Episode 3059 CWSA 01⧸01⧸26
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Not much news today, but we'll do the best we can come on in and while you're streaming in the news, this would be a perfect time to remind you why you're here to sip on a cup of joe.
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people so my voice is still a little sketchy we'll see if it improves but we'll get as far
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as we can today in that thing we all enjoy this time we'll do this not much news today
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but we'll do the best we can come on in and while you're streaming in this would be a
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perfect time to remind you why you're here you're here for the second day to sip and all you need
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for that is a cup of monger glasses tank your chalice or stein canteen jugger flasks of vessel
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of a kind fill it with your favorite liquid i like coffee join me now for the unparalleled pleasure
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the dopamine of the day the thing that makes everything better is cold that's right the
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so so good well let's check in on the news it's the first day of the year
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if you don't have your Dilbert calendar believe it or not you can still currently get one
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at the end of i don't know probably just take a few days you wouldn't miss much
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well there's a new robotic skin for robots so researchers have developed a neuromorphic robotic
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electronic skin so apparently the skin that you put on your robot could judge intensity danger
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an injury risk so do you think that's gonna be the killer app for robots skin would you get a robot
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with skin just because it's easier at identifying pain it seems mean would be mean to the robot
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i think it's slightly more slightly more likely that the killer app will be sex because it's no fun to have
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sex with a robot if you're just banging metal but what if the robot could feel every
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every sensation are you telling me that if you get the robot soft enough
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and you gave it a skin so it could it could act as though you're doing something good to it
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like oh are you telling me that's not the killer app
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but do you know why uh the robot industry keeps talking about
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and they keep talking about um you know stuff like skin but what they're not talking about
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there's an article in arts technica talking about how this might be the year
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that uh ai gets sort of uh i won't say debunked but that the skepticism about ai will
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you know be a little more obvious so after we've got what two years of ai
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and it still can't do actual generic reason so but it's got a good hands
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that could do somersaults it might have good skin but you know it can't get past the hallucinations
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and uh it doesn't look like there's any way to do it that we know of if there was a way to do it
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meaning make the ai actually intelligent like we want it to be you would already see it
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there's no way you wouldn't have seen it by now so uh i think the rest of the world is catching up
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with what is hype and what is real now i'm going to take some credit
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for being one of the first people to say after i played with the large language models a little bit
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i was one of the first people to say uh-oh this doesn't look like you could ever have a path
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to general reasoning and now i would say that i went from something like you know in the five
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percent of opinions to more like the 75 percent so i'm going to take a win for that prediction
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tesla apparently is now going to offer a car rental service in michigan that has no dealers and no
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middleman and for sixty dollars a day you could probably just go in and get your get your vehicle
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you probably use an app or something to to reserve it but why wouldn't you do that if i had a rental
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company near me where i didn't have to talk to anybody at the counter and for sixty dollars i could go
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make get a self-driving car it wouldn't matter if i had a regular car
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i would still rent a car because the self-driving car would be so much better
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apparently it's limited to where i could go and we don't know if there'll be others but it seems
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so remember my skepticism about the story that ukraine had tried to kill
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putin by bombing his residence remember what i said about that i said there's something wrong with
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this story but this doesn't look right because ukraine would have certainly known he wasn't there
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so why would you do it and now the wall street journal is reporting that uh you put that according
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to the us intelligence people there was no attack on his residence that was made up and so uh what
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they do say is that something was attacked deep in russia but it wasn't the residence it wasn't
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wasn't even that close so did you wonder about the fact there were never any photos you never saw a
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photo of the damage now maybe that was for security reasons but you know when i said it was a false flag
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people question me and maybe you're right about that but there's only one thing better than a false flag
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it would be a false flag that never happens because then putin gets to claim something happened
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without any damage nobody died he could just say oh uh let's let's just say he attacked my residence
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and then he's he's got a uh he's got a little more propaganda from attacking back yeah so i don't
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think i don't think it was a planned false flag i think it was an opportunistic false flag that once
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something blew up nearby somebody had the idea hey why don't we say he attacked the residence
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propaganda propaganda so i saw an interview with the founder of android palmer lucky and he was talking
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about the risk of china infiltrating your hardware here's something i didn't know there were multiple
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times we discovered actual wiretap electronics and product samples we were given
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so apparently china gives them samples of stuff and when we look at it it's literally wiretap
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and he said the uh the risks apply to everything that's made with chinese components from computers
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servers phone instruments he said the super micro incident in the united states where certain server
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farms that had chinese components here's the fun part chinese components smaller than a grain of rice
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were stealing very sensitive information from the computer and then he asked how many chinese computers
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exist in critical utilities and infrastructure and military he reckons millions at least millions
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so here's another example where whatever you thought was how bad it was
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and the the it that i'm talking about is fraud or debt or anything else as soon as you think you know how
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bad it was you find out it's a million times worse a million times worse i would not have even been able to
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imagine that they had put components the size of a grain of rice in everything they shipped
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so that's uh that's a wake-up call well speaking of that in china uh according to news max trump is saying
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that we set a world record in attracting investment to the united states and that we attracted more
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more investment to the u.s than china attract and uh he says that's entirely because of tariffs
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now i think it's true that the the recent um surge in investments is entirely because of tariffs
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so i'm going to give him the yes on that but you might remember that around 2018 when i lost my steps
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on to fentanyl that i started persuading uh as hard as i could that china was unsafe for business
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now i think that made a dent um so i think there was a priming that happened so that the businesses
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were already disinclined to put their money there if they had a choice of putting it somewhere so between
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the persuasion that china is unsafe for business which was uh it started out as me just saying it
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and people telling me i was crazy almost nobody agreed there were a few people who knew what china
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was up to that did agree that china was stealing all of their ip and spying on us and had bad intentions
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but for the most part people said scott scott scott yeah there's no way this spigot is going to get
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turned off there will only be more investment in china and i disagreed so here we are the investment in
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the u.s seems to be far exceeding that in china at the moment but i will agree that the tariffs are the
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prime reason for that at the moment so i saw a uh post by a whole by a whole mars on x and it started
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with uh why do people believe that taxing billionaires which is what california wants to do
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uh more is suddenly going to fix all our problems and i've been waiting for this somebody finally did
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the math so if you do the math and you took the top six billionaires in california uh and you you took
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five percent of the wealth how much would you get well you'd get about 94 billion dollars
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that means the deficit the deficit would be 1.7 trillion instead of 1.8 now that that would be for
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the whole country i think now for california um so there's actually no mathematical way that taxing
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the billionaires gets us to a some kind of stable situation at best you could bring down the uh the
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deficit for one year and that's it then you'd be right back to where you are now the fact that
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roe connor was pushing this idea was really disappointing because as i've said i thought
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he was one of the smartest but it looks like maybe he's getting talked out a little bit by the people
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who are clearly smarter than he is and now he's in favor of doing some kind of hearing in california to
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find out we're all fraudless and i would ask you this when does a hearing ever fix that
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and apparently this put him in a sharp uh conflict with governor newsom who i read today had answers
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for all the missing money so according to newsom according to post on acts uh all of those billions
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of dollars that people say are missing are not missing at all no that's fake news they know exactly
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where the money is the uh the bullet trains on track and nothing went wrong and all the money was
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well spent things would be far worse if they didn't have the money so you think that nothing you think
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nothing got better but he would argue that it would have been much worse without all that money now
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how in the world can he run for president with these let's say allegations or maybe he just lies
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you know maybe that just works every time maybe all you have to do is that's not true you just make it
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enough and that might be enough because we've grown for years with not knowing the truth about anything
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so there's some thinking that roe connor wants to run for president so that will put him in conflict with
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newsom and uh newsom's gotta hide he's gotta hide from those allegations something well will you be
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surprised i think the answer is no that the uh that the fraud is worse than you thought according to
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wall street apes that minnesota has uncovered a new scam where regular homes are being registered as
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assisted living facilities but their effects who is surprised at that or that they're receiving
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15 times the payments of other programs they've got these shell companies and uh basically the whole
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thing is fraud i'm not surprised as i've told you many times now if it's possible
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to steal a lot of people are involved and there's a lot of money involved there will be fraud every
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time so this should have been something we could have seen from a mile away here's some more fakeness
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according to unusual whales on x the u.s ended its 2025 with the largest one-year drop in homicides
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ever recorded do you believe that do you believe that 2025 was the biggest one-year drop in homicides
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um i'm getting some people saying there's no sound but i think they're taking me
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could one of you who has my texts um text me right now and there's no problem with sound right
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okay that's all right but it seems to me in our fraudulent world
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that uh the odds of the data being fake is much higher than the odds that the
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we set record in reductions of murder what do you think do you think it's even likely
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that this is true well you know it could be maybe but when we see that every other
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it seems like every other source of data is vague did we not know
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did we not know that uh the police department were somehow faking their data i don't know how you'd
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fake murder but i don't believe it might be true
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all right here's a here's a take that you couldn't make a couple of years ago but now it's happening
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um according to a user named taya on x harvard actually put in writing it's a policy of sending
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white men to the bottom of the pile when considering you know uh admissions etc now
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um and taya says they deserve everything that's coming but that's not going too hard
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uh a user named hunter ash who is evidently a white man on x he said if harvard hates my people
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i want it leveled to the ground they produce useful output but clearly they'll do their best to direct
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any power those results produce against me so i'm against them we are not obligated to fund
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our open and explicit enemies wow you know what he convinced me that if harvard uh went out of business
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tomorrow that i would be better off because because they're literally my enemy they have a very clear intention
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they have a very clear intention um of destroying the white man demographic forever so why should i ever
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allow them to make even you know one inch of progress so yes i'm completely in favor of harvard going out of business
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i saw i post by william wolf on the same topic he said that white guilt has been one of the most
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destructive forces of the 21st century here's what you couldn't say a little while ago but you can say it
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now you could say now that um much of the progress of humankind came from very smart white people working
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very hard i am not a scientist so i've never invented anything that changed the world right so i'm not taking
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credit for being a white guy just because other white guys did good stuff nevertheless it is a fact
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that white guys contributed a lot to you know civilization now not to take anything away from
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uh some other demographic groups but remember i'm not claiming any kind of credit for being a white guy
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you know what i did i'm proud of what i did but i didn't invent the microchip you know and neither did you
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so if you took away and this is what's happening if you use dei
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just purely mathematically you're going to destroy civilization
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so i think you can say that now that the cost of dei is not that it just set back a generation
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well i would say several generations of white men it's just that i don't think people understand
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that there was a very small percentage of white men
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who were responsible for a lot of the problems could somebody put in the
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fucking comments that the sound is fine so shut the up about the sound please
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in the comments just tell these these people that it's working there might be one of the
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platforms that's not working so if they have to change platforms go ahead and do it but there's
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nothing wrong with the sound so there's nothing that's going to happen on my end that will change
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what we're doing okay thank you um have you noticed on x that elon musk has given a new nickname to tim waltz
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he calls him trader tim trader tim thank you um i think it's sticky and the reason he's a trader
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he goes beyond whether he's you know just involved in uh any of the fraud but that the fraud would go
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to somalian terrorists and i do wonder about all of his paid trips to china when he was younger
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there's no way that that was just innocent there's no way that was innocent travel to china he didn't
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pay for it and they were obviously using him as a as a tool
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or worse i mean at the very least he was a tool now let's i i do think that elon is on the right track
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and there will be two hearings coming up in january 7th the minnesota minneapolis uh
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uh the minnesota state reps will be talking to who the oversight committee so the oversight committee
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is going to talk to tim waltz and keith ellison that won't be till february now i'm not sure is has
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anybody uh had the experience of watching the oversight committee fix anything
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i don't know if they do has there ever been a hearing or an oversight meeting in which they
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had a problem and then they fixed it i don't think so so i'm not optimistic that'll make a difference
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uh unless the only thing it does is uh is make it more obvious okay thank you sound is good
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all right um but i will say it seems like there's no no possibility that waltz was unaware of the fraud
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would you agree with that there's not really any chance he didn't know and somebody else pointed
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the sound a few people did actually that remember when kamala got 1.2 billion dollars to run and it got
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got absorbed immediately don't you think uh all right now you're just being prickly uh don't you think
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that democrats also steal from democrats you know what are the odds that democrats are only stealing
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from let's say taxpayers in general i thought this about soros the soros is almost certainly getting
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ripped off by democrats and now i also think that the dnc is almost certainly being ripped off by democrats
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would you agree with that i think you would you know what i'm getting tired of hearing
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i'm getting tired of seeing people on x say that the fraud we've discovered is quote the tip of the
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iceberg that doesn't help we're way past that yes of course it's the tip of the iceberg of course it is
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you don't need to say anymore but i saw mike lee based mike lee he thinks we could cut 1.5 trillion
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out of the budget if congress stop funding things that have nothing to do with that has nothing to do
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with congress's powers and i'm starting to think that the 1.5 trillion number which i've seen elon use
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is now going to be the assumed amount of uh fraud and i think that's true i think elon's persuasion is
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going to make the 1.5 trillion a year look like the actual number that's being stolen now i don't know if
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it's bigger or smaller but i think we're good i think at least the right is going to start using
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that as a presumed low number yeah and elon said it was a low number well you've been waiting for
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pam bondi to get busy but did you know how much the department of justice under her is actually done
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well she's reporting today that they're making progress which i'll tell you about
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some of my meds could be in dry mouth so i have to stop and sip so according to bondi 60 people have
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been convicted of fraud and four minnesota scams so far and 98 have been arrested the majority of which
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are of somali descent but is that enough so the question i ask is how many people should be arrested
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is 61 of the problem the tip of the iceberg or is 60 60 of the problem so again i can't really tell
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is that a good score scoreboard is that what you would expect that by now there would be 60 people
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um just just for the minnesota scams so that that doesn't even count you know all the
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russia collusion hoax and overthrowing the government and all that but no prominent people yet
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and if you're like me and i know you are if you don't see any prominent people get indicted soon
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you're gonna feel like not enough happened um speaking of prominent people
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so according to just the news the justice department uh still has 5.2 million epstein documents to review
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and that the department of justice has 400 attorneys assigned to just the epstein review
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what would you be happier would you be happier if those 400 attorneys were immediately moved to
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prosecuting uh people who need to prosecute or would you be happier that the 400 attorneys spend their days
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looking through useless documents that in the end we won't see any good stuff anyway and does it seem to
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you that the number of epstein documents is increasing increasing instead of decreasing
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and i'm wondering how in the hell do the epstein documents keep increasing have they have the documents
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found a way to procreate here's what i think i think if you leave enough epstein documents in a room
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they will start they will start having sex with each other and then it will produce
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offspring which are like the new documents that they keep finding so every time they open the door
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they're like whoa what have you been up to looks like a lot more a lot more documents in here than last
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sign so unless the documents have learned how to reproduce this looks suspiciously like an attempt to slow
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things down until we you know run out of steam so i don't trust anything about the epstein documents
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i don't trust anything about the epstein documents that i don't trust anything about the epstein
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speaking of scams the virgin islands are suing meta because they claim that meta allowed a bunch of scam ads
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on their platform that scams lots of people out of money and the reason that they allowed it allegedly
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is because meta made a lot of money by running the ads for the scams do you believe that
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do you believe that the reason they didn't take the ads down is not because they didn't know there
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were scams but because they made a lot of money running the ads well apparently a lot of money was involved
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but that doesn't make us know they're thinking um what they claim is that they had an internal review
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process that sort of prevented them from taking down more than they did i guess but we'll see
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all right according to climate realism there's a publication called the laist
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um that wrote an article last week titled the poor are in a very bad state climate change accelerates
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california's cost of living crisis so believe it or not even today a publication is claiming that the
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prices in california are up not because of the policies not because the policies about climate change but
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because of the climate change itself for which i believe there's no evidence whatsoever
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it makes me wonder do the people who write those articles know they're foolish yet
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and they're just trying to fool you or are they actually so far inside a bubble that they think that
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the prices are up because of climate change do they really believe that really yeah i'm pretty deep
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inside my bubble but come on i thought we're past that meanwhile along the same lines according to the no
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trick zone europe is getting ready for more censorship over climate science and energy so apparently they're
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they're preparing to go hard on censorship if you say something about climate or energy science that they
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deem not true what how do they know what's true what makes the european union the experts on what's true
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on climate there are plenty of people who are also experts who say that uh you know it's not the crisis
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that we thought it was so weirdly europe believes that more censorship of the truth will save the world
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do they really or is there just one way to control the big platforms in the united states
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do they really think really that more censorship on that topic is going to be good for us it's weird
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all right so as you know jack smith that special counsel is that what he was he's being grilled over
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the alleged lawfare against trump and he was at a house deposition and they asked him uh he was asked at
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the deposition did you develop evidence that trump was responsible for the violence at the capitol on
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january 6 and he did not say yes so that's a tell he did not say they had evidence but instead he went
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with a narrative and the narrative is like this that trump was free to say that he believed the election was
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rigged that would just be free speech but according to jack smith trump was not free to violate federal law
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and use knowingly false statements about election fraud to target a lawful government function now do you
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see what's wrong with that statement his evidence was based on his own ability to read a mind
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because how would he know what trump believed about the election in my opinion trump genuinely believed
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and as we get further and further into you know the post-election environment
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it does look like he was right so not only was he right but he had every reason to believe he was
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right but jack smith is defending his team because they could read his mind and find out that his real
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intent was to overthrow the government and that somehow he knew it was a legal election
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or a non-rigged election so the word knowingly was always the biggest part of the hoax the january 6
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hoax i'm gonna call the hoax that there was an insurrection depended entirely on believing that you
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could read trump's mind and that the things he was saying he knew not to be true even while
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they looked true to me it looks like he was completely uh accurate and there was there's no evidence
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whatsoever that he thought that was a clean election none
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so we'll see where that goes well eric swalwell who you might know as the person who has the worst take
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in every situation he's running for governor of california and if he becomes governor he promises
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he'll make sure federal agents are charged with quote kidnapping and assault and will take away their
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driver's licenses that guy has the worst take on everything take away isis driver's licenses that's just absurd
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speaking of consistent you probably know that uh elon's building a giant
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ai factory called micro harder with two heart two hours at the end to uh to basically crush microsoft
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so remember what i told you i guess has a hundred thousand super computers in it or will
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and he's going to train grok so hard that can do what microsoft can do
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um just by asking it to do it i guess so remember when i told you years ago that smart phones would
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become just a dumb phone that could do ai and that the phone would just be a screen and a what a some kind
00:37:58.320
of wireless thing and then uh sound and elon confirmed that on one of his podcasts that he sees
00:38:08.800
he sees someday that the phone is has no apps it's just an ai and i think this micro harder is that
00:38:17.440
so when when he was asked if he would build a phone he didn't say yes because i don't think he thinks
00:38:26.400
phones are the future i think he thinks this is his future so there's a non-zero chance if this works
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works that uh the entire smartphone industry will become whatever elon wants it to and he'll own this
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and that would just be one thing he did imagine having so many accomplishments
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that replacing smartphones with entirely new technology uh would just be one of the things
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he did that's just one thing so i guess the u.s military was it the other day uh did uh strikes on
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three more alleged narco terrorist vessels they were traveling as a convoy so we took them all out
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you know i don't know about you but my empathy for anybody else is way down
00:39:21.360
i don't know if it's all the fraud or what it is probably the fraud but when i see that some narco
00:39:29.920
boat was blown up you know i think there was a time when i might have been thinking oh you know maybe
00:39:37.680
a little more due process would be good or do we have to do it this way because i would just have
00:39:43.360
empathy but now i don't and now i see that when i see that three of them were blown up i'm like yeah
00:39:49.840
why not four four four would be better than three is anybody having that is everybody having that
00:39:56.320
experience that your empathy is way down i don't want it to be but events seem to be taking over
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it's been several days of street protests that are pretty aggressive and i guess uh some government
00:40:18.800
entities are being attacked and uh the question i wonder is is this a color revolution or is this
00:40:27.440
entirely um organic do you think iran is having an organic revolution or of course it's our intelligence
00:40:37.920
people with massad you know doing the usual color revolution stuff because doesn't every color revolution
00:40:46.240
involve mobilizing people for the streets but the part that they don't seem to be able to do is
00:40:54.160
controlling the local press so i don't think that's a thing right i don't think anybody's co-opted the
00:41:02.800
local press to say bad things about komeini because they would be killed instantly so it doesn't have as far
00:41:12.240
as i can tell it doesn't have every element of a color revolution but it's got a little bit so it does
00:41:24.800
all right speaking of health care costs which we weren't but let's how many of you know what a pbm is
00:41:34.160
a pharmacy benefit manager well probably not most of you right some of you've heard of it but i was
00:41:42.720
looking at an interview with uh mark cuban who launched cost plus drugs that would avoid these
00:41:51.200
middlemen so what the pbms are are they're intermediaries let's call them middlemen that
00:41:58.480
manage prescription drug benefits for health insurers employers and government programs so if you're
00:42:06.160
so medicare medicaid so the idea is that they would lower your health care costs while providing a
00:42:13.840
service to the the providers of the meds the reality is it's a somewhat non-transparent process
00:42:24.960
that puts people in the middle of gigantic money flows what would happen if somebody was in the
00:42:32.240
middle of gigantic money flows and you did not have visibility on what they were doing in that middle
00:42:40.480
what would happen well i would argue that 100 of the time the middlemen would find a way to suck up the
00:42:51.280
extra money and not let you know that's what happened so they would pretend you know hypothetically
00:42:59.200
hypothetically they would pretend they were lowering your costs while in reality they would find a
00:43:05.280
bunch of clever ways to siphon off a lot of the money going through so i don't know if i've expressed that
00:43:13.600
correctly but uh mark cuban with his uh his low cost um drug plan the cost plus drugs apparently cuts out the
00:43:25.120
middleman and that is one of the reasons if not the only reason um that he can offer much lower costs
00:43:33.280
costs now do you think you could get the government to remove that middleman process well probably not
00:43:45.920
probably remember there are enough people in the government who are being bribed by the insurance
00:43:50.560
companies bribed by the pbms i just assume there's a lot of bribery going on everywhere um i don't know if
00:43:57.360
the government can fix that because we've known it for a long time but it's really complicated and in
00:44:06.000
complexity there are always highs of fraud i've told you that before right if something has a lot of money
00:44:13.840
involved and it's really complicated somebody's stealing your money and or you know maybe not illegally but
00:44:22.720
in effect so um as mark points out the democrats have no solution for this pbm thing or for or for the
00:44:34.960
cost of drugs just in general now you know that trump there's some kind of trump pharmacy online that
00:44:43.520
you could also get low cost stuff and that might end up working with uh with mark cuban's uh entity we
00:44:52.000
don't know that that's the case but they might have something that they can work with together so
00:44:59.440
good on you mark cuban for for surfacing this uh situation and then actually acting on it because
00:45:08.480
it's one thing to say you're going to do something and it's another thing to actually do it and he's
00:45:14.800
actually doing do you remember when it was a few years ago that uh bezos and uh a few other entities
00:45:25.680
said they were going to try to fix healthcare or at least or at least pharma costs well apparently they
00:45:31.760
gave up because they couldn't figure out how to do it but uh mark cuban has not given up and he's still
00:45:39.200
pushing on that button so good for you mark if there was any way to help i guess i would want to
00:45:53.600
all right i'm i'm always so amused to how many of you know how to cure cancer
00:45:59.200
but the medical establishment doesn't you ever think about that you're just sitting there in your
00:46:05.920
little home and you've decided that if i change my diet my cancer will go away
00:46:19.360
anyway there's a book coming out uh washington examiner's mark judge is writing about this
00:46:27.680
so in march there's going to be a book that explains everything it's called the information state
00:46:35.200
politics in the age of total control so the author is this guy jacob siegel he's a journalist for tablet
00:46:43.040
and apparently what this book does which some people must have gotten a preview of
00:46:48.080
um it explains how uh information was weaponized against the citizens of the united states and that
00:47:01.280
part of the reason that we didn't recognize that we were in this propaganda hoax situation where nothing
00:47:08.880
they were telling us was real the reason we didn't understand it especially let's use as our example
00:47:16.000
the uh russia collusion hoax if if we had seen one claim about russia collusion hoax we might say to
00:47:25.920
ourselves that that's just a claim that's nothing if only one entity had told us that that stuff was true
00:47:34.400
and it obviously wasn't um we might have said oh but these other entities don't say it's true
00:47:42.880
but what happened was for the first time in american history i think that the people who colluded were
00:47:51.360
all of our or what we thought were credible organizations so you had the fake news saying it was true
00:47:59.200
you had the intelligence agencies saying it was true you had the fbi the doj and the entire democrat
00:48:07.200
machine saying it was true i'm talking about the russia collusion hoax now that's what i call
00:48:14.400
laundry list persuasion when you don't have anything that's individually persuasive but you just throw
00:48:22.160
a just a fire hose of claims and then on top of the fire hose of claims you have a fire hose of
00:48:30.080
previously credible entities that gave up all the credibility to go all in on it because they were
00:48:37.360
so afraid of trump so i call that laundry list persuasion so i've explained this before that if you
00:48:46.720
if you say trump did one thing bad people would discount it but if you say he did this and this and this
00:48:54.640
and this and this people assume there's truth in there because there's so much you know there's so
00:49:00.720
much smoke there must be fire but that's not the case that's just laundry list persuasion
00:49:07.760
and i guess this book does a good job of showing how screwed we were
00:49:15.280
well did you know according to let's say new york times that when trump backed off on funding
00:49:24.640
uh weapons for ukraine it didn't stop our involvement that the cia took over and uh
00:49:34.240
they didn't do the same thing that we were doing but they didn't have a funding cut and the cia helped
00:49:40.320
ukraine uh target the the most sensitive russian places they could attack so it looks like um
00:49:51.040
it looks like the cia helped ukraine work smarter not harder so instead of instead of raw
00:49:58.720
raw um weapons and raw military the cia helped them get the you know just the stuff that was affordable
00:50:07.600
and would make a big difference on the russian economy
00:50:16.080
how many of you are surprised that the cia just kept doing what they were doing of course it is
00:50:24.160
of course they did now the indication is that trump was in favor of that so as long as it wasn't obvious
00:50:32.400
what they were doing um he wanted to keep the pressure on putin all right ladies and gentlemen
00:50:42.960
there's not much news happening today a lot of it looks like a repeat every time i turn on x
00:50:50.400
it's another claim of another state with another giant fraudulent thing they just discovered
00:50:56.800
i'm getting tired of it but i am worried that there is no solution for california's debt
00:51:05.280
and that however bad i think it's going to get in california it might get worse
00:51:12.480
now i will say that the one thing we have going for us is the adams law of slow moving disasters
00:51:19.600
i hope that the disaster which is california's debt problem and fraud problem i hope that we've all
00:51:29.360
known about it long enough that somebody's figuring out what to do about it and i don't know what that
00:51:35.840
would be it doesn't look like it's solvable in any mathematical way that i can understand but i would
00:51:44.160
uh expect that maybe in the next year maybe two there's going to be some shock to the system that's
00:51:53.600
beyond anything we've imagined now i don't know what that is it could be maybe we default under debt
00:52:02.000
um what i don't know maybe there's an earthquake
00:52:06.320
uh there's something but whatever it is it's going to have to be big
00:52:20.640
so it could be well i mean what would happen for example if the federal government said here's the
00:52:27.920
deal we're just not going to fund 1.5 trillion dollars worth of stuff we don't know exactly how
00:52:34.000
much is fraud and how much isn't but we can't survive unless we stop doing it what would happen
00:52:42.400
well in theory it would also cut a bunch of things we didn't want to cut
00:52:48.080
or at least we thought we wouldn't but it might be the only way to survive
00:52:52.560
so we might have to throw a whole bunch of poor people under the bus
00:52:55.680
oh hands you're so fucking stupid um of course i've researched that of course i did stop assuming that i
00:53:13.600
all right so no more stupid uh suggestions so i will give you a little bit of a heads up
00:53:29.520
i i talked to my radiologist uh yesterday he was working on the day before new year's uh and it's all bad
00:53:38.880
news so the the odds of me recovering are essentially zero um so we'll i'll give you any updates if that
00:53:50.240
changes but it won't so there's no chance i'll get my feeling back in my legs and uh i've got some
00:53:57.360
ongoing heart failure which is making it difficult to breathe sometimes during the day
00:54:04.080
but at the moment i can breathe and i'm not in any pain um however you should prepare yourself that uh
00:54:15.200
january will be a probably a month of transition one way or the other now i haven't made decisions
00:54:29.360
so i will keep doing this as long as it makes sense because i like doing it keeps me busy
00:54:38.480
you know what's weird is that i have much bigger problems than the stuff i'm talking about in the
00:54:43.920
news but i'm so interested in in like what's happening in the world that it's very engaging totally
00:54:53.040
engaging so after the show i will continue doing a robots read news comic which i do every day
00:55:04.000
i try to and i'll try to make some new comics dilbert comics and i'll just act like nothing's happening
00:55:16.160
uh which is weirder it's easier than you think then i'll take some painkillers if i need them
00:55:24.880
um there's no real limit to what i can take at this point and i will probably smoke massive
00:55:30.080
massive marijuana because it puts me into a stupor that actually feels kind of good
00:55:36.160
in my current situation if i do a full day's work which i plan to do uh i allow myself to uh enter the
00:55:46.880
stupor zone i mean yesterday for example i was you know doing work and watching the warriors game
00:55:55.840
i was a kite it wasn't bad the only thing that's really bugging me at the moment is uh the inability
00:56:05.120
to breathe if i get one of these coughing attacks and that could last hours it could last 8 to 12
00:56:11.840
hours so it's 8 to 12 hours of hell um but it's not always hell so but things are changing fast
00:56:22.160
so i thought i'd give you a little update on that has anybody gotten an update on victor davis hanson
00:56:29.040
because i know he had some major surgery but we don't know what that was about
00:56:47.680
i will probably write down some closing thoughts today just so i have them
00:56:53.760
just so you can see what i was thinking in my in my final glide path
00:57:15.040
well i will tell you that my interest and my empathy for all of you
00:57:19.440
and for americans in general is very high so to my final breath if there's anything i can do to make
00:57:42.880
all right we're past the entertaining part of the show
00:57:47.200
and i don't want to get your i don't want to get your year off to a bad uh bad start
00:57:53.520
but uh there'll be more to come all right people i'm going to say hi to the uh locals beloved people
00:58:03.840
privately the rest of you i'll see you tomorrow i think but local supporters i'll be private with you
00:58:23.520
and i'll check out what the how aAtlanta gets from the conference