Episode 2870 CWSA 06⧸16⧸25
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Summary
In this episode of Coffee with Scott Adams, I talk about the "No Kings" rally, the failed Psilocybin study, and why the people attending anti-Trump events are mostly senior citizens. I also talk about why the mainstream media is so easy to brainwash and brainwash.
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buddy come on in and it looks like it stocks are up yay probably because the g7 let's uh
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get the comments working and then we got a show for you
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good morning everyone and welcome to the highlight of human civilization it's called coffee with
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scott adams and you've never had a better time but if you'd like to try taking this up to levels that
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at the end of the day the thing that makes everything better it's called the simultaneous sip it happens
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just perfect well i wonder is there any science that could have been skipped just by asking me well
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eric dolan writing for psypost he's my favorite writer lately
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can reduce your alcohol consumption if you have an alcohol consumption problem
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they found that one dose of psilocybin uh caused a long-term reduction pretty big one reduction in
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drinking now how could they have done that study cheaper well given that every time they have a
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hypothesis about how it'll improve your mental state or your behavior it works every time
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when was the last time you saw a psilocybin study where they said oh we tested it on this and it
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didn't work apparently it works on everything you tested on so i don't know what else it could do but
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if you would ask me does it reduce your level of drinking i would have said yes save you a little money
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um correction or update i'm told that uh president trump has offered to pay for the building of the ballroom
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is that confirmed i haven't seen it but um in the comments people are telling me that he's gonna pay for
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it himself do we know how much that's gonna cost what's it cost to build a a ballroom on the white
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house that sounds really expensive i don't know you want to take a guess does anybody know i'm gonna guess
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um i'm gonna guess 23 million dollars what do you think 23 million just a guess
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um anyway so uh the no kings rally or protest whatever you want to call it the no kings protest
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um has been hugely successful because there are no kings um at all and even president trump in a truth
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social um said that it was successful um said that it was successful because there are no kings uh trying
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to replace them i think he borrowed my joke but uh it's a good one apparently there were uh over five
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million people according to the organizers of course now what happens if five million people protest
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but there's not much violence and the headlines are about a uh a manhunt for a killer and israel and iran are
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having a war well it's a lot like it didn't happen at all so here's my question has there ever been a
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a big protest where there was no violence and it changed the policy is that even a thing i feel like
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even though nobody wants you know violence especially with your protests if you don't have any violence
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violence or you know breakage or you know mass some kind of disobedience um i feel like that's not enough to
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change anything otherwise it's just taking a walk so five million people took a walk for a thing that
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didn't need to be done on a nice day and absolutely nothing is different but they're claiming success
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so uh one of the mysteries which maybe isn't a mystery at all is uh why why are the attendees at
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these anti-trump events um almost all senior citizens and i took a crack at answering that
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by saying that it's easier to scare them you can scare old people easier because they feel more vulnerable
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and they're also um easier to fool now they also are the main audience for mainstream news
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can you imagine what your opinion would be if you only watched cnn and msnbc and abc news what would your
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opinion of trump be well it wouldn't be very positive because you would just think oh it's like walter
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cronkite he hasn't lied to us yet so i think the fact that you know the senior citizens feel a little
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more vulnerable on top of that they're easier to to brainwash and the fact that they watch the mainstream
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media they don't watch x um puts them at a real disadvantage but they also have you know time on
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their hands so a nice walk on a june day turned out to be what five million people wanted
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and they were lonely and they didn't have much else going on so did that change anything in the world
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probably not but did you know that uh alex soros and uh uma abedin they got uh they got married in the
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hamptons and there were a lot of elite people there the clintons and and others breitbart is writing about
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this now here's uh my question does that look like the most fake marriage you've ever seen in your life
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that they just don't look like they're really a couple and she is 49 i think right 49 so i'm guessing
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that they don't plan to have children and i wonder isn't that a weird kind of a weird problem
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because normally if you've got billions of dollars you're controlling you won't have some kind of an heir
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but apparently alex soros does not need an heir so or it looks like it i don't know unless they adopt or
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something but i'm not going to bet on it because that that wedding looks to be sort of like uh you
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remember the old days when uh when a royal family would try to marry off their their kid to another royal
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family it feels like that so we'll we'll keep an eye on that claudia was leaving for her pickleball
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tournament i've been visualizing my match all week she was so focused on visualizing that she didn't
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see the column behind her car on her backhand side good thing claudia is with intact the insurer with
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the largest network of auto service centers in the country everything was taken care of under one roof and
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she was on her way in a rental car in no time i made it to my tournament and lost in the first round
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but you got there on time intact insurance your auto service ace certain conditions apply
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um also according to eric dolan and cy post did you know that people who believe in conspiracies
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uh tend to overrate their cognitive abilities and they also think that others agree with them
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of people who believe conspiracies is that they also have a greater degree of a certainty
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now have you heard me say that the certainty is the only mistake
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if you're if you're positive about a uh you know some kind of conspiracy theory
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that should tell you to to check your thinking you might be right but if you're positive
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well certainty is sort of a signal for believing bullshit all right um karen bass
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is telling us that uh she went around looking for the marines who are allegedly deployed in la
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thanks to trump because of the uh anti-trump protests or the anti-ice protests i guess
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and uh she said she saw no marines and uh didn't see any trouble so
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um she she says the local law enforcement has total control which i think they do now
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um this is another example of uh sort of the uh analogy thinking if you said to yourself oh this is
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like the uh the protests of the riots of 1992 then you would probably be wrong because it's not like
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that but whenever you whenever you're influenced by something that you remember such as oh it's like the
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holocaust or oh it's like this other riot or oh it's like the civil war you're probably way off
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because there you never have two things they're they're sort of the same oh it's like neville chamberlain
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saying peace in her time anyway we'll get back to that
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well apparently um coffee is uh considered to reduce your risk of wanting to take your own life
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whereas energy drinks will increase your risk of wanting to take your own life and both of them give
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you energy so if you had to pick i would pick the coffee now how many times have i told you there's a study
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that says that drinking coffee is good for you and uh silicon is good for you well now put them together
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and then you've got something all right um and apparently there's a uh a new risk uh called gas
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station heroin which i've never heard before so you ever go into the uh the little like place you buy
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stuff at the gas station and you see these little energy shots and they've got some kind of drug in them
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called uh i didn't write it down but uh apparently these are addictive and they have serious side effects
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so u.s poison control has been getting a lot of calls about these so watch out if you think you're
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getting an energy drink from the gas station maybe not maybe not well the uh manhunt has
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invented for the uh suspect who shot four people two of them uh died and it's uh this is in minnesota
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vance luther bolter they found him in a crop field and he's the one who impersonated a
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police officer to get access to his crimes and they got him and it makes me wonder
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what are the odds of being on the run in 2025 and getting away with it i feel like the hardest
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thing in the world would be to go on the run so of course i spent some time thinking about how i would do
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it have any of you thought all right if i were a fugitive from the law what would i do and here's
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my best idea the best idea is you'd have to have access to a house that was not your own house and
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that had no tie to you in name so you'd have to get a friend um or an acquaintance to rent a house
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that wasn't where you live and then you go directly to that house and you just have somebody else who
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lives there who answers the the door so if anybody knocks you just have your confederate answer the door
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and say no no i don't have anybody in my attic now i can't think of any other way that you could go on
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the run and stay on the run for very long because eventually facial recognition would get you or
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something but uh if you if you're ever out in the run from the law you want to you want to make sure you
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have a second house that's not in your name that's my advice anyway uh trump by now should be in canada
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at the g7 and the stock market is up because people are thinking that that will help grease some of the
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trade deals now you might say to yourself what kind of you know trade negotiations are going to happen
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in these little side meetings at the g7 and the answer is there might be because it's trump so some of
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these deals it sounds like they're kind of close you know there might be like one thing they haven't
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agreed on yet so that's the sort of thing that you could imagine trump saying all right i'll take you
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from 37 percent tariff down to 25 that's my final offer so maybe it's entirely possible he'll get some
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deals closer to done or done and the market is reacting so uh according to trump um we have trade deals
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all we have to do is send a letter and say this is what you're going to have to pay
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so that would suggest that these things which are negotiable have already been negotiated at least
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for a number of countries the big ones and that we're just waiting to find out what it is they
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agreed on so stocks are up um israel is uh tried to debunk a bunch of uh false reports
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that are coming out about the war remember i warned you that because it's a war situation you can't really
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believe much of anything you know you you can believe the big stuff like israel really did attack iran
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and you could believe that iran really responded you could probably believe that the various generals and
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and heads of military that they say they killed probably most of them they did kill but once you
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get down to a lower level of detail you you should get really skeptical you know whether whether you like
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that news or don't like it you should tell yourself well maybe but you know in the context of war
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a lot of stuff is fake i'm not going to tell you what things israel is debunking because there wasn't
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one thing on that list i'd ever heard of so it's not like it's not like it's in the major news or anything
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but there were a bunch of things that they debunked because it's that kind of situation now um i've been
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listening to all the various opinions about israel and iran and i remind you if you're new to my podcast
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that uh if it feels like i'm giving you a moral judgment i'm not um i'm not giving you an ethical or
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moral judgment on anything that anybody's doing um and i'm not telling you my preference
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um i'm just observing and in some cases predicting but uh it's not my country and so since i'm america
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first um i will care about america and make opinions on america but when it comes to israel
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i will observe and predict and if you see more than that in my comments you might be reading too
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so i've been watching the various experts if you can call it that talking about the the odds
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that iran really was going to break out sometime soon and have a nuclear weapon and the argument against it
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is that netanyahu has been saying that they're going to have a nuclear weapon at any minute for 40 years
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now somebody said 30 years and then somebody corrected him said well no it's actually 40 years
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he's been saying he's been saying the same thing any minute now any year now and sure enough
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we've been predicting that iran would break out and have that nuclear weapon any minute now now
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does that tell you that we didn't have to worry no that would be analogy thinking that would be saying that
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whatever is happening now is the same as what has happened in the past and therefore the past is
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predictive of what's happening now no obviously they've mastered the whole missile situation so
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they'd have something to put a nuke on obviously they had enriched the uranium to much closer to
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the level that you need for a bomb obviously they had lots of nuclear experts some of whom
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almost certainly would know how to weaponize that stuff so is there anything about the current situation
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that you could learn from 30 years of essentially being wrong that they're going to break out any
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minute and the answer is not really you'd have to look at the situation you know completely on its own
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but if you're looking at the pattern but if you're looking at the pattern i would say that
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there's a lot of stuff like ai so if you look at ai for example ai has been predicted for 40 years
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years but now it's actually here so if you would use the last 40 years of predicting ai
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you would predict that we wouldn't have it but we do and you know maybe you're thinking of fusion
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because fusion was always the thing that's going to be here in 10 years but never is
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but it does look like fusion is closer than it's ever been um so there are a number of situations in
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which you could say the past does predict the future but you never know which one those are
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so uh i would worry about that now uh general mike flynn says and he would know more than i would
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know about this situation he says that uh it's a psychotic regime iran and that they were very close to
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breaking out and with a uranium enriched warhead so in his opinion we were just about there
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and so here's another one climate change if your model is climate change
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and you've watched for 40 years as experts say oh any minute the icebergs are all going to melt and
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you're going to be underwater and then it never happens and then you look at iran you'd say oh it's
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one of those things where for 40 years we say it's going to happen at any minute but then it never happens at all
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maybe um how many of you think that iran legitimately
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how many of you think and how many of you are certain like you're positive they never would
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have made a nuclear weapon because they haven't said that you know the uh ayatollahs have said um
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you know we have no intention of making a nuclear weapon it would be anti-islamic and blah blah blah
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but you can't really trust that so i would say this is one of those situations where certainty
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is the only mistake um you might be right but if you're certain how could you possibly be certain about
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that so you have to you have to play the odds based on uncertainty i think well wall street
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journal is reporting that uh israel has destroyed uh one-third of the iranian missile launchers those
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would be the um the ones that are attacking israel right now so only one-third of them have been
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destroyed that would be about 120 of them now does that sound like success to you
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doesn't sound like success to me and do they have to destroy all of them because i saw some news
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coverage yesterday um i forget which general it was but one of the military uh experts was saying that
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israel appeared to stop shooting down the incoming missiles uh was it last night or the night before
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i think the night before and the speculation was that israel was either for some reason allowing some
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destruction which i don't think makes sense uh or they were running out of defensive missiles the kind
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that are the shield you know that shoot down the incoming missiles do you think that's possible
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do you think that israel is literally running out of defensive missiles and so is the us
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maybe because you know iran had just hella lots of missiles that's a california term hella but they had
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hella missiles do you say that in your state they got hella missiles it's sort of a california thing
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so we don't know about that but i would say that uh if they only got a third of them um
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that uh that's not exactly a big victory at least on the missile side they may have
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blown up a lot of the stockpiles though so that part we don't know um and then also wall street journal
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uh according to the u.n atomic agency chief the uh the iranian nuclear sites are basically intact
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because the ones we could get to or the ones israel could get to with their weapons um are well
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fortified so their biggest one out of four now is untouched basically and apparently a number of
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the other facilities are untouched so if their goal was to dismantle the iranian nuclear facilities
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that did not happen and it doesn't look like they're close it looks like mostly mostly that stuff is
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untouched so that's not good um now here's the uh here's the big question i have at what point
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did israel know that they could not complete the job without the united states being militarily involved
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because does it bother you that israel may have launched an attack knowing that they could not
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succeed at getting rid of the nuclear facilities in iran without the us being actively involved in the
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attack because that would suggest that they were confident or at least hopeful that they could
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essentially bully or persuade the united states to get militarily involved because they had gotten us a
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little bit pregnant so does that bother you because israel must have known that they couldn't get to
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those nuclear facilities on their own so are they playing us are they are they playing a game where
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if they get halfway in the united states will say oh you know i wish we were not at this point i wasn't in
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favor of the attack but now that we're halfway in i guess it would make more sense to you know finish the job
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because what could be more dangerous what could be more dangerous than destroying much of iran's
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military and leadership and then leaving intact the most dangerous part of their arsenal
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wouldn't that be the worst case so and then i asked myself this question why is this situation so
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movie perfect like what are the odds of that what are the odds that israel requires the united states
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military to be military to be part of it and we don't want to but on the other hand you know a lot
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of people see the argument for it and again i'm not giving you my argument these are not my preferences
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i'm just observing and predicting so what the hell does trump do if he if he gets militarily involved
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that would be very anti-mega anti-america first but on the other hand can he really leave
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iran to reconstitute and be a hundred times more angry than they were before and by then have
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canceled all their agreements not to build nuclear weapons and then wouldn't they make a race to
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complete at least a few weapons wouldn't that be the most um logical thing for iran to do
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so how did we get in this situation now it's so movie perfect that there's that little wrinkle
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that only america can complete the job but we don't want to and then the only thing that's missing from
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the movie is that the only person who could pilot the plane to blow up fordow is tom cruise
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only tom cruise can complete this mission doesn't it feel like that like it's just it's just way too
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movie perfect you know in a bad way not in a good way um so there's that
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and uh again i ask when did israel know that they couldn't complete the job without us
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because that bothers me a little bit there is also news that trump um convinced israel not to take out
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the uh ayatollah the uh the non-military leadership now do you believe that remember we're we're in the
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context of you know war and all the all the reporting in the war is questionable at best
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do you think that israel was going to take out the supreme leader and trump talked about it it's
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believable it's believable i don't know if it's true but uh and then uh brett bear asked netanyahu on
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an interview he said do you have intel that the assassination attempts on trump were directly
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were directed from iran and netanyahu says through proxies yes um through their intel yes they want
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to kill him look he's enemy number one and they said that they tried to kill him as well enemy number two
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so do you believe that do you believe that uh iran tried to kill trump twice
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and that trump when he got a chance to kill them back uh canceled it maybe maybe um
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i'm gonna i'm gonna i'm gonna say that's just a maybe i'm not automatically gonna believe all of
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that um the the part i believe the least is that iran tried to kill trump that part
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that's a tough one maybe but it's it doesn't feel like that would have been in iran's best interest
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so anyway um the israel situation is dividing america as you might imagine but in terms of the
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elected officials it seems to be tougher on the democrats because the democrats have people who are
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all in on uh whatever it is that israel wants militarily we should do it and then there are other
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democrats who are you know very anti-war and uh i think it would be a big mistake to get involved
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militarily so the democrat leadership we're not talking about the voters just the leadership
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are divided whereas the republicans are um seemingly less divided
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but um and that would mean that the republicans are more in favor of uh military support for israel
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but um the magia supporters from uh i think charlie kirk and maybe uh steve bannon and lots of others
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are uh and uh marjorie taylor green so there are a number of very prominent
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pro-trump people who are saying absolutely not no way do not get involved you know further than we are
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the only involvement now is probably intelligence and helping israel shoot down and incoming
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but uh getting more involved than that would be a big divider in the world of the you know america first mega
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world um medi hassan who you know him from i think he got released from msnbc but he's a very lefty
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lefty kind of guy he said in a uh ex post he said to say i'm no fan of tucker carlson is an understatement
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i loathe much of what he stands for and says but if he helps persuade trump to keep the us out of a
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full-on war with iran then we'll owe him a great deal of gratitude it kills me to write this but it's
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true so tucker um is also one of the ones who doesn't want to get us more involved and let me
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and i'm going to call it a half opinion because i don't think he his opinion covers the whole
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situation but he says the real divide isn't between people who support israel and people
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who support iran or the palestinians the real divide is between those who casually encourage
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violence and those who seek to prevent it between warmongers and peacemakers who are the warmongers
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they would include anyone who's calling uh donald trump today to demand airstrikes and other direct
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u.s military involvement on that list according to tucker would be sean hannity mark levin ruper
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murdoch ike perlmutter whoever that is and miriam adelson at some point they will all have to answer
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for this but you should know their names now now here's my here's why i call it a half opinion
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i think if you have an opinion on this that you need to be able to draw out what it looks like in both
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directions so if you said um i don't want us to get into a you know a deeper military
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problem with iran that totally makes sense if all you're looking at is the cost so it would cost us
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a bunch of money we would probably lose a bunch of lives uh we would have all kinds of you know
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unknowns in terms of terrorism coming our way etc so for the half of the opinion
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that tucker expresses is completely accurate that if we get involved there's a gigantic risk and it's
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going to be expensive and all kinds of problems but doesn't he also have an obligation to
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draw out what the alternative would look like that would be the other half of the opinion and the
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alternative is that you you uh let's just say injure iran deeply everything from their ego to taking out
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their a lot of their leadership um you destroy a whole bunch of stuff uh you humiliate them and then you
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let them reconstitute and then they just build back what they had are you better off or are they far
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more likely to use you know the many more missiles that they make than they have now and there would be
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better ones probably and would they more likely race to complete their nuclear weapon and if they
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completed it what are the odds they would use it um and what are the odds they would simply use it to
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make an umbrella to protect their proxies in other words their proxies might still do all the work
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you know once those are reconstituted as well but uh you wouldn't want to attack the homeland
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because then they'd have a nuke so does tucker carlson's opinion cover both sides of the risk
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i would say no it doesn't mean he's wrong so remember i'm not i'm not taking a side i'm just observing and
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predicting so what's wrong with this opinion is that it acts like one side is free
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that if you get militarily involved that's going to be very expensive in treasure and lives and it would
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be but if you if you don't do those things then it's just sort of free is it is that a adult complete
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reasonable opinion that if you let iran reconstitute from this point having taken as much you know
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abuse as they have are you going to be in better shape i don't know marjorie taylor green also uh is
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very anti-war and uh she says we're fighting with the real american first people are um and she thinks
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we're a bunch of fakes the fakes would be the ones who are calling for war
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and i would ask um barjorie taylor green the following question the same question which is
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what does it look like if we don't go to war now again if you're new to me it sounds like i'm in
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favor of war i'm not i'm asking the most reasonable question you could ask which is what happens if you
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do it and also what happens if you don't do it so you need to be able to gain both the sound into the
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future i would say if we do it it's going to be a huge mess like we'll probably come under more attack
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it'll be very expensive uh we'll think we got all of their facilities but we won't um we'll never know
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when we're done uh it will kick off a round of their attacks on us and then we'll have to attack
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them back and then we'll be running out of weapons and who knows yeah it'll it'll drain our treasury more
00:43:28.420
so certainly being militarily uh involved more than we are is going to be really expensive
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in all the ways we don't want it to be but what happens if we don't what happens if we don't if
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you can't if you can't game that out and say all right here's my opinion um and i'm not saying this
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is my opinion i'm just saying this is what one might say you might say well it's been 40 years
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and they haven't you know broken out with their nuclear weapons so if they say they're not going
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to do it maybe we should just trust them do you feel comfortable with that to just trust them if they
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say no no seriously we're not gonna because it seems to me that all that uh that refining of the
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fuel why would they need to do that unless they were planning to get as close as possible to break
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out you know it seems to me that iran was acting exactly like a country that wanted to break out or at
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least have the ability to break out whenever they wanted to so if they go back to where they were
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aren't they going to try even harder to break out sooner i don't know
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but um beware of half minions when i found out my friend got a great deal on a wool coat from winners
00:45:05.460
i started wondering is every fabulous item i see from winners like that woman over there with the
00:45:11.780
designer jeans are those from winners ooh are those beautiful gold earrings did she pay full price or
00:45:18.340
that leather tote or that cashmere sweater or those knee-high boots that dress that jacket those shoes is
00:45:24.740
anyone paying full price for anything stop wondering start winning winners find fabulous for less so as i was
00:45:33.140
saying before that how you feel about the iran situation probably has a lot to do with which analogy
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is running your brain because we're not really good at thinking things through from you know first
00:45:50.020
principles and you know if this happens that would happen if this happens that would happen we tend to
00:45:56.500
snap the grid meaning if there's some some um historical example that it reminds you of you're going to
00:46:06.980
automatically think that it will turn out the same way so if your model is neville chamberlain saying that
00:46:16.340
he's got to deal with hillr only to find out that hillr didn't mean it and there was no peace in our time
00:46:24.100
then you would say oh we better get involved in helping israel because we don't want to be like neville
00:46:31.220
chamberlain who just you know naively expected the evil the evil other side to you know want peace or if
00:46:42.340
you're thinking about the holocaust if that's your primary model that's running in your brain and i would
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imagine that for a lot of the jewish americans and israeli jews that would be primary thing running
00:46:58.100
through their mind then you look at the the iranian um leadership saying they want to exterminate israel
00:47:07.540
and you say to yourself well that reminds me of the holocaust so
00:47:14.500
never again and you know netanyahu said that directly he said this this is never again
00:47:22.820
so if your analogy that's running in your head is holocaust then you probably are in favor of direct u.s
00:47:31.060
military intervention when in theory it would be the easiest to do now than it will ever be
00:47:39.220
but suppose you're thinking of libya or iraq uh two countries that got destroyed
00:47:47.620
and maybe there wasn't a good reason for either one of them being destroyed
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then you would say to yourself my god we cannot be involved with
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you know destroying yet another country um just because our military industrial complex wants to
00:48:03.620
sell more weapons so if that's the analogy that's running around your head
00:48:09.060
then you're thinking well maybe maybe not get more involved but you you see my point right
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you don't see a lot of people saying let's reason this through in in all the paths
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all right if we take this path the most likely outcome is this and then that would lead to this
00:48:30.580
and that will lead to that no mostly we just snap the grid and say all right i think more about the
00:48:39.060
holocaust than i think about neville chamberlain and and then that's your that's what you think is your
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opinion and that if we have a certainty about it well that's a real signal that you're not doing it right
00:48:53.220
right we we should be looking at it as you know a risk reward with a certain percentage risk
00:49:10.020
um in other news uh apparently uh trump has said that he wants to expand the uh deportations into
00:49:20.740
um the power centers of the democrats the power centers being uh la chicago and new york
00:49:31.940
and i think trump is saying directly now that because so many immigrants were brought in
00:49:40.260
to maybe increase the political base of the democrats that he wants to go after that political base that
00:49:47.700
they're building and uh get rid of it or decrease it as much as possible so a lot of republicans and i
00:49:57.140
guess now that includes trump believe that the democrats were mostly in favor of bringing in new voters
00:50:05.540
and if not new voters then at least new residents that get picked up by the census and then it determines
00:50:13.140
how many how many how many representatives you were uh stay against so trump seems to be
00:50:20.900
deciding to directly go against that and try to ship back as many people as possible from the places where
00:50:30.180
it would make a difference to representation now where does worst first
00:50:36.580
come in this it seems to me that trump is now abandoning the get rid of the worst first and he's going after
00:50:48.260
get rid of the most people you can because i think steven miller wanted to get up to 3 000 a day
00:50:57.060
i think we're closer to a thousand a day so to get from a thousand a day or whatever it is it might be
00:51:04.980
hundreds to three thousand you're not really going to be able to do that with the worst first because
00:51:12.180
you're not going to be able to you know process that many criminals or at least you know yeah here's
00:51:19.220
where i have to stop and say oh yes i know they're all criminals because they came in illegally but you know
00:51:26.740
exactly what i mean so don't be an npc and say but scott but scott they're all criminals they're all criminals
00:51:34.020
scott we all know that everybody in the conversation knows that they're technically criminals because
00:51:44.580
they came into the country illegally but you also know that whenever we talk about the criminal versions
00:51:52.020
of them we're talking about extra you know extra crimes on top of that so you know don't be an npc
00:51:59.700
you don't need to remind me that they're all criminals technically we got it we got it anyway so
00:52:09.540
um it looks like trump thinks he has the political support to go deeper and uh we'll see i i hope it doesn't
00:52:22.260
get uh i hope there are not any uh let's say unintended consequences that come out of that but we'll see
00:52:33.380
according to uh a post i saw by wall street apes on x the uh los angeles mall which would be a high-end
00:52:43.380
mall yeah with jewelry shops and nice places like that is totally boarded up
00:52:48.980
every every every store in the mall the the windows are covered with boards now i assume that's mostly
00:52:58.020
because of the recent protests but it makes you wonder if they're going to keep that up
00:53:04.500
i feel like the whole idea of shopping in person at your local store is if it's not already dead
00:53:13.300
it's kind of on the way to being dead because the looters are not going to leave stores alone i mean
00:53:23.940
apparently looting is pretty popular so given that you can buy almost anything through the mail
00:53:32.260
and the fact that you're not going to want to go to a store that's boarded up even if it's open
00:53:37.060
you know it's going to be creepy to go to a store that's boarded up all the windows um it feels like
00:53:45.140
in-person shopping is just on the verge of being extinct you know maybe for stuff like you know
00:53:53.860
target or something that might remain but it's hard for me to see an upscale store
00:54:00.660
there's stuff that's stuff that's easy to loot and steal like jewelry it's hard to hard for me to
00:54:07.140
imagine there will still be jewelry stores and malls in five years i don't know just seems unlikely
00:54:17.220
well uh lindsey graham is in favor of uh more sanctions on russia he thinks that'll make a difference
00:54:25.780
um he says if they don't have a breakthrough soon in negotiations they'll put these gnarly sanctions
00:54:36.180
on russia and that those will easily move through the senate and the house i don't know about that what
00:54:43.140
do you think i i'm having trouble believing that there are sanctions we could have put on russia
00:54:52.500
that would make a difference that would make a difference that we haven't used is anybody even
00:54:58.020
clear what that would be like some of it is against the oligarchs but that never moves the needle
00:55:06.020
um and some of it would be i guess against our allies who are buying fuel from russia
00:55:13.300
so we'd basically be sanctioning our own allies wouldn't we um so i don't even know what that those
00:55:22.500
sanctions look like but apparently lindsey graham is aware of some unused sanctions
00:55:30.020
i i wouldn't uh make a big bet that that's gonna work out well according to ex-user nick cruz patain who
00:55:41.780
talks about tesla stuff he says the grok integration is going to be coming to the tesla ui soon it could
00:55:51.620
be a game changer and to me that does seem like a game changer because it's one thing to get into
00:56:01.380
your self-driving car and have to you know program it on your screen it's another thing to get into your
00:56:08.100
car and say um take me home or get into your car and say take me to the grocery store and you don't
00:56:18.180
even know where it is but it says which one the one that's close and you go yeah that's the one imagine
00:56:24.980
talking to your car oh according to the leading report a million illegals have self-deported under
00:56:33.620
trump i don't know if that's true how would we know um i guess if they self-deported through the
00:56:43.300
process that christy gnome is promoting where you use the the app on your phone to self-deport
00:56:51.220
maybe maybe maybe a million have have left maybe anyway the tesla with ai that you could talk to the
00:57:00.580
entire time that would be amazing i mean that would be such a different experience just you know as long
00:57:08.820
as no one else is in the car it's probably no good if someone else is in the car but if someone else if
00:57:16.500
no one else is in the car you could tell your you could tell your uh car to give you a tour of a historic
00:57:24.420
area and then the ai could describe the historic area as you drive through i mean how cool would that
00:57:32.100
be very cool and you could tell it was stuff like all right uh i like to eat lunch around 11 30 so we're
00:57:42.260
going to go here um so plan me a lunch and make me a lunch reservation um and make sure there's a place
00:57:50.820
i can charge my car and you know then you're having some fun all right um i think this is real
00:58:01.700
that trump has announced plans to launch a wireless brand trump mobile so there will be a trump phone
00:58:12.180
and i don't know if they'll make a phone but a trump mobile phone service now i always wondered
00:58:20.820
because there are a number of uh uh what we call it second tier mobile phone uh providers who don't
00:58:30.260
own a network and somehow they i guess they rent time on the existing networks but they offer their own
00:58:38.900
phone service is it mint is that one of them and i don't know exactly how those work but i assume
00:58:47.380
that uh trump mobile if it's real um would use facilities that are already built i doubt i doubt he'd be
00:58:58.020
building out his own network but maybe it seems unlikely uh it's the wholesale side of telecom yeah
00:59:08.180
so so that's a interesting idea all right uh apparently
00:59:17.460
the chinese companies that are trying to get access to our good ai chips uh are finding it moronically easy
00:59:26.980
to do so our best ai chips um are banned from china so the ai people in china can't just you know buy some
00:59:39.780
chips and then use it locally but what they can do and apparently what they are doing is they they
00:59:46.980
buy a um a data center in malaysia where it's legal to have all the chips you want and then they bring
00:59:55.540
uh a suitcase full of uh hard drives and they do all their work they train their ai on this data center
01:00:04.900
with the good chips in malaysia and then when it's trained to the new version they load up all their uh
01:00:12.340
their drives in their suitcase and they take the model that's now trained back to china
01:00:19.940
so apparently the workaround is moronically easy to do and is in full in full swing so if you thought we
01:00:30.740
were uh slowing down china by denying them chips well you know we may have slowed them down by a week
01:00:40.580
because you have to travel back and forth with your suitcase full of hard drives but we didn't
01:00:47.060
really slow them down they figured out how to get their data centers in malaysia and other places i
01:00:53.060
guess um speaking of ai the guardian reports that thousands of uk university students have been caught
01:01:03.860
cheating using ai are you surprised no so here again i i credit the uh there's some american uh college
01:01:16.740
i forget which one that is gonna say ai is great use ai for all of your work and knowing how to use ai is
01:01:26.020
important so just use it for all your classes i think this is a smarter model um but we'll see
01:01:36.260
but certainly it's going to be a gigantic problem of people cheating using uh using ai all right ladies
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