Episode 3001 CWSA 10⧸27⧸25
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1 hour and 4 minutes
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137.70107
Summary
In this episode, Scott Adams talks about his new favorite beverage: coffee. He also talks about UFOs, and what it means to be an intergalactic alien. And Elon Musk says that if you were to visit Tesla's engineering headquarters in Palo Alto, you'd find a robot that could make your dreams come true.
Transcript
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And that's what happens when the cat walks on your keyboard after you think you have
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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization.
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But if you'd like to take a chance on elevating your experience up to levels that nobody can
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even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is a cup or
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mug or a glass of tank or chalice, a stein, a canteen, a jug or a flask, a vessel of any
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And join me now for the unparalleled buzzer, the dopamine of the day, the thing that makes
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One reframe will be read from my book, Reframe Your Brain, the book that changes everybody's
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Sometimes just with one sentence that I have not yet read to you.
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How about, here's one of the things that people argue all the time.
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They argue that a plan will either work or it won't work.
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Hey, your plan will work or your plan will never work.
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A better reframe from that is that friction and incentives always work.
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We just don't know how well until they're tested.
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If you put a disincentive somewhere, you can't say it won't work.
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So instead of saying something doesn't work or it does work, you just say, can I test it?
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Oh, according to Nicholas Fabiano, MD, there's a study that says that coffee consumption is
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associated with increased brain white matter integrity and cortical thickness.
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I've been feeling a little bit thin in my cortical area, but it says here this coffee can thicken
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You know, sometimes you read this medical news and you don't know if it's real, but that
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Well, there's a Category 5 hurricane that's heading for Jamaica.
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So Representative Luna, one of my favorite representatives, is suggesting that on some, was she on a
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That the so-called UFOs or UAPs, she seems to have an inside track on that, and they're what
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she believes are interdimensional beings, according to other people.
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At the same time, there are reports of some app called the UFO Tracker, some kind of UFO
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tracker, that shows that there's an enormous amount of unexplained activity, some kind of
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vessels, that are underwater all over our coast.
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So my question is, do interdimensional beings use submarines that glow in the dark?
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Because if I'm going to go to another dimension, I need to know what to travel in.
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I did hear somebody say that if you were a creature from some, you know, some other
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part of the, I don't know, universe, you might be more comfortable underwater than you would
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be in our air, so that it would make sense that even if somebody visited Earth, that their
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impression of Earth was whatever's under the sea, and that they're not even interested in
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what's above water, because it's just a pain in the ass.
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Remember I told you that if robots were real, meaning that we really were going to have
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robots walking around in 12 months, that they would already be doing the things that the
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Well, maybe we're there, because Elon Musk says that if you were to visit Tesla's engineering
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headquarters in Palo Alto, the robots are in fact just walking around, they're on their
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own, and you could ask them for directions, and the robot would happily take you to the
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Approximately one year before you can get a robot, you would expect that the people making
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the robots would be fully enjoying the wonders of a robot, at least in the office.
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And it looks like that's either happening or it's very close to happening.
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Anyway, Tesla also says, they showed a video of it, it's pretty impressive, that in order
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to train their cars, and I think their robots too, they're doing simulated worlds.
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So instead of having the devices learn on the real world, because there's not enough real
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world to train them as fast as they want, they have the computer make up a fake world,
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So now do you believe you live in a simulation?
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Because you know, the AI doesn't know it's looking at a simulation.
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The AI is being trained on these virtual worlds.
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If we were a simulation, the whole point is you wouldn't be able to tell the difference.
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It would be programmed so that even if you thought you wanted to tell the difference,
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You would be programmatically prohibited from realizing your reality.
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That's what I think, unless you're a player and not an NPC.
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Well, Javier Millet in Argentina, I guess they had a big win in their midterm elections,
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which people would say would be somehow good for Trump because, you know, Trump likes him.
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But his party won 41% of the votes and they're going to pick up a whole bunch of parliament seats.
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You know, I've been sort of a quiet skeptic of the Argentina miracle.
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Didn't it always seem a little too good to be true?
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But it just looked like it was a little too easy, too clean, too promoted.
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There was something about it that didn't look 100% legitimate.
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So I've been, you know, you've probably noticed, I have not been a fanboy.
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I enjoy watching the show, you know, watching what Javier Millet does.
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But I'm trying not to be a fanboy because I feel like there might be more news coming someday.
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You don't want to be too far on that train when it happens.
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Well, I guess in New York City, Governor Huckle and Zoran Mondani and I think KUC were there.
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And they got up there and they promised free child care and free universal.
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Universal, yeah, universal child care, free rent or freeze rent, not free.
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I don't know what other free stuff they're giving away.
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But the people in the stadium were chanting, tax the rich, tax the rich, tax the rich.
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Meanwhile, the rich were packing up their bags to get as far from New York as they can.
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Well, I'm sure if they tried to do that chant in California that people would do the chant.
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But how would you like to have a little extra money and live in a state where they're chanting to tax you?
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You want to leave when the chanting starts, you know, before they get the pitchforks and the torches.
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Because right after chanting, pitchfork and torches.
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Now, I don't know if that's coming, but it feels like it is.
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Well, Wall Street Apes, an accountant on Axley you should follow, Wall Street Apes, they're pointing out that, did you know that the SNAP benefits, which are going to end, I guess, right away, that's the one that feeds the people who don't have enough money to feed themselves.
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Did you know that there are 43 million people on that?
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43 million people are being fed by the other people.
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And apparently 54% of immigrant households have at least one major welfare program.
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It's probably not that far off from the residents, actually.
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I think Jake Tapper put it this way to, he was talking to some Democrat.
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You know how I always tell you that Swalwell and Schiff and Raskin are designated liars?
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They send them out when the lie is just so gross that regular normal Democrats don't want to say it out loud.
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He's joined the, you know, designated liars will say anything club.
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So Jake Tapper on CNN, who is now under, is he under the Ellison umbrella already?
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So what people are looking for is to see if the conservative purchases of these big news entities, everything from TikTok, I guess, is going to go through to CNN to who knows.
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But we're looking for any subtle changes in coverage that would suggest that the news is either moving toward the middle or even leaning toward the right because of new ownership.
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But Jake Tapper asked this question, which suggests that he's at least finding the middle, if not leaning to the right.
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He said to Murphy, funding for food stamps, that would be the, what I'm talking about, is expected to run out at the end of this week.
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This is happening because Democrats, now watch how Jake Tapper frames this.
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He says it's happening because Democrats have not agreed to vote to fund the government.
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Now, do you think he would have put it that way if he were not owned by a right-leaning entity?
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And it's very powerful for the benefit of Republicans.
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I don't know that I've seen Jake go this strong on a narrative that's just pure Republican.
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So he says this is happening because Democrats have not agreed to vote to fund the government.
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Now, Jake has said that a few times, a number of times.
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He said, you know, how is this not the Democrats?
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You can't blame the people who are voting to open the government.
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He's making the common sense observation that it's the people voting not to open the government
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who are the ones voting to not open the government.
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But before, I don't think you would have seen it.
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But then he goes on with the, this is just a kill shot.
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So then Jake says, so is this a trade-off you're willing to make?
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Letting some Americans go hungry until these Obama subsidies get extended?
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There should be nothing left of the Democrat Party by now, if anybody saw this question.
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So, is this a trade-off you're willing to make?
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See, even putting it in the terms of willing to make strengthens it, and continue to make strengthens it again.
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He was letting some Americans go hungry until these Obamacare subsidies get extended.
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Because, I don't know about you, but, you know, if you say healthcare, I obviously care a lot, because that's important.
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But if you say hunger, I go to a whole different level of caring, right?
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Hunger comes before kind of everything, except, you know, immediate physical safety.
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So, I'm going to give Jake a sitting, standing ovation for that journalism move, because that was exactly the right question, exactly the right time, and exactly the right person to ask it.
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Did he say, yeah, we're intentionally going to starve 43 million people, which, by the way, the Republicans don't want to do?
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They want to open the government and give them their money, their food.
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So, they're going to starve Republicans so that they can get a political win on healthcare.
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Now, even if you were to say, but, Scott, you know, we need both of those things, so ranking them doesn't even make sense.
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Those are two essential things you have to have on both.
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So, putting them up against each other isn't fair.
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Feels like you need to eat before you go to the doctor.
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Well, so that was, to me, that was really interesting as maybe a sign of the times.
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He's already met with the Prime Minister of Japan.
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And his alleged victories so far in his Asia trip.
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I don't know how much to believe because the reporting seems a little light.
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But there's reason to think that Trump set up a number of alternative paths for rare earth minerals through other countries that he's meeting.
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He might even meet with Kim Jong-un if he wants to catch up.
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So, the question is, did Trump successfully find alternative paths for all of the rare earths?
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Do we have a new, more robust alternative path that's not China?
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Well, it seems that around the time that these other deals with other countries were being made, China got flexible.
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And we don't know if that flexibility is because they realize they're going to lose the entire rare earth market, which they might.
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They might lose the entire rare earth market for ever having tried to restrict it.
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Would you ever buy rare earth from somebody who had ever tried to restrict it for political purposes?
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Not if you had a choice of buying it from somebody who never did that.
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So, China may have realized how much they shot themselves in the foot with threatening the world with rare earth restrictions.
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Because there might be levels and levels of, you know, what's happening behind the scenes.
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Scott Bessent said he was a soybean farmer himself.
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I asked Grok and I said, well, he's not a farmer, but he does own farms.
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He's a landlord who owns some farms that would have been growing soybeans, but China didn't want to buy it until now.
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Now, I guess they're going to do a big soybean purchase.
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And they also have agreed, allegedly, with the sale of TikTok to some American entities that will be running all the sensitive stuff so you don't have to worry about China stealing your stuff, we think.
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We don't know how successful Trump has been on this trip.
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We know that everybody's treating him like a superstar.
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We know that he's, you know, he's our celebrity in chief.
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Do you remember the days when it was reasonable for his critics to say that the other leaders were not respecting him and that that was, you know, some of that disrespect was coming on us by extension?
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When was the last time you heard, oh, those other foreign leaders don't respect Trump?
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I don't know if that's ever coming back, but apparently they got used to him, and they got used to him as a star, a superstar.
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So, I guess we'll have to wait to see how much of a, you know, a real, real world deal making happened.
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Also because it's now several months into tariffs, and we've collected pretty enormous amounts of tariffs, and inflation barely budged.
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Now, there weren't many people who thought that could happen.
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I was sitting on the sidelines watching, saying, maybe it could happen.
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There are a bunch of smart people who think it can happen, meaning that we collect the tariffs, and we use it as a trade negotiation, and it doesn't create inflation.
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I was open to it, but I can't say I predicted it.
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So, maybe in a few more months, things will change, but at the moment, it's looking good.
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So, the people who are rumored to be buying TikTok would be Oracle, Larry Ellison.
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So, that would be the owners of Fox would also own part of TikTok.
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As an investment for Murdoch, it makes perfect sense.
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Andreessen Horowitz will be part of that, and Silver Lake Management.
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So, I like anything that Mark Andreessen's associated with, because he's a voice of reason.
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He's not political in any sense that you normally think of it.
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He is a common sense guy, and real rich and real smart.
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So, the more you give me the common sense guys who are real rich and real smart, yeah.
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I want you on the board of directors of Oracle.
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So, Carney, the head of Canada, as you know, there was one minister,
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Ford, I guess it was, who ran that Reagan ad where Reagan allegedly was against tariffs,
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and it was to embarrass Trump, because Trump likes Reagan, Republicans like Reagan.
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And Trump's reaction was to give them 10% more tariffs and stop talking to them on trade deals.
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So, here's the news from Reuters at that ASEAN summit that Trump's at, and I guess Carney's at, too.
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Reuters says, from the sidelines of the ASEAN summit, Canada's Prime Minister Carney sent a not-so-subtle message to Washington.
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Carney said that Ottawa is, quote, ready to sit down with the United States,
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but admits there's been no contact with Trump since Thursday.
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Like there was no way he could send him a text message or anything.
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So, Carney's like, I don't know what's happening.
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Anyway, so, Canada's posture, says Reuters, is polite patience.
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So, you've got the rudest leader in the world, Trump, against the politest country in the world.
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I don't think it makes any difference in the real world, does it?
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It's just like they've got this little high school interpersonal drama thing going on that will take care of itself.
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Well, here's a little update on, you remember I told you the story that Bill Maher used me and Mike Cernovich as examples
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of crazy, hallucinating conservatives, as they called us.
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Because, I'll just talk about my own prediction.
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My own prediction was that Republicans would be hunted if Biden got in office, and also that they would be in danger of death.
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Now, the danger of death is obvious, because if you put a vegetable in charge of the nuclear football, which is what we did,
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we put a vegetable in charge of the nuclear football, can you tell me that wasn't dangerous?
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Trump says there would have been no war in Ukraine with Putin.
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Was it more dangerous to have a president who sort of encouraged an arm to one side?
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Was it dangerous that we had a president who, if he had been elected for a second term,
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Would it be dangerous that your foes around the world see you as incompetent?
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Would that make it more likely, or less likely, that China would have made a play for Taiwan?
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Now, they didn't, but remember, I was talking about likelihoods.
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And the point was that the odds for our survival would go down if Biden was elected.
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Compare that to Trump, who's stopped eight out of nine wars or something.
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How about the guy who emphasizes making our military more lethal?
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But the other one was that Republicans would be arrested, basically.
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And then I saw a post by Mila Joy on X, in which she lists.
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It's, I don't know, this is the beginning of the list.
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These are the public figures that got arrested or indicted.
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So, it'd be like Trump's lawyers, Trump's whatever.
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That's not even counting the January 6th citizens who were hunted down as well.
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Doesn't count people like me who were canceled.
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So, does my point stand that Republicans were hunted or not?
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These people, just in a normal situation, no matter who had been elected,
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So, here's what I think is probably going to happen.
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I don't think Bill Maher follows me or even kind of knows anything about me.
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Because when he introduced me on his show as the topic, not as a person, but as the topic,
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I've told you for sure that I prefer conservatives.
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There's nobody who actually knows my work who would call me a conservative.
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I don't get involved in the abortion question at all.
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I think women need to work that out and let us know how it goes.
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I'm not a religious person, but I like religion.
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When I describe myself, my current best description of myself is that I'm a Trump-supporting common
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sense guy, and that when he does things that look like common sense to me, I don't care
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I don't call myself a libertarian, because there are too many differences there.
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But have we demonstrated for sure that I don't have to agree with all of your opinions for
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you to embrace, that I add some value to your...
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Something just talks to me in a digital voice every now and then.
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Anyway, let's talk about Trump in the third term.
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I think I might be part of the reason that's heating up, because I added to that noise a
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Bannon's the one driving it, but the idea of Trump staying for a third term is not being
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So they asked him on the plane about the third term, and Trump says, I haven't really thought
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Does anybody believe he hasn't really thought about it?
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We have some very good people, as you know, but I have the best poll numbers I've ever
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He said something about he would love to do it.
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So the reporter says, you're not ruling it out?
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He goes, I think if they ever formed a group, it would be unstoppable.
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Now, I don't know what the group is, but he talks about J.D.
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I don't know if there's more to the group than those two.
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Apparently, Bannon has some argument that he hasn't trotted out for why a third term in
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My reasoning is that as long as people like Carville are saying that Republicans should
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be put in orange jumpsuits, paraded through town and spit on after Trump is out of office,
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and he actually said that, that as long as that's waiting for us, and they're saying so
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directly, and it's coming from somebody who has some gravitas in the party, then I think
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that the safest thing for Republicans is to never have a Democrat president, whatever that
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And if it takes keeping Trump to keep them from putting me in jail and spitting on me,
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And as I've been saying consistently, there's nothing else that would make me be in favor
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But I would definitely violate the Constitution to increase the chance of living.
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To increase your own chance of living and not being paraded through town and spit on?
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If those are my choices, I'll take the violation to the Constitution.
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And, you know, and you'll have to live with another four years of Trump.
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I don't think that's going to happen, but I feel like it's the right, it's the right trade-off.
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I'm going to give you my best argument, which I don't think is good, but it'll be an argument
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Do you think I could give you a persuasive argument why he should get a third term?
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Well, I don't know if this is unique or if other people have said this.
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They stole his first and second term with a hoax.
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The government denied him a full regular term by making him fight to stay in a jail the entire
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first term and then using the lies that they created in the first term to prevent him from
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Now, I don't know if there was also any chicanery with the votes itself.
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But what we do know is that they had a well-organized from the top, from the top, Obama, plan to deny
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And I would argue if you look at what he's accomplished in his current term, where he's not having to
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do all this, you know, impeachment hoax stuff, you can see the difference between what it would
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look like if he had been unfettered, where he is now, versus the way they treated him and
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essentially denied him a real presidential term.
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Now, you could say, well, they denied him his second term.
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Or you could say they denied him his first term.
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He was president, but with such an anchor on him that they put on him, it was like he couldn't really
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So, is that a good enough argument to overcome the very clear wording in the Constitution that
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The only way that would fly is if the Supreme Court just went totally rogue.
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Could the Supreme Court go rogue and vote just by conservative majority?
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I can't see any of them voting for it, frankly.
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I just don't think it would pass any kind of scrutiny.
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Is the media changing to be more right-leaning?
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So now that Barry Weiss is going to be taking over CBS News, or already has, I'm not sure where that is,
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but somebody pointed out that Margaret Brennan, in her interview with Hakeem Jeffries,
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seemed a little more right-leaning than what they expected.
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So she was pointing out that Hakeem Jeffries and all the Democrats have been saying forever that Trump is a monster for claiming that the 2020 election was rigged.
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And that if you claim elections are rigged, you can't be a politician in this country because you're just starting stuff.
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But Jeffries himself is saying that the gerrymandering that Trump and others want to do is rigging the election.
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Somehow he's ignoring the fact that all of the 100% of the Democrat states have already gerrymandered,
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and that California is going to do some more, and maybe Massachusetts too.
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So his argument is stupid, but Brennan actually challenged him on the fact that he said rigging the election is the worst thing you could say
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while he says that rigging the election is what's happening.
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But he's arguing that he's not talking about the election that happened,
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but rather he's warning that the gerrymandering would be like rigging an election.
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I'm not sure we would have seen that challenge before.
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So that does look to me like the news CBS is moving a little bit to the right.
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Gavin Newsom was on some podcast in which he said that the anti-woke stuff is just anti-black, period, full stop.
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What have I taught you about people who say, period, full stop?
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Do you know why people put period, full stop at the end of a sentence?
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If you had a reason, you'd sort of slot that in there.
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So let me give you an example of when you don't need it.
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If you don't reopen the government, people will not give food and they'll be hungry.
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No, because as soon as you heard people won't get fed, argument is made.
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But if you say something like this, anti-woke stuff is just anti-black, period, full stop, you're really saying I don't want to debate any nuance of this thing because I don't even believe it myself.
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I have to say, you know, being completely immersed in the conservative worldview, as I often am, I don't really see anybody talking about DEI as being anti-black.
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I've never thought it was like between the lines.
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If you want the world to stop discriminating against, in my case, white men, how is that anti-black?
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And my argument has a reason, that the actual people I know, I've observed for 10 years, don't have any anti-black rationalizations, even in private, like private conversations.
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All they say is, I got discriminated against and I don't want to be discriminated against.
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So I'm not in favor of being discriminated against.
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I don't want my kids to be discriminated against.
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It has nothing to do with what black Americans do or do not get into life.
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It just has to do with your own discrimination, that you don't like it.
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So Gavin, but I will give him credit that he did reframe that in a way that politically might be powerful.
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But what I like about any of the conversations about black America and who's getting what and reparations and all that, have you noticed there's always a Thomas Sowell quote that fits the story?
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And somebody always puts it in the comments to every one of these X reports.
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So here are the Thomas Sowell quotes that somebody stuck in the story about Gavin Newsom saying anti-woke stuff is just anti-black.
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Thomas Sowell, famous black economist, who is widely, widely beloved on the right, probably more than the left, because he's more of a conservative, take care of yourself kind of a guy.
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So one of his quotes that somebody stuck in there is that when people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
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That getting rid of DEI is not crippling black people.
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It's simply taking away an obvious advantage that they had been enjoying.
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So if you take away somebody's obvious advantage, they're going to think you're discriminating against them.
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Then there was a second one on the same comment thread.
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He says it is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.
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So when somebody like Newsom says that the anti-woke is really anti-black, don't you think he is?
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I think he was talking to a black podcaster, if I recall.
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But don't you think he was sort of leaning into his sense of moral superiority?
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Speaking of that, Fox News, Preston Mazzella is writing that the University of Washington, they had a job posting that requires some DEI stuff.
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And one of their white professors did a video totally outing them about what you have to say to get hired.
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So if you're whoever you are, you don't even have to be white, but you have to say a statement about DEI.
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It used to be that you just had to say, do you like DEI?
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According to the professor, this white professor, he says, you have to say that you have deep knowledge of the DEIs in order to get a high rating on all this.
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He says, the funny thing is, I'm convinced I would not be hired if I applied today.
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So he's currently one of the highest rated teachers.
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He won the Distinguished Teaching Award at his university, and he believes there's actually no way that he would ever be hired.
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So if you were to allow this Distinguished Teaching Award guy to be hired at that university, you would say, oh, that's an even playing field.
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But if you insist that it has to be a DEI-loving candidate, it's kind of like a special treatment, that if I had special treatment, I wouldn't want to take it away.
00:44:47.360
President Biden came out and called these the dark days.
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They keep saying that the dark days are here and the bad stuff's happening.
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And then they would add things like, well, Democrats are preventing 43 million people from eating today.
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Was it the solving of all those wars and the fact that Gaza is under control and the fact that Ukraine and Russia were working as hard as we possibly can to de-escalate that before super winter kicks in?
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Is it the fact that the tariffs worked, that inflation's under control, that eggs and gas prices are dead?
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The grief's a little high, but we're working on it.
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Is it because we stopped doing transitioning youth?
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But as I've told you before, back in 2016, when the Democrats started calling everything that Trump did dark, you say that because you don't have specific credible complaints.
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You do it because it can collect all of your fears.
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If they can make you afraid, then they can get elected.
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So when they say stuff like dark, but they don't give any details of what exactly is the dark part?
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The reason they can't give you details is if they did, you'd say, oh, well, that looks like temporary.
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Or, well, yeah, that's true, but Trump's working on that.
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Because if they gave you reasons, it would look weak and pathetic and, you know, not common sense.
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When I first saw it, I thought, that can't be real.
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So Swalwell said now on social media that the only Democrat candidate who would be, let's say, the only valid presidential candidate for the Democrats would be somebody willing to say in advance that they would bulldoze the ballroom if they won.
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Swalwell actually, and by the way, if I'm wrong about, please correct me immediately so I don't go too far.
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It's too on the nose for what, like, the dumbest Democrat would say.
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Well, I believe it's being treated as real, right?
00:48:18.540
And can you even imagine bulldozing a $350 million building that even the Democrats have been saying they needed for decades?
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And to imagine that maybe the Democrats have enough of a base that would agree with this, that he would think that saying it would somehow boost his political situation?
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Well, Russia, Ukraine has turned into two movies on one screen.
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Depending on which propaganda site you look at, it's a completely different war.
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I do not believe that anybody on X is credible when it comes to the war.
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But I'll just give you a sense of the two sides, what they're saying.
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Yasmina is on the side that Russia's economy is close to collapse.
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The other movie is that Ukraine is going to lose all of its energy resources before winter and freeze to death.
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And that Russia has never been serious as they are now about turning off the power in Ukraine.
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And now that Ukraine is attacking them deep within Russia and taking out some of their energy resources,
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that Russia will have no gating factor to keep them from taking out all of Ukraine's energy.
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It looks like what they want to do is make half of Ukraine go dark to force the people who lived in the dark part
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to move to the part that still has energy, which would essentially clear out a big swath that they can just reenter.
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It would make it easier to conquer if they moved down to all the people who didn't have electricity.
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So that looks like the movie, both of them trying to crush the other's economy.
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And they have much better weapons this winter than they had last winter.
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So the odds of them being able to do it in both cases are now closer to, I don't know, closer to 100%.
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But I don't think they could have done it before.
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And I guess Ukraine sent 193 at Russia just last night.
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But 193 drones a night going after your energy resources?
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How many nights do you need before you get them all?
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So I guess one of their biggest refineries got shut down in Russia.
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So all the fog of war stuff is completely impossible to sort through.
00:51:20.740
But the U.S. is working on reducing Russia's access to oil.
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One movie says that the U.S. is making a big difference
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and that the sanctions that we put on third-party countries like India and China
00:51:44.540
are actually making them change their behavior.
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So in the short run, India and China aren't really changing their importing of Russian oil.
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In the long run, it looks like they might want to avoid the problems
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So it looks like they might be looking for alternatives
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and that the only thing that would keep them from getting off of Russian oil,
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which would bring them problems in their own country from the United States,
00:52:28.960
but there's an extra oil being pumped in the Middle East.
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That's probably at least partly from Trump's influence.
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Because if the price of oil stays around $60 a barrel,
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But Russia would have way less money to press the war.
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but they wouldn't have the extra for the war that they would want.
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by an AI pioneer, founder kind of guy, Andrej Karpathy.
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And he had something interesting to say about intelligence
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Agency, in this case, is defined as a personality trait
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that refers to your capacity to take initiative, make decisions,
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and exert control over your actions and your environment.
00:53:41.440
They can often or usually beat a human being on what they know.
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And that until you start building agency into the robots and the AI,
00:54:14.680
They want to make a vehicle where you don't have to watch,
00:54:24.200
that they think they'll be able to do it with, the Cadillac.
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And then they want to build Gemini AI into their cars
00:54:32.580
so you can just talk to the car and have it do what you want.
00:54:37.380
Remember I always talk to you about products that have never been tested?
00:54:40.900
Have you ever been in a car with even one other person
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Have you ever been in a room where you wanted to use a voice command on your phone,
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If you are obviously doing a voice command to your car or your phone,
00:55:07.460
will pretend they can't see that you're doing that,
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seriously, you don't see that I'm giving a voice command to my phone right now?
00:55:28.600
You'd have to have a long trip by yourself with the radio off.
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You'd have to turn off the radio every time you talk to your car.
00:55:46.540
Here's an article from IFL Science, Dr. Katie Spaulding.
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Do you guys know how the 2,000 calories a day recommendation for humans came about?
00:55:59.100
Like, who came up with 2,000 calories as sort of the baseline?
00:56:03.920
And there's a long story to it, but basically it's just made up.
00:56:08.320
It's just a number that a bunch of people sat in the committee and said,
00:56:12.960
Well, you know, big people who were getting ready for a competition,
00:56:21.280
So basically the reason is 2,000 instead of 2,350,
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which they think might have been a more accurate number,
00:56:32.020
So they can manipulate people easier if they said 2,000 instead of 2,350.
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And of course, everybody should be getting their own amount based on how big they are.
00:56:59.140
So, yeah, everything about nutrition is made up and fake,
00:57:02.380
and all the science around it is sketchy and ridiculous.
00:57:09.260
Israel says that they're not in favor of Turkey taking a security role in Gaza.
00:57:17.020
Well, it's big news if Turkey had been willing to do it.
00:57:25.480
But Israel says they're the ones who get to decide which other Arab countries do security,
00:57:34.980
Obviously, Israel would have to be okay with whoever goes in there.
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But that does eliminate what I thought was the most likely contender for this security.
00:57:53.660
Who would they say yes to who had a dependable military?
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Because the dependable military is a big part, right?
00:58:07.120
I believe that, as I said before, that Netanyahu loses if what happens after the end of the war is Gaza gets rebuilt,
00:58:17.160
Hamas has a role in it, and in the end, there's no one-state solution.
00:58:24.540
Because all of that was possible if Netanyahu had been allowed to just take it to the ultimate conclusion,
00:58:35.520
But 100 years from now, as I say, if Netanyahu had turned the entire West Bank and Gaza into Israel,
00:58:44.120
and it just was one big country, if he had pulled that off,
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in the short run, of course, he would just be called a war criminal
00:58:51.800
and whatever is the worst criticisms you can come up with,
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But if you waited 100 years, it would be a big statue to him,
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and he would be the greatest Israeli who ever lived,
00:59:11.740
but it's obvious that he didn't want a two-state solution,
00:59:15.920
and it's obvious that if he'd had his way for a few more years,
00:59:21.720
he probably could have gotten just about anything he wanted.
00:59:30.400
He took the credit, but he also ended the killing, most of it.
00:59:35.060
There's still a little bit going on, but he ended most of it.
00:59:37.860
So I don't disagree with Trump putting a big old Trump boot on that whole situation,
00:59:46.640
It's not America first to have a one-state solution.
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It's probably America first to have something that's neither one nor two,
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and when Trump leaves office, if he leaves office after this term,
01:00:14.160
that Gaza will look pretty much the way it looks now,
01:00:24.100
because Netanyahu might want to just wait for Trump to be out of office
01:00:28.000
and then see if he's got a little more flexibility if that happens.
01:00:33.380
If I were Netanyahu, I would pretend I was on board
01:00:36.240
and I would be tapping Trump along and not doing any cleanup.
01:00:46.120
If only you would give us a billion dollars for the cleanup,
01:00:53.920
And then there would be an argument over the funding.
01:00:58.560
no, we want to clean it up as fast as possible.
01:01:02.880
So if one of you wants to give us a billion dollars,
01:01:08.240
So there's probably a hundred ways that he can stall
01:01:13.980
Well, we still got a pocket of resistance there.
01:01:27.220
Do not expect Gaza to turn into a gleaming city
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I hope I added a little bit of something to your day.
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All right, locals coming at you privately in 30 seconds.
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So please, I'm going to ask you to hon the air youreni.