Episode 2950 CWSA 09⧸06⧸25
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In this episode of the pod, Scott Adams talks about climate change, artificial intelligence, AI, and some of the weirdest things you can do with a cup of coffee. Scott Adams is a writer and podcaster based in Sydney, Australia and is a regular contributor to the Daily Caller and Daily Caller News Foundation.
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wait a minute there you are it's uh great to see you come on in light yourself in and grab a chair
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beverages are in the fridge help yourself and the coffee maker has a fresh pot of coffee
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so we're about to have a saturday podcast while all of the lazy podcasters are sleeping in
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although there's something to be said for that as well all right let me make sure i got your
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comments working and then then we've got to show that you've been craving yeah craving
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you'll be savoring it later but for now you're just craving
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good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of human civilization it's called
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coffee with scott adams and it's best time you'll ever have in your whole stinking life
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but if you want to take a chance of elevating your experience up to levels that no one can
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even understand with their tiny shiny human brains
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well all you need for that is a cup or mugger a glass of tanker chelter stein a canteen jug
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or flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid i like coffee
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and join me now in parallel pleasure of the dopamine end of the day the thing that makes
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everything better it's called the simultaneous sip and happens now go
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well as tradition recently dictates owen gregorian will be hosting a spaces event right after this
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and uh you can talk more about the topics i talk about today or probably some other stuff too
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so look look for owen gregorian on x all right um well this is hard to believe um really unbelievable but
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i said something incorrect yesterday and so i need to correct it um i was talking about the
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that tesla app the robo taxi app it was the number one download and i mistakenly thought
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that that app was to turn your own car into a robo taxi which is coming that'll be a real thing
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but i was corrected uh that that's probably just the app for calling the robo taxi so if you're in one of the
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cities where they roll it out um you'll have the app all right well can you believe it i saw a story in
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the daily caller news well the daily caller news foundation a story about sea levels have not been
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surging despite years of climate uh activists yelling that they would so the journal of marine science and
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engineering published this peer review paper and as you know all peer review papers are exactly accurate
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have you noticed that well have you noticed that when the science is in the direction of something i want
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to be true or it makes me look like i was right about something but i automatically assume it must be some
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pretty solid science the best you can do to block your own bias it is sort of keep score and say to
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yourself huh it does seem to me that i don't do as much skepticism on the science that that agrees with me
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and this would be more of that but apparently i i think it is reasonably true that the sea levels have
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not been uh rising at a rate that would suggest the climate models were correct and you know what i say
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about the climate models right wait till they find out about the climate models
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you know the the best kind of predictions to make are the kind that really really can't be wrong
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there's not even the slightest chance that if you went you know forward enough in time there's not
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the slightest chance that the you know the final uh let's say verdict on climate models there's not a
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slightest chance that in the future they will say you know those climate models they really nailed it
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you all know there's no chance that right the only question is how long it takes so that's why i think
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it's funny to just keep asking the question yeah and and sort of tease it yeah when you find out about
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those climate models well you've heard the stories about scientists engineers could turn wi-fi routers
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into a tracking device that knows where you are and even who you are i believe and it can track you in your own
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home well now they've got um some technology that could track heartbeats without you needing to put anything
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on your body so your wi-fi router uh you know if it were adapted to do it um i guess it would just be
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software would be able to detect your heartbeat and uh and your pulse i guess is that the same thing and
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i wonder it it makes you wonder how many other um passive health related things could happen
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because could you imagine inviting somebody over to your house and they don't know that your wi-fi
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is measuring their heartbeat hey uh bob it looks like you got a little rhythm you're going what
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and uh based on what we've detected from your exhalations your breath uh i'd say uh a little bit of
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anyway so somebody somebody's gonna build the world's creepiest house that can detect all of your
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medical problems as soon as you walk in well google i guess uh lost some court cases have been ordered
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to pay 425 million because they were uh they were indirectly tracking users who disabled their web and
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app tracking so i guess the people who thought they were not being tracked
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by google because they'd opted out of it um google just used third-party apps that they had kind of
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connections with to track those same people so apps like uber instagram and venmo somehow they can get
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information from them and they could just keep tracking people that didn't want to be tracked so
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that violation of privacy it created a lawsuit that cost them 425 million dollars although it doesn't
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look like it was intentional in the sense that it was somebody's plot it was just that's what their
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technology did it just had to work around all right uh and then uh was it google also had an earlier case
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in texas where they had to pay 1.4 billion dollars for a settlement with to texas over alleged violations of
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some state-level privacy rules so that would be if you're keeping track about 2 billion dollars
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that just google has had to pay for violating privacy rules which i'm guessing they weren't even aware they
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they were doing do you think that you know it feels like uh the lawsuits are at a point where
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you know you would have to be the size of google just to survive all the all the lawsuits
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speaking of lawsuits apple is being sued by authors uh you've heard this story before but not about apple
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yet over the use of books in their ai training newsmax is writing about this
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so apparently um this is another one of those situations where authors like me
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although it's the first i'm finding out about it um seem to have banded together for some kind of
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lawsuit over uh the use of their material to train the ai and microsoft had that problem and anthropic
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had that problem so this whole business of uh whose intellectual property is getting mind for ai is
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getting bigger so yet again this is another industry that if it were not already gigantic
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it wouldn't be able to withstand all the lawsuits i mean the there would just be non-stop lawsuits
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against every ai company not just for this but for you know the i think i already mentioned that
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sometimes the ais have encouraged people to harm themselves especially minors and so those are lawsuits
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too so you would have to be enormously rich um or well funded to uh to survive all the legal challenges
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i mean you know think about uber when uber started if it had not become somewhat you know immediately
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gigantic in terms of funding and value um they would just survive all the legal challenges i think
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so that's the uh the biggest challenge to any like really successful startup is the legal stuff look
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at all of tesla's lawsuits it's just nothing but lawsuits i i mentioned to you before that when i was
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in the restaurant business i owned a couple of small restaurants that they became just you know lawsuit
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uh activities uh activities it was just just one damn thing after another and it was all over bs you know it's not
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over anything that you think anybody should have had to sue about anything but there they were
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all right so so open ai apparently uh released some new paper about why these large language models the ai's
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hallucinate and the the thinking the new the new insight here is that the reason that the ai hallucinates
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is because it's trained to be rewarded for guessing so much like uh if you were taking a test
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in let's say school and it was multiple choice and there was no penalty for guessing wrong per se
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it's just it wasn't right you would guess on every one you wouldn't leave a blank you know you would be
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rewarded for guessing and so in some analogous way it seems that the large language models are rewarded
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in whatever reward means for ai um for guessing so if they could teach it to know not to guess
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and instead admit that it doesn't know the answer uh they could cut down the hallucinating they think so
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we'll see i saw a post by roan paul about that um and open ai apparently is going to start
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don't you wonder like i do why is it that chip making is so uniquely difficult to compete with
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you know why is it that there's for some reason something in taiwan that we can't do
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you know because there's nothing else like that is there is it is that that we don't have the know-how
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how or is it that we uh maybe there's some kind of patents involved where somebody owns a patent and
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there's just no way you could make a chip the way they do it legally i don't really understand why the united states
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you know even if you make an argument about the u.s being in decline which i don't think it is
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um why can't we make chips as easily as some other countries or to you know taiwan in particular
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i don't know so it feels like maybe there would be something like uh this is my guess
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that it will seem like the u.s is behind in chip making until very suddenly it isn't
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i think that's what's gonna happen i feel like the u.s is just gonna snatch that you know dominance back
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well here's the weirdest news story and i feel like this one might be fake news or lacking some context
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so one of my many public services is i try to help you recognize when the news doesn't look like
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it could be possibly true this is one of those stories so according to multiple sources
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speaker mike johnson says that trump was an fbi informant in the epstein case
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quote he was an fbi informant to try to take the take this stuff down
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and apparently house speaker mike johnson said that on friday so yesterday um
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he was speaking to reporters at the capitol so he wasn't it wasn't like he was overheard or he said
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something accidentally he said very intentionally he was an fbi informant to try to take this stuff down
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so that was in service of you know saying that uh trump knows that the epstein crimes are not a hoax
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he's just saying that the way the topic is being treated you know it was a hoax i guess
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so here's the part i don't believe we've already heard from um
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was it the dio there was some lawyer who was explaining when he was originally looking into
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epstein that trump was the only person who said you just called him and gave him all the time he
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wanted to say what was the deal with epstein now do you think that got conflated with an fbi informant
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um who has had some kind of formal arrangement to you know take down epstein and that we're just
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finding out about this now and that there was apparently no reason we wouldn't know about it
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because mike johnson just sort of casually said it like it was no big deal
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but if it was no big deal why would we just be finding out about it now does any of that track
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how many of you think this story is complete and it's just what you thought it was that he was
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literally a secret that trump was literally a secret fbi informant on epstein and that we didn't find out
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really so here i have to give it the really test where all you do is you say really in a sarcastic way
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and and see if it fits so he was an fbi informant the whole time
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really really really yeah see what i mean the really test is kind of a useful one in this one
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so i mean maybe it's exactly true but it doesn't feel like it
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well news max is telling us that the republicans are looking at the gop is looking at kansas and
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nebraska as states that they might want to go into redistricting which would give the
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the the republicans more seats in the house now i'm kind of loving the fact that uh even though maybe
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it's not technically true it sort of looks like gavin newsom was lured into starting a redistricting
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fight you know with where there was more mutually assured destruction except that it wasn't mutually assured
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so newsom needs to learn the difference between destruction in this case self-destruction of
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democrats and mutually assured because i think that when uh when newsom said well well i'll say in my
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raspy voice if uh if you're gonna redistrict in texas i'll tell you what i'm gonna do i'm gonna
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redistrict here right here in california now he probably would say that with more jazz hands
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sort of like that but uh i don't think he realized that if he reciprocated that it would cause
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it would cause republicans like empty the quiver and just shoot every error that they had at the same
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time and say well well you know we we would have stopped with texas you know honestly we weren't
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really even thinking about those other states we would have stopped with texas but if if you want
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to go if you want to go full quiver we'll give you all our arrows sure why not so that may not be
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like i said you know what i just described as more of a narrative
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not exactly the you know an objective uh picture of truth but that's what it looks like you know
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for my other favorite funny story of the day these are good saturday stories not too serious well it's
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very serious for this one person so you know kilmar abrigo garcia you see gentleman who uh got deported
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el salvador i hope i'm not mixing up my um my stories i think that's the guy and uh then you know the
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lawyers and everybody said no he's that's he can't go back there that's the one place he can't go back to
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and then then then they couldn't figure out where to deport him to because it was okay to deport him
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but they you know it would depend where he got deported and then i guess uh he gave them a list gave
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the government list of over 20 countries that he thought he didn't want to be deported to
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he thought there he actually thought that there were more than 20 countries who had it in for him
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so badly that they wouldn't just jail him they would torture him
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so even i don't know who it was whatever government entity ice or border patrol or somebody
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they sort of mocked him in writing but then they came up
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so then they came up with this great solution since he was afraid of these 20 countries uh torturing him
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and that they would send them to a country called it's in africa it's called ezwatini
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it's a really really small african country uh i guess it's mostly surrounded by south africa
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but it used to be called swaziland so i've heard of swaziland but it's a tiny tiny little country in africa
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you know half of the time when i analyze what the trump administration does or what republicans do
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you have to almost analyze it like a prank like somebody with a sense of humor came up with this
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all right so you got these 20 countries you don't want to go to have you ever considered
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ezwatini i'm sure the lifestyle there is just terrific you'll love it you'll love their prisons
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well there's some more believe it or not more updates in the biden auto pen story and the
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clemency and pardons situation and uh i guess there's some more documents that have been made
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available just the news is reporting on it steven richards and john solomon and uh let's see what
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else we know um so biden aids uh this is what we've learned biden aids believed he should sign pardons
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by hand um i guess that was a tradition and somebody decided but he's and he seems to have outsourced
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approvals to vice president harris but i don't think there's any um documents to say she really did
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anything just in general um and there's no evidence that biden himself ever attended a meeting on any of
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these clemency decisions so anyway there's some more uh more evidence that um maybe was not a uh a real
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the latest jobs report is a little soft and disappointing not hugely but definitely going
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in the wrong direction um only added 22 000 jobs and and that was 53 000 lower than expected
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so unemployment also ticked up to 4.3 which is not terrible 4.3 but you don't want to see it working
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yeah moving in the wrong direction well as you know yesterday trump announced that the department
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of defense would in fact be renamed the department of war he says that's really about winning yeah we
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should have won every war we could have won every war but we really chose to be very politically correct
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i like that he's trying to popularize the word wokey yeah or wokey so i saw a report that
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there's a backstory to why you know department of war came back and that lucky palmer might have been the
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the main influence around that you know he would be the anduril um founder a defense contractor
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so anyway that's interesting so uh apparently a hyundai factory in georgia
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that was raided by the department of homeland security for their uh non-citizen workers their
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illegal workers and 450 people were arrested which i believe was close to their entire uh employee base
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so imagine if you will that hyundai is incentivized to come to the united states with the express purpose
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of creating jobs in the united states so they come to the united states and they do in fact
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create jobs in the united states at least 450 of them and then they staffed them all with non-us citizens
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all of them not just some of them but pretty much all of them
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so do i feel sorry for hyundai that their entire factory will have to grind to a halt because they lost
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all of their employees no no no hyundai i think you were you know maybe maybe adhering to the letter of the law but
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not the spirit now but i will i will give them this much cover um i'm not positive about this but i believe that
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probably during the period when they did the hiring that the only thing they were required to do is check
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the documents from the actual applicant that says they are or are not a citizen and there were plenty
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of people who had fake you know fake id and fake documents so if all they did was look at the fake documents
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and not being document experts said all right well that's all we've been asked to check and you've got
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those documents probably it's going to be kind of a gray area whether they were even knowingly breaking
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any law at all so they might be not in much trouble the employer if they followed all the rules as they used
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to exist well van jones on cnn says that tens of thousands of africans have already died because of trump
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administration cutting the funding for some program called pepfar that allegedly had saved millions of
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victims of hiv in africa and i said to myself number one do you think
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that's true would that be the way you would say it because why is it that the united states has some
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kind of unique responsibility to africa now i get how terrible the aids epidemic in africa is but
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what is china and russia doing what are all the other countries doing
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why is it the united states problem to solve to solve a problem in africa
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what what makes that our problem or national interest now as as a human
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you know you can certainly empathize and you could want it to be solved but it's kind of weird that we
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just sort of assume that if we have the ability to save some life anywhere in the world and we don't do it
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that that means that we kill them it doesn't really mean that we kill them because we can't really save all
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the other lives and all the other world without destroying ourselves which would also have a ripple
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effect and be bad for the rest of the world in our case so it's a tough one yeah this is why you don't
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want to be president because you make decisions where people could credibly argue you just killed
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tens of thousands of thousands of people well you just killed tens of thousands of people and then you
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have to argue well you can't say i killed somebody by not helping them because the entire world is full
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full of people we didn't help all over the place and even the country is full of people we didn't help
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so i would reject the idea that is our responsibility if we could do it and it didn't have a
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you know some kind of cost that was bigger than the benefit um then i'd feel differently
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so um but then i went to grok and asked if it was true that cutting that funding meant that tens of
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thousands of people were dying in africa and unless i read it wrong it looked like grok said that there
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was no funding cut that it was considered and then cancelled i don't know if that's a hallucination but
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so it's not clear that that was even cancelled so you could give me a fact check on that um
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have you have any of you seen the uh online uh let's see would you call it a conspiracy theory
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i'll let you decide what to call it but it was the idea that the polio vaccination didn't actually end
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polio but instead it was improvements and uh hygiene have you heard that one by the way i don't i don't
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subscribe to that but it's it's actually somewhat prominent i've seen it quite a bit on social media so
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that's that's that's out there um but we'll see what happens when the various changes happen with
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rfk jr and all the work he's doing and maybe changing of mandates more than anything else that's
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probably the the main thing that's going to happen mandates will change
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well according to the daily mail there's a new uh uh poll the daily mail jl partners poll that says
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that trump is at his highest approval rating of his presidency now they're they've got him at 55 percent
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approval uh that would be higher than any other poll that i've seen so take it with your usual
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polling grain of salt but at the same time at newsmax is reporting that the zogby poll
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um has him at a solid 46 percent now 46 percent you know given our you know divided country is actually
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pretty good you know you'd love to see it over 50 percent but today's day in age 46 pretty strong
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so and i guess he got a bounce you know he took a little dump over the summer after the hundred days
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was over but he's uh sort of bounced back and uh i guess john zogby says that uh at that level of
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approval he is impeachment proof so even if the democrats took control of the house he would be
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impeachment proof i think he was impeachment proof anyway um but that helps let's see
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speaking of polls erasmussen at a poll they said that 53 percent of likely voters under 40
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the post millennials writing about this does uh does that even sound real
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that how many of you are uh like shaking your heads right now it's like ah
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wait did i hear that wrong 53 percent of likely voters under 40 want a socialist president
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like right away now i do this thing where i try to put myself in other people's shoes
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and just literally just see if i can imagine it just to try to see what would be behind that
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that now your first your first impression is that what's behind it is that they're poorly educated
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about the risks and rewards right that's your first impression well they must be poorly informed
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or poorly educated because there's no way that anybody you know would want a socialist president
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but um keep in mind that uh there's a lot of news around the fact that young people
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don't believe that they can achieve the american dream
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so i take i wind myself backwards in time i go what if i were 20 years old and didn't believe there
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was any path for me to you know get a house someday or to be you know married with a family or something
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what if i thought there was no real practical way that could ever happen for me would i be in favor of
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capitalism and i still have to work hard and i and i couldn't even find a job and you know i can't
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stay employed long enough to have health care and the robots are coming to take my job so i gotta say
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that if i if i subtract from my assumptions that the american dream you know work hard and go to
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school and stay under trouble gets you almost anything you want if i take that out of my assumptions
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would i be and i and you make me 20 years old would i be leaning socialist and maybe would
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socialists just mean something different to me because maybe all it would mean is free health care and
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free education and free transportation i suppose that's all i meant well i mean that's a lot
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but if i were young i could very easily see myself being persuaded into the same camp
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so if you think this is some kind of a fleeting thing you know that maybe it's just going to be
00:37:00.000
limited to new york city i don't think so i i think that unless something fundamentally changes where
00:37:08.400
everybody can get what they want which is sort of the promise of the robot age but i'm a little bit
00:37:13.920
skeptical that it will go that way very quickly i don't know it's going to be a whole lot of people
00:37:21.440
who are going to try to vote other people's money into their pocket because they won't have access to
00:37:27.760
making their own money you know it won't even be their fault what would you do if your only choice
00:37:33.920
was to vote somebody else's money into your pocket because you didn't have the option of just working
00:37:39.840
hard and making your own money what would you do so something's got to change um
00:37:50.480
so let's see oh trump was asked about uh the new thing in florida where florida dropped all mandates
00:37:57.600
for vaccinations in schools and i'm no medical expert so i have a mixed feelings about it so i'm more of a
00:38:09.120
wait and see certainly we'll know maybe in two or three years maybe much less what we what we know pretty
00:38:19.200
soon if florida is you know killing a bunch of kids accidentally by uh creating a situation where
00:38:26.400
they're less likely to get vaccinated i mean so it's an experiment which i feel like is worthy
00:38:35.680
because the it seems to me there are enough people concerned about the risks of you know any health risks
00:38:42.160
from the vaccinations themselves if they feel that the science has not been sufficient or that maybe the
00:38:49.840
the people who do the science can't be trusted um it's a reasonable parental decision that some
00:38:57.920
people will make to get vaccinated and some will make it to not get vaccinated but we'll at least know
00:39:05.200
if it made a difference we'll at least know and the people who do get vaccinated if the vaccinations work
00:39:13.280
well they don't have to worry about getting it right so the only people who have to worry about it are the
00:39:20.560
people who didn't get vaccinated you know maybe i'm oversimplifying it but i think that's true so
00:39:28.800
um you know they would know what risks they're taking so i don't know i like the freedom of it but uh
00:39:38.240
uh until we know if it closes you know like massive deaths or something which i doubt but we'll know
00:39:47.920
and according to oregon health and science university there's a new evidence this will make you crazy
00:40:00.000
uh that childhood vaccinations can last for decades so boosters are not necessary for some things
00:40:09.760
and i think that they mentioned tetanus tetanus and diphtheria booster shots
00:40:22.640
people have been getting these booster shots that the data does not support make any difference at all
00:40:37.360
almost identical except that guessing is a little bit better and that's not even a joke
00:40:44.160
if you flipped a coin you'd at least get 50 percent uh but science i believe is less
00:40:52.240
um because there's so many ways it can get distorted beyond chance all right um there's a new uh gates
00:41:04.000
backed study according to modernity john fleet was writing about it so bill gates backed the study
00:41:11.920
they found that the the seasonal flu shots are linked to
00:41:16.400
oh just shoot me are linked to 27 percent higher heart injury risk the lancet reports
00:41:31.520
so seniors vaccinated for influenza experience more heart injuries not fewer
00:41:38.880
so and how did they get how did they get uh the wrong answer
00:41:45.360
well apparently it was a statistical trick with the data
00:41:51.600
oh no really so the data the data had always showed that it was riskier for your heart
00:42:01.840
but there was a little bit of gamesmanship with the statistics to make it go away
00:42:09.280
but it doesn't go away in the real world it's just you can game it away with the statistics and so they did
00:42:15.360
and uh that's one of the reasons that anyway according to them
00:42:28.560
so that's suboptimal and now here according to the mountain sinai school of medicine
00:42:36.080
after 40 years the heart doctors say beta blockers may do more harm than good
00:42:41.040
do you see the theme by the way these are just these are stories today
00:42:49.040
what's the rest of the week look like this is just today
00:42:52.960
how many how many stories can there be just today
00:42:56.400
that some gigantically major thing in healthcare was just wrong
00:43:01.520
all right so uh apparently the beta blockers it looks like it maybe they had been good at some point
00:43:13.200
but um when matched with other modern uh stuff that generally comes at the same time they might not match good with that
00:43:24.000
so that uh so it has more to do with how they interact with other treatments but the bottom line is
00:43:33.920
beta blockers may be a little more risky than you thought
00:43:38.240
and uh and then there's also a report i don't know how confirmed it is probably no more confirmed than anything else
00:43:46.160
but uh there's allegations that tylenol taken during pregnancy might be linked to autism
00:44:02.400
and then uh bill maher had his show last night and you know on saturday we're always talking about the clips
00:44:10.640
uh you know uh i was gonna say something mean but then i withdrew it but then i might
00:44:22.240
wait i'll just say the mean thing at the end okay
00:44:27.040
so bill maher has decided that uh rfk jr is nutty and that he's got to go
00:44:33.040
now you've seen most of the democrats complaining about rfk jr can anybody give me an example
00:44:44.320
of what he's done on the job because that's the part that matters what has he done on the job
00:44:50.720
that would click that would uh classify as nutty
00:44:54.240
can anybody give me one example i mean even what is the example
00:45:02.560
i believe the only one that bill maher mentioned was that he fired like you know massive bunch of
00:45:09.280
people you know that were in the vaccination decision-making capacity
00:45:14.880
to which i say don't you think there's a little context missing to that
00:45:19.840
do you think he just fired them because they liked vaccinations
00:45:23.600
or do you think he fired them because they were actively trying to stop him from gathering more
00:45:29.440
information about vaccinations or do you think they may have had some ties to the
00:45:36.400
pharma companies they were you know trying to regulate if that's the right word
00:45:42.160
do you think there might have been some backstory as to why they got fired
00:45:45.280
do you think he did it just because he's a madman who wants to ban vaccinations and so he had to
00:45:53.280
get rid of all the pro-vaccination people like do you really believe that's what happened because
00:45:58.560
that would be nutty right that would be nutty if the only reason he did it is because he disagreed with
00:46:04.880
him and his bidding was not based on any science well that would be nutty but why would you believe that's
00:46:11.600
happening what what would bring you to the twisted and unrealistic assumption that the reason he was
00:46:21.360
doing it would be nutty if you knew it why would you even think that it's not like he's got some big
00:46:29.440
track record of doing things that nutty i mean he's done things that are fun you know in his personal life
00:46:37.520
but nothing like nothing nutty in this this class nothing like that
00:46:45.440
so it seems to me that there is an rfk junior tds kind of thing derangement syndrome and
00:46:54.640
this is a really good test of how much uh psychosis can be uh let's say installed by the media
00:47:03.440
there are probably tens of millions of voters in the u.s who believe the same narrative that rfk jr
00:47:12.320
is a wacko nutty anti-science guy but not one of them could give you an example that would be compelling
00:47:20.640
that would make that case not one of them now here i'm i'm going to limit it to you know the work he's
00:47:27.280
actually doing in the actual job right nobody has any examples and and when they when you hear one
00:47:35.200
you say to yourself uh sounds like you just got that story wrong so sometimes they'll say stuff like
00:47:43.040
yeah he's making vaccinations unavailable and then you'll find out really it's about mandates
00:47:49.440
so like they don't even have the right story so how could so many tens of millions believe that
00:47:58.000
he's he's a nut job and the only reason is because the media and social media have told that story
00:48:05.360
and it's that's all it takes so if you wondered um how powerful is hypnosis well if you extend the
00:48:15.040
definition of hypnosis to include any repetition of a lie you can see for yourself tens of millions of
00:48:23.920
people have been convinced that rfk jr is nutty when the truth is they've simply been hypnotized
00:48:32.080
hypnotized that's it they've just been hypnotized and they're not aware of it so um
00:48:43.360
and then bill moore also is worried that trump militarizing the cities by putting the national
00:48:50.800
guard in some of the big cities is a prelude to creating his own sort of dictator you know personal
00:48:59.760
police for his eventual potential stealing of democracy and taking over the country now does that
00:49:08.320
sound sane to you does bill moore sound sane when he says that sending the national guard into
00:49:20.560
what would be the highest number at the same time
00:49:22.880
two do you think he can bite off more than two cities at the same time i mean i think even washington dc
00:49:31.600
will wind down uh before chicago might wind up and he's worried that that will militarize our cities
00:49:40.320
and give him a chance to take over let me ask you this what kind of dictator is pro-gun
00:49:49.280
is that a thing can anybody think of any dictator authoritarian who is pro-gun
00:50:00.560
has that ever existed and how exactly does militarizing the cities but let's just call that sending in the
00:50:09.760
national guard how in the world do you um evolve that into a into some kind of like secret police
00:50:22.160
without the public being so all over it and dismantling it that it couldn't possibly
00:50:27.360
like even if he wanted to how would that plan work it's sort of like believing which bill moore also
00:50:35.120
believes that the january sixers were doing a legitimate plan to take over the country by
00:50:43.840
by trespassing in one building how do you take over a country by trespassing in a building
00:50:50.800
like even if some of them were violent which they were how does that take over a country in in in what
00:50:57.760
twisted nightmare does any of that result in taking over a country it obviously wasn't intended to do
00:51:08.000
that because that would be insane it would be insane so yes what looks to us like mental illness in
00:51:19.920
bill maher is almost certainly susceptibility to brainwashing by the media uh in his case more
00:51:28.480
the media than the social media it's it affects anybody so he's a very high iq high functioning you know
00:51:36.080
well-informed guy doesn't make any difference yeah the the brainwashing is just exactly effective
00:51:43.280
on some number of people regardless of uh what you would imagine would be their ability to defend
00:51:51.600
against it but that's not a thing people can't defend against it um senator uh tammy duckworth
00:52:02.240
what's a duckworth okay um she said that trump's use of the military against the drug smuggling
00:52:11.200
narco terrorists is uh setting the conditions for occupying u.s cities to interfere in the next
00:52:18.880
election now come on is she even serious i mean what even what is that is that insanity or is that being
00:52:32.960
hypnotized this doesn't feel like being hypnotized this loop feels like somebody who knows she's lying
00:52:39.520
and knows that the lie will work just i mean i don't know that because i can't read her mind but
00:52:45.280
that's what it looks like it feels like she knows she's lying because it's too ridiculous
00:52:51.760
you know but i suppose cognitive dissonance would get you to the same place so you can't be sure on this one
00:52:58.880
and then of course the uh the hitler analogies live on um i guess a cnn person rana furuhar
00:53:11.520
um says that uh the fact that businesses are refusing to speak out against trump and his administration
00:53:24.080
come on yeah can you believe that there's somebody still in 2025 who believes that going on cnn and
00:53:34.560
comparing trump to nazi germany is somehow additive is that additive if you were the producers of cnn and
00:53:46.160
you heard somebody go on the air and say yet again yet again oh he looks he looked like a nazi i think he's
00:53:56.320
going to be a nazi when the smartest people and even the democratic party have said can you just shut
00:54:03.040
up about the nazi stuff it doesn't work and every minute you spend doing that as a minute you weren't
00:54:09.440
doing something better right so even the democrats know it's the biggest dumb thing to do at the moment
00:54:16.800
so do you get invited back if you bring up nazism if i were the producers i wouldn't i'd take you off
00:54:27.760
the list you wouldn't be a guest after that because it's 2025 people you're supposed to say oligarch and
00:54:34.800
authoritarianism well here's a story that i don't know how many times i've heard this story over the
00:54:42.880
decades interesting engineering has at this time that some chinese entity has developed a transparent
00:54:51.120
coding for windows that would allow the window to become a solar power generator now is it just me
00:54:59.520
or does this story come out once a year and has for my entire adult life how many times have you
00:55:07.280
heard of somebody invented a window that will turn a sun into energy and it'll be cost effective
00:55:17.360
i i swear once a year for at least 30 years so is this one the real one no no probably not i wouldn't bet on it
00:55:29.440
so uh ran paul did an interview talking about dr fauci and he said that uh that the private emails
00:55:41.520
show the uh lab leak theory was at least a 50 50 with him he says uh the government officials were aware
00:55:50.320
coven likely leaked from a wuhan lab but destroyed anyone who said so publicly so he goes uh ran paul
00:55:59.200
says it's an extraordinary thing where in private they know that from the documents that they were
00:56:04.800
very open to the fact leaning towards and in favor of the fact that the virus came from the lab in
00:56:10.080
public they were disdainful um is there a reason why that matters so much there's something about the
00:56:21.920
story that i'm missing i i get that fauci shouldn't have been lying and i get that
00:56:28.160
probably would have been better if we knew the right answer but did it make any difference in the
00:56:33.520
end that we knew where it came from or we didn't know where it came from as a as a practical matter
00:56:41.920
would we have treated china differently i don't know so i will acknowledge that
00:56:49.440
uh fauci has to answer for that if he was lying to the public but i'm not aware of how that hurt us
00:57:00.320
i mean you wouldn't want it to happen again right but but did it hurt us just in trust
00:57:06.560
yeah yeah so yeah i'm i'm in i'm agreeing that we'd have to do something about it all right thomas
00:57:16.320
massey points out that congress spends tens of billions of dollars on secret projects that that
00:57:24.240
can only be viewed in a secure room and if you go in the secure room to look at what those secret
00:57:30.160
projects are they're all described in code words so you can't tell what they really are
00:57:36.880
are you comfortable with the fact that there are tens of billions of dollars on secret projects
00:57:43.200
and that even a member of congress who presumably would have the authorization can't figure out what
00:57:49.280
they are uh well i'm a little uncomfortable with that you know you you like to believe that they have the
00:57:58.240
right um the right kind of controls and audits on that kind of stuff that even though you and i don't
00:58:05.440
know what it is that doesn't mean the government doesn't have full control over it and they're
00:58:10.960
monitoring their expenses and making sure that it's operating in the best interest of the public right
00:58:16.000
no one thing we know for sure is that our government is designed maybe unintentionally
00:58:24.400
but it's designed by its design it's it's a giant criminal organization because it just invites
00:58:33.520
every criminal scheme that you can possibly do and the odds of getting away with them look like it's
00:58:40.960
pretty good if i were going to give a young person career advice and they were afraid of you know
00:58:48.320
robots taking all the standard jobs i'd say young man or young woman you should run for office
00:58:55.360
because politics is where you can steal the most money with the lowest odds of being caught
00:59:05.440
well trump's gonna blacklist some countries for imprisoning americans newsmax is reporting and uh
00:59:19.520
so i guess that would uh the state sponsors of wrongful detentions would be you know punished in a
00:59:25.840
variety of ways and i thought to myself how many of those countries are there are there a lot of
00:59:32.560
countries that are needlessly imprisoning americans i got questions um i guess venezuela is getting some
00:59:43.440
iranian missile boats they're gonna go try to threaten some of our naval assets maybe or trying to
00:59:50.880
make us worry about what's happening i'll tell you one thing that venezuela would not want to do
00:59:56.720
which would be sink a major american naval asset because if they haven't figured it out yet
01:00:13.040
well i'm a little late on this story maybe some of you heard it but the uh i guess the new york times
01:00:18.720
reported and i don't know how they knew it that uh there was a seal team that penetrated north korea back
01:00:25.840
in 2019 and they were trying to install some electronic surveillance device but they failed
01:00:33.840
because there was some uh fishing boat that kind of encountered them by accident so they ended up
01:00:42.400
murdering the fisher boat people three and puncturing their lungs with knives so they would float to the
01:00:49.040
bottom and then they you know canceled the project so they canceled the mission now the real question is
01:00:58.880
who told the new york times and should the new york times be writing about that sort of thing
01:01:12.240
isn't this very very very bad for the public good that that story was reported
01:01:20.640
well what what is the upside of that was there someone who would say no whatever you do don't plant any
01:01:28.560
listening devices so we know better idea what's happening in north korea
01:01:32.720
and it looks like it was designed as a leak strictly for the purpose of crippling trump's
01:01:42.560
you know diplomatic work so that north korea would be mad at us it feels like that was the only purpose
01:01:50.240
so anyway um and once again university of copenhagen says that scientists have figured out how to
01:02:00.960
transform plastic waste into a thing that absorbs co2 from the air and captures it
01:02:09.920
and you know you always say when i tell you there's a new story about some new way to capture co2
01:02:17.360
what do you always say in the comments but damn it scott that co2 makes our plants grow better
01:02:25.120
we're all gonna die if they suck all the co2 out of the air you fool you fool
01:02:31.600
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