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In this episode of Coffee with Scott Adams, we talk about the lack of a democracy, video games and telepathy, and the concept of 'backwards science' and why video games lead to faster decision making and execution.
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exceptional excelsior you know who says that excelsior
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stan lee used to say that you know i don't know about you this is kind of weird just start off
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with something weird but ever since trump stole my democracy everything seems exactly the same
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i'm trying to figure out what's going on because i know my democracy is gone but i wake up and
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everything looks a lot like it used to look what am i supposed to be experiencing should i be losing
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my right to vote could it be some bodily autonomy i lost i don't remember losing any well it's quite the
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tragedy having no democracy but so far i'm struggling through i hope the rest of you are making it
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up are you guys all are you all surviving your complete lack of democracy
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uh let's call this backwards science backwards science according to medical express news
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and a study at the university of sheffield sean bardon is writing there's this video game
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called counter-strike i've never heard of it but apparently it's a very popular video game
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it's a first person shooter kind of a game yeah what they found was
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the scientists found at the university school of psychology
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uh that the experienced and highly skilled players of that game uh are faster at decision making and
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executing a response so they speculate that maybe if you got people to play more video games
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they would also become uh faster decision makers and faster executing response
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does that sound right not to me to me that sounds like backwards science backwards science
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well let me put it this way when i was 12 years old uh i tried playing football you know because
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everybody plays every sport when you're your boy and i very quickly realized that football would not be my
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strength that no matter how much i practiced the football i was never really going to be a great
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football player didn't really have the body or the brain for it luckily so i didn't get any brain damage
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but at also about 12 years old i played tennis for the first time with uh i think with my mother
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with a couple of rackets that we bought at sears that were already strung
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back back before i knew that stringing the racket right made a difference and the moment i started
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hitting a tennis ball i said to myself huh i don't know might be in my imagination but it seems like i
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could be kind of good at this because my hand-eye coordination was good and and so for the rest of
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my entire life until recently i was a tennis player and sure enough i was you know for somebody who
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just plays on weekends and you know is a casual player i i got to a pretty high level for a casual
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player and so here's what i discovered people do more of what they like and what they're good at
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and the thing that makes you like something is being extra good at it nobody likes to lose if you sat me
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down in front of this shooter game and i knew it in five minutes that i would never really be good at
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it because i didn't have fast reactions i wouldn't play again it would bore me i'd be like oh well lost
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again lost again but if i sat down and right away i said oh i feel like i can be good at this then i would
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play it a lot until i found out i wasn't good at it perhaps so i think the science is backwards here i
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think the people who are who just naturally have fast decision making and execution are drawn to
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video games what do you think which way do you think it works i will use my telepathy to hear your
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well yesterday i did a little post it was based on an encounter i had with uh an individual who saw
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me walking by and flagged me down and want to talk about politics i may have mentioned this to some of
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you and here's the post i wrote after that encounter now the reason i'm reading it to you is that in one
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day it has garnered 24 million views it's going up something like a million views an hour now for
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reference a typical post of mine might get 70 000 views 24 million doesn't happen unless you know
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elon musk reposts it which he didn't so i couldn't find any big accounts to repost it it looks like this
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just has some kind of a nerve with people that they all understood it and that's the point i'm going to
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go for so here's what i posted yesterday they got 24 million views so far i said i just met someone
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um i said today i learned that being a democrat requires talking over anyone who knows what is
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real i just met someone who is sure hunter's laptop is fake trump was never shot in the ear and there is
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no evidence hunter was running a criminal operation i didn't make a dent now why would 24 million people
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agree with that because you think well that's just that one person right there's just one person who
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talked over me no it's because every one of you had the same experience multiple times as soon as you
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start a conversation about trump you get really angry loud yelling over whatever you're saying
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so here's an example uh there's no way he got shot in the air and i'd say well actually i know somebody
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personally who saw him soon after the event and he actually took the bandage off and showed the hole in
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his ear and he said no it didn't happen i go no what i'm saying is somebody i know very well personally
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personally told me that trump showed him his ear and that there was a hole in it ah but where'd all
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the bullets go if if he had if there were really bullets where'd all the other bullets go and i said
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well one of them went into the body of a guy who died ah rah and then changed the topic
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but not once did he think oh maybe i got that wrong so yeah and he thought the hunter laptop was
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definitely fake oh my god of course that was fake and he thought that uh there was no evidence hunter was
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running a criminal operation and i said you know there's no other reason to have 20 shell companies
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that don't have any physical location and no form of business and yet he's like yeah but there's no
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evidence no evidence i said but you know that they've tracked the actual payments through bank accounts
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all the way into joe biden's pocket right bah bah bah talk over talk over so it was just impossible
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it was literally impossible to get through now my main point is not that there's one person who had
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a you know who had this point of view or this this approach my point is have you ever noticed
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if you've been around addicts or especially alcoholics that there's something they have in common
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you ever notice that and people who are on certain kind of medications have you noticed that they can
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they can form a common kind of personality the the commonality of this the fact that so many people
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uh are having a very specific weird uh character situation i i don't know what i wouldn't call it
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character it's more like behavioral so that people are having this very specific behavioral change
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that they can't listen and they have to talk over you really loudly that is an indication of brainwashing
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the the way you know that there's an external force that's operating on a bunch of people in the same
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way is that they have this very specific kind of reaction to it that's a real big tell and so in the
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same way that um you've probably heard the is said that all addicts lie you've ever heard that
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if you haven't heard it you could be really happy i told you because sooner or later you're going to
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run into an addict who lies and even the addicts will tell you even the addicts will tell you yeah
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you know if we have to we're gonna lie so that's a very specific behavioral thing right and it's
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because there's this very specific force that is affecting the same people in the same way so yes it
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is brainwashing there's absolutely no doubt about it in my opinion there's no doubt about it it's
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a brainwashing effect meanwhile eric nolan writing for a side post says there's a new study on despair
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and how it affects voter turnout you'll be very surprised to hear that people who are suicidal and
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in despair are less likely to vote huh well surprising you know what they could have done to
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save some time and money they could have just asked me scott do people who are experiencing despair
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are they motivated to do really anything and i would say no despair really does not motivate you
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doesn't motivate you to vote doesn't motivate you to get a promotion doesn't motivate you to work harder
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doesn't motivate you to get married despair doesn't motivate you to do anything just ask me next
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time i could do this save you a lot of time and money well there's a breakthrough battery circuit
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design for tiny little uh drones according to interesting engineering now the reason i like to mention
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all the battery stuff for drones is because it lets you predict the future if you know what's happening
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with batteries in all kinds of ways that will tell you absolutely what the next 20 or 30 years look
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like and if you wondered will there ever be tiny little drones that are the size of a fingernail
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and the answer is now there will that this this specific breakthrough is for tiny drones micro drones
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and researchers at uh university of california san diego and cea letty whatever that is they've got a
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novel circuit design that makes the power last a lot longer for a micro drone a lot longer so it's a big
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it's a big deal one of the examples they gave is if a building crumbles and they want to find survivors
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there might not be enough room for a regular drone to be flying through and but the micro drones could
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just sort of fill all the spaces and look for survivors and sense things now that's the good news
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the bad news is somebody can send a micro drone right into your house that that thing could be flying
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around in your house all you know for an hour and you wouldn't even probably hear it because it's a micro
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drone so the privacy implications are pretty extreme pretty extreme
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robbie starbuck is writing that so there's there's a program in the united states called the snap
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program it's for providing money for food groceries for people who need a little extra help and robbie
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starbuck is pointing out that the snap program spends 115 billion dollars a year
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but about 10 of it goes to soda so people can buy what they want i guess within within limits it's
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got to be food or drink but a lot of people are buying coca-cola and pepsi so big soda is getting
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nearly 11.5 billion dollars a year just from the government's program on what to you know helping
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people buy food and beverages now um so i think they're looking to you know i think there might
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be some effort to scale that back so you can't buy food that's bad for you but here's the problem
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on paper this was always going to go that way because soda is addictive so if you add the addictive
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nature of soda and i know this because i was very addicted to diet coke for you know decades it took
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me a long time to get off it if you have an addictive substance in a grocery store and you
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give people free money that they can use in the way they want in the grocery store they're gonna buy
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the addictive substance there's no way around that so if you didn't prevent that from the start
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who who couldn't see that coming like who in the world couldn't now on the other hand you don't
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want to be a the nanny state and tell people what they can and cannot have but i would think that the
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exception would be what they can have with my money if they're spending their own money do whatever you
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want get the soda but if you're spending my money well maybe i don't want you to have the soda
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going to order all the biden era attorneys u.s attorneys to be fired because he's got he says we
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must clean house immediately fox news is reporting uh and he says the justice department has been
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weaponized and politicized against him you know given the degree of obvious lawfare that we saw
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i'm a hundred percent in favor of this in a more functional world where you could depend on attorneys
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to just do the job of attorneys and not be political i would be totally against it but the
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attorneys not all of them of course but enough of the attorneys have shown that
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they're not really playing for anything but a team they have to go and if the best you can do is
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replace them with your own cronies who will then of course be fired in three and a half years four
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years uh it's the best you can do so yeah i'm in favor of that well meanwhile let's talk about trump's
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negotiating skills this is my favorite topic the reason i like it is that it reminds me how many
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people don't know how to negotiate um i did negotiating for a job back in my corporate days
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it was my job to negotiate contracts and of course i studied hypnosis and persuasion and stuff so i have
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a unique insight into it but so it's fun to watch trump work so right now there's a team of
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i guess americans talking to a team of russians about what to do about ukraine now what do you
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think is going to come out of that let me tell you what's going to come out of it absolutely nothing
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absolutely nothing so is that bad news is it bad news that this team of people are probably going to
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work for who knows how long yeah they're in saudi arabia now and nothing will get done so that's all bad
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right nope nope if you understand negotiating there's there's a thing that's happening i call
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it softening up the room once you get uh russia and most of the united states and europe and everybody
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else to think that there's no way to get a deal when it's absolutely impossible that's when trump comes in
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because trump's the only one who could get both sides to give something up nobody else could do
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that the the people who are the underlings have orders from whoever sent them don't give up anything
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of course you think putin told his team all right if you have to give this up no he didn't he said don't
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give anything up and what did trump tell his team okay if you have to you know you can back off on it no
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he didn't say that he said you can't give him anything you tell him what you want and that's
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it and then you see if he can get it now how in the world is that going to work underlings cannot
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negotiate because the underlings can't make the tough decisions that's why they're the underlings
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so what you're trying to do is exhaust each other you you want to reach the point of oh this is
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actually impossible it looks like it's forever war oh god you know we really really wanted this to
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end but it doesn't look like there's any path there's just no way we can get there and then
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trump calls putin and trump and putin say all right here's the deal we're not going to get anywhere
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unless we both give up a little something here's what i need you to give up maybe he says what he needs
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you to give up and then they make a deal but you have to exhaust everybody and make it look impossible
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before the the real people come in and make a deal now what the negotiators could do
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is and maybe this is useful they could find out maybe what's completely off the table
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and maybe they can't even find that out but they might they might at least raise some new ideas
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maybe maybe something come up that nobody said before so trump and putin will both be a little
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bit better informed about what looks practical and possible by the time they talk but nothing's
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going to happen nothing's going to happen until the two of them talk that's the only negotiating
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everything else is theater and exhaustion and and what i call softening the room so softening the room
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is a negotiating tactic um this i used to write about this when when i was in the corporate world
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going to a meeting and everybody's got an idea about what it is we should do and the ideas are not
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that good and they argue and they argue and they argue if i had a better idea in my own opinion i'd wait
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until the last 10 minutes that the that we have the room scheduled for and then after everybody's so
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frustrated that they can't get anything done that's when i drop my idea go you know you could do this
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and everybody's so exhausted and they don't want to talk about it anymore they just want to be done
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in 10 minutes they've got some other meeting to go to and everybody will look at me and say well that
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might work the number of times i did that the last 10 minute strategy it's called softening the room
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i just wait till the room and soften up and then i give them the solution trump's gonna do that um
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so the top dc prosecutor this is reported in the hill the top dc prosecutor is resigning
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as uh at the epa oh because the epa not at the api because the epa is seeking a criminal probe
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of biden's climate funding so what this is about 20 billion dollars went out the door to several
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climate related entities just as the biden administration was ending now the accusation
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is that they were really just trying to park it with maybe their cronies or they were just trying
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to make sure that trump didn't have it available to him or or they just really like climate change and
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wanted to make sure it was fully funded and it was hard to get back that money now i guess uh lee
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zeldin is trying to get it back anyway but so the top dc prosecutor resigned rather than opening some
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kind of a criminal investigation of how that 20 billion got transferred and well it looks like a hasty
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and maybe sketchy way but i've got this question what is the crime i get that it's sketchy and i get
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that it's suboptimal and i get that it's sort of a political weasel thing to do but was there a crime
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and if i were a top prosecutor and somebody said go investigate this crime and i said what crime
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and they said well there's no crime but i think if you look around you might find one
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i don't know i might resign i might resign so i assume that most of these things are purely political
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and has nothing to do with principle i mean it's it's kind of hard to imagine anybody's operating
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a principle at this point but i would like to see a little more indication of a crime before i see
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the investigation now i assume in the real world sometimes there are investigations under the
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assumption that there's probably a crime but i don't know where that standard starts and ends but
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i'm a little worried i don't want uh i don't want the team that i'm backing to be doing unrestricted law
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fair now even if it's you know getting revenge nope not good enough so this might be totally appropriate
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and i'm definitely concerned about this 20 billion i would definitely like it to be clawed back i
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definitely think it looks sketchy but is there a crime i'm gonna need to hear there was a crime for
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me to be in favor of this uh department of homeland security helicopters have been getting struck by
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lasers uh near the mexican border so presumably that's the cartel fox news michael lee is reporting
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on this and i guess i've been targeted by lasers about six times now lasers meaning not a laser weapon
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but like a laser pointer apparently if you point that at a pilot it can blind them
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so uh even though it might not do it if you were closer to it there's something about the distance
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i guess that that could make it blind the pilot so it's very very dangerous and it's an attack
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so even though it's not the kind of laser that slices the plane in half or the helicopter in this case
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it's deadly it's potentially deadly and the question i wonder is uh i wonder if it would be
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legal to respond with deadly force now i think this helicopter probably wasn't armed but if it were a
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military helicopter and it's near the border but it's on our side and somebody lasers it could you not
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treat that as a military attack and just light them up and just take out because they know where it comes
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from i mean they can literally see the the laser origin part i'd be in favor of military action so
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to me that would seem entirely justified i mean i don't care if it's a teenager who thinks it's funny
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if you're trying to take down an aircraft and it's our aircraft and it's it's armed yes it can it can
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kill you that that seems entirely fair to me so we'll see where that goes
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think so i was asking the other day about that the discrepancies in the social security database
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that doge found and i think a lot of people were interpreting it as that they found corruption
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because there was indication that there were a lot of uh death fields that were set to false or
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something as if they never died and it would give you the indication that there were social security
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numbers that can be used for illegal devious corrupt purposes of people who were actually dead for a long
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time now when i asked for a clarification on that uh i got a good clarification from data republican
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on x now that's an account you should follow um what i always tell you you should follow the explainers
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they're the valuable ones you know the the mike bends glenn greenwald the and i'm gonna add data
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republican it's one word data republican if you're on x uh she's just a great analyst so she does with data
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just a tremendous job and so she gave this answer which uh elon said exactly so we know that musk agrees
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with this exact interpretation now how valuable is that that's really valuable that i've got this question
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data republican gives me this good answer that i'm gonna read to you and then elon says yes that's
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exactly right like how in the world and then and then the rest of you get to read it so you get the
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benefit from that interaction the the fact that musk personally can tell you that something is on point
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or not that's just it's mind-blowing it's just absolutely mind-blowing that this is even possible
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anyway data republican answered my question about the social security database and said i believe
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the most accurate interpretation is that the social security administration lacks a reliable and
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consistent source of truth making its records inherently flawed without an authoritative and
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accurate data set internal audits and reported figures on benefit recipients cannot be fully trusted
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so the problem is not that they found a specific dollar amount of crime the problem is you wouldn't
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know if there was crime there or not that's a really big problem so yeah needs to be solved but you can't
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put a dollar amount on it so that's that's what i wondered i wondered how you could put a dollar amount on it
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meanwhile um meta created as you know the metaverse and we saw the first ad for it that uh showed what
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the metaverse it's a virtual reality kind of world that uh zuckerberg is trying to make big so he's been
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working this for a number of years he's got a 60 billion dollars into it so far and uh they showed and
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they've been working for since 2020 so 60 billion dollars like when i think it might be the major
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possibly the major thing that meta is working on and they released their first advertisement and it was
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so pathetic that they had to pull the advertisement it was just on instagram and it showed the little
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virtual reality world you know as if you were looking at it if you were in the virtual reality and
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the characters look like cartoons with movements that look like it had not been well planned so as
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people sitting in a chair who just literally looked like cartoons and and their arms would be floating like
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this why now here's the problem that might be it might be an example of the very height of what virtual
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reality can do because you know there are limits on hardware there's limits on processors there's limits
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on memory if you take into consideration all the physical computing limits trying to create a full
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existing virtual world with you know lots of characters and stuff it might be really well not might be it's
00:30:33.120
really hard to do so it might have been just the best that can be done with current technology however
00:30:41.840
it has the very bad luck of coming at the same time that ai can produce photo realistic images on demand
00:30:50.400
so my brain just like almost every one of you says wait a minute there's a virtual reality product that
00:30:59.120
they they plunked 60 billion dollars into it one of the top technology companies in the entire world
00:31:05.920
and it doesn't look like it's photo realistic your brain just can't accept that so even if it might
00:31:12.480
be the very best you could do within that domain and it's not it's not equivalent to ai giving you a
00:31:17.520
three second clip of something photorealistic those are entirely different levels of complexity
00:31:24.400
uh but my brain my brain can't accept a cartoony weird floating person once i've seen what ai can do
00:31:33.680
now i don't know if ai can ever you know fix what's happening with virtual reality i think the the
00:31:41.440
challenges are completely different there but that is really bad luck um but here's the fun part so
00:31:51.920
looking at these characters from the outside i can tell that they just look like cartoons but what do
00:32:00.320
the characters if the characters were let's say autonomous what would they think of each other would they
00:32:07.760
think oh there's a low resolution character that must be created by a computer or would it say there's
00:32:15.760
a high resolution character that looks normal just like i am well the answer is it depends how you code
00:32:24.000
it so it might be one line of code to say each character imagines that everything they see is high
00:32:31.040
fidelity that's it the character just has to think it's seeing high fidelity you just program it so it
00:32:39.200
does it doesn't have to see high fidelity it only has to think it does and then it will argue to its death
00:32:46.800
that it can see detail and it would never know the difference so if we were a simulation
00:32:55.280
and we were also low fidelity is it possible that we wouldn't know it because we're programmed to think
00:33:02.640
it's high fidelity well let me take it to the next level everything in my room right now is high
00:33:10.880
fidelity as far as i know but i can't see it the only thing i know is high fidelity is maybe a few words
00:33:20.000
that i'm looking at in the comments as they go by everything else is sort of imagined high fidelity
00:33:26.880
you see what i mean i imagine it's high fidelity but i'm not even looking at it it's not registering
00:33:32.480
in any way in my brain but my brain is programmed to think that i sort of do see it it's so easy to
00:33:39.520
program a character to think it's high fidelity but the only high fidelity is what they're really
00:33:45.360
really focusing on in this narrow little cone because that's the only part your brain is dealing
00:33:50.240
with so it could be if we were a simulation the only high fidelity is this narrow cone of whatever
00:33:57.520
we're really focusing on at the moment and everything else is low fidelity we wouldn't know the difference
00:34:05.520
i know you love that simulation talk well elon musk said he's gonna talk to trump about the idea of
00:34:12.320
uh refunding at the rate of five thousand dollars a piece to taxpayers um some of the doge savings so
00:34:20.960
they saved they saved 55 billion so far and uh if they only gave a portion of that back to taxpayers
00:34:28.800
it'd be for somebody says five thousand dollars a piece i'm looking at an article in tech times by isaiah richard
00:34:35.440
but here's the obvious question that people in the comments were saying and i said immediately
00:34:46.400
i thought the point of doge was to reduce our deficit i didn't think it was creating a piggy bank
00:34:53.520
that could be doled down now i like the fact that people could get five thousand dollars i mean that would
00:34:59.920
make a really big difference to a lot of people it's a big deal but i feel like it might create a
00:35:06.560
precedent where everybody thinks that the doge savings are a new piggy bank i'm already worried
00:35:13.360
that congress looks at the doge savings as oh that's money we didn't have to spend before but he's
00:35:18.880
reduced our expenses by 100 billion so i guess i have another 100 billion to spend that's not how it's
00:35:25.520
supposed to work so here's the argument for it though the argument in favor of it is that the
00:35:34.400
voters are not really following the politics very carefully they know there's a doge and they may have
00:35:40.880
heard some good things about it and some bad things about it if you wanted them to be on board with doge
00:35:47.680
before it does the hard stuff like the pentagon budget the social security the you know health care
00:35:54.800
budgets you might want to bribe them i guess they bribe but it wouldn't be illegal it would be all
00:36:01.760
all transparent uh you might want to say hey doge is so cool here's five thousand dollars and then
00:36:08.240
suddenly your doge approval would go from i think it's over 50 percent but like it would hit 60 plus
00:36:16.480
almost immediately because people would say i don't know much about this but i just got a check for
00:36:20.640
five thousand dollars so keep going elon maybe i'll get another check so if you're looking at it
00:36:27.680
from a persuasion perspective to make it easier for doge to get the the final work done you know the the
00:36:34.800
big savings to sort of soften the room as it were this would be a way to do it now if elon is thinking of
00:36:42.960
it that way as a way just to make doge more successful in the long run get people on board
00:36:49.440
that makes sense that makes sense but i definitely wouldn't want this to be the beginning of hey we
00:36:55.520
created some free money that can be used in this way or that way claudia was leaving for her pickleball
00:37:01.280
tournament i've been visualizing my match all week she was so focused on visualizing that she didn't see
00:37:06.880
the column behind her car on her backhand side good thing claudia's with intact the insurer with
00:37:13.040
the largest network of auto service centers in the country everything was taken care of under one roof
00:37:18.000
and she was on her way in a rental car in no time i made it to my tournament and lost in the first round
00:37:23.920
but you got there on time intact insurance your auto service ace certain conditions apply
00:37:29.360
meanwhile the mexican government says that it seized 40 million dollars worth of meth before it crossed the
00:37:39.120
border and the daily caller news foundation is reporting this jason hopkins and there's a photo of
00:37:49.280
some mexican authority over six big blue barrels of something that presumably are some kind of drug
00:37:56.960
and the question i ask is this how do we know what's in those barrels is it possible that the mexican
00:38:06.160
government working with the cartels just says every month or so all right do you have those blue
00:38:11.840
barrels yeah we got six blue barrels can you put them in a different building and we'll photograph
00:38:18.080
our guys with heavy weaponry standing by them and we'll say we captured uh what's a good number i don't
00:38:24.240
know 20 30 million worth let's go 40 let's go 40 million worth all right everybody stand by these
00:38:31.600
barrels click click click click there we go doing a great job just up 40 million dollars worth of meth
00:38:38.160
from coming into the united states how would we know that they stopped anything that would be the easiest
00:38:47.440
thing in the world to fake right you wouldn't expect anybody to be i mean it would take the smallest
00:38:53.440
number of people to be involved in the fraud and they probably wouldn't talk
00:38:59.440
now i'm not saying it is fraud i'm just saying if it's indistinguishable from something that can
00:39:06.000
easily be faked why would you believe it so i'm going to put it in the category of things i just don't
00:39:12.080
believe it could be true it absolutely could be true not buying it not buying it at all it's a little too
00:39:20.080
on the nose hey mexico we're going to give you uh big tariffs if you don't stop a lot of drugs uh
00:39:29.360
look at these six barrels we just stopped and and uh a few weeks from now oh look it's another six
00:39:36.720
barrels well those look like the same barrels yeah they they often use the same kind of barrel material
00:39:42.880
they like they like to use the blue barrels oh but we found another one but is that the same six
00:39:50.480
barrels no it's not the same six barrels it's five barrels how easy would that be come on
00:40:01.600
meanwhile some good news pj media is reporting victoria taft that uh trump's losing some serious
00:40:09.600
weight um he was asked uh how much he lost and i think he said he was guessing 15 to 20 pounds he
00:40:18.800
does look lighter now he attributed to being busy and having no time to eat but i don't think that's
00:40:24.640
exactly the whole story uh there's some kind of source that victoria taft had i guess that says that
00:40:32.000
melania is sort of behind it and that she's been pushing him to eat more healthy food but here's the part i
00:40:37.760
just love uh allegedly now this is from a source anonymous source so put it in context uh the
00:40:45.360
melania has on occasion i don't know what on occasion means but on occasion been cooking family
00:40:50.800
dinners at trump tower for the president and their son baron i love that i love that so you do you ever
00:41:00.880
put yourself in trump's position and just just try to imagine what it's like he can have any
00:41:09.360
any luxury and he spends his time around luxury and you know everything basically he just has access
00:41:16.640
to everything but the one thing that somebody in his position would have trouble getting is a home
00:41:23.840
cooked meal with his son and his wife to me that's worth more than all the other stuff
00:41:30.000
so to me that just makes me happy if it's true i mean i assume it's true i would love to know that
00:41:36.720
melania enjoys cooking that she's good at it and that sometimes she just cooks for the two of them
00:41:42.640
that would be amazing that would be amazing yeah but there's more to it it's much bigger imagine if you
00:41:49.200
will that trump loses i don't know if he has more to lose but but let's say he becomes svelte like he just
00:41:57.120
looks really good on the golf course imagine seeing him on the golf course completely trimmed down
00:42:05.120
now put that in the context of maha make america healthy again and rfk jr and nicole shanahan
00:42:14.080
and all the push toward staying away from the bad foods and toward the good ones and how good that will be
00:42:19.760
for us imagine if trump made the move away from processed foods and then you could just watch
00:42:30.720
um during the kennedy administration jfk he was i guess he was one of the first politicians to not
00:42:42.400
wear a hat and it killed the entire hat industry because when jfk didn't wear a hat people thought
00:42:50.720
i don't have to wear a hat this hat's kind of a pain and pain in the neck so i won't wear a hat
00:42:55.360
it killed the entire industry so it's it's hard to uh you know it's hard to appreciate
00:43:03.200
the degree to which the role models make a difference and if trump found a way to you know
00:43:11.600
just sort of gently relax his weight down without using the now using the weight loss drugs and by the
00:43:18.560
way we wouldn't know if he used one or not but if he managed to do it through just eating right
00:43:23.200
that would be amazing for the country just the benefit of the country would be amazing but it'd
00:43:29.040
also be good for him so this is one of the the things that makes me happiest today
00:43:36.560
and then trump does this this is reported by jim hoft and the gateway pundit
00:43:42.080
so he's he signed an executive order to expand and reduce the cost of uh in vitro fertilization
00:43:49.280
so he wants to make fertility treatments more accessible for american families
00:43:53.360
now the executive order just says that he's putting together a group to study it and find a
00:43:58.160
way to make it less expensive it's super expensive so if you want to have a baby and and you're going to
00:44:04.080
need uh invert in vitro fertilization uh it could cost you up to 25 000 per cycle uh and it might not work
00:44:14.240
so you might have to do more than one cycle 25 000 a shot and health insurance covers some of it but
00:44:21.600
it's limited and only a quarter of employers offer it um and apparently 85 000 infants were born as a
00:44:32.800
result of ivf in 2021. now this is in the context of the natural birth population of the united states
00:44:41.760
dropping and so it's important it's important that we have ways to make as many babies as possible
00:44:47.440
in ways that you know are healthy and family supports them and stuff like that
00:44:53.200
but what i wondered was wasn't this one of the biggest things that the democrats worried about
00:44:59.360
that they used to lie and say that he doesn't like ivf or i think they said jd vance doesn't like it
00:45:05.600
or something it was all fake because he's always been in favor of it but i tried to think okay i'll
00:45:11.360
put myself in the shoes of a democrat how do they explain that one of the biggest things that they
00:45:19.600
were complaining about trump is he would take your bodily autonomy which would include ivf that you take
00:45:25.520
it away and not only is he not taking it away he is doing serious things to make it more available
00:45:32.000
and cheaper and cheaper and then i realized oh here's the natural attack line do you see it yet let's
00:45:42.080
see if you have it in the comments do you see the do you see the natural attack line where they're going
00:45:47.840
to get them it jumps out as soon as i tell you you're going to say oh how did i not see that
00:45:54.080
here it is trump's trying to make more white babies boom because i don't know this i don't have any
00:46:04.000
statistics but i'll bet you given that it costs 25 000 per cycle i'll bet you the high income people
00:46:12.480
are the people with good jobs and good insurance and a little extra cash a lot of extra cash are
00:46:18.320
probably the only ones that have used it so far which would suggest probably it's concentrated in
00:46:25.520
maybe white and asian american families because they're high income and how easy would it be for
00:46:32.800
joy reid to say well it looks like white supremacist trump has figured out a way to make more white babies
00:46:39.520
oh that is so coming when it should be oh i guess we lied about everything when we said he was going
00:46:48.240
to get rid of ivf that should be the story that msnbc and his critics lied about everything it was never
00:46:56.000
true and this is you know proof it was never true they're still gonna say you racist when i found out my
00:47:05.360
friend got a great deal on a wool coat from winners i started wondering is every fabulous item i see
00:47:11.920
from winners like that woman over there with the designer jeans are those from winners ooh are those
00:47:18.160
beautiful gold earrings did she pay full price or that leather tote or that cashmere sweater or those
00:47:23.520
knee-high boots that dress that jacket those shoes is anyone paying full price for anything stop
00:47:30.640
wondering start winning winners find fabulous for less in other news a law firm that uh apparently
00:47:40.960
handles uh elon musk's stuff um is putting together a draft for a uh legislative change in delaware
00:47:50.720
now of course it's just a law firm so they don't get to vote on it but they're proposing it through
00:47:56.400
probably some i assume some politicians are on board cnbc is reporting this uh laura kolodny and
00:48:04.800
so the law firm is trying to get a change in delaware that would possibly open the door for elon
00:48:12.640
musk to get that big uh was it 56 billion dollar pay package or whatever it was that he was denied because
00:48:20.640
the delaware judge said that that pay package agreement is invalid because elon musk had too
00:48:28.160
much control over the con over the company that uh gave it to him and since it was basically conflict
00:48:35.520
of interest uh the judge says we're throwing it out now i don't believe the company had any complaint
00:48:42.960
about it i think there was one stockholder who bought a few shares and did it just to take down uh elon
00:48:51.280
but his law firm is making a very creative uh attack and the attack is that delaware has become
00:49:01.680
sort of poison for corporations because of exactly this sort of thing you saw bill ackman moved his
00:49:07.440
company out of delaware that they just register in delaware it's they're not based in delaware but
00:49:13.040
uh they're they're saying that they can make delaware what it used to be a place you could trust
00:49:20.800
to register your corporation because now people don't trust it so he said they we can get back
00:49:26.320
to delaware having the advantage of being this great place to register your corporation
00:49:30.640
with just a few changes one of the changes would be that if you owned less than one-third
00:49:37.360
the stock of the company you would be presumed not to control it one-third now that's pretty reasonable
00:49:47.120
if you owned 51 obviously you do control it if you own 40 you kind of almost control it but 30 seems
00:49:55.920
fair that seems quite reasonable that if you're below 30 percent you uh you're you're not by definition
00:50:04.000
you're not controlling the company now you could argue whether you know some personalities could
00:50:08.880
still control the company with 30 but uh if that got adopted it would make other corporations feel a
00:50:15.040
little more comfortable having their corporation registered there but here's the best part of the
00:50:19.920
story the name of the law firm is richards leighton and finger richards leighton and finger
00:50:28.000
now when i see richard in this case it's the last name not a first name it always makes me think of
00:50:35.920
dick because you know dick is the nickname for richard so even though it's richards with an s i just see a
00:50:44.160
dick and then there's leighton first three letters are lay lay a ton i guess and that makes me think of
00:50:52.240
sex because lay you know and then the last last name is finger so it's really dick lay finger like
00:51:01.600
when i read it and i'm thinking come on of all the law firms in the world elon musk picked the one that
00:51:09.920
makes me think of dick lay and finger perfect it's just perfect
00:51:17.280
okay anyway we'll we'll keep an eye on that um judicial watch is asking for a probe of uh
00:51:28.080
the ex-general milly for what he did in planning january 6. this is being reported by paul benard
00:51:35.440
washington examiner um so let's call a judicial watch a legal watchdog that would be a good description
00:51:44.240
and they're trying to figure out if they can get uh records about what the exact conversations were
00:51:51.120
between uh mark milley and his top pentagon and other and other uh officials homeland security etc
00:51:58.400
now the the thinking is that uh you've probably heard people who know more than i know say general
00:52:06.800
milley general milley is the you know probably behind the whole uh january 6 operation you know
00:52:14.160
maybe he intentionally made security light so they could turn into what looked more like a an insurrection
00:52:21.680
or they could at least frame it that way now i don't know if any of those accusations are true
00:52:26.960
i'll just say that he's long been accused by members of the you know the right as being the
00:52:34.160
obvious culprit if in fact there's a culprit um but here's my larger comment i want you to just think
00:52:44.560
about this for a moment have you ever noticed how rarely the united states has a large-scale protest
00:52:52.160
unless it's funded and organized by shadowy forces
00:52:55.280
has it ever happened in my lifetime in my whole life have citizens of the united states ever
00:53:06.960
self-organized because they really cared about a thing no matter what that thing was
00:53:14.640
black lives matter that was not organic we know that now that was just funded and organized antifa
00:53:21.280
went away as soon as biden became president which is a little sketchy right we've seen all the color
00:53:28.560
revolutions in other countries where all the protests are literally organized by shadowy external forces
00:53:37.760
and so but let me ask this question to the best of your knowledge has there ever been a self-organized
00:53:46.320
large-scale protest about anything in the united states during your lifetime vietnam war maybe maybe
00:53:54.800
not probably organized by shadowy forces but i don't know but let's just say in the last 20 years
00:54:01.920
in the last 20 years do you think there's ever been a large-scale organic protests do you think uh
00:54:10.240
uh that uh that well what was the name of the wall street one that kind of went away then there was a tea
00:54:17.920
party then that kind of went away i've got a feeling that americans just can't organize spontaneously if
00:54:27.520
it doesn't if it's not funded by people who know how to make things happen i don't think it happens take for
00:54:33.920
example the government spending us into certain doom you know with our with our deficit and then
00:54:43.120
every year they'll just sign some continuing resolution which says well we'll just add to
00:54:47.680
the deficit because we don't want to make decisions don't you think that watching your elected representatives
00:54:55.600
send you into certain doom not maybe certain doom you don't think that that would be enough to organize
00:55:03.920
uh a million people on the street of course it would if we cared about topics
00:55:12.880
if people were simply outraged by bad performance of people or policies they don't like you would see
00:55:21.600
gigantic protests every week or two because there's plenty of stuff to protest all kinds of stuff
00:55:28.160
what about doge what about all the um you know all the people who think doge is a bad idea where's the protest
00:55:37.600
nobody's paid for one yet there might be one but it will be funded and organized by shadowy people
00:55:44.560
so i'm gonna i'm gonna just put down this marker don't know if it's completely true
00:55:50.480
but i don't believe there's any evidence that americans ever organize in large scale like january 6
00:55:58.160
unless there's somebody shadowy behind it i just don't think it ever happens
00:56:07.920
well i wouldn't love it but it'd be interesting
00:56:12.160
i i try to think i i've told you this before but you know when i built my house i built a home
00:56:17.520
theater it's very small but you know it's like um 10 seats 10 seats in a little home theater and i
00:56:24.480
thought oh how great this will be to invite friends over to watch a movie i could never get
00:56:29.760
two people who wanted to watch the same movie at the same time and then i'm watching black lives matter
00:56:34.720
and antifa get like you know thousands and thousands of people in the street and i'm saying to myself
00:56:39.120
in what country can you do that but where can you get all those people to do that thing
00:56:46.080
if i can't get two people even watch a movie at the same time so no i don't think that americans organize
00:56:51.200
not without shadowy forces behind them i don't think the tea party was organic do you i don't believe
00:57:01.040
in it at all and again i don't have evidence that it wasn't organic but i doubt it seems very unlikely
00:57:10.000
all right um that's all i got for now i'm gonna say hi to the locals people privately um
00:57:23.920
for the rest of you thanks for joining the truckers is the only one in canada well the truckers
00:57:31.520
um were also not american yeah yeah that's a good one the the truckers as far as i know did not have any
00:57:40.000
shadowy uh influence as far as i know all right but they also didn't they were they were in their
00:57:49.520
trucks uh so it makes me wonder how many there were you know but there's a difference between
00:57:58.000
driving your truck somewhere and being on the street just seems different all right um continue
00:58:06.080
challenging me on that no no uh organic protests in the united states canada might be different
00:58:15.680
all right everybody i'll see you tomorrow same time same place if you're on rumble or
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