Episode 2903 CWSA 07⧸20⧸25
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1 hour and 13 minutes
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123.62292
Summary
Dilbert's new character, COVID Carl, and the first self-driving big rig truck on the road, a new kind of farm, and a new way to get good grades in school. Plus, the first fully autonomous farm.
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I do. All right. Well, those of you who follow the Dilbert Reborn comic, or you may have seen
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it on X because I did an unprotected version of it today, you know that I solved a problem
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I've been working on for a while, which is I needed some way to refer to the people who can't
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get over the pandemic. Now, I understand why you can't get over it, so there's no confusion
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there. But a lot of people's brains just got broken by the pandemic, and they see the world
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through that filter. And so I needed a name for people who were like the Japanese soldiers
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who didn't know the World War II was over, and they were hiding in caves for decades. It
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feels like that. So the new character I introduced into the Dilbert world is COVID Carl. And COVID
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Carl judges all of your opinions by what your opinion was during the pandemic. And if they
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don't like your opinion during the pandemic, well, they're not going to like any other opinion
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you ever have. Well, let's check the science and see if there are any studies that could have
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saved some money just by asking me. Oh, here we go. Eric Nolan is writing for a side post that
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the quality of friendships are strongly linked to the well-being of single Americans.
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Is there anybody who didn't know that if you're single, the quality of your friendships
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is important to your well-being? Well, I don't know if any of you knew it. I suspect you did.
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But they definitely could have saved some money by going to me and saying, Scott, we're thinking
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about doing this study. And I would say, don't bother. Don't bother. Just ask me.
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Well, the first self-driving big rig is on the road. A company called Kodiak Robotics. So it's a fully
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autonomous 18-wheeler. It's in Texas. Now, this one runs on LiDAR, so it won't be as cool as Tesla's
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big rig truck that I think is coming, right? I believe Tesla's working on that too.
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But AI conversation is the source of this. But did you ever believe that you would be alive at a
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time when big rig trucks would be driving without a driver on the same road as you? You know, one way
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to make sure everything is self-driving cars is people are going to be afraid to drive unless they're
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in a self-driving car. I feel as if the self-driving cars should have to communicate with each other,
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even if it's a different brand of car. Because if one car goes bad, the other cars could say,
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hey, cut it out. You're heading right at me. So anyway, self-driving everything.
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But even cooler than that, the Wall Street Journal is reporting about a farm, an autonomous farm. So
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it's an outdoor farm, but it uses robot tractors and I think drones to maybe pick stuff. So it's a fully
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autonomous farm. Now, how many of you have ever worked on a farm? I have worked on a farm. My uncle
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had a farm that was walking distance from where I grew up. And so my siblings and I would be pressed
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into farm-related services of various types. And it's not very pleasant work. I'll tell you,
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if you ever want to convince somebody to study hard and get good grades in school,
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all you have to do is have them work on a farm for a summer and figure out what manual labor is like.
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Like, they'll study pretty hard after that. But anyway, maybe I'll become a farmer because now you
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can do it without leaving the house. Imagine being a farmer. This is actually, you know, totally
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possible. Imagine being a farmer and you own a bunch of, you know, real estate and you planted
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something and you run it from your computer. And the whole thing is just running itself with robots
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while you're inside having breakfast. Well, that's coming. There's a new laser technology
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from Illinois. I don't know why. Oh, University of Illinois. And NextGen Defense is talking about it.
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Now, the details are too boring for this podcast, but the world of lasers used to shoot down
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incoming missiles and incoming drones is experiencing some big upgrades. So I feel like we're not that
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far away from the lightsaber. The only thing that stops you from having a lightsaber is the power
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source, you know, the size of the power source and the fact that the laser isn't going to stop on its
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zone after five feet or whatever one of those is. But does it seem to you that if you can get the power
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source small enough that someday we'll actually have lightsabers? I'm starting to think you could
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limit how far the laser is still effective, you know, having it focused somehow. I don't know.
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Lightsabers, maybe someday. Well, make America healthy again. As a new win, Breitbart is writing about
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this, Jasmine Jordan, that PepsiCo is dropping artificial colors and flavors from their chips,
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from their Lay's and their Tostitos. What would a Lay's potato chip or a Tostito look like
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without artificial dyes? I don't know. I'm not sure it will look good. But maybe if it tastes good,
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your brain will just say, ah, that's fine. I don't know if it'll make any difference at all.
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Well, remember I kept saying a few days ago, is today the day that there will be national protests
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called Good Trouble, in which there were dozens or maybe hundreds of cities that were supposed to be
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protesting Trump. And I thought it started, but then I didn't say news. So I thought, well, it must be
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the next day. And then the next day came, and there was no news about it. Well, apparently the whole
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thing fizzled. It was supposed to be this big organized national protest. Zero Hedge says that
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it fizzled. I never even saw it. I didn't see any news coverage. And the speculation
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is that the Trump administration defunding of all those NGOs, you know, the stuff that the
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doge people found was probably just money laundering. Could it be that there's not the right kind of
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money in the right place to organize another fake protest that's nationwide? Or did Democrats figure
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out that it doesn't move the needle whatsoever? And that, I would say, the more protests there are,
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the more law and order people are going to want, because there's always trouble when there's a big
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protest. And doesn't that work in Trump's favor? No matter why they're protesting, as long as there
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were also violent people in the protest or vandals or whatever, and there always are, there always are
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if it's a big one. Wouldn't that always work in Trump's favor? Maybe they just figured it out.
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According to PJ Media, David Manny is writing that 140 people leave California every day,
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and a lot of them are going up to Washington State. So Washington State, I guess, has no
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state income taxes. How many of you know what the state income tax is at the highest rate
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in California? Do most of you even know? If I gave you a quiz, it's 13.3%. That's just the state tax.
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13.3%. And then our gas is something like, I don't know, 40% higher than other people's.
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And our housing is much more expensive, and the traffic is bad, and the government is terrible
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and bankrupt, practically. And you can't buy fire insurance in most places. And you probably
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ask me, why do you stay? And the answer is, today's high temperature will be 79 degrees.
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There won't be a cloud in the sky. The wind will not be blowing. And at least where I live,
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not really any insects to speak of. No mosquitoes, no humidity.
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I don't think you can understand how addictive California is. It's not really easy to move out
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of this place, you know, depending on what part you're in. It's, you know, I wouldn't want to live
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in downtown LA or San Francisco. But if you're not living in those places, it's really nice. It's hard to
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find a place you'd want to go. And I was thinking, the people moving to Washington State
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are going to discover what it's like to have overcast, rainy days, like way more than they
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expect. And a lot of them are going to be ending their own lives because there's a pretty high rate
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of that up there. A lot of it has to do with the weather. So good luck with that if you're moving.
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I laugh now, but someday, you know, could happen to me. You never know.
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Remember yesterday, I told you the story. It was in the news that apparently the Department of Defense
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was contracting through Microsoft to handle some Department of Defense technical networks and stuff.
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And that Microsoft had hired Chinese nationals, actually Chinese people living in China,
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to do some tech support, which gave them access to some percent of the entire Department of Defense
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network. And I wondered if that was even true. Because I thought to myself, hmm, that sounds like
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something that couldn't possibly be true. Now, PXF has said that they're going to force Microsoft,
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I guess, to cancel those contracts because it was true. Unbelievable that Microsoft had delegated
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sensitive access to the Department of Defense computers for Chinese nationals who are forced to tell the
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government whatever the government wants them to tell them. Wow. So, but what I don't know yet
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is what percentage and whether it included our most sensitive stuff. I don't know. It might have been
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just some systems. And there's a little ambiguity about how many systems were involved. So it might
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have been a big deal. Or it might have been a, you know, minor deal if it wasn't the most sensitive
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systems. Don't know. Well, the ex-chair of the DNC, Jamie Harrison, he started a new podcast. Why?
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Because, as he says, people want Democrats to just be real. So I guess he started a podcast to
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show us how to show us how to be real or show the Democrats how to be real. The fact that Democrats
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believe that they can manufacture a Joe Rogan, it just blows my mind. You can't manufacture these
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things. You know, there's like this magic that sometimes hit some things. You could do lots of
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things and then hope some of them get popular. But the idea that you could manufacture your own
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Joe Rogan and make it the Democrat version. Nothing works that way. That's just not how anything in the
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So Hunter Biden was on Jamie Harrison's new podcast. And Hunter wants you to know that he never had
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anything to do with any decisions in the White House. And he said, quote, Hunter said this,
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you ask one person to go on the record that would ever tell you that I was in any way making a single
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decision about anything, anything in that White House, Biden told Harrison. I stayed as far away as
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I possibly could, which, by the way, broke my heart. Well, I believe him. I believe him. Because it seems to me
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that there were so many people around Biden, and probably every single one of them would have tried
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to keep Hunter's influence at the minimum. So yeah, I don't think Hunter had that much influence. I
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believe him. He's not a credible character, but on this specific topic, I don't think he had that much
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influence. Well, the Trump administration has reportedly, so far, and probably more to go,
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have eliminated 22,000 federal workers from around the Washington, D.C. area. So Bloomberg is
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reporting on that. Is that good? 22,000 fewer? How many... The thing that this report lacks
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is context. That's why when I read the news, I spend at least half of the time asking Grok
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to explain the news that I just read again today. What I didn't have time for is I wanted to ask
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how many government employees there are. Do you know? In the comments, give me a number
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if somebody has an extra screen open. How many government employees are there? Because aren't there
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many millions? Is it many millions of government employees? Is it more than 10 million?
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20,000? Somebody says 1.3 million, 4 million, 4 million. All right. Yeah, I feel like it might
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be in that 4 million range or something like that. So we'll do a fact check on that. But low
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millions. 22,000 though? It's way better than adding people. I think Biden added people, a lot
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of them. So good job on the getting rid of excess people. Apparently, the Obamacare insurance,
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according to the Hill, is going to spike in costs. So a lot of people who have Obamacare
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are going to find that a lot of the insurance that they have for health will go up 15, 20%
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this coming year. Now, the reason for the increases is if they say things just cost more than they
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used to. But they also blame Trump policies, right? So they blame some Trump policies.
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It doesn't matter. Just know that your health care costs will go up if you happen to be buying
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it through the ACA or the Obamacare. So more than a quarter of the insurers are looking for
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big increases. So I don't know if that's going to have an impact on the midterms or elections
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after that. Let's see. Would it affect the midterms? No. Yeah, the midterms are next year,
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right? The midterms happen in 26. So yeah, that might affect the midterms. We'll see.
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When I found out my friend got a great deal on a wool coat from Winners, I started wondering,
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is every fabulous item I see from Winners? Like that woman over there with the designer jeans.
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Are those from Winners? Ooh, or those beautiful gold earrings? Did she pay full price? Or that
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leather tote? Or that cashmere sweater? Or those knee-high boots? That dress? That jacket?
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Those shoes? Is anyone paying full price for anything? Stop wondering. Start winning.
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Winners find fabulous for less. Well, there's a company called Thingiverse that apparently prints
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plans for 3D items. And some of those items, a number of them, were weapons. But it looks
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like the Manhattan DA, Alvin Bragg, has convinced them to stop offering a way to 3D print your
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own gun. So apparently the so-called ghost guns, you know, the guns that you don't know where
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they came from, in New York City tripled since 2020. And a lot of that must be people making
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their own gun on the 3D printer. But at least one of the companies, I don't know how many
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there are, but one of them said they will stop doing that. Now, I liken that to what's going
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to happen with AI that I predicted a while ago, but I'll remind you. In theory, AI will help
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humans get past all their fake news and false beliefs, because it'll be a super intelligence.
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In practice, much like the 3D printer thing, even though the 3D printer could allow you to make
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a gun, there will be, human beings will limit that from actually happening. Now, probably not
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eliminate it, but humans will always try to limit what the technology can do, because they
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don't want it to do bad things. So with AI, I'm predicting that every major field of human
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endeavor will have some kind of organized element to it that will force the AI companies to distort
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the AI's impression of stuff. So if you were, you know, if you had enough leverage, you could
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go to the AI companies and say, we don't really want it to say that the climate models are
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unreliable. So you're in real trouble if they say that. So you might want to put a little code
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in there that prevents them from doing that. You're going to see that with every industry.
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It will be completely distorted because nobody wants the AI to tell the truth. If you're in an industry
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Apparently, the likelihood of Jerome Powell staying in office through May, the end of his contract,
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is pretty good. And the odds of him being fired before that are pretty low. I guess the reporting
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from the Wall Street Journal anyway, is that Treasury Secretary Scott Bassett made the argument to Trump
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to not try to fire Powell for a cause, even though, you know, they were looking for some cause.
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He thought it would disturb the markets and he thought that he thinks the Fed will, or a lot of
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people, think the Fed will lower rates on its own before the end of the year. So it wouldn't buy
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you something that wasn't going to happen anyway, and it would roil the markets.
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I gave you some serious fake news yesterday, and some of you probably still think it's real.
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Do you remember I was talking about the alleged drawing that allegedly Trump did on a greeting
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card for Epstein when Epstein had his 50th birthday? And the story was that Trump drew a naked woman
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person, and, you know, signed his name so it would look like pubic hair on the naked woman.
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And then I showed you a drawing which I incorrectly believed was that drawing.
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That's the fake news part. If you saw a drawing that was purporting to be the one that Trump did
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on the greeting card, it's not real. It's just people who took their own shot at it,
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and then other people thought it was real. So there is not in evidence anywhere. It was not
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in the Wall Street Journal article either. The Wall Street Journal simply described it
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without showing you an image of it. So nobody in the public domain has ever seen the so-called image
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that was the biggest source of news for the last several days. So that was all bullshit.
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That drawing was BS. Now, it doesn't change my opinion. What I like about this, this story,
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is that the whole greeting card hoax probably brought the MAGA supporters back together.
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You know, there was a lot of talk about the MAGA people being, you know, sort of split apart over
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the Epstein revelations. But now that Trump has seemingly moved in the direction of more disclosure,
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he approved the DOJ asking to unseal the grand jury testimony. I don't think it's going to happen,
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but if it did, it would look like Trump was at least trying to make things more transparent.
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But at the same time, he gets attacked with what looks like fake news about that greeting card,
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which makes the Republicans say, uh, that's not cool. Every time Trump gets in trouble,
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he gets a little bit more popular with his base. So I feel like he may be, maybe what he calls the
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Epstein hoax, which is an interesting way he frames it. So it's not like the Epstein story is fake,
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not all of it, but the part that says that Trump is covering up for himself in some way is, uh,
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yeah, it was, uh, probably a hoax, the, that part. So I'll remind you what Alan Dershowitz is saying
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about Epstein, because I saw something he added to opinions I've told you about before. Um,
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according to Dershowitz, he is not aware, remember he was Epstein's lawyer for the first set of trouble
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that Epstein got into. Um, but Dershowitz says that there were, as far as he knows, there were no
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videotapes of any bedrooms, that the only, the only videotape was in a public area and the police
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put it there because it was, it was just in one of his homes in Palm Springs because he reported a gun
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and some money was stolen from his home. So somehow he convinced the police to put in their own
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video to look for, I don't know, the next criminal. Um, but according to Dershowitz, that's all there
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was. So he would say that there are no videos, you know, blackmail videos. Now you've heard, uh,
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uh, the FBI and the department of justice refer to all the videos of underage
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people. I believe that those were not taken on the property. I think that they were just from the
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internet, right? So I believe there were lots of videos of horrible things, but not horrible things
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involving amateurs who were, who had just visited the island. It was just video that, uh, anybody could
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have gone and gotten from the internet if that was their thing. So that's what I think. That's my current
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view. Um, Dershowitz says that no current office holders were named as, uh, potential abusers. Now he
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would know again, cause he saw all the names. He just can't tell you what he saw, but he says no
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current office holders. Do you believe that? Well, he, he's quite sure that Trump was not, um,
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incriminated in any of that. So that's cool. And then Dershowitz says, he asked his sources in Israel,
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and he would have good sources, um, if, uh, Epstein was part of Mossad. And guess what Mossad said?
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He asked Mossad if Epstein was, was, was their guy. And Mossad said no.
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You can't ask the spy, the, you know, the spy organization if the worst person in the world
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was on their payroll. What do you, what are they going to say? Now, I personally believe
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he probably wasn't. Personally, I believe he was not on the payroll of Mossad nor the CIA.
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And I'm very much being influenced by, um, influenced by the Mike Benz opinion that the real story of
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Epstein might be that he was, uh, the money launderer supreme for any number of bad characters
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or maybe even intelligence characters who wanted him to connect people who had money with people
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who wanted to use that money. And some of those uses, but maybe not all,
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may have been some intelligence network asking for a favor. Now, there's a big difference
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between being on the payroll and being a secret spy, uh, versus those same spy networks having
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probably more people who don't work for them do stuff for them than the people
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that they pay. Wouldn't you guess? For every one person that the CIA has on their payroll,
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wouldn't you assume that there are maybe five or 10 people who are not on their payroll,
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but the people who are on the payroll may ask for favors. And then the people doing the favor
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might not even know why. And they might not even doing it for any specific payback. They might be
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doing it, doing it. Oh, let's say, Hey, here's a deal. If I can get, get this thing funded for you,
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or if I can hide this money you want hidden, can you do me a favor later? And we would never know what
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that favor was, but there would be no payroll. And if asked, there was intelligence people would say,
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no, it doesn't work for us. And they would be telling the truth. Just maybe they know,
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maybe somebody in the organization knew him. Maybe somebody in the organization asked them for a favor.
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I believe there's now, was it Laura Loomer who had this scoop about a whistleblower who said he saw
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the FBI destroy Epstein documents? Do I have that right? We're doing that from memory. I'm not sure I
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have that right. But would you be amazed if you found out that everything you heard about
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Epstein's sexual escapades was true? And you even found out that he got lots of rich and powerful
00:34:05.480
people involved in similarly illegal sexual activities, but it was never videoed and there
00:34:15.060
was no documentation of it ever made. Would you be surprised by that? If my job involved knowing as
00:34:24.840
many important people as possible so I could get favors from them and I could introduce one to the
00:34:30.820
other, which is a favor, and I was also doing this illicit sex stuff, would I write any of it down?
00:34:41.580
Would I send an email and say, hey, head of state,
00:34:45.840
on Thursday, we've got you set up with an underage person? There's never going to be any documentation.
00:34:55.620
And why would he video it if it would get him in trouble too?
00:35:01.080
So, I'm kind of evolving to the opinion that it's entirely possible that the illicit sex stuff
00:35:10.840
did happen, but there will never be any record of it, because why would there be? So, I feel like
00:35:20.680
that's going to be a dead end. We'll see. Maybe some names will come out, but that's going to be
00:35:28.240
quite a show if they do, because some of them people will be innocent. Jeffrey Epstein's ex-girlfriend
00:35:39.620
friend, this was on CNN, is accusing Trump of way back in 1993 of what CNN is calling
00:35:52.420
groping her in front of Epstein. So, CNN reports that Trump groped Epstein's girlfriend in front of
00:36:04.760
Epstein. But then you hear what she describes, and doesn't grope sound like he's grabbing her in her
00:36:12.840
private parts? But then what she describes is that he's just really handsy, but not necessarily on
00:36:21.440
her private parts. Now, I'm not defending him. I'm just saying that the way CNN characterized it
00:36:28.700
didn't exactly match how she described it. It's not good if he was too handsy and it made her
00:36:36.060
uncomfortable. Just to be clear, I'm not defending that. I'm just saying, they may have added a little,
00:36:42.540
may have added a little spice to that by calling it groping. When you hear groping,
00:36:49.440
don't you automatically think the naughty parts are involved? Well, I don't know. So,
00:36:57.840
that's her story. Nobody cares. It won't change anything. There is a story now
00:37:05.520
that Trump and his team did ask about canceling some SpaceX contracts over the Elon Musk-Trump
00:37:17.680
disagreements that were kind of public. And that when NASA was asked, all right, are there any
00:37:25.340
SpaceX contracts we can cancel? They learned that everything SpaceX does is sort of vital to
00:37:33.440
our entire space program. So, there wasn't really anything that our government could cancel
00:37:40.840
without hurting the government more than it hurt Elon Musk. So, I'm not sure I completely believe
00:37:49.320
that this story. It's possible that maybe they just wanted to find out if there was something they
00:37:57.300
could threaten to cancel. So, you don't know if they meant, you know, that they had decided they
00:38:02.820
were going to cancel something, if they could find something good and cancelable. It could be
00:38:08.240
that they just wanted to have a little, you know, a little leverage over them. We don't know.
00:38:15.360
Anyway, Eric Schmidt, who was once the CEO of Google, and one of the smartest guys in the tech world,
00:38:28.400
is saying that traditional user interfaces are going to go away with AI. I saw this on an account on X
00:38:36.020
Vichupo. And apparently, there's an acronym for the old user interface. It's called WIMP, W-I-M-P.
00:38:46.720
It stands for Windows, Icons, Menus, and Pulldowns. And Eric Schmidt points out that the user interface
00:38:55.360
that we have on our phones and computers and iPads and all that, it was designed 50 years ago.
00:39:01.400
50 years ago. And the AI will simply change its UI on the fly based on what it is that it knows you
00:39:13.820
want. So, does this sound familiar? The reason I bring it up is not that this specific topic is
00:39:22.340
fascinating, but rather, this is what I've been telling you is going to happen. And it helps when
00:39:29.360
somebody who actually knows what they're talking about agrees. My perfect user interface would be
00:39:36.340
a blank screen. And then I just start doing stuff. And because it's AI, it knows and guesses pretty
00:39:45.800
quickly what it is I'm doing. And it just conforms to whatever user interface I need to get that done.
00:39:52.840
Yep. It's the no apps phone. Exactly. So, Eric Schmidt, who is way smarter than I am about this
00:40:02.040
technology stuff, agrees. If I asked you, and I will, if you had to estimate how many illegal
00:40:13.680
immigrants have been arrested so far during Trump's second term, what would you estimate?
00:40:19.860
So, the news is all about the deportations. So, if I said to you, how many of them have
00:40:27.840
been so far? What would your answer be? In the comments, give me your best estimate. Because
00:40:34.720
I don't think you, I don't think we often see that number. Sometimes we see, you know, per
00:40:40.840
day numbers and stuff like that. All right. I'm seeing your guesses from 200,000 to 25,000,
00:40:49.980
150,000. All right. Some of you read the news. The answer is 150,000. Does that sound like a lot
00:40:57.780
or not a lot? Because I believe that Obama, over his eight years, maybe, deported around 3 million.
00:41:07.620
And it's really hard to deport a lot of people. Surprise. It's really, really hard to do it in
00:41:15.260
gigantic numbers. So, you can try as hard as you want. And, you know, at this rate, that's the first
00:41:23.320
six months. If it's stayed at that rate, and it won't because they have new funding, so it'll probably
00:41:29.340
increase. But it would only be 300,000 a year. And so, he wouldn't even reach Obama numbers at that
00:41:41.280
rate. He would be below Obama deportation numbers. So, we'll see if he can make up the difference.
00:41:51.060
But remember what I've been warning you about, that there will be a point where the deportations
00:41:59.500
start affecting people who are not directly being deported and are not family members. It's going to
00:42:06.680
start affecting just other people in a variety of ways. Then we'll see if it stays at the same rate,
00:42:14.400
or if there's any kind of counter movement that says, you know, you know, you got most of them.
00:42:20.900
You did a good job. You could slow down. I think that might happen. I'm going to predict that. But we'll
00:42:28.140
see. Apparently, the government is ramping up to deport more people. And part of that is using
00:42:36.760
military bases. And there are a few of them being discussed for housing illegal aliens waiting to
00:42:43.860
be deported. So, not only will there be these additional alligator Alcatraz situations, but
00:42:53.140
Department of Defense will be using some of its facilities to house people until they can be shipped
00:42:59.320
back. So, that's pretty serious stuff. According to Just the News, Nicholas Ballzy, or maybe it's
00:43:11.700
Ballazy, anyway, is writing about Obama just went on his wife's podcast. And Michelle Obama and her
00:43:27.080
brother have a podcast. So, Barack Obama went on it for the first time. And he made a little news by
00:43:34.960
saying that he had a gay professor when he was in college, and it was a big positive role model to
00:43:42.660
him. And he believes that young men should have friends who are gay. Now, I agree with him. It would be
00:43:56.900
very helpful if people had friends who were of all different types, including gay and including
00:44:03.280
other races and religions and stuff. And that would make the world a better place if you just had more
00:44:08.640
contact with people who were more different from you. So, I agree with the general concept which he is
00:44:15.340
selling. However, I must ask this question. If you were the Democrat Party, and what you wanted was to
00:44:24.240
improve the votes you got from American men, young American men, is the message that you want
00:44:37.160
that you should get a gay friend? Did he talk to Tim Walsh about the code talking to men?
00:44:48.680
Now, again, I'm all for it. I'm not saying it's a bad idea that young men have at least one gay
00:44:55.880
friend, so they've got some contacts and, you know, the world's a better place. I'm all for it.
00:45:01.620
But the choice of what to feature as the story of the day, I'm not sure that's exactly the one they
00:45:11.680
wanted if they're trying to increase their, you know, general mail voting. Anyway, good job, Democrats.
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00:45:37.860
All right, let's talk about the Tulsi Gabbard's release of new information that suggests
00:45:45.820
that the Obama and Brennan and Clapper and that crowd had cooked up the Russia collusion hoax
00:45:55.980
that they knew that Russia wasn't that involved and that they tried to sell it to the public
00:46:02.340
anyway to destroy Trump's, you know, his time in office. And so I'm following the story.
00:46:15.820
I'm reasonably well-educated. I do want to understand it, so I'm putting some effort into it.
00:46:22.940
And I don't understand the story. How many of you are having the same problem? That it's just
00:46:30.000
complicated enough and it, you know, spans many years and there's lots of characters and there's
00:46:36.620
lots of claims. And when I hear the story, I'm watching the right-leaning pod sphere and
00:46:45.660
news act like it's a really big deal and Obama could be taken away in handcuffs and, you know,
00:46:53.460
maybe everything's changed. But you know that the other news that is not right-leaning is treating
00:47:01.540
it like nothing happened. Do you know that? So it can't both be true. There's sort of the gigantic
00:47:10.820
bombshell changes everything. At the same time, nothing really changed.
00:47:18.320
So here's what I think is happening. Do you remember when the Hunter laptop was being spun by
00:47:27.500
the 51 intelligence-related people who signed on to a document that said that the Hunter laptop had
00:47:37.220
all the, I'm paraphrasing, but they said it had all the markings of a Russian spy craft, basically.
00:47:46.000
Those are my own words, but that's basically what it said. That all the indications
00:47:50.860
consistent with being, you know, Russian dirty trick. But they were so clever that they didn't say,
00:48:01.620
we have concluded it is Russian dirty trick. They left themselves this little weasel,
00:48:07.360
this little weasel room. No, no, no. And of course, as I predicted would happen,
00:48:13.400
as soon as that all blew up and we found out that that was all a lie, Brennan and Clapper both said,
00:48:21.280
I believe, fact check me on this, but I think they both said, we didn't say it was true.
00:48:27.720
No, we didn't say it was true. We just said it had all the markings of something that would be
00:48:33.580
consistent with a Russian plot. We didn't say it was a Russian plot. No, no, we didn't say that.
00:48:42.520
We just said it was consistent and it looked like the same kind of things you would expect, right?
00:48:51.100
Now, when I look at the Russian collusion stuff, I'm getting that same vibe.
00:48:57.580
Because, let's see if I can pull this together.
00:49:00.240
So, the memo that Tulsi Gabbard surfaced, let me see if I can get this. It's so complicated.
00:49:14.000
At one point, the intelligence agents were saying that there's no evidence that Russia wanted to
00:49:28.540
So, there was no evidence that they wanted to or that they tried to change any votes directly by hacking into it.
00:49:37.120
Now, the first thing I would say is if there's a legitimate discussion of whether or not the Russians hacked into our election system
00:49:45.760
and changed votes, is there something missing there?
00:49:54.820
And you would miss it if you got wrapped up in the story they're selling.
00:49:59.400
Here's the part that they're not selling, but you would have to accept at the same time.
00:50:04.700
If they even talked about the possibility that Russia had hacked and directly changed our voting system,
00:50:13.000
you know, the vote count, aren't they, isn't the intelligence community also accepting that it was possible?
00:50:22.120
And I'm pretty sure we've been told it wasn't possible.
00:50:26.180
So, you know, any technology, it seems like there's a way to thwart it.
00:50:32.660
But that was my first reaction was, wait a minute.
00:50:36.880
Why is there even a conversation about whether Russia might have changed the vote count?
00:50:52.340
Maybe the intelligence community assumes that anything is rigable,
00:51:02.660
Well, so we started with targeting election infrastructure.
00:51:10.500
Now, at one point we were told that the Russians absolutely, definitely were targeting election infrastructure,
00:51:18.560
and they were doing it for the benefit of Trump.
00:51:21.060
I feel like the only people who said it was for the benefit of Trump were the politicians, like Hillary.
00:51:30.960
So Hillary was claiming, oh, it's definitely obvious they were interfering with the election in 2016 for the benefit of Trump.
00:51:43.040
You know, it was just sort of her opinion that she was trying to sell.
00:51:48.200
But the intelligence community never said that Russia was interfering for Trump.
00:51:59.660
But I think they used the same weasel approach that Hillary could say whatever lies politicians say,
00:52:14.860
no, we have proof that they targeted our election infrastructure.
00:52:21.340
Is there proof that Russia targeted our election infrastructure?
00:52:35.240
But the reports that Russian sources did try to hack into,
00:52:46.660
And they got into voter registration databases in Illinois and Arizona.
00:52:55.840
So they didn't break into something that would directly,
00:53:03.820
But they did apparently break into some databases in two states
00:53:09.360
that doesn't look like they could do much damage.
00:53:16.660
So would that be enough to claim that the Russians hacked our,
00:53:23.960
that they targeted our election infrastructure?
00:53:30.900
You know, technically, you could say that the voter registration databases in those two states,
00:53:37.680
if, in fact, we know that the Russians are the ones who hacked it.
00:53:45.980
But there was no real chance that they could have changed votes, as far as I can tell.
00:53:55.580
there would further be no indication that they did it to help Trump.
00:53:58.940
But then they do the trick where they conflate it with the hack of the DNC emails,
00:54:11.760
the one thing that might have had some impact on the election
00:54:14.780
is that the internal databases embarrassed the Democrats
00:54:19.400
because it showed that they were definitely trying to screw Bernie Sanders
00:54:23.480
to, you know, lock in Hillary Clinton for the nomination.
00:54:27.540
Now, do you think that anybody changed their vote because of that?
00:54:37.320
But would that be an attack on the election infrastructure?
00:54:44.360
Because they lump it into the same conversation,
00:54:46.980
but that's not exactly election infrastructure.
00:55:17.480
there's no indication that any votes were changed by Russia
00:55:23.120
And I guess that was part of the president's daily briefing
00:55:47.280
that if Obama allowed the daily briefing to go ahead,
00:56:01.060
nor is there any indication that they intended to.
00:56:04.620
that would have put the lie to all the allegations
00:56:14.780
But, the thing that the intelligence community said
00:56:24.460
or do anything that would have changed any votes
00:56:33.900
but we don't even know the full story behind that.
00:56:38.300
So, there are a couple of themes I'm giving you.
00:57:33.800
All I'm saying is if you're getting really excited
00:57:37.780
because you think the smoking gun has been found
00:57:50.820
But what it looks like is there's too much conflating
00:57:54.580
of things that are slightly related but not the same.
00:58:17.120
Claudia was leaving for her pickleball tournament.
00:58:36.380
and she was on her way in a rental car in no time.
00:58:51.740
Israel is ordering the evacuation of central Gaza.
00:58:56.000
So, they need to do some more attacking of Hamas
00:59:13.160
How many people were still remaining in those buildings
00:59:19.600
or are there other buildings that have electricity and water
00:59:27.720
So, I'm surprised anybody is still living there.
00:59:46.640
in getting other countries to accept the Gazans.
00:59:51.380
Now, I don't believe there's any talk of America
00:59:58.960
because you wouldn't know what you were getting.
01:00:36.420
well, that word voluntary is doing a lot of work.