Episode 1817 Scott Adams - It's Time For President Harris To Take Over For Decomposing Joe Biden

good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of civilization it's called coffee with scott adams and aren't you glad you're here you know we could call it coffee with whatever your name is but that wouldn't work nearly as well maybe we should do that sometime i'm going to pick a popular name let's see there are probably lots of people out there named dorothy so is coffee with dorothy today dorothy it's your day and all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass a tanker chelsea steiner canteen jug or flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid i like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure the dopamine of the day the thing that could even animate joe biden it's called coffee and it happens now go ah yeah that's good that's good well let's start with our first little bit of gas lighting and this comes to you courtesy of cnn now i made the mistake of looking at the cnn website and clicking on one of their links here's what i found on the front page this is what the link says right so the link says um cnn poll a majority of gop voters don't want trump to be the nominee in 2024.

so that's what the link says the link says most republicans don't want trump to run so if you clicked on that link what would you imagine the story would be do you think the story would be something about the republicans don't want trump to run right all right here's what the title of the piece is after you click the link so the link again says republicans don't want trump to run click the link and here's the headline i swear to god i'm just reading this off of cnn's own site all right i'll click the link all right republicans don't want trump to be the nominee and then the story is by kate sullivan cnn poll 75 percent of democratic voters want someone other than biden in 2024 54 percent of republicans didn't want trump running 75 percent of democrats don't want biden running the title to the piece is about trump the headline of their actual story this is cnn's own story they're not linking outside their site this is all within cnn right now you can go look at this yourself the story is the opposite of the title the title tells you there's something wrong with trump the story is about something wrong with biden have you ever seen something that direct isn't it just a link error nope it's not a link error because the story does include the fact that the gop 54 of them don't want trump but it's but it's a buried context within the larger story the larger story is people don't want biden i mean how much of the general public let's say the cnn viewers how many of them would even notice this do you think they would even notice or would they just read the headlines and say well trump is unpopular in his own party and would they just move on it's amazing that they can do this right in front of you right in front of you and you know shamelessly are you worried about robots taking your jobs do you think robots will put us all in at work in the future well let me give you some context here uh it's happened once before robots already took all of our jobs once well i'm i'm extending the definition of robot to let's say a farm tractor and industrial farming which is you know a lot of machines involved so as i saw a tweet from evil gnome 6 on twitter and evil gnome 6 reminds us that before the industrial revolution 80 of humans were working uh agriculture and now it's one percent so we went from 80 of the people having a certain kind of job and then you know machines and tractors and everything made that unnecessary and we we basically removed 80 of all the employment on earth but it didn't make any difference we were fine we just found other things to do now do you remember um if you're a certain age you might remember that there were uh there were predictions that television you know the invention of television would make the radio go away because you know who's going to want to listen when you can listen and watch but what happened well nobody saw rush limbaugh coming and suddenly talk radio makes sense suddenly if you're driving and you caught in traffic oh yeah it turns out the traffic is getting worse and worse so we spend more and more time in our cars so radio is more important so predicting that tv would kill radio that didn't work out how about uh do you remember when everybody said the computers would make us a paperless office so when you went when you went to work you'd have your computer but no paper it wouldn't need any paper yeah let me show you my paperless office here here here's my paperless office the papers all over it papers papers yup it's 20 22.

do you know what's the best way to handle some things paper do you know why i printed out my notes on paper because it works better it works better basically we are terrible at at predicting what's going to happen with these large societal things so and also keep in mind that if robots take our jobs they also might make the cost of living drop like crazy so we can see the cost of energy approaching zero with fusion someday we can see the cost of labor approaching zero because machines will do it all so maybe you don't have the same access to the same job you could have had before but would you care what if everything is almost free yeah there's no let's say there's no delivery costs anymore because you just 3d print what you want i mean you could imagine a world where you could live on a thousand dollars a year you could you could imagine living on a thousand dollars a year and having everything you want it's not impossible who knows what's going to happen but we're not good at predicting the future all right here's some more interesting news apparently ukraine has blown up one of their own major bridges to keep the russians from advancing i guess they probably we don't know for sure but they probably used one of these high mars systems h-i-h-i-m-a-r-s that the u.s provided so these are long-range you know accurate missiles looks like they took out that bridge but here is a question i ask you have we reached a point in which nobody's ever going to be able to move big equipment into another country as long as that country that's being attacked has access to these types of weapons i don't see how the russians can advance if we're providing these accurate missiles because it doesn't take too many missiles to disrupt the supply chain does it fail to blow it up in the initial invasion here uh well anyway um ukraine is saying that they've got only you know a few of these highmar systems they need at least 50 of them to hold back the russian forces and at least 100 of them for an effective counter offensive do we want ukraine to have an effective counter-offensive is that even good for anybody i don't know if it's good for anybody actually like literally anybody you know there might be some people who prefer to be ukrainian instead of russian i'm sure that's a thing and vice versa but for the world in general i don't know if we want ukraine to beat russia do we or do we just want to stand off so maybe they'll stop fighting i feel like you want to stand off i don't feel like you want a victory i don't i'm not sure if anybody's better off if ukraine gets back that territory are you better off do do you think your life would be a little bit better if ukraine gets that territory back oh i don't know i don't know how it's going to affect anything except the people in that territory so gas place gas prices continue to drift lower here's my question why does anybody know the answer to that question gas is getting cheaper why why inflation no futures well but why are the futures changing yeah obviously it's futures but why is it changing recession i don't know that people are driving less are they it's summer it should be up demand should be through the roof are people driving less i don't know i don't notice it i feel where i am the roads are just packed to me it looks like more traffic than i've ever seen in my life like on just a wednesday in the summer where i live on an average just just a wednesday there's more traffic than i've ever seen any time i've lived here so is it different where you live m2 money supply dropped i don't think we know i mean i'm looking at your answers and none of them look persuasive so i mean what it tells me is that the rise in prices was never real in the sense that there was not an economic force probably it was probably just the the gougers could gouge so they did that's all it was right is the only thing we saw price gouging because that because nothing changed as far as i can tell why is there not a national story um something did change somebody says instability yeah i don't know you think instability things are more stable and that therefore the risk was taken out of the price i don't know that doesn't quite that doesn't quite track for me there's a lot of this uh stuff that's happening in the economy that i don't think we quite have a grasp on what's happening here i i definitely don't understand why gas prices are going down because i'm not aware of anything changing um here's a question i saw a uh a claim on twitter that the oceans have been cooling for a while and that would be the opposite of what climate change says how long did it take somebody to debunk that oh about 10 seconds and do you know how you debunk it you just change the start point you just change the start point if you pick your start point at a certain point it looks like the temperatures have gone down or are somewhat stable over a long period of time if you look at it from let's say june and then compare june and prior years it looks like it's way up same data same database so the people have concluded it's clearly getting warmer on the oceans are standing right next to the people who are looking at the same data same data they say i'm looking right at it it's going up no i'm looking right at it it's going down no i'm standing right with you we're looking at the same data it's going up no i'm standing right next to you shoulder to shoulder look at it same data now if we can't even agree with that it's one thing to be looking at different data right we're looking at the same data and we can't even figure that out my god doesn't that make you doubt just everything that what could be it'd be one thing if one side was saying the data is inaccurate you know which is a separate argument if you're not saying the data is inaccurate and you're looking right at it you can't tell if the numbers are going up or down that's pretty basic up versus down that's where we're at we can't tell the difference literally between up and down at least in terms of prices or temperatures all right well um here's here's a story that is kind of weird you know here's a major through line in a lot of things is that the news is all about a different use of a word right so when biden says insurrection he's just using a word wrong and trying to make something out of nothing by using a word right um you know the fine people hoax was a better word the drinking bleach hoax was about a word um or basically everything's about where you find is did trump want to find votes or not so everything's about a word okay so your context is that the news is all fake and the way that they make it fake is by telling you that recession right the recession doesn't mean what it used to be somebody somebody tweeted uh uh reuters that i think on the same day or maybe the same week writers defined the recession as two consecutive periods of negative growth at the same time reuters also was reporting oh no you don't simply look at two course of negative growth it's a holistic kind of thing you know the biden administration take on it now here's the thing i actually totally agree with the biden interpretation i i think that if you took the simplistic explanation of a recession of just two periods of negative growth that doesn't make sense coming out of a pandemic because coming out of the pandemic just changed everything right so if you had if you had a temporary you know a reset i shouldn't call it that if you had a temporary depression coming out of a pandemic it could be that all of your all of your assets and resources are in pretty good shape they just have to be spun up again so so i do think that the biden administration is accurate and by the way i would have defended trump for saying the same thing if trump had said this i'd defend it as well i do think this this specific case just in this specific case you do have to look at it holistically right so i hate to agree i hate to agree because they're sort of weaseling the the thing but it's not wrong that's not wrong i think you have to look at it holistically because it's weird that employment is still good right that was the part that was a mystery but i got it i got the answer to that mystery we'll talk about it all right um here's another example of news being created out of a word the news in the wall street journal which i believe has been completely debunked in my opinion this is not true right i don't know but in my opinion what i'm going to read to you is a fake news story from wall street journal who claimed that elon musk had an affair that was their word an affair and this is the word that's going to be questioned here an affair with one of the founders of google sergey brin's ex-wife now the reporting is that this alleged thing which musk and the woman involved and sergey brin and basically anybody who knows anything denies denies and then i believe it you know their denials look incredible to me but here's the part that i'm not going to be able to release on the reporting from wall street journal which i believe is false says that the quote affair happened during a time that the sergey brin and his wife were separated but living in the same home now let me connect the dots here for you the wall street journal says must have an affair with somebody who is single you see where i'm going with this that's not a affair that would be two single people having a date if it happened which apparently it didn't do you know what an affair is i had to i had to look up the definition because i thought i was going crazy i thought i was going crazy i go did i what the hell do words mean i thought an affair meant that somebody was in a relationship and the person they were in the relationship with was unaware that they were doing somebody else did we stop using the word affair to mean that and now an affair is two single people who are dating just think about the fact that this murdoch property the wall street journal did a hit piece on musk in which the entire story first of all is probably based on fake information but even if it were true the story would disprove their own reporting if it were true which it isn't their own story the way they reported it disproves their own conclusion with no ambiguity whatsoever am i wrong the meaning of the word means you're not single when it's happening if you're single which is what they reported separated means single there's nothing here so there's this giant hit piece that's based on probably nothing that really happened and if it really happened it would still be nothing still be nothing and it's a major story how do you explain this other than murdoch wants to blunt musk's power i feel like i feel like elon musk was becoming um too influential in the news business simply by tweeting and maybe taking over twitter we don't know if that's gonna happen but i feel like murdock was feeling that his own this is just speculation right i have no way of knowing this but the speculation is that musk is the you're going to be hit with these hit pieces because um the more powerful musk's persuasion is the less powerful murdoch's fair you know entities that he uses persuasion for would be this looks like a billionaire fight what would you say i think is murdoch versus musk and there's nothing else to it that's what it feels like just speculation well the pope has gone on an apology tour he's visiting canada to apologize for the church's role in well listen listen to this allegation and i guess the pope is confessing and apologizing so i guess it's beyond an allegation so this is history i guess so uh it's a pilgrimage of penance he says to apologize to the indigenous populations for i guess the roman catholic church from the 19th century through the 1970s right so a long period of time more than 150 000 of the indigenous children were taken from homes and put into residential schools run by christian churches on behalf of the government to assimilate them they were taken from their families and put in put into residential schools which means that they were literally took people's kids from them they literally took people's children from them and put them in residential schools now you know even even if we acknowledge their they were well intentioned yikes um but here's my question to the pope it feels like a little bit of a slippery slope to start apologizing for the history of catholicism at what point do you feel you're done if you start apologizing for things that the catholic church has done over hundreds of years where exactly do you draw the line and say well i think we've apologized for everything it's all covered now i'm not sure you could ever be done with that job so and you know if you're new to my content let me remind you i'm pro-religion so i'm completely pro-catholicism pro-islam pro-you know buddhism pro-religion because people do make religion work for them and it you know benefits their life you know despite any uh abuses by the organizations themselves and i just think it's funny you you can see how apologizing doesn't work right even if it makes you feel good at the moment when when an entity like the catholic church starts apologizing i just don't know where you stop at some point you just have to say yeah we sucked in the past let's see if we can get it right a catholicism somebody says it's pronounced catholicism that's not right is it all right well it doesn't matter um how many of you think that klaus schwab the person associated with a great reset how many of you believe that he once said that in the future you won't own anything and you'll like it how many believe that he said that in the future you won't own anything and you'll like it uh have you ever tried googling that to see if that actually really happened never happened it's one of the most uh pervasive beliefs on the right never happened nope didn't happen i'll tell you what did happen that people think happened what he did say is in the future you might have things delivered to you by drone that you would rent that you would have things delivered by drone that you would rent you wouldn't own it now he did say that right am i right he said you would have things delivered by drone and that you would rent them you wouldn't own them right and and i'm agreeing with you it's in a video that things would be delivered by drones and you wouldn't you would uh you would rent them not on them now what kinds of things can be delivered by a drone what do you think what kind of things could be delivered by a drone well i could think of let's say you needed a specialized tool or even a specialized medical device let's say you needed a medical device or like the other day i needed a tool to check on my internet connectivity so i wanted a special meter that would tell me if my if my ethernet jack was alive did i need to own that did i need to own that or if i if i could called up a drone to be there in an hour with that tool and i rented it and i put it back on the drone and returned it would i be happy probably probably i'd be happy because i wouldn't have to buy it for something i would only use once and and i'd be happy now here's the context how do you get to the point where drones are delivering things you can rent what is the possible way you could ever get to that future i can only see one way market forces just market forces they'll make the drones better uh leasing is better than buying for some types of products but not all all i see is charles schwab's or not charles schwab klaus schwab all i see is him saying the obvious the market forces will have us delivering things that we rent and we'll like it why wouldn't you like that it's just an option they didn't take away your ability to own a tool they just said you could get one for rent if you wanted to to me this is just a statement of the most obvious market force predictions drones will deliver stuff he can rent now how about owning a private automobile do you think the world economic forum wants you to not own a private automobile probably probably yeah yeah i agree do you know what's going to make that happen market forces it's not going to be them yeah the the minute i cannot own a car i'm all over it the minute i don't have to own a car and i can still get anywhere i want i am getting rid of my car that day the day i don't need a car it's gone right now you might say no i love my car and i'll bet you get to keep it i'll bet you get to keep your car for a long time probably your whole lifetime but at some point it just won't make sense to own a car it won't make sense for you as a individual you know you can use your garage for something else so what i see with this old klaus schwab thing is that he talks about market forces delivering us a different kind of society that we would enjoy but not taking away all our options just giving us more options and it would move in a certain way now so somebody says here it is here's the video now i can watch the video but remember i just agreed with you what it says so watching the video doesn't move our argument forward because you're saying and i'm saying the same thing he did say that you'll rent things in the future he did say that we're all agreeing on that so i don't have to see it but what's it mean he didn't say we're going to introduce some communism so you can't own things market forces alone will make you not want to own a car i already don't want to own a car owning a car is the worst deal in the world it's terrible right unless you love cars then it's fine it's more like a hobby all right but anyway i would uh i would ask you to do this whenever you see any kind of klaus schwab reset stuff just just take a look at the debunks you know just google it uh because i think you've got that story at least some of you have that story completely wrong feels like it to me um yeah so they predicted the world economic forum i guess that by 2030 people would rent what they needed and they'd be happy about it i don't know andres backhouse tweeted today there's some stats coming out from germany the consumption of natural gas in germany was down over 19 compared to 2021 and even more compared to the 10-year average and consumption in 2022 is down 14 almost 15 percent and as andres points out if it continues the eu gas saving targets might be feasible so the the eu is looking to fairly drastically cut back on gas production and it looks like it might be doable it might be doable so here is another application of the adams law of sloan between disasters and it and it gets us to an edge case the only other edge case that was kind of clean was the year 2000 problem when we thought the computers couldn't handle the year 2000 and society would break down i felt like people didn't get serious about fixing that until a year before it had to be fixed but in one year it was completely fixed i don't think there was a single problem that i heard of right so it feels like the the adam's law of slow-moving disasters if it's software could be you know fixed in a year software is easier to fix but what happens when you you know let's say a year in advance ish that you might have to cut back your energy production by 20 or whatever the guideline is d is a year enough for people to change all the things they do enough to cut back 20 and i think the answer is yes it looks like the answer is yes that people can cut back twenty percent if you give them enough time and adjustments and they know they have to do it yeah if you have covert going on um but this is sort of semi-post coven likewise germany just said it's going to fire up three more nuclear plants if this sounds like a repeat it's three more so they already announced they were going to reopen some plants and they just they just announced three more are likely to be reopened and apparently they can do it quickly apparently they can do this in a year or so because they're already built they just have to be fired up does adam's law apply to lake mead the answer is yes in the sense that will california run out of water i think not but i don't know how we're going to avoid it frankly i have no idea how we're going to avoid running out of water in california but we do have time to figure it out so i think we'll figure it out but who knows anyway all right anyway germany looks like it'll be okay despite how how putin's you know threat to them is pretty serious i think they'll be okay here are two new stories that are happening at the same time and we're pretending that they're not number one the january 6 story is that trump was allegedly too slow 178 minutes too slow in speaking out against the protests and the potential violence and that and that of course was during the fog of war when trump probably didn't know exactly what was going on because nobody did um so that's one story that trump was too slow now nobody's saying that he did the wrong thing when he acted because he did tell people to be you know be non-violent but the complaint is it took too long all right so that's one story trump took too long minutes actually too long second story which we're going to pretend is unrelated to the first is that insiders are complaining that in the byte administration biden is putting off important decisions for as long as a year right so trump can't be president the democrats say because in the fog of war it took him 178 minutes to act and two of the major publications owned that are you know dominate the republi the democrat world the washington post and the new york times have both debunked this and but still that's the claim that he waited too long to act minutes minutes i say he waited minutes to act meanwhile joe biden puts off important decisions for up to a year and nobody knows why and they're really bad about it well i'll tell you why he's not capable is there another reason he's not capable now here's a little mental experiment for you imagine if joe biden had been in charge when something like january 6 happened you know not january 6 but something like it can you picture him in charge and making quick decisions when he puts off normal decisions for a year he's clearly not all there and is a fog of war and people are telling him competing things but just just put that in your mind it doesn't go well doesn't go well have you seen the back-to-back videos of biden speaking twice in one day and how he looks like a completely different person one of them looks like oh he's okay i mean we keep making fun of him for being old but he's doing a good job he's reading that prompter looks looks like he's present he's in the moment and then you see the video from the same day and he's deranged his eyes are are bugged and he sounds like off it's the same day all right you can't have a president who's not even the same in the morning as the night does anybody understand what kind of a danger that puts us in that the president isn't even the same person in the beginning of the day as the end of the day at the end of the day he looks sort of agitated and not quite himself does he is that the guy you want making some world important decisions it does yeah i don't know if it's a sundowner problem and i don't know if it's uh that he did or did not get some meds but joe biden is not one person anymore he's two people i don't know which one's going to be making the decision if you told me that the first joe biden the one in the video where he looks fairly put together if you told me he was making a decision i'd say well i might not like the decision but he looks like a guy who could make a decision right he looks like he's at least all there by the afternoon he clearly wasn't all there i mean humans can tell you can tell if somebody's not all there i mean that's not that hard that's not a high bar you know you don't have to go to a lot of medical school to know when somebody's just not all there that's that's not a high bar he's not all there he also we all stand right so it's time for president harris i think i think republicans should just stop acting like he's in charge just stop pretending and say we don't know who's in charge but we need to have an investigation to find out imagine if you would the republicans launched an investigation to find out who's making the decisions for biden wouldn't you like to know because i'm pretty sure i don't know now yeah it'd be interesting wouldn't it we've never had to do this before you always suspect somebody's making decisions for somebody else but this time you'd really have to you kind of have to wonder because remember when people thought cheney was making decisions for bush jr that matters do you remember when people thought nancy reagan's astrologer was influencing ronald reagan that matters that does matter that's not irrelevant not irrelevant yeah so yeah let's let's look into that find out who's in charge but as much as i dislike uh kamala harris's abilities she's at least sane she's at least the same in the morning as she is in the afternoon whether you like it or not i think it's time for harris to take over and by the way i don't even well maybe i am i'm biased so i don't think this is a political statement because i'm saying replace him with somebody that's worse worse in terms of you know more democrat than the democrat so i would be willing to take somebody who's worse on policy and worse in a lot of ways just to know she's there you know just to know she's all there because the alternative is just scary it seems random you don't know what he's going to order you know angry joe so i think even republicans should be calling for harris to take over and if i were them i'd start taking meetings with harris and skip biden because you don't know who's in charge right if you don't know who's in charge and you want to get something done are you going to take a meeting with biden i wouldn't i just say we're going to meet with harris because we don't think biden's capable imagine if the republican said from here forward we're not going to take any meetings with biden because we don't think he's mentally capable so we'll take all of our meetings with the vice president if she'll have us i mean obviously she would immediately say i won't take those meetings but you should say we want to meet with them as soon as possible but we like to be with harris because we don't think that biden's in control anymore i mean it would be a political thing to do but it would be interesting well the washington post uh is saying that the justice department is investigating donald trump's actions as part of his criminal probe of efforts to overturn the 2020 elections blah blah have you figured out by now that the democrat plan is to keep trump permanently under investigation for one thing or another that didn't happen it's pretty clear that their plan is to keep him criminally probed forever without ever finding anything because if there were if there was anything defined i don't know if there's ever been a better offended president in our life this would be the one guy i wouldn't be worried about finding out with something after he became president you worry about that with every president don't you what happens if this president gets in office and you know a minute later we find out something we wish we had known how in the world could there be anything about trump we don't know at this point i mean that we could find out that maybe could happen all right um have i ever told you before that the democrats are really the woman party the woman party now you think of them as you know the party of lgbtq and the the party of you know black americans and more inclusiveness and you know of course women but you don't think that is the lead necessarily but in my opinion the women are running the democrat party and they've started to paint the republicans as men so here's a uh tweet from let's see who is this midas touch so this is a democrat group that tweets and does other stuff um and they're saying that republicans they're they're characterizing republicans this way as quote we're going to make women our property turn america into a dictatorship and raise the nazi flag once again that's minus touch right um and they complain that the media is is complaining about the price of gas instead of talking about how the republicans are trying to make women their property to which i say you know republicans can be women am i wrong i'm pretty sure republicans can actually be women and yeah right here so it's amazing that somebody who's a democrat actually i think is admitting that they see it this way that the democrats are the party of women and the republicans are the party of men but are there more republican men than women i don't even know that there might be can somebody tell me that if you just look at republicans only are more of the voters women or men because they're more women than men in general right is there is probably more men because the the you know the philosophy leads a little bit male it does it's changing quickly anyway but my point is i do think that the somewhat accidentally the republicans have been become the the parent party and the democrats have become the the women party because i don't think that the democrats can do anything that women don't agree with here's your test i don't think the republicans can do anything that women don't agree with could could the republicans do things that black voters don't agree with yes they could they could could they do something that women don't agree with nope not a chance not a chance am i right right they wouldn't get away with it now let's take that same argument to the republicans is there anything that republican males would not want to happen that could that could happen because there were enough other people who wanted it no probably not i've got a feeling that the republican party does have a male bias and that the democrat party does have a female bias but the republican party seems more explicitly parental in nature it's more about adults right it's an interesting match-up women versus parents and you can see it in so many ways well by more than four to one margin according to rasmussen poll americans say the nation's problem with opioid drugs fentanyl being the worst of them is getting worse not better and they don't think biden is doing enough so 44 percent of americans believe that the crisis has gotten worse and just 10 percent think it's gotten better how in the world could anybody think the opioid crisis got better there's more drugs 10 crazy oh another 16 are not sure oh oh let's see 10 percent think the opioid crisis is getting better 16 are not sure uh the math at 10 plus the 16 26 26 nearly a quarter about about a quarter of the country is bat stupid huh well that's a surprise all um so biden's failing on uh on that and i think that the the here's a prediction that i will bank on you know how follow the money always explains everything right follow the money explains everything if you look at the opioid in the fentanyl situation fall of the money tells you exactly what's going to happen number one there will be more fentanyl shipped into the country why why because it makes money so fentanyl shipments in the united states are profitable would you agree that there will be more of them of course of course so follow the money guarantees will be more not less fentanyl coming into the country now have you heard of this thing called the military industrial complex we don't like it we wish it didn't exist but it does exist it does exist and so you can't ignore it and what would the military industrial complex do if the potential profit from attacking the cartels went from looks like that would be a smallish operation what if it goes to a big operation suddenly the military industrial complex says whoa a new line of business attacking the cartels but it's got to be big like the scale of it has to be big enough that the military industrial complex can get interested right has to be big otherwise they don't they don't make enough money so the fentanyl business will keep getting bigger until it crosses that line the moment it crosses that line the military industrial complex is going to have a trillion dollar payday because they're going to say you know we're going to have to sell you some really expensive weapons to take out those cartels and to guard the border or whatever we decide to do so the two things that you can guarantee is that there will be more fentanyl coming in until the problem is so bad that the military industrial complex sees a huge profit at which point they will vaporize it will take a few years because you need to spread that profit out but they will vaporize the cartels there isn't any other way this can go because of money right now the cartels will try to make enough money to like you know change something but but money guarantees that the cartels will be vaporized am i wrong it's just not profitable to do it yet but it's getting close yeah let's say when fentanyl deaths reach 200 000 a year which should be in a year or two maybe five years but there isn't any chance it's not going to happen we'll get to you know quarter million deaths a year and then the and then the military and the people who make money from selling military equipment will say well we can take care of that for a trillion dollars and then we'll pay a trillion dollars and they will go vaporize the cartels do you think i'm wrong there's no other way this can go i don't see any force from anywhere any variable they would change the guaranteed direction that we will attack mexico guaranteed now should we attack china because they're sending us the drugs now i don't know if you know how china gets away with it so president xi said yes we'll make you know fentanyl uh and the the precursors to fentanyl will make them illegal so you know that that's good right we'll make that illegal in china but what they didn't do is make all the variants illegal so the fentanyl precursor people they just change the formula a little bit it's just as bad but it's not technically the thing that got banned now let me ask you this do you think china can't figure out how to solve that problem that their law is not including enough stuff can't figure that out right do you think they care if their law doesn't doesn't cover those things no they don't care if they wanted to stop it they would just go arrest the guy who's in charge they wouldn't care about which you know which precursors are illegal or legal they would just go arrest the if they didn't want it to keep happening obviously obviously the leadership wants it to continue it's too easy to stop so obviously they want it what should we do if china is sending precursors essentially military equipment to the cartels who are killing americans well i don't think you want to start a nuclear war i don't think you want to invade but we need to kill the dealers on the ground you can't tell me that we can't find anybody in china that we could bribe to go kill those fentanyl producers we can't do a terrorist act in china we can't set a bomb next to a factory in china we don't have anybody in china who has those you know that ability to blow something up we should be those should be exploding maybe it is i mean maybe somebody is but we should definitely be attacking china um covertly to destroy the fentanyl production um would that trigger a world war uh nuclear war well that's the risk that china's going to have to take isn't it if china wants to kill a quarter million of us a year which is where it's going to go to then they need to risk nuclear war they need to right so yes that is the risk that they should be looking at very directly um all right uh let's see we've got some more gas lighting keeping going on here i don't know if it's just me but when i heard biden talking about again the insurrection that trump ran here's what i hear every time biden the elected leader of the united states uses the word insurrection my mind imagines people who look a lot like me going to jail for nothing like i can't i can't unpair those two things every time he uses the word insurrection i see him trying to put me in jail for nothing and i think i made a turn today because it's one thing for him to say insurrection before the january 6 hearings have concluded it's another thing to keep saying insurrection when his own hearings well i'll say it's his own have shown that there was no insurrection or planned insurrection or actual insurrection once it's been debunked if he comes on television and says it again he is targeting me that's how i feel and if my target if my president targets me a law-abiding voter who just has maybe different opinions if he's targeting me and that's what i feel then he's my enemy he's not my president anymore now it would be one thing if i were breaking the law yeah if your government targets you because you broke the law well you know that's that's on you but he's targeting me for something specifically that we know i didn't break any laws i mean he's putting me in the same boat with anybody who who thought that the january 6th thing was not so bad the violence was bad but in terms of it being an insurrection versus a protest right i'm taking this personally from now on before the january 6 group debunked the insurrection charge i was willing to let that stand as well who knows but now that it's debunked this is personal and this is biden against citizens it's against republicans basically and this is the thing that democrats continue to do they're not targeting policy or preferences they're targeting people and this is a dark term yeah so that whole dark thing shark eyes yeah biden did have shark eyes like i saw that too there's something wrong with his eyes but it does feel like the precursor to haunting republicans and so let me say this i don't feel biden is even a president at this point he's just a malign force because i don't think he's capable of doing the job who knows what's you know what's behind it but ah this is personal now so i i want the republicans the democrats to know that they they're walking up to a line and they've already crossed the line of making it personal but let me let me say this as menacingly as i possibly can there's another line and you're getting really close to it do you hear that there's another line there is another line you know what i'm talking about there's another line and you're getting really close to it and if i didn't warn you how close you were to that line i would feel that i was not doing my job you know as a patriot you're really close to the line you better back up back the up it's okay if you make this just political political's okay we're all used to that you can lie that's political but when you start painting half of the country as insurrectionists that's that's a line you need to back the up off of okay and and we need to be as clear of this as clear about this as possible uh lying's okay i mean we accept it it's not okay but we accept it politics is good words words are good fighting hard you know trying to game the system that's all okay but you're getting really close to the line and his last speech was dark and chilling and directed as citizens in my opinion that's how i took it i took it directed as citizens you direct your as citizens who are law abiding and we're trying to do the right thing i'm positive i think january 6 was people trying to do the right thing they didn't but i think they tried but i don't know how i can say this more carefully there is a line back the off it are you with me is this just me you see the line too right don't pretend there's no line there's a line and back the off it and what i when i say back the off it i mean with the insurrection talk you need to correct that mr joe biden and mr mr democrats this isn't play right you're you've been in the political play field and that's okay a little bit of play hyperbole you know even a little lie it's all part of the political process that's good as long as you're talking politics as long as you're insulting you know politicians you could even you know i don't even mind if you make some like general statements about republicans or general statements about democrats that's fine yeah yeah yeah all the democrats are socialists yeah yeah all the republicans or you know want to want to control weapon whatever that's fine that's all fine but you have to know there's a line and if you don't see it don't say you weren't warned right you make this personal you better back the up so that's all i'm saying somebody needed to say it um all right that's about it about it all right um yeah i don't even care about the hypocrisy right you know there's just a whole bunch of stuff that's okay just because historically we've we've allowed that in politics yeah yeah the hypocrisy the lying the hyperbole the the dirty tricks the you know the the scheming the fake news that's okay yeah we're used to that but just make sure you know where the line is all right uh you want an insurrection i'll give you an insurrection yeah cnn headline right when cartoonist calls for civil war well i'm calling to avoid a civil war is what i'm calling and i'm saying that uh you know that slippery slope thing i keep talking about where i'm usually debunking it but then changing my mind halfway through democrats can push now let me ask you this um do you have the same feeling i do that it feels like it feels like democrats are people who complain about everything no matter how small and republicans are people who are okay until they're not okay but that could be just i'm reading my own personality into some some things it feels like that right and here would be the blind spot the blind spot would be if democrats are looking at republicans and they're not seeing as much complaining as they would expect because if because if the democrats were in that position you'd see lots of complaining the lack of complaining from the republicans should not make you feel comfortable right you feel me right the lack of complaining from republicans about the way they're being treated should not be taken as comfort because republicans are okay with things until they're not democrats are just mad all the time about everything because the the way they get resources but is by complaining how do uh how do men get resources in the traditional let's say that the sexist world they go work right they get a job they go work how do women get resources in our sexist world again lots of exceptions blah blah blah blah how do women get resources by making men feel bad complaining right sorry that's how it works you know that yeah don't give any trouble with this because you know it's true you know it's true now if i said that's true of every woman i'd be lying and if i said that's true of every man i'd be lying and if i said the world were only men and women well i think that that that that also is too simplistic because you've got lots of you know gender ambiguity yeah some people's you know wives are the boss of the families plenty plenty of exceptions but when i say that the democrat party is sort of the the woman party complaining is their operating system that if you complain enough you'll get some stuff the republicans are more like if we have a good system we'll all get better stuff you see the difference it's a complete based operating system versus a let's say a system or machine based thing like if you make this machine work we all get good stuff so let's work on the machine and the the democrats are more like if i complain enough i can get some of your stuff so one of them is based on an abundance mindset i'll go work i'll create a system that makes more for everybody and the other is based on a shortages mindset that you've got some stuff i don't have some stuff i need to get your stuff from you and it goes to me you know a transfer now is there a difference between men and women in hunting versus gathering i'm way out of my depth here so i'm just speculating is it true that historically the men did the hunting and the women did the gathering yeah the hunting is you go out and make something happen and the gathering is you find things you find it you just find it i think i think that the democrats being sort of a woman-dominated party are all about well we don't have to make things we just need to find them and i found it it's in your pocket hey i found some money it's over there in elon musk's pocket well problem solved i need some money there's some money in elon musk's pocket so let's put those together and problem solved right there's very there's a very big philosophical difference between hunting and killing i'm sorry between hunting and finding very big and i feel like the the republicans are hunters and the democrats are finders they're gatherers now again huge number of individual differences i feel like i can only say that to republicans and get away with it i i could say well there's a general thing going on here but you all understand there's tons and tons of individual exceptions and then you and the republicans all go well that's true yeah yeah you're talking about a general thing but of course there are plenty of exceptions what do the democrats do when you say that you racist i go no no no you you sexist no no i'm saying there's plenty of exceptions and we we respect all the exceptions equally well you bigot i'm really just talking about a general theme here i'm not talking about any individual you misogynist so that's the way it works on the left on the right you you can handle the fact that individuals can be different than the average apparently that's a concept that's not universally understood somebody says that as a very funny female joke that's extremely sexist and you can't say it well why did you announce it don't announce a joke you're not going to tell us let me introduce you to the uh the humor rule the humor rule goes like this you can't tell me there's a joke you can't tell me you can either not mention it or you can tell me the joke those are the rules i didn't make them up i did not make them up but uh i would not encourage you to say that joke on youtube if this were the locals platform they could tell that joke do you know why because people on the locals platform would know it's a joke that's the difference and they say okay that's insulting but it's pretty funny right on the locals people insult me all the time but if it's funny that's fine it's funny all right um you're saying gathering and hunting or both harvesting yeah i feel a difference i see what you're saying you're using a word to change the argument don't use words to change my argument you know what i'm talking about all right uh i haven't seen any big california fires somebody was asking me it's possible that california has figured out how to stop the big fires because they now have that emergency helicopter brigade that gets on stuff quickly and works at night now they can operate at night as well is y70 on fire okay well it's not not nearly as bad as it used to be our air quality is actually good where i am all right well i hope they get that u70 fire under control all right um all right i'll catch up on the u70 fire i haven't seen anything about that yet yeah we get smoke from the yosemite fire as we really all right so i guess i didn't know about the yosemite fire i'll take a look at that there's an oakland fire did california clear the underbrush you know i didn't hear anything about that um but i also don't know is there any use for underbrush is there any way you can monetize underbrush can you collect enough of it to turn it into anything can you turn it into some biofuel you can do a biomass thing right mulch fertilizer does it work as fertilizer underbrush makes the soil of the forest yeah well yeah i guess they do need soil but do they always need more if you have enough for a tree um oh the oak fires out all right what about zielinski all right i think that's all we've got for today and i believe that we've done our job uh is this the best live stream you've ever seen am i mistaken or or does it look exactly like it is it is it is now let me ask you something um so good it hurts let me ask you something do you think we make a difference like collectively so i would have you know no impact on anything if i didn't have an audience so the audience basically you know imbues me with whatever energy i have um i think we do i think we do because i think we're we're approaching the point where if if you and i collectively all of you plural if you and i collectively thought something was a terrible terrible idea i feel like it would be harder for a government to do it just because you know our opinions do have enough of a reach that it would be embarrassing to do something that was just a bad idea and it had been clearly described as a bad idea so clarity is one of the things i feel like we can add to the system what do you think maybe that's the only thing maybe the only thing i add to the system is clarity and context because that's all i'm trying to do i'm trying to only add clarity in context if i add clarity and context you should come to the same conclusion as me so i'm not trying to necessarily change your mind with argument i'm trying to make sure that you see the same things i see and once you see them i'm confident that you will end up with the same opinion so i don't need to directly change your opinion i'll just change what things you've been exposed to and it should be the same thing should be not every time but it should be in the long run um scott would you do your own show on fox if offered no no i wouldn't um so the trouble is as soon as you get a boss you're useless you all get that right the moment i have a boss i'm worthless because that is just the boss the only thing you know you're hearing is what the boss allowed me to say do you think there's anything i said today that a boss would have let me say just think about today's show think about the live stream you just watched how much of that do you think i could have put on a network show or even a cable show almost none of it's right and i certainly couldn't do the the level of emotion i would have a set time limit and i guarantee you that i would have conversations about offending my sponsors well first of all who would sponsor this i would probably already have sponsor offers you know even with this size of an audience i would already have sponsor offers if this were not absolute poison to sponsors so one of the things that i can offer you is that i will continue to be poisoned to sponsors i'm not trying to do that but apparently if you're honest you can't get sponsored because the sponsors need you to be you know just generic and family friendly and you know stay stay on the political right side of things so i'm not trying to do that ed products all right um yeah it's hard to speculate under a major brand you're right so i do a lot of stuff that's pure speculation and i label it i don't have a date yet for the russell brand conversation um yeah if i if i had sponsors they would influence me i think they would so as you know i do a comic strip for newspapers do you think that i can do in the newspaper in online i mean probably more people see it online but do you think i could do i could do a dilbert comic that's exactly the comic i would want to write and that the people who are my clients would be okay with that the answer is no no they would not be okay with my honest opinions on stuff they need they need something that is family friendly so you may notice i'm i'm pushing the boundaries in the past several months um i'm i'm kind of making all of my editors and my clients uncomfortable with the content because i'm going after some of the woke stuff etc you know some of the pandemic stuff and there are papers that are not running me so that my comic about you know the character dave i think there were some newspapers that didn't run it because it was too dangerous for him so i do keep my content within the realm that i know the clients will allow even though i'm pushing the edge which by the way that's what they pay for you know if your client buys you as a cartoonist especially my kind of cartoon they're they're paying you to push the boundary but not too much right they need you to be a little bit edgy that's part of the that's part of the entertainment so you're gonna see dilbert getting a lot edgier in the coming year i suppose i'm breaking news now in a small way so so dilbert is going to get cancelled um let's say by design because as i'm approaching my retirement planning years i don't want to go out with a whimper i don't i want to go out in flames and if i have to set something on flame that needs to be set on flame and by the way productively i'm not talking about anarchy i'm talking about setting on fire something that maybe needed to be set on fire but yeah dilbert is going to get edgier and edgier until they won't let me do it anymore so that's my that will be my version of retiring and then you know what i'm going to do i guess i'm breaking the news here for the first time so this is a preliminary plan but it's an actual plan i'm going to be cancelled by everybody in the regular client business and then i'll move my content to a subscription service called locals so there is a good chance that say five years from now that the only place you would ever see a dilbert comic is on a subscription service but then i can say anything i want and you haven't seen that yet you've you haven't seen that yet so but i'm not going to do that unless i get cancelled and i'm going to try as hard as i can to fly as close to the sun as i can and by the way i never do anything just to offend some people think i might but i'd never do content that's meant for entertainment or maybe to provoke but i don't do it just to piss people off there's a reason for it all right that's all for now and i'm gonna go do something else and so are you i'll talk to you later

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well

let's start with our first little bit of

gas lighting and this comes to you

courtesy of cnn now i made the mistake

of looking at the cnn website

and clicking on one of their links

here's what i found

on the front page this is what the link

says right

so the link says

um

cnn poll a majority of gop voters don't

want trump to be the nominee in 2024.

so that's what the link says

the link says most republicans

don't want trump to run so if you

clicked on that link what would you

imagine the story would be

do you think the story would be

something about

the republicans don't want trump to run

right

all right here's what the title of the

piece is after you click the link

so the link again

says republicans don't want trump to run

click the link and here's the headline i

swear to god i'm just reading this

off of cnn's own site all right i'll

click the link

all right republicans don't want trump

to be the nominee and then the story is

by kate sullivan

cnn poll 75 percent of

democratic voters

want someone other than biden in 2024

54 percent of republicans didn't want

trump running

75 percent of democrats don't want biden

running

the title to the piece is about trump

the headline of their actual story this

is cnn's own story they're not linking

outside their site this is all within

cnn

right now you can go look at this

yourself the story is the opposite of

the title the title tells you there's

something wrong with trump

the story is about something wrong with

biden

have you ever seen something that direct

isn't it just a link error nope it's not

a link error because the story does

include

the fact that the gop

54 of them don't want trump but it's but

it's a buried context within the larger

story

the larger story

is people don't want biden

i mean

how much of the general public let's say

the cnn viewers how many of them would

even notice this

do you think they would even notice

or would they just read the headlines

and say well

trump is unpopular in his own party and

would they just move on

it's amazing that they can do this right

in front of you

right in front of you and you know

shamelessly

are you worried about robots taking your

jobs

do you think robots will put us all in

at work in the future

well let me give you some context here

uh it's happened once before

robots already took all of our jobs once

well i'm i'm extending the definition of

robot

to let's say a farm tractor

and industrial

farming which is you know a lot of

machines involved

so as

i saw a

tweet from evil gnome 6

on twitter

and evil gnome 6 reminds us that before

the industrial revolution

80 of humans were working uh agriculture

and now it's one percent

so we went from 80 of the people having

a certain kind of job

and then you know machines and tractors

and everything made that unnecessary

and we we basically removed 80 of all

the employment on earth

but it didn't make any difference

we were fine

we just found other things to do

now do you remember um if you're a

certain age

you might remember that there were uh

there were predictions that television

you know the invention of television

would make the radio go away because you

know who's going to want to listen when

you can listen and watch

but what happened

well nobody saw rush limbaugh coming and

suddenly talk radio

makes sense suddenly if you're driving

and you caught in traffic oh yeah it

turns out the traffic is getting worse

and worse so we spend more and more time

in our cars

so radio is more important

so

predicting that

tv would kill radio that didn't work out

how about uh do you remember when

everybody said the computers would make

us a paperless office

so when you went when you went to work

you'd have your computer but no paper

it wouldn't need any paper

yeah

let me show you my paperless office here

here here's my paperless office the

papers all over it

papers papers

yup it's 20 22.

do you know what's the best way to

handle some things

paper

do you know why i printed out my notes

on paper

because it works better it works better

basically we are terrible at at

predicting what's going to happen

with these large societal things

so and also keep in mind that if robots

take our jobs

they also might make the cost of living

drop like crazy

so we can see the cost of energy

approaching zero with fusion someday

we can see the cost of labor

approaching zero because machines will

do it all

so

maybe you don't have the same access to

the same job you could have had before

but would you care

what if everything is almost free

yeah there's no let's say there's no

delivery costs anymore

because you just 3d print what you want

i mean you could imagine a world where

you could live on a thousand dollars a

year

you could

you could imagine living on a thousand

dollars a year and having everything you

want

it's not impossible

who knows what's going to happen but

we're not good at predicting the future

all right here's some more interesting

news apparently ukraine has blown up one

of their own major bridges

to keep the russians from advancing

i guess they probably we don't know for

sure but they probably used one of these

high mars systems

h-i-h-i-m-a-r-s

that the u.s provided

so these are long-range you know

accurate missiles looks like they took

out that bridge

but here is a question i ask you

have we reached a point

in which

nobody's ever going to be able to move

big equipment into another country as

long as that country that's being

attacked has access to these types of

weapons i don't see how the russians can

advance

if we're providing

these

accurate missiles because it doesn't

take too many missiles to disrupt the

supply chain does it

fail to blow it up in the initial

invasion here

uh

well anyway um

ukraine is saying that they've got only

you know a few of these highmar systems

they need at least 50 of them to hold

back the russian forces

and at least 100 of them for an

effective counter offensive

do we want ukraine to have an effective

counter-offensive

is that even good for anybody

i don't know if it's good for anybody

actually like literally anybody

you know there might be some people who

prefer to be ukrainian instead of

russian i'm sure that's a thing and vice

versa

but for the world in general i don't

know if we want ukraine to beat russia

do we

or do we just want to stand off so maybe

they'll

stop fighting

i feel like you want to stand off i

don't feel like you want a victory

i don't

i'm not sure if anybody's better off if

ukraine gets back that territory

are you better off

do do you think your life would be a

little bit better if ukraine gets that

territory back oh

i don't know

i don't know how it's going to affect

anything

except the people in that territory

so gas place gas prices continue to

drift lower

here's my question

why

does anybody know the answer to that

question

gas is getting cheaper

why

why

inflation no futures well but why are

the futures changing

yeah obviously it's futures but why is

it changing recession i don't know that

people are driving less are they

it's summer it should be up demand

should be through the roof

are people driving less

i don't know i don't notice it i feel

where i am the roads are just packed

to me it looks like more traffic than

i've ever seen in my life

like on just a wednesday in the summer

where i live

on an average just just a wednesday

there's more traffic than i've ever seen

any time i've lived here

so is it different where you live

m2 money supply dropped

i don't think we know i mean i'm looking

at your answers and none of them look

persuasive

so i mean what it tells me is that the

rise in prices was never real in the

sense that there was not an economic

force probably

it was probably just

the

the gougers could gouge so they did

that's all it was right

is the only thing we saw

price gouging because that because

nothing changed as far as i can tell

why is there not a national story

um something did change somebody says

instability

yeah i don't know

you think instability

things are more stable and that

therefore the risk was taken out of the

price

i don't know

that doesn't quite

that doesn't quite track for me

there's a lot of this uh stuff that's

happening in the economy that i don't

think we quite have a grasp on what's

happening here i i definitely don't

understand why gas prices are going down

because i'm not aware of anything

changing

um here's a question i saw a uh

a claim on twitter that the oceans have

been cooling

for

a while

and that would be the opposite of what

climate change says

how long did it take somebody to debunk

that

oh about 10 seconds

and do you know how you debunk it you

just change the start point

you just change the start point

if you pick your start point at a

certain point it looks like the

temperatures have gone down

or

are somewhat stable over a long period

of time

if you look at it from let's say june

and then compare june and prior years it

looks like it's way up

same data

same database

so the people have concluded it's

clearly getting warmer on the oceans

are standing right next to the people

who are looking at the same data

same data

they say i'm looking right at it it's

going up

no i'm looking right at it it's going

down

no i'm standing right with you

we're looking at the same data

it's going up

no i'm standing right next to you

shoulder to shoulder look at it same

data

now if we can't even agree with that

it's one thing to be looking at

different data right

we're looking at the same data

and we can't even figure that out

my god

doesn't that make you doubt just

everything

that what could be

it'd be one thing if one side was saying

the data is inaccurate you know which is

a separate argument

if you're not saying the data is

inaccurate and you're looking right at

it you can't tell if the numbers are

going up or down

that's pretty basic

up versus

down

that's where we're at

we can't tell the difference

literally

between up and down at least in terms of

prices

or temperatures

all right well um

here's here's a story that is kind of

weird

you know here's a major through line in

a lot of things is that the news is all

about a different use of a word

right so when biden says insurrection

he's just using a word wrong and trying

to make something out of nothing by

using a word

right um

you know the fine people hoax was a

better word the drinking bleach hoax was

about a word

um or

basically

everything's about where you find

is did trump want to find votes or not

so everything's about a word okay

so your context is

that the news is all fake

and the way that they make it fake is by

telling you that recession right the

recession doesn't mean what it used to

be

somebody somebody tweeted uh uh reuters

that i think on the same day or maybe

the same week

writers defined the recession as two

consecutive periods of negative growth

at the same time

reuters also

was reporting oh no you don't simply

look at two course of negative growth

it's a holistic kind of thing you know

the biden administration

take on it

now here's the thing

i actually totally agree with the biden

interpretation

i i think that

if you took the simplistic explanation

of a recession of just two periods of

negative growth that doesn't make sense

coming out of a pandemic

because coming out of the pandemic just

changed everything

right

so if you had if you had a temporary

you know a reset i shouldn't call it

that if you had a temporary depression

coming out of a pandemic it could be

that all of your

all of your assets and resources are in

pretty good shape

they just have to be spun up again

so

so i do think that the biden

administration is accurate and by the

way i would have defended trump for

saying the same thing

if trump had said this i'd defend it as

well

i do think this this specific case

just in this specific case you do have

to look at it holistically

right so i hate to agree

i hate to agree because they're sort of

weaseling the the thing

but it's not wrong that's not wrong i

think you have to look at it

holistically because it's weird that

employment is still good

right that was the part that was a

mystery but i got it i got the answer to

that mystery we'll talk about it

all right um

here's another example of

news being created out of a word the

news in the wall street journal which i

believe has been completely debunked in

my opinion this is not true

right i don't know

but in my opinion what i'm going to read

to you is a fake news story from wall

street journal who claimed that elon

musk had an affair that was their word

an affair and this is the word that's

going to be questioned here

an affair

with one of the founders of google

sergey brin's

ex-wife

now the reporting is that this alleged

thing which

musk and the woman involved and sergey

brin and basically anybody who knows

anything denies

denies

and then i believe it you know their

denials look incredible to me

but

here's the part that i'm not going to be

able to release on

the reporting from wall street journal

which i believe is false

says that the quote affair happened

during a time

that the sergey brin and his wife were

separated

but living in the same home

now let me connect the dots here for you

the wall street journal says

must have an affair

with somebody who is single

you see where i'm going with this

that's not a affair

that would be two single people having a

date if it happened which apparently it

didn't

do you know what an affair is i had to i

had to look up the definition because i

thought i was going crazy

i thought i was going crazy i go

did i

what the hell do words mean

i thought an affair meant

that somebody was in a relationship

and the person they were in the

relationship with was unaware that they

were doing somebody else

did we stop using the word affair to

mean that and now an affair is two

single people who are dating

just think about the fact that this

murdoch property the wall street journal

did a hit piece on musk in which the

entire

story first of all is probably based on

fake information

but even if it were true

the story would disprove their own

reporting

if it were true which it isn't

their own story the way they reported it

disproves their own conclusion

with no ambiguity whatsoever

am i wrong

the meaning of the word means

you're not single when it's happening

if you're single which is what they

reported separated means single

there's nothing here

so there's this giant hit piece that's

based on probably nothing that really

happened and if it really happened it

would still be nothing still be

nothing

and it's a major story

how do you explain this other than

murdoch wants to blunt musk's

power

i feel like i feel like elon musk was

becoming um

too influential

in the news business

simply by tweeting and maybe taking over

twitter we don't know if that's gonna

happen but i feel like murdock was

feeling that his own this is just

speculation right i have no way of

knowing this but the speculation is

that musk is the you're going to be hit

with these hit pieces because

um the more powerful

musk's persuasion is

the less powerful murdoch's

fair you know entities that he uses

persuasion for

would be

this looks like a billionaire fight

what would you say i think is murdoch

versus musk and there's nothing else to

it

that's what it feels like

just speculation

well the pope has

gone on an apology tour

he's visiting canada to apologize for

the church's role

in well listen listen to this allegation

and i guess the pope is confessing and

apologizing so

i guess it's beyond an allegation so

this is history i guess

so

uh it's a pilgrimage of penance he says

to apologize to the indigenous

populations

for i guess the roman catholic church

from the 19th century through the 1970s

right so a long period of time more than

150 000 of the indigenous children were

taken from homes and put into

residential schools run by christian

churches

on behalf of the government

to assimilate them

they were taken from their families and

put in

put into residential schools which means

that they were literally took people's

kids from them

they literally took people's children

from them

and put them in residential schools

now

you know even even if we acknowledge

their they were well intentioned

yikes

um

but here's my question to the pope

it feels like a little bit of a slippery

slope to start apologizing for

the history of catholicism

at what point

do you feel you're done

if you start apologizing for things that

the

catholic church has done over

hundreds of years

where exactly do you draw the line

and say well i think we've apologized

for everything it's all covered now

i'm not sure you could ever be done with

that job

so

and you know if you're new to my content

let me remind you i'm pro-religion

so i'm completely pro-catholicism

pro-islam pro-you know buddhism

pro-religion because people do make

religion work for them and it you know

benefits their life

you know despite any uh abuses by the

organizations themselves

and i just think it's funny you you can

see how apologizing doesn't work right

even if it makes you feel good at the

moment

when when an entity like the catholic

church starts apologizing i just don't

know where you stop

at some point you just have to say yeah

we sucked in the past let's see if we

can get it right

a catholicism

somebody says it's pronounced

catholicism

that's not right is it

all right well it doesn't matter

um how many of you think that klaus

schwab

the person associated with a great reset

how many of you believe that he once

said that in the future you won't own

anything and you'll like it

how many believe that he said that in

the future

you won't own anything and you'll like

it

uh have you ever tried googling that to

see if that actually really happened

never happened

it's one of the most uh pervasive

beliefs on the right

never happened

nope didn't happen

i'll tell you what did happen that

people think happened

what he did say is in the future

you might have things delivered to you

by drone

that you would rent

that you would have things delivered by

drone

that you would rent you wouldn't own it

now he did say that right

am i right

he said you would have things delivered

by drone and that you would rent them

you wouldn't own them

right and and i'm agreeing with you it's

in a video

that things would be delivered by drones

and you wouldn't you would uh you would

rent them not on them

now what kinds of things can be

delivered by a drone

what do you think

what kind of things could be delivered

by a drone

well

i could think of let's say you needed a

specialized tool

or even a specialized medical device

let's say you needed a medical device or

like the other day i needed a tool to

check on my internet connectivity

so i wanted a special meter that would

tell me if my

if my ethernet jack was alive

did i need to own that

did i need to own that or if i if i

could called up a drone

to be there in an hour

with that tool

and i rented it and i put it back on the

drone and returned it would i be happy

probably

probably i'd be happy because i wouldn't

have to buy it

for something i would only use once

and

and i'd be happy

now here's the context

how do you get to the point where drones

are delivering things you can rent

what is the possible way you could ever

get to that future

i can only see one way

market forces

just market forces

they'll make the drones better

uh leasing is better than buying for

some types of products but not all

all i see is charles schwab's or not

charles schwab klaus schwab

all i see is him saying the obvious the

market forces will have us delivering

things that we rent and we'll like it

why wouldn't you like that it's just an

option

they didn't take away your ability to

own a tool

they just said you could get one for

rent

if you wanted

to to me this is just a statement of the

most obvious

market force

predictions

drones will deliver stuff he can rent

now how about owning a private

automobile do you think the world

economic forum wants you to not own a

private automobile

probably

probably yeah yeah i agree

do you know what's going to make that

happen

market forces it's not going to be them

yeah the the minute i cannot own a car

i'm all over it

the minute i don't have to own a car and

i can still get anywhere i want i am

getting rid of my car

that day

the day i don't need a car it's gone

right

now you might say no i love my car and

i'll bet you get to keep it

i'll bet you get to keep your car for a

long time probably your whole lifetime

but at some point it just won't make

sense to own a car

it won't make sense for you as a

individual

you know you can use your garage for

something else

so what i see with this old klaus schwab

thing

is that he talks about

market forces

delivering us a different kind of

society that we would enjoy

but not taking away all our options just

giving us more options and it would

move in a certain way

now

so somebody says here it is here's the

video

now

i can watch the video but remember i

just agreed with you what it says

so watching the video doesn't move our

argument forward

because you're saying and i'm saying the

same thing he did say

that you'll rent things in the future

he did say that we're all agreeing on

that so i don't have to see it

but what's it mean

he didn't say we're going to introduce

some communism so you can't own things

market forces alone will make you not

want to own a car

i already don't want to own a car owning

a car is the worst deal in the world

it's terrible

right unless you love cars then it's

fine it's more like a hobby

all right

but anyway i would uh i would ask you to

do this

whenever you see any kind of klaus

schwab

reset stuff

just just take a look at the debunks

you know just google it

uh because i think you've got that story

at least some of you have that story

completely wrong

feels like it to me

um yeah so

they predicted the world economic forum

i guess that by 2030 people would rent

what they needed and

they'd be happy about it

i don't know

andres backhouse tweeted today there's

some stats coming out from germany the

consumption of natural gas in germany

was down over 19 compared to 2021

and even more compared to the 10-year

average

and consumption in 2022 is down 14

almost 15 percent

and as andres points out if it continues

the eu gas saving targets might be

feasible

so

the the eu is looking to fairly

drastically

cut back on gas production and it looks

like it might be doable

it might be doable

so

here is another application of the adams

law of sloan between disasters and it

and it gets us to an edge case

the only other edge case that was kind

of clean was the year 2000 problem

when we thought the computers couldn't

handle the year 2000 and society would

break down

i felt like people didn't get serious

about fixing that until a year before

it had to be fixed

but in one year

it was completely fixed

i don't think there was a single problem

that i heard of right so it feels like

the the adam's law of slow-moving

disasters if it's software

could be you know fixed in a year

software is easier to fix

but

what happens when you you know let's say

a year in advance

ish

that you might have to cut back your

energy production by 20 or whatever the

guideline is

d is a year enough for people to change

all the things they do enough

to cut back 20

and i think the answer is yes

it looks like the answer is yes that

people can cut back twenty percent if

you give them enough time and

adjustments and they know they have to

do it

yeah if you have covert going on

um

but this is sort of semi-post coven

likewise germany just said it's going to

fire up three more nuclear plants

if this sounds like a repeat

it's three more so they already

announced they were going to reopen some

plants

and they just they just announced

three more are likely to be reopened and

apparently they can do it quickly

apparently they can do this in a year or

so because they're already built they

just have to be fired up

does adam's law apply to lake mead

the answer is yes

in the sense that

will california run out of water

i think not

but i don't know how we're going to

avoid it

frankly i have no idea how we're going

to avoid running out of water in

california

but we do have time to figure it out

so i think we'll figure it out but who

knows

anyway

all right

anyway germany looks like it'll be okay

despite how

how putin's

you know threat to them is pretty

serious i think they'll be okay

here are two new stories that are

happening at the same time and we're

pretending that they're not

number one the january 6 story is that

trump was allegedly too slow

178 minutes too slow

in speaking out against the protests and

the potential violence

and that and that of course was during

the fog of war

when trump probably didn't know exactly

what was going on because nobody did

um so that's one story that trump was

too slow

now nobody's saying that he did the

wrong thing when he acted because he did

tell people to be you know be

non-violent

but

the complaint is it took too long

all right so that's one story

trump took too long

minutes actually too long

second story which we're going to

pretend is unrelated to the first

is that insiders are complaining that in

the byte administration

biden is putting off important decisions

for as long as a year

right so trump

can't be president the democrats say

because in the fog of war

it took him 178 minutes to act

and two of the major publications owned

that are

you know dominate the republi the

democrat world

the washington post and the new york

times have both debunked this

and but still that's the claim

that he waited too long to act minutes

minutes i say

he waited minutes to act

meanwhile joe biden puts off important

decisions for up to a year and nobody

knows why and they're really bad about

it well i'll tell you why he's not

capable

is there another reason

he's not capable

now here's a little

mental experiment for you

imagine if joe biden had been

in charge

when something like january 6 happened

you know not january 6 but something

like it

can you picture him in charge

and making quick decisions

when he puts off normal decisions for a

year

he's clearly not all there

and is a fog of war

and people are telling him competing

things

but just just put that in your mind

it doesn't go well

doesn't go well

have you seen the back-to-back videos of

biden speaking twice in one day

and how he looks like a completely

different person

one of them looks like oh

he's okay i mean we keep making fun of

him for being old but he's doing a good

job he's reading that prompter

looks looks like he's present he's in

the moment

and then you see the video from the same

day

and he's deranged his eyes are

are bugged and

he sounds like off

it's the same day

all right

you can't have a president who's not

even the same in the morning as the

night

does anybody understand what kind of a

danger that puts us in

that the president isn't even the same

person

in the beginning of the day as the end

of the day

at the end of the day he looks sort of

agitated and

not quite himself does he

is that the guy you want making some

world important decisions

it does yeah i don't know if it's a

sundowner problem and i don't know if

it's

uh that he did or did not get some meds

but

joe biden is not one person anymore

he's two people

i don't know which one's going to be

making the decision

if you told me that the first joe biden

the one in the video where he looks

fairly put together

if you told me he was making a decision

i'd say well i might not like the

decision but he looks like a guy who

could make a decision

right he looks like he's at least all

there

by the afternoon he clearly wasn't all

there

i mean humans can tell

you can tell if somebody's not all there

i mean that's not that hard

that's not a high bar you know you don't

have to go to a lot of medical school to

know when somebody's just not all there

that's that's not a high bar he's not

all there he also we all stand

right

so

it's time for president harris

i think i think republicans should just

stop acting like he's in charge

just stop pretending

and say we don't know who's in charge

but we need to have an investigation to

find out imagine if you would the

republicans

launched an investigation

to find out who's making the decisions

for biden

wouldn't you like to know

because i'm pretty sure i don't know

now

yeah

it'd be interesting wouldn't it we've

never had to do this before you always

suspect somebody's making decisions for

somebody else but this time you'd really

have to you kind of have to wonder

because remember when people thought

cheney was making decisions for bush jr

that matters do you remember when people

thought nancy reagan's

astrologer was influencing ronald reagan

that matters

that does matter

that's not irrelevant

not irrelevant

yeah so yeah let's let's look into that

find out who's in charge but as much as

i dislike uh kamala harris's abilities

she's at least sane

she's at least the same in the morning

as she is in the afternoon whether you

like it or not

i think it's time for harris to take

over

and by the way i don't even well maybe i

am i'm biased so i don't think this is a

political statement because i'm saying

replace him with somebody that's worse

worse in terms of you know more democrat

than the democrat

so i would be willing to take somebody

who's worse on policy and worse in a lot

of ways

just to know she's there

you know just to know she's all there

because the alternative is just scary it

seems random you don't know what he's

going to order

you know angry joe

so i think even republicans should be

calling for harris to take over

and if i were them i'd start taking

meetings with harris and skip biden

because you don't know who's in charge

right

if you don't know who's in charge and

you want to get something done are you

going to take a meeting with biden

i wouldn't i just say we're going to

meet with harris because we don't think

biden's capable

imagine if the republican said from here

forward we're not going to take any

meetings with biden because we don't

think he's mentally capable so we'll

take all of our meetings with the vice

president if she'll have us i mean

obviously she would immediately say i

won't take those meetings but you should

say we want to meet with them as soon as

possible but we like to be with harris

because we don't think that biden's in

control anymore

i mean it would be a political thing to

do but

it would be interesting

well the washington

post uh

is saying that the justice department is

investigating donald trump's actions as

part of his criminal probe of efforts to

overturn the 2020 elections blah blah

have you figured out by now that the

democrat plan is to keep trump

permanently under investigation for one

thing or another that didn't happen

it's pretty clear

that their plan is to keep him

criminally probed forever without ever

finding anything because if there were

if there was anything defined

i don't know if there's ever been a

better offended president in our life

this would be the one guy i wouldn't be

worried about finding out with something

after he became president

you worry about that with every

president don't you what happens if this

president gets in office and

you know a minute later we find out

something we wish we had known

how in the world could there be anything

about trump we don't know at this point

i mean that we could find out

that maybe could happen

all right

um have i ever told you before that the

democrats are really the woman party

the woman party

now you think of them as

you know the party of lgbtq and the the

party of

you know black americans and more

inclusiveness and you know of course

women but you don't think that is the

lead necessarily

but

in my opinion

the women are running the democrat party

and they've started to paint the

republicans as men

so here's a uh

tweet

from let's see who is this midas touch

so this is a democrat

group that tweets

and does other stuff um

and they're saying that republicans

they're they're characterizing

republicans this way as quote we're

going to make women our property turn

america into a dictatorship and raise

the nazi flag once again that's minus

touch right

um

and they complain that the media

is is complaining about the price of gas

instead of talking about

how the republicans are trying to make

women

their property

to which i say

you know republicans can be women

am i wrong

i'm pretty sure republicans can actually

be women

and

yeah

right here

so

it's amazing that somebody who's a

democrat actually

i think is admitting that they see it

this way that the democrats are the

party of women

and the republicans are the party of men

but

are there more

republican men than women

i don't even know that there might be

can somebody tell me that

if you just look at republicans only are

more of the voters women or men because

they're more women than men in general

right

is there

is probably more men because the the

you know the philosophy leads a little

bit male it does

it's changing quickly anyway but my

point is

i do think that the

somewhat accidentally

the republicans have been become the

the parent party

and the democrats have become the the

women party

because i don't think that the democrats

can do anything that women don't agree

with

here's your test

i don't think the republicans can do

anything

that women don't agree with

could could the republicans do things

that black voters don't agree with

yes they could

they could

could they do something that women don't

agree with

nope

not a chance

not a chance

am i right

right they wouldn't get away with it now

let's take that same argument to the

republicans

is there anything that republican

males

would not want to happen that could that

could happen

because there were enough other people

who wanted it

no probably not

i've got a feeling that the republican

party

does have a male bias

and that the democrat party does have a

female bias

but the republican party seems more

explicitly parental in nature

it's more about adults right

it's an interesting match-up women

versus parents and you can see it in so

many ways

well by more than four to one margin

according to rasmussen poll

americans say the nation's problem with

opioid drugs

fentanyl being the worst of them is

getting worse not better and they don't

think

biden is doing enough

so 44 percent of americans

believe that the crisis has gotten worse

and just 10 percent think it's gotten

better

how in the world could anybody think the

opioid crisis got

better

there's more drugs

10

crazy

oh another 16 are not sure oh

oh

let's see

10 percent think the opioid crisis is

getting better

16 are not sure

uh the math at 10 plus the 16 26 26

nearly a quarter

about about a quarter of the country

is bat stupid huh

well that's a surprise

all um

so biden's failing on uh

on that and i think that the the

here's a prediction that i will bank on

you know how follow the money always

explains everything

right

follow the money explains everything

if you look at the opioid in the

fentanyl situation

fall of the money tells you exactly

what's going to happen

number one

there will be more fentanyl shipped into

the country

why

why

because it makes money

so fentanyl shipments in the united

states are

profitable would you agree that there

will be more of them

of course of course so follow the money

guarantees will be more

not less fentanyl coming into the

country

now

have you heard of this thing called the

military industrial complex

we don't like it

we wish it didn't exist

but it does exist

it does exist and so you can't ignore it

and what would the military industrial

complex do

if the

potential

profit

from attacking the cartels went from

looks like that would be a smallish

operation what if it goes to a big

operation

suddenly the military industrial complex

says whoa a new line of business

attacking the cartels but it's got to be

big

like the scale of it has to be big

enough

that the military industrial complex can

get interested

right has to be big otherwise they don't

they don't make enough money

so the fentanyl business will keep

getting bigger

until

it crosses that line

the moment it crosses that line

the military industrial complex is going

to have a trillion dollar payday

because they're going to say you know

we're going to have to sell you some

really expensive weapons to take out

those cartels and to guard the border or

whatever we decide to do

so the two things that you can guarantee

is that there will be more fentanyl

coming in until the problem is so bad

that the military industrial complex

sees a huge profit

at which point they will vaporize

it will take a few years because you

need to spread that profit out

but they will vaporize the cartels

there isn't any other way this can go

because of money

right now the cartels will try to make

enough money to like you know change

something

but but money guarantees

that the cartels will be vaporized

am i wrong

it's just not profitable to do it yet

but it's getting close

yeah

let's say when fentanyl deaths reach 200

000 a year

which should be in a year or two

maybe five years

but there isn't any chance it's not

going to happen

we'll get to you know quarter million

deaths a year

and then the

and then the military and the people who

make money from selling military

equipment will say well we can take care

of that for a trillion dollars

and then we'll pay a trillion dollars

and they will go vaporize the cartels

do you think i'm wrong

there's no other way this can go

i don't see any force from anywhere

any variable they would change the

guaranteed direction that we will attack

mexico

guaranteed

now should we attack china because

they're sending us the

drugs now i don't know if you know how

china gets away with it

so president xi said yes we'll make you

know fentanyl

uh and the the precursors to fentanyl

will make them illegal

so

you know that that's good right we'll

make that illegal in china

but what they didn't do

is make all the variants illegal so the

fentanyl precursor people they just

change the formula a little bit it's

just as bad

but it's not technically the thing that

got banned

now let me ask you this

do you think china can't figure out how

to solve that problem

that their law is not including enough

stuff

can't figure that out right do you think

they care if their law doesn't doesn't

cover those things no they don't care if

they wanted to stop it

they would just go arrest the guy who's

in charge

they wouldn't care about which

you know which precursors are illegal or

legal

they would just go arrest the

if they didn't want it to

keep happening

obviously

obviously the leadership wants it to

continue

it's too easy to stop

so obviously they want it

what should we do if china is sending

precursors essentially military

equipment to the cartels who are killing

americans well i don't think you want to

start a nuclear war i don't think you

want to invade

but we need to kill the dealers on the

ground

you can't tell me that we can't find

anybody in china that we could bribe to

go kill those fentanyl producers

we can't do a terrorist act in china

we can't set a bomb next to a factory in

china we don't have anybody in china who

has those you know that ability to blow

something up

we should be

those should be exploding

maybe it is i mean maybe somebody is but

we should definitely be attacking china

um

covertly to destroy the fentanyl

production

um would that trigger a world war uh

nuclear war

well

that's the risk that china's going to

have to take isn't it

if china wants to kill a quarter million

of us a year which is where it's going

to go to

then they need to risk nuclear war

they need to

right

so yes that is the risk that they should

be looking at very directly

um

all right

uh let's see we've got some more gas

lighting keeping going on here

i don't know if it's just me

but when i heard biden talking about

again

the insurrection that trump ran

here's what i hear

every time biden

the elected leader of the united states

uses the word insurrection

my mind imagines people who look a lot

like me going to jail for nothing

like i can't i can't unpair those two

things

every time he uses the word insurrection

i see him trying to put me in jail for

nothing

and

i think i made a turn today

because it's one thing for him to say

insurrection before the january 6

hearings have concluded

it's another thing to keep saying

insurrection when his own hearings well

i'll say it's his own

have shown that there was no

insurrection or planned insurrection or

actual insurrection

once it's been debunked

if he comes on television and says it

again he is targeting me

that's how i feel

and if my target if my president targets

me

a law-abiding voter who just has maybe

different opinions

if he's targeting me and that's what i

feel

then he's my enemy

he's not my president anymore

now it would be one thing if i were

breaking the law

yeah if your government targets you

because you broke the law well

you know that's that's on you

but he's targeting me for something

specifically that we know

i didn't break any laws

i mean he's putting me in the same boat

with anybody who who thought that the

january 6th thing was not so bad

the violence was bad but in terms of it

being an insurrection versus a protest

right

i'm taking this personally from now on

before the january 6 group debunked the

insurrection charge i was willing to let

that stand as well who knows

but now that it's debunked

this is personal

and this is biden against

citizens

it's against republicans basically and

this is the thing that democrats

continue to do

they're not targeting policy or

preferences they're targeting people

and this is a dark term yeah

so that whole dark thing

shark eyes

yeah

biden did have shark eyes

like i saw that too there's something

wrong with his eyes

but it does feel like the precursor to

haunting republicans

and so let me say this i don't feel

biden is even a president at this point

he's just a malign force

because i don't think he's capable of

doing the job who knows what's

you know what's behind it but

ah this is personal now so i i want the

republicans the democrats to know

that they they're walking up to a line

and they've already crossed the line of

making it personal

but let me let me say this as menacingly

as i possibly can

there's another line

and you're getting really close

to it

do you hear that

there's another line

there is another line you know what i'm

talking about

there's another line and you're getting

really close to it

and if i didn't warn you how

close you were to that line i would feel

that i was not doing my job you know as

a patriot

you're really close to the line

you better back up

back the up

it's okay if you make this just

political

political's okay

we're all used to that

you can lie that's political

but

when you start painting half of the

country

as insurrectionists

that's that's a line you need to back

the up off of okay

and and we need to be as clear of this

as clear about this as possible

uh lying's okay i mean we accept it it's

not okay but we accept it

politics is good words words are good

fighting hard

you know trying to game the system

that's all okay

but

you're getting really close to the line

and his last speech was dark and

chilling and directed as citizens in my

opinion

that's how i took it i took it directed

as citizens

you direct your as citizens

who are law abiding and we're trying to

do the right thing i'm positive

i think january 6 was people trying to

do the right thing

they didn't

but i think they tried

but i don't know how i can say this more

carefully

there is a line

back the off it

are you with me

is this just me

you see the line too right

don't pretend there's no line

there's a line

and back the off it and what i when

i say back the off it i mean with

the insurrection talk

you need to correct that mr joe biden

and mr mr democrats this isn't play

right

you're you've been in the political play

field and that's okay

a little bit of play hyperbole

you know even a little lie it's all part

of the political process that's good as

long as you're talking politics as long

as you're insulting you know politicians

you could even you know i don't even

mind if you make some

like general statements about

republicans or general statements about

democrats that's fine yeah yeah yeah all

the democrats are socialists yeah yeah

all the republicans or you know want to

want to control weapon whatever that's

fine that's all fine

but you have to know

there's a line

and if you don't see it

don't say you weren't warned

right

you make this personal

you better back the up

so that's all i'm saying somebody needed

to say it

um

all right that's about it

about it

all right

um yeah i don't even care about the

hypocrisy

right you know there's just a whole

bunch of stuff that's okay

just because historically we've we've

allowed that in politics yeah yeah the

hypocrisy the lying the hyperbole the

the dirty tricks the

you know the

the scheming the fake news that's okay

yeah we're used to that

but

just make sure you know where the line

is

all right

uh you want an insurrection i'll give

you an insurrection

yeah cnn headline right when cartoonist

calls for civil war

well i'm calling to avoid a civil war is

what i'm calling

and i'm saying that uh

you know that slippery slope thing i

keep talking about

where i'm usually debunking it but then

changing my mind halfway through

democrats can push

now let me ask you this

um

do you have the same

feeling i do that

it feels like

it feels like democrats are people who

complain about everything no matter how

small

and republicans are people who

are okay until they're not okay

but that could be just i'm reading my

own personality into some some things it

feels like that right and here would be

the blind spot

the blind spot would be if democrats

are looking at republicans and they're

not seeing

as much complaining as they would expect

because if because if the democrats were

in that position you'd see lots of

complaining

the lack of complaining

from the republicans

should not make you feel comfortable

right

you feel me right

the lack of complaining from republicans

about the way they're being treated

should not be taken as comfort

because

republicans are okay with things until

they're not

democrats are just mad all the time

about everything because the the way

they get resources but is by complaining

how do uh

how do men get resources in the

traditional let's say that the sexist

world

they go work right they get a job they

go work how do women get resources in

our sexist world again lots of

exceptions blah blah blah blah how do

women get resources

by making men feel bad

complaining

right sorry that's how it works

you know that

yeah don't give any trouble with this

because you know it's true you know it's

true

now if i said that's true of every woman

i'd be lying

and if i said that's true of every man

i'd be lying and if i said the world

were only men and women well

i think that that

that that also is too simplistic because

you've got lots of you know gender

ambiguity

yeah some people's you know wives are

the boss of the families plenty plenty

of exceptions

but when i say that the democrat party

is sort of the the woman party

complaining is their operating system

that if you complain enough you'll get

some stuff

the republicans are more like

if we have a good system

we'll all get better stuff

you see the difference

it's a complete based operating system

versus a let's say a system or machine

based

thing like if you make this machine work

we all get good stuff so let's work on

the machine

and the the democrats are more like

if i complain enough i can get some of

your stuff

so one of them is based on an abundance

mindset i'll go work i'll create a

system that makes more for everybody and

the other is based on a shortages

mindset

that

you've got some stuff i don't have some

stuff i need to get your stuff from you

and it goes to me

you know a transfer

now

is there a difference between men and

women

in hunting versus gathering

i'm way out of my depth here so i'm just

speculating

is it true that historically the men did

the hunting and the women did the

gathering

yeah the hunting is you go out and make

something happen

and the gathering is you

find things

you find it

you just find it

i think i think that the democrats being

sort of a

woman-dominated party are all about well

we don't have to make things

we just need to find them

and i found it it's in your pocket

hey i found some money it's over there

in elon musk's pocket

well problem solved

i need some money

there's some money in elon musk's pocket

so

let's put those together and problem

solved

right

there's very there's a very big

philosophical difference between hunting

and killing i'm sorry between hunting

and finding

very big and i feel like the the

republicans are hunters

and the democrats are finders

they're gatherers

now again

huge number of individual differences

i feel like i can only say that to

republicans and get away with it

i i could say well there's a general

thing going on here

but you all understand there's tons and

tons of individual exceptions and then

you and the republicans all go well

that's true

yeah yeah you're talking about a general

thing but of course there are plenty of

exceptions what do the democrats do when

you say that

you racist

i go no no no you you sexist

no no i'm saying there's plenty of

exceptions

and we we respect all the exceptions

equally

well you bigot

i'm really just talking about a general

theme here i'm not talking about any

individual

you

misogynist

so that's the way it works on the left

on the right you you can handle the fact

that individuals can be different than

the average

apparently that's a concept that's not

universally understood

somebody says that as a very funny

female joke that's extremely sexist and

you can't say it

well why did you announce it

don't announce a joke you're not going

to tell us

let me introduce you to the uh

the humor rule

the humor rule goes like this

you can't tell me there's a joke you

can't tell me

you can either not mention it or you can

tell me the joke

those are the rules i didn't make them

up

i did not make them up

but uh i would not encourage you to say

that joke on youtube

[Laughter]

if this were the locals platform they

could tell that joke do you know why

because people on the locals platform

would know it's a joke

that's the difference

and they say okay that's insulting but

it's pretty funny

right on the locals people insult me all

the time but if it's funny

that's fine

it's funny

all right

um

you're saying gathering and hunting or

both harvesting

yeah i feel a difference

i see what you're saying you're using a

word to change the argument

don't use words to change my argument

you know what i'm talking about

all right

uh i haven't seen any big california

fires somebody was asking me

it's possible that california has

figured out how to stop the big fires

because they now have that emergency

helicopter brigade that gets on stuff

quickly and works at night now they can

operate at night as well

is y70 on fire

okay well it's not not nearly as bad as

it used to be our air quality is

actually good where i am

all right well i hope they get that u70

fire under control

all right

um

all right i'll catch up on the u70 fire

i haven't seen anything about that yet

yeah we get smoke from the yosemite fire

as we really

all right

so i guess i didn't know about the

yosemite fire i'll take a look at that

there's an oakland fire

did california clear the underbrush you

know i didn't hear anything about that

um

but i also don't know is there any use

for underbrush

is there any way you can monetize

underbrush

can you collect enough of it to turn it

into anything can you turn it into some

biofuel you can do a biomass thing right

mulch

fertilizer

does it work as fertilizer

underbrush makes the soil of the forest

yeah

well

yeah i guess they do need soil but do

they always need more if you have enough

for a tree

um

oh the oak fires out

all right

what about zielinski

all right i think that's all we've got

for today and i believe that we've done

our job

uh is this the best live stream you've

ever seen

am i mistaken or

or does it look exactly like it is it is

it is

now let me ask you something

um

so good it hurts

let me ask you something

do you think we make a difference

like collectively

so i would have you know no impact on

anything if i didn't have an audience

so the audience basically you know

imbues me with whatever energy i have

um i think we do i think we do

because i think we're we're approaching

the point

where if if you and i collectively all

of you plural

if you and i collectively thought

something was a terrible terrible idea

i feel like it would be harder for a

government to do it just because

you know our opinions do have enough of

a

reach

that it would be embarrassing to do

something that was just a bad idea and

it had been

clearly described as a bad idea

so clarity is one of the things i feel

like we can add to the system what do

you think

maybe that's the only thing maybe the

only thing i add to the system is

clarity and context

because that's all i'm trying to do

i'm trying to only add clarity in

context if i add clarity and context

you should come to the same conclusion

as me

so i'm not trying to necessarily change

your mind

with argument i'm trying to make sure

that you see the same things i see

and once you see them i'm confident that

you will end up with the same opinion so

i don't need to directly change your

opinion i'll just change what things

you've been exposed to and it should be

the same thing

should be

not every time but it should be in the

long run

um

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scott would you do your own show on fox

if offered

no

no i wouldn't

um

so the trouble is as soon as you get a

boss

you're useless

you all get that right the moment i have

a boss

i'm worthless

because that is just the boss the only

thing you know you're hearing is what

the boss allowed me to say

do you think there's anything i said

today that a boss would have let me say

just think about today's show

think about the live stream you just

watched how much of that do you think i

could have put on a network show or even

a cable show almost none of it's right

and i certainly couldn't do the

the level of emotion

i would have a

set time limit

and i guarantee you that i would have

conversations about offending my

sponsors

well first of all who would sponsor this

i would probably already have sponsor

offers you know even with this size of

an audience i would already have sponsor

offers if this were not absolute poison

to sponsors

so one of the things that i can offer

you

is that i will continue to be poisoned

to sponsors

i'm not trying to do that but apparently

if you're honest you can't get sponsored

because the sponsors need you to be

you know just generic and family

friendly and you know stay stay on the

political

right side of things

so

i'm not trying to do that

ed products

all right um yeah it's hard to speculate

under a major brand you're right so i do

a lot of stuff that's pure speculation

and i label it

i don't have a date yet for the russell

brand conversation

um yeah if i if i had sponsors they

would influence me i think they would

so as you know i

do a comic strip for newspapers

do you think that i can do in the

newspaper in online i mean probably more

people see it online

but do you think i could do i could do a

dilbert comic that's exactly the comic i

would want to write

and that the

people who are my clients would be okay

with that the answer is no

no they would not be okay with my honest

opinions on stuff they need they need

something that is family friendly

so you may notice i'm i'm pushing the

boundaries in the past several months

um i'm i'm kind of making all of my

editors and my clients uncomfortable

with the content

because i'm going after some of the woke

stuff etc you know some of the pandemic

stuff and

there are papers that are not running me

so that my comic about you know

the character dave i think there were

some newspapers that didn't run it

because it was too dangerous for him

so i do keep my content within the realm

that i know the clients will allow even

though i'm pushing the edge which by the

way that's what they pay for

you know if your client buys you as a

cartoonist especially my kind of cartoon

they're they're paying you to push the

boundary

but not too much right they need you to

be a little bit edgy that's part of the

that's part of the entertainment

so you're gonna see dilbert getting

a lot edgier in the coming year

i suppose i'm breaking news now in a

small way so so dilbert is going to

get cancelled

um let's say by design

because as i'm approaching my retirement

planning years

i don't want to go out

with a whimper

i don't

i want to go out in flames

and if i have to set something on flame

that needs to be set on flame and by the

way productively i'm not talking about

anarchy i'm talking about setting on

fire something that maybe needed to be

set on fire

but yeah

dilbert is going to get edgier and

edgier until they won't let me do it

anymore

so that's my that will be my version of

retiring and then you know what i'm

going to do

i guess i'm breaking the news here for

the first time

so this is a

preliminary plan but it's an actual plan

i'm going to be

cancelled by everybody in the regular

client business

and then i'll move my content to a

subscription service

called locals

so there is a good chance that say five

years from now

that the only place you would ever see a

dilbert comic is on a subscription

service

but then

i can say anything i want

and you haven't seen that yet

you've you haven't seen that yet

so but i'm not going to do that unless i

get cancelled and i'm going to try as

hard as i can

to fly as close to the sun as i can and

by the way

i never do anything just to offend

some people think i might

but i'd never do content that's meant

for entertainment or maybe to provoke

but i don't do it just to piss people

off

there's a reason for it

all right that's all for now

and

i'm gonna go do something else and so

are you i'll talk to you later