to be widened to apply to everybody so if i had to

00:59:16.680 predict i think he's going to win this and i think he's going to win it in the supreme court the

00:59:23.320 the only thing i can imagine the supreme court doing that wouldn't be just a clean win

00:59:30.280 uh would be to say this one's too important you just have to get the country to revise the constitution

00:59:38.600 so they might want to say we don't change the precedent because we've treated it like

00:59:42.920 like like it meant to everybody for a long time so we'll see um

00:59:51.480 hmm why did i write that down

00:59:55.960 so doge uh claims uh according to elon musk has saved over a billion dollars on just canceling

01:00:03.560 dei programs alone and uh musk also said that the reducing the federal deficit from two trillion a

01:00:15.160 year to one trillion would require cutting four billion a day in projected 2026 spending from now

01:00:22.440 until september so cutting four billion a day i don't know if that's doable i mean that's a pretty big

01:00:31.000 ask but here's my problem our federal deficit isn't two trillion dollars isn't our federal deficit

01:00:41.960 um or maybe i i might be conflating the annual deficit with the total amount of debt

01:00:50.920 but we're adding a trillion dollars every

01:00:55.160 if we're if we're adding a trillion dollars every hundred days

01:00:58.440 and mark andreessen points out that that number will start to escalate

01:01:02.520 you know in a straight line up so adding a trillion dollars in debt every hundred days

01:01:08.600 as andreessen points out very soon becomes every 90 days and then very soon becomes every 60 days

01:01:17.000 and right around there you have hyperinflation and essentially the end of your economy

01:01:22.120 economy so does elon have the numbers wrong or do i because we're off by trillions trillions

01:01:34.200 my understanding of the problem is trillions different from how elon is explaining it because

01:01:41.160 he's acting he he's communicating as though cutting a trillion out of our expenses

01:01:47.080 would get us down to a trillion dollar problem but we could grow out of that

01:01:54.520 i i don't know i like his optimism and it seems dumb to bet against him right can we all agree that

01:02:01.080 betting against elon musk especially when a calculation is involved

01:02:07.400 would be just about the dumbest thing you could do so i'm going to say there's a mystery

01:02:12.200 why is it true that we're adding a trillion dollars every 100 days but also true that if we solve

01:02:20.280 only one of those trillions that we can grow out of the rest so i have a real problem understanding

01:02:30.520 why i'm off by 50 trillion dollars because if we're adding you know if we get to the point we're adding

01:02:37.880 a trillion every month or so you know we're adding 12 trillion a year and then that will by the next

01:02:44.440 year it's going to be 100 trillion a year so i don't understand the numbers and i should i mean i do

01:02:52.920 have enough i have enough background that i should understand it i don't know why i don't

01:03:00.840 well y combinator announced that that the startups they're looking for because they're a incubation group

01:03:07.320 where they they fund and um they uh let's say nurture startups so they announced uh what they're

01:03:15.480 looking for is a lot of ai products that would replace 100 000 per year functions now that's uh

01:03:22.600 that's a take by greg eisenberg so that's not what y combinator says directly that's his take on it

01:03:29.320 um and and he shows he shows uh y combinator's document of what they're looking for and it does look

01:03:36.520 like they want startups that can greatly reduce employment by adding ai to companies now on one

01:03:44.760 hand that sounds really dangerous to employment in the future of the country on the other hand

01:03:51.640 it's the only way that you can survive you have to cannibalize your existing industry

01:03:57.480 as hard as you can or you become europe right so as dangerous as it sounds for you know at least most

01:04:08.280 the storied incubator of startups as dangerous as it sounds that they're targeting jobs

01:04:13.320 and they're pretty direct about it it's the only way to survive there's no second way to do this

01:04:21.640 if you say we're going to keep the jobs even if the technology would allow us to get rid of them

01:04:27.640 that's a death trap you don't you don't survive that you end up being you know overtaken by whoever is

01:04:34.840 not going to do what what you just said you'd do which is protect the jobs over over the growth and

01:04:41.080 evolution of the industry so you have to do it but here are some things that jump out of me

01:04:51.000 i don't know if the real world is going to give them what they need

01:04:54.680 all right so i'm going to put the the dilbert filter on y combinator and it seems to me that at the

01:05:03.480 moment you're always going to need one full-time staff member to manage the ai they replaced one

01:05:12.440 full-time staff member am i wrong you're going to need one full-time ai person to replace anything

01:05:23.560 because i've thought about doing it for my own operation there's a whole bunch of stuff i do

01:05:28.920 that um in theory ai could do but it would require a constant monitoring and tweaking and you know

01:05:37.560 checking and it would require me to hire somebody to sit and watch the ai to make sure it was working

01:05:46.040 and to continually change it and upgrade it now that's just one person that's just my operation

01:05:52.360 but i don't see a way to reduce anything i do see maybe some awesome things i could add to

01:05:58.840 you know my content or add to making the dilbert comics more easily searchable stuff like that but

01:06:05.800 every one of them requires me to add a staff now is there something that's different about big companies

01:06:12.920 so let's say you've got um let me let me take one example from my personal experience

01:06:17.560 i suppose instead of a finance and budget guy which is what i used to be for a big bank and then a

01:06:24.920 phone company um suppose they say hey budgets budgets are the easiest thing to do all right so we'll

01:06:33.080 get rid of the budget guy because it's just math and spreadsheets we'll just have the ai do

01:06:37.400 um and then what about the forecasts so it's not just collecting the budget like i would do forecasts

01:06:45.160 if we invest in this you know this is better if we lease it than if we buy it that sort of thing

01:06:50.520 well again again the ai could do forecasts so could my old job be replaced because it was just math

01:07:01.720 and the answer is oh you've never worked in the real world have you if you think there's any possibility

01:07:08.600 that that job could be replaced by a computer you don't really know what that job was let me explain

01:07:15.560 what that job really was that job is about lying on behalf of your boss it's a lying job you can't hire

01:07:25.640 an ai to lie it just won't work out so the boss says choose the assumptions so that i get you know the

01:07:33.800 laboratory i want to build choose the assumptions so we get get this new technology because we're

01:07:39.720 going to do it anyway but we have to make the numbers work it's a lying job and i was very aware

01:07:46.120 of it when i did it i was completely aware of it now but what about marketing marketing what about

01:07:54.680 marketing oh no that's okay marketing so ai can create images it can test marketing it can it can

01:08:03.240 post things it can it can go on social media it can create ads it can even negotiate with whoever

01:08:09.960 it needs to to pay for the ads it can stay on budget wow i guess you can replace marketing with ai

01:08:19.560 nope do you know why because marketing is a lying job it's a lying job ai won't do that

01:08:28.360 you can't get it to lie and then also cover up the lie and protect everybody marketing is a lying

01:08:36.440 job but what about sales right sales is mostly describing your product answering questions

01:08:43.640 negotiating price figuring out where the money goes delivery really just really such basic things

01:08:51.160 so ai could do that right ai can call people it can follow up on things it can answer questions

01:08:58.280 it can tell you how your products better than the others right no you know why because sales are

01:09:07.160 oh you're way ahead of me aren't you sales is a lying job it's mostly driven by lying and the ai won't do that

01:09:16.680 so let's see finance is lying marketing is lying sales is lying but at least we have hr

01:09:31.240 do i need to do hr hr is just bullshit hey i can't do bullshit the reason that we have so many people 0.86

01:09:41.320 working in big companies is because they're working in big companies is because they're all professional

01:09:44.440 fucking liars if you didn't know that you've never read a dilbert comic because that's pretty much the 0.91

01:09:50.440 whole theme no you can't replace liars with honest ai and if the ai is a liar it can't do anything

01:10:01.800 there there there is a logical there's a logical firewall that should stop almost everybody from

01:10:11.240 replacing their staff of liars it just won't work and and the other thing that ai doesn't do is come

01:10:18.360 up with new innovative you know out of the box anything so pretty much every breakthrough that a

01:10:26.600 company ever had was because there was that one employee who was willing to take a risk and think

01:10:32.920 outside the box and do all that the ai can't do that ever right so the the things that humans do

01:10:41.640 are just not really replaceable by ai because the humans will do the wet work they'll do the dirty stuff 0.98

01:10:50.520 and if you train the ai to do the the dirty stuff well then you've got a brand new problem that's the

01:10:56.200 biggest problem in the whole freaking world you got this out of control ai with too much power

01:11:03.240 so anyway i i'm really skeptical about the job part i will however say so you don't come back to me

01:11:11.160 later and say but scott that entire industry was replaced by one ai there will be some of that there

01:11:18.120 will definitely be some of that what i don't see happening is some big multinational corporation

01:11:24.680 you know just vastly getting rid of people they might get rid of a pocket i can imagine if

01:11:32.120 telemarketers i can imagine if telemarketers or something like that or you know maybe help desks

01:11:39.160 i could see those maybe being um and automated because you don't really expect the tech support

01:11:45.240 guys to be liars right not really i mean if if you've told your tech support to lie

01:11:52.360 you're probably not doing it right so there will be some pockets but i don't i don't think it's going

01:11:58.280 to be transformative and not as quick as people say meanwhile on the save the whales update you know

01:12:05.320 the big wind turbines offshore were killing whales uh did you know that the danish wind giant or stud

01:12:13.000 or stead um is one of the big ones uh offshore for the united states i guess on america's east coast

01:12:20.680 now what are the odds that a danish company would be involved in this story

01:12:25.640 so see we've got denmark that's uh allowing russia to rebuild nordstrom too that was this week we've

01:12:35.800 got denmark uh saying that we the united states can't buy greenland but we really want to and now

01:12:43.080 denmark is uh replaced the ceo of their giant giant uh wind giant orsted because the shares were down 83

01:12:53.160 percent um largely on um the whale killing bad press and trump trump coming down hard on that industry

01:13:03.800 so that industry is in real trouble um but it's good for whales michael schellenberger has done a great

01:13:11.400 job reporting on this this whole situation by the way the thing that schellenberger does

01:13:16.440 that makes him special and i would say a national asset at this point um above reporting you know you

01:13:25.320 can be like the best reporter and you're still not michael schellenberger schellenberger is the best

01:13:32.200 reporter but he's got such an extra gear that it's almost a different thing so he knows everything

01:13:42.200 about you know the whole wind industry but he's also been involved in saving whales so how many people

01:13:49.720 could be an expert on those two things which are in the same story i mean that's very rare if you look

01:13:56.120 at schellenberger's talent stack it's everything from nuclear to whales to energy to you know he can

01:14:04.440 understand the economics of stuff the the political problems i mean that's a talent stack so you don't get

01:14:11.880 that from regular reporters reporter might know one thing oh i used to be an economist but now i'm a

01:14:18.280 reporter i know i know one thing in writing schellenberger knows a lot of things and so he can give context to

01:14:27.080 everything it's amazing speaking of other um other people who are important and have great opinions mark

01:14:37.160 andreason um you might get tired of me saying that he's awesome but every time he's in public he says

01:14:43.000 something awesome because he's so good at communicating and so good at understanding the

01:14:49.560 complexities of things that you and i don't see live so he can untangle what's happening in silicon valley

01:14:57.080 for example and he's got a piece in the new york times in which he's describing why big tech

01:15:03.960 uh ended up leaning toward trump and i will try to summarize it by saying that big tech was less

01:15:13.240 political and more about big tech and if you're in the tech space you want fewer regulations you want

01:15:21.320 lower taxes and you want the activists to get out of your way so trump was about lower taxes less

01:15:28.760 regulations and and you know get the activists out of your way so it shouldn't be a huge surprise

01:15:36.840 that at least the transactional smartest let's get business done people in silicon valley said hey

01:15:44.600 there's one of us you know even if you don't want to identify with him you can understand that

01:15:49.400 he's a business person who wants lower taxes less regulations you know fewer activists in the way

01:15:55.720 so that does make sense however i would add to that that the fine people hoax was super instrumental

01:16:05.000 in getting some of the biggest names to say hey wait a minute have we been living under this

01:16:11.000 brainwashing regime and the answer was yes we were very much living under a brainwashing regime

01:16:16.760 and once the fine people hoax crumbled the tentpole hoax the others became more obvious the other

01:16:23.400 hoaxes so i think that's a big part of it and i also think that male energy is a big part of it

01:16:29.560 silicon valley heavily male biased uh trump attractive to males because of the male energy of it so i think the

01:16:39.640 male energy was also a sub story so there are a lot of reasons trump was good on policy uh but he had male

01:16:48.440 energy and uh people escaped on their own from the well with a little help they escaped from the hoaxes

01:16:56.120 so there were a number of reasons all good ones um

01:17:06.280 there's a story that uh gen z seeks safety above all else

01:17:12.840 um and that according to the conversation that's a that's a uh a what is the conversation must be some

01:17:22.360 online entity um so a bunch of kids were asked in a survey 1600 kids were asked in the survey about

01:17:31.320 what they rate as most important of 14 personal goals so the things they asked them were you know

01:17:36.760 what's most important being popular having fun being kind i assume it was stuff like making money

01:17:43.400 you know so they got to say what's the most important thing they worried about guess what was

01:17:48.200 number one we're talking about gen z specifically the number one thing that gen z is concerned about

01:17:56.440 number one guess you cannot guess the answer is to be safe to be safe now

01:18:09.480 i remember when i was a kid the only thing i really worried about was nuclear war or getting

01:18:15.640 drafted to go to vietnam i wasn't super worried about anything else i figured i could make everything

01:18:23.160 else work but i couldn't really handle i mean i didn't have any control over nuclear weapons

01:18:29.160 i didn't have any control over when the vietnam war ended as luck would have it it ended just in time

01:18:35.560 i was very close very close to being um i think i was a one or two years away from being draft age

01:18:48.440 when it ended so i mean that's as close as you can get that was close but uh yeah gen z is worried

01:18:55.800 about safety and i think that makes sense when you look at the social media and news

01:19:01.240 um networks because it all looks like everything's to scare you and if you're gen z you don't know that

01:19:07.560 all of it is fake so i try to put myself in the position of a young person today if i believed that

01:19:15.480 climate change was an existential risk the way it is that would be so scary i just wouldn't have children

01:19:25.800 because of climate change now i i could see how the gen z people are scared to death they're literally

01:19:32.840 trained that their world will end before they become parents so of course they're not gonna have kids

01:19:39.960 but apparently the problem is maybe even bigger in china so i was reading today um something about

01:19:47.400 the young people in china who are just saying that having children makes no sense at all

01:19:55.240 like it's not even a goal for the majority of young people imagine the majority of young people in any

01:20:02.600 country thinking that children are a bad idea because it limits it limits your life so much

01:20:09.640 uh that's that's sort of an existential threat i mean that's a big one so if if the debt doesn't kill us

01:20:20.200 the lack of birth rate will do it i think china's got a bigger problem because they've created a system 0.68

01:20:28.920 where the young people say why would i raise somebody in this system the united states hasn't done that

01:20:33.720 if you told me you know you're gonna have a kid and and i know i know people who are currently in the mode of

01:20:42.120 having them or about to have them or just had one and i just feel happy for them

01:20:46.120 i will tell oh this is all good news more kids yes more kids so that might be the defining difference

01:20:55.720 that allows america to stay somewhere on top and china to be in big trouble that we may have created

01:21:03.720 a system where people are willing to have a child that's gonna be a big deal even with all the robots

01:21:10.280 coming online um and the robots are coming online now the good thing about the confirmation hearings

01:21:18.920 is that apparently it seems to have ended the newest hoax i did not expect that the elon gave a hitler

01:21:28.760 salute would be as strong as the fine people hoax but it is they just replaced the fine people hoax

01:21:36.040 with the hitler's salute hoax and they're selling it exactly the same way by showing you part of the

01:21:42.440 video instead of the whole video where you see that you know he touched his heart and said my heart

01:21:47.160 goes out to you which was the the physical act and i can't believe how easily the democrats are fooled

01:21:58.760 unbelievable i was talking to my uh who i call my smartest democrat friend um just by email the other day and

01:22:10.920 of course i found that we couldn't have any kind of productive conversation

01:22:15.720 because if you make any point you get a fire hose of accusations about what your team did

01:22:22.680 and then you can't really argue that because it's like 10 accusations and you know what do you do with

01:22:28.040 that so um i've created the standard which says i won't have a conversation with you about politics

01:22:36.200 unless you know that the fine people hoax was a hoax because if you do know it

01:22:41.640 then i can help you see all the other hoaxes if you insist that that's true despite the fact that

01:22:50.200 it's the most debunked hoax in american history and even snopes says it didn't happen

01:22:55.320 if you still insist it's true no conversation is worth having not at all and so i told my friend you know

01:23:03.560 i have to be honest if we if you can't get past this one hoax there's nothing else we can talk about

01:23:11.480 because you're gonna if you start with trump is hitler and you're basing it on these fake news stories

01:23:19.640 then everything you see is going to be with the hitler goggles and i can't spend my time de-hitlerizing

01:23:25.480 people first of all it's impossible and second of all i don't want to spend my time that way

01:23:32.040 so let me just say um if you're a person who believes that raising your hand above your

01:23:39.720 waist is a hitler salute you're a freaking idiot i have it having a conversation about it the details 0.91

01:23:49.480 of it is so unnecessary here's why you don't have to see the whole video and you don't have to read

01:23:56.760 anybody's mind you just have to ask yourself did one of the smartest people in the world

01:24:03.480 who was winning everything at that point like getting everything he wanted trump got elected

01:24:09.000 would he go on stage and give a hitler salute you don't have to ask any other questions 0.91

01:24:16.520 if you think that really happened in the real world you're a fucking idiot

01:24:21.320 and if you say but but scott uh i saw it with my own eyes then i would say you're a

01:24:29.080 fucking idiot if that's what you think you saw but but but all the reasons all the reasons 0.97

01:24:36.120 no you're a fucking idiot so we can't let people argue whether that was 0.97

01:24:42.680 or was not something that is so stupid so stupid that is it's not worth discussing in detail 0.54

01:24:52.600 you just have to be a fucking idiot to think that that happened it's the same with the fine people

01:24:59.240 oaks if you think the president of the united states got on stage and intentionally and more than once

01:25:06.760 praised nazis in public you're a fucking idiot but but i saw the video you're a fucking idiot but but 0.99

01:25:16.680 but all the reasons you're a fucking idiot we're not going to have the the conversation of how badly 0.99

01:25:23.800 you are stupid right if you think you're talking about whether the fine people thing happened or the 0.63

01:25:29.720 salute happened we're not in that conversation now you explain to me how you could say something so

01:25:35.720 stupid and still make it to work like how in the world do you even get food in your body if you're 0.88

01:25:41.080 that fucking stupid if you think anybody did those things in public because your news told you because 0.95

01:25:47.480 your news told you then you're fucking stupid we don't have that conversation it's just a waste of time 0.97

01:25:58.920 now um let me push back i'm seeing in the comments just show them all the times that other

01:26:04.040 people use the salute no no no no don't do that that's what i'm saying is a mistake if you enter

01:26:12.760 their frame you're talking about whether or not it's possible that that happened it's not possible

01:26:20.440 you don't have to enter the frame you don't have to show them that other people raise their hands

01:26:25.080 sometimes you don't have to show them that everybody gets accused of it you don't have to

01:26:29.880 show them that they're hypocrites no no don't get in the weeds you're a fucking idiot if you believe 0.93

01:26:36.120 that but i saw it i saw it no you're a fucking idiot as soon as you say the democrats do it too 0.98

01:26:44.600 you're in you're in their frame don't get in their frame stay out of their frame because as soon as they

01:26:52.280 suck you in then you're wrestling with the pig and that's what they want they want you to wrestle with

01:26:58.680 the pig you should say no wrestling with a pig is fucking stupid so you could wrestle all day but i'm 0.99

01:27:09.080 not going to have a conversation about whether somebody praised nazis in public because we both

01:27:14.360 know that didn't happen all right does that make sense that's your persuasion tip of the day don't

01:27:24.040 enter their frame and mock them for being in it you can mock them for even being in that frame that

01:27:32.040 that would be a good technique and it's similar to the mocking the questioner when trump says that's

01:27:38.520 a really dumb question good technique good technique he didn't enter her frame you see

01:27:46.360 you see trump didn't enter the frame the frame was was it a good idea or a bad idea to talk about dei

01:27:53.160 while the tragedy is still you know top of our mind he didn't enter the frame he just said that's a

01:27:59.640 dumb question perfect all right that's all i got for you um i'll talk to the locals people privately for

01:28:07.880 a minute my beloved and the rest of you i'll see you tomorrow thanks for joining on youtube and rumble and x

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Real Coffee with Scott Adams - January 31, 2025

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