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st murdered, 53,000. In my lifetime white people have murdered 53,000 freaking black people. Murdered them. At the same time black people killed 156,000 white people. Now of course your brain is saying wait, there are far fewer black people in the world but they killed three times as many white people as the reverse. So there's going to be a racial element to your thinking when I tell you this. But here's what you should be thinking. Like just forget the race part for a minute. We Americans killed 200,000 of each other in my lifetime. Not accidentally. Not accidentally. In my lifetime Americans killed 200,000 other Americans intentionally. That just like makes my brain explode. But I'm still in favor of the Second Amendment, just in case you wondered. So I guess that's the cost of gun ownership. And if you asked me is it worth it? Yes. Yes it is. It's not easy but nothing is.

All right, how would you like me to reprogram Alex Soros who now runs the George Soros funding operation? How would you like me to reprogram him so that he no longer is destroying America? Would you like to give me that challenge? Anybody? Anybody? Challenge accepted. I've already done it. So this morning Alex Soros did a post on X in which he said this. And so this was just nine hours — well probably 10 hours ago. He said, for all those saying that they won't vote for Biden because of Gaza, please realize you will be complicit in Trump being able to do all of this. And then the all of this is a link to his Trump's immigration proposals which were quite draconian. You know, rounding up 4 million people and putting them temporarily into some kind of camps until they can be repatriated to the original countries. Now I'm not going to argue whether Trump had a good or bad plan at the moment. That's a separate conversation. I think he'll end up negotiating it down like he did the first time. You know, not deporting 25 million people like he said he would. But it's a good opening offer. Probably works during the primaries. You know, makes them a little stronger, etc.

So what do you think of that? Is that a reasonable statement from Alexander Soros to say that if you won't vote for Biden because of Gaza you should realize that what you're getting is these Trump immigration policies? Is that a good point? Well kind of, yeah. I mean at least the cause and effect is solid, right? If you get Trump, if the reason you voted for Trump was 'cause Gaza, you're going to get all the Trump stuff. That's true. However, Alex Soros did open up a persuasion channel which I don't think he knew he was doing. And when he opened that channel I said to myself, that's what I've been waiting for. That's exactly what I've been waiting for. I didn't know what I was waiting for but I knew it needed to be an opening. And this opening just came. So I quote tweeted him or quote posted him and I said this to Alexander Soros. I said, you are the reason Trump will get elected, Alex. Open borders, crime in cities. That's what I hear from voters on the right. I doubt Trump would be competitive in 2024 without you. The left and right live in different bubbles so you might not be aware of this. And we're done.

Now this is why I told you if I had a million followers I could change the world. Generally speaking if you use the X platform at all, if somebody quote tweets you and that person has a million followers, you're going to notice it. Would you say that's — I mean he's a political actor, probably follows social media at least cursorily. But even if he doesn't follow it himself, it's the sort of thing somebody would mention to him, right? Now when I said to Alex Soros, Alex, you are specifically the reason Trump will be elected, is that fair? I think it's fair because the things that are the tiebreakers with what would be a close election is crime in cities and immigration. And especially in the context of the Gaza situation it makes you, it gives you a higher level of concern about our own immigration situation.

Now if Alex Soros saw that, and I think there's a good chance he will, is he going to disagree with my point? Do you think that he doesn't know that what will elect Trump is the open borders that his family supports and funds and then the prosecutors allowing too much crime in the cities? Do you think he doesn't know that? Well if he didn't, and I think it's possible because the bubbles are so extreme, he may have never talked to anybody on the right. Yeah it's possible that in years he hasn't had a serious conversation with anybody who is capable of describing a reasonable Republican opinion about things. Probably. But I kept my comment and look at the technique as well. So you see in the first sentence I use his first name. Now often when people do that they're doing it in sort of a mocking, aggressive way. So people will say to me, well Scotty, here's what you forgot. You know, it's usually when you use somebody's first name and you don't know them it's a little bit of a neu. Right? But I didn't use it that way. So I used it in the way that you would talk to a friend. So I said, you are the reason Trump will get elected, Alex. So I wanted to make sure that he didn't see this as an attack because I don't mean it that way. I mean it as persuasion based on the real world and not in any way a propaganda and not in any way an attack. I honestly believe this is my actual belief with no ambiguity in it whatsoever. That there couldn't be any way that Alex Soros knows the impact of his actions. Would you agree with that? And I think that that's not his fault. I think that we all live in such a bubble that you know I don't know the impact of my actions either because I only see what happens in my bubble. It's perfectly natural to not see the impact of your actions, right? That wouldn't be surprising at all. And especially if you're surrounded with people telling you everything you do is awesome.

All right, so and then I make a claim which is checkable. That the open borders and the crime in the cities are big levers for Trump. Now that's checkable, wouldn't you say? There are polls and people tell you what they care about. You could look at a poll of Republican opinion and just see what's near the top and then see if you are the cause of the things near the top. And the answer is yes. Yeah, immigration and crime would be near the top and they very much would be him.

Now I've said before that I would be surprised if George Soros, all of his views and opinions are completely adopted by his son now while George Soros is alive. And presumably he could maybe still take power away from his son if he needed to. Probably they'll be in lockstep. But soon after the father passes I would expect Alex Soros, because he's not the same person, to have some freedom that maybe he doesn't have at the moment. And I can't believe that he would look at the result of his actions up to this point with his father and say that worked out if he had access to the same information that you and I have. So I think he's persuadable. I do not believe the Elon Musk idea that George Soros hates humanity and that that somehow explains what Alex Soros is doing. That doesn't make sense to me because if George Soros hates humanity because he went through the Holocaust but his son was probably raised in a totally privileged situation nowhere near anything like that, why would they both have the same opinion like that? I mean even though it comes from your father and you know that's very influential, you know there are more cases where people reject their father than accept it, right? So it doesn't quite make sense that the son is acting the way the father does. So my theory is that there's an information problem. There's just a gap in information that I filled in for him. And I kept it short and respectful, right? I tried to keep it respectful.

Well let me ask you, did it come off as respectful? Because if it wasn't respectful then it failed. I'll read it again. Is this respectful? You are the reason Trump will get reelected, Alex. Open borders, crime in cities. That's what I hear from voters on the right. I doubt Trump would be competitive in 2024 without you. The left and right live in different bubbles so you might not be aware of this. Is that respectful? 'Cause I do mean to be respectful. I have no reason to believe that Alex Soros is a bad guy. I don't. The evidence suggests that the father is his own entity and we don't know what will happen when his influence wanes. So interestingly one person, Alex Soros, has really the leverage to determine who the next president is and also to save the country. Alex Soros can save the country. That's not an exaggeration, is it? Imagine if that just one change, if he just said okay I'm going to have to prioritize the defense of innocent people. That's all it would take. You know, maybe we push too hard. We still want lots of immigration but we don't want to do it this way. Gigantic. So you have one person who absolutely has control over the outcome. And I would ask him, be a citizen of the world, right? Just be a good citizen. Just take the time to see what the Republicans are thinking and saying. Just take the time. Just open up your bubble a little bit. And I think everything works out if you just open up your bubble. Is that too optimistic? Sure. Yeah yeah. One of the things I like to bring you is optimism. Is optimism always a good prediction? Hell no. Optimism can be a pretty bad prediction a lot of the times. But overall I think you know we humans will figure stuff out. And I do think that Alex Soros is young enough and smart enough that if he can escape from his bubble that the world would be immensely better. I mean really big difference if he turned his power just a little bit. He can still have immigration by the way if what he wants is freer immigration. I actually like that a lot. I think the world would be a better place if you could just pick up and move anywhere there was a job as long as you were documented and legal and you obeyed the laws. I think we can make that work actually. In fact it would probably work in America better than we work in other places. So long as we also had some filter for making sure we're getting the good immigrants, you know, the ones who want to work and don't want to do crime. So you know there's a version of the Soros image of the world that actually does work for Republicans. I know it's hard to believe but there is a version that works and he could find it if that's his mission, if he wants to do that. You saying he's disqualified himself? Well I would agree at the moment that his credibility is not where you'd like it to be. But remember we do not see him as an independent actor yet. He might become

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one. That would be the optimism. But not yet. And it's not that unusual that people pivot from where their parents were. So yeah I do have some optimism about that. I absolutely do. All right ladies and gentlemen this is what I've got for you today on YouTube. Thanks for joining and as always you're awesome and I'll talk to you tomorrow.

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