Episode 2945 CWSA 09⧸01⧸25
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Join me for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better, called the simultaneous sip, and it happens now! Join me for a special guest, Gary the Cat, to talk about the rat problem in New York City.
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Ah, unbelievably good. So, so good. Well, I've decided as of this morning, I was watching
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all the news bits. And I've decided to start judging people by their hairstyle. Are you
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with me? I was looking at Greta Thunberg. I'll talk about her. And I thought to myself, you
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know what? Her haircut tells me everything I need to know about her. Then I saw another
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story about some liberal person doing something terrible. And I said, you know what? I could
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have guessed by your haircut. There's something deeply wrong with you. And so, if you don't
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mind, from now on, even if it's people I like, even if they're sort of on my side, I'm still
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going to judge them by their haircuts. You know that Alex Karp, the head of Palantir? And
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he's got this gigantic hair situation that looks like he lost a bet. And I say to myself, I can't
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get past that. You're going to have to do something with your damn hair. Or I just can't take you
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seriously. And if you don't believe that you can judge people by their haircuts, well, let me prove
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to you that it's something you can do. See? Now, if this were my natural hair, would you
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take me seriously at all? No. No, you would not. Let me read this news story. And we'll see
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if my hairstyle is distracting. I'll bet it is. I'll bet it is. Well, according to ZME Science,
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the world's largest solar plant is being put up in Tibet. How big is it? Well, it's going to be the
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size of Chicago. So, it's a solar plant in Tibet the size of Chicago. I feel like there would be less
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murder. It would only be the size of Chicago, but much safer. And it makes me wonder if it's
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cost effective and maybe even essential for China to have a solar plant that's the size of Chicago.
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Are we going to do that? I feel like we're going to go hard at nuclear, but maybe solar is faster.
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You could probably put up a solar outdoor facility in, say, five years with all the permitting and
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whatnot. But how long would it take you to build a nuclear power plant? Longer than five years is my
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bet. Well, as you know, there's a mayoral race coming up in New York City. Hey, look who's visiting.
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It's Gary the cat trying to steal the show. I was hoping Gary wouldn't recognize me with my new
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hairstyle, but apparently he does. All right, Gary, I'm talking about cats. The story is about cats.
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So Curtis Sliwa has recommended feral cat colonies to deal with all the rats in New York City.
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So I have a special guest that I would like to interview about this idea of cats, and it's
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featuring Gary the cat. Gary the cat. Gary, what do you think of the idea of introducing feral
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cats to deal with the rat problem in New York City? Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Now, if you don't understand
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the purr talk, that's how cats communicate. I'll translate it for you. Say more. Uh-huh. Uh-huh.
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Okay. All right. Turns out Gary is a big fan of Curtis Sliwa and absolutely supports the idea
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of cats solving all of our problems. Now, you might ask, Scott, how many problems can cats solve?
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I don't know, but I feel like it could be all of them. I mean, they could end wars. They could make
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you less lonely. Yeah. They could keep, uh, keep marriages together. I think cats could do all of
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that. Meanwhile, in California, um, California Highway Patrol is going to team up with local
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law enforcement to sort of surge against crime. Now, that seems like a reasonably, hey, hey,
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Gary, um, it seems like a reasonably good idea, but do you think that California would do that
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if, uh, Trump had not put the pressure on, you know, in DC and talking about Chicago and talking
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about going into California? I don't think so. So, while this looks like a win for Newsom,
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because it makes it look like he's dealing with a crime problem, I feel like that's not the message
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I'm getting. The message I'm getting is that he wasn't going to deal with a crime problem
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until Trump embarrassed him publicly. Is that what you see? Or do you see this go-getter governor who's,
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who's all over this problem and he recognizes what the regular people are feeling about crime,
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and so he's activated his resources? I don't feel that at all. I feel like the only way this would
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have happened, and it's probably a good thing, is because Trump embarrassed him. I'm going to give
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the win to Trump if this works, right? I don't think that's unreasonable to say that this would be
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Trump's success if Newsom is successful, because he wouldn't have done it. I mean, I'm not a mind
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reader, but really, did he see any movement in this direction? No, not until Trump made it a very big thing.
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Well, here's a story from Ars Technica. Samuel Axson is writing about this. Apparently, Microsoft,
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which, as you know, is in this deep partnership with OpenAI, and he uses OpenAI as its own AI,
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as well as what it's producing. Weirdly, Microsoft, separate from OpenAI, is developing AI.
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So, does that signal that there's something wrong with the partnership? Did somebody not foresee
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some problem happening? Now, they're trying to pass it off as, yeah, these are more specifically
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trained AIs that would be, you know, a little bit more powerful than OpenAI would be, because that's
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more of a general AI. To which I say, really? You couldn't just train the general model, which you
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have some degree of control over. You couldn't just make OpenAI know how to do the specific AI things as
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well. I don't know. Do you need your own AI for other stuff that OpenAI can't do? I don't know.
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I don't know. So, I guess what I'm suggesting is there might be, this might be telling us something,
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but I don't know what. So, it might be telling us that OpenAI doesn't have a future.
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Now, I'm not, I don't see evidence of that specifically, but why would they be building
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alternative models when they have the dominant AI model in the world, and it doesn't, you know,
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does that make sense? So, I'm not buying the story of why they have multiple AIs, but it does make me
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think that they have some, let's say, insecurity that OpenAI will do what they want it to do in the
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future and meet all their needs as well as other people's, I guess. So, I'd say keep an eye on that.
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I just saw a chart. I don't know if it's right, but let's say it is because it's Labor Day. It'll
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be fun to say it's right. Where are the large language models, the AIs, get their facts?
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Yes. So, apparently the most, uh, the single biggest, uh, source, I guess, of training is
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Reddit posts. Are you comfortable knowing that the advanced intelligence learned to be that
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way by Reddit posts? Do you see, do you see any problem that that might cause? Um, number
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two is Wikipedia. Do you see any problem that that might cause? And then there's YouTube where
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people like me are literally, as far as I can tell, capped in influence. Do you think the
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fact that I'm, um, somehow throttled or, or, I don't know, semi-canceled by YouTube, do you
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think that that affects how the, uh, large language models, um, let's say get trained on
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my material? Maybe, I don't know. And then there's Google and Yelp. Uh, I used to own a small business
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and I can tell you that Yelp, uh, is something that I deeply hate because people would give me a bad
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Yelp review for my restaurant if they didn't like my opinion on some political thing or some social
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thing. If there was anything that I disagreed with them, they would go to Yelp and give my restaurant,
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which had nothing to do with anything, I didn't even manage it directly, give it, they would give
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it a bad review. So that's Yelp. You know, as soon as Yelp, uh, started to become a thing,
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I said to myself, I hope all the businesses are smart enough to starve it so that it goes out of
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business because otherwise it would have the power to destroy your business. And sure enough,
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it has the power to destroy your business. And then the next, uh, biggest source would be Facebook.
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So Reddit, Wikipedia, YouTube, Google, Yelp, and Facebook would be most of the training.
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You okay with that? That just seems like asking for trouble, doesn't it? I don't trust any of those
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sources, but I guess, uh, I don't know if, uh, it's the facts. Well, I don't know. They may have
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some way to compensate for the low credibility of some of these sources, but I'll, uh, I'll keep an open
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mind. Well, as you know, for the last several days, the internet has been a buzz
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with, uh, what's going on with Trump. Apparently he's not dead because he was shown going golfing
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with his, uh, granddaughter, Kai. And, uh, he's been posting, but some people think that that could
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be other people posting for him. But I guess yesterday he posted in all caps, never felt better
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in my life. So he wants you to know he's never felt better in his life. Now of all the things that
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could be going on, it could be something medical. I mean, suppose, let's say, uh, he was just getting
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ready for a colonoscopy. He might not want to tell you that. And it would take, you know, the preparation
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day and then the day it happens. And, you know, so it could be some, you know, routine medical thing.
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He just doesn't want to get into. Yeah. So I know he's got those problems on his hands.
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So I don't know if that's anything to worry about or not. So I saw some photos today of the actor,
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The Rock. Do you remember the last movie you saw with The Rock? And he probably was just gigantic,
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like just so muscular. It's like crazy. Well, it turns out he's lost his muscles.
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So the story is that he's getting ready for a role as a MMA fighter, but it's, um, the MMA fighter that
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he's going to portray is not nearly as big as a big muscular guy. So he's got to get down to a
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sort of a fighting weight that would be more similar to an MMA guy. But, uh, I'll tell you,
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he doesn't look healthy and he, he lost the thing that made him special.
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I'm a big fan of The Rock, by the way. I think he's incredibly, um, talented and hardworking.
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And, you know, I just sort of like everything about him. But one of the things that works so
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well about him is that his personality and his physical situation were sort of an interesting
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combination. I don't know what's going to happen because it looks like he's looking for
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permanent downsizing of his muscles because he's 52 years old. And, uh, I guess it's hard on the
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body to maintain that when you're 52, duh. Um, and carrying the weight, carrying around all that
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extra weight because his muscles were so big, it was like, you know, carrying a barrel of oil with
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you wherever he went. So probably it makes sense from a long-term health perspective. Um, some people
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are saying he must've been on steroids and now he's off. Maybe, I don't know, maybe. Um,
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but I'm certainly, uh, hopeful that he's found some healthy path, but he doesn't look healthy.
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So unfortunately, I don't know if it's because of what I'm used to, because I imagine him as that
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more robust version, but I hope there's nothing else to the story, but that he's preparing for a role
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and trying to be a more healthy person into his older age. Well, here's a story I don't fully believe,
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but maybe. So apparently the, uh, European commission president that Ursula von der Leyen,
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uh, the name I have to say more than once, cause it's so fun to say, say it with me. Ursula von der Leyen.
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That was kind of fun. All right. But apparently she, she was on a plane and she was, uh, wanting to land
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in Bulgaria and, uh, there was some kind of GPS interference attack that made the airplane blind to GPS.
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Now they, they were still able to land safely after circling for an hour. Uh, the pilot used analog maps
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to which I say, I wonder how old the pilot was because I hope the pilot was trained at a time
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when they just didn't use GPS. Well, how long, how old is GPS? Um, I don't know how long GPS has been
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around. So maybe that's not possible to have a pilot that old, but it was somebody who obviously knew
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how to do it without. So she was, she safely landed, but they're blaming the attack on Russia.
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Do you think that Russia tried to murder the European commission president in a way that people would
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probably guess was Russia? Does that story track with you? Or does it feel more likely
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that the GPS equipment on the plane just malfunctioned? Which one sounds more likely?
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No, I'm not, I'm not automatically going to buy the Russia tried to assassinate the European
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Union leader because it's a little bit too on the nose, especially if somebody like Zelensky just say
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to pick a name randomly was planning to try to assassinate Putin. Right? If, if you could be sold on the
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story that Putin may have tried to kill the president of the European Union, wouldn't you be far more
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accepting if somebody like Zelensky murdered Putin? You'd say to yourself, well, I mean, he tried to
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take out a leader in Europe. Zelensky took him out. It's not like we started it. So I'm just totally
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skeptical that this is the kind of story where we know all the details correctly. I mean, it could be
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anything. I'm not saying it's necessarily a plot, but, uh, I don't believe the cover, the, the surface
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story. Well, according to PJ media, Catherine Salgado is writing that the doge people, um, I guess they
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regularly do reports on what money they've saved or what programs they cut. And they're cutting a lot of
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them. They have silly sounding missions or at least missions where you say to yourself, why is my tax
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money being used for that? For example? Um, and apparently they're finding billions that they're
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canceling. So over the last, uh, five days, they terminated 50, what they called wasteful contracts
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that were worth up to about $3 billion and they saved maybe 762 million. How many contracts,
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does our government have? Oh my God. These are just the, that one week of canceled unnecessary
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contracts, $3 billion. That's one week, five days. One, it's, it's not even a week. It's work week.
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So here are some of the things that got canceled. Uh, transgender health medical evaluation unit services.
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Uh, I don't know. And that was in the department of defense. Now we don't know what that was all about,
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but it does make me ask this question. Well, I'll do, I'll give you the next one. It was, there's also a
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department of defense contract that got canceled for LGBTQ magazine advertising campaign.
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Do you think we really needed to spend that money on? It was $129 million on an LGBTQ magazine advertising
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campaign. I don't even know that magazines are still a thing. When, when was the last time a LGBTQ
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member read a magazine? I can't tell you the last time I read one. I don't even remember. I guess they
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still exist. Uh, and then there was a 49 million for a USAID contract, uh, for quote, the Belarus regional
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initiative to provide transition activities in Belarus and other countries in Europe. Okay. I have no idea
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what that's about. It sounds like it might've been, you know, maybe some spook or CIA or defense
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related thing disguised as some other thing, maybe, I don't know, but I don't think I can live in a world
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where I pay my taxes into a black box. And then a bunch of people say, you know, you shouldn't know
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what we're spending this on because it'll ruin the whole thing. It's a big old secret. So we're going
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to spend a lot of your money on big old secret stuff, but trust us, we looked into it really
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carefully and it's a really good use of money because we say so. I don't know. So definitely
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I think doge will end up canceling some things that are tragic. On the other hand, uh, I oppose the
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idea that some people have special problems. Don't you all have problems? You know, if your problem is
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that you're trans or LGBTQ or that you're descended from slaves, those are real problems, but why are
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they special problems? But why, why is somebody else's problem? Cause they're a member of some
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group. Why is that more important than whatever problem you and I have? I'll bet I could randomly
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pick any one of you and say, do you have any problems? And you say, Oh my God, yes. There'd be
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some health problem or, you know, you're, you're short, which is a big problem in the U S or you have
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some body problem where you're disabled or, uh, you're in a, you're in a dangerously abusive
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relationship. Don't we all have gigantic problems in the, that that's life that we're all navigating
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our own little problems. But why do some people have special problems that my money needs to go
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away from me where I would be using it for my own problems and my family's problems and that sort of
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thing. Uh, so who gets to say that any class of people have special problems that have to be funded
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with my money? You know, certainly there, I do agree that there are some things that the, you know,
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the government should take care of because nobody else could, that sort of thing. But I don't know how
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many things fall into that category. Uh, let's see what else. Um, so apparently Florida is going to get into
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the redistricting. Oh, I didn't even notice. This is my other cat, Roman. I thought it was Gary again.
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Hey, Roman. Say hi to everybody. Roman does not have nearly the personality of his sibling, Gary.
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Roman's more of a, I'm just passing through. Uh, I don't need to interact with you. I mean, I appreciate
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a pet now and then, but I'm not obsessed by it. I'm not addicted to it. So you can keep your pets
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if you want to. I mean, I'm not going to tell you they're great or anything. That would be Gary.
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Gary. I'm sorry. That would be Roman. Gary believes that all human contact is incredible.
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Um, anyway, uh, PJ media, Matt Margolis is writing about, uh, how Florida, um, I've got a two cat
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wrestling situation going on here. So it's going to get intense in a moment.
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Let me just give you a preview of what's about to develop here.
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Yeah. You don't like it when I pay attention to you. They're going to fight. All right. You watch
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that while I tell you the news. So Florida is going to get into redistricting, which would be, um, part of
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a larger move where the Republicans are going to make a big gain on redistricting. That's enough of that.
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Um, so I'll tell you the Democrats, um, it looks like they're going to lose the redistricting game and
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they're going to lose it big. Oh, well, well, speaking of Greta Thunberg, she's now
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boarded a boat to go break the siege, as she says in Gaza.
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And, uh, she's saying that Israel can't stop her this time. Hmm. Israel can't stop Greta. Hmm.
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Um, how many, how many, uh, journalists have been slain in Gaza so far? Because I would say that Israel
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stopped them, stopped 200 journalists. You know, some of them might've been actually closer to Hamas
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operatives than journalists, but they managed to stop 200 of them. Do you think they can't stop
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one more? I think they can. Now, I don't think that Israel would intentionally target Greta,
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but you know, it's a war zone. Things happen. Things happen. No, I don't think that they care.
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I don't think Greta has enough, uh, pull that it would even, that it would even be worth targeting her.
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Um, she seems like a sort of a ridiculous character now, because one of the things that happened is
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she got a lot older except the way she looks. So she looks like one of those, uh, troll dolls.
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What were they called? Were they called troll dolls? That the little, you know what I'm talking about?
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So she's no longer the, the cute young person who's so young that that's what makes it special.
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Now she's exactly the same as she was, except she's older and it kind of doesn't work anymore.
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God, it doesn't work. So we'll see if she can solve that whole Gaza thing. But it turns out
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that the, according to the New York Post, there's some big plan. Uh, I don't know to what extent
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Trump is behind this, but it's being announced that, uh, there would be a Gaza rebuilding plan.
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It'd be a 10 year plan to move out all the residents to all of them, just move everybody out, uh,
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so that it can be rebuilt. And the plan is that they would be given $5,000 a piece to relocate.
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Uh, they'd have to relocate for 10 years. They couldn't come back. And that during that time,
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the Gaza Strip would be transformed into the Riviera of the Middle East. So at least the coastal part,
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they're imagining, you know, hotels and recreation. And they're imagining that, uh,
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uh, there would be businesses around the perimeter, I guess, and they'd build it all up. And, uh, the,
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the people who would be asked to leave for the $5,000 cash would also get four years of free rent
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somewhere else and a year's supply of food again, somewhere else. Now, the part that's unspecified
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is who's going to pay for all of this. The idea is that somehow the United States would be,
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I don't know, some, some kind of owning or governing the area, but maybe not officially. Um, but then
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when it was all built up and ready to go, there would be presumably, you know, some temporary entity
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of, uh, you know, Arab leaders getting behind it. So I don't know who would pay for all this, but,
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uh, we'll see. I would have to say, uh, if, if the United States is paying for it, I'm opposed to it.
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And I would also say that if the way it's received is that it makes the United States more actively
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involved in depopulating Gaza, I'm not sure we want that on our permanent record,
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because that would make you more of a target for terrorism, wouldn't it? Whereas if we say,
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hey, you know, we just want everybody to be alive. Israel's doing what Israel does. We're not trying
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to stop it, but, you know, we recognize their right to do what they need to do.
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So I would be concerned that although this is an impressive offer, it's probably good
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from the perspective of showing that there's some path potentially that the people won't lose hope,
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although that might feel like losing hope. I don't know. Um, so it's probably good. I would say
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it's a good idea that there's something out there that people can talk about because it shows that
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there's some thought about keeping people safe, but they're not going to like it.
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They're not going to like anything that comes out of this war, of course.
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So I don't know if it'll solve anything, could make things worse for the United States,
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and I would not be in favor of making anything worse for the United States.
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Looks like it might be, well, and then the thinking is that whoever invests in this project,
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we get a four-fold return over 10 years. I don't think anybody can really predict that kind of thing.
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Um, but at least it makes sense that they can present it as a money-making opportunity for
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the people who put money into it. It might be, but it also would suggest that the prior owners,
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the Palestinian, well, the Gaza residents, presumably they would be losing everything
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to these investors, or almost everything. Um, I saw an article by Red State saying that the Democrats
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are losing credibility because they cried wolf too often. In other words, they denied the obvious too
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often, like Biden especially. Oh, Biden's fine. And now the Democrats have to look at their own party
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and say, uh, did my own party lie to the whole country, including me, about how safe we were with
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Biden as president? And would that influence how much trust they have in their leadership going forward?
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Well, common sense tells you that the Democrats would notice that they've been lied to by their own
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team and not, not a small lie, not a little one, a really, really big one, like a historically big lie,
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uh, that mattered. Well, I guess, uh, Charlemagne the God, as we call him, um, is making that case
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that they're not to be trusted at this point. Um, he said, quote, but here's the thing. If you shout
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apocalypse every day and the constitution is still standing, oh wait, no, I think this is from the
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author of the article. If you shout apocalypse every day and the constitution is still standing,
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nine years later, people tune out. That's what I think is happening with all the Hitler stuff.
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We had years of people calling Trump Hitler and he hasn't done any Hitler stuff. The only,
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the only thing they've done is the part that they're also lying about, which is that January 6th
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was an insurrection when obviously it was not. And you would have to be deeply, um, hypnotized to
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imagine that the most armed population in the world held a insurrection and left their guns home.
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That that's the first thing, but also there's not a single person who's ever been interviewed
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from the thousands and thousands of people on January 6th. Not a single person, not one has ever said,
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you know, I really thought we could overthrow the country because nobody had that plan. They were
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literally protesting. They weren't overthrowing anything. They didn't have any mechanism to overthrow
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anything. No plan, no secret meetings, not a single, single person said, yeah, you know,
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I thought we could, we could trespass our way to taking over the country. There's nothing you can
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even say that wouldn't sound ridiculous. You know, I really thought it'd work. Not once. How hard would it
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be to get one of the attendees who protested on January 6th? How hard would it be to get them
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on camera and say, all right, we just have to understand, did you think you were overthrowing
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the country? And they wouldn't even understand the question. It's like, what? How in the world could I
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overthrow the country wandering around taking selfies? Like what, what was the mechanism that connects
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those two things? All right. So yeah, Charlemagne, you're right.
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I saw a article in Science by Kai Kupperschmidt. There's a new study that looked at US and Brazil,
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and they were looking at ways to counter what they call election misinformation.
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Red flag, boop, boop, boop, boop, red flag. When anyone writes an article about countering
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election misinformation, what should your brain immediately lead you to believe? That's an
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intelligence operation by somebody. Yeah. The article treats it as a objective fact that we know that the
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US and Brazil do not have rigged elections. And that the real problem is that people believe they might
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be. You can't get past like the first sentence without knowing, oh, this isn't real science, is it?
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This is more like, people want you to believe that the system is secure. So here we are.
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Apparently in January 2023, thousands of people stormed Brazil's National Congress, and this is from the
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article in Science, convinced that the country's presidential election had been stolen.
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Now, why didn't they call it an insurrection? What's the difference between a whole bunch of
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Brazilians, thousands of them, quote, storming the National Congress because they thought the election was rigged?
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That's exactly January 6th. But why is one an insurrection and the other is a protest?
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This is all just made up facts. You know, these are all narratives.
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But they did a study and they found that in both countries, people's trust of the election increased
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after receiving both a warning that they might see some misinformation. Now, do you see that this is
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propaganda? They say that when they warn people that they might see misinformation, that those people are
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better equipped to know what to trust. Well, why is it that there's one entity that knows what's true
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and what isn't? That doesn't exist. How in the world can they pre-bunk stuff? So they call it pre-bunking,
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where they tell people in advance that people will make claims and they won't be true.
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And they also call it inoculation. If you see pre-bunking and inoculation in the same story,
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that's propaganda. They're trying to tell you that there's somebody, the people in charge,
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who know what's true. And here's the important part. Not only do they know what's true, unlike you,
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but they really want to tell you the truth. Do you live in that world where your government knows what's true
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and they want you to know the truth? We don't live in any kind of a world like that.
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The government wants you to believe whatever is best for the government.
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You know, it might also be best for the country, but no, that's all propaganda. It's all brainwashing.
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So, um, then you also have to watch out for the documentary effect. If, uh, you could have just
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asked me, Scott, if you can make people sit down and pay attention to an argument that says that the
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election, uh, mechanisms are all trustworthy and there's no counter argument. It's just,
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you have to listen for half an hour while we tell you why cheating would be almost impossible
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with this election. Of course it would work. It's a documentary effect. If anybody gets to
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give you one side of an argument and you'll listen to it for half an hour, you will go away thinking
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there was something to it, even if there isn't. It's just how we were wired. So yeah, of course,
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pre-bunking and inoculation work, but the only people who talk that way are the people who are trying
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to hide the truth, not reveal it. That's what I say.
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According to Eric Dolan writing in SciPost, people who believe in conspiracy theories process
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information differently at a neural level. So they're not saying that people's brains have, you know,
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different big areas and active areas, well, maybe active areas, but that they can actually,
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you know, look at what your brain is doing when you're processing conspiracy theories and they
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can find that some people use, use a structure of the brain that other people don't use. So
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didn't you all know, didn't you all know that conspiracy theorists, their brains are wired differently?
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I feel like we all knew that. Because you know what? Your brain is very involved with what your
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choices and your beliefs are. Yeah, that's right. So people have different choices and different beliefs
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are obviously using a different set of neural pathways. And it's not a matter of being more gullible,
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it's a matter of which parts of the brain or part of the processing they say. I don't know.
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I think everything's bullshit. So it doesn't matter what part of your brain you use, you're not going
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to get the right answer. That is not available to us usually. Well, speaking of crazy people,
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Illinois Governor Pritzker, he's now floating the conspiracy theory that Trump has other reasons for
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wanting to flow the National Guard into our cities and that he wants to do it so he can come up with
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some excuse for why the 2026 or 2028 elections should be canceled. And then he would stay in power
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because the election is canceled and he would have his private army, that's what he would say,
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the National Guard and all the major metropolitan areas. So Pritzker says about Trump, he has other
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aims other than fighting crime, he said to face the nation. So here's my question about Pritzker.
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Pritzker. Does he believe that? Does he? Really? Does he really believe that? Or does he know exactly
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what he's doing? And he's part of the Democrat obviously is coordinated where they get to say,
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all right, we don't have any policies and we don't have any good candidates. So the best we can do
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is make up another Russia hoax about Trump. So it's not Russia related, but it's still just a made up
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bunch of shit. It's just made up stuff. So the Democrats only have one mode, which is,
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oh, we don't have a policy that people would like and we don't have candidates that people would like,
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but I'll bet we've got a story that would light up the neural networks of the conspiracy theorists.
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So let's try that. So it's disgusting and ridiculous and obscene. One of the White House,
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one of the White House communications people referred to Pritzker as a slob.
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And obviously that's Trump's framing, but it's funnier when the staff starts picking it up and
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just calling the governor a slob. You know, it works because people don't want to listen to or follow
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a slob. It's just one of those words that gets right to our core icky feeling. You just don't really
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want to spend any time around somebody that you think is a slob. So Trump just has to say it a
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number of times until it's the first thing you think of when you see him, which is what it's the
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first thing I think of when I see him now. And it will chip away at his credibility. Slob is a really
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And let's see, Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago says that Trump has declared a war on poor people.
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A war on poor people. Okay. Brandon Johnson finds new levels of incompetence every week.
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Yeah. He declared a war on poor people. Okay. And I guess he's saying that because he's taking
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Medicaid and SNAP away from the residents. Now, of course, he's not taking that away. He's just making
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sure that people who shouldn't be on those programs don't have access to it or they have to do something
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to get it, which is reasonable. But I'm trying to connect the dots. So if support of the phrase
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that Trump is declaring war on poor people, the evidence for that is that some people who probably
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shouldn't be getting it would be losing Medicaid and SNAP would be losing Medicaid and SNAP. So connect
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the dots for me. Let's see. Because the context is reducing violent crime. So is Mayor Brandon
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Johnson saying that people are doing more murdering because they're trying to make money to pay for
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their health care that they lost? Were they doing more murdering so that they can buy a soda with
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their SNAP payments? How in the world does violence come out of the idea that there's a war on poor
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people? None of it fits together. It's just like nonsense words stuck together. So Mayor Brandon Johnson
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is stuck in some kind of a conspiracy theory, delusional thinking to war on poor people.
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But Trump did target affordable housing programs or one in particular. Apparently, according to the AP,
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there was some very large government program called the Home Investment Partnership Program. I guess it was
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through HUD and funded over 1.3 million affordable homes. Now, what that means, it was some combination of
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subsidies to fix up existing homes and helping people get into their first home. And it was a variety of
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things. But a lot of those homes that were being helped by that were in rural districts. So the story is
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that Trump is hurting his own voter base by taking a government program away from them to help them get a
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home. But I say, wouldn't the free market solve that faster? And is the reason that the free market
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isn't making homes available is that the federal government had done all the wrong things so that
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you couldn't build homes easily? Wouldn't it make more sense that instead of the government getting
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in to subsidize these, you know, use of inefficient real estate in a non-free market, wouldn't it make
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more sense for the government to get out of the way? If the government just said, how about we don't do
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anything? We won't have any regulations or rules you have to follow. I mean, I'm exaggerating just to
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make the point. You'd want some. It just got out of the way. Don't you think the free market would
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provide more housing at a lower cost over time? I don't know. And what about those freedom cities that
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Trump promised us? I don't see any of that happen. So I would be happy if Trump said,
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we're going to do something in the US that's at least as good as what we plan for Gaza.
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We're going to take some government land and we're going to say, the government is not going
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to build the cities or even design them. We want private people to do it. The only thing we're going
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to do is make some government land of which we have lots of available. So I'd like to see that.
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So there was a guest on Tucker Carlson's show. I didn't have his name when I talked about him
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before. Psychiatrist Joseph Witt-Doring. So that psychiatrist, Witt-Doring, says that millions
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Americans are taking these antidepressant SSRIs long-term and he says there is no safety data.
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Well, I don't know if there's no safety data, but maybe there's not anything that's sufficient.
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And apparently it's 7% to 10% of Americans are on these long-term drugs. So I don't have an opinion
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of how safe or unsafe those are, but it does seem to be yet another example where you thought
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there was lots of science, but maybe there isn't. Maybe the science is bullshit. Maybe the only science
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was funded by the people who want to sell you these pills for life. Well, I saw, related to this
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tangentially, is I saw a post by the real IRYC saying that that new fat miracle drug, the GLP-1
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receptor agonist. Apparently there's a claim that they have other massive health benefits.
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Now I'm going to read what the claims are, but then I'm going to tell you that Grok says
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that those claims are bullshit. Okay? So before you say, wait a minute, that's not true.
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Just remember that that's what I'm going to say when I'm done telling you, that it's not true.
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Suicide, 58% reduction. So the claim is that people on the GLP-1, that drug, also get these
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other benefits that we weren't expecting. Depression down 37%, substance use down 42%. By the way, that one
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might be real, et cetera. So I asked Grok, I said, is it true that these GLP-1s are having all these
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other related health benefits? And Grok says that is not fully substantiated. There is some evidence
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that would give you the suggestion that maybe it's true, but it's not proven at a scientific level.
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The thing I think that's closest to being true is the substance abuse. Because I believe that
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whatever it is that makes you eat less has a, you know, close cousin mechanism to make you do fewer
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drugs or alcohol. So I'm not 100% sure that's true, but at least it's more believable than the other
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stuff. Anyway, it could be that it is a miracle drug, but I would suspect that the people looking
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to sell it to you are behind most of those studies. And once again, the topic of birth control pills,
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are ruining your brain. There's a, there's an article in Medical Express, and I saw Elon Musk had boosted
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that on, on X. So, um, new research suggests that the pill isn't, uh, isn't just stopping pregnancy,
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but it might be rewiring how your brain feels and remembers stuff and not in a good way,
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according to Medical Express. So there's a new study, Rice University, that found that, uh,
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girls on hormonal birth control had way stronger emotional reactions and remembered fewer details
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from bad moments. Now you might say it's, it's good that you remembered fewer bad moments, but if your
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brain is not, um, designed for that, you know, it might give you an unintended bad part.
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Anyway, so do you believe that's true? So allegedly the pill would give some people mood swings,
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emotional numbness, weird memory glitches, et cetera. Um, well, I don't know that it's true,
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but what would you look for in the world as, you know, let's say circumstantial evidence that it might
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be true that people on the pill are having more emotional problems? Well, if you're looking at politics,
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you would say to yourself, why is it that there are so many single young women, white women, um,
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who are Democrats? And why is it that when we see them, um, talking, they seem like they're emotionally
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out of control? Now we see lots of people, male and female, um, being assertive, you know, like, uh,
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Randy Weingarten, she, she dances around and yells and stuff. But to me, that just looks like
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theater, she looks like she knows exactly what she's doing. She doesn't look emotional and crazy.
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So it's not like it's, you know, something that affects all Democrat females. But I'm wondering,
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is it possible that the reason that the Democrats seem to own the market for young, white, highly
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educated women, is it because they're more likely to be on the pill and then they can be manipulated by
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emotions? So are the people who want to take care of all the immigrants and leave the border open,
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are they operating on logic or emotion? Emotion, right? Because in the long run,
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it would be bad for everybody. The whole country would fail if you just let everybody in.
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So I went to Grok and I said, uh, what, uh, demographic is on the pill the most? And it's
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white women. It's white women. And I said, um, is it more for educated women? Yep. If you're more
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educated and you're white, your odds of being the pill are much higher. And it makes me wonder if the
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things you think are political conversations are nothing but medical malpractice. I'll just let that
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what else? So here's a little sort of a mystery, but maybe not. How many of you believe
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that, uh, it is now proven by science and certainly sufficient studies that there was nobody who was
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better off getting the COVID vaccination? How many of you believe that to be true? That we now have
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evidence like strong scientific evidence that literally no one was better off on a risk reward basis
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for getting the shot. How many of you believe that? So while I'm waiting for your messages to appear,
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because I'm wondering who believes that, um, how, if you did believe that, how would you explain
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that RFK Jr., who is probably the most famous anti-vaccination person, but that's really not fair.
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I wouldn't call him anti-vax, but you know what I mean, right? He would be the strongest skeptic.
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It's not anti because he's in favor of some kinds of vaccinations. He's just wants more science. So
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if RFK Jr. is now in charge of deciding whether the COVID vaccination is going to kill you or not,
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I mean, whether it's safe enough to be, uh, available, he seems to at the moment not see enough
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science to tell, to say that people over 60 or over 65, I guess, um, who have a comorbidity,
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he doesn't have evidence to say that they would be worse off getting vaccinated.
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Now, does that surprise you? Because remember, he would be the one guy who, if that evidence
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existed, that everybody over 65 with a comorbidity probably would have been, you know, on average,
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would have been better off if they hadn't been vaccinated. If that existed, don't you think we'd
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know about it by now? Because Kennedy would say, all right, I looked at the science. It's very clear
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that there is no group. There's no group that can be benefited by it more than they might be hurt.
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Wouldn't you know that by now? And so I'm wondering, because I'm coming from a point of
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ignorance, not from a point of, if it sounds like I'm trying to win an argument here, that's not what's
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happening. I'm trying to understand how the things I'm observing fit together. How could it be that the
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number one strongest skeptic, I'll use that word, of vaccinations, who has now access to the most
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reliable, complete evidence on the topic? He's not yet. Having been there for months and months,
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he's not there yet to say that the COVID is more bad than good. And my understanding, which could be
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wrong, is that the reason some people left the CDC is that Kennedy is leaning toward, but doesn't have
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science tobacco yet, leaning toward that the COVID vax maybe wasn't good for anybody.
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When I say anybody, there still could be some specific exceptions, but generally speaking,
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it wouldn't be, wouldn't be good. So I don't know if that's true. But the one thing that we can say
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with some confidence is that there is not really strong evidence that is always bad all the time.
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Right? Are we all on the same page? Because Kennedy would be all over that. I think he would fight
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that to the death. If the science said nobody benefited under any condition, he would tell us that,
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right? So it has to be true that even though there might be some studies that suggest that,
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that maybe they're not meeting the scientific standards that he's comfortable with.
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Which is to me, this is a tremendous credibility booster because the easiest thing for him to do
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would be to sort of agree with the public. All right, we're going to get rid of these.
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Well, actually, I don't know what percentage of the public agrees with that, but certainly the
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Republicans would be more likely to say, all right, we like that. And he still doesn't have the data to
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do it. Anyway, he might. So I'm not, I'm not going to predict that it will never exist. It might,
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but it doesn't exist yet. Apparently, apparently it doesn't exist.
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Well, Putin's doing that four-day visit in China and they're trying to make it look like their best
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buds now, China and Russia. And it's signaling that the tariffs won't work because they'll just do more
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business with China. To which I say, why is it that we can't tell as consumers of news, we really can't
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tell if the Russian economy is on the brink of collapse, which some people say, or is it invulnerable
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because they can always just do more business with China if they need to. So which is it? Is Russia on
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the verge of economic collapse or is it nowhere near it? I don't know the answer to that, but I'm going to
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say that my gut is that they're not that close to any kind of collapse. I'd be, I'd be surprised
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actually, because they, they just have too much energy. There's going to, they're going to find some
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way to sell the energy no matter what. All right. That ladies and gentlemen is my Labor Day show.
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I feel it was a lot better with the wig on, but I'll take it off for the end.
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I'm going to say a few words privately to the beloved subscribers at Locals. The rest of you
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have a good day off, I hope. I hope most of you have the day off. And we'll, we'll see you tomorrow.
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Same time, same place. Locals, I'll be private with you in 30 seconds, which gives us just enough time.