Episode 3030 CWSA 11⧸28⧸25
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Coffee with Scott Adams, the whisper version, the soft talking version, and the full asmr version. Today, Scott Adams talks about the tragic news about the National Guard shooting of two members of the elite elite National Guard, and how a self-driving car is getting closer and closer to becoming a reality.
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well did you miss me today's going to be the quiet talking version i'm going to be quiet
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but extra awesome today it's going to be full asmr
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let's see let me get your comments up here and then we've got a show for you so come on in there we go
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i'm trying to work on my respiratory situation so i'm going to be soft talking so i don't wear
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myself out okay so it's a little extra asmr today it will seem like low energy but really it's
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strategic you ready for this good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of
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human civilization it's called coffee with scott adams today will be the whisper version the asmr
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well today is mostly about hanging out with you people i do have some things to talk about
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slow news day well not as slow as usual for uh black friday which seems racist but as far as i know it's
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not all right who wants to talk about the news anybody yeah let's talk about the news all right so i'll try
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to give you as much energy as i can but uh i can't promise a lot today today we're just gonna enjoy the fact
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that we're all here together and uh i got a lot of love yesterday and i'm happy to return it
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so let me tell you i love you all my audience including the beloveds who are a little bit extra special
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but you're all awesome all right well i saw a post by mario knoffel who is a great person to follow
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he has lots of good lots of good stuff on tesla and apparently tesla's full full self-driving
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is reached a new level of awesomeness getting closer and closer uh one interesting thing is that elon
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thanked waybo for going first and you know getting approvals and probably making it easier for tesla to
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get approved for its full self-driving self-driving but the uh the point that mario was making
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it's kind of interesting is that once you can if you can turn your car into a self-driving car
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imagine having a one hour commute that you could do whatever you wanted
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you could get work done you could sip your coffee but you wouldn't have to do any effort
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it just takes you to work and then takes you home
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well one of the things that would do is it would make it easier to live an hour away from work
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so it could have an impact on real estate prices so people who live an hour from work suddenly are
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going to be like hey this is totally practical i love an hour of no kids and no responsibility hiding
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away in your yourself driving car for an hour each way sounds pretty good i have to admit
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um since the the day i walked down of my cubicle existence i've thought i would never go back but
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when i think about uh an hour each way in a self-driving car where nobody could bother me
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and i could just just hang out and do what i want well i don't know maybe i'll go back to work
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maybe i'll get my cubicle job back um but let's talk about some news so you all know about the story of the
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national guard uh the two national guard people who got shot um and apparently that's made it
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it's possible for trump to go full reverse migration meaning that he's uh planning to halt third world
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immigration from everything that's a third world now that seems like a pretty big category
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and it's something that i think he's wanted to do for a while but because of the uh
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and because of the tragic news about the national guard it sort of creates an opportunity where he can
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surf the uh the emotional feeling of the country so these anecdotal situations you know where there's
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this one thing that happens that doesn't necessarily tell you you know the big picture it's just
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one story of one tragic thing but those things really move they move policy so
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i don't want to say it's lucky because it's obviously more tragic than anything else
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but it does give trump the uh the opening to be far more severe on his uh immigration so he literally
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wants to um i guess he wants to um i guess he wants to audit all the green cards and he wants to ship
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back anybody who's not here um for all the right reasons so i think there's going to be a it looks like a
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massive uh increase in re-immigration or what he calls it reverse immigration or the news calls it that i
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don't know i don't know who calls it that but i'm generally not in favor of using anecdotes
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but in this case it's a policy that at least maybe half the country wanted so
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i've got a feeling it'll be very popular with the right wing
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and it will be called it will be called racist by the left wing
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um how in the world could we ever vet all the uh the immigrants
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and keep out the terrorists how could you even do that it's completely undoable
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so i think the options are either we put up with this continuous threat
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or we close down immigration completely there's only two choices because the the choice of vetting
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people really well that doesn't even seem like it could work right so this we i think we've had
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this uh fantasy that we can vet people that we would know who's dangerous and who isn't
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we can't really do that not possible so could be that this is uh going to be looking at a big change
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we'll see you know i wonder how many of our policies are based on the fear did you ever think about that
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this would be another one where if there's a big change in policy because of it it would be because of
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fear and i don't know if fear is the best way you know to make new policies but i think we're going to
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find out trump also says he uh that we're going to begin stopping venezuelan drug traffickers by land
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where exactly would we stop venezuelans by land
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do you understand do you understand that i think he means direct military action uh within venezuela
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since we don't have a you know if we were going to stop it by land it would already be stopped
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in other words if they i don't try to get across the mexican border
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the venezuelans would probably you know we've already stopped them excuse me while i take a sip
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from my awesome water thermos bottle that will make you wish you had one
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so if you're just joining i'm using my npr asmr voice to conserve my energy so i can go as long as
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possible probably won't go more than 20 minutes but we'll see all right so
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it looks like we're uh we're at least teasing going to venezuelan but here's the real question
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i'm going to get into some conspiracy theory stuff
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it sounds better when you talk like this conspiracy theories is it really about the drugs
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maybe some people say fentanyl is not a venezuela problem so there must be some other reason trump
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wants to go into venezuela is it because venezuela has some implication in our election
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systems i'm going to talk about that separately is it because what we really want is regime change
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so do you think the do you think the war on venezuelan drugs is about voting machines
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is it really about drugs or is it really about regime change
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or is it some combination of all three or two and how would we ever know now um today this morning
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since it was slow news i had some gaps in my understanding of some recent stories
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and so i used grok to fill me in and it ruined all my fun has anybody tried that yet have you tried
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using grok on stories within your own bubble you will be very disappointed if you do not not disappointed
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in grok necessarily but you'll be disappointed in
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how many things you believe that are pure bullshit
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so my experience this morning was all right grok does this look reasonable nope
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how about this does this look reasonable nope so it turns out that there were several things
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things that i thought were at least possible in my bubble that grok says are bullshit now that doesn't mean
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that grok is right right grok is you know intended to achieve maximum truth but it's not done yet
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you know grok is still a work in progress so it's possible that grok is the one that's wrong
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but it's pretty convincing so the first thing i used grok to help me on was the emerald robinson
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uh long thread in which she she weaves together a very very convincing story that our elections have been
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fake basically for years as well as the elections in other countries and that there's a very specific
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um set of allegations of why that is but um so i ran that against grok
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and i said you know basically summarize it and then tell me how reasonable it is what do you think grok said
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grok wasn't buying any of it so um so emerald robinson's uh i guess or a thread you'd call it
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is that and i'll just throw out some of the main points so one of the points is that
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the the chips in election machines are made in china do you believe that's true and that they have
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um you know malicious basically that the chips are malicious but that they were laundered through taiwan
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so it would look like the chips came from taiwan but they really were made in china
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so i'm not sure that's proven then there was the allegation that one of the main
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election machines had as its ceo a george soros
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allegation alleged and there's a chinese chip um part but there's also a venezuelan
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software allegation and there's something about serbian servers and the cia so the idea would be
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and here's the part i was trying to understand how in the world could all of those entities be working
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together how could soros be working with china who is also working with some serbians who is also being
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i don't know managed maybe by the cia does it seem like they would all be on the same team
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and uh grok's explanation is that the cia no this would not be um this is grok's explanation
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so it's not grok's opinion it's description of someone else's opinion but the idea would be
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that the cia is allowing with full knowledge china to manipulate our elections
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and soros to manipulate them and some serbians and maybe some venezuelan software
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and that the reason that the cia would allow all that is that somehow that would preserve
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the deep state as it is now do you think chinese microchips if such a thing were real do you think that
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all those entities would be working toward the same end and that the cia would be completely aware of it
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and allow it to happen and then separately why didn't it work in 2024 if our elections are completely compromised
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why in the world didn't it work in 2024 and the explanation given is that the good work of the
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people trying to uncover this vast conspiracy were so good at what they did that it increased the uh
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let's say the potential for audits and the oversight and that in some cases they got rid of election
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machines um i don't know how many places but so the theory is that they've you know that for
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maybe decades the entire system has been rigged that hundreds of people are aware of it and part of it
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but yet somehow the we only hear about it from a few whistleblowers even though decades and hundreds of
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people have been involved that's that's a that's a stretch but we have seen we have seen real world
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situations where hundreds of people have been involved and it was actually was a conspiracy
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you know if you're talking about covet for example that was an example of a lot of people being involved
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who could have been whistleblowers but weren't so we we do have i think some precedent
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of lots of people being involved of lots of people being involved and nobody talking because they'd be
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afraid of being executed presumably by the cia so how much of that sounds
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real to you do you believe that all of those entities let's see i'll give you the entities again
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which ones uh it would have been um the soros organization venezuela some serbian hackers
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the chinese making microchips and the cia do you believe that they were all coordinating
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i'm just looking at your comments so um a grok spot well let me let me tell you what else
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first of all the the story is kind of yes confused openly exactly it's a it's a bit confusing story
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so that's your first hint that maybe there's something wrong meaning there's a lot of parts to it
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and if there's one thing i've taught you and only one thing it's that things which are not true
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can often have a lot of circumstantial evidence that they are so it's not unusual
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for something not to be true but really really looking like it is
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for 20 different reasons that's that just doesn't mean it's true so let's see what else
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i i also look to mike benz to tell me if this all tracks and i i think mike i don't want to
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i hate to mischaracterize him but i think he would be on the side of um not complete not completely
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embracing the emerald robinson version of events um i didn't see him debunk it but nor did i see him
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him fully embracing it if he had that would have added a lot to the credibility because he knows
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you know he knows the context of things in ways we don't anyway so part of the uh part of the theory
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i've got to talk to my phone for a minute my phone thought i was talking to it
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phone quiet down all right so part of the theory is that the reason that um the bad people got away
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with it is that they they learned to shave votes only from the deep red pro-trump um districts
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that nobody would suspect if they did all the cheating in the red areas
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because the red areas are republican controlled and you wouldn't expect
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those to be the places that would be cheating against trump and the theory is that if it's a
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trump 70 percent area that if they just shave it back to say 68 percent nobody would notice
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because it would still be a landslide for trump in a trump area so that would look legit it would just
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look i was off by two percent from what we expected but you know you can't you can't expect that accurately
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so that makes sense uh i don't think there's proof of that but it makes sense in the how would you cheat
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if you did cheat how would you do it so it makes sense that way but i don't think that's
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uh i don't think there's evidence of that uh let's see what else
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i've been saying for a while that the best evidence that the electronic voting machines are not legit
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without stating who might be behind you know any uh any bad behavior is that they they're not cheaper
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they're not easier and they're not more secure than the alternative which is paper ballots so why do they even exist
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i'm leaning toward the idea that they do exist for the purpose of rigging elections in other countries
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but that would still raise the question who's doing the rigging is it possible that the cia was working with maduro
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and china i don't know how all that makes sense anyway so let's see what else crock said about it
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yeah so the the theory that the cia allegedly allowed china to insert spyware because they were okay with it
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um there would be at least i know two or three entities that all had some access to be able to rig
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the rig the vote i don't know so i'm going to say this about that um first of all grok
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is really a spoiler this won't be the first thing i tell you that um that it kind of debunked
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now debunk is a strong word and it does not mean disproven so just get that part straight uh grok did not
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disprove the theory is simply did not find it compelling i guess but is that is that evidence
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is anybody convinced by grok's opinion well one of the things that grok did was it mocked me
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in his response it sounded it said it sounded more like a like a scott adams conspiracy theory
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and i said why did you bring me into it and that was the funny part grok knows who i am
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um it knows who i am but it also used me as an example to make his point
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anyway i got a little personal there all right so i also tested grok
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against the mike ben's um hypothesis i'll call it that that uh it's not a coincidence that uh
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there are these big immigration waves in to america um that follow some kind of cia
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um color revolution in another country so i think he had some i don't know maybe there were like eight
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different examples of countries where we were actively meaning the cia was actively trying to
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do regime change and caused instability in the the target country be it syria or afghanistan
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afghanistan and then once that um once that uh let's say um disruption of their society happened
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and it triggered a bunch of uh immigration uh or migration out of the target country
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that uh there was a secondary benefit that the deep state or the cia or somebody knew would happen and
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what they would do is they would uh aim the aim the refugees for areas where the extra population
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could be used to change the vote so and uh it might give a bunch of examples
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that uh you would have to believe that they were all a coincidence for that uh for for there to be any
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other reason in other words it does look intentional but only by the fact that there are too many coincidences
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but grok i thought was going to buy into this a little bit more than it did grok said that
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there's no evidence of intent so it didn't doubt mike benz's facts it only said there's a part missing
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which is some evidence that anybody intended for this to happen
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um we can observe that it does happen we can observe that um something like color revolutions that we're
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pushing in other places does create mass migration and we can observe that it changes the
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the political you know dynamic in certain places but um the part that's missing
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is uh some kind of a more direct smoking gun i guess that it's all intentional at least at least the
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intentional part is that it's uh partly to you know change the uh the voting balance in the united states
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so that ruined uh some of my fun there um as far as i can tell mike is undefeated in terms of
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showing his receipts but uh sometimes you have to make a little bit of a a leap and say well this
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doesn't look like a coincidence or or if it is a coincidence that's sure a weird one so i would say
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that um so grok was not grok was not uh not at all convinced
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now again i remind you that doesn't mean grok is right that was just sort of grok steak
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then i uh this this one will kill you you ready for another one i don't want to ruin all of your
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your fun with the conspiracy theories because they are fun and i i get drawn into them as much as
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anybody else all right so i saw a post by eric doherty that summarized what a number of other
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people have said about the seditious sex you know the seditious sex that would be the six uh democrats
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who uh did the video that suggested that uh people in the military should not follow orders that are illegal
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now as eric uh points out and i and this would be the uh i think eric's take would be what i'd call the uh
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uh the republican bubble doesn't mean it's wrong doesn't mean it's right it's just what the republicans
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are seeing on social media but you know maybe the democrats don't even see it i don't even know if
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they see it but it goes like this there's an alleged and everything i say about this will be alleged
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uh an alleged non-profit linked to george soros that is fomenting sedition within the military
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so the the thinking is that the video we saw was um inspired by or even the script was written by
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some third-party external um bad player and that that bad player
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might be linked to maybe george soros but also let's see there's some group called
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win without war that put up a billboard just one billboard in north carolina
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and that was similar in tone to the seditious seditious sex
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um so that would suggest there's some external maybe larger you know larger play bigger than just
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some democrats wanting to do a thing there's some link to antifa allegedly
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um and then as eric doherty is reporting that on november 11th just days before the video
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the national lawyers guild uh published a page urging service members to refuse illegal orders
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and it would be the basically the same talking points as in the video so and then win without war
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that entity let's see if i got the right entities so there's a national lawyers guild but there's also the
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the win without war non-profit i think um who are backed by the soros open society
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and the group had some previous name all right so and then oh here it is so the win without war
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is partnered with the national lawyers guild is this all too confusing
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so that the the the short version is that um the belief is that the six democrats were not
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doing this on their own that there was some external guiding force still unidentified
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that uh allegedly had some connection with soros um i guess the national lawyers guild
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supports antifa and then um here's the key part there's something that senator ruben gallego said
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um on video recently in some interview i guess and uh allegedly he admitted that there was a external
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script that the script for the video you know he had seen it and it came from some external source
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but grok says that's fake news grok says there is no such thing as ruben gallego admitting there was a
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third-party script that just didn't happen and that it was a misinterpretation of something he did say
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but there's no evidence that he said it came from an external source
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now um i don't doubt that there's more than one entity that's putting out the same message but then i asked grok
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so why would these six people put out this video if not to you know try to create some kind of a
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insurrection or uh cause chaos or i don't take over the government or something else
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and here's what grok said and grok said it's most likely that the that the democrats are legitimately
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afraid of trump trying to go full dictator and issuing illegal orders
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uh and so grok believes that these seditious sex were actually patriots
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who are legitimately concerned that trump is at least teasing or moving toward
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some more authoritarian situation and that they would like to reduce the chances that he could
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succeed at that and so they're warning the troops hey watch out you know he might actually try something
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that's legitimately illegal and you're gonna have to step up
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now what do you think do you think it's more likely that some external entity was behind it all
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and who would that be or do you think that every democrat is afraid
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literally every democrat is afraid that trump might exceed his uh legal domain and try to get the military to
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do something illegal um and it might be illegal in terms of war might be illegal in terms of um immigration
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um could be illegal um could be illegal in terms of anything i guess
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so what what sounds more likely to you that the democrats are legitimately afraid
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and some of them said hey let's do something about it you know to inoculate so the the word that
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that uh grok used was inoculate so the idea was to simply get the military thinking about how they would handle
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a situation that looked you know unambiguously illegal to them
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i would say at this point um the third party connection is unproven
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i don't think you need a third party if every democrat is really thinking the same thing
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and you know trump keeps teasing about a third term and if you're a democrat you're gonna take that
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seriously you know i i think republicans laugh at the third term thing because it looks like
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you know trump's just playing with them but they're the ones being played with
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so they might be thinking they might be thinking it's real i'm gonna say on this one um the only thing i
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think is proven is that there's more than one democrat who thinks trump might be breaking the law sometime soon
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so if there is a connection to some shadowy external source um i don't think that's quite proven yet
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could be though could be all right um next story
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uh i saw in the independent hannah ariva oba ahiroba is writing that uh russian drones
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are targeting uh civilians and turning one ukrainian city into what they call the human safari
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so apparently kursan allegedly has uh you know i think hundreds of uh russian drones a day
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are hunting for civilians that just happen to go outdoors does that sound real to you keep in mind
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that all reports from a war zone are a little you know a little sketchy do you believe that one
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do you believe that in kursan there are i don't know hundreds of attacks on uh on uh civilians
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and if and if they are let's say it was true why would russia do that why would it why would it use drones
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to attack civilians i will sip from my awesome thing while you think about that
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would they be doing it if it if it's happening at all uh are they trying to depopulate the city
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are they trying to get people to move so for what so it'd be easier to take over the city
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um one theory is that they were just practicing and that they just use it for target practice
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to train the drone operators do you think they're doing it for target practice
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just to train the drone people now that doesn't seem like a good use of training
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um are they trying to demoralize the city is it revenge some people say it's revenge for
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something the ukrainians did that doesn't make sense um or is it propaganda and it's not actually
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happening or is it happening but not at the level that's being reported i would say i'm not quite
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willing to believe that uh it's even happening um i would say it's it's too yeah it's too fog of war
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it's too much exactly like exactly like something somebody would lie about in a war oh you're monsters
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you're killing our civilians we would never do that so i'm going to say i don't believe that story
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um then i tried to use grok to understand how likely is it that ukraine and russia would
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find a find an acceptable peace and i think the answer is there's not really any way
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i don't think there is a way um so i i started with some um context you know i've been hearing
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forever that uh ukraine could have made peace back in 2022 um and i guess the offer was on the table
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that uh russia would keep crimea and the donbass that has a bunch of russian national a bunch of russian
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ethnic people would have some kind of special rule and that ukraine would
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um agree to never join nato and the theory is that russia would have taken that offer
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um but uh it looked like zelensky may have been the one who who let's see let's see if i have this right
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oh so so it looks like it looked like there was a way to make peace
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but probably that's an exaggeration i suspect they were not ever close to peace
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but it might be true that if they the only way they could make peace is something that looked like
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giving up a lot um so you see how hard it is to for me to even explain this i'm doing a terrible job
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so so according to grok i'll just tell you what grok says grok said that in 2022
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um ukraine floated some concessions to maybe wrap things up without war and he signaled openness to
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neutrality not joining nato uh zelensky did and autonomy or special status for the donbass and but i think
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um but putin pushed again this is grok putin pushed for total demilitarization a handover of crimea
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and more so it tanked so according to grok there was never anything that both sides agreed on
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was it ever was it ever something that could have not happened so and then there's grok also
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says that the egos of the two leaders is in play you know that neither of them can lose
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so that's part of the that's part of it so here's what i think
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i don't think there was ever a chance it wasn't going to go to war because they were never that
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close they say they were but i think that's just propaganda
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and both think the other is the reason that it went further so
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um here's why i think it's impossible for them to get any kind of peace
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because if zelensky makes peace by giving up land he will lose his job and probably be killed
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if putin decided to go easy on um ukraine that wouldn't make sense because he seems to be in a
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sort of a winning position in the long run so you've got two leaders who
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neither of them have much incentive to settle it
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but they have an incentive to keep doing what they're doing
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at the very least you need one of the sides to think it was a bad idea to be at war and i don't
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think we have that greetings from moscow somebody in the comments is in moscow so i would say that i
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don't believe the story uh that there was a point in the past where they could have made peace
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i think that was always maybe exaggerated and probably this was always going to happen
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just because of the interests of the two leaders
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and it's more about the leaders of the countries
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i'm looking at the comments do you think do you think there's any chance
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that they could have settled this thing earlier like 2022
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and then on top of that you have all the smart people saying that even if
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um putin agreed you couldn't trust him so you know there's not enough
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there's not enough to make a deal but even if he made a deal it wouldn't be worth anything
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because i can't see i can't see putin giving up on at least controlling ukraine as a proxy
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what did i prove again so i guess i don't believe anything about
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um that they could have had peace before i just i just don't think it was possible
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and it isn't possible now either so i would say at minimum
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i'm going to re-up my prediction i think there's going to be at least another year of war
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war and it'll be perpetual war unless something changes and i think uh
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yeah it looks like they're in a winning position so they'd they would have no reason to negotiate
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i mean it certainly doesn't look like it doesn't look like putin wants peace does it
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i mean he would want peace if he also got as much of ukraine as he wanted
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ukraine is not a country anymore huh well there's still something left
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all right that's all i have for today if you're joining late
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now there's there's not much going on and i think i i think i did a terrible job today
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if i were to uh judge my own uh analysis pretty bad
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uh because these stories are all complicated but i recommend the following if you
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if you see one of these complicated conspiracy theory stories no matter where it comes from
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and no matter how credible it sounds you really owe it to yourself to
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is that nine out of ten times grok is going to say no that is not
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uh approve it and uh who was it uh is it redfield
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somebody who was ex-fda was saying that uh the the practice of waiting for a
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uh a serious trial of every of every medicine is
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is not always appropriate and i think the claim was if you if you observe
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somebody doing a treatment that cures them or puts them in remission
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and there was nothing else that worked that's not nothing you know it's not a randomized controlled
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trial but can you ignore that suppose suppose dozens of people
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so if i get if i get remission that'll mean something
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so thanks for joining and i'll say bye for now i i don't have enough energy to
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um stay for the uh after show for my beloveds but i'll try to get more energy in the future