Episode 1815 Scott Adams - The January 6 Hearings Have Cleared Trump. Will News Report It That Way?

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through it and oh my god is it good it's so good there are points within it where he's just pissing off the audience and you're not sure he could ever recover and then he does and then it looks like he couldn't possibly recover from the thing he's saying now and that he does it's really watching him fly that close to the sun and not get burned up is really amazing he goes after every everything and everybody i think the real secret of it is that he is unrelenting i think if he went at these topics in a half-assed way it wouldn't work but the fact that he's just so completely all-in you just say all right all right and just entertain us um did you see the uh alleged nazis who were protesting in favor of desantis in florida yeah allegedly allegedly they were pro-desantis nazis now and of course the democrats fell for it do you know what the budget is to get some uh fake nazis or even surreal ones to demonstrate in favor of your political opponent to make your opponent look bad what do you suppose would be the budget for that sort of thing real expensive pretty sure you could get it under a thousand dollars you could get several people for about a thousand dollars probably yeah somewhere in that neighborhood if you paid 5 000 you probably should have negotiated better but for a very low price you can get people to dress up as nazis or actual nazis you know neo-nazis or whatever and they'll stand there and hold a sign for your opponent now i have a suggestion since you know this nazi trick is going to be used over and over against the republicans the republicans should form or maybe you know not the politicians maybe some pac or interest group form a nazi uh dancing troupe people who dress like nazis but they present themselves as entertainment so they're not trying to pretend to be nazis they're they're only actors who are telling you they're actors and it's a nazi dancing troop and then you send them to every event that the democrats do now even though they would be clearly labeled as entertainment you know they would not be trying to present themselves as actual neo-nazis how many times do the democrats have to see the dancing nazis attempt to attend their attend their events before they feel uncomfortable with the whole idea i think that i think the republicans could completely take this ridiculous political trick off the map by going really hard at it themselves just just have a nazi dancing trip at every single democrat about that you know they'd have signs and they'd have like really good costumes you know like actual actual like world war ii nazi costumes and you know maybe maybe they do the the uh goose step maybe some kind of a goose step dance like mel brooks yes very much like the mel brooks play all right uh i like to remind you of bad crazy things i've said that ended up being actually the general understanding in the country after a certain point now you could probably come up with several examples yourselves of things i've said or predicted they're just bad crazy and then you wait a year or two or maybe several and it's the standard of thinking here's another one nobody understands economics do you remember the first time i said that and you probably heard it and you're like okay that's a little hyperbole like what's that mean or are you talking about something specific now it's the headline the headline to cnn is that the economists don't understand the economy it's the headline right how many how many people thought it was ridiculous when i said that the experts don't understand the economy it sounded ridiculous didn't it but now it's it's common understanding how many times have i done that do you remember in 2015 i told you that trump was persuasive and do you remember the response i got to that he's not persuasive come on he has what 13 support even among republicans right 13 come on he's anything but persuasive he's a big crazy clown he doesn't know what he's doing and now what's the headline today the headline is that trump is so persuasive that he may have accidentally triggered something like an insurrection because he's so persuasive and that the entire more than half the country believes the election was sketchy more than half of the country that number has never been achieved or even close that's all trump that's all trump he is literally proven to be the most persuasive human in modern modern civilization i think and people laughed at me when i said you have no idea what's coming here in 2015.

you don't see this coming but trust me i i have just the right skill set that i can you know i can look through this little window there it is all right so nobody understands economics specifically uh and this is one of those things you can do when you have no shame just try try to imagine yourself doing this this is something that i did in public in the most public way i did i have a degree in economics and i have an mba and i'm an adult who has lived in the world and watched the news closely for decades and the other day i tweeted that i don't understand the unemployment number like i don't even understand that what the hell is going on how in the world could the economy be having so many problems and the employment looks great now many of you said scott scott scott everybody knows it's because people left the employment pool i know that that's not the part i don't understand i get that that the employment is only of the people who are looking for a job so if fewer people say they're looking for one well you've got full employment yeah i get that that doesn't come close to explaining what we're seeing if that explained it like fully it's part of the story of course of course it's part but there's something else going on here and i don't know what it is and i have a hypothesis and i would expect to win the nobel for economics for the following hypothesis and by the way i'm not even kidding i'm not joking i'm gonna add a hypothesis to the body of economics that i don't think you've seen that will explain all the things that don't make sense right now it goes like this economics assumes a a let's say a small range of change economics assumes that the world changes at a somewhat predictable regular pace or at least is the same as it was the last 10 years right maybe maybe modern day has changed faster than old days but if the last 10 years would be a pretty good proxy for change so everything that you know about economics every common assumption is assume that the base of you know all of our assumptions about everything stay about the same and that economics is just running on top of those assumptions but the pandemic and i'm going to give naval ravikant the credit for i think the first person who observed this his prediction was that the pandemic would make everything that was going to happen anyway happen faster and we're seeing it right so right now we have um legacy systems that are operating at the same time as the replacement system for a short period of time what happens to employment numbers when you still have the old system but you're you're bringing up the new system you need twice as many people because you still have the old system but you've now added the new system for example before the pandemic mostly you got your food from the grocery store is the grocery store still there yes it is grocery store is still there still employs about the same number of people but on top of that because it was so hard to you know go anywhere during the pandemic the food delivery business exploded so now you have the entire grocery industry just the way it was but on top of it you have what i think will be the long-term replacement industry which is the food comes to you do you buy it so that that would be an explanation of why things could be falling apart we could have you know recession inflation we could have supply chain problems we could have every problem that you're seeing but at the same time we're in this weird situation where the pandemic said wait everything you're doing is up you better you better start putting the new plan in place right away and then we did we did so at least part of the part of it i think is the rapid acceleration of the baseline world what do you think will anybody accept that and will you nominate me for the the nobel for economics do i have to do some math to get that nobel i want the nobel i already already invented by the way how many of you know i invented the concept of the confusopoly which is now standard part of economic thought how many of you knew that that that i'm actually part of the economic literature now a confuseopoly is a word i it's a word i invented years ago and it refers to the fact that businesses such as let's say cell phone companies and insurance companies banks to some extent lots of businesses the reason that they don't need to compete with each other is that they've made their products too complicated for you to know who's doing a better job imagine going to get your cell phone if you knew for sure which was the better deal you would just walk in and get the better deal because cell phone coverage is kind of like every other cell phone coverage but you don't when you go to buy a cell phone it's like well this one's a plan but this one has rollover minutes but this one i can add a family member you have no way to compare it that's a confuse opoli the way economics was supposed to work is that the free market would drive all the weak competitors out of business and eventually you'd have one strong competitor but that's not happening you have lots of competition insurance and everything and the way they compete is they confuse the consumer so the consumer can't tell which product is better and i believe that they do it intentionally meaning that they're all quite intentionally making sure that nobody can compare their products i mean i know that's the case i'm not guessing that's definitely the case so before i explain that concept didn't exist in economics but if you if you google it now confuse aptly you'll see it's it's a standard concept so how many of you thought that i would be famous for adding a concept to economics so you didn't say that comment did you but it happened all right um rasmussen did some polling on american voters and energy independence and found out that only 19 of those polled oppose a policy of encouraging u.s energy independence in other words 81 would like more of a trump approach you know going for energy independence and only 19 and remember this includes democrats right only 19 of the public um wants something like what we have now where we're not encouraging domestic energy and let's say 53 percent of voters and remember this includes democrats and independents and everybody else uh trust republicans uh more to encourage u.s oil and gas production well that makes sense right but why is it only 53 if you took the assumption even if you don't assume that you want that even if you said to yourself i don't want more domestic energy production i don't know why you'd say that but suppose you did wouldn't you still at least recognize that republicans would do more of it how could you be so dumb that you think the republicans and the democrats would you know roughly the same when it comes to encouraging domestic energy production that's a pretty weird opinion i mean we fly against literally 100 of all reporting from both sides uh 18 percent of the public thinks there's not much difference between the two parties on the issue of energy 18 it feels a little low that's the number i would have expected closer to maybe north of 20 closer to closer to a quarter i would have expected that closer to a quarter just saying all right um and 71 percent of likely u.s voters think the u.s government should encourage increased oil and gas production in the u.s 71 how in the world does a democrat get elected president in this atmosphere there's a really dangerous situation shaping up here and i think you all see it right everything in the news and the polling suggests that there's no way a democrat could win the presidency against anybody basically what if they do what if they do i don't know i mean if it happened in this atmosphere where every indicator is pointing toward you know a strong republican win if it doesn't happen and all these indicators stay so strongly in in the other direction it could be a problem that could be a problem so we'll see if that happens um so as you know the january 6 hearings have completely cleared trump of any criminal behavior by showing that there's no evidence of it they have completely eviscerated the encouraged and insurrection narrative completely gone because i don't think anybody believes that there was a planned insurrection in which don jr wasn't let in on it or ivanka it's to me that's just funny not only did they disprove their own contention that there was some planned insurrection but they disproved in a way that's actually funny it's like really somebody somebody should have checked to see if don jr was at least informed about this alleged insurrection because if he if he had not been and the evidence clearly shows that he didn't know anything about any planned insurrection there's nothing else to talk about none of the other evidence is even worth looking at you know once you've seen that his own family didn't know anything about it that's sort of it and then you say but but but scott but but but what about all those people in the administration who are helping him try to you know gain the rules to take over what about them to which i say what about them do you notice anything in common with those people who have been named who are like trying to find some scheme for you to keep power you know playing with the electoral the electors and stuff like that they're all lawyers they're all lawyers don't you think the democrats owe it to the united states to say well there's one thing we should point out that the people who did seem to be supporting the idea that there might be some legal challenge here we're all lawyers and that's what they do it's not their job to tell you what trump should do ethically or morally or what's right for the country they are there to say is there a legal argument yes or no and they did their job you could argue they did it well because if the boss who's paying them says is there a legal way that i could find this their job is to go find the best argument to support your your preferences they came up with the best argument they could but it was weak would you all agree with that the best argument they came up with about you know changing electors or whatever was a little weak i mean it didn't even convince pence if you can't convince pence that's a weak argument but that doesn't mean they shouldn't have done that and it doesn't mean that trump shouldn't have asked because in the process of leadership you ask all the questions in fact one of the biggest i guess criticisms of trump is we keep hearing stories where he asks crazy like can you stop a hurricane with a nuclear weapon and uh i doubt he ever said that by the way i don't think he ever actually said that but um what was the other one can you nuke or no can we send the missile into the cartels basically can we attack the cartels now the answer he got back was no don't do that i think that's the wrong answer i think he could attack him but you see that he always asks the edge question if you're a leader and you're not asking the edge question you're not doing your job you need a president who says all right here all the standard things we've talked about now you better tell me why i can't do a non-standard thing why can't i do something outside of this box of options tell me tell me if i if i go outside this box tell me what's going to happen that's what trump does all the time his most basic way of managing is okay now i'm thinking of something that's outside that box how much trouble would i get in if i do that it is the question you're supposed to ask if the answer comes back if you get outside this box you're going to get creamed and then he says okay thank you and then he stays in his box wasn't that exactly what you want somehow the democrats have made good basic leadership which is asking all the questions the questions inside the box but importantly the ones outside the box those might be the important ones and every time they describe trump doing exactly what i want my leader to do as if it's a mistake i always say the same thing do democrats know anything about leadership it's as if they don't even know what it is like it's some weird concept right yeah they don't understand human motivation if you don't understand human motivation and you can see that in a number of examples of the systems they prefer if you don't understand the human motivation how could you possibly understand leadership right those two are linked there's no such thing as leadership without a big variable about human motivation because that's what the leader tweaks that's what they work on they work on your motivation to motivate you to do what they want all right um so now that the january 6 hearings have shown that trump uh clearly was not trying to do any illegal insurrection clearly it was not planned or at least there's no evidence of it and what so what is what are the people who have bet everything on this and now lost the bet because there was nothing there how did they act did they say wow well we looked and i'm glad we looked there were some flags there there were some red flags and by the way i agree there were some red flags would anybody disagree with that i i do think this was worth looking into you know i had i wish i had been done better you know in a different way but i think the republicans ended up they they pursued what i would say is a risky strategy by not supporting the you know members of the thing so you know mcconnell withdrew withdrew their support because they didn't get the people on on the committee that they wanted but those people were also implicated in the actual the actual allegations so that was a little gamesmanship right so it was mostly gamesmanship and politics that mitch mcconnell decided not to participate so uh it was a show trial and then the show showed that trump basically was not guilty of the primary allegations so now they're they're they're backing up from well we didn't mean he planned an insurrection did it sound like that oh well mccarthy i'm sorry let me correct that being corrected it was mccarthy not mcconnell who pulled out of participating in the hearings so do you get that correction it wasn't wasn't it wasn't mcconnell but whenever i see a clever political thing i think i'm biased toward thinking it was mcconnell i mean you could hate that as much as you want but he knows how to do this stuff same with pelosi right no matter what you think of pelosi don't you don't you ever have this feeling god damn it she does get some stuff done for her side right as old as they are they do get stuff done for their team anyway even if you wish they wouldn't um so now since the main insurrection planning and insurrection thing has been completely debunked does the news go back and say well we checked it out they were you know serious allegations and there were some red flags there we checked that we found nothing so let's let's go on with their lives glad we checked is that what they'll say no and no they won't they will show you no evidence and tell you you saw it same same with russia collusion they will prove by looking for it and not finding it if you can call that proof they will show that there's no evidence whatsoever of their allegations and then at the same time they'll tell you that they found them and there were plenty of them and oh my god there's so many i can't even get into them and and their their base will actually believe that now we don't have to guess if that can happen because we watched it and it's happening right in front of us in real time it happened with the russia collusion when it was shown that there was no evidence for russia collusion instead of just saying whoops you know there were some signals there but i'm glad there's none there glad we checked instead they made it sound like russia interference in the election was really sort of the same story and really it's been proven to be true so it's really the same as collusion and they sold that ask a democrat if trump was colluding with russia and they'll say yes and it was shown it was proven and then you ask them like what and then they'll describe that the russians had some memes and that's it a hundred thousand dollars worth of memes that nobody saw that's it and then they'll say that russian collusion was now as bashia crazy as that sounds a standard cognitive dissonance if you didn't know what cognitive dissonance is that would make no sense to you think you'd think they were lying right some of them are but mostly they actually believe their own story because the brain can't hold the fact that they were that wrong about something that important so their brain allows them to be right by just redefining stuff now correct me if i'm wrong but i've decided that if america ever split up you know we're talking about red state blue state kind of thing i don't think it's going to happen but if it ever did happen you would have the republican party the country would continue to follow the constitution right i think that's a fair a fair prediction the red part would just say well we'll keep the constitution this will be the country the blue part i believe would start a new system they would focus less on the constitution and more on their primary way of operating which is to change the definition of normal words until they can put you in jail and that sounds ridiculous doesn't it that they would have a system of governing of which the operating system that the basic prevailing you know the biggest theme that goes across all of it is that they can change the definition of a standard word that's been used forever and that by changing the definition of that word they can make you a criminal right so they can look at trump and say all right we saw you do a bunch of things and we're gonna we're gonna change the definition of insurrection to be what you're doing there that's it all they did is change the definition of an insurrection to make it look like you fit now you say to yourself well that's a one-off that's a one-off right but it isn't because right as i'm being prompted in the comments remember when he talked to rafsenberger he said in the context of an audit he said you only need to find 11 000 votes to change the outcome and the democrats changed the word find into lie and cheat which was the opposite of what was in evidence what was in evidence is they were talking about an audit the person talking believed that the the votes had been miscounted and miscounted against him and that all that rafsenberger needed to do is find the votes that trump believed existed and had not been counted that's it or vice versa find some votes were counted they shouldn't and the democrats turned that into lying and cheating a common word find and how about protests got turned into insurrection and now believe it or not they are literally trying to convince you that the standard definition that has served us forever of a recession which is two consecutive quarters of negative growth is no longer the definition of a recession and that it must be looked at in a holistic way for the first time we never did before but now they need to change the definition of recession so that the thing we're going to experience and observe with our own eyes and and our own bodies isn't what it used to be now it's something else and a cnn headline and i'm not making this up this is going to sound like a joke this will sound like it came from the babylon b parody website swear to god i'm not making this up an actual headline from cnn today this is a cnn headline who decides if the u.s is in a in a recession eight white economists you've never heard of can you all join me in just a heavy sigh i don't even feel like i need to talk about it do i because anything i say is your head is already there so join me i will read it again and i'd like to get a simultaneous sigh this will be our first simultaneous heavy sigh okay and wait for the prompt cnn headline who decides if the uss u.s is in the recession eight white economists you've never heard of moving on um i think i saw this in the hill there was some uh publication there was some study that says a new poll the majority of americans say the u.s government is corrupt and almost a third of americans say it may soon be necessary to take up arms against it so one-third of the now remember that includes democrats so one-third means you know something like 80 of well actually they had the number some gigantic percent of republicans obviously are saying that now again here's the context that the news always leaves out when was the last time you were in the group of republicans who did not say they might have to take up arms against the government i think the proper context for a study like this is and we should note that 100 of republicans 100 of the time say we might be getting close to needing to take up arms against our own government again it's the operating system of republicans it's not a it's not a poll it's a definition of a republican if i were gonna define a republican you know in like a like a funny summary it would be someone who thinks that at any minute they're going to have to shoot their own government to keep them in line am i wrong a republican by definition is somebody who thinks at any moment i mean i might need to shoot a government official to keep them in line not trying to no i'm not talking about an insurrection i'm talking about keeping the government from abusing you there's nothing more basic to the republican personality than yeah i gave my government some power i'm not comfortable with it but i did keep one i did keep one right all right what does a republican hate worse than giving rights to the government you know powers to the government nothing there's nothing they hate worse than that but they did keep one right for themselves the right to shoot those if they go too far i mean it's really the right tone of gun but it ends up being the same thing so i'm not sure that we should do polls when all you're really doing is finding out the definition of a republican and reporting it like something changed i don't think anything changed all right um i would like to thank the january 6 committee for my victory you know i've been saying since the beginning there's no evidence of trump forming any kind of an insurrection but i don't think i could have operated in society successfully unless the hearings had shown me correct and now as mark levin has pointed out on his show i think last night mark levin was saying the same thing i said which is um nothing happened there's no evidence whatsoever and all the evidence we did get the stuff that's new such as the knowledge certain that don jr didn't know about any any res insurrection plan that's for sure we now know that there was no evidence and that i've been exonerated by the january 6 committee so i would like to thank them all for their service i think they have some more special thanks to our representatives kenzinger kinzinger and cheney who i have to admit i had a negative initial thought about their participation but now that they've exonerated me and president trump i would like to thank them for their service because there were some red flags there i think we need to be smarter about agreeing when there's a red flag but understanding that doesn't mean there's really a crime it just means there's something to look into i'm kind of glad we looked into the russia collusion thing you know given that unfortunately it was an allegation that was out there we kind of had to look into it as much as i hated it so i respect their service and thank you for clearing me and exaggerating the president opening up his path to the presidency trump that is so i think they've pretty much guaranteed his win i don't think trump could have won without the january 6 hearings i think this is the key to his comeback and i think that mccarthy not participating in the long run is going to look like one of the smartest political plays of all times because imagine if the republicans had participated i mean in a meaningful way not not kinslinger and cheney if they had participated it would look like they had to defend themselves what does it look like when you don't even bother to defend yourself it looks like you didn't need to yeah yeah one of the the baller plays that your defense attorney can do is to not present a case in rebuttal that's like a pretty baller move if you get away with it basically the move is well you just watched the entire prosecution and they didn't have anything i'm not going to waste your time ladies and gentlemen the jury given that right in front of you you saw that there was no case i don't need to present a case that there's no case because the prosecution just did it they just did my work for me all of the discovery all of their testimony goes to the innocence of my victim of my victim of my client and so with your with respect and with your permission ladies and gentlemen the jury i'd like to leave this to your decision making i think you've seen enough there's there's nothing i can add to this the case is over and in effect that's what mccarthy did now i don't know if that was his intention or what forces were operating on him but i'll tell you this probably it had to do with trump more than mccarthy am i right do you think mccarthy made that decision himself or do you think it was trump and if trump made the decision to not have a defense and he pulled this off it's the play of the year i don't know it's premature i i don't know that trump was behind it and i don't know that that's the outcome exactly yet but it looks like it at this point it looks like he took a very high risk play not defending himself and it worked perfectly because there wasn't anything there was no evidence of his crime now trump is the only person who could have known that play would work because he's the only person who knows exactly what he did and did not do nobody else knew even the people closest to trump don't know every conversation he's ever had you know even though i joke that obviously don jr would have to be in on a coup even don jr doesn't know what trump is doing all day long who we talk to what calls him but nobody knows that there's literally one person in the world who could have known that not putting on a defense would work only the person who knew he didn't do anything wrong he's the only person who could have known that for sure and i think this was his play and i think it worked it looks like it worked now of course the you know half the country will say it didn't work and he's been proven guilty because that's the way it works you know but it looks like it worked it looks like it worked and once again you'll you'll see that the things have gotten so bad in terms of the gas lighting in this country that we won't know the difference between the thing and the opposite of the thing we are observing in real time that there's no evidence for the allegations of a planned insurrection we're seeing it right in front of us but half of the country will literally look at the same thing you're looking at and say i saw plenty of evidence and so i would offer you and i tweeted this earlier if you want to see what cognitive dissonance looks like and practice this is actually this will sound like a joke but it's not a joke you should practice identifying cognitive dissonance in those rare situations where you know you can produce it sometimes it just pops up in in the in the wild and you don't know there was any trigger so you don't know if that's really cognitive dissonance or it's just somebody acting weird but if you know you can trigger it then you get to watch the face and then you can recognize the look because there's a look the best way i could describe it is a person who looks like their eyes have light and there's some intelligence they will suddenly turn into an npc for about half a minute so let me give you this won't help if you're listening on spotify but i'm going to give you my visual representation of somebody being triggered into cognitive dissonance they'll start like i am you can see that i have a light the light of intelligence in my eyes i hope unless i'm an npc but it looks like if you looked in my eyes you'd say oh there's he's thinking there's stuff going on there the moment cognitive dissonance goes in the eyes change and they get and then things come out of their mouth they seem disconnected with the light of intelligence that used to be in the eyes the light of intelligence just clicks off yeah and you'll see word salad you'll see word salad you'll see anger you'll see completely irrational arguments that something proves something that doesn't even make sense and shark eyes somebody says they'll have short guys confusion word salad yeah so the way you can trigger that is to say that the january 6 committee was a big success because it cleared trump of insurrection charges and opened his path to the white house say that to a democrat and then look at the eyes seriously no there's no joke here seriously i sound like i sounded like a joe biden there no no joke yeah all right so try that let's see um so there's a the wall street journal did some kind of a weird hit piece on on musk uh here's the story which i think has been completely debunked uh musk says that there's no truth to it and there's evidence that there's no truth to it but uh apparently the wall street journal is reporting that one of the founders of google sergey brin broke up with his wife because his wife had an affair with elon musk elon musk says he's never even been alone with her like he's only better in some places with where other people were there a few times that's it he doesn't even know her basically except for those few you know public events uh and then here's the funny part oh and the story says that musk got caught in the affair and allegedly got down on one knee and begged sergey brin for forgiveness can i get a simultaneous sigh can i yeah this is a little bit too on the nose right do you have to wonder if this is true it's not true as soon as you see this part he got down on one knee and begged bryn for forgiveness please please who thinks that happened really really come on and so but but here's the funniest part so musk responded by showing a selfie that he just took partying with sergey brin so apparently those two don't have any issues so that that part seems to be demonstrated but then musk said this in a tweet i i'll let you wrestle with this yourself he said that he hasn't in fact he hasn't had sex in months because he's too busy um i'd like to introduce the world's first simultaneous scoff now i'm going to combine this with a simultaneous sip and i'd like you all to join me and again i'll prompt you but it's going to go like this in this case the the the beverage will just be a prop and so once i read you the the the lead in i want you i want you to do this you have to do it just like that right so that remember the sip is just a prompt or a it's just a prop all right so i'm going to read i'm going to read the news story again and then you give me the simultaneous scoff but i'm going to add a little to it okay so i'll enhance it a little bit so according to the wall street journal the richest man in the world who is single and flies around anywhere he wants and does anything he wants in his private jet according to them or according to musk uh he hasn't had sex in months okay now you have to you have to love elon musk for that because first of all here's a question is it a lie if you know it's not true it's sort of a weird question right is it a lie if you know it's not true that couldn't possibly be true now unless now if the real story you have some medical problem i'd say oh okay but you probably would have mentioned it you know because it seems like it would be important to the story no that's funny all right um i believe i've covered everything it was a very newsy day did i talk about bob the engineer yet or did i imagine it did i do that yet i was talking to the locals people before i came on live here i don't think i did all right well uh so there's a good chance that i will be canceled by the time i'm done here not because of something i said today but because of a comic that ran today in which some of you know i introduced a new character um called bob i'm sorry not bob what do i talk about dave so the character's name is dave um the reason i said bob is that i have like a i always use bob as my example name if you've noticed that because it's a funny sounding name and it's a short name but uh so i got confused so dave the engineer is a black engineer he's a new character in dilbert and the back story is that i wish i'd introduced more diversity earlier on but it's a minefield if you're a white creator and you add a black character or even a female character anything that isn't you you're going to get um you said ages oh i think he said months actually in a different different context but he did say ages as well anyway ages months whatever it is it's still funny um so here's what happened so i create the daily comics in black and white line drawings and then the colorization is done by a third party that i don't know so somebody i've never met adds the color to the daily comics now interestingly if you like nerdy behind the scenes things i do the color for or my assistant does for the sunday comics so if you see a colorization problem in the sunday comic that's on me if you see a colorization problem in the daily comics you know the three panel ones that means that somebody else that i've never even met made that problem so here i did a comic that i only thought was safe enough for me to do because the character doing the talking was a black character the colorizer turned my black character white and the backstory would be erased by that and turned it into something that i wouldn't have published because it would be sounding too insulting right so here's the comic and you can see the my black character dave has been turned white right against my will now believe it or not i don't get to see these before they're published so there was no i didn't there's no part of the process where i see it and approved the coloring no normally there's no problem right and here's what uh dave the engineer who should have been black should have said to the boss from now on my pronouns are she and her and i will report to h.r any bigoted use of the wrong pronoun and then the boss says is this parody or are you serious and then dave says as he's walking away i think you will find it doesn't matter now if you make this character black it adds a whole new flavor of you know you understand he's just messing with the system right if you make the character white you can't you're not really sure if he is serious right so i feel like this removed a layer of safety from me in which it it makes the it makes the intention of the author ambiguous if the black character who is known for screwing with the system screwed with the system then you say oh that's that's what he intended that guy always screws in the system so there he is doing it again but if it's a different character you don't know if his background is he screws with the system or if he's serious so the whole little joke falls apart now if i'm not you know if i don't get some pushback from this by today it could mean that people are just tired of the whole pronoun thing which i feel like that's happening does it feel to you like the pronoun thing um is is going to die out feels like it yeah it feels like it lost its energy but uh we'll see if i get cancelled for this so uh this will amuse you so i did send a message to my editor to ask the person who does the colorizing to give me a call how worried would you be if you were the person who does the colorizing and instead of just asking them to you know correct this next time if i asked you to call me directly yeah that's sort of an oh morning now i'm going to be gentle because you know mistakes are mistakes i typically typically i'm not going to go off on somebody for a mistake so i i need to put that out there i don't i don't go off on people for mistakes i go off on people for doing something intentionally if you do something intentionally and i don't like it you're probably gonna hear about it but if you you know run over my dog and and i i'm genuinely convinced it was an accident i'm very sad about my dog but i'm not mad at you because an accident's an accident so so this the whoever did the colorizing probably wasn't aware that i have a standing standing instructions to make that character black and that it's important so that would just be a mistake i'll make sure it doesn't happen again but i wouldn't uh all right so i just got to notice that the correct version is live let's see that let's call that up and see if the correct version is live um it's going to take a moment now there it is while i was talking he got recolorized literally while i was talking so there's there's the new one so so but here's the thing it's already in newspapers so online dave will be black but in newspapers that run color they don't all run color on the weekdays but a lot of the newspapers run color comics in the weekdays and so this character will be a different ethnicity in those comics all right um you're gonna have to probably refresh the page to get a change as i did was there any other topic can you make an nft of the white dave well that would be a copyright violation but this is a heck of an idea oh kids and monkey box all right so i was going to tweet this but i didn't want to get cancelled so i think i can do this live because it's i'll add some explanation did you see a tweet by uh uh e with ian miles chung and and it was about the story that um there were two children who had monkey pox and uh and they believe that they contracted it at home and then there are there's other reporting that suggests that it might be sexually transmitted and and the tweet was are we allowed to ask any questions are we allowed to ask any questions it might be sexually transmitted and two children got it in their own home and are we are we allowed to ask any questions i love that tweet it like that summed up that summed up the whole last five years didn't it are we allowed to ask any questions oh my god any news from behind the curtains well um i did give you some which is it's not hard that it's not hard uh to hire some nazis so i don't know if he knew that all right um sudafed is great yeah so i had an interesting experience i i suspected that um i don't have real allergies even though i appear to have the worst seasonal allergies in the world and that is actually food and that i narrowed it down to cheese and i thought there was some kind of sulfites in the cheese because that seems to be my algae and sure enough parmesan cheese has sulfites and i've avoided cheese when my when my voice was clear and you could tell i didn't have any congestion those were days that i'd gone without parmesan cheese for several days when i went to an event you know really the first event where there were lots of people this weekend in two years the only food that was vegetarian had some parmesan cheese and so i said to myself well no it's not lactose intolerance so it has nothing to do with the dairy it has to do with the additive in one kind of cheese and parmesan cheese it was sprinkled with parmesan cheese and for three days i've had allergy like symptoms and i think if i just go to a couple more days without eating any parmesan cheese then i'll be clear again now i've been here's some of the best um here's some of the best life advice you could ever get some days if you could pick like a couple of weeks and try to bring your diet down to the most minimum clean diet you can just for like two weeks as an experiment and what i mean by that is just you know eat vegetables and you know avoid anything with a sauce on it and just get really really basic and see if your allergies go away because i have a theory that our food is is poison and you know not every kind i think if you get some you know a bag of washed broccoli florets you're probably fine probably as far as i know but i think everything that's in a can or a freezer they've got additives and i think we're allergic to the additives where many of us are have you noticed that everybody's anxious and everybody's got allergies and everybody's got asthma there's like a there's an epidemic of adult onset asthma which was historically unusual it's in the food i mean at this point we just have to say our food is killing us have have you gone to a large event for the first time let's say after two years of the pandemic did you notice anything about the uh the shape and size of the attendees oh man did people gain weight in the last two years oh man did people gain weight a lot of weight and you know so our food is just killing us it's absolutely killing us and if you just eat clean for two weeks tell me how much inflammation you have there are days when i have so much inflammation that it's hard to walk up and down stairs like actually it's sort of a struggle there are other days when it doesn't seem to be related to exercise i can run up and down the stairs with no inflammation like i'm a teenager no difference at all and it's something i'm eating there are days when i'm eating something that's making me inflamed for 48 hours and i don't know what it is it's probably not the sulfites might be something else but there is something that is killing me and it's in the food and it's killing you too we just don't know what it is it's probably more than one thing i think i actually ate too little salt not long ago because i was eating so clean that my salt i think got lower than i needed for the amount of heat and exercise i do is it a pot allergy no pot actually cleans up my my allergies pot actually decreases the symptoms quality sea salt micro plastics in the water could be it could be micro plastics in the water yep yeah you need a little salt and fat that's true i can overdo it sometimes seed oils not intentionally i don't intentionally eat any seed oils all right uh did i miss a comment you wanted me to see yeah i've tried hani i don't believe in that i i think soy is probably a problem in our diet try the carnivore diet well i'm a veg i'm a pescetarian so i won't be trying your carnivore diet cucumbers are good for inflammation i know they scare cats that's their that's their primary use all right that's all for now and i'll see you later youtube and spotify thanks for joining

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that's the dope of being here today

somebody showed me showing me a meme

of a stamper of the

simultaneous sip

in a text i don't think that's real

but

you ready

go

oh yeah

yep

i don't know about you but i felt it i

would like to make a media

recommendation

recommendation for some content

you need to watch the bilber

stand up special on netflix he's got

several of them it's the newest one from

red rocks

i'm about three quarters through it

and oh my god is it good

it's so good

there are points within it

where he's just pissing off the audience

and you're not sure he could ever

recover

and then he does

and then it looks like he couldn't

possibly recover from the thing he's

saying now

and that he does it's really watching

him fly that close to the sun

and not get burned up

is really amazing he goes after every

everything and everybody

i think the real secret of it

is

that he is unrelenting

i think if he went at these topics in a

half-assed way it wouldn't work

but the fact that he's just so

completely all-in

you just say all right all right

and just entertain us

um did you see the uh alleged nazis who

were protesting in favor of desantis in

florida yeah allegedly allegedly they

were pro-desantis nazis

now

and of course the democrats fell for it

do you know what the budget is

to get some uh fake nazis or even

surreal ones

to demonstrate in favor of your

political opponent to make your opponent

look bad

what do you suppose would be the budget

for that sort of thing

real expensive

pretty sure you could get it under a

thousand dollars

you could get several people

for about a thousand dollars probably

yeah somewhere in that neighborhood if

you paid 5 000 you probably should have

negotiated better

but for a very low price

you can get people to dress up as nazis

or actual nazis you know neo-nazis or

whatever and they'll stand there and

hold a sign for your opponent now i have

a suggestion

since you know this nazi trick is going

to be used over and over against the

republicans

the republicans should form or maybe you

know not the politicians maybe some pac

or interest group form a nazi

uh dancing troupe

people who dress like nazis

but they present themselves as

entertainment

so they're not trying to pretend to be

nazis

they're they're only actors who are

telling you they're actors and it's a

nazi dancing troop and then you send

them to every event that the democrats

do

now even though they would be clearly

labeled as entertainment

you know they would not be trying to

present themselves as actual neo-nazis

how many times do the democrats have to

see the dancing nazis attempt to attend

their attend their events

before they feel uncomfortable with the

whole idea

i think that i think the republicans

could completely take this

ridiculous political trick off the map

by going really hard at it themselves

just just have a nazi dancing trip at

every single democrat about

that

you know they'd have signs and they'd

have like really good costumes you know

like actual actual like world war ii

nazi costumes and you know maybe

maybe they do the the uh goose step

maybe some kind of a goose step dance

like mel brooks yes

very much like

the mel brooks play

all right

uh

i like to remind you of bad crazy

things i've said

that ended up being actually the

general understanding in the country

after a certain point

now you could probably come up with

several examples yourselves

of things i've said or predicted they're

just bad crazy

and then you wait a year or two or maybe

several and it's the standard of

thinking

here's another one

nobody understands economics

do you remember the first time i said

that

and you probably heard it and you're

like okay that's a little hyperbole like

what's that mean or are you talking

about something specific

now it's the headline the headline to

cnn is that the economists don't

understand the economy

it's the headline

right how many how many people thought

it was ridiculous when i said that the

experts don't understand the economy

it sounded ridiculous didn't it but now

it's it's common understanding

how many times have i done that

do you remember in 2015 i told you that

trump was persuasive

and do you remember the response i got

to that he's not persuasive

come on

he has what

13 support even among republicans

right

13

come on

he's anything but persuasive he's a big

crazy clown he doesn't know what he's

doing

and now what's the headline today

the headline is that trump is so

persuasive

that he may have accidentally triggered

something like an insurrection

because he's so persuasive

and that the entire

more than half the country believes the

election was sketchy

more than half of the country

that number has never been achieved or

even close

that's all trump

that's all trump

he is literally

proven to be the most persuasive

human in modern

modern civilization i think

and people laughed at me when i said you

have no idea what's coming here in 2015.

you don't see this coming but trust me

i i have just the right skill set that i

can you know i can look through this

little window

there it is

all right so nobody understands

economics specifically uh

and this is one of those things you can

do when you have no shame

just try try to imagine yourself doing

this

this is something that i did

in public

in the most public way i did

i have a degree in economics

and i have an mba

and i'm an adult who has lived in the

world and watched the news closely for

decades

and the other day i tweeted that i don't

understand

the

unemployment number

like i don't even understand that

what the hell is going on

how in the world could the economy be

having so many problems and the

employment looks great

now many of you said scott scott scott

everybody knows it's because people left

the employment pool

i know that

that's not the part i don't understand i

get that that the employment is only of

the people who are looking for a job

so if fewer people say they're looking

for one well you've got full employment

yeah i get that

that doesn't come close to explaining

what we're seeing if that explained it

like fully it's part of the story of

course of course it's part

but there's something else going on here

and i don't know what it is and i have a

hypothesis

and i would expect to win the nobel for

economics for the following hypothesis

and by the way i'm not even kidding

i'm not joking i'm gonna add a

hypothesis to the body of economics that

i don't think you've seen

that will explain all the things that

don't make sense right now

it goes like this

economics assumes

a

a let's say a small range of change

economics assumes

that the world changes at a somewhat

predictable regular pace or at least is

the same as it was the last 10 years

right maybe maybe modern day has changed

faster than old days

but if the last 10 years would be

a pretty good proxy for change

so everything that you know about

economics every common assumption

is assume that the base

of you know all of our assumptions about

everything stay about the same

and that economics is just running on

top of those assumptions

but the pandemic and i'm going to give

naval ravikant

the credit for i think the first person

who observed this

his prediction was that the pandemic

would make everything that was going to

happen anyway

happen faster

and we're seeing it right

so right now we have um

legacy systems

that are operating at the same time as

the replacement system

for a short period of time

what happens to employment numbers when

you still have the old system

but you're you're bringing up the new

system

you need twice as many people

because you still have the old system

but you've now added the new system

for example

before the pandemic

mostly you got your food from the

grocery store

is the grocery store still there

yes it is

grocery store is still there still

employs about the same number of people

but on top of that

because it was so hard to you know go

anywhere during the pandemic the food

delivery business exploded

so now you have the

entire grocery industry just the way it

was but on top of it you have

what i think will be the long-term

replacement industry which is the food

comes to you

do you buy it

so that that would be an explanation of

why things could be falling apart we

could have you know recession inflation

we could have

supply chain problems we could have

every problem that you're seeing

but at the same time

we're in this weird situation where the

pandemic said wait everything you're

doing is up you better you better

start putting the new plan in place

right away

and then we did

we did

so at least part of the

part of it i think is the

rapid acceleration of the baseline

world

what do you think

will anybody accept that and will you

nominate me for the the nobel for

economics

do i have to do some math to get that

nobel

i want the nobel i already already

invented by the way how many of you know

i invented the concept of the

confusopoly

which is now

standard part of economic thought

how many of you knew that

that that i'm actually part of the

economic literature

now a confuseopoly is a word i it's a

word i invented years ago

and it refers to the fact that

businesses such as let's say cell phone

companies

and insurance companies banks to some

extent lots of businesses

the reason that they don't need to

compete with each other

is that they've made their products too

complicated for you to know who's doing

a better job

imagine going to get your cell phone

if you knew for sure which was the

better deal

you would just walk in and get the

better deal because cell phone coverage

is kind of like every other cell phone

coverage but you don't

when you go to buy a cell phone it's

like well this one's a plan but this one

has rollover minutes

but this one i can add a family member

you have no way to compare it that's a

confuse opoli

the way economics was supposed to work

is that the free market would drive all

the weak competitors out of business and

eventually you'd have one strong

competitor

but that's not happening you have lots

of competition insurance and everything

and the way they compete is they confuse

the

consumer so the consumer can't tell

which product is better

and i believe that they do it

intentionally

meaning that they're all quite

intentionally making sure that nobody

can compare their products

i mean i know that's the case i'm not

guessing that's definitely the case so

before i explain that concept didn't

exist in economics

but if you if you google it now confuse

aptly you'll see it's

it's a standard concept

so how many of you thought that i would

be famous for adding a concept to

economics

so you didn't say that comment did you

but it happened

all right

um

rasmussen did some polling on

american voters and energy independence

and found out that only 19 of those

polled

oppose a policy of encouraging u.s

energy independence

in other words

81 would like more of a trump approach

you know going for energy independence

and only 19

and remember

this includes democrats

right

only 19 of the public

um

wants something like what we have now

where we're not encouraging domestic

energy

and let's say

53 percent of voters and remember this

includes democrats and independents and

everybody else

uh trust republicans uh more to

encourage u.s oil and gas production

well that makes sense right

but why is it only 53

if you took the assumption

even if you don't assume that you want

that

even if you said to yourself i don't

want more domestic energy production i

don't know why you'd say that but

suppose you did

wouldn't you still at least recognize

that republicans would

do more of it

how could you be so dumb

that you think the republicans and the

democrats would you know roughly the

same

when it comes to encouraging domestic

energy production

that's a pretty weird opinion

i mean we fly against literally 100 of

all reporting from both sides

uh

18 percent of the public thinks there's

not much difference between the two

parties on the issue of energy

18

it feels a little low

that's the number i would have expected

closer to maybe north of 20

closer to closer to a quarter i would

have expected that closer to a quarter

just saying

all right um

and 71 percent of likely u.s voters

think the u.s government should

encourage increased oil and gas

production in the u.s

71

how in the world does a democrat get

elected president in this atmosphere

there's a really dangerous situation

shaping up here and i think you all see

it right

everything in the news and the polling

suggests that there's no way a democrat

could win the presidency against anybody

basically

what if they do

what if they do

i don't know i mean if it happened

in this atmosphere

where every indicator is pointing toward

you know a strong republican win

if it doesn't happen

and all these indicators stay so

strongly in in the other direction

it could be a problem that could be a

problem

so we'll see if that happens

um

so as you know the january 6 hearings

have completely cleared trump of

any criminal behavior

by showing that there's no evidence of

it they have completely eviscerated the

encouraged and insurrection narrative

completely gone

because i don't think anybody believes

that there was a planned insurrection

in which don jr wasn't let in on it

or ivanka

it's to me that's just funny

not only did they disprove their own

contention that there was some planned

insurrection but they disproved in a way

that's actually funny

it's like

really

somebody somebody should have checked to

see if don jr was at least informed

about this alleged insurrection because

if he if he had not been and

the evidence clearly shows that he

didn't know anything about any planned

insurrection

there's nothing else to talk about

none of the other evidence is even worth

looking at you know once you've seen

that his own family didn't know anything

about it

that's sort of it and then you say but

but

but scott but but but what about all

those people in the administration who

are helping him try to you know

gain the rules to take over what about

them to which i say

what about them

do you notice anything in common

with those people who have been named

who are like trying to find some scheme

for you to keep power you know playing

with the electoral

the electors and stuff like that they're

all lawyers

they're all lawyers don't you think the

democrats owe it to the united states to

say well there's one thing we should

point out

that the people who did seem to be

supporting the idea that there might be

some legal challenge here we're all

lawyers and that's what they do

it's not their job

to tell you what

trump should do ethically or morally or

what's right for the country

they are there to say is there a legal

argument yes or no

and they did their job

you could argue they did it well

because if the boss who's paying them

says

is there a legal way that i could find

this

their job is to go find the best

argument to support your

your preferences

they came up with the best argument they

could

but it was weak

would you all agree with that

the best argument they came up with

about you know changing electors or

whatever was a little weak

i mean it didn't even convince pence

if you can't convince pence that's a

weak argument

but that doesn't mean they shouldn't

have done that

and it doesn't mean that trump shouldn't

have asked

because in the process of leadership you

ask all the questions

in fact one of the biggest

i guess criticisms of trump

is we keep hearing stories where he asks

crazy

like can you stop a hurricane with a

nuclear weapon and

uh i doubt he ever said that by the way

i don't think he ever actually said that

but um what was the other one can you

nuke or no can we send the missile

into the cartels basically can we attack

the cartels now the answer he got back

was no don't do that i think that's the

wrong answer i think he could attack him

but you see that he always asks the edge

question

if you're a leader

and you're not asking the edge question

you're not doing your job

you need a president who says all right

here all the standard things we've

talked about

now you better tell me why i can't do a

non-standard thing

why can't i do something outside of this

box of options

tell me tell me if i if i go outside

this box tell me what's going to happen

that's what trump does all the time

his most basic way of managing is okay

now i'm thinking of something that's

outside that box

how much trouble would i get in if i do

that

it is the question you're supposed to

ask

if the answer comes back if you get

outside this box you're going to get

creamed

and then he says okay thank you and then

he stays in his box

wasn't that exactly what you want

somehow the democrats have made

good basic leadership which is asking

all the questions the questions inside

the box but importantly the ones outside

the box those might be the important

ones

and every time they describe trump doing

exactly what i want my leader to do

as if it's a mistake i always say the

same thing

do democrats know anything about

leadership

it's as if they don't even know what it

is

like it's some weird concept

right yeah they don't understand human

motivation

if you don't understand human motivation

and you can see that in a number of

examples of the systems they prefer

if you don't understand the human

motivation how could you possibly

understand leadership

right

those two are linked

there's no such thing as leadership

without a big variable about human

motivation

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because that's what the leader

tweaks that's what they work on they

work on your motivation

to motivate you to do what they want

all right

um

so now that the january 6 hearings have

shown that trump uh

clearly was not trying to do any illegal

insurrection

clearly it was not planned or at least

there's no evidence of it

and

what so what is what are the people who

have bet everything on this and now lost

the bet

because there was nothing there how did

they act

did they say wow well we looked and i'm

glad we looked there were some flags

there

there were some red flags and by the way

i agree there were some red flags

would anybody disagree with that

i i do think this was worth looking into

you know i had

i wish i had been done better you know

in a different way

but i think the republicans ended up

they they pursued what i would say is a

risky strategy

by not supporting the you know members

of the thing so you know mcconnell

withdrew withdrew their support because

they didn't get the

people on on the committee that they

wanted

but those people were also implicated in

the actual

the actual allegations

so that was a little gamesmanship right

so it was mostly gamesmanship and

politics

that mitch mcconnell decided not to

participate

so

uh it was a show trial and then the show

showed that trump basically was not

guilty of the primary allegations

so now they're they're they're backing

up from well we didn't mean he planned

an insurrection

did it sound like that

oh

well mccarthy i'm sorry let me correct

that being corrected it was mccarthy not

mcconnell who

pulled out of participating in the

hearings

so do you get that correction it wasn't

wasn't

it wasn't mcconnell

but whenever i see a clever political

thing i think i'm biased toward thinking

it was mcconnell i mean you could hate

that as much as you want but he

knows how to do this stuff same with

pelosi right

no matter what you think of pelosi

don't you don't you ever have this

feeling god damn it

she does get some stuff done for her

side right

as old as they are they do get stuff

done

for their team anyway even if you wish

they wouldn't

um so now since the main insurrection

planning and insurrection thing has been

completely debunked

does the news go back and say well we

checked it out they were

you know serious allegations

and there were some red flags there we

checked that we found nothing

so let's let's go on with their lives

glad we checked is that what they'll say

no

and no they won't

they will show you no evidence and tell

you you saw it

same same with russia collusion

they will prove by looking for it and

not finding it if you can call that

proof

they will show that there's no evidence

whatsoever of their allegations

and then at the same time they'll tell

you that they found them and there were

plenty of them and oh my god there's so

many i can't even get into them

and and their their base will actually

believe that

now we don't have to guess

if that can happen because we watched it

and it's happening right in front of us

in real time

it happened with the russia collusion

when it was shown that there was no

evidence for russia collusion

instead of just saying whoops you know

there were some signals there but i'm

glad there's none there glad we checked

instead

they made it sound like russia

interference in the election was really

sort of the same story and really it's

been proven to be true so it's really

the same as collusion

and they sold that

ask a democrat

if trump was colluding with russia and

they'll say yes

and it was shown it was proven

and then you ask them like what

and then they'll describe that the

russians had some memes

and that's it a hundred thousand dollars

worth of memes that nobody saw

that's it and then they'll say that

russian collusion was now as bashia

crazy as that sounds a standard

cognitive dissonance

if you didn't know what cognitive

dissonance

is

that would make no sense to you think

you'd think they were lying right

some of them are

but mostly

they actually believe their own story

because the brain can't hold the fact

that they were that wrong about

something that important

so their brain allows them to be right

by just redefining stuff

now

correct me if i'm wrong

but i've decided that if america ever

split up you know we're talking about

red state blue state kind of thing i

don't think it's going to happen but if

it ever did happen

you would have the republican party the

country

would continue to follow the

constitution

right

i think that's a fair a fair prediction

the red part would just say well we'll

keep the constitution this will be the

country

the blue part i believe would start a

new system

they would focus less on the

constitution

and more on their primary way of

operating

which is to change the definition of

normal words until they can put you in

jail

and that sounds ridiculous doesn't it

that they would have a system of

governing

of which the operating system that the

basic prevailing you know the biggest

theme that goes across all of it is that

they can change the definition of a

standard word that's been used forever

and that by changing the definition of

that word

they can make you a criminal

right

so they can look at trump and say

all right we saw you do a bunch of

things and we're gonna we're gonna

change the definition of insurrection

to be what you're doing there

that's it all they did is change the

definition of an insurrection

to make it look like you fit

now you say to yourself well that's a

one-off

that's a one-off right

but it isn't

because right as i'm being prompted in

the comments remember when he talked to

rafsenberger he said

in the context of an audit

he said you only need to find 11 000

votes to change the outcome

and the democrats changed the word find

into

lie and cheat

which was the opposite

of what was in evidence what was in

evidence is they were talking about an

audit the person talking believed that

the

the votes had been miscounted and

miscounted against him

and that all that rafsenberger needed to

do is find

the votes that trump believed existed

and had not been counted

that's it

or vice versa find some votes were

counted they shouldn't

and

the democrats turned that into lying and

cheating

a common word find

and how about protests got turned into

insurrection

and now

believe it or not

they are literally trying to convince

you

that the standard definition that has

served us forever

of a recession which is two consecutive

quarters of negative growth

is no longer the definition of a

recession

and that it must be looked at in a

holistic way

for the first time

we never did before

but now they need to change the

definition of recession so that the

thing we're going to experience and

observe with our own eyes and and our

own bodies

isn't what it used to be now it's

something else

and a cnn headline

and i'm not making this up this is going

to sound like a joke

this will sound like it came from the

babylon b

parody website

swear to god i'm not making this up an

actual headline from cnn today

this is a cnn headline

who decides if the u.s is in a in a

recession

eight white economists you've never

heard of

can you all join me in just a heavy sigh

i don't even feel like i need to talk

about it do i

because anything i say is your head is

already there so join me i will read it

again and i'd like to get a simultaneous

sigh

this will be our first simultaneous

heavy sigh okay

and wait for the prompt

cnn headline who decides if the uss u.s

is in the recession

eight white economists you've never

heard of

moving on

um i think i saw this in the hill there

was some uh

publication there was some

study that says a new poll

the majority of americans say the u.s

government is corrupt

and almost a third of americans

say it may soon be necessary to take up

arms against it

so one-third of the

now remember that includes democrats

so one-third means you know something

like 80 of

well actually they had the number

some gigantic percent of republicans

obviously are saying that now again

here's the context that

the news always leaves out

when was the last time you were in the

group of republicans who did not say

they might have to take up arms against

the government

i think the proper context for a study

like this is

and we should note

that 100 of republicans 100 of the time

say we might be getting close to needing

to take up arms against our own

government

again

it's the operating system of republicans

it's not a it's not a poll

it's a definition of a republican

if i were gonna define a republican

you know in like a like a funny summary

it would be someone who thinks that at

any minute they're going to have to

shoot their own

government

to keep them in line

am i wrong

a republican by definition is somebody

who thinks at any moment i mean i might

need to shoot a government official to

keep them in line

not trying to no i'm not talking about

an insurrection

i'm talking about keeping the government

from

abusing you

there's nothing more basic to the

republican personality than

yeah i gave my government some power i'm

not comfortable with it

but i did keep one i did keep one right

all right

what does a republican hate worse

than giving rights to the government you

know powers to the government nothing

there's nothing they hate worse than

that

but they did keep one right for

themselves

the right to shoot those

if they go too far

i mean it's really the right tone of gun

but it ends up being the same thing

so i'm not sure that we should do polls

when all you're really doing is finding

out the definition of a republican and

reporting it like something changed i

don't think anything changed

all right

um

i would like to thank the january 6

committee for my victory

you know i've been saying since the

beginning there's no evidence of

trump forming any kind of an

insurrection but i don't think i could

have

operated in society successfully unless

the hearings had shown me correct and

now as mark levin has pointed out on his

show i think last night mark levin was

saying the same thing i said which is um

nothing happened

there's no evidence whatsoever and all

the evidence we did get the stuff that's

new

such as the knowledge certain that don

jr didn't know about any any res

insurrection plan that's for sure

we now know that there was no evidence

and that i've been exonerated by the

january 6 committee so i would like to

thank them all for their service i think

they have some more special thanks to

our representatives kenzinger kinzinger

and cheney who i have to admit i had a

negative initial thought

about their participation but now that

they've exonerated me and president

trump

i would like to thank them for their

service because there were some red

flags there

i think we need to be smarter

about agreeing when there's a red flag

but understanding that doesn't mean

there's really a crime it just means

there's something to look into

i'm kind of glad we looked into the

russia collusion thing you know given

that unfortunately it was

an allegation that was out there

we kind of had to look into it

as much as i hated it

so

i respect their service and thank you

for clearing me and exaggerating the

president opening up his path to the

presidency

trump that is

so i think they've pretty much

guaranteed his win i don't think trump

could have won without the january 6

hearings

i think this is the key to his comeback

and i think that mccarthy not

participating

in the long run is going to look like

one of the smartest

political plays of all times because

imagine if the republicans had

participated i mean in a meaningful way

not not kinslinger and cheney

if they had participated

it would look like they had to defend

themselves

what does it look like when you don't

even bother to defend yourself

it looks like you didn't need to

yeah

yeah one of the the baller plays that

your defense attorney can do

is to not present a case in rebuttal

that's like a pretty baller move if you

get away with it basically the move is

well you just watched the entire

prosecution and they didn't have

anything

i'm not going to waste your time ladies

and gentlemen the jury

given that right in front of you you saw

that there was no case i don't need to

present a case that there's no case

because the prosecution just did it

they just did my work for me

all of the discovery all of their

testimony goes to the innocence of my

victim of my victim of my client

and so with your with respect and with

your permission ladies and gentlemen the

jury i'd like to leave this to your

decision making i think you've seen

enough

there's there's nothing i can add to

this the case is over

and in effect that's what mccarthy did

now i don't know if that was his

intention or what forces were operating

on him but i'll tell you this

probably it had to do with trump more

than mccarthy

am i right

do you think mccarthy made that decision

himself

or do you think it was trump

and if trump made the decision

to not have a defense

and he pulled this off

it's the play of the year

i don't know

it's premature

i i don't know that trump was behind it

and i don't know that that's the outcome

exactly yet but it looks like it

at this point it looks like he took a

very high risk play

not defending himself

and it worked perfectly

because there wasn't anything there was

no evidence of his crime now trump is

the only person

who could have known that play would

work

because he's the only person who knows

exactly what he did and did not do

nobody else knew

even the people closest to trump don't

know every conversation he's ever had

you know even though i joke that

obviously don jr would have to be in on

a coup even don jr doesn't know what

trump is doing all day long

who we talk to what calls him but nobody

knows that there's literally one person

in the world

who could have known

that not putting on a defense

would

work only the person who knew he didn't

do anything wrong

he's the only person who could have

known that for sure

and i think this was his play

and i think it worked

it looks like it worked

now of course the you know half the

country will say it didn't work and he's

been proven guilty because that's the

way it works you know but it looks like

it worked

it looks like it worked

and once again

you'll you'll see that

the things have gotten so bad in terms

of the gas lighting in this country

that we won't know the difference

between the thing and the opposite of

the thing

we are observing in real time that

there's no evidence for the allegations

of a planned insurrection

we're seeing it right in front of us

but half of the country will literally

look at the same thing you're looking at

and say i saw plenty of evidence

and so i would offer you and i tweeted

this earlier if you want to see what

cognitive dissonance looks like and

practice

this is actually this will sound like a

joke but it's not a joke

you should practice identifying

cognitive dissonance in those rare

situations where you know you can

produce it

sometimes it just pops up in in the in

the wild

and you don't know there was any trigger

so you don't know if that's really

cognitive dissonance or it's just

somebody acting weird

but if you know you can trigger it then

you get to watch the face

and then you can recognize the look

because there's a look

the best way i could describe it is

a person who looks like their eyes have

light and there's some intelligence they

will suddenly turn into an npc

for about half a minute

so let me give you

this won't help if you're listening on

spotify but i'm going to give you my

visual representation of somebody being

triggered into cognitive dissonance

they'll start like i am you can see that

i have a light the light of intelligence

in my eyes i hope

unless i'm an npc but it looks like if

you looked in my eyes you'd say oh

there's he's thinking there's stuff

going on there the moment cognitive

dissonance goes in the eyes change and

they get

and

then things come out of their mouth

they seem disconnected with the light of

intelligence that used to be in the eyes

the light of intelligence just

clicks off

yeah and you'll see word salad

you'll see word salad you'll see anger

you'll see completely irrational

arguments that something proves

something that doesn't even make sense

and

shark eyes somebody says they'll have

short guys confusion word salad yeah so

the way you can trigger that is to say

that the january 6 committee was a big

success because it cleared trump of

insurrection charges

and

opened his path to the white house

say that to a democrat

and then look at the eyes

seriously no there's no joke here

seriously i sound like

i sounded like a joe biden there no no

joke

yeah

all right

so try that

let's see

um

so there's a the wall street journal did

some kind of a weird hit piece on on

musk

uh here's the story which i think has

been completely debunked

uh musk says that there's no truth to it

and there's evidence that there's no

truth to it

but uh apparently the wall street

journal is reporting

that one of the founders of google

sergey brin

broke up with his wife because his wife

had an affair with elon musk

elon musk says he's never even been

alone with her like he's only better in

some places with

where other people were there a few

times that's it he doesn't even know her

basically

except for those few you know public

events uh and then here's the funny part

oh and the story says

that musk got caught in the affair and

allegedly got down on one knee and

begged sergey brin for forgiveness

can i get a simultaneous sigh

can i

yeah this is a little bit too on the

nose

right

do you have to wonder if this is

true

it's not true

as soon as you see this part he got down

on one knee and begged bryn for

forgiveness

please

please

who thinks that happened

really

really

come on

and

so but but here's the funniest part so

musk responded by showing a selfie that

he just took partying with sergey brin

so apparently those two don't have any

issues so that that part seems to be

demonstrated but then musk said this in

a tweet

i i'll let you wrestle with this

yourself

he said that he hasn't in fact he hasn't

had sex in months because he's too busy

um i'd like to introduce

the world's first

simultaneous scoff

[Laughter]

now i'm going to combine this with a

simultaneous sip

and i'd like you all to join me

and again i'll prompt you

but it's going to go like this

in this case the the

the beverage will just be a prop

and so once i read you the the the lead

in i want you i want you to do this

you have to do it just like that

right so that remember the sip is just a

prompt or a it's just a prop all right

so i'm going to read i'm going to read

the news story again

and then you give me the simultaneous

scoff but i'm going to add a little to

it okay

so i'll enhance it a little bit

so according to the wall street journal

the richest man in the world who is

single

and flies around anywhere he wants and

does anything he wants in his private

jet

according to them or according to musk

uh he hasn't had sex in months

okay

now

you have to you have to love elon musk

for that

because

first of all here's a question

is it a lie if you know it's not true

it's sort of a weird question right

is it a lie if you know it's not true

that couldn't possibly be true

now unless now if the real story you

have some medical problem i'd say oh

okay

but

you probably would have mentioned it you

know because it seems like it would be

important to the story

no

that's funny

all right

um

i believe i've covered everything

it was a very newsy day

did i talk about bob the engineer yet

or did i imagine it

did i do that yet

i was talking to the locals people

before i came on live here i don't think

i did

all right well uh so there's a good

chance that i will be canceled by the

time i'm done here not because of

something i said today

but because of a comic that ran today in

which some of you know i introduced a

new character um called bob

i'm sorry not bob

what do i talk about dave

so the character's name is dave

um the reason i said bob is that i have

like a

i always use bob as my example name if

you've noticed that because it's a funny

sounding name and it's a short name

but uh so i got confused so dave the

engineer is a black engineer he's a new

character in dilbert

and the back story is that i wish i'd

introduced more diversity earlier on

but it's a minefield if you're a white

creator and you add a black character or

even a female character anything that

isn't you

you're going to get um

you said ages oh

i think he said months actually

in a different

different context but he did say ages as

well

anyway ages months whatever it is it's

still funny

um

so here's what happened so i create the

daily comics in black and white line

drawings and then the colorization is

done by a third party that

i don't know

so somebody i've never met

adds the color to the daily comics

now interestingly

if you like nerdy behind the scenes

things

i do the color for or my assistant does

for the sunday comics

so if you see a colorization problem in

the sunday comic that's on me

if you see a colorization problem in the

daily comics you know the three panel

ones that means that somebody else that

i've never even met

made that problem

so

here i did a comic that

i only thought was safe enough for me to

do

because the character doing the talking

was a black character

the colorizer turned my black character

white

and the backstory would be erased by

that

and turned it into something that i

wouldn't have published

because it would be

sounding too insulting right

so here's the comic and you can see the

my black character dave has been turned

white

right

against my will

now believe it or not i don't get to see

these before they're published

so there was no i didn't there's no part

of the process where i see it and

approved the coloring no normally

there's no problem right

and here's what uh dave the engineer who

should have been black should have said

to the boss from now on my pronouns are

she and her and i will report to h.r any

bigoted use of the wrong pronoun

and then the boss says is this parody or

are you serious

and then dave says as he's walking away

i think you will find it doesn't matter

now

if you make this character black

it adds a whole new flavor of you know

you understand he's just messing with

the system right

if you make the character white

you can't you're not really sure if he

is serious

right

so

i feel like this removed a layer of

safety from me

in which it it makes the it makes the

intention of the author ambiguous

if the black character who is known for

screwing with the system

screwed with the system then you say oh

that's that's what he intended

that guy always screws in the system

so there he is doing it again

but if it's a different character you

don't know if his background is he

screws with the system or if he's

serious

so the whole little joke falls apart

now if i'm not

you know if i don't get some pushback

from this by today it could mean that

people are just tired of the whole

pronoun thing

which i feel like that's happening

does it feel to you like the pronoun

thing

um

is is going to die out

feels like it yeah it feels like it lost

its energy

but uh we'll see if i get cancelled for

this

so uh

this will amuse you

so i did send a message to my editor to

ask the person who does the colorizing

to give me a call

[Laughter]

how worried would you be if you were the

person who does the colorizing

and instead of just asking them to

you know correct this next time

if i asked you to call me directly

yeah that's sort of an oh morning

now i'm going to be gentle because you

know mistakes are mistakes i

typically

typically i'm not going to go off on

somebody for a mistake

so i i need to put that out there i

don't i don't go off on people for

mistakes

i go off on people for doing something

intentionally

if you do something intentionally

and i don't like it you're probably

gonna hear about it

but if you you know run over my dog

and and i i'm genuinely convinced it was

an accident

i'm very sad about my dog

but i'm not mad at you because an

accident's an accident

so so this the whoever did the

colorizing

probably wasn't aware that i have a

standing standing instructions to make

that character black and that it's

important

so that would just be a mistake

i'll make sure it doesn't happen again

but i wouldn't

uh

all right so i just got to notice that

the correct version is live let's see

that

let's call that up and see if the

correct version is live

um it's going to take a moment now there

it is

while i was talking

he got recolorized literally while i was

talking

so there's there's the new one

so

so but here's the thing

it's already in newspapers

so online dave will be black but in

newspapers that run color they don't all

run color on the weekdays but a lot of

the newspapers run color comics in the

weekdays and

so this character will be a different

ethnicity in those comics

all right

um you're gonna have to

probably refresh the page

to get a change as i did

was there any other topic

can you make an nft of the white dave

well that would be a copyright violation

but this is a heck of an idea

oh kids and monkey box

all right so i was going to tweet this

but i didn't want to get cancelled

so i think i can do this live because

it's i'll add some explanation

did you see a tweet by uh uh e with ian

miles chung

and

and it was about the story that

um there were

two children who had monkey pox

and uh

and they believe that they contracted it

at home

and then there are there's other

reporting that suggests that it might be

sexually transmitted

and

and

the tweet was

are we allowed to ask any questions

are we allowed to ask any questions

it might be sexually transmitted and two

children got it in their own home

and

are we are we allowed to ask any

questions

i love that tweet it like that summed up

that summed up the whole last five years

didn't it

are we allowed to ask any questions

oh my god

any news from behind the curtains

well um i did give you some

which is it's not hard

that it's not hard

uh to hire some nazis

so i don't know if he knew that

all right

um

sudafed is great yeah

so

i had an interesting experience

i i suspected that um i don't have real

allergies even though i appear to have

the worst seasonal allergies in the

world

and that is actually food

and that i narrowed it down to cheese

and i thought there was some kind of

sulfites in the cheese

because that seems to be my algae

and sure enough parmesan cheese has

sulfites and i've avoided cheese when my

when my voice was clear and you could

tell i didn't have any congestion

those were days that i'd gone without

parmesan cheese for several days

when i went to an event

you know really the first event where

there were lots of people this weekend

in two years

the

only food that was vegetarian had some

parmesan cheese

and so i said to myself well no it's not

lactose intolerance so it has nothing to

do with the dairy it has to do with the

additive in one kind of cheese

and parmesan cheese it was sprinkled

with parmesan cheese and for three days

i've had

allergy like symptoms

and i think if i just go to a couple

more days without eating any parmesan

cheese then i'll be clear again

now i've been

here's some of the best

um

here's some of the best

life advice you could ever get

some days

if you could pick like a couple of weeks

and try to bring your diet

down to the most minimum

clean diet you can

just for like two weeks as an experiment

and what i mean by that is just you know

eat vegetables and

you know avoid anything with a sauce on

it and just get really really basic

and see if your allergies go away

because i have a theory that our food is

is poison

and you know not every kind i think if

you get some you know a bag of washed

broccoli florets you're probably fine

probably as far as i know

but i think everything that's in a can

or a freezer

they've got additives

and i think we're allergic to the

additives where many of us are

have you noticed that everybody's

anxious and everybody's got allergies

and everybody's got asthma there's like

a there's an epidemic of adult onset

asthma which was historically unusual

it's in the food

i mean at this point we just have to say

our food is killing us

have have you gone to a large event

for the first time let's say after two

years of the pandemic did you notice

anything about the uh

the shape and size of the attendees

oh man did people gain weight in the

last two years oh man

did people gain weight a lot of weight

and

you know so our food is just killing us

it's absolutely killing us

and if you just eat clean for two weeks

tell me how much inflammation you have

there are days when i have so much

inflammation

that it's hard to walk up and down

stairs

like actually it's sort of a struggle

there are other days

when it doesn't seem to be related to

exercise

i can run up and down the stairs with no

inflammation like i'm a teenager no

difference at all

and it's something i'm eating there are

days when i'm eating something that's

making me inflamed for 48 hours and i

don't know what it is

it's probably not the sulfites might be

something else

but there is something

that is killing me and it's in

the food and it's killing you too we

just don't know what it is

it's probably more than one thing

i think i actually ate too little salt

not long ago because i was eating so

clean

that my salt i think got lower than i

needed for the amount of heat and

exercise i do

is it a pot allergy no pot actually

cleans up my my allergies pot actually

decreases the symptoms

quality sea salt

micro plastics in the water could be

it could be micro plastics in the water

yep yeah you need a little salt and fat

that's true

i can overdo it sometimes

seed oils

not intentionally i don't intentionally

eat any seed oils

all right

uh

did i miss a comment you wanted me to

see yeah i've tried hani i don't believe

in that

i i think soy is probably a problem in

our diet

try the carnivore diet well i'm a veg

i'm a pescetarian

so i won't be trying your carnivore diet

cucumbers are good for inflammation i

know they scare cats that's their that's

their primary use

all right that's all for now and i'll

see you later youtube

and spotify

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