Episode 2440 CWSA 04/10/24

well we've got a little bit of a uh streaming lag here so I'm going to oh there we am got to print my notes and we'll be good to go in mere moments Today's show is going to be a little extra awesome I don't know why it's just I get better every day or the news is funnier as we get close to the election I'm not sure what's going on but I can tell you this for sure it's going to be a good day allow me to grab my notes all right good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of human civilization it's called coffee with Scott Adams pretty sure you've never had a better time especially with caffeine if you'd like to take this experience up the levels that nobody can even understand well all you need for that is a cup or Mar glass a tankered cheler Stein a Canen Jugger flaska vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me now for the unparallel pleasure the dopamine h of the day the thing that makes everything better is called a simultaneous Sip and it happens now go oh God that's good Sublime well let's jump right into the news well according to the article in the BBC retiring in your 60s is becoming an impossible thing and 75 is a new 65 and people are going to work longer is that a good thing or a bad thing you tell me suppose people start retiring at 75 instead of 65 good for the world or bad for the world I say good I say good because there are several things behind that number one uh everybody knows that people retire and do nothing and tend to die and if your brain is inactive you get your Alzheimer's faster and basically it's really unhealthy for people to retire now when I say retire I think retirement means a different thing than it used to because I consider myself retired right now I work I don't know 65 hours a week or something but I consider myself retired because close to 100% of what I do is my choice don't have to do any of it so if you're doing what you want to do it's a completely different experience you know work is not work when you want to be there so if you can manage man to build up at least enough assets so that when you're over 60 you're doing something that you like instead of something you can't stand then I'd say working is better than not working I mean I'm the perfect example I I have every ability to completely retire and sit on the beach and when I think about it I think oh imagine myself on the beach I'm in Maui and the Sun is warm and I've got the sand in my toes and has it been 5 minutes cuz I'm really bored I can't just sit in the sun on a pile of dirt all afternoon I have to do something useful or I'm not going to feel good by the time I go to bed so much rather be doing this than being on the beach frankly well just in the US inflation rates are not as good as we expected it's being called hot the inflation rate is hot it's hot doesn't look that much worse uh increased to 3.8 compared to a forecast of 3.7 um us CPI annual inflation rate is 3.5 above expectations is 3.4 I mean directionally it's the wrong it's the wrong direction but it's not like a catastrophe yeah here's another question for you are we better off with more inflation or less it seems obvious you want less inflation right but is it if you have a crushing national debt how are you going to get rid of it without inflating it away inflation is the only possibility of survival if we didn't have inflation we could not survive the the math just doesn't work now here's a question I ask about our uh budget death spiral can anybody answer this question off the top of your head and if you can't ask yourself why I'm going to I'm going to say do you know the most important number in the whole world and you're not going to know the answer I bet Nobody Knows the number one most important number to understand if we will survive as a species hypothetically what percentage would America need to reduce its annual budget to have a chance of surviving the debt what percentage 3% or 40% people are saying 42 you act like you know it I'm seeing the number 42 go by a lot now I don't uh now remember you don't have to get to the point where the debt is zero and you don't have to get to the point where the where the debt doesn't grow you do have to get to the point where the you the economy is growing faster a lot of people are saying 40% if it's 40% we don't have a chance of survival you know that right if the only way we could survive is by cutting the budget of 40% we're already dead the that's not recoverable that's way too much but you're probably doing the math wrong here's what I think you're doing I think you're saying we're spending way more than we bring in in taxes in a given year that's not exactly what you need to measure what you need to measure is the growth rate or reduction rate of the total debt that's the that's the thing you got to look at so if you could reduce the total debt with let's say a 4% inflation and then you've also got more growth that reduces how much you have to reduce your budget right so if your budget just stayed flat but you were inflating away the uh but well you'd be inflating away your budget as well as your debt but you would also maybe not adding so much so the the math of it is actually confusing it's not straightforward at all so probably I'm just going to give you my eyeball sense of things just a sense of it probably something like every part of the budget has to be cut by 10% something like that now that now you'd say to yourself but Scott that's not nearly enough to which I'd say you have to to consider all the other effects and then you might be getting close to at least keeping it flat if you keep it flat you could probably survive it so I'd love to know that number because if the number really is 40 that you would have to reduce the budget 40% to survive we're not going to do that we're not going to do that but if the answer is if you cut everything by 10% and maybe 1% a year after that for a while or something like that you could you could make that work you it would take robots and all kinds of GDP growth but you can make it work so I think it's in that range 10% but I don't know well there's a another study of mental health and kids I think Politico was talking about this talk to a bunch of uh Politico was reporting talk to a bunch of mental health um experts to figure out what it is that's causing young people to have mental health issues here's what the experts said they think it's social media social isolation external events such as school shootings climate change war and political instability and they also said uh lack of Independence skills missing developmental Milestones because the pandemic and pressure to be perfect and family instability that's what the experts said that's what the experts said can you name anything on that list that the expert said that wasn't obvious to you is there even one thing that they said that you didn't already know it's crazy these are our experts they got nothing for us nothing yeah and they left out food right so basically the non-expert who said in the comments what about food gave a better answer than the experts if you leave food out of this equation what kind of expert are you food is like right it's got to in the top five you know it might be top one we don't know I mean I think social media is number one or phones in general uh pandemic's probably number two but food has got to be right up there I mean every indication is that your mental health is directly related to your your diet more on that later well apparently there's an effort to figure out who the big persuaders are in the uh social media landscape now you probably know if you listen to me um that Mike Ben has reported how the intelligence people and their foreign entity their entities that are non-governmental figured out some kind of big censorship map where they could figure out who's connected to who so they could figure out if somebody like say Alex Jones is saying something they can map where that message is going to go and then from there where it would go so it's sort of a multi- map of how messaging works on the internet the idea was that they would use it for censorship so they would know who is having the biggest impact and then they would just say well conveniently we think that's not true so we' better censor you and then they could do it very well because they know exactly what nodes to turn off and on but that would be looking primarily at numbers so that method says oh this is a big account connected to lots of people so they map that out and it looks like that path of influence is like the big one because it goes through larger accounts however this newer technique is looking at the uh personalities of the individuals getting down to really understanding people uh given data that we know about people and I think it's looking for the super spreaders or the people who are the most persuasive so independent of how many um followers they have people have different you know batting averages in other words some people will bat much higher than their their user count so this new way would pick that up does that sound familiar has anybody read a book that I may have written in which it predicted that someday in the future this book written in 2003 I think predicted that just about now because the it predicted this future that just about now the government would if figured out how to find the prime influencer now in the book which is fiction it's called the religion War it's cancelled but it's coming back this summer it's going to be reintroduced as part of a God's debris Trilogy the trilogy is really 2.1 books because there's a short story that's new that makes it three entities we're putting them together and reissuing because the religion war and God suprem were both kled kled but they're coming back can't be stopped anyway and uh and one of the key really one of the most important parts of the religion war is the prediction that we would be able to do exactly this find out who was the persuaders without maybe even those people knowing it now here's my theory in the real world I suspect that some things start in multiple places at the same time do you ever see a news story and your first thought about it is oh this is the frame I'll put it in or this is the way I'll understand it then you find out everybody else is doing the same thing so there's some things that we all just sort of see at the same time that's different but there are other things that I'm completely convinced start with one person actually literally one person out of the billions of human beings that one person puts it into a certain way maybe it uh influences a bigger account and then it goes from there now I don't think it's the same one person who influences every decision but I've got this feeling that literally one person is a common way that um memes and narratives form literally one person now do you think that there are say a handful of people who in the world who are more responsible for the narratives than you could imagine and maybe they're not even famous they might even be behind the scenes but do you think that that's viable or a possibility that there are a handful of people who are not just world leaders and have power and money but have specific skill to change the world through persuasion do you think that's the thing in the real world well if you don't good because that that's how persuaders hide in plain sight because you don't believe it's possible that well one of the things about being a hypnotist is you can literally tell people what you're doing and doesn't make any difference has no no impact on your Effectiveness you can say I am now hypnotizing you and people will say uhhuh yep oh look at me I'm so hypnotized go ahead Mr hypnotist try your best oh I'm so hypnotized and then there hypnotized anyway so it's uh uh fiction predicts reality once again we're going to look for the prime influencers uh does that worry you that somebody will make a map of the prime influencers it should because the prime influencers who are undetected are the only ones giving you any freedom right now it's the only counterforce because the government has the power to basically clam down and everything the only thing they CL can't clamp down on is the only thing they can't clamp down on is fill in the blank what's the one thing that a government can't clamp down on something you can't find if it can't find it it it's helpless and right now it can't find it don't you think that the reason they're trying to find the prime influencers is because they don't know who they are they wouldn't be looking for them if they knew who they were they actually can't figure out who's influencing but if they find us I mean people then it's going to be a whole different game and the people who are influential probably going to go to jail on trumped up charges probably because they're going to have to take him off the field Alex Jones style we'll talk about that well there's a new survey that says that climate change is uh only the most important thing to 2% of the people only 2% see Biden's green agenda as the top issue while a quarter of the people see the border is the top concern well I'm not going to make fun of the fact that 25% think the border is the top concern because it's a survey with lots of different choices and that just happened to be the biggest one so uh let me think could it be possible that there's such a thing as a prime influencer like one person literally one person who could change the entire narrative from uh climate change being the existential threat to really maybe that's not so much of a threat but migration is a key threat who would be a Prime influencer on that Trump now you Elon Musk you know is certainly a big part of things now B Elon is not anti-climate crisis I think he's just you know a reasonable voice in that sphere I would say this is Trump this looks like one person that this poll looks like the effect of one insanely persuasive person Trump mostly now you would say to yourself but but but Scott what about all the other people who also say similar things to which I say probably because of trump right you it's safe to say what he says because he's already said it it's safe for you to say I'm not sure these climate models are good if I've already said it and I didn't die so I I get to test it down for you can I say this without getting canceled and then you can watch yeah so yeah I think the government's going to figure out who's behind a gigantic shift like that from climate to border know some of it might be just reality too we see a lot of images of the border and climate is less visual unless you make up stuff like this hurricane was caused by all right um Biden says he's uh looking into his people are looking into whether he has the power by himself to shut the US border down yeah he's we're examining whether or not I have that power Biden said uh no guarantee all right let me explain this let me give you a little lesson on leadership when um China originally got the co virus and we didn't know what we were dealing with and we thought um wouldn't it be good to maybe keep that out of America until we figure out how bad it is you know because we didn't know and day one we saw scary pictures and then Trump uh fairly soon after closed closed to travel now we could argue whether it was closed enough but for for my purposes he uh made a big difference at least in terms of the traffic and was it legal was it legal to close traffic I don't know but was it the right decision yes of course yes so the right decision if you're the leader is you stop the danger immediately you stop the danger and then you figure out if you did legally that's the order of things that's what leadership is the the whole point of a commander-in-chief is we say you know what there are going to be situations where you have to act fast and then we'll debate it later but we're going to elect you to make the dangerous important decision fast and then we'll talk about it and we you know we hope that you did things as legally as possible but as long as long as you're on our side as long as it's well-intentioned you did your homework we're going to back you even if you bent the rules a little bit because we want to be safe and we asked you to keep us safe and we don't want to handicap you so do what makes us safe and then we'll talk about it after whether that was the right thing to do but make a save first who who would get that right Trump would Trump would get that right every time he would say well close the border we'll figure out if that was legal after the fact you know it's because it's not permanent if it's not permanent and none of this is permanent do it first debate it second that's the way it works that's basic leadership that's leadership 101 it's literally not leadership if you're waiting for your lawyers and the public to weigh in oh what's the what did the polls say am I going to lose the election uh what did my lawyers say what does Congress say all that's wrong first you do it and then you let everybody talk about it after we're safer than we were it's amazing to me that that's not obvious to voters it's a complete abdication of leadership complete abdication of leadership there's no leadership in that that is followership we didn't need that we wanted a leader all right the AP Associated presses uh did some kind of a survey about uh journalists who use AI already it says nearly 70% of Newsroom staffers are using AI for different things backgrounds and uh you know maybe for posts on social media and stuff uh oneth said they'd use generative AI for multimedia to create Graphics Etc now here's an interesting question what part of the news is the human doing now at the moment it's still mostly the human using AI as a tool but what exactly is a human adding to the process if you took them completely out of the process what would it look like because the only thing I can think of that the humans at the Associated Press are adding to what AI could do generating news is the lies the lies are the only thing the humans could add because I I don't know how much reporting the AP is doing you know on its own versus looking at other stuff and Reporting on it because a lot of this reporting is just looking at press releases and then writing up the story from the press release or you look at how some other news entity covered something and you talk about how the news covered it I don't think too many of these journalists are going in the field and doing a original reporting and if they did is there anything that AI couldn't do AI can make a phone call AI can have a conversation AI can poll people it can ask for opinions it can tabulate them summarize them what exactly is a human doing literally the human is adding the lying that's what they're adding The Narrative so the narrative is also the lying you know it's Lying by narrative or lying by what you leave out so the human's going to have to come in and remove the context because the AI will be tempted to add context well some people say this and other people say that so the humans got to get rid of the some people say no no no the narrative does not support both sides so get rid of the both Sid stuff yeah the human literally is only for the lying speaking of lying you you know the story of the NPR editor who admitted that NPR didn't they actually left their business as being a news entity when Trump uh got in the race or got elected I guess and they paid became an anti-trump organization with no regard to what was true that actually happened in the real world it's exactly what it looked like we all saw it but now an Insider an actual editor from NPR is saying everybody that's true they just became a bigoted biased uh propaganda Network they completely abandoned their responsibility to the public because they thought there was a bigger responsibility they they came to believe the Trump was Hitler and they couldn't just do their journalist job they had to they had to kill Hitler y so NPR uh so how did that strategy work with NPR let's check in on their numbers let's say in 20122 they had 45 million views on the radio show I think um 45 million wow that's doing pretty good how' they do two years later uh uh once people knew that they had lied about everything so they've gone from 45 million views in 2022 to 2024 is now around 14 14 from 45 two years ago do you think people noticed that it's not real news and therefore they didn't need it whatsoever did they notice it was just screechy did they notice it was a lot of mentally ill women who got radio shows they probably did now some of it might be that you know social media is more interesting or whatever but yeah turns out the NPR literally turned from a news industry into or news business into a propaganda business and during at least the second half of that they dropped almost all of their business they're basically on the way of going out of business if you can call it business and the question I wonder is now that NPR is admitted being fake news and there's no question that this happened to all of the other left leaning entities can can we agree and by the way if you were to look at a list of objective um news because everyone every once in a while somebody will say we looked at which news entities are the most objective and they'd say oh this one on the right is so right leaning and yes we admit this one on the left left is pretty left but at least you've got NPR right in the middle huh am I am I imagining that I actually heard that that people rating the bias of news entities put NPR like solidly in the middle I think I've seen that right I'm not I'm not imagining that that the other news the other fake news told us that NPR was the good one it was never true and and anybody who listened to it who had any sense of what was real who knew it I mean it was just screamingly obvious that it was a completely corrupt organization and they'd abandoned the news business a long time ago anyway um so are Democrats noticing I doubt it do you think Democrats saw that story that found out one of their favorite news sources was completely fake for years no bet they are not familiar with that story do you think do you think that story got surfaced on all their Facebook posts do you think all the left leaning women CAU that story nope nope you saw it because you already agreed with it nobody else is going to see it siloed I saw a post from Heidi bionis who has a very clever um clever X account lots of good posts there good follow good follow Heidi bionas and she said that say in a post most psych majors and True Crime True Crime fans are women for one simple reason we're crazy has anybody ever noticed that psych majors are generally people looking to fix their own problems almost always I've never seen anybody who was perfectly mentally healthy who wanted to go into the psychology business I've never seen it it's people who have their own problems and from it they think they've learned something or learn more want to help people are in the same situation but basically it's the the business the job that attracts the people the most people who would self assess as having mental problems but what about this true crime stuff how many how many of you men have been in a relationship where your female partner was obsessed with True Crime shows and you looked at and said you know what why do I want to expose myself to this how many minutes of my life should I be looking at horrible you know crimes and all the details of them and you think to yourself what is wrong with you that you find this entertaining I'm deeply disturbed by the fact that of all the things you could watch while I'm strumming through reals on Instagram of kittens hugging dogs literally I spend some part of every day scrolling through Instagram which has now um quite lovingly served up a Non-Stop trail of cats hugging dogs can't get enough I cannot get enough of cats hugging dogs I will watch that all day long you know what I won't watch True Crime now just wait a year and I've spent a year looking at cats hugging dogs and let's say somebody chosen randomly woman has spent her time uh watching non-stop True Crime TV shows and TV shows that make you cry and feel terrible who who who's going to be in better shape at the end of the year me watching kittens hug dogs all day long or a crazy woman who's probably going to become a Psychology major to figure out what the hell is wrong with herself anyway I bring that this up because the uh the theme that uh women are crazy not all of them by the way I I I feel terrible that I have to even say this can can we do this like an idiot again all right here let me let me here here's a special announcement for the idiots who are listening now most of you are not idiots so you can talk among yourselves this is just for the dumbest people when I talk about something about women I never mean all women and when I'm talking about women being batshit crazy I'm mostly talking about left leaning liberal women so if you're not one of those and you're not crazy I'm not talking about you but it's time that we are just being open about the fact we have a massive problem of mentally ill women and it's not just a massive problem because they are victims of whatever the hell is going on in the society that's making them crazy but they're also in charge they have the power in the Democrat Party which has a majority and it's a it's an existential threat B crazy women is the biggest existential threat because it sits above every one of our problems every one of our problems we can't work on it because there's somebody who's bad crazy stopping you from fixing it and it's the same group of people over and over again bad crazy women until you can say it out loud you can never fix it so that's the service that I'm presenting to you um I've got I've got enough arrows in my back that any of the new arrows are just going to hit the other arrows kind of invulnerable at this point all right now in a shocking twist that you will not expect I'm going to debunk a h a hoax about The View host Sunny hosen you're going to have to put up with us you're not going to like it you know that I've debunked the fine people hoax and the drinking bleach hoax from president Trump and you know that I've told you exactly how those hoaxes are created by taking something out of context and just leaving out the context right and I've described them in detail and I've told you how terrible it is that the news creates these hoaxes well the same thing happened to Sunny hoston so the people on the right can no longer say that they are innocent of this behavior and I'm not going to name names but a number of people believe that Sunny hoston said on live TV they believe this happened that she that they believe she said the eclipse might be caused by climate change now that was the story yesterday and it was going around social media and clips were shown so you could look at the clip yourself and you could see her doing it right how many of you saw the clip and say to yourself well I saw it I don't know what you're talking about I saw it myself I saw every bit of that how many of you think you saw it right so a lot of you yeah so you're saying she did say it she did say it now do you remember what happens when I debunk the fine people hoax in front of a Democrat what did they say but Scott he did say it I heard it what happens when I debunk the uh drinking bleach Oaks and a Democrat hears me do it they say uh oh Scott I I heard it with my own own ears I you know you can't tell me it didn't happen stop gaslighting me what happened when I told you that this is an obvious hoax I'm going to tell you exactly how it was done I'm going to tell you what they left out to fool you and you'll still see in the comments but I saw it myself I heard it myself so watch how persuasion is not you know it's not limited to one side and I do this because this is why you watch my show the reason you watch my show is that I'm not going to just take the side because it's the side s hoston who I generally disagree with on almost everything is a victim of a hoax and I'm now going to defend her completely because this isn't cool that's not cool I'm not I don't want to be on the team that's hoaxing the other side not cool now I'm very much in favor of winning at all costs I I think winning is important but she's not running for office she's just a commentator so I'm going to surprise you here's what actually happened there were two contexts she started out joking about it the sign of the end times now when you're talking about the sign of the end times and you're sort of jokingly talking about it is that serious do you think she actually believed that the she named the eclipse earthquakes and cic is happening at the same time as maybe signs of the end times but very obviously it was in a joking context would you agree with me so far that when she mentioned end times that she did mention those three categories earthquakes cicus and eclipses and that she did say wow it feels like the end times you all heard that part that she definitely said that now here's the part you missed because it's taken out of context then the context switched and it switched to um climate change and then when she talked about climate change she she sort of wondered out loud um if earthquakes and cicas could be maybe there's a climate change effect so really big she's a big old dummy right because who who would really think that earthquakes are caused by climate change like that's just sort of stupid right or who would think that maybe the the insect world could be greatly affected by climate change just kind of dumb right is it dumb Google it if you Google does climate change affect earthquakes the answer is yes according to Google the answer is yes the it's very plausible I'm not saying it's true I'm saying that Google says it's true that it's plausible plausible just plausible that climate change could affect earthquakes they also say that climate change absolutely could have a gigantic effect on insects now it might be a negative effect whereas the cic would be you know there's a lot of cicos that's sort of the opposite now I ask you this is it crazy to wonderand out loud if you believe in climate change now you could argue that you know that that's crazy too but I don't think I don't think believing in climate change is crazy that's not crazy it might be wrong it might be alarmist but if it agrees with most of the scientists even if I think they're wrong it's not crazy right I I don't think people are are suffering mental illness because they believe the scientists I just think scientists are probably a little hyperbolic and you know they're making money and stuff but they're not crazy it's just something they believe that may or may not be true but here's the key when she talked about climate change that was a change from the end times thing and she did not mention in that context the eclipse if she had said huh I wonder if the eclipse is caused by climate change I would say oh my God that's a dumb person that's a dumb person but if she said maybe the earthquakes and the ccus have something to do with climate change she knew more than you did she knew more than you those are real actual conversations now there is no connection between the cicas and and the climate change that I know of but if you were not a cicada expert and it became very clear that she didn't know the whole cicada situation just that they were coming uh she didn't I don't think she knew that it was on the 17-year schedule and there were two different kinds and by coincidence there different schedules going to line up so it' be worse this year now if you didn't know that and you know why would you expect she's clicking on the bug stories right yeah it's easy to imagine that you see a headline about a lot of bugs are coming and you don't want to click on it it's like okay bugs are coming got it don't need to know the details um so I would say that uh she was right on point for not only her joke about the sign of the end times perfectly good joking uh that uh earthquakes and eclipses and cic is happening at the same time is just kind of funny coincidence and then when she talked about climate change she accurately picked two items earthquakes and bugs that uh real serious scientists say could be greatly affected by climate change and so ladies and gentlemen I I submit to you that uh Sunny Hosten was a little bit smarter than you and a little bit more clever than you and a little bit more funny than you and does not deserve any uh any mocking for this particular comment however may I join you and Link Hands by saying she says some really bad and dumb things about Trump but at least that's done under the cover of you know pure uh pure let's say um Democrat propaganda so when when the view is talking about oh Trump is a devil we all kind of know where that's coming from that it's Pol i.

Cal you don't take it tooo seriously but when she's talking about this I think I think her opinion was not only funny and entertaining which is her job but she was pretty close to the scientific consensus whether that's true or not all right how how did you take that everybody okay so here here's what you should be feeling if you thought that story was true true you should be feeling some discomfort and some of you are just going to reject it and say no I heard it Scott I heard it and and then other people said to me because I brought this up in my man cave other people said to me but Scott uh Joy bear and um Whoopi also heard the same thing you heard because they tried to correct her to explain like an idiot would explain uh the eclipse is just sort of something we knew was coming for a hundred years it's not related to climate change so because whoopy thought that that uh Sunny hoston was talking about the eclipse should you believe that Sunny Hosten was talking about the eclipse no because what happened was whoopy and joy bayar heard what you heard they misheard and they didn't notice she had changed context from talking about the funny end times thing to climate change which was you more of a factual conversation so they also were fooled don't use Whoopi or Joy bear as your source for why you're right that's not good thinking they're a terrible source for what is a good interpretation of what anybody said in fact they're among the worst all day long they misinterpret Trump for a job Mis interpreting things is primarily what they do it's almost their entire business model all right uh the Mc.

Kenzie consulting company said it was going to pay some of its employees to not work for nine months uh and look for another job they're going to pay them to not work what's that called is that sort of like sort of like they're fired don't we usually call that you're fired but it's nice that they gave him nine months to find another job but still just fired and here's the embarrassing thing if you're Mc.

Kenzie and you're a consulting firm uh why didn't you see this coming their their job is to tell businesses how to be healthy businesses and how to have a strategy that works it's a little bit embarrassing if they start firing their own employees a little bit embarrassing because it means they they grew too fast or they didn't read the room right or or their model wasn't working or something because they they outgrew their business so would you hire somebody to tell you how to run your business if you knew they changed we're firing people because we have too many into well it's more like we're paying them to look for other jobs don't say we're firing them that look like a mistake no no no we're so Progressive we're going to pay them to look for better jobs Mc.

Kenzie Consulting here's my favorite story of the day terrible as it is you've heard of craft Lunchables it's a it's a little package of lunch likee food with some meat and cheese and stuff in there and it's a popular kids snack now um turns out that Consumer Reports looked into them the store bought versions because they have store bought and they have school versions The sto store bought versions uh which are made by Craft hind um found relatively high levels of lead and cadmium now there's no there's no level of lead that's anything except bad for children so what do you think of the psychologist who didn't mention food does that feel a little more relevant at the moment that you know that one of the most popular foods for kids has lead in it and we're pretty sure that lead is not good for your brain am I am I out in the limb there or is that true I didn't research it recently but aren't we sure that lead is bad for your your mental um State I thought we knew that fairly reliably that lead is just the worst thing you want to put in a kid's body so that's happening then cadmium um some of you know is a component for batteries um and it's in some of the Lunchables now the sort of a good news bad news because if you put the lead and cadmium in the Lunchables and then the child eats it they can actually charge their smartphone just with their own body because the kids if they eat the Lunchables they're they're basically half battery and half child and uh so you don't even need to plug in your phone you can just sort hold it in your hand and the cadmium and lad plus the static electricity will charge your phone no I made that up that's all made up but cadmium does come from batteries so I don't want too much of it in my body now let me tell you why uh and it has tons of sodium now here's my first encounter with craft Lunchables many years ago I decided that I'd made enough money in the Dilbert world that I wanted to see if I could give something back like literally solve some big problem and I thought I was very interested in nutrition at the time and I knew that I was so busy that I wasn't getting good nutrition so I created a company to make a nutritious Convenient Food that you could always have something that was perfectly nutritious it was just convenient so the form that we chose was a burrito that would be packed with all the nutrients you needed for the day so if you were in a big hurry and you don't want to spend much money and you just wanted to eat something you knew would taste good because burritos almost always tastes good it'd be like I imagine it to be like the blue jeans of food you know how blue jeans sort of they work in every situation except formal you know like they're they're easy to wash and take care of and they don't cost too much and they feel good they make you look they basically do everything so I thought well maybe I can make a food that does that just sort of does everything now the company didn't work out for other reasons U partly because the formula in the burrito made you fart so hard that it would inflate your socks as I once wrote and that was sort of a negative so we we couldn't really mask all the minerals in it because in order to get a good mineral and vitamin count you had to put all these additives in there so you couldn't get anywhere near the taste that you wanted because you had to mask all the minerals now you might say to yourself why do you have to add anything to food like if if your burrito is full of all the things that have the vitamins and minerals you know your broccoli and your kale and your beans and whatever why do you have to add anything well it's because you've been lied to forever but when you were told that if you just have a balanced diet you'll get your vitamins and minerals if you do the math you'll find out that no matter how much you eat and no matter how well you eat you don't come anywhere near the food you eat doesn't have vitamins and minerals in anywhere near the minimum requirement that you need so we had to supplement there was no way around it but you but it didn't work as a supplement it just made it too hard anyway so part of that story is we sold into 7-Eleven imagine being a startup company that gets a contract with 7-Eleven now it's a contract to test it so they would say we're going to test it in these stores and at the end of the test we'll decide whether it's a permanent product so you just had to do well and sell sell during the test do you know how many units we sold during the test take a guess how many total units just a guess how many numbers did we sell for the test because it was a number of sels the answer is zero zero sales do you know why it wasn't because people looked at the product and decided not to buy it it was because every store that we checked the product was covered up by another product and it was always the same product craft Lunchables craft Lunchables were actually placed in front of my product in all the stores we checked did you know that that's a common trick because somebody like craft would have people who are boots on the ground so they actually visit the stores I didn't have boots on the ground because we were startup so it's just when we checked we found that their boots on the ground did this thing because you don't want to be selling Lunchables which anybody can look at and say I'm not so sure that's the healthiest thing I could give my kid you can't have that sitting right on the Shelf next to something that just has all the vitamins and minerals that your kid needs right they can't be next to each other so they just move theirs in front of it in all the stores we checked everyone you sold nothing and the test failed and I went out of business uh by the way same thing happened in some other places we we sold it to Costco and Safeway made all the sales it's just none of the tests worked and the tests didn't work in other places because they never tested it in Costco we signed up to do a test in a number of stores shipped them the product product sat in the back Warehouse the whole time and then the test was over and they said we sold none because it never made it in the store so if we had boots on the ground we could have sent like an army of people to say hey if you moved that onto the Shelf yet can we help you move it to the shelf and that probably would have worked but we're I didn't know that we needed to do that so craft Lunchables the reason that your kids are eating lead and cadmium in part is because they covered up one of the products that would have maybe been very fart filled but didn't have lead and cadmium in it as far as I know probably had too much sodium in it I will admit that everything has too much sodium in it I think if you believe the sodium is bad for you I'm not entirely convinced all right there's an Arizona Arizona mom who pled guilty to poisoning her Air Force husband uh with bleach so she was putting bleach into his coffee maker and he caught her on video and she's in trouble now do you know why she put bleach in his coffee to try to kill him does anybody know why she used bleach it was cheaper than Lunchables does it sound like I'm bitter oh yeah today is my revenge oh I waited craft you Lunchables I waited good luck Lunchables Good Luck Good Luck have I mentioned that our food supply is poison and that craft Lunchables apparently is part of that too bad yeah so next time you want to kill somebody either put bleach in their coffee no don't do that don't ever do that um or you could give them Lunchables don't do that don't ever do that not to somebody you love anyway um all the London is reporting that Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner I guess um Jennifer G Garner's daughter came out as trans during her grandfather's funeral this week which is really the best time to do it you know if there's ever a funeral of a beloved member of your family the best thing to do is to make it all about you you know Grandpa's dead but what really matters is I'm transitioning I'd like to announce that at the funeral so maybe timing timing work on the timing but uh turns out that there's more than that because not only is uh Jennifer Gardner's daughter coming out his trans but Ben Affleck um has a non-binary kit and the as the redheaded libertarian pointed down on X the chances of Ben affle having uh oh well between the two of them they've got a transkid and a non-binary are about one in N million I don't know if she made up that number one in N million but it's very unlikely that a couple would combine families and there would be both a trans and a non-binary which strongly suggests that there's a social contagion element to it now I ask you this question do you think that either those kids of Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner do you think that they use Tik Tok just take a guess I don't know the answer but do you think they use Tik Tok I'm going to say that would be a safe bet do you think Tik Tock has the ability to turn off our reproductive uh urges yes yes it does and in fact the Ben Affleck Jennifer Garner family oh I guess that's right because they were married at one point so it must be both of their kids I was thinking it was a blended family but I think it's I think it's their two kids that they had together um I think we've reached a point where we could calculate the reduction in American reproduction based on Tik Tok alone and how you would do it is you would just look at Tik Tock users versus non-tick Tock users and try to balance everything else out the same um and my guess now this is just a hypnotist guess this is not based on any data this is just my knowledge of persuasion and how it affects children and how it would be effective if it came to them through their phones and was repeated over and over so it's just my knowledge of the field not any data whatsoever in my opinion Tik Tok will reduce the um reproductive urge of 20 to 40% of its users something like 20 to 40% of Tik Tock users will be far less likely to reproduce because the things they're learning are that they could be a gender preference or a sex that is very difficult to reproduce you know it's more it's less likely than your your standard um hetero couple they might have kids but they're going to have lower production reproduction rates than you know the standard traditional Christian family or Muslim family so I'd love to see that estimate I'd love to see somebody just say okay what percentage of Tik Tock people are you know trans and non-binary compared to the public at large and then just make an estimate that says okay the the trans Community has you know a reproduction rate of 0.1 the hetero Community has something closer to two you know two for two like a one for one replacement and then you just project it forward and you could actually find out how many people are being denied Life by being in a situation in which it's unlikely they'll ever be born if you were to look at the total number of grandkids that Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner will have collectively knowing that they have a non-binary and a trans um in the family don't you think they'll have fewer grandkids than if all of the k kids identified as hetero now this is not any kind of knock on any hetero or trans or non-binary um if you're if you're new to me uh I'm very Pro adults doing whatever they need it's not up to me I'm definitely not the one judging you I don't have a judgmental bone in my body do what you need to do you're an adult the the fact that I think it won't work I don't get a vote you didn't get a vote on my co shot and I'm not going to let you debate it like I'll let you debate what I said about anybody in public which is nothing I said make up your own decisions but you don't get to vote on my personal health decisions and I don't get to vote on whether you're binary or trans it's up to you so this is not being judgmental I'm just doing the math the math suggests that the more trans there are the the fewer reproduction possibilities there are so you could actually calculate what Tik Tock is doing to our population meanwhile in the Dilbert reborn comic which you could see if you're subscribing here on X or if you want to see more than just the comic a lot more on the locals platform but uh if you were watching that you'd see that asuk the intern has become non-binary from using Tik Tock and uh things aren't things aren't going the way he hoped all right uh Germany of as you know was just down his nuclear power industry and becoming dependent on Russia because they were making bad decisions about their green future they didn't really have a replacement for the things they took offline except for Russian gas and that put them in a black mailable weak position as Trump and others pointed out so can you can you tell me did Angela Merkel make those decisions to shut down the mer the uh nukes I'm not so good with my Germany history uh politics was it under Angela Merkel or was it just everybody wanted it okay so it looks like that will be seen as one of the most massive mistakes of all time in terms of managing a country so female leader female leader bought into the uh climate crisis Hysteria and destroy the manufacturing base of our country built mostly by Man by turning off their electricity because she fell for a hoax the climate crisis so I'm just calling out the facts anyway but I'm going to give a different spin on this um you know we many of us believe that the war in Ukraine doesn't have a good justification and that the story about stopping Russia from advancing may not be the whole story and it looks more like it's a giant CIA you know Energy company play to grab all the resources from Ukraine keep it out of the hands of Russia and to destroy Russia's energy business and maybe even change their change the leadership in Russia now if you just hear me say that it sounds like the craziest most Reckless thing you ever heard in your life I think we all agree on that but I'd like to take you to another frame I imagine that in some dark room somewhere the people who really are looking at the world for the next 100 years may be saying something like the following the only way America survives is if we capture Russia's energy business that might actually be a conversation how are we going to pay off our national debt well it would be helpful if you captured the energy business of the biggest producer or got them out of the business so our oil could we could charge more you know so I wonder if this isn't just a gigantic economic play and it would be more accurate to see Russia and the United States as two competing mafias and our Mafia is trying to rub out Putin he would rub us out if he could but he knows he can't so he's just playing his game as best he can and to me it looks like to me it looks like the United States is just trying to overthrow Russia to take their money in the form of energy now what would that do in terms of our geopolitical future for Russia and I'm sorry for China suppose you say to yourself Scott Scott Scott the biggest risk is China it's not Russia to which I say hm but how can China Thrive if they don't have energy if you denied China or if you had control of Russia's energy you would have a lot of Leverage on China wouldn't you so China would have a lot of Leverage on us but then we would have you know it it' be like China grabbed Us by the balls and says yeah we have so much control over your big Pharma and your big Industries and stuff that we got you you better do what we want but if we were to control hypothetically uh Russia's entire energy infrastructure which looks like the play we would have them buy the balls and it would be at least mutually assured destruction because China can't live probably without Russian energy or at least they wouldn't Thrive so part of me thinks that there might be some really dark Personalities in our government in the deepest deepest spy networks who are saying I hate to break it to you but if you don't conquer Russia we're dead because if we don't control their energy there's no other thing that could be a big enough thing to keep us from dying from our own debt and and China becoming the dominant country in the world so I'm not saying that that's actually a conversation but I wonder I wonder if it is because shouldn't it be shouldn't there be somebody who's making the 100-year plan and says you know what energy is the whole play if China if Russia has their own energy they sell to China and we become the you know the Third Country in that Trifecta but if we could capture Russia's energy Russia would have nothing else so Russia would be completely out of the game and China would be dependent on our allies how convenient for us so anyway I just put that out there there's a congresswoman Jasmine Crockett she's a Democrat from Texas and she's on video and wokeness shows us this um she said uh it might not be the best idea to give tax breaks to Black citizens as a form of reparation it might be better to give them checks because not all black people pay taxes so a tax benefit wouldn't help them all but a check would check helps everybody now I got to watch a video of two people I don't know casually discussing how much of my money they should take from me it's very offensive it's very offensive because I'm not even part of the conversation nor am I part of any slavery Legacy or anything but I'm just watching two people I don't know casually discussing taking my money because they can or they hope they can and let me say this as as clearly as I can I have no respect whatsoever for for anyone who thinks I owe them reparations I have no respect for you none not only that I don't have any respect for anybody who supports Dei now I think that's important to say because we live in a world in which being respected is actually an asset so if you keep hammering on reparations in all likelihood you won't get any cash but you'll be giving the giving away the asset of any kind of respect I cannot respect you if you're asking me for reparations blah blah blah you're a good argument don't care blah blah blah racism true don't care I mean it's not that I don't care it's just it's not relevant to taking my money if I were the story that's different but if I'm not part of the story I don't care about your racism from other people that does doesn't mean I owe you money I don't respect you I have no respect for anybody who's Pro Dei now you have to you should put that to the extent that I represent any other people with that view and by the way show me in the comments would you agree that you don't respect anybody who's even trying to get reparations or trying to make Dei a thing am I alone there or is it you would also not respect anybody in that domain yeah shut up racist all right well I think it's important for everybody in any kind of a big conversation to know what the costs and benefits of their actions are and one of the costs of Dei and one of the costs of even asking for reparations is a complete la loss of respect now if it's still worth it at least you are fully informed now and and by the way if the situation were reversed and I thought I could get some free money I might try and if you said I don't respect you for that I would say oh I kind of understand that you this is one of those situations why where you can see why everybody's acting the way they can because you know free money is free money who doesn't want free money did you see the video of the uh the X FBI CIA Intel guy who talked casually on some undercover video that uh that these Ser the agency went after Alex Jones just to kneecap him and take all his money to basically shut him up and discourage people from doing stuff like him now it's one person so could be somebody just bragging to somebody on video but it looked pretty reliable and they even have a word for it it's called nudging so in the case of Alex Jones uh the the thing that took his money was a civil suit by the parents of the Sandy people and the FBI in that case according to this one guy CIA officer former FBI guy named uh what's his name he's a Gavin oennis yeah and he says they call it nudging so He suggests that what happened was the FBI didn't tell people to sue Alex Jones they simply said you know what you'd probably have a good case I don't know a person like you in this situation seems like you could make a lot of money if you Su him I mean it's not for me to tell you to do it I'm not suggesting you do but I'm just educating you that you've got a goodlook case here and I've got the phone number of a lawyer who could take care of this for you but I mean I'm not suggesting it I'm just it's just information and if you wanted to talk to somebody who could give you more information I could give you the name of a lawyer who sues people for this sort of thing somebody really good that's a nudge so they don't actually Force anybody to do anything they just make it likely now let's look at my situation The Washington Post LED my cancellation The Washington Post is known to be a CIA vehicle that's widely understood and we know that the CIA nudges private Enterprise to financially destroy people who were Pro Trump I'm quite notably Pro Trump or have been in the past and suddenly a private entity very closely associated with the CIA leads my cancellation which made it automatic for everybody else once the Washington Post you know made it a thing it became a thing everywhere do you think I got nudged or do you think that was completely organ iic that 100% of the newspapers and Publishers all cancelled me at the same time over a weekend I would say the odds of that being organic are pretty small and look at the other people from Tucker you name it I mean you could do the same six names that I could they all were financially destroyed and it all looked like Private Industry did it didn't it it didn't look like the government did anything didn't look like the CIA did anything didn't look like the FBI was involved in any way but whole bunch of nudging is my guess so I don't have hard proof that the uh Washington Post is a disreputable piece of but they obviously are whether whether they did this nudge on me or not they're still a piece of I mean that's pretty obious obious they do they still hire a Phil bump that's all you need to know all right assemblyman Kate Sanchez in California wanted to uh strip fenel dealers who were here in the country illegally uh from their protection in sanctuary cities so in other words if you were a migrant and you sold some fenel and you got caught you would be shipped back even if you were in a sanctuary City so this is a Californian who is trying to carve out this exception and do you think it passed seems like a pretty obvious one right I mean of course I mean obviously you're going to send back the fenal dealers right no it didn't pass it didn't pass um am I all upset about it because one of my biggest issues ever is fenel I I hate to say it but I'm giving up on the fenel and Tik Tock arguments and the reason is they're both coming from inside the house when I thought it was a problem with Mexico or China or both I kept saying hey Congress hey president hey CIA go after them why are you not shutting them down why are you not booing more but once you realize that in all likelihood I mean by far all likelihood uh both the fenel business and the open borders uh and even the existence of Tik Tock that's coming from Americans if Americans aren't shutting it down it's hard for me to blame Mexico and China right so Mexico and China are accomplices but the main problem is American there's somebody in America who wants that border open CIA probably there's somebody in America who wants the fenel business to keep on going probably the CIA because they work with the cartels and they need them for other stuff so they let them earn uh 50,000 Americans a year could be worse will let you earn that's what it looks like so I don't know how to argue against our own CIA because they're just going to say we're not involved in that that's the end of the that's the end of the trail what are you talking about that's crazy we're going to nudge somebody to take more of your money away if you keep this up so there's no place to go with it I I was super mad when I thought we just weren't acting competently or aggressively enough against the cartels but now that I can see the cartels are our guys I don't know what to do with that because there's no there's no form of persuasion that's going to make any difference because everybody will just say it's not happening and then that's it it's not happening no and if it were it would be sacret we couldn't tell you about it and if it were and it were secret uh there's some bigger purpose so you know you don't understand maybe there is there might actually be a bigger purpose and I don't understand anyway that's what's going on um V has a plan for fixing elections he says here's his plan here's how we move Beyond fights over stolen elections and we unite our country number one make Election Day a national holiday number two single day voting number three paper ballots number four government issued voter ID to match the voter file and then number five English as a sole language that appears in a ballot I I wouldn't mind Spanish on a ballot I I don't think that's the big one but um you know that you do make accommodations if there are a tremendous amount of legal citizens who have a a language issue I don't think that's the biggest deal to to add Spanish I wouldn't add anything else but you know Spanish is a special case anyway so whether you agree with this one or not uh would you all agree that this would be a simple practical huge Improvement compared to the current system would everybody agree the the has nailed this completely he's nailed it completely this would actually make it impossible to argue about it because it's just a good system and we've seen it work in other countries we don't have to wonder if it works we can observe it oh this works fine in these other countries so why won't this happen th this will get no traction and will never be close to being implemented do you know why I can only think of one reason that our system is designed for cheating there's no other reason it's not because of money it's not because we disagree this would work it's not because of efficiency it's not because of timing it's not because of credibility there actually is no reason to do it the way we do it unless the whole purpose is cheating it's designed to be impossible to audit it's designed to be easier to cheat the mail and ballots so it's exactly what it looks like and by the way I'm not speculating about this so so the other things I said you know like well it seems like the CIA is behind it that that's speculation based on you know the best information I have but when I look at the election I'm not speculating I can tell you with certainty that if you design elections this way and then you let it continue despite all the public outcry about this not being good enough you've designed it for cheating there's no there is no second argument it is designed for cheating and we need to stop saying there's any other reason it's not because Democrats disagree it's not because we think there's other factors in play no there's only literally one reason and and here here's the interesting thing nobody even argues that there's a better reason other than uh the fake one that is suppressing voters the the suppressing voters thing is nobody nobody thinks that's true do they if you ever met anybody who thought their vote was suppressed ever ever have you ever met one person who thought their own vote was in some way suppressed I've never even heard of it it's so a thing or or that black people can't get IDs I mean black people mock that as as they should as they should super racist on the Democrats uh part so no let's stop pretending that the elections are designed to be efficient or make it all fair for everybody it's not it's very clearly not designed for that so no that'll none of those things will ever happen um Trump wants toh kill the fisa is it the fisa being reup is that what is so fisa where you can spy an American if that American had contact with a foreigner so since they're allowed to spy on the Foreigner but it would be helpful to see both sides of the conversation that gives them a back door to spy in Americans they just have to get that American to talk to one person overseas have I talked to one person in another country yes I have in my in my last several years have I ever exchanged a message with somebody in another country who had any political you know sort of uh abilities yes yes I have now was I doing anything nefarious no no just ordinary conversations and politics and stuff the same thing I do with anybody but that would give the government the full ability to monitor everything I do I think right if I had any conversation with anybody that they say oh this Australian you talk to I don't know even though they're an ally you did talk to an Australian and we've got some questions that's exactly what they can do they can get into all of my business if an Australian sends me a message on Whats.

App I think that's true am I wrong about that that all it would take is one Australian to send me a message on Whats.

App and they can get all of my communications that's all it would take how hard would it be for them to talk a an Australian into sending me a message pretty easy pretty easy that'd be the easiest nudge of all time so Trump's against it uh MTG seems to be against it but uh the leader Johnson um apparently wants to keep it so I have questions about speaker Johnson and I'd like to renew my hypothesis that our leaders start out with good intentions but when they reach the highest levels such as a speaker of the house or a president I believe somebody pulls them aside I I think in the real world somebody pulls them aside and says look here's all the stuff the public does know and you don't know either here's why we do these things and here's why you can't change it and then they go oh God I can't explain this so they say well good luck so you're GNA have to lie because you can't tell them the truth the way the real world works is really naughty and dirty and terrible and but it's not going to change it's going to stay naughty and dirty and terrible and you're going to have to lie to the public and tell them it's some other reason and it's the only way we can operate it's the only way we've ever operated we don't tell people these things until they reach your job but it's now your job speaker of the house to prevent the public from knowing what's going on for their own good and then they make a good case for it maybe there's some blackmail maybe there's some bribery and then they just own anybody they want they just own any politician they want now the bad guys don't have to own every politician if you said to me Scott do you think Thomas Massie is you know owned by the the intelligence people no I don't think so because they don't need to all they have to do is own the speaker because the speaker will determine what they can even vote on and he'll just not allow the Thomas massis to vote on things that would be a good idea if there's some other reason so that's all as dirty as it looks probably uh here's another of the know the players it's not enough to know the news and hear the news and know the names and know the the people involved you have to know about the players backgrounds to understand the story so let's say I told you this story that there's a bunch of uh important ex-government people um who are uh let's see what they do um they're arguing that the uh January 6 charges um should be not thrown out and that the President should be liable for what he did in office on January 6th uh because if you gave him full immunity you know he could do terrible things in office because you don't want presidents to have full immunity now suppose I told you it was a bunch of retired you know military people what would you say to that you'd say oh retired generals and military people pretty credible pretty credible suppose I told you that one of the leading people in this effort is a fellow named uh let's see what's his name uh Michael Hayden Michael Hayden how many of you recognize that name if you don't know the players the news doesn't make sense he is a former CIA director former CIA also one of the biggest anti-trumpers Russia collusion guys ever he has proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that he's not anything but a propagandist a brainwasher professional liar who used to be the head of the CIA does that scare you because if you told me it was just some generals got together and they were worried about this technical change to a law you know about presidential immunity and they said this could be a problem I'd say well you know we should listen to that but if one of the people who's probably the main principal is uh the past CIA director Michael Hayden you should think that that's a completely illegitimate process and that it's part of a propaganda uh effort and that none of it's legitimate you just have to know the players uh or to put it in another way um Michael Hayden I would best describe him as the poor man's Adam Chef did did I bring it home is there anything else I need to say he is the poor man's Adam shiff that's all you need to know same guy just one's a low rent version speaking of low rent uh do you remember aanat he's in jail for all of his many abuses and the stormy Daniel situation and others and from jail he called into MSNBC to talk to Ari melber and I guess it didn't go the way they expected because said he expects Trump to be convicted but there are all kinds of problems with the case so basically aanad aanad said he's that Trump will be um illegitimately prosecuted now that's not exactly what MSNBC wants to hear is it they'd like to hear that he's going to be prosecuted and it's all legitimate nope even aanati even aanati no friend of the President says yeah he'll probably be convicted but the case is now uh Ari had to immediately have on a guest who had big saucer eyes you know the saucery Liars white eyed oh oh Avanti doesn't know anything about this case which he you know he doesn't know enough probably so I don't think the avenatti's opinion should carry any weight it was just hilarious to watch MSNBC try to uh tap dancer away out of the fact that somebody who doesn't like Trump knows Stormy Daniels knows the law says no it's he's going to be convicted unfairly and it's a bad case so anyway uh I saw that jack babic is all over this and he he said that aanat just called into Ari melbour on MSNBC from prison and told him the Trump case next week from Stormy Daniels is a disaster stale and filled with problems uh and then he said Ari looked like he was going to cry all right I'm gonna give a little defense to Ari melber um he had me on his show back when people still invited me on shows and I have to say he gave me full respect uh let me talk and it was not an opinion that was super comfortable for MSNBC and he didn't he didn't dump on me or Treat Me unfairly and I don't think he's the same as the other people on MSNBC you know Ju Just Like I sometimes call out somebody on CNN uh who who's like a good egg he he's their best egg I'll just put it that way yeah I'm not sure I would go full Good Egg because he's on MSNBC but he's their best egg if you're going to pick an egg he's he's their better egg all right uh the Gaza situation is devolved into a war of definitions of words and we all want to use the word genocide the way we want it to work so I want I want this to be true so I'm going to say this word is defined this way and somebody else is say no that's no genocide it's defined another way you're defining it all wrong but here's the thing if you're arguing over the definition of whether it is or is not genocide you're kind of wasting everybody's time because we all see the same stuff we all know that it's a war we all know that civilians are being killed we all know that Israel would prefer not killing a bunch of civilians if they could just take out all the Hamas people I'm sure they would um so it is what it is and we also know that there will be war crimes guaranteed guaranteed war crimes both sides all the time it's War there there's no such thing as you know a major war action like this with no war crimes I mean you can't really expect that so if you're going to have War you're going to have war crimes and sure enough there are and um so I'm not going to give you my opinion whether it's a genocide or not a genocide I'll just say that we all know what it is we don't need to use one special word why don't we just say it's the thing happening in Gaza that we all witness we all know it's horrific on a level that is sort of unusual um well maybe it's too usual yeah so don't argue about the word it's not about the word defense secretary Lloyd Austin says the US doesn't quote doesn't have any evidence of Israel committing jde in Gaza but again that's just about your definition of the word so yeah if they believe that Israel is trying their hardest to not do civilian casualties they could argue it's not a genocide but it is what it is doesn't make it good or bad all right ladies and gentlemen brings me to the conclusion of my prepared comments oh I went way too long sorry about that and uh I'm going to say bye to everybody except the locals people because they get a little extra and uh we'll see you tomorrow morning same place same time bye for now all right locals only you're going to go let's see update this local sporters only e e e e e e e

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news well according to the article in

the BBC retiring in your 60s is becoming

an impossible thing and 75 is a new 65

and people are going to work longer is

that a good thing or a bad thing you

tell me suppose people

start retiring at 75 instead of

65 good for the world or bad for the

world I say good I say good because

there are several things behind that

number one uh everybody knows that

people retire and do nothing and tend to

die and if your brain is inactive you

get your Alzheimer's faster and

basically it's really unhealthy for

people to

retire now when I say retire I think

retirement means a different thing than

it used to because I consider myself

retired right

now I work I don't know 65 hours a week

or something but I consider myself

retired because close to 100% of what I

do is my choice don't have to do any of

it so if you're doing what you want to

do it's a completely different

experience you know work is not work

when you want to be there so if you can

manage man to build up at least enough

assets so that when you're over 60

you're doing something that you like

instead of something you can't stand

then I'd say working is better than not

working I mean I'm the perfect example I

I have every ability to completely

retire and sit on the beach and when I

think about it I think oh imagine myself

on the beach I'm in Maui and the Sun is

warm and I've got the sand in my toes

and has it been 5 minutes cuz I'm really

bored I can't just sit in the sun on a

pile of dirt all afternoon I have to do

something useful or I'm not going to

feel good by the time I go to bed so

much rather be doing this than being on

the beach

frankly well just in the US inflation

rates are not as good as we expected

it's being called hot the inflation rate

is hot it's hot doesn't look that much

worse uh increased to 3.8 compared to a

forecast of

3.7 um us CPI annual inflation rate is

3.5 above expectations is 3.4 I mean

directionally it's the wrong it's the

wrong

direction but it's not like a

catastrophe yeah here's another question

for you are we better off with more

inflation or

less it seems obvious you want less

inflation right but is it if you have a

crushing national debt how are you going

to get rid of it without inflating it

away inflation is the only possibility

of survival if we didn't have inflation

we could not survive the the math just

doesn't

work now here's a question I ask about

our uh budget death

spiral can anybody answer this question

off the top of your head and if you

can't ask yourself why

I'm going to I'm going to say do you

know the most important number in the

whole world and you're not going to know

the answer I bet Nobody Knows the number

one most important number to understand

if we will survive as a

species hypothetically what percentage

would America need to reduce its annual

budget to have a chance of surviving the

debt what

percentage 3% or

40% people are saying 42 you act like

you know

it I'm seeing the number 42 go by a lot

now I don't uh now remember you don't

have to get to the point where the debt

is zero and you don't have to get to the

point where the where the debt doesn't

grow you do have to get to the point

where the you the economy is growing

faster a lot of people are saying

40% if it's 40% we don't have a chance

of survival you know that

right if the only way we could survive

is by cutting the budget of 40% we're

already dead the that's not recoverable

that's way too much but you're probably

doing the math wrong here's what I think

you're doing I think you're saying we're

spending way more than we bring in in

taxes in a given year that's not exactly

what you need to measure what you need

to measure is the growth rate or

reduction rate of the total debt that's

the that's the thing you got to look

at so if you could reduce the total debt

with let's say a 4%

inflation and then you've also got more

growth that reduces how much you have to

reduce your budget right so if your

budget just stayed

flat but you were inflating away the uh

but well you'd be inflating away your

budget as well as your debt but you

would also maybe not adding so much so

the the math of it is actually confusing

it's not straightforward at all so

probably I'm just going to give you my

eyeball sense of things just a sense of

it probably something like every part of

the budget has to be cut by

10% something like that now that now

you'd say to yourself but Scott that's

not nearly enough to which I'd say you

have to to consider all the other

effects and then you might be getting

close to at least keeping it flat if you

keep it flat you could probably survive

it so I'd love to know that number

because if the number really is 40 that

you would have to reduce the budget 40%

to survive we're not going to do that

we're not going to do that but if the

answer is if you cut everything by

10% and maybe 1% a year after that for a

while or something like that you could

you could make that work you it would

take robots and all kinds of GDP growth

but you can make it work so I think it's

in that range 10% but I don't

know well there's a another study of

mental health and kids I think Politico

was talking about this talk to a bunch

of uh Politico was reporting talk to a

bunch of mental health um experts to

figure out what it is that's causing

young people to have mental health

issues

here's what the experts said they think

it's social media social isolation

external events such as school shootings

climate change war and political

instability and they also said uh lack

of Independence skills missing

developmental Milestones because the

pandemic and pressure to be perfect and

family instability that's what the

experts

said that's what the experts

said can you name anything on that list

that the expert said that wasn't obvious

to you is there even one thing that they

said that you didn't already

know it's crazy these are our experts

they got nothing for us nothing yeah and

they left out food right so basically

the non-expert who said in the comments

what about food gave a better answer

than the experts if you leave food out

of this

equation what kind of expert are you

food is like right it's got to in the

top five you know it might be top one we

don't know I mean I think social media

is number one or phones in general uh

pandemic's probably number two but food

has got to be right up there I mean

every indication is that your mental

health is directly related to your your

diet more on that

later well apparently there's an effort

to figure out who the big persuaders are

in the uh social media

landscape now you probably know if you

listen to me um that Mike Ben has

reported how the intelligence people and

their foreign entity their entities that

are non-governmental figured out some

kind of big censorship map where they

could figure out who's connected to who

so they could figure out if somebody

like say Alex Jones is saying something

they can map where that message is going

to go and then from there where it would

go so it's sort of a multi-

map of how messaging works on the

internet the idea was that they would

use it for

censorship so they would know who is

having the biggest impact and then they

would just say well conveniently we

think that's not true so we' better

censor you and then they could do it

very well because they know exactly what

nodes to turn off and on but that would

be looking primarily at

numbers so that method says oh this is a

big account connected to lots of people

so they map that out and it looks like

that path of influence is like the big

one because it goes through larger

accounts however this newer technique is

looking at the uh personalities of the

individuals getting down to really

understanding people uh given data that

we know about

people and I think it's looking for the

super spreaders or the people who are

the most persuasive so independent of

how many um followers they have

people have different you know batting

averages in other words some people will

bat much higher than their their user

count so this new way would pick that up

does that sound familiar has anybody

read a book that I may have written in

which it predicted that someday in the

future this book written in 2003 I think

predicted that just about now because

the it predicted this future that just

about now the government would if

figured out how to find the prime

influencer now in the book which is

fiction it's called the religion War

it's cancelled but it's coming back this

summer it's going to be reintroduced as

part of a God's debris Trilogy the

trilogy is really 2.1 books because

there's a short story that's new that

makes it three entities we're putting

them together and reissuing because the

religion war and God suprem were both

kled kled but they're coming back can't

be stopped

anyway and uh and one of the key really

one of the most important parts of the

religion war is the prediction that we

would be able to do exactly this find

out who was the

persuaders without maybe even those

people knowing

it now here's my theory in the real

world I suspect that some things start

in multiple places at the same time do

you ever see a news story and your first

thought about it is oh

this is the frame I'll put it in or this

is the way I'll understand it then you

find out everybody else is doing the

same thing so there's some things that

we all just sort of see at the same time

that's different but there are other

things that I'm completely convinced

start with one person actually literally

one person out of the billions of human

beings that one person puts it into a

certain way maybe it uh influences a

bigger account and then it goes from

there now I don't think it's the same

one person who influences every decision

but I've got this feeling that literally

one person is a common way that um memes

and narratives form literally one person

now do you think that there

are say a handful of people who in the

world who are more responsible for the

narratives than you could imagine and

maybe they're not even famous they might

even be behind the scenes but do you

think that that's viable or a

possibility that there are a handful of

people who are not just world leaders

and have power and money but have

specific skill to change the world

through persuasion do you think that's

the thing in the real

world well if you

don't

good

because that that's how persuaders hide

in plain sight because you don't believe

it's

possible that well one of the things

about being a hypnotist is you can

literally tell people what you're doing

and doesn't make any difference has no

no impact on your Effectiveness you can

say I am now hypnotizing you and people

will say uhhuh yep oh look at me I'm so

hypnotized go ahead Mr hypnotist try

your best oh I'm so

hypnotized and then there

hypnotized anyway so it's uh uh fiction

predicts reality once again we're going

to look for the prime

influencers uh does that worry you that

somebody will make a map of the prime

influencers it should because the prime

influencers who are undetected are the

only ones giving you any freedom right

now it's the only counterforce because

the government has the power to

basically clam down and everything the

only thing they CL can't clamp down on

is the only thing they can't clamp down

on is fill in the blank what's the one

thing that a government can't clamp down

on something you can't

find if it can't find it it it's

helpless and right now it can't find it

don't you think that the reason they're

trying to find the prime influencers is

because they don't know who they

are they wouldn't be looking for them if

they knew who they were they actually

can't figure out who's

influencing but if they find us I mean

people then it's going to be a whole

different

game and the people who are influential

probably going to go to jail on trumped

up charges probably because they're

going to have to take him off the field

Alex Jones style we'll talk about

that well there's a new survey that says

that climate change is uh only the most

important thing to 2% of the

people only 2% see Biden's green agenda

as the top issue while a quarter of the

people see the border is the top concern

well I'm not going to make fun of the

fact that 25% think the border is the

top concern because it's a survey with

lots of different choices and that just

happened to be the biggest one so uh let

me think

could it be possible that there's such a

thing as a prime influencer like one

person literally one person who could

change the entire narrative

from uh climate change being the

existential threat to really maybe

that's not so much of a threat but

migration is a key threat who would be a

Prime influencer on that

Trump now you Elon Musk you know is

certainly a big part of things now B

Elon is not

anti-climate crisis I think he's just

you know a reasonable voice in that

sphere I would say this is Trump this

looks like one

person that this poll looks like the

effect of one insanely persuasive person

Trump mostly now you would say to

yourself but but but Scott what about

all the other people who also say

similar things to which I say probably

because of trump right you it's safe to

say what he says because he's already

said it it's safe for you to say I'm not

sure these climate models are good if

I've already said it and I didn't die so

I I get to test it down for you can I

say this without getting canceled and

then you can watch

yeah so yeah I think the government's

going to figure out who's behind a

gigantic shift like that from climate to

border

know some of it might be just reality

too we see a lot of images of the border

and climate is less visual unless you

make up stuff like this hurricane was

caused

by all right

um Biden says he's uh looking into his

people are looking into whether he has

the power by himself to shut the US

border

down yeah he's we're examining whether

or not I have that power Biden said uh

no guarantee all right let me explain

this let me give you a little lesson on

leadership

when um China originally got the co

virus and we didn't know what we were

dealing with and we thought um wouldn't

it be good to maybe keep that out of

America until we figure out how bad it

is you know because we didn't know and

day one we saw scary pictures and then

Trump uh fairly soon after closed closed

to travel now we could argue whether it

was closed enough but for for my

purposes he uh made a big difference at

least in terms of the traffic and was it

legal was it legal to close traffic I

don't know but was it the right decision

yes of course yes so the right decision

if you're the leader is you stop the

danger immediately you stop the danger

and then you figure out if you did

legally that's the order of things

that's what leadership is the the whole

point of a

commander-in-chief is we say you know

what there are going to be situations

where you have to act fast and then

we'll debate it later but we're going to

elect you to make the dangerous

important decision fast and then we'll

talk about it and we you know we hope

that you did things as legally as

possible but as long as long as you're

on our side

as long as it's well-intentioned you did

your homework we're going to back you

even if you bent the rules a little bit

because we want to be safe and we asked

you to keep us safe and we don't want to

handicap you so do what makes us safe

and then we'll talk about it after

whether that was the right thing to do

but make a save

first who who would get that right Trump

would Trump would get that right every

time he would say well close the border

we'll figure out if that was legal after

the fact you know it's because it's not

permanent if it's not permanent and none

of this is permanent do it first debate

it second that's the way it works that's

basic leadership that's leadership 101

it's literally not leadership if you're

waiting for your lawyers and the public

to weigh in oh what's the what did the

polls say am I going to lose the

election uh what did my lawyers say what

does Congress say all that's wrong first

you do it and then you let everybody

talk about it after we're safer than we

were it's amazing to me that that's not

obvious to voters it's a complete

abdication of leadership complete

abdication of leadership there's no

leadership in that that is followership

we didn't need that we wanted a

leader all right the AP Associated

presses uh

did some kind of a survey about uh

journalists who use AI already it says

nearly 70% of Newsroom staffers are

using AI for different things

backgrounds and uh you know maybe for

posts on social media and stuff uh oneth

said they'd use generative AI for

multimedia to create Graphics Etc now

here's an interesting

question what part of the news is the

human doing now at the moment it's still

mostly the human using AI as a

tool

but what exactly is a human adding to

the process if you took them completely

out of the

process what would it look like because

the only thing I can think of that the

humans at the Associated Press are

adding to what AI could do generating

news is the lies the lies are the only

thing the humans could

add because I I don't know how much

reporting the AP is doing you know on

its own versus looking at other stuff

and Reporting on it because a lot of

this reporting is just looking at press

releases and then writing up the story

from the press release or you look at

how some other news entity covered

something and you talk about how the

news covered it I don't think too many

of these journalists are going in the

field and doing a original

reporting and if they did is there

anything that AI couldn't do AI can make

a phone call

AI can have a

conversation AI can poll people it can

ask for opinions it can tabulate them

summarize them what exactly is a human

doing literally the human is adding the

lying that's what they're adding The

Narrative so the narrative is also the

lying you know it's Lying by narrative

or lying by what you leave out so the

human's going to have to come in and

remove the context because the AI will

be tempted to add context well some

people say this and other people say

that so the humans got to get rid of the

some people

say no no no the narrative does not

support both sides so get rid of the

both Sid stuff yeah the human literally

is only for the

lying speaking of lying you you know the

story of the NPR editor who admitted

that NPR didn't they actually left their

business as being a news entity when

Trump uh got in the race or got elected

I guess and they paid became an

anti-trump

organization with no regard to what was

true that actually happened in the real

world it's exactly what it looked like

we all saw it but now an Insider an

actual editor from NPR is saying

everybody that's true they just became a

bigoted biased uh propaganda Network

they completely abandoned their

responsibility to the public because

they thought there was a bigger

responsibility they they came to believe

the Trump was Hitler and they couldn't

just do their journalist job they had to

they had to kill

Hitler

y so NPR uh so how did that strategy

work with NPR let's check in on their

numbers let's say in

20122 they had 45 million

views on the radio show I think um 45

million wow that's doing pretty good

how' they do two years later uh uh once

people knew that they had lied about

everything so they've gone from 45

million views in 2022 to 2024 is now

around

14

14 from

45 two years

ago do you think people noticed that

it's not real news and therefore they

didn't need it whatsoever did they

notice it was just screechy did

they notice it was a lot of mentally ill

women who got radio shows they probably

did now some of it might be that you

know social media is more interesting or

whatever but yeah turns out the NPR

literally turned from a news industry

into or news business into a propaganda

business and during at least the second

half of that they dropped almost all of

their

business they're basically on the way of

going out of business if you can call it

business

and the question I wonder is now that

NPR is admitted being fake news and

there's no question that this happened

to all of the other left leaning

entities can can we agree and by the way

if you were to look at a list of

objective um news because everyone every

once in a while somebody will say we

looked at which news entities are the

most objective and they'd say oh this

one on the right is so right leaning and

yes we admit this one on the left left

is pretty left but at least you've got

NPR right in the middle

huh am I am I imagining that I actually

heard that that people rating the bias

of news entities put NPR like solidly in

the middle I think I've seen that right

I'm not I'm not imagining that that the

other news the other fake news told us

that NPR was the good one it was never

true and and anybody who listened to it

who had any sense of what was real who

knew it I mean it was just screamingly

obvious that it was a completely corrupt

organization and they'd abandoned the

news business a long time

ago

anyway um so are Democrats noticing I

doubt it do you think Democrats saw that

story that found out one of their

favorite news sources was completely

fake for

years no bet they are not familiar with

that story do you think do you think

that story got surfaced on all their

Facebook posts do you think all the left

leaning women CAU that story nope nope

you saw it because you already agreed

with it nobody else is going to see it

siloed I saw a post from Heidi bionis

who has a very

clever um clever X account lots of good

posts there good follow good follow

Heidi bionas and she said that say in a

post most psych majors and True Crime

True Crime fans are women for one simple

reason we're

crazy has anybody ever noticed that

psych majors are generally people

looking to fix their own

problems almost always I've never seen

anybody who was perfectly mentally

healthy who wanted to go into the

psychology business I've never seen it

it's people who have their own problems

and from it they think they've learned

something or learn more want to help

people are in the same situation but

basically it's the the

business the job that attracts the

people the most people who would self

assess as having mental

problems but what about this true crime

stuff how many how many of you men have

been in a relationship where your female

partner was obsessed with True Crime

shows and you looked at and said you

know what

why do I want to expose myself to this

how many minutes of my life should I be

looking at horrible you know crimes and

all the details of them and you think to

yourself what is wrong with you that you

find this

entertaining I'm deeply disturbed by the

fact that of all the things you could

watch while I'm strumming through reals

on Instagram of kittens hugging dogs

literally I spend some part of every day

scrolling through Instagram which has

now um quite lovingly served up a

Non-Stop trail of cats hugging dogs

can't get enough I cannot get enough of

cats hugging dogs I will watch that all

day long you know what I won't watch

True

Crime now just wait a year and I've

spent a year looking at cats hugging

dogs and let's say somebody chosen

randomly woman has spent her time uh

watching non-stop True Crime TV

shows and TV shows that make you cry and

feel

terrible who who who's going to be in

better shape at the end of the year me

watching kittens hug dogs all day long

or a crazy woman who's probably going to

become a Psychology major to figure out

what the hell is wrong with

herself anyway I bring that this up

because the uh the theme that uh women

are crazy not all of them by the way I I

I feel terrible that I have to even say

this can can we do this like an idiot

again all right here let me let me here

here's a special announcement for the

idiots who are listening now most of you

are not idiots so you can talk among

yourselves this is just for the dumbest

people when I talk about something about

women I never mean all women and when

I'm talking about women being batshit

crazy I'm mostly talking about left

leaning liberal

women so if you're not one of those and

you're not crazy I'm not talking about

you but it's time that we are just being

open about the fact we have a massive

problem of mentally ill

women and it's not just a massive

problem because they are victims of

whatever the hell is going on in the

society that's making them crazy but

they're also in charge

they have the power in the Democrat

Party which has a majority and it's a

it's an existential threat B crazy

women is the biggest existential threat

because it sits above every one of our

problems every one of our problems we

can't work on it because there's

somebody who's bad crazy stopping

you from fixing it and it's the same

group of people over and over again bad

crazy

women until you can say it out loud you

can never fix it so that's the service

that I'm presenting to you um I've got

I've got enough arrows in my back that

any of the new arrows are just going to

hit the other arrows kind of

invulnerable at this

point all right now in a shocking twist

that you will not expect I'm going to

debunk a h a hoax about The View host

Sunny

hosen you're going to have to put up

with us you're not going to like

it you know that I've debunked the fine

people hoax and the drinking bleach hoax

from president Trump and you know that

I've told you exactly how those hoaxes

are created by taking something out of

context and just leaving out the

context right and I've described them in

detail and I've told you how terrible it

is that the news creates these hoaxes

well the same thing happened to Sunny

hoston so the people on the right can no

longer say that they are innocent of

this behavior and I'm not going to name

names but a number of people believe

that Sunny hoston said on live TV they

believe this happened that she that they

believe she said the eclipse might be

caused by climate

change now that was the story yesterday

and it was going around social media and

clips were shown so you could look at

the clip yourself and you could see her

doing it right how many of you saw the

clip and say to yourself well I saw it I

don't know what you're talking about I

saw it myself I saw every bit of that

how many of you think you saw

it right so a lot of you yeah so you're

saying she did say it she did say it now

do you remember what happens when I

debunk the fine people hoax in front of

a Democrat what did they say but Scott

he did say it I heard it what happens

when I debunk the uh drinking bleach

Oaks and a Democrat hears me do it they

say uh oh Scott I I heard it with my own

own ears I you know you can't tell me it

didn't happen stop gaslighting me what

happened when I told you that this is an

obvious hoax I'm going to tell you

exactly how it was done I'm going to

tell you what they left out to fool you

and you'll still see in the

comments but I saw it myself I heard it

myself so watch how persuasion is not

you know it's not limited to one

side and I do this because this is why

you watch my show the reason you watch

my show is that I'm not going to just

take the side because it's the side s

hoston who I generally disagree with on

almost everything is a victim of a hoax

and I'm now going to defend her

completely because this isn't cool

that's not

cool I'm not I don't want to be on the

team that's hoaxing the other side not

cool now I'm very much in favor of

winning at all costs

I I think winning is important but she's

not running for office she's just a

commentator so I'm going to surprise you

here's what actually happened there were

two contexts she started out joking

about it the sign of the end times now

when you're talking about the sign of

the end times and you're sort of

jokingly talking about it is that

serious do you think she actually

believed that the she named the eclipse

earthquakes and cic is happening at the

same time as maybe signs of the end

times but very obviously it was in a

joking context would you agree with me

so far that when she mentioned end times

that she did mention those three

categories earthquakes cicus and

eclipses and that she did say wow it

feels like the end times you all heard

that part that she definitely said that

now here's the part you missed because

it's taken out of

context then the context switched and it

switched to um climate

change and then when she talked about

climate change she she sort of wondered

out loud um if earthquakes and

cicas could be maybe there's a climate

change

effect so really big she's a big old

dummy right because who who would really

think that earthquakes are caused by

climate change like that's just sort of

stupid right or who would think that

maybe the the insect world could be

greatly affected by climate change just

kind of dumb right is it dumb Google it

if you Google does climate change affect

earthquakes the answer is yes according

to Google the answer is yes the it's

very plausible I'm not saying it's true

I'm saying that Google says it's true

that it's

plausible plausible just plausible

that climate change could affect

earthquakes they also say that climate

change absolutely could have a gigantic

effect on

insects now it might be a negative

effect whereas the cic would be you know

there's a lot of cicos that's sort of

the opposite now I ask you this is it

crazy to wonderand out loud if you

believe in climate change now you could

argue that you know that that's crazy

too but I don't think I don't think

believing in climate change is crazy

that's not crazy it might be wrong it

might be

alarmist but if it agrees with most of

the scientists even if I think they're

wrong it's not crazy right I I don't

think people are are suffering mental

illness because they believe the

scientists I just think scientists are

probably a little hyperbolic and you

know they're making money and stuff but

they're not crazy it's just something

they believe that may or may not be

true but here's the key when she talked

about climate change that was a change

from the end times thing and she did not

mention in that context the eclipse if

she had said huh I wonder if the eclipse

is caused by climate change I would say

oh my God that's a dumb person that's a

dumb person but if she said maybe the

earthquakes and the ccus have something

to do with climate change she knew more

than you did she knew more than you

those are real actual

conversations now there is no connection

between the cicas and and the climate

change that I know of but if you were

not a cicada expert and it became very

clear that she didn't know the whole

cicada situation just that they were

coming uh she didn't I don't think she

knew that it was on the 17-year schedule

and there were two different kinds and

by coincidence there different schedules

going to line up so it' be worse this

year now if you didn't know that and you

know why would you expect she's clicking

on the bug

stories right yeah it's easy to imagine

that you see a headline about a lot of

bugs are coming and you don't want to

click on it it's like okay bugs are

coming got it don't need to know the

details um so I would say that uh she

was right on point for not only her joke

about the sign of the end times

perfectly good joking uh that uh

earthquakes and eclipses and cic is

happening at the same time is just kind

of funny coincidence and then when she

talked about climate change she

accurately picked two items earthquakes

and bugs that uh real serious scientists

say could be greatly affected by climate

change and so ladies and gentlemen I I

submit to you that uh Sunny Hosten was a

little bit smarter than you and a little

bit more clever than you and a little

bit more funny than you and does not

deserve any

uh any mocking for this particular

comment however may I join you and Link

Hands by saying she says some really bad

and dumb things about

Trump but at least that's done under the

cover of you know pure

uh pure let's say um Democrat propaganda

so when when the view is talking about

oh Trump is a devil we all kind of know

where that's coming from that it's Pol

iCal you don't take it tooo seriously

but when she's talking about

this I think I think her opinion was not

only funny and entertaining which is her

job but she was pretty close to the

scientific consensus whether that's true

or

not all right how how did you take

that everybody

okay so here here's what you should be

feeling if you thought that story was

true true you should be feeling some

discomfort and some of you are just

going to reject it and say no I heard it

Scott I heard it and and then other

people said to me because I brought this

up in my man cave other people said to

me but Scott uh Joy

bear and um Whoopi also heard the same

thing you heard because they tried to

correct her to explain like an idiot

would explain uh the

eclipse is just sort of something we

knew was coming for a hundred

years it's not related to climate change

so because whoopy thought that that uh

Sunny hoston was talking about the

eclipse should you believe that Sunny

Hosten was talking about the eclipse no

because what happened was whoopy and joy

bayar heard what you

heard they misheard and they didn't

notice she had changed

context from talking about the funny end

times thing to climate change which was

you more of a factual

conversation so they also were fooled

don't use Whoopi or Joy bear as your

source for why you're

right that's not good thinking they're a

terrible source for what is a good

interpretation of what anybody said in

fact they're among the worst all day

long they misinterpret Trump for a job

Mis interpreting things is primarily

what they do it's almost their entire

business

model all right uh the McKenzie

consulting

company said it was going to pay some of

its employees to not work for nine

months uh and look for another

job they're going to pay them to not

work what's that

called is that sort of

like sort of like they're

fired

don't we usually call that you're

fired but it's nice that they gave him

nine months to find another job but

still just

fired and here's the embarrassing thing

if you're McKenzie and you're a

consulting

firm uh why didn't you see this coming

their their job is to tell businesses

how to be healthy businesses and how to

have a strategy that works it's a little

bit embarrassing if they start firing

their own employees a little bit

embarrassing because it means they they

grew too fast or they didn't read the

room right or or their model wasn't

working or

something because they they outgrew

their

business so would you hire somebody to

tell you how to run your

business if you knew they changed we're

firing people because we have too many

into well it's more like we're paying

them to look for other

jobs don't say we're firing them that

look like a mistake no no no we're so

Progressive we're going to pay them to

look for better

jobs McKenzie

Consulting here's my favorite story of

the day terrible as it is you've heard

of craft

Lunchables it's a it's a little package

of lunch likee food with some meat and

cheese and stuff in there and it's a

popular kids

snack

now um turns out that Consumer Reports

looked into them

the store bought versions because they

have store bought and they have school

versions The sto store bought versions

uh which are made by Craft

hind um found relatively high levels of

lead and

cadmium now there's no there's no level

of lead that's anything except bad for

children

so what do you think of the psychologist

who didn't mention food

does that feel a little more relevant at

the moment that you know that one of the

most popular foods for kids has lead in

it and we're pretty sure that lead is

not good for your

brain am I am I out in the limb there or

is that true I didn't research it

recently but aren't we sure that lead is

bad for your your

mental um State I thought we knew that

fairly reliably that lead is just the

worst thing you want to put in a kid's

body

so that's happening then cadmium um some

of you know is a component for

batteries um and it's in some of the

Lunchables now the sort of a good news

bad news because if you put the lead and

cadmium in the Lunchables and then the

child eats it they can actually charge

their

smartphone just with their own

body because the kids if they eat the

Lunchables they're they're basically

half battery and half child and uh so

you don't even need to plug in your

phone you can just sort hold it in your

hand and the cadmium and lad plus the

static electricity will charge your

phone no I made that up that's all made

up but cadmium does come from batteries

so I don't want too much of it in my

body now let me tell you why uh and it

has tons of sodium now here's my first

encounter with craft Lunchables many

years ago I decided that I'd made enough

money in the Dilbert world that I wanted

to see if I could give something back

like literally solve some big problem

and I thought I was very interested in

nutrition at the time and I knew that I

was so busy that I wasn't getting good

nutrition so I created a company to make

a

nutritious Convenient Food that you

could always have something that was

perfectly nutritious it was just

convenient so the form that we chose was

a burrito that would be packed with all

the nutrients you needed for the day so

if you were in a big hurry and you don't

want to spend much money and you just

wanted to eat something you knew would

taste good because burritos almost

always tastes good it'd be like I

imagine it to be like the blue jeans of

food you know how blue jeans sort of

they work in every situation except

formal you know like they're they're

easy to wash and take care of and they

don't cost too much and they feel good

they make you look they basically do

everything so I thought well maybe I can

make a food that does that just sort of

does everything now the company didn't

work out

for other reasons U partly because the

formula in the burrito made you fart so

hard that it would inflate your socks as

I once wrote and that was sort of a

negative so we we couldn't really mask

all the minerals in it because in order

to get a good mineral and vitamin count

you had to put all these additives in

there so you couldn't get anywhere near

the taste that you wanted because you

had to mask all the minerals now you

might say to yourself why do you have to

add anything to food like if if your

burrito is full of all the things that

have the vitamins and minerals you know

your broccoli and your kale and your

beans and whatever why do you have to

add anything well it's because you've

been lied to forever but when you were

told that if you just have a balanced

diet you'll get your vitamins and

minerals if you do the math you'll find

out that no matter how much you eat and

no matter how well you eat you don't

come anywhere near the food you eat

doesn't have vitamins and minerals in

anywhere near the minimum requirement

that you need so we had to supplement

there was no way around it but you but

it didn't work as a supplement it just

made it too hard anyway so part of that

story is we sold into

7-Eleven imagine being a startup company

that gets a contract with

7-Eleven now it's a contract to test it

so they would say we're going to test it

in these stores and at the end of the

test we'll decide whether it's a

permanent product so you just had to do

well and sell sell during the test do

you know how many units we sold during

the test take a guess how many total

units just a guess how many numbers did

we sell for the test because it was a

number of

sels the answer is zero zero sales do

you know

why it wasn't because people looked at

the product and decided not to buy it it

was because every store that we checked

the product was covered up by another

product and it was always the same

product craft

Lunchables craft Lunchables were

actually placed in front of my product

in all the stores we

checked did you know that that's a

common

trick because somebody like craft would

have people who are boots on the ground

so they actually visit the stores I

didn't have boots on the ground because

we were startup so it's just when we

checked we found that their boots on the

ground did this thing because you don't

want to be selling

Lunchables which anybody can look at and

say I'm not so sure that's the

healthiest thing I could give my kid you

can't have that sitting right on the

Shelf next to something that just has

all the vitamins and minerals that your

kid

needs right they can't be next to each

other so they just move theirs in front

of it in all the stores we checked

everyone you sold

nothing and the test failed and I went

out of business

uh by the way same thing happened in

some other places we we sold it to

Costco and

Safeway made all the sales it's just

none of the tests worked and the tests

didn't work in other places because they

never tested it in Costco we signed up

to do a test in a number of stores

shipped them the product product sat in

the back Warehouse the whole time and

then the test was over and they said we

sold

none because it never made it in the

store

so if we had boots on the ground we

could have sent like an army of people

to say hey if you moved that onto the

Shelf yet can we help you move it to the

shelf and that probably would have

worked but we're I didn't know that we

needed to do that so craft Lunchables

the reason that your kids are eating

lead and cadmium in part is because they

covered up one of the products that

would have maybe been very fart filled

but didn't have lead and cadmium in it

as far as I know probably had too much

sodium in

it I will admit

that everything has too much sodium in

it I think if you believe the sodium is

bad for you I'm not entirely convinced

all right there's an Arizona Arizona mom

who pled guilty to poisoning her Air

Force

husband uh with bleach so she was

putting bleach into his coffee maker and

he caught her on video and she's in

trouble

now do you know why she put bleach in

his coffee to try to kill him does

anybody know why she used

bleach it was cheaper than

Lunchables does it sound like I'm

bitter oh

yeah today is my

revenge oh I

waited craft you Lunchables I

waited good luck Lunchables

Good

Luck Good Luck have I mentioned that our

food supply is poison and that craft

Lunchables apparently is part of that

too

bad yeah so next time you want to kill

somebody either put bleach in their

coffee no don't do that don't ever do

that um or you could give them

Lunchables don't do that don't ever do

that not to somebody you

love anyway um all the London is

reporting that Ben Affleck and Jennifer

Garner I guess um Jennifer G Garner's

daughter came out as trans during her

grandfather's funeral this

week which is really the best time to do

it you know if there's ever a funeral of

a beloved member of your

family the best thing to do is to make

it all about

you you know Grandpa's dead but what

really matters is I'm transitioning I'd

like to announce that at the funeral so

maybe timing timing work on the

timing but uh turns out that there's

more than that because not only is uh

Jennifer Gardner's daughter coming out

his trans but Ben Affleck

um has a non-binary kit and the as the

redheaded libertarian pointed down on X

the chances of Ben affle having uh oh

well between the two of them they've got

a transkid and a non-binary are about

one in N million I don't know if she

made up that number one in N million but

it's very

unlikely that a couple would combine

families and there would be both a trans

and a non-binary which strongly suggests

that there's a social contagion element

to

it now I ask you this

question do you think that either those

kids of Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner

do you think that they use Tik Tok just

take a guess I don't know the answer but

do you think they use Tik

Tok I'm going to say that would be a

safe

bet do you think Tik Tock has the

ability to turn off our reproductive uh

urges yes yes it does and in fact the

Ben Affleck Jennifer Garner family oh I

guess that's right because they were

married at one point so it must be both

of their kids I was thinking it was a

blended family but I think it's I think

it's their two kids that they had

together

um I think we've reached a point where

we could calculate the reduction in

American

reproduction based on Tik Tok alone and

how you would do it is you would just

look at Tik Tock users versus non-tick

Tock users and try to balance everything

else out the same

um and my guess now this is just a

hypnotist guess this is not based on any

data this is just my knowledge of

persuasion and how it affects children

and how it would be effective if it came

to them through their phones and was

repeated over and over so it's just my

knowledge of the field not any data

whatsoever in my opinion Tik Tok will

reduce the um reproductive urge of 20 to

40% of its

users something like 20 to 40% of Tik

Tock users will be far less likely to

reproduce because the things they're

learning are that they could be a gender

preference or a sex that is very

difficult to reproduce you know it's

more it's less likely than your your

standard um hetero couple they might

have kids but they're going to have

lower production reproduction rates than

you know the standard

traditional Christian family or Muslim

family so I'd love to see that estimate

I'd love to see somebody just say okay

what percentage of Tik Tock people are

you know trans and non-binary compared

to the public at large and then just

make an estimate that says okay the the

trans Community has you know a

reproduction rate of

0.1 the hetero Community has something

closer to two you know two for two like

a one for one replacement and then you

just project it forward and you could

actually find out how many people are

being denied Life by being in a

situation in which it's unlikely they'll

ever be born if you were to look at the

total number of

grandkids that Ben Affleck and Jennifer

Garner will have collectively knowing

that they have a non-binary and a trans

um in the family don't you think they'll

have fewer grandkids than if all of the

k kids identified as hetero now this is

not any kind of knock on any hetero or

trans or non-binary um if you're if

you're new to me uh I'm very Pro adults

doing whatever they need it's not up to

me I'm definitely not the one judging

you I don't have a judgmental bone in my

body do what you need to do you're an

adult the the fact that I think it won't

work I don't get a vote you didn't get a

vote on my co shot

and I'm not going to let you debate it

like I'll let you debate what I said

about anybody in public which is nothing

I said make up your own decisions but

you don't get to vote on my personal

health decisions and I don't get to vote

on whether you're binary or trans it's

up to you so this is not being

judgmental I'm just doing the math the

math suggests that the more trans there

are the the fewer

reproduction possibilities there are

so you could actually calculate what Tik

Tock is doing to our

population meanwhile in the Dilbert

reborn comic which you could see if

you're subscribing here on

X or if you want to see more than just

the comic a lot more on the locals

platform but uh if you were watching

that you'd see that asuk the intern has

become non-binary from using Tik Tock

and uh things aren't things aren't going

the way he

hoped all right uh Germany of as you

know was just down his nuclear power

industry and becoming dependent on

Russia because they were making bad

decisions about their green future they

didn't really have a replacement for the

things they took offline except for

Russian gas and that put them in a black

mailable weak position as Trump and

others pointed out

so can you can you tell me did Angela

Merkel make those decisions to shut down

the mer the uh

nukes I'm not so good with my Germany

history uh

politics was it under Angela

Merkel or was it just everybody wanted

it okay so it looks like that will be

seen as one of the most massive mistakes

of all time in terms of managing a

country so female leader female leader

bought into the uh climate crisis

Hysteria

and destroy the manufacturing base of

our country built mostly by

Man by turning off their electricity

because she fell for a hoax the climate

crisis so I'm just calling out the facts

anyway but I'm going to give a different

spin on

this um you know we many of us believe

that the war in Ukraine doesn't have a

good justification and that the story

about stopping Russia from

advancing may not be the whole story and

it looks more like it's a giant

CIA you know Energy company play to grab

all the resources from Ukraine keep it

out of the hands of Russia and to

destroy Russia's energy business and

maybe even change their change the

leadership in Russia now if you just

hear me say that it sounds like the

craziest most Reckless thing you ever

heard in your life I think we all agree

on that but I'd like to take you to

another frame I imagine that in some

dark room somewhere the people who

really are looking at the world for the

next 100 years may be saying something

like the

following the only way America survives

is if we capture Russia's energy

business that might actually be a

conversation how are we going to pay off

our national debt

well it would be helpful if you captured

the energy business of the biggest

producer or got them out of the business

so our oil could we could charge

more you know so I wonder if this isn't

just a gigantic economic play and it

would be more accurate to see Russia and

the United States as two competing

mafias and our Mafia is trying to rub

out Putin he would rub us out if he

could but he knows he can't so he's just

playing his game as best he can and to

me it looks

like to me it looks like the United

States is just trying to overthrow

Russia to take their money in the form

of energy now what would that do in

terms of our geopolitical future for

Russia and I'm sorry for

China suppose you say to yourself Scott

Scott Scott the biggest risk is China

it's not Russia to which I say hm but

how can China Thrive if they don't have

energy if you denied China or if you had

control of Russia's energy you would

have a lot of Leverage on China wouldn't

you so China would have a lot of

Leverage on us but then we would have

you know it it' be like China grabbed Us

by the balls and says yeah we have so

much control over your big Pharma and

your big Industries and stuff that we

got you you better do what we want but

if we were to control hypothetically uh

Russia's entire energy infrastructure

which looks like the play we would have

them buy the balls and it would be at

least mutually assured destruction

because China can't live probably

without Russian energy or at least they

wouldn't Thrive so part of me thinks

that there might be some really dark

Personalities in our government in the

deepest deepest spy networks who are

saying I hate to break it to you but if

you don't conquer Russia we're

dead because if we don't control their

energy there's no other thing that could

be a big enough thing to keep us from

dying from our own

debt and and China becoming the dominant

country in the

world

so I'm not saying that that's actually a

conversation but I wonder I wonder if it

is because shouldn't it be shouldn't

there be somebody who's making the

100-year plan and says you know what

energy is the whole play if China if

Russia has their own energy they sell to

China and we become the you know the

Third Country in that Trifecta but if we

could capture Russia's energy Russia

would have nothing else so Russia would

be completely out of the game and China

would be dependent on our

allies how convenient for

us so anyway I just put that out

there there's a congresswoman Jasmine

Crockett she's a Democrat from Texas and

she's on video and wokeness shows us

this um she said uh it might not be the

best idea to give tax breaks to Black

citizens as a form of reparation it

might be better to give them checks

because not all black people pay taxes

so a tax benefit wouldn't help them all

but a check would check helps everybody

now I got to watch a video of two people

I don't know casually discussing how

much of my money they should take from

me it's very

offensive it's very

offensive because I'm not even part of

the conversation nor am I part of any

slavery Legacy or anything but I'm just

watching two people I don't

know casually discussing taking my

money because they can or they hope they

can

and let me say this as as clearly as I

can I have no respect whatsoever for for

anyone who thinks I owe them reparations

I have no respect for you none not only

that I don't have any respect for

anybody who supports

Dei now I think that's important to say

because we live in a world in which

being respected is actually an

asset so if you keep hammering on

reparations in all likelihood you won't

get any cash but you'll be giving the

giving away the asset of any kind of

respect I cannot respect you if you're

asking me for

reparations blah blah blah you're a good

argument don't care blah blah blah

racism true don't care I mean it's not

that I don't care it's just it's not

relevant to taking my

money if I were the story that's

different but if I'm not part of the

story I don't care about your racism

from other people that does doesn't mean

I owe you money I don't respect you I

have no respect for anybody who's Pro

Dei now you have to you should put that

to the extent that I represent any other

people with that view and by the way

show me in the comments would you agree

that you don't respect anybody who's

even trying to get reparations or trying

to make Dei a

thing am I alone there or is it you

would also not respect anybody in that

domain

yeah shut up

racist all right well I think it's

important for everybody in any kind of a

big conversation to know what the costs

and benefits of their actions are and

one of the costs of Dei and one of the

costs of even asking for reparations is

a complete la loss of

respect now if it's still worth it at

least you are fully informed now and and

by the way if the situation were

reversed and I thought I could get some

free money I might try and if you said I

don't respect you for that I would say

oh I kind of understand that you this is

one of those situations why where you

can see why everybody's acting the way

they can because you know free money is

free money who doesn't want free

money did you see the video of the uh

the X FBI CIA Intel guy who talked

casually on some undercover video that

uh that these Ser the agency went after

Alex Jones just to kneecap him and take

all his money to basically shut him up

and discourage people from doing stuff

like

him now it's one person so could be

somebody just bragging to somebody on

video but it looked pretty reliable and

they even have a word for it it's called

nudging so in the case of Alex Jones uh

the the thing that took his money was a

civil suit by the parents of the Sandy

people and the FBI in that case

according to this one guy CIA officer

former FBI guy named

uh what's his

name he's a Gavin

oennis yeah and he says they call it

nudging so He suggests that what

happened was the FBI didn't tell people

to sue Alex Jones they simply said you

know what you'd probably have a good

case I don't know a person like you in

this situation seems like you could make

a lot of money if you Su him I mean it's

not for me to tell you to do it I'm not

suggesting you do but I'm just educating

you that you've got a goodlook case here

and I've got the phone number of a

lawyer who could take care of this for

you but I mean I'm not suggesting it I'm

just it's just information and if you

wanted to talk to somebody who could

give you more information I could give

you the name of a lawyer who sues people

for this sort of thing somebody really

good that's a

nudge so they don't actually Force

anybody to do anything they just make it

likely now let's look at my

situation The Washington Post LED my

cancellation The Washington Post is

known to be a CIA vehicle that's widely

understood and we know that the CIA

nudges private Enterprise to financially

destroy people who were Pro

Trump I'm quite notably Pro Trump or

have been in the past and suddenly a

private entity very closely associated

with the CIA leads my cancellation which

made it automatic for everybody else

once the Washington Post you know made

it a thing it became a thing everywhere

do you think I got nudged or do you

think that was completely organ iic that

100% of the newspapers and Publishers

all cancelled me at the same time over a

weekend I would say the odds of that

being organic are pretty

small and look at the other people from

Tucker you name it I mean you could do

the same six names that I could they all

were financially destroyed and it all

looked like Private Industry did it

didn't it it didn't look like the

government did anything didn't look like

the CIA did anything didn't look like

the FBI was involved in any

way but whole bunch of nudging is my

guess so I don't have hard proof that

the uh Washington Post is a disreputable

piece of

but they obviously

are whether whether they did this nudge

on me or not they're still a piece of

I mean that's pretty obious obious

they do they still hire a Phil bump

that's all you need to

know all right assemblyman Kate Sanchez

in California wanted to uh strip fenel

dealers who were here in the country

illegally uh from their protection in

sanctuary cities so in other words if

you were a migrant and you sold some

fenel and you got caught you would be

shipped back even if you were in a

sanctuary City so this is a Californian

who is trying to carve out this

exception and do you think it

passed seems like a pretty obvious one

right I mean of course I mean obviously

you're going to send back the fenal

dealers right no it didn't pass it

didn't

pass um am I all upset about it because

one of my biggest issues ever is

fenel I I hate to say it but I'm giving

up on the fenel and Tik Tock arguments

and the reason is they're both coming

from inside the house when I thought it

was a problem with Mexico or China or

both I kept saying hey Congress hey

president hey CIA go after them why are

you not shutting them down why are you

not booing more but once you realize

that in all likelihood I mean by far all

likelihood uh both the fenel business

and the open

borders uh and even the existence of Tik

Tock that's coming from

Americans if Americans aren't shutting

it down it's hard for me to blame Mexico

and China right so Mexico and China are

accomplices but the main problem is

American there's somebody in America who

wants that border open CIA probably

there's somebody in America who wants

the fenel business to keep on

going probably the CIA because they work

with the cartels and they need them for

other stuff so they let them earn uh

50,000 Americans a year could be worse

will let you earn that's what it looks

like so I don't know how to argue

against our own CIA because they're just

going to say we're not involved in that

that's the end of the that's the end of

the trail what are you talking about

that's

crazy we're going to nudge somebody to

take more of your money away if you keep

this up so there's no place to go with

it I I was super mad when I thought we

just weren't acting competently or

aggressively enough against the cartels

but now that I can see the cartels are

our guys

I don't know what to do with that

because there's no there's no form of

persuasion that's going to make any

difference because everybody will just

say it's not happening and then that's

it it's not happening no and if it were

it would be sacret we couldn't tell you

about it and if it were and it were

secret uh there's some bigger purpose so

you know you don't understand maybe

there is there might actually be a

bigger purpose and I don't

understand

anyway that's what's going on um V has a

plan for fixing elections he says here's

his plan here's how we move Beyond

fights over stolen elections and we

unite our country number one make

Election Day a national holiday number

two single day voting number three paper

ballots number four government issued

voter ID to match the voter file and

then number five English as a sole

language that appears in a

ballot I I wouldn't mind

Spanish on a

ballot I I don't think that's the big

one but um you know that you do make

accommodations if there are a tremendous

amount of legal citizens who have a a

language issue I don't think that's the

biggest deal to to add Spanish I

wouldn't add anything

else but you know Spanish is a special

case anyway so whether you agree with

this one or not uh would you all agree

that this would be a simple practical

huge

Improvement compared to the current

system would everybody agree the the has

nailed this completely he's nailed it

completely this would actually make it

impossible to argue about it because

it's just a good system and we've seen

it work in other countries we don't have

to wonder if it works we can observe it

oh this works fine in these other

countries so why won't this happen th

this will get no traction and will never

be close to being implemented do you

know why I can only think of one reason

that our system is designed for cheating

there's no other reason it's not because

of money it's not because we disagree

this would work it's not because of

efficiency it's not because of timing

it's not because of

credibility there actually is no reason

to do it the way we do it unless the

whole purpose is cheating it's designed

to be impossible to audit it's designed

to be easier to cheat the mail and

ballots so it's exactly what it looks

like and by the way I'm not speculating

about this so so the other things I said

you know like well it seems like the CIA

is behind it that that's speculation

based on you know the best information I

have but when I look at the election I'm

not

speculating I can tell you with

certainty that if you design elections

this way and then you let it continue

despite all the public outcry about this

not being good enough you've designed it

for

cheating there's no there is no second

argument it is designed for cheating and

we need to stop saying there's any other

reason it's not because Democrats

disagree it's not because we think

there's other factors in play no there's

only literally one reason and and here

here's the interesting thing nobody even

argues that there's a better reason

other than uh the fake one that is

suppressing voters the the suppressing

voters thing is nobody nobody thinks

that's true do they if you ever met

anybody who thought their vote was

suppressed

ever ever have you ever met one person

who thought their own vote was in some

way suppressed I've never even heard of

it it's so a thing or or that black

people can't get IDs I mean black people

mock that as as they should as they

should super

racist on the Democrats uh

part so no let's stop pretending that

the elections are designed to be

efficient or make it all fair for

everybody it's not it's very clearly not

designed for

that so no that'll none of those things

will ever happen

um Trump wants toh kill the fisa is it

the fisa being reup is that what is so

fisa where you can spy an American if

that American had contact with a

foreigner so since they're allowed to

spy on the Foreigner but it would be

helpful to see both sides of the

conversation that gives them a back door

to spy in Americans they just have to

get that American to talk to one person

overseas have I talked to one person in

another country yes I

have in my in my last several years have

I ever exchanged a message with somebody

in another country who had any political

you know sort of uh

abilities yes yes I have now was I doing

anything nefarious no no just ordinary

conversations and politics and stuff the

same thing I do with anybody but that

would give the government the full

ability to monitor everything I do I

think right if I had any conversation

with anybody that they say oh this

Australian you talk to I don't know even

though they're an ally you did talk to

an Australian and we've got some

questions that's exactly what they can

do they can get into all of my business

if an Australian sends me a message on

WhatsApp I think that's true am I wrong

about that that all it would take is one

Australian to send me a message on

WhatsApp and they can get all of my

communications that's all it would take

how hard would it be for them to talk a

an Australian into sending me a

message pretty easy pretty easy that'd

be the easiest nudge of all

time so Trump's against it uh

MTG seems to be against it but uh the

leader

Johnson um apparently wants to keep it

so I have questions about speaker

Johnson and I'd like to renew my

hypothesis that our leaders start out

with good intentions but when they reach

the highest levels such as a speaker of

the house or a president I believe

somebody pulls them

aside I I think in the real world

somebody pulls them aside and says look

here's all the stuff the public does

know and you don't know either here's

why we do these things and here's why

you can't change it and then they go oh

God I can't explain this so they say

well good luck so you're GNA have to lie

because you can't tell them the truth

the way the real world works is really

naughty and dirty and terrible and but

it's not going to change it's going to

stay naughty and dirty and terrible and

you're going to have to lie to the

public and tell them it's some other

reason and it's the only way we can

operate it's the only way we've ever

operated we don't tell people these

things until they reach your job but

it's now your job speaker of the house

to prevent the public from knowing

what's going on for their own good and

then they make a good case for it maybe

there's some blackmail maybe there's

some bribery and then they just own

anybody they want they just own any

politician they want now the bad guys

don't have to own every

politician if you said to me Scott do

you think Thomas Massie is you know

owned by the the intelligence people no

I don't think so because they don't need

to all they have to do is own the

speaker because the speaker will

determine what they can even vote on and

he'll just not allow the Thomas massis

to vote on things that would be a good

idea if there's some other

reason so that's all as dirty as it

looks

probably uh here's another of the know

the players it's not enough to know the

news and hear the news and know the

names and know the the people involved

you have to know about the players

backgrounds to understand the story so

let's say I told you this story that

there's a bunch of uh important

ex-government

people um who are uh let's see what they

do um they're arguing that the uh

January 6

charges um should be not thrown out and

that the President should be liable for

what he did in office on January 6th uh

because if you gave him full immunity

you know he could do terrible things in

office because you don't want presidents

to have full

immunity now suppose I told you it was a

bunch of retired you know military

people what would you say to that you'd

say oh retired generals and military

people pretty credible pretty credible

suppose I told you that one of the

leading people in this effort

is a fellow named

uh let's see what's his name uh Michael

Hayden Michael Hayden how many of you

recognize that

name if you don't know the players the

news doesn't make sense he is a former

CIA

director former CIA also one of the

biggest anti-trumpers Russia collusion

guys

ever he has proven beyond a shadow of a

doubt that he's not anything but a

propagandist a brainwasher professional

liar who used to be the head of the

CIA does that scare you because if you

told me it was just some generals got

together and they were worried about

this technical change to a law you know

about presidential immunity and they

said this could be a problem I'd say

well you know we should listen to that

but if one of the people who's probably

the main principal is uh the past CIA

director Michael Hayden you should think

that that's a completely illegitimate

process and that it's part of a

propaganda uh effort and that none of

it's legitimate you just have to know

the

players uh or to put it in another way

um Michael Hayden I would best describe

him

as the poor man's Adam

Chef did did I bring it home is there

anything else I need to say he is the

poor man's Adam

shiff that's all you need to

know same guy just one's a low rent

version speaking of low rent uh do you

remember aanat he's in jail for all of

his many abuses and the stormy Daniel

situation and others and from jail he

called into

MSNBC to talk to Ari melber and I guess

it didn't go the way they expected

because said he expects Trump to be

convicted but there are all kinds of

problems with the case so basically

aanad aanad said he's that Trump will be

um illegitimately

prosecuted now that's not exactly what

MSNBC wants to hear is it they'd like to

hear that he's going to be prosecuted

and it's all legitimate nope even

aanati even aanati no friend of the

President says yeah he'll probably be

convicted but the case is

now uh Ari had to immediately have on a

guest who had big saucer eyes you know

the saucery Liars white eyed oh oh

Avanti doesn't know anything about this

case which he you know he doesn't know

enough probably so I don't think the

avenatti's opinion should carry any

weight it was just hilarious to watch

MSNBC try to uh tap dancer away out of

the fact that somebody who doesn't like

Trump knows Stormy Daniels knows the law

says no it's he's going to be

convicted unfairly and it's a bad

case

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so anyway uh I saw that jack babic is

all over this and he he said that aanat

just called into Ari melbour on MSNBC

from prison and told him the Trump case

next week from Stormy Daniels is a

disaster stale and filled with problems

uh and then he said Ari looked like he

was going to cry

all right I'm gonna give a little

defense to Ari

melber um he had me on his show back

when people still invited me on shows

and I have to say he gave me full

respect uh let me talk and it was not an

opinion that was super comfortable for

MSNBC and he didn't he didn't dump on me

or Treat Me

unfairly and I don't think he's the same

as the other people on

MSNBC you know Ju Just Like I sometimes

call out somebody on

CNN uh who who's like a good egg he he's

their best

egg I'll just put it that way yeah I'm

not sure I would go full Good Egg

because he's on MSNBC but he's their

best egg if you're going to pick an egg

he's he's their better

egg all right uh the Gaza situation is

devolved into a war of definitions of

words and we all want to use the word

genocide the way we want it to work so I

want I want this to be true so I'm going

to say this word is defined this way and

somebody else is say no that's no

genocide it's defined another way you're

defining it all wrong but here's the

thing if you're arguing over the

definition of whether it is or is not

genocide you're kind of wasting

everybody's time because we all see the

same stuff we all know that it's a war

we all know that civilians are being

killed

we all know that Israel would prefer not

killing a bunch of civilians if they

could just take out all the Hamas people

I'm sure they would um so it is what it

is and we also know that there will be

war crimes

guaranteed guaranteed war crimes both

sides all the time it's War there

there's no such thing as you know a

major war action like this with no war

crimes I mean you can't really expect

that so if you're going to have War

you're going to have war crimes and sure

enough there are and

um so I'm not going to give you my

opinion whether it's a genocide or not a

genocide I'll just say that we all know

what it is we don't need to use one

special word why don't we just say it's

the thing happening in Gaza that we all

witness we all know it's horrific on a

level that is sort of

unusual um well maybe it's too

usual yeah so don't argue about the word

it's not about the word

defense secretary Lloyd Austin says the

US doesn't quote doesn't have any

evidence of Israel committing jde in

Gaza but

again that's just about your definition

of the

word so yeah if they believe that Israel

is trying their hardest to not do

civilian casualties they could argue

it's not a

genocide but it is what it is doesn't

make it good or bad all right ladies and

gentlemen brings me to the conclusion of

my prepared comments oh I went way too

long sorry about that and uh I'm going

to say bye to everybody except the

locals people because they get a little

extra and uh we'll see you tomorrow

morning same place same time bye for

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