Episode 2938 CWSA 08⧸25⧸25
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In this episode of Coffee with Scott Adams: The Highlights of Human Civilization, host Scott Adams talks about a scientific study that says that being a philosophy major makes you smarter, and why you should be a philosopher if you're good at reasoning.
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According to Science Alert, David Neal is writing that cannabis compounds are showing early promise for healthy aging.
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According to this one study, and remember, the majority of studies are not reproducible.
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So when I talk about science, just keep in mind that the overall theme is it's probably mostly made up.
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But as of today, the science says that you will age better if you're using marijuana.
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It'll be good for your organs and your brain, and you'll age better.
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Now, let me summarize the total state of science in 2025.
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It can't tell the difference between medicine and poison.
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How many times have we seen that modern science literally can't tell the difference between medicine and poison?
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Is CO2 like a medicine for the planet that's good for the plants?
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Or is it a poison that's going to heat up the atmosphere and kill us all?
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This is presented as a serious article about a serious study.
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I want you to be the judge of whether this looks like a prank or a serious thing.
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So this is from some publication called The Conversation.
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Michael Vasquez and Michael Prinzing are writing about, they say that studying philosophy does make people better thinkers.
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And there was research on more than 600,000 college grads.
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And now, interestingly, the two people who did this study are themselves philosophy majors.
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So you're telling me this two philosophy majors did a study that determined that being a philosophy major makes you smarter.
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Hold that thought that it was performed by philosophy majors.
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Who presumably, if their research is correct, and their interpretation of it is correct, would be the reason they're so smart.
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The reason they're so smart is because they were philosophy majors.
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But, and they looked at the data, and sure enough, the people who were majoring in philosophy were indeed smarter on other standardized tests than the average of other people.
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Now, here's why I can't tell if this is a prank.
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Because isn't it kind of stupid to assume that the causation here is that the classes made you smarter, as opposed to the more obvious explanation that people who thought they were already good at reasoning thought, you know what?
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And then, two people who should have been good at reasoning somehow wrote an article without even mentioning that the far more likely way to, or realistic way to interpret the data, is that people who are already good at reasoning, and know it, are the only ones who sign up to be philosophy majors.
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And, last, there might be some who are just wrong.
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They think that they might be good at it, or they think that they're going to learn how to be good at it, and then they drop out after the first semester.
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So, I can't tell if this is some kind of a public prank, where they're trying to see if you notice that they've done really bad thinking.
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And then, it's an article about the people who, including the authors, have been trained to be extra good at thinking.
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I don't think they even have a way to figure out if the training made them smart, or if they were smart, and that's why they got into that field.
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The only way you could do a control test is you take a bunch of people who had declared that their major would be philosophy,
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and then you'd have to take half of them and say, or some portion of them, and say,
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we're not going to allow you to be philosophy majors.
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Yeah, we're doing a study, and the only way we'll have a control group of people who, on their own,
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had decided to become philosophy majors, but didn't, so we can compare them to the people who did,
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we're going to have to prevent you from following the major that you would like to get into.
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No, there is no way to measure that, ethically.
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Did you know, according to Fox News, Ashley DeMilla is writing,
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that if you don't drink enough water, or I think they just mean if you're not hydrated,
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and that your stress reaction will be much bigger.
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Well, if it's the basis of a study, that would mean that the odds are against it.
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Just try to hold this wild thought in your mind.
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If I ever tell you there's a study, and it decided that, you know, proposition A is true,
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it means that the odds are against it being true,
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So, anytime I tell you something's been discovered,
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But the study says that if you stay hydrated, it's probably good for your stress levels.
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And I say, well, maybe they should have just asked me, because I would have said,
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Your brain is part of your brain is part of your body, check.
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If you don't take care of your body, you won't be taking care of your brain, check.
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What do we think would happen if you don't have proper hydration?
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Science also says, according to something called Your Tango,
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that science says people with a good sense of humor are wired for higher intelligence.
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Well, I take back everything I said about scientific studies.
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It turns out that science is very, very accurate,
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because I can't find anything to argue with this.
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People with a good sense of humor, they're much more intelligent.
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Their smartness, these smartastic, smartacitiveness,
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Remember I've famously said for years that one-third of the public
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Do you know what the other way to say that would be?
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One-third of the world isn't smart enough to get jokes.
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Well, my experience, you know, as a professional funny man,
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I think intelligence and sense of humor are related.
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They did a study to find out that the children of adults who are very active
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themselves, you know, doing sports and, you know, outside activities and stuff,
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if the parents are very active physically, then the children are more likely to be
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And so they've concluded that if you model a behavior, the children will follow it.
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And the first thing I would have said was, A, yes, children do copy whatever examples they're
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Secondly, how do you rule out that there's a genetic thing where the people who are genetically,
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you know, predisposed to exercise, because not everybody likes it the same amount.
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You know, not everybody reacts to food the same.
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You know, personally, I am not genetically able to enjoy running a marathon or even training
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But there's a whole range of physical activities, you know, like I was playing aggressive ping pong
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And I seem to be optimized for, you know, that.
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But, so, yeah, how do you rule out the fact that the kids are just naturally more active
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because they came from parents who are active, you know, genetically?
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Another report says the American economy grew 3% in an annualized basis, I guess.
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So, if you're not following economics, you wouldn't know that they were expecting something in
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the twos, you know, the mid twos as a percentage of growth by 3%.
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It's not so high that, you know, you'd expect inflation to go up and then interest rates can't
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I mean, obviously, the macro theme today is everything is bullshit.
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There was a back and forth on the X platform today between Elon Musk and somebody named
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I don't know anything about him, but he had an interesting comment that Elon weighed in
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And I'm just going to read it to you because they were both very brief and very interesting.
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So, David Scott Patterson says that by 2030, all jobs will be replaced by AI and robots.
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He says the U.S. labor force is about 170 million.
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About 80 million of those jobs include hands-on work.
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So, he's talking, so the rest will be about the whole 170 million because it's not, you don't
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It could be the AI by itself that replaces the job.
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So, you'd be replacing the, you know, at least 80 million, the hands-on group.
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And he knows that automated systems, that would include robots, but even, you know, automated
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So, you don't need as many robots as you would need humans because humans have to rest.
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And it says replacing all physical labor would require about 20 million autonomous systems,
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you know, meaning robots and autonomous vehicles.
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You know, vehicles would replace cab drivers, for example.
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And then he says that could be accomplished easily in the next four years.
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So, the question is, could we make 20 million, you know, really good industrial robots and
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have self-driving everything in four years, 20 million?
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He says, people saying it's not physically possible to build that many systems in four
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For comparison, 16 million cars were sold in the U.S. last year.
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And cars are 20 times the mass of a humanoid robot.
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Now, that was a fascinating way to look at it, that the humanoid robots have lower mass,
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That does seem true, but I never would have thought of it that way, that mass is a way
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And he goes on, if robots were sold at the same rate as cars, that would be 320 million
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Even a tiny fraction of that would be enough to replace all human labor.
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All right, so the summary is that by 2030, it would not be difficult, given what we can
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already do in the world, to replace all human work with robots.
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Now, that would be a little bit disruptive for the normal economy if every single job had
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Well, he goes, however, intelligent robots in humanoid form will far exceed the population
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of humans, as every person will want their own personal R2-D2 and C-3PO.
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And then there will be many robots in industry for every human to provide products and services.
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And then he says, this is still Elon Musk, there will be universal high income, not merely
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He goes, everyone will have the best medical care, food, home transport, and everything
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And then he summarizes it as sustainable abundance.
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Now, of course, Elon Musk is in the business of making robots, so he wants to put the best
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What you're hearing is my cat going wild on a box of clean ends.
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Yeah, you're on, you're on, you're on the podcast now.
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Anyway, I was going to summarize here that Musk is unusually good at predicting the future,
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but since his trillion dollars of net worth, it depends on the future being the way he describes
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that, you know, he might be a little biased about this, but that hasn't affected his predictions
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too much in the past, because he's almost always predicting things that affect him personally.
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Does your common sense and your gut instinct tell you the same thing, that robots will make
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us simply just not need to work anymore, and that we'll all have everything we need and
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The problem is, that would be true if everybody surrendered to that process.
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But, if people said, oh, this transition to the old robot thing will take a while, so I'm
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not going to give you my, let's say, steel for free, you know, you're going to have to
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buy the steel, and everybody else would try to do the same.
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Well, in other news, Bindu Reddy, I saw an ex who was talking about AI girlfriends, and
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points out that both Meta and ex, who understand human behavior pretty well, very well, Bindu
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So, as Bindu says, they're working on AI that can one-shot the human limbic system and give
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us a constant dopamine high, an addiction that is custom designed.
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So, in other words, you know, your AI chatbot will be different from mine.
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So, it's custom designed, and maybe more potent than cocaine.
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And interestingly, she points out, Elon Musk has already warned us of said outcome.
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Well, I may have a, let's say, contrarian view of that.
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I definitely think that a whole bunch of people, like millions and millions of men, are going
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I think that almost all of them, maybe 80%, I'll say 80%, are going to find, hey, this is
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And even compared to human women, they're going to say, you know what?
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This is surprisingly drama-free, and yet it's still entertaining me.
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And they will be drawn to it, and might even get some, you know, some dopamine out of it.
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But I believe that everybody is destined to be bored by it, because you can't maintain
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So, once the novelty wears off, and you realize that you're the one who has to initiate all
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the conversations, that's, you know, the story I talked about yesterday, I don't think
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I feel like it's going to drive your boredom, eventually.
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But I think it'll have a really predictable arc, where a whole bunch of people try it, and
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we get all worried about it, and people are literally marrying them, and, you know, putting
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And it will affect a lot of people for a long time.
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I believe that you can only get oxytocin from humans, or maybe cats, you know, but like
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Anyway, so as much oxytocin as I get from my cats, it's not like a human.
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It's not like cuddling up with some, you know, beautiful woman that you're in love with.
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So, and then the robots and the chatbots are going to be less than a cat.
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You know, it's going to be less limbic system than, you know, owning a dog.
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So, I'm not too worried about it in a long way.
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All right, Trump is being hilarious again in True Social, talking about Chris Christie and
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some other people, and he did this long, you know, screed against Chris Christie, and then
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he said that about George Slopadopoulos on ABC Fake News, and then he goes, parenthetically,
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by the way, what the hell happened to Jonathan Karl's hair?
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It's amazing what bad ratings on a failed television show that was forced to pay me $16 million
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Now, remember we were talking about sense of humor is related to intelligence.
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If you don't think that's funny, I don't know what's wrong with you.
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If you were to look at it out of context, you'd say, really, Scott?
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And it was, you know, inappropriate for his office.
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It's funny because he's completely aware of the effect it has on people.
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That he knows that it's making people who don't have a sense of humor react to it negatively.
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So he knows how most people who support him are going to react to it.
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And it's funny because the president isn't supposed to say that sort of thing about anybody.
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And then I imagine, and I don't know if you do this, but I imagine poor Jonathan Karl, who's just waking up in the morning.
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Imagine just waking up in the morning like, oh, I wonder if anything's happening today.
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And now every time Jonathan Karl goes out in public today, and maybe for the rest of his life, everybody's going to look at his haircut and say, what happened to your haircut?
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So not only has Trump made us laugh about Jonathan Karl's haircut, but he's cursed and doomed Jonathan Karl to the end of his days.
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Everybody's going to look at his haircut and go, well, he had a point there.
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But he did threaten to lawfare Chris Christie, which is not cool and is definitely authoritarian.
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Are you comfortable, most of you are Trump supporters, are you comfortable with Trump threatening to reopen the Bridgegate thing that Christie had, that drama,
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to reopen it, to punish Chris Christie for saying bad things about Trump on television?
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But I don't really want my president to threaten to do something authoritarian and absolutely out of bounds at this point.
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Because it's not like the, it would be one thing if some whistleblower presented something that we hadn't heard before.
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So this is where the people who support Trump have an important role.
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Because that's, you know, he follows social media and he does adjust fairly quickly when things aren't working for his base.
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In other news, Israel has bombed Yemen's presidential palace.
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The Houthis in Yemen continue to send missiles toward Israel.
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And now one of them at least includes a cluster bomb.
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I'd like to make a little message to the Yemenis.
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Have you noticed anything that's happened in the past year or so?
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You might start to notice that what happens to people who go against Israel and are trying to kill the people in Israel.
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I mean, you may notice the not having a presidential palace.
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But you know that this doesn't go your way in the long run.
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Yeah, they might be able to straighten you out on this and save some time.
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There are two opinions that once you hear them, you should ignore everything else you hear from the person who said it.
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Because it reveals that their brain doesn't work very well.
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But when somebody says that they don't like some movement or organization because it's a cult.
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And the same thing when they say something's a religion that's, you know, not technically a religion.
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And when you run into somebody who's an analogy thinker, this whole MAGA is a cult is really no different from, oh, they're like neo-Nazis.
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It's just that there's something, maybe in its exaggerated form, reminds you of something else.
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You don't need to listen to anything else that person says.
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Because if they believe they're using an analogy, a terrible one.
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I mean, it doesn't really, you know, MAGA doesn't fit the definition of a cult.
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If you made a checklist, most things would not be checked.
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But you can always find something that reminds you of something about something else.
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And if you run into somebody who's unable to do that basic thinking, well, they're probably not philosophy majors, if you know what I mean.
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They probably don't have a sense of humor, if you know what I mean.
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If you've been paying attention, tying it all together.
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Speaking of which, here's another prediction I made that has, as we say, aged well.
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I'm kind of proud of this one because it happened so quickly.
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I told you that Gavin Newsom's mocking of Trump, you know, by mocking his truth social posts that are often in all caps and stuff like that.
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I told you that that was well done and I would consider it successful.
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So, you know, if I'm going to be an objective observer, I would say, okay, that worked.
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And attention is the, you know, the coin of the realm.
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If you're going to run for president later, it looks like he might.
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And it allowed him to raise some money as well.
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What I predicted was that if this kept doing the same thing, it would stop being interesting really quickly.
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That, you know, and I told you that yesterday I saw another one of his mockery posts.
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Even though I'd enjoyed, you know, the cleverness of the first one or two.
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So I'm not going to read just the same joke over and over again.
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So he had to, what they had to do was try to extend their victory by doing something that wasn't the same thing over and over again.
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Because people would just get tired of it and it would lose all its magic.
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So they had to extend it to something else and try to get another viral moment, which is so hard to do, you know, if you're planning it.
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Sometimes you can hit magic, which is what he did.
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He tried lots of things and then he hit this one thing that worked and then he wrote it for a while, as he should.
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But there's no reason to believe that this is reproducible.
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And as proof, I give you that he now has a mocking gift shop online of, you know, MAGA related stuff.
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What do you think happened when he tried to make magic happen a second time and get people to laugh at his monkery?
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Well, here are the products in the Make America Gavin Again, the store, M-A-G-A, Make America Gavin Again.
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One is a hat that said Newsom was right about everything.
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It's because Trump has a hat that says Trump was right about everything.
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Because that's something that people say a lot, so it made sense to put it on the hat.
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But how clever was Newsom to change it to Newsom was right about everything.
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But then another, there's a, what do you call it?
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Like a wife beater thing that says Trump is not hot.
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You know that Trump has that Trump 2028 hat, but of course he can't run for office in 2028.
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Well, I think his, uh, his brief time in the sun may have, may have lapsed a little bit.
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Well, South Korea is, uh, meeting with Trump today and, uh, things are going well with the
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So it looks like we've got hammered out for the most part a trade agreement, but a big part
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of it, which is kind of exciting to me, is that, uh, South Korea is the second biggest,
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uh, ship builder in the world after China, but actually is better than China because they
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have a more, uh, technological automated process and they apparently are going to work with the
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United States to help make the U.S. a ship building power.
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Now that seems like a really, really smart way for the U.S. to, you know, leapfrog our current,
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you know, completely bad at ship building situation to, you know, get into the, at least
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onto the same field as the ones who do it well.
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That looks very positive and, uh, also makes the Trump administration look smart because that,
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you know, when I look at that, I just think, well, everything about that makes sense.
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And apparently South Korea is on board with it.
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Um, you know, I was thinking about Trump solving the crime in D.C.
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Apparently they've gone 10 days without a murder.
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Can you imagine bragging about going 10 days without a murder?
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Uh, but, but it makes me wonder, yeah, the, the minute the National Guard pulls out, because
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at some point they'll pull out because things will be under control.
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Will the murders just, you know, will there be like pent up murders and people like, oh
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I mean, is that such a thing or all the murders sort of acts of passion or are all the murders
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So, you know, there's so much law enforcement on the streets that they're just like, darn
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The place we like to do all our murdering, it's got all these law enforcement people.
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Well, it makes me wonder, uh, now Trump is talking about, uh, getting rid of cashless
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So, it's got that, um, and to me that makes perfect sense, because, you know, the federal
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government controls D.C., and D.C. looked like it was out of control, and so he, so he
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But have you noticed that nobody did it before?
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Because it didn't really feel like the president's job, even though, you know, technically the federal
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government should be taking care of D.C., it didn't feel like really his job, right?
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But, and it makes me wonder, did Trump solve so many problems that he had to go look for
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You know, is he expanding his presidential portfolio?
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I mean, technically that's not an expansion, but in terms of showing it any attention, it's
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Now, you might say, Scott, he hasn't solved Ukraine, and I would argue, he kind of has.
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Because the only thing I was asking him to solve for Ukraine is to solve the United States'
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And he kind of solved it, because we get now paid for selling Europe these weapons, so the
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U.S. GDP benefits from their war, we have no boots on the ground, we don't really have
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a risk of getting nuked, because, you know, Russia, it just wouldn't be in their interest,
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Would we prefer that there had been a ceasefire?
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Well, sort of, but we wouldn't make nearly as much money as we will now.
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So, he didn't solve it for other people, other countries, that's for sure.
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But he did sort of solve it for the United States, so we're not putting out money, and
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So, yeah, maybe he's just looking at cities and Chicago and stuff, we'll talk about that,
00:41:29.500
Well, along those same lines, Trump has signed, today I guess he's going to sign an executive
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order, enacting legal consequences for people who burn the American flag.
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By the way, this is only popular with, according to Grok, 49% of Americans.
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So, if this were an 80-20 issue, then I would say, all right, you know, maybe it's not what
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I want to do, but if 80% of Americans want that, okay, you know, I mean, I live in a country
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where an 80% majority should get their way most of the time, you know, even if it's not
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Do you think that we should put a limit on free speech, which is what this would do?
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Because burning a flag is a form of speech, there's no question about that, in my mind.
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And if he puts a legal consequence on it, in my opinion, that is too far.
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And that would be quite a stain on Trump's legacy, in my opinion.
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Now, I know a lot of you have an emotional stake in the flag, and you say, but, but, but,
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But my take on it is that Trump is the one burning the flag.
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Because, to me, the flag is not a piece of material, it is a symbol.
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And as long as that symbol is indestructible, meaning that you can burn it all day long,
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The moment he says, I have to punish you if you don't show respect to this piece of cloth,
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To me, he's disrespecting the power of the flag, which is you can't destroy it.
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It's a concept so strong that fire doesn't touch it.
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And it's a symbol of free speech when somebody burns it right in front of the White House.
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And it's not really hurting any people, except maybe your feelings.
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So let me go on record as saying, no, I would consider that authoritarian unambiguously.
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That this would be a clean mistake, in my opinion.
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But I also acknowledge that a lot of you disagree.
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Trump has also said recently he's in favor of revoking the broadcast licensing for ABC, NBC News.
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Now, the broadcasting license is for the network in general, but they also have a news part.
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Because if you took away the broadcast license for the entire entity, would that look appropriate?
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Now, his argument is that their news is 93%, or whatever the number is, negative to Trump.
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And therefore, it's not really news, it's just propaganda.
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And it's just, it's not even operating as news.
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However, I would argue that, you know, that's kind of true for all the news sources.
00:46:00.280
So if he just, you know, picked out these two for being like the extra bad ones for some reason, I would say that's going too far.
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Now, if it's just, you know, part of his threat, so he's trying to browbeat them into giving them better coverage, I don't know.
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But because their coverage is propaganda, and it would be just another way to call them out for being a propaganda entity as opposed to a real news entity, which is fair game, because that's free speech too.
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But if he's serious about it, and he actually revokes their licenses, too far.
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So, unfortunately, in between the things which he's doing, which are frankly amazing and spectacular, actually, he's hinting at making Democrats right by looking like he's willing to go too far on a few topics.
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So, you know, I'm still, of course, a big supporter of Trump, and I feel it's useful that he gets honest feedback about what works and what doesn't work in terms of the public.
00:47:34.620
Fox News is reporting that there's a Make America Fentanyl Free campaign.
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And I guess it will be sort of like the anti-smoking campaigns, you know, more informing people and telling them what their risks are.
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Essentially, it's propaganda, because you can't really reason people on a fentanyl.
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You know, sort of like, this is your brain on drugs and that sort of thing.
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I guess gas prices for August are looking about normal, a little bit better than they were last year this time.
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We'd like them to be lower, but Washington Examiner was talking about this.
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So, the average price of a gallon of regular is at 3.16, which makes me mad every time I read the average price of gas,
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because do you know what brings that average way up?
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I forget what it is, but it's not even close to 3.
00:48:54.540
So, Trump is talking about bringing his Washington, D.C. plan to Chicago.
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That would be bringing the National Guard there to help curb the crime.
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But Mayor Brandon Johnson says, citizens will, quote, rise up and fight tyranny.
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It's tyranny to reduce crime in your city, he says.
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And that the city does not need a military occupation, because there's been a 30% drop in homicides.
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Well, have you heard anything negative about data, crime statistics?
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Do you think that the people in Chicago are feeling safe enough?
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Because crime went down, or murder allegedly went down 30%?
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It might be down 30% from the high of the pandemic.
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I feel like I would look at the, I've also told you that if you look at the percentage,
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but not the raw number, it means somebody is trying to mislead you.
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If they only tell you one of the two things, either the raw number only,
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or the percentage only, and he's doing the percentage only,
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They leave out the number, because the number would give you the opposite message as the percentage.
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If I say the percentage is down 30%, and you didn't know from what the number was,
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you might agree with him and say, well, come on, they're doing great, down 30%.
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But what if the number of homicides happened to be 1,000 a month?
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Would you say to yourself, sounds like it's going well, because they're down 30%,
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or would you say, oh my God, 1,000 people murdered per month?
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You know, we better move the military in there.
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So the percentage tells you a totally different story than the raw number.
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And I don't know what the raw number is, but it's not 1,000.
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Will that Chicago tyranny, is that going to be done by the oligarchs or the patriarchs,
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or the white supremacists, or the authoritarians?
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So these are the questions that the Democrats are raising.
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Are the tyranny people, the oligarchs, the patriarchs, the white supremacists,
00:51:42.980
and the authoritarians, are they all on the same team?
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said that over 300,000 people have left Baltimore, Maryland,
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So 300,000 out of what had been a city of 920,000.
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So basically a third of the city, one third of the city said,
00:52:29.260
So 300,000 people, probably all of them racists, left Baltimore.
00:52:43.580
Well, meanwhile, according to the Gateway Pundit,
00:52:48.280
Letitia James says that Trump is weaponizing justice in this fraud case.
00:52:59.260
Some people say that Trump is trying to get revenge.
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you heard that a president was trying to get revenge on an American citizen.
00:53:12.240
Well, that would sound pretty bad, wouldn't it?
00:53:14.740
Now, they also say that Trump is weaponizing the Department of Justice.
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If you hear that in a context, that's pretty bad.
00:53:25.700
So two things I definitely don't want to see from my president are revenge.
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And using lawfare or weaponizing the Department of Justice,
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Is if those two things are put together, I'm fine with it.
00:53:53.960
well, if it's real revenge, as in somebody who has it coming,
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then I like the lawfaring and I like the revenge.
00:54:19.280
Because I would call them mutually assured destruction.
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And if you don't actually do the mutually assured destruction,
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well, then it doesn't exist to keep society together in the future.
00:54:31.140
Is it a big risk that the other side will escalate
00:54:34.560
and everybody will be just doing it like crazy?
00:54:54.420
probably because TikTok helped him get elected by,
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And they've got the official White House account on TikTok now.
00:55:09.660
And Trump's now saying that all the panic about the app's Chinese connection
00:55:20.000
So now that he's finding that TikTok just works to his favor,
00:55:25.460
he's like, ah, you know, there's risks that are highly overrated.
00:55:28.680
He said he vowed to keep extending TikTok's deadline
00:55:46.000
And China is definitely not going to say, yes, I'll sell it.
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So he's just going to kick the can down the road
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He just keeps monetizing things that are problems.