Episode 1748 Scott Adams - Headlines And A Beverage Sip Because We Like Doing That

well good morning everybody and welcome to finally back on regular time zone coffee with scott adams the best thing that's ever happened to you in a long time yeah and if you'd like to take it up a notch and i know you do because that's the kind of people you are would you settle for second best no no you're not that kind of people you're the kind of people who want to take it up a level and all you need is a copper mug or a glass of tanker tells a steiner canteen jerky flask of vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid i like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine here of the day the thing that makes everything better it's called the simultaneous sip and it's the best thing that's ever happened to you nab is now go well as you might know i returned from a week in hawaii i was trying to do a little writer's getaway now many of you enjoy vacations how many of you enjoy vacations in the comments do you enjoy vacations i don't really know what that's like exactly but i hear people love them now for the past 33 years which is really the only time i've had enough money to take a vacation i've also been working too hard to take a vacation so i don't know if i've ever taken one where i wasn't also working so this was a working vacation in fact it was the only reason i did it i went away for a week just to get away from just the distractions of being home let me show you what i came back to uh so after my nice relaxing but i worked all week but it was still relaxing my relaxing time in an ideal place i come back to my house and you should know that my home has a feature in the front front lawn there's this a very old and beautiful stone oak it's a really interesting gigantic tree it's sort of the main feature of the house and by and by main feature of the house i mean that um it's laying across the lawn right now so that the main visual feature of my home collapsed yesterday morning i was laying across my lawn it's just you know dead so that is the primary visual appeal of my house just went away but i went into my man cave after being gone a week and missing my man cave and i said to myself you know i really want to relax which is what you do in the man cave and so i was relaxing in there and until i saw that i wasn't alone in the man cave i had a little friend you see him that was behind my chair as i was trying to relax do you know if you're trying to relax and you see a california king snake coiling through your garage by your feet well maybe five feet away from my feet it it doesn't put you in a relaxed mode let me just say that if i could summarize summarize the feeling that i had at that moment it was if this were relaxed it would be somewhere over here different kind of a gap between those two concepts now what some of you know that i did not know at the moment this is a good snake it actually is non-venomous and people are happy to see them because they chase away dangerous snakes they eat other snakes i guess that's why they're called the king california snake so the good news is totally safe i don't have to do anything about it i just let him out and he was fine it was kind of beautiful frankly but wow was that a creepy scary looking thing wow so that's what i came back to and wi-fi didn't work i was a mess but we're back at it let's talk about the news china just announced or i guess gave some publicity too it's a china drone mothership so they've created a vessel which carries 50 drones now 50 sounds like either a lot of drones or not many drones depending on what kind of drones they are but something tells me these are the good kind like the really expensive kind that maybe don't come back i don't know do they come back i'm not sure if they come back and land on the ship or how many of these are are meant to be suicide attack drones but a mother ship with 50 drones it looks like that's going to be the future of naval warfare actually in the future of all where warfare is just gonna be drones it's just gonna be all drones um i'm thinking about reading my book the religion war that i wrote in 2003 or whatever it was and it's about a about a future when basically it's all drones thinking of reading that because um i never signed away the audio rights for that book so i might just read it into the locals platform if i get a chance all right um here's a question i asked did you know that a 3d printer can make 90 of the parts for a 3d printer that's right you can get a 3d printer to make most of another 3d printer now i think it's probably the electronics that's the part you'd have to buy but if you didn't have a shortage of the chip part which we probably do by the way but if you didn't i asked this hypothetical question somebody says it's the print head yeah so there may be some parts you can't quite do yet but 90 of it you can do although i suspect that the ten percent you can't do is the important part you know the really vital part and the part you can do is probably the case um but if you could do 90 of that i asked this question how long would it take if you had one printer one 3d printer and your goal was to make drones the small ones so apparently you can make almost all of the parts 90 again of a drone and it's a drone that would be good good enough to be part of a military operation so it could drop drop a grenade for example or or do reconnaissance that sort of thing and so the question i asked is and and of course they could be suicide drones so i asked how long would it take if you just had one 3d printer but you had no shortage of the 10 stuff that was coming in how long would it take for it to make extra printers and then those extra printers make drones if you had lots of space and lots of money which the us military could certainly have right and it's one of those uh fascinating situations because on day two you might not even have a second printer right but on day three you'd have close to three of them and then the three of them would be creating each of them a new printer a piece so do you know that you know the famous mental experiment where you take a penny and put it on a checkerboard in the corner and then you say okay i'll double the penny in each subsequent box so the second one is two cents and then four cents eight cents 16.

and your common sense says wow by the time this keeps doubling all the way around the checkerboard that one cent could turn into thousands of dollars right that's why your common sense is telling or maybe hundreds maybe your common sense would say wow this is going up so fast that by the time we get to the end of the checkboard it could be could be hundreds or thousands of dollars from just that one penny and then you find out it's like a gazillion trillion you're so far off you are so far off guessing what will happen when you double stuff that many times you're just not even close right it's not hundreds it's not thousands it's it's a tragion gillian or something and so that's what would happen with the 3d printers it would start off slow a printer makes another printer makes another printer but by the 30th day you could probably be producing 500 drones a day now what could ukraine do with 500 drones that were suicide drones per day right now of course there are real world limitations for everything so you can't just do this but interestingly you could very quickly scale up if you could get the other 10 for both the printer and the and the drones to massive scale and you know a month or two fairly massive um so just an interesting thing to think about so the reason i i bring this up is i have a hypothesis that somewhere in the united states there is a massive drone factory that you haven't heard of and that has spun up in the last six months what do you think because doesn't it seem as though there should be some super secret drone factory that we put together in the last six months to just massively create drones for ukraine probably but i think the problem is that they can't get the parts so even if you had the factory you'd still be limited with chips and stuff i think i heard somebody say that the us has been trying to compete with china on drones is it dj is that the big drone company out of china i think they have a massive market here and i saw somebody speculate that the us didn't have the the technical skill to make these drones to which i said what of course we do are you serious i'm sure we have more technical skill to make drones than china does if china is dominating the market it's because of price am i right that's the only reason they would dominate the market they wouldn't have better drones would they i mean i don't think so so i've got a feeling that we'll find out about a giant secret drone making facility someday um speaking of stuff like that so biden i thought i saw a headline that said biden is using that wartime production act to make baby formula to which i say wasn't that like you know didn't uh joel pollock suggest that like a week or two ago i feel like that's an idea that under the trump administration would have been a 24-hour turnaround am i wrong uh under the trump administration i actually watched this in person i i watched an idea go from hey this is a good idea to actually an executive order in like maybe 48 hours i've actually seen it done under trump and how long have we known this uh this baby formula thing was going to be a problem i mean biden has yet another thing to explain i mean there might be some logical reason or something but i this could not look worse i i've never seen an administration fail this hard have you in your memory have you ever seen the administration fail this hard i guess the you know the left would have said it was trump but even the leftists um i i can tell you that as of yesterday yesterday i talked to a lifelong republican uh i won't give you the context but it was a lifelong i'm sorry a lifelong democrat who just said he's he's voting all republican from now on lifelong democrat yep voting republican from now on and i'm not going to tell you what demographic he was but it wasn't the one you expect i'll just say that it wasn't the one you expect so i don't know what's going to happen in the next elections but i cannot imagine oh and right did i talk about this that i think i said yesterday that elon musk said he would vote republican from now on because the democrats have become the party of division and hate or something oh my god that is quite a thing to say you know which is why he's elon musk and you're not because is he the best tweeter now if trump were still tweeting i'd say you know they're basically only two people in that stratosphere but now that trump is off i think i think musk is the top tweeter by far somebody says yeah i think by far now how many of you remember that elon musk came out of the paypal that was an original startup that he was on there with uh several people um and i wonder if they were to have a paypal reunion now yeah peter thiel is there i wonder if they were to have a reunion now that they would have something to talk about politically that would be uh pretty interesting all right gas prices i keep hearing people say my god the gas prices are up to over four dollars now to which i say can i get some of that four dollar gas will somebody sell me some four dollar gas because our gas is way over six dollars for premium so when i fill up it's over six dollars a gallon now i mean not that you're feeling sorry for me but just as a marker of the times um and all of this is self-inflicted by democrats is it not is completely self-inflicted all predictable all all completely known that if you do this you're going to get this and did they not slow walk us right into the situation because it looks like it it looks like they slow walked us with intention into shortages now i hear people say some people want the shortages and you know it's part of their radical agenda i've never heard from anybody like that so i'm a little skeptical anybody really believes that but who knows all right so it's all-time new high again gas how do democrats get elected under this these conditions i don't know here's my provocative thought for the day if the founders of this country the ones who put together the original constitution if they knew that 3d printers were coming would they have given us a constitutional right to own them like guns what do you think if the founders knew that 3d printers were coming would it be would they have put like the second amendment would they put an amendment in there to say that citizens can own them and that the government cannot monopolize them i feel like they would have i mean there's no way to know but think about it there's a reason they put that gun one in there right now you could argue that the gun thing is always going to be special that's a special case but if you're going to be defending yourself uh i'd rather have a 3d printer than a gun if you had a 3d printer and i'm saying high-end so really we're still talking about the future in the future you'll be able to print a proper gun you can already do it but i'm talking about like a real proper gun you know you could make a gun that would kill somebody but i mean like a real weapon like a serious weapon not sort of a toy yeah i i feel as if the stuff that the 3d printers can make at the moment are more of a novelty than an actual weapon you know they fire sure but it's more like you know killing somebody in a special case it's not really a weapon weapon so i would expect that 3d printers will be illegal for citizens to own if they are above a certain level let me ask you this would it be legal for a citizen to own a printing press capable of making u.s currency that is indistinguishable from the real thing would that be legal i'm assuming no somebody says yes that would be legal now is it because the paper is the real trick so they can just control how you make the paper or something yeah you need the right paper exactly but couldn't you also bleach existing currency or did they take that away because it used to be used to bleach an old like a dollar bill and then turn it into a 20 or something yeah all right so yeah i would expect 3d printers will be illegal at the high end someday and you wonder how could they possibly control that and i'm thinking they'll probably control it in much the way that they control copyright and so which means that they would do it imprecisely you know you you could still get away with it but it might not worth be worth the risk all right uh ex-president george w bush was giving a speech and he said this tragically he said quote the decision of one man to launch a holy unjustified and brutal invasion of iraq i mean ukraine ukraine so yes uh there was there was a leader once who authorized a holy unjustified and brutal invasion of iraq but who was that who was that oh oh yeah george w bush well there's more more drama coming out of the amber turd trial the johnny depp depp according to witnesses especially ember turds sister uh turd too no amber amber's sister we don't have any reason to dislike her but she she was the most direct witness to say that he observed johnny depp hitting his face his hitting her sister repeatedly in the face while holding her hair now do you believe that because do you have any siblings does anybody have a sibling would you witness a sibling being punched in the face by anybody and then say well you know that's your business i don't think i want to get involved can you even imagine that first of all if you saw a sibling getting punched in the face you wouldn't get in the fight seriously like you wouldn't be right there punching the chin out of johnny depp if you saw that happening like who wouldn't do that so there's something about the sister's testimony that's not quite striking me as believable now i hope i hope it's not true because it sounds horrible and if it's true of course johnny depp you know needs to be responsible for his actions we don't know the context but i can't imagine any context where that would be appropriate you know even self-defense it didn't sound like it was even self-defense really so i got a question about that so then you've got a few other witnesses uh testifying on her behalf but some of those were contradicted by other people so what do you think is true based on what would you say at this point do you believe that they were violent to each other or that one of them was primarily the violent one what do you think because we have to well we don't have to but we're judging it from afar based on evidence that's being presented well there's no doubt that johnny depp had a substance use situation um i was just reading eric's comment there on youtube all right i don't know i i think if i had to cast my vote right now i would say that here's a question i would ask has johnny depp ever been accused of hitting anybody else don't you feel that's a valid question under these circumstances now that would not prove that he did or did not do anything with amber heard but wouldn't you like to know that because if i heard that he had ever done this with another woman i would be inclined to think he did it this time too you know assuming that i believe the original story if there were two stories that were weirdly similar that would be that'd be pretty believable but i don't know that that's an evidence nor could it be do do we think that would even be legal to bring that in as a context i don't know how that works can you do that um so here's a question for you if amber uh if her actions were so outrageous that she was causing an inebriated johnny depp to feel that he needed to hit her again there's no excuse so violence cannot be condoned under any circumstance so if it sounds like i'm defending an abuser that's the opposite of what's happening so don't don't take that interpretation but at some point poking the bear is wrong too right there is some level of provocation which will cause anybody to do anything but let me just put it that way you take it out of the context of domestic abuse just take it completely out of that context there is some amount of provocation that will make anybody do anything and we we sort of treat it like that doesn't matter i feel like it does you know and maybe maybe that's why you have jury trials so they can take into consideration stuff like that well it seems that the so-called ministry of truth is being disbanded the public uh ran down a town so what was it called the disinformation board and they were going to tell you what was true and what wasn't well it got so so much pushback rightfully so that they disbanded it and the woman who's in charge of it resigned and they're not going to do that anymore so no more so-called ministry of truth and totally unrelated news i don't even know why i bring this up at this point but um we've got a new thing um so we lost the ministry of the so-called ministry of truth that's just what people were calling it but we've got this new thing under the democrats maybe it passed the house but not yet the senate it's called the the domestic terrorism prevention act so that passed the house yesterday and it's created to quote assess the threat posed by white supremacists and neo-nazis so it's a good thing they got rid of that ministry of truth because we were afraid that they might use it politically to target people on the other side because if one side is in charge of the truth and what is true and what is not well it feels like that could be used politically which is why people ran that idea out of town but now we have this new thing which is some kind of an upgrade apparently so they'll have a group that's just looking to identify the white supremacists and neo-nazis among us i i wonder what could go wrong do you think oh maybe it could get a little political do you think maybe that these were two attempts to hunt republicans and one of them wasn't aggressive enough because it was just talking about it but the other one was actually to label some americans white supremacists and neo-nazis and i wonder do you think anybody who's not quite one of those things could ever be dragged into that conversation and do you think that maybe just being a republican and maybe let's say maybe you went someplace and that you're photo taken and you didn't know exactly the reputation of the person you were are you a neo-nazi now if you had your photo taken with somebody who has those uh leanings i don't know so if you were the this uh let's say it gets passed by the senate i i have a feeling it won't be but if it did um who do you think they're going to call white supremacists and neo-nazis they've called pretty much all republicans white supremacists and neo-nazis have they not do you see any problem with that do you remember my do you remember my prediction that everybody mocked me for when i said that if biden is elected republicans will be hunted and people said oh god you've you really jumped the shark this one they're not going to hunt republicans nothing like that's going to happen except the domestic terrorism prevention act might be a little bit um maybe aggressive and who they determine is a neo-nazi and a white supremacist what what what ideology do you think would get you identified as a white supremacist what would be an example let's say somebody was very strong on border security and let's say that their reasoning was that they didn't want the the culture of the country to change this is not my opinion i'm giving i'm i'm talking about some person right so there's some person who's uh strong on border security and their reasoning is they don't want the the character or culture of the country to change in a let's say in an unguided way in a random way that's determined by other people basically what would they be they'd be a white supremacist wouldn't they wouldn't they because i would be somebody who is targeting people of color and wanting to disadvantage them relative to what the situation could have been which is they all get to come in so if you're a white republican and you've got a public stand that is bad for people of color not americans but people of color who would like to get into america how is that not a white supremacist according to democrats this is a real this is some really sketchy stuff here um so i was on vacation last week something else but i did i did my live streams just at the wrong different times most of the time all right well you know fortunately we can trust democrats um to do the right thing um which brings me to a rasmussen poll uh which asked how likely is it that the clinton campaign officials acted illegally during the 2016 presidential election and that number is 55 percent now so a majority of americans believe that the top democrat powers the clinton campaign at the time uh acted illegally and basically rigged the election but you know even though 55 of them think that the democrats are rotten at the top um i'm really looking forward to this new group that's going to determine which ones of us are neo-nazis and white supremacists that i don't see a problem there so do you remember the story of keith renery and nexium and the alleged sex cult that was a subgroup of some of the same people and keith renery got convicted and he's in prison now and but he's claiming and there's some expert testimony that backs up the claim with evidence that he was framed um framed by the law enforcement basically i think fbi is being accused now i don't have an opinion because how would i know of whether keith ranieri was framed or not but in the context of today's news and what you've seen lately who is more credible the fbi or a person incarcerated and blamed of accused of terrible crimes and found guilty by a jury of his peers which one is more credible in 2022 it's a tie it's a tie he's got a story about being set up to which i say there was a time i would have said well that's ridiculous you know i'll just go with law enforcement on this one but not anymore not anymore no i'm not saying he's innocent how would i know who knows but i'll just say the credibility of the accusers and the credibility of the accused are now roughly the same roughly the same so good job government well in case i'm all being all negative today the democrats have done a number of bad things but thank goodness they're stopping the fentanyl traffic into this country no they're not no they're not it turns out that fentanyl overdoses and other overdoses are an all-time high i saw the wall street journal had some opinion piece speculating that the lockdowns were a cause of the greater addictions how many of you accept that as true just on its face so we don't we don't have a study of that but how many because it did turn out that overdoses spiked at exactly that right time how many you think that the lockdowns caused more overdose deaths i'd say very likely but i'm not quite ready to say yes because here's the variable which is not um maybe not in play how much fentanyl came in how many extra things that didn't have fentanyl in them got fentanyl added to them was there any change in the way fentanyl was made or produced to make it more deadly so i would be asking lots of questions about whether the product itself changed or evolved or got worse i wouldn't necessarily say that the only reason is because there was a lockdown although the timing the timing is pretty suspicious and our common sense tells us it's likely right so i but uh you know i i think that the bible demonstration they started with this ministry of truth and now they've got this other uh republican hunting organization going on there uh hunting and tagging republicans but i think what they really needed was uh they should create a new ministry so i'd like to see the biden administration create the ministry of not doing a thing about fentanyl because that would be racist because apparently the big pushback is that there are over a hundred groups who are advocating for lower fentanyl dealer sentences because sentencing people for fentanyl would be racist because you'd get more people of color presumably arrested so if that's their point of view and it seems that the administration is influenced by that then why not just create the ministry of not doing a thing about fentanyl because that would be racist let's just label it what it is if that's their argument if they're not going to do a thing about a hundred thousand people dying every year if they're not gonna do a thing just create a department to not do a thing just own it just own it that's all i'm asking for it's okay to do nothing well it's not okay but if you're gonna do nothing just own it don't do nothing and tell me you're doing something because you're not do nothing and then just create a whole worthless piece of bureaucracy to brag to everybody how nothing you're doing some of you might know i have a little bit of an attitude about this fentanyl situation maybe you've heard um wow if i were a single issue voter this would be my single issue all right um some of you have asked why is the russian ruble doing well and the dollars not as well as the ruble apparently and i saw a great uh thread by uh azleckberg who seems to know what he's talking about and he explains it simply this way um russia can support the ruble by just telling people that they have to pay them in rubles say you can buy our our oil but you're gonna have to convert your money to rubles first because we're only going to take rubles as long as people want to buy their oil and energy in general then the ruble will stay high because there's an artificial demand for it but the the sanctions against russia are more about their imports so the sanctions about them selling things are not as aggressive at the moment it probably take a long time for people to get alternate sources of energy etc so they can't really close down russia's exports right away but we're apparently trying to them we meaning the people in charge of sanctions by by limiting what comes in now eventually if you limited all their imports you would close down their exports too so if you stop their imports that will eventually get to everything because they won't be able to you know build a new refinery they won't be able to repair something that breaks eventually would shut down the whole country because they don't make chips and stuff enough in russia so does that make sense that that the reason that russia's ruble is good is that we're not doing much about what they're selling but we're doing a lot about what they're buying and that doesn't have as much impact on the ruble about that for a simple economic explanation did that did that clear anything up for you or did that just confuse you i'm seeing no plausible well the plausible part is right i mean i'm pretty sure the explanation is right about the minion plushie at the top shelf somebody's asking about my minion well it's not a plushy it's it's ceramic but uh it was just a gift at one point i just liked it um all right so i think that cleared that up for you glad to help and uh i offer this following test so that we might all know once and for all and again i don't care because we're past it but do masks work and i have a specific way to test it that i don't know has been tested but maybe you've seen it it goes like this in my way of thinking we all know that mass do not stop viruses from spreading would you all agree everybody on the same page we do know the masks do not stop the spread everybody now we don't know if it slows it down some say yes some say no but we do know it didn't really show up in the in the high level numbers right there's nobody who used masks and just masks and you know got rid of the the virus so i think you're all on the same page that especially the regular mass no let's not talk about m95s we're talking about the public regular masks we all agree that regular mass allow virus to spread and you can get it okay everybody's on the same page on that but number two this is the part that i always talk about that nobody does which is i thought we knew that the degree of or the quantity of virus you initially get makes a difference for your survival am i right now i don't know that that's been debunked and so my hypothesis is this if masks worked and i'm going to put work in quotes because i'm not talking about stopping infection because i don't think you did or at least in a significant way but in theory you would have a high level infections just like everybody else if you wore masks but your death rate would be noticeably lower so if you looked at the ratio of infections to deaths it should be better where there are masks and less good where the masking compliance is less what do you think now again i'm not telling you the mass worked or didn't work i'm suggesting a way to study it that i think would be conclusive and i don't know that that's been studied because we keep conflating do they stop infections with do they work and they're not the same question do you get that if you say do masks stop infections no but that's not the same as do mass work in some functional way that you wish you wish you had one i don't know the answer to that now to be clear because i've been misinterpreted a number of times i absolutely am against mass mandates and i can't imagine wearing one again myself so i'm completely against it because the the social cost is too high and we didn't see enough of a difference in the top level numbers so completely against it but wouldn't you like to know i mean really now southern cal south korea versus california wouldn't work and the reason is that south korea can't be compared to anybody who didn't have a really good testing so south korea's secret was testing they say you know they would also say the mass worked but really it was probably testing and then obesity was part of the issue as well right all right did i leave anything out is there any topic that you wish i had mentioned and are you glad that as many people got infected as they did in a sense because i think the united states is done and other countries are because we had enough natural infection but the countries that didn't have the natural infection might be in trouble although they've got omicron now so it won't be that big a deal nuclear yeah there's nothing new on nuclear is there any update on the yes did you see the rasmussen tweet that the rasmussen twitter account and there's some some suggestion there might be some suppression going on but i i retweeted it this morning so you can see it in either rasmussen's feed or in my feed but there is one individual who allegedly we'd know his name and address and he allegedly went to multiple drop boxes and and left from multiple non-profit agencies so he would be an example of the very thing that two thousand mules wants to prove which is that they have the names of somebody who's an actual person who went to multiple boxes and apparently the allegation is that nobody wants to talk to him like the press is completely uninterested i don't know i i i think i think i'm going to go with i don't believe anything about anything with a story so i don't believe that we know or that we have any way to know if an election is rigged because we don't do complete audits it's just not a thing so if you don't do a complete audit you can't ever know you can only know you didn't find a problem but i also don't believe any accusation now do you remember when when there were first accusations about the improprieties in the election do you remember a prediction i made at the very beginning of trying to see if anything sketchy happened in the 2020 election at the very beginning i said at least 95 of everything you hear as an allegation will be false does anybody remember me saying that that 95 percent of everything people say happened in the election will be debunked and there we are i would say 95 of the claims were debunked the the venezuelan general voting machine stuff there's no evidence of that yeah so but does it mean anything if 95 percent of the allegations are debunked well not if not if the other five percent turn out to be true it doesn't take much does it it only takes one you know one actual real thing to change an election yeah and maybe there was a little bit of everything as somebody says we don't know the degree you you have to assume that there's always a little bit of chick cannery in every election you just never know how much yeah we haven't been talking about droning the mexican cartels enough now do how many people think that trump was crazy for talking about droning the laboratories or the the cartels um headquarters or whatever they were in mexico how many think that's just crazy how many think that that idea came from me because i'm pretty sure i'm the only public figure who said that before you heard that trump had also heard it does anybody think that came from me because i was the only one saying it i'm pretty sure now that doesn't mean he didn't come up with the idea on his own because it's sort of obvious i mean it's the question you would ask and by the way one of the reasons i could never be president is because i could never survive uh the brainstorming conversations taken out of context because i would do exactly what trump is getting in trouble for all the time i throw ideas that had not yet been on the table so i would say well can we just kill that person and then somebody would say no don't do that and i say okay and then i say well should we just you know nuke that thing and then people would say no no you can't use nukes here are all the good reasons and i'd say those are good reasons but i would throw all kinds of crazy just to see how people would respond to it and that would tell me something right i i would know if they had ruled something out by reflex or if they really thought about it so when when trump throws out ideas like can't we just you know lob a drone in and take out the cartels i say that's good presidenting that is good presidenting he asked the question and he asked it of exactly the right person and then when that person gave him an answer which apparently was sufficient that he didn't do it so it's reported as some kind of like wild crazy reckless thing that trump did and i'm listening to it and i'm thinking well you just gave an example of perfect presidenting that was perfect he asked he asked the question they should have been asked that absolutely should have been asked he got the answer from an expert he took that into consideration and that's the way we went perfect president thing and it's yeah reported as some kind of flaw of course oh uh trump told oz to claim victory do we have another one of those did oz he did didn't he win is that still in question the uh the oz primary went to a runoff interesting so he told them to claim victory well why not isn't that just standard procedure to claim oh yes now there's talk about monkey pox a variant of the bubonic plague madagascar has got a case of it or something so yeah monkey box can't wait for the monkey box to come i feel like there's something else coming don't you all right and there was a case in connecticut somebody says yeah who was having sex with the monkey is what i want to know and was the monkey attractive these are the questions we want to know um monkey box yeah okay i'm not even gonna say that out loud uh all right ladies and gentlemen let me ask you this following provocative question it has been over how long has it been since people got their first vaccinations a year and a half is it a year and a half since the first people got vaccinated and it would be maybe two years since the first people in the trials got vaccinated right something like that so somebody says 13 months but closer to 18 months or two years so the question is this would we be seeing the the effects of the vaccination itself because all vaccinations have risks right so nobody's saying there's no risk um but would we be seeing 80 of it now if you said not necessarily you're correct right so the correct answer is not necessarily can we all agree on that the correct answer is not necessarily maybe maybe much later but statistically and based on what we've seen with every other kind of drug would you say there's an 80 chance that we have enough information already we don't know to your point to your point which i accept you don't know what the future brings like you can't say oh we're done there's you know everything we know now is everything not that all right so i'm trying to be fair and balanced here but how many years would you have to wait before you would be willing to say well it looks like the vaccination itself wasn't a problem suppose we went five years i suppose and that the initial studies about the risks of the vaccine essentially help that what we what we believed as we entered the trial was largely what we got five years later somebody says 10 years do you think that the difference between five and ten years is statistically important here's my assumption but i would need a somebody who's an expert to back me up on this my opinion is that in five years you would be at something like 99 certainty and at 10 years closer to 100 you never get to 100.

but that's what it feels like it feels like the first one year you know almost everything you need to know in one year but you know this vaccine is not like other vaccines so maybe it's different but after five years i feel like five years would get you well over a 90 certainty but again can you use the past to predict what would happen with this mrna technology and the answer is maybe not but wouldn't that be true for all of the vaccines that every one is a one-off there's always something different about it that's why it's a different vaccine so isn't it always true that you don't know for sure if that one year or five years is going to tell you everything you need to know you never really know but i'm good dax adams so um you all know that i was against vaccine mandates right and i didn't get the the additional boosters i got the first one because that was part of the first set but i didn't get any additional boosters don't plan to so i determined that the reason that people think that i was pro mask and pro vaccine is one tweet because when i when i challenge people that why they think my my view was the opposite of what it was they they produced one tweet and uh the tweet was this it was after i got vaccinated i said that if you're vaccinated no i said if you're not vaccinated you're in a pandemic and if you are vaccinated it's just tuesday and apparently people people interpreted that as a pro-vaccination stand was it let me let me say it again so the tweet was if you're unvaccinated you're in a pandemic and if you're vaccinated it's just tuesday is that pro-vaccine what do you think um i'm seeing guesses some knows but i think i primed you too much for that i think yes would be a reasonable answer but it wasn't what i was thinking so do you enjoy it when i uh admit i was wrong anybody does anybody enjoy it when i confess completely that i was wrong you like it right so the tweet didn't say what i hoped it didn't it didn't communicate what i hoped it would communicate and therefore it was a very bad tweet so that's on me so i'm going to say that the public's interpretation of my opinion was polluted by me so so i did that myself let me tell you what the tweet was supposed to say it was supposed to say how i felt that's it and i assumed other people felt the same so what i really meant was the day that i got vaccinated and remember this was before things picked up and we went back to some masking so the masks were off and then once i got vaccinated um there wasn't anything else i had to do so i could fly and i didn't have to wear a mask so for me i no longer had to think about the pandemic because i didn't have to put on a mask and i didn't and i didn't have any restrictions of where i traveled so for me it was over but that's not a statement about the vaccination that's a statement about i don't have to do anything about the pandemic anymore this doesn't need to be part of my mental process right now you can see how i up with the tweet right does everybody agree that the tweet was a mistake you see that right because we were in such a partisan situation that what i was blind to and this is completely my mistake so i'm not i'm not trying to hedge this at all i'm taking full responsibility in the context of people taking sides that tweet was very poor because it looked like i was taking science now i wasn't telling you what to do i was just telling you hey i'll bet a lot of people feel like i do once you do this you're done somebody says stop apologizing you you stop apologizing did that sound like an apology that was a statement of clarification stop apologizing you really just you all right that ladies and gentlemen consult your physician somebody says yes if you're really sorry you look at peter mccullough in all caps eddie says how many of you think that i need to go read the warnings of the rogue doctors i'm watching the stats and those ro those rogue doctors will be proven right or wrong and if they're right i'll i'll definitely be talking about that but do you believe that the rogue doctors have been proven right do you think that the current data at least that's publicly available do you think that the rogue doctors have been proven right i'm seeing not yet not yet right somebody says not yet not yet that's interesting i thought a lot of you would say yes i'm not getting the answers i expected so it's funny on there there's definitely a difference between the locals platform audience and youtube the the locals platform audience are far more likely to be analytically correct and it's not an accident because it's people who largely followed me on that platform because they like the analytical part like how to look at it you know not not the not my opinion of what's true or not but how to look at it that's what they tend to like which is a good thing to like all right uh somebody says locals is an echo chamber well you know that has more to do with the business model it's it's meant to be a community of people built around a certain set of you know ideas so yeah i mean calling it an echo chamber is sort of dismissing the fact that it's designed to be that for its benefits so you can get the other stuff anywhere else you want and and it's not like yeah it's not like the echo it's not like the locals people agree with me all the time let me ask you this on the locals platform how often do you disagree with me well it's a lot all right um they're not more analytical they're more agreeable somebody says no they're actually they're more analytical they almost always um are more likely to see the hidden trap so they've been trained to spot the traps and not the regular public has not largely uh all the excess deaths above baseline uh i don't believe the numbers yeah so you'll see lots of things on twitter you know excess baseline deaths and like the i have the same opinion of all of it it's just not credible some of it might be true but there's nothing i could believe at this point so only time is going to get us a good answer anything you're looking at today let me say this if you saw online somebody said baseline desks were through the roof and therefore the only explanation it has to be the uh vex the vaccinations themselves but you're not seeing other entities pick that up take something from that right sometimes it's because somebody got suppressed that's a real thing but more often it's because other people looked at it and said i'm not convinced that's what i think so while i would take it seriously that there are smart people who have found anomalies and the the death rates i take that seriously and i would definitely like people to look into it but i don't know that the story is that everybody's ignoring it i feel like the story is other people looked at the data and said i don't see it i feel like that's what's happening all right let's not talk about that anymore did spending 6 trillion for cove had lead to facilitating war in ukraine did it what would be the connection there um apparently there's a general understanding now that biden is basically botched the afghanistan pull out the baby formula thing he didn't act fast enough ukraine is kind of a mess he caused inflation he caused the energy shortages he basically caused every problem by his actions didn't he i feel like it basically he literally caused every problem we have including division right everything uh why do people hate tesla because people ate everything successful the you know 40 of the public is gonna hate anything that's successful by the way those of you who are saying that the 81 million votes is telling you something that's not the best argument it's not because it leaves out the fact that the country is bigger and that people were more interested in voting so i the the whole 81 million votes thing that i don't find that persuasive at all it just it feels like an analytical mistake it just feels like of course let me make a prediction my prediction is that in 2024 more people will vote than ever before anybody want to take the other side that bad it will be a record number of voters in 2024 because people will probably still care and there will be more people that's it it's pretty easy pretty easy prediction all right uh i guess we'll find out how many twitter bots there are if elon musk gets a hold of the company and i think you will yeah if trump runs it will definitely be a record number of votes both both sides all right that's all for now and i'm going to talk to you tomorrow youtube best show ever i think

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well as you might know i returned from a

week

in

hawaii i was trying to

do a little

writer's

getaway now

many of you enjoy vacations

how many of you enjoy vacations in the

comments

do you enjoy vacations

i don't really know what that's like

exactly but i hear people love them

now for the past 33 years

which is really the only time i've had

enough money to take a vacation

i've also been working too hard to take

a vacation

so i don't know if i've ever taken one

where i wasn't also working

so this was a working vacation in fact

it was the only reason i did it i went

away for a week just to get away from

just the distractions of being home

let me show you what i came back to

uh so after my nice

relaxing but i worked all week but it

was still relaxing

my relaxing time in an ideal place

i come back to my house and

you should know that my home

has a feature in the front front lawn

there's this a very old and beautiful

stone oak it's a really interesting

gigantic tree it's sort of the main

feature

of the house

and by and by main feature of the house

i mean that um it's laying across the

lawn right now

so

that the main visual feature of my home

collapsed

yesterday morning i was laying across my

lawn

it's just you know dead

so that is the primary visual appeal of

my house just went away but

i went into my man cave after being gone

a week and missing my man cave and i

said to myself

you know i really want to relax

which is what you do in the man cave

and so i was relaxing in there and

until i saw that i wasn't alone

in the man cave

i had a little friend

you see him

that was behind my chair

as i was trying to relax

do you know

if you're trying to relax

and you see a california king snake

coiling through your garage by your feet

well maybe five feet away from my feet

it it doesn't put you in a relaxed mode

let me just say that if i could

summarize

summarize the feeling that i had at that

moment it was

if this were relaxed

it would be somewhere over here

different

kind of a gap between those two concepts

now

what some of you know that i did not

know at the moment

this is a good snake

it actually

is non-venomous and people are happy to

see them

because they chase away dangerous snakes

they eat other snakes i guess that's why

they're called the king california snake

so the good news is totally safe

i don't have to do anything about it i

just let him out and he was fine it was

kind of beautiful frankly

but wow was that a creepy scary looking

thing

wow so that's what i came back to

and wi-fi didn't work i was a mess

but we're back at it

let's talk about the news china just

announced or

i guess

gave some publicity too it's a china

drone mothership

so they've created a vessel which

carries 50 drones

now 50 sounds like either a lot of

drones or not many drones depending on

what kind of drones they are but

something tells me these are the good

kind like the really expensive kind that

maybe don't come back i don't know do

they come back

i'm not sure if they come back and land

on the ship or how many of these are are

meant to

be suicide attack drones

but a mother ship with 50 drones it

looks like that's going to be the future

of

naval warfare

actually in the future of all where

warfare is just gonna be drones

it's just gonna be all drones

um

i'm thinking about reading

my book

the religion war that i wrote in

2003 or whatever it was and it's about a

about a future when

basically it's all drones

thinking of reading that

because um i never signed away the audio

rights

for that book so i might just read it

into the locals platform

if i get a chance all right um

here's a question i asked did you know

that a 3d printer

can make 90 of the parts for

a 3d printer that's right

you can get a 3d printer to make

most of

another 3d printer now i think it's

probably the electronics that's the part

you'd have to buy but if you didn't have

a shortage

of the chip part which we probably do by

the way but if you didn't i asked this

hypothetical question

somebody says it's the print head yeah

so

there may be some parts you can't quite

do yet

but 90 of it you can do although i

suspect that the ten percent you can't

do is the important part

you know the really vital part and the

part you can do is probably the case

um

but if you could do 90 of

that i asked this question how long

would it take if you had one printer one

3d printer

and your goal was to make

drones

the small ones

so apparently you can make almost all of

the parts 90 again

of a drone

and it's a drone that would be good good

enough

to be part of a military operation so it

could drop

drop a grenade for example or or do

reconnaissance that sort of thing and so

the question i asked is and and of

course they could be suicide drones

so i asked how long would it take if you

just had one 3d printer

but you had no shortage of the 10 stuff

that was coming in how long would it

take for it to make extra printers

and then

those extra printers make drones if you

had lots of space

and lots of money

which the us military could certainly

have right

and

it's one of those uh fascinating

situations because on day two

you might not even have a second printer

right

but on day three

you'd have close to three of them and

then the three of them would be creating

each of them a new printer a piece

so do you know that you know the famous

mental experiment where you take a penny

and put it on a checkerboard in the

corner

and then you say okay i'll double the

penny in each subsequent box so the

second one is two cents

and then four cents eight cents 16. and

your common sense says wow

by the time this keeps doubling all the

way around the checkerboard

that one cent could turn into thousands

of dollars

right that's why your common sense is

telling or maybe hundreds maybe your

common sense would say wow this is going

up so fast that by the time we get to

the end of the checkboard it could be

could be hundreds or thousands of

dollars from just that one penny

and then you find out

it's like a gazillion trillion

you're so far off

you are so far off

guessing what will happen when you

double stuff that many times you're just

not even close right it's not hundreds

it's not thousands it's it's a tragion

gillian or something

and so that's what would happen with the

3d printers it would start off slow a

printer makes another printer makes

another printer

but by the

30th day

you could probably be producing 500

drones

a day

now what could ukraine do with 500

drones that were suicide drones per day

right now of course there are real world

limitations for everything so you can't

just do this

but interestingly you could very quickly

scale up if you could get the other 10

for both the printer and the and the

drones

to massive scale and you know a month or

two fairly massive

um so just an interesting thing to think

about

so the reason i i bring this up is i

have a hypothesis

that somewhere in the united states

there is a massive drone factory that

you haven't heard of

and that has spun up in the last six

months

what do you think

because doesn't it seem as though there

should be some super secret drone

factory

that we

put together in the last six months to

just massively create drones for ukraine

probably but i think the problem is that

they can't get the parts so even if you

had the factory you'd still be limited

with chips and stuff i think

i heard somebody say that the us has

been trying to

compete with china on drones is it dj

is that the big

drone company out of china i think they

have a massive market here and i saw

somebody speculate that the us didn't

have the

the technical skill to make these drones

to which i said what

of course we do

are you serious

i'm sure we have more technical skill to

make drones than china does

if china is dominating the market it's

because of price

am i right

that's the only reason they would

dominate the market they wouldn't have

better drones

would they

i mean i don't think so

so i've got a feeling that we'll find

out about a giant secret drone making

facility

someday

um speaking of stuff like that so biden

i thought i saw a headline that said

biden is using that wartime production

act to make baby formula

to which i say

wasn't that like you know didn't uh

joel pollock

suggest that like a week or two ago

i feel like that's an idea that under

the trump administration would have been

a 24-hour turnaround

am i wrong

uh under the trump administration i

actually watched this in person i i

watched

an idea go from hey this is a good idea

to actually an executive order

in like

maybe 48 hours i've actually seen it

done under trump and

how long have we known this uh

this baby formula thing was going to be

a problem

i mean biden has yet another thing to

explain i mean there might be some

logical reason or something

but i

this could not look worse

i i've never seen an administration fail

this hard have you

in your memory have you ever seen the

administration fail this hard

i guess the

you know the left would have said it was

trump

but even the leftists

um i i can tell you that as of yesterday

yesterday i talked to a lifelong

republican

uh i won't give you the context but it

was a lifelong i'm sorry a lifelong

democrat

who just said he's he's voting all

republican from now on

lifelong democrat yep voting republican

from now on

and i'm not going to tell you what

demographic he was

but it wasn't the one you expect

i'll just say that it wasn't the one you

expect

so

i don't know what's going to happen in

the next elections but i cannot

imagine oh and right

did i talk about this that

i think i said yesterday that elon musk

said he would vote republican from now

on because the democrats have become the

party of

division and

hate or something

oh my god

that is quite a thing to say

you know which is why he's elon musk and

you're not

because

is he the best tweeter now

if trump were still tweeting i'd say you

know

they're basically only two people in

that stratosphere

but now that trump is off i think i

think musk is the top tweeter

by far somebody says yeah i think by far

now how many of you remember that

elon musk came out of the paypal

that was an original startup

that he was on there with uh

several people

um

and i wonder if they were to have a

paypal reunion now

yeah peter thiel is there

i wonder if they were to have a reunion

now that they would have something to

talk about politically

that would be uh

pretty interesting

all right

gas prices

i keep hearing people say my god the gas

prices are up to over four dollars now

to which i say

can i get some of that four dollar gas

will somebody sell me some four dollar

gas because our gas is way over six

dollars for premium

so when i fill up it's over six dollars

a gallon now i mean not that you're

feeling sorry for me but just as a

marker of the times

um

and all of this is self-inflicted by

democrats is it not

is completely self-inflicted all

predictable

all all completely known that if you do

this you're going to get this and did

they not slow walk us right into the

situation

because it looks like it it looks like

they slow walked us with intention into

shortages

now i hear people say some people want

the shortages and you know it's part of

their radical agenda i've never heard

from anybody like that so i'm a little

skeptical anybody really believes that

but who knows

all right so it's all-time new high

again gas

how do democrats get elected under this

these conditions i don't know

here's my provocative thought for the

day

if the founders of this country

the ones who put together the original

constitution

if they knew that 3d printers

were coming

would they have given us a

constitutional right to own them

like guns

what do you think

if the founders knew that 3d printers

were coming would it be would they have

put like the second amendment would they

put an amendment in there to say that

citizens can own them and that the

government cannot monopolize them

i feel like they would have

i mean there's no way to know

but think about it

there's a reason they put that gun one

in there

right now

you could argue that the gun thing is

always going to be special that's a

special case but if you're going to be

defending yourself

uh i'd rather have a 3d printer than a

gun

if you had a 3d printer and i'm saying

high-end so really we're still talking

about the future

in the future you'll be able to print a

proper gun you can already do it but i'm

talking about like a real proper gun you

know you could make a gun

that would kill somebody but i mean like

a real weapon like a serious weapon

not sort of a toy

yeah i i feel as if the stuff that the

3d printers can make at the moment

are more of a novelty than an actual

weapon you know they fire sure

but it's more like you know killing

somebody in a special case it's not

really a weapon weapon

so i would expect that 3d printers will

be illegal for citizens to own if they

are above a certain level let me ask you

this

would it be legal for a citizen to own a

printing press

capable of making u.s currency that is

indistinguishable from the real thing

would that be legal

i'm assuming no

somebody says yes that would be legal

now is it because the paper is the real

trick

so they can just control how you make

the paper or something yeah you need the

right paper exactly but couldn't you

also bleach

existing currency

or did they take that away

because it used to be used to bleach an

old like a dollar bill and then turn it

into a 20 or something

yeah

all right

so yeah i would expect 3d printers will

be illegal at the high end someday

and you wonder how could they possibly

control that

and i'm thinking they'll probably

control it in much the way that they

control copyright

and

so which means that they would do it

imprecisely you know you you could still

get away with it but it might not worth

be worth the risk all right uh

ex-president george w bush was giving a

speech and he said this tragically

he said quote

the decision of one man to launch a holy

unjustified and brutal invasion of iraq

i mean ukraine

ukraine

so

yes uh there was there was a leader once

who

authorized a holy unjustified and brutal

invasion of iraq but who was that who

was that oh

oh yeah

george w bush

well there's more

more drama coming out of the amber turd

trial

the johnny depp depp

according to witnesses especially ember

turds sister

uh turd too no amber amber's sister we

don't have any reason to dislike her

but she

she was the most direct witness to say

that he observed johnny depp hitting his

face his

hitting her sister repeatedly in the

face

while holding her hair

now

do you believe that

because

do you have any siblings

does anybody have a sibling

would you witness a sibling being

punched in the face

by anybody

and then say well you know that's your

business

i don't think i want to get involved

can you even imagine that

first of all

if you saw a sibling getting punched in

the face you wouldn't get in the fight

seriously

like you wouldn't be right there

punching the chin out of johnny

depp if you saw that happening

like who wouldn't do that

so there's something about the sister's

testimony that's not

quite

striking me as believable

now i hope i hope it's not true because

it sounds horrible and if it's true of

course johnny depp

you know needs to be responsible for his

actions we don't know the context but i

can't imagine any context where that

would be appropriate

you know even self-defense it didn't

sound like it was even self-defense

really

so

i got a question about that so then

you've got a few other witnesses uh

testifying on her behalf

but some of those were contradicted by

other people

so

what do you think is true

based on

what would you say at this point

do you believe that they were violent to

each other

or that one of them was primarily the

violent one

what do you think

because we have to well we don't have to

but we're judging it from afar

based on evidence that's being presented

well there's no doubt that johnny depp

had a substance use situation

um

i was just reading eric's comment there

on

youtube

all right

i don't know

i i think if i had to cast my vote right

now i would say that

here's a question i would ask

has johnny depp ever been accused of

hitting anybody else

don't you feel that's a valid question

under these circumstances

now that would not prove that he did or

did not do anything with amber heard but

wouldn't you like to know that

because if i heard that he had ever done

this with another

woman

i would be inclined to think he did it

this time too you know assuming that i

believe the original story if there were

two stories that were

weirdly similar

that would be

that'd be pretty believable

but i don't know that that's an evidence

nor could it be

do do we think that would even be legal

to bring that in as a

context i don't know how that works

can you do that

um

so here's a question for you

if

amber

uh if her actions were so outrageous

that she was causing an inebriated

johnny depp to feel that he needed to

hit her again there's no excuse

so violence cannot be condoned under any

circumstance so if it sounds like i'm

defending an abuser that's the opposite

of what's happening so don't

don't take that interpretation

but at some point

poking the bear

is wrong too

right

there is some level of provocation

which will cause anybody to do anything

but let me just put it that way you take

it out of the context of domestic abuse

just take it completely out of that

context

there is some amount of provocation

that will make anybody do anything

and we we sort of treat it like that

doesn't matter

i feel like it does

you know and maybe maybe that's why you

have jury trials so they can take into

consideration stuff like that

well it seems that the so-called

ministry of truth is being disbanded the

public uh ran down a town

so what was it called the disinformation

board

and they were going to tell you what was

true and what wasn't

well it got so

so much pushback

rightfully so that they disbanded it and

the woman who's in charge of it resigned

and they're not going to do that anymore

so no more

so-called ministry of truth

and totally unrelated news

i don't even know why i bring this up at

this point

but um

we've got a new thing um

so we lost the ministry of the so-called

ministry of truth that's just what

people were calling it

but we've got this new thing under the

democrats maybe it passed the house but

not yet the senate it's called the the

domestic terrorism prevention act

so that passed the house yesterday

and it's created to quote assess the

threat posed by white supremacists and

neo-nazis

so

it's a good thing they got rid of that

ministry of truth because we were afraid

that they might

use it politically

to target people on the other side

because if one side is in charge of the

truth

and what is true and what is not well it

feels like that could be used

politically which is why people ran that

idea out of town

but now we have this new thing which is

some kind of an upgrade apparently

so they'll have a group that's just

looking to identify

the white supremacists and neo-nazis

among us

i i wonder what could go wrong

do you think oh maybe it could get a

little political

do you think maybe that these were two

attempts to hunt republicans

and one of them wasn't aggressive enough

because it was just talking about it but

the other one was actually to label some

americans white supremacists and

neo-nazis

and i wonder do you think anybody who's

not quite one of those things could ever

be dragged into that conversation

and do you think that maybe just being a

republican

and maybe let's say maybe you went

someplace and that you're photo taken

and you didn't know exactly

the reputation of the person you were

are you a neo-nazi now if you had your

photo taken with somebody who

has those uh leanings

i don't know

so if you were the this uh let's say it

gets passed by the senate i i

have a feeling it won't be but if it did

um

who do you think they're going to call

white supremacists and neo-nazis

they've called

pretty much all republicans

white supremacists and neo-nazis have

they not

do you see any problem with that

do you remember my

do you remember my prediction that

everybody mocked me for

when i said that if biden is elected

republicans will be hunted

and people said oh god you've

you really jumped the shark this one

they're not going to hunt republicans

nothing like that's going to happen

except the domestic terrorism prevention

act might be a little bit um

maybe aggressive

and who they determine is a neo-nazi and

a white supremacist

what what what ideology do you think

would get you

identified as a white supremacist what

would be an example

let's say somebody was

very strong on border security

and let's say that their reasoning

was that they didn't want the the

culture of the country to change this is

not my opinion i'm giving i'm i'm

talking about some person right

so there's some person who's uh strong

on border security

and their reasoning is they don't want

the the character or culture of the

country to change

in a let's say in an unguided way

in a random way that's determined by

other people basically

what would they be they'd be a white

supremacist wouldn't they

wouldn't they

because i would be somebody who is

targeting

people of color

and wanting to disadvantage them

relative to what the situation could

have been which is they all get to come

in

so if you're a white republican

and you've got a public stand

that is

bad for people of color

not americans but people of color who

would like to get into america

how is that not a white supremacist

according to democrats

this is a real

this is some really sketchy stuff here

um

so i was on vacation last week something

else

but i did i did my live streams just at

the wrong different times most of the

time

all right

well you know fortunately we can trust

democrats

um to do the right thing

um which brings me to a rasmussen poll

uh which asked how likely is it that the

clinton campaign officials acted

illegally during the 2016 presidential

election and that number is 55 percent

now

so a

majority of americans believe that the

top democrat

powers the clinton campaign at the time

uh acted illegally and basically rigged

the election

but you know even though 55 of them

think that the democrats are rotten at

the top

um i'm really looking forward to this

new group that's going to determine

which ones of us are neo-nazis and white

supremacists

that i don't see a problem there

so do you remember the story of keith

renery and nexium and the alleged sex

cult that was

a subgroup of some of the same people

and keith renery got

convicted and he's in prison now

and but he's claiming and there's some

expert testimony that backs up the claim

with evidence

that he was framed um framed by the law

enforcement basically

i think fbi is being accused

now i don't have an opinion

because how would i know of whether

keith ranieri was framed or not

but in the context of today's news and

what you've seen lately who is more

credible

the fbi

or a person incarcerated and blamed of

accused of terrible crimes and found

guilty by a jury of his peers

which one is more credible

in 2022

it's a tie

it's a tie he's got a story

about being set up

to which i say

there was a time i would have said well

that's ridiculous

you know i'll just go with law

enforcement on this one but not anymore

not anymore no i'm not saying he's

innocent how would i know who knows

but i'll just say the credibility of the

accusers

and the credibility of the accused are

now roughly the same

roughly the same

so

good job government

well

in case i'm all being all negative today

the democrats have done a number of bad

things

but

thank goodness they're stopping the

fentanyl

traffic into this country

no they're not

no they're not

it turns out that fentanyl overdoses and

other overdoses are an all-time high

i saw the wall street journal had some

opinion piece speculating that the

lockdowns

were a cause of the greater addictions

how many of you accept that as true

just on its face

so we don't we don't have a study of

that

but how many because it did turn out

that overdoses spiked at exactly that

right time

how many you think

that the lockdowns caused more

overdose deaths

i'd say

very likely

but i'm not quite ready to say yes

because here's the variable which is not

um

maybe not in play

how much fentanyl came in how many extra

things that didn't have fentanyl in them

got fentanyl added to them

was there any change in the way fentanyl

was made or produced to make it more

deadly

so i would be asking lots of questions

about

whether the product itself changed or

evolved or got worse

i wouldn't necessarily say that the only

reason is because there was a lockdown

although the timing the timing is pretty

suspicious and our common sense

tells us it's likely right

so i

but uh

you know i i think that the bible

demonstration they started with this

ministry of truth and now they've got

this other uh

republican hunting organization going on

there

uh hunting and tagging republicans but i

think what they really needed was uh

they should create a new ministry

so i'd like to see the biden

administration create the

ministry of not doing a thing

about fentanyl because that would be

racist

because apparently the big pushback

is that there are over a hundred groups

who are advocating for lower fentanyl

dealer

sentences

because

sentencing people for fentanyl would be

racist because you'd get more people of

color presumably

arrested

so

if that's their point of view and it

seems that the administration is

influenced by that then why not just

create the ministry of not doing a

thing about fentanyl because

that would be racist

let's just label it what it is

if that's their argument if they're not

going to do a thing about a

hundred thousand people dying every year

if they're not gonna do a thing

just create a department to not do a

thing

just own it

just own it that's all i'm

asking for it's okay to do nothing well

it's not okay but if you're gonna do

nothing

just own it

don't do nothing and tell me you're

doing something because you're not

do nothing and then just create a whole

worthless piece of bureaucracy

to brag to everybody how nothing you're

doing

some of you might know i have a little

bit of an attitude about this fentanyl

situation

maybe you've heard

um

wow

if i were a

single issue voter this would be my

single issue

all right

um some of you have asked why is the

russian ruble doing well and

the dollars not as well as the ruble

apparently

and i saw a great uh thread by uh

azleckberg who seems to know what he's

talking about and he explains it simply

this way

um russia can support the ruble by just

telling people that they have to pay

them in rubles

say you can buy our our oil

but you're gonna have to convert your

money to rubles first because we're only

going to take rubles

as long as people want to buy their oil

and energy in general

then

the ruble will stay high because

there's an artificial demand for it

but

the the sanctions against russia are

more about their imports

so the sanctions about them selling

things are

not as aggressive at the moment

it probably take a long time for people

to get alternate sources of energy etc

so they can't really close down russia's

exports right away

but we're apparently trying to

them we meaning the people in charge of

sanctions

by

by limiting what comes in now eventually

if you limited all their imports

you would close down their exports too

so if you stop their imports that will

eventually get to everything because

they won't be able to you know build a

new refinery they won't be able to

repair something that breaks eventually

would shut down the whole country

because they don't make

chips and stuff

enough in russia

so does that make sense

that

that the reason that russia's ruble is

good is that we're not doing much about

what they're selling

but we're doing a lot about what they're

buying and that doesn't have as much

impact on the ruble

about that for a simple economic

explanation did that did that clear

anything up for you

or did that just confuse you

i'm seeing no plausible

well the plausible part is right i mean

i'm pretty sure the explanation is right

about the minion plushie at the top

shelf

somebody's asking about my minion well

it's not a plushy it's it's ceramic

but uh it was just a gift at one point i

just liked it

um

all right so i think that

cleared that up for you

glad to help

and uh

i offer this following test

so that we might all know once and for

all

and again i don't care

because we're past it

but do masks work

and i have a specific way to test it

that i don't know has been tested but

maybe you've seen it it goes like this

in my way of thinking we all know that

mass do not stop viruses from spreading

would you all agree

everybody on the same page

we do know the masks do not stop the

spread

everybody

now we don't know if it slows it down

some say yes some say no but we do know

it didn't really show up in the in the

high level numbers right

there's nobody who used masks and just

masks and you know got rid of the the

virus so i think you're all on the same

page

that especially the regular mass no

let's not talk about m95s we're talking

about the public regular masks we all

agree that regular mass allow virus to

spread

and you can get it okay everybody's on

the same page on that

but number two

this is the part that i always talk

about that nobody does which is i

thought we knew

that the degree of or the quantity of

virus you initially get makes a

difference for your survival

am i right

now i don't know that that's been

debunked and so my hypothesis is this if

masks worked and i'm going to put work

in quotes because i'm not talking about

stopping infection because i don't think

you did or at least in a significant way

but

in theory

you would have a high level infections

just like everybody else if you wore

masks

but your death rate would be

noticeably lower

so if you looked at the ratio of

infections

to deaths it should be better where

there are masks

and less good where the masking

compliance is less

what do you think

now again i'm not telling you the mass

worked or didn't work i'm suggesting a

way to study it

that i think would be conclusive

and i don't know that that's been

studied because we keep conflating do

they stop infections

with do they work and they're not the

same question

do you get that

if you say do masks stop infections no

but that's not the same as do mass work

in some functional way that you wish you

wish you had one i don't know the answer

to that now to be clear

because i've been misinterpreted a

number of times i absolutely am against

mass mandates

and i can't imagine wearing one again

myself

so i'm completely against it because the

the social cost is too high and we

didn't see enough of a difference in the

top level numbers

so completely against it but wouldn't

you like to know

i mean really

now southern cal

south korea versus california wouldn't

work and the reason is that south korea

can't be compared to anybody who didn't

have a really good testing

so south korea's secret was testing they

say

you know they would also say the mass

worked but really it was probably

testing and then obesity was part of the

issue as well

right

all right

did i leave anything out

is there any topic

that you wish i had mentioned

and are you glad

that as many people got infected as they

did

in a sense because i think the united

states is done and other countries are

because we had enough natural infection

but the countries that didn't have the

natural infection might be in trouble

although they've got omicron now so it

won't be that big a deal

nuclear

yeah there's nothing new on nuclear is

there

any update on the yes did you see the

rasmussen tweet

that the rasmussen

twitter account and there's some some

suggestion there might be some

suppression going on

but

i i retweeted it this morning so you can

see it in either rasmussen's feed or in

my feed but there is one individual

who allegedly we'd know his name and

address

and he allegedly

went to

multiple drop boxes and and left from

multiple

non-profit agencies

so he would be an example of the very

thing that two thousand mules wants to

prove

which is that they have the names of

somebody who's an actual person who went

to multiple boxes

and apparently the allegation is that

nobody wants to talk to him

like the press is completely

uninterested

i don't know

i i

i think

i think i'm going to go with

i don't believe anything about anything

with a story

so i don't believe that we know

or that we have any way to know if an

election is

rigged

because we don't do complete audits it's

just not a thing so if you don't do a

complete audit you can't ever know you

can only know you didn't find a problem

but i also

don't believe any accusation

now do you remember when when there were

first accusations about the

improprieties in the election do you

remember a

prediction i made

at the very beginning of trying to see

if anything sketchy happened in the 2020

election

at the very beginning

i said

at least 95 of everything you hear as an

allegation will be false

does anybody remember me saying that

that 95 percent of everything people say

happened in the election will be

debunked

and there we are

i would say 95 of the claims were

debunked

the the venezuelan general

voting machine stuff

there's no evidence of that

yeah

so but

does it mean anything if 95 percent of

the allegations are debunked

well not if not if the other five

percent turn out to be true

it doesn't take much

does it it only takes one

you know one actual real thing to change

an election

yeah and maybe there was a little bit of

everything as somebody says we don't

know the degree

you you have to assume that there's

always a little bit of

chick cannery in every election you just

never know how much

yeah we haven't been talking about

droning the mexican cartels enough

now do

how many people think that

trump was crazy for talking about

droning the laboratories or the

the cartels um

headquarters or whatever they were in

mexico

how many think that's just crazy

how many think that that idea came from

me

because i'm pretty sure i'm the only

public figure who said that before you

heard that trump had also heard it

does anybody think that came from me

because i was the only one saying it i'm

pretty sure

now that doesn't mean he didn't come up

with the idea on his own because it's

sort of obvious

i mean it's the question you would ask

and by the way one of the reasons i

could never be president

is because i could never survive

uh the brainstorming conversations taken

out of context

because i would do exactly what trump is

getting in trouble for all the time

i throw ideas

that had not yet been on the table

so i would say well can we just kill

that person

and then somebody would say no don't do

that and i say okay

and then i say well

should we just you know nuke that thing

and then people would say no no you

can't use nukes here are all the good

reasons and i'd say those are good

reasons

but i would throw all kinds of crazy

just to see how people would respond to

it

and that would tell me something right i

i would know if they had ruled something

out by reflex or if they really thought

about it

so when

when trump throws out ideas like can't

we just you know lob a drone in and take

out the cartels

i say that's good presidenting

that is good presidenting he asked the

question

and he asked it of exactly the right

person and then when that person gave

him an answer which apparently was

sufficient

that he didn't do it

so it's reported as some kind of like

wild crazy reckless thing that trump did

and i'm listening to it and i'm thinking

well you just gave an example of perfect

presidenting that was perfect

he asked he asked the question they

should have been asked that absolutely

should have been asked

he got the answer

from an expert

he took that into consideration and

that's the way we went

perfect president thing

and it's yeah reported as some kind of

flaw

of course

oh uh trump told oz to claim victory do

we have another one of those

did oz

he did didn't he win

is that still in question the uh the oz

primary

went to a runoff

interesting

so he told them to

claim victory well why not

isn't that just standard procedure to

claim

oh yes now there's talk about monkey pox

a variant of the bubonic plague

madagascar has got a case of it or

something so yeah monkey box

can't wait for the monkey box to come

i feel like

there's something else coming don't you

all right and there was a case in

connecticut somebody says

yeah who was having sex with the monkey

is what i want to know

and was the monkey attractive these are

the questions we want to know

um

monkey box yeah okay i'm not even gonna

say that out loud

uh

all right

ladies and gentlemen let me ask you this

following provocative question

it has been over

how long has it been since people got

their first vaccinations a year

and a half

is it a year and a half since the first

people got vaccinated

and it would be maybe

two years since the first

people in the trials got vaccinated

right

something like that so somebody says 13

months but closer to 18 months or two

years

so the question is this

would we be seeing the

the effects of the vaccination itself

because all vaccinations have risks

right so nobody's saying there's no risk

um but would we be seeing

80 of it

now if you said not necessarily you're

correct right so the correct answer is

not necessarily can we all agree on that

the correct answer is not necessarily

maybe maybe much later

but

statistically

and based on what we've seen with every

other

kind of drug would you say there's an 80

chance

that we have enough information

already

we don't know

to your point to your point which i

accept you don't know what the future

brings like you can't say oh we're done

there's you know

everything we know now is everything not

that

all right so i'm trying to be fair and

balanced here but

how many years would you have to wait

before you would be willing to say well

it looks like the vaccination itself

wasn't a problem

suppose we went five years

i suppose

and that the initial

studies about the risks of the vaccine

essentially help

that what we what we believed as we

entered the trial

was largely what we got five years later

somebody says 10 years

do you think that the difference between

five and ten years

is statistically important

here's my assumption but i would need a

somebody who's an expert to back me up

on this my opinion is that in five years

you would be at something like 99

certainty

and at 10 years closer to 100

you never get to 100.

but that's what it feels like

it feels like the first one year

you know almost everything you need to

know

in one year

but you know this vaccine is not like

other vaccines so maybe it's different

but after five years

i feel like five years would get you

well over a 90 certainty

but again

can you use the past

to predict what would happen with this

mrna

technology and the answer is

maybe not

but

wouldn't that be true for all of the

vaccines

that every one is a one-off

there's always something different about

it that's why it's a different vaccine

so isn't it always true that you don't

know for sure if that one year or five

years is going to tell you everything

you need to know you never really know

but i'm good

dax adams

so

um

you all know that i was against vaccine

mandates right

and i didn't get the the additional

boosters i got the first one because

that was part of the first set

but i didn't get any additional boosters

don't plan to

so

i determined that the reason that people

think that i was pro mask and pro

vaccine

is one tweet because when i when i

challenge people

that why they think my my view was the

opposite of what it was

they they produced one tweet

and uh the tweet was this

it was after i got vaccinated

i said that if you're vaccinated no i

said if you're not vaccinated you're in

a pandemic and if you are vaccinated

it's just tuesday

and apparently people

people

interpreted that as a pro-vaccination

stand

was it

let me let me say it again

so the tweet was if you're unvaccinated

you're in a pandemic

and if you're vaccinated

it's just tuesday

is that pro-vaccine

what do you think

um

i'm seeing guesses

some knows but i think i primed you too

much for that

i think yes would be a reasonable answer

but it wasn't what i was thinking

so

do you enjoy it when i

uh admit i was wrong

anybody

does anybody enjoy it when i confess

completely

that i was wrong

you like it

right so the tweet didn't say what i

hoped it didn't it didn't communicate

what i hoped it would communicate

and therefore it was a very bad tweet so

that's on me

so i'm going to say that the public's

interpretation of my opinion

was polluted by me

so so i did that myself

let me tell you what the tweet was

supposed to say

it was supposed to say

how i felt

that's it

and i assumed other people felt the same

so what i really meant was the day that

i got vaccinated and remember this was

before

things picked up and we went back to

some masking so

the masks were off

and then once i got vaccinated

um

there wasn't anything else i had to do

so i could fly

and i didn't have to wear a mask so for

me i no longer had to think about the

pandemic because i didn't have to put on

a mask and i didn't and i didn't have

any restrictions of where i traveled

so for me it was over

but that's not a statement about the

vaccination

that's a statement about i don't have to

do anything about the pandemic anymore

this doesn't need to be part of my

mental process

right now

you can see how i up with the

tweet right

does everybody agree that the tweet was

a mistake you see that right

because we were in such a partisan

situation

that what i was

blind to

and this is completely my mistake so i'm

not i'm not trying to hedge this at all

i'm taking full responsibility

in the context of people taking sides

that tweet was

very poor

because it looked like i was taking

science now i wasn't telling you what to

do

i was just telling you hey i'll bet a

lot of people feel like i do

once you do this you're done

somebody says stop apologizing

you

you

stop apologizing did that sound like an

apology

that was a statement of clarification

stop apologizing

you really just you

all right

that ladies and gentlemen

consult your physician somebody says yes

if you're really sorry you look at peter

mccullough

in all caps eddie says

how many of you think that i need to go

read

the warnings of

the rogue doctors

i'm watching the stats

and those ro those rogue doctors will be

proven right or wrong

and if they're right

i'll i'll definitely be talking about

that

but do you believe that the rogue

doctors have been proven right

do you think that the current data at

least that's publicly available do you

think that the rogue doctors have been

proven right

i'm seeing not yet

not yet

right

somebody says not yet not yet

that's interesting i thought a lot of

you would say yes i'm not getting the

answers i expected so it's funny on

there there's definitely a difference

between the locals platform

audience and youtube

the the locals platform audience are far

more likely

to be analytically correct

and it's not an accident because it's

people who largely followed me on that

platform

because they like the analytical part

like how to look at it you know not not

the not my opinion of what's true or not

but how to look at it that's what they

tend to like

which is a good thing to like

all right

uh somebody says locals is an echo

chamber well

you know

that has more to do with the business

model

it's it's meant to be a community of

people built around a certain set of

you know ideas

so

yeah

i mean calling it an echo chamber is

sort of dismissing the fact that it's

designed to be that for its benefits

so you can get the other stuff anywhere

else you want

and and it's not like yeah it's not like

the echo it's not like the locals people

agree with me all the time

let me ask you this

on the locals platform how often do you

disagree with me

well it's a lot

all right

um

they're not more analytical they're more

agreeable somebody says no they're

actually

they're more

analytical

they almost always um

are more likely to see the hidden trap

so they've been trained to spot the

traps and not the regular public has not

largely

uh all the excess deaths above baseline

uh i don't believe the numbers

yeah so

you'll see lots of things on twitter you

know excess baseline deaths and like the

i have the same opinion of all of it

it's just not credible

some of it might be true

but there's nothing i could believe at

this point so only time is going to get

us a good answer

anything you're looking at today

let me say this if you saw online

somebody said baseline desks were

through the roof

and therefore the only explanation

it has to be the uh vex the vaccinations

themselves

but you're not seeing other entities

pick that up

take something from that right

sometimes it's because somebody got

suppressed

that's a real thing

but more often it's because other people

looked at it and said i'm not convinced

that's what i think

so while i would take it seriously

that there are smart people who have

found anomalies and the the death rates

i take that seriously

and i would definitely like people to

look into it

but i don't know that the story is that

everybody's ignoring it

i feel like the story is other people

looked at the data and said i don't see

it

i feel like that's what's happening

all right let's not talk about that

anymore

did spending 6 trillion for cove had

lead to facilitating war in ukraine

did it what would be the connection

there

um apparently there's a general

understanding now that

biden is

basically botched the afghanistan pull

out the baby formula thing he didn't act

fast enough

ukraine is kind of a mess he caused

inflation he caused the energy shortages

he basically caused every problem by his

actions didn't he

i feel like it

basically he literally caused every

problem we have

including

division

right everything

uh

why do people hate tesla because people

ate everything successful

the you know 40 of the public

is gonna hate anything that's successful

by the way

those of you who are saying that the 81

million votes is telling you something

that's not the best argument

it's not

because it leaves out the fact that the

country is bigger

and that people were more interested in

voting

so

i the the whole 81 million votes thing

that i don't find that persuasive

at all

it just it feels like an analytical

mistake

it just feels like of course

let me make a prediction

my prediction is that in 2024

more people will vote than ever before

anybody want to take the other side that

bad

it will be a record number of voters in

2024

because people will probably still care

and there will be more people

that's it it's pretty easy pretty easy

prediction

all right

uh

i guess we'll find out how many twitter

bots there are if elon musk gets a hold

of the company

and i think you will

yeah if trump runs it will definitely be

a record number of votes both both sides

all right

that's all for now

and i'm going to talk to you tomorrow

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