Episode 1220 Scott Adams - Good News on COVID-19, Biden Warned us About Himself, Historians Screwed

you know it just occurred to me that when i was a kid it would have been hard to do this even if we had this technology because all of our clocks were different when i was a kid most of our clocks were on slightly different times so if you wanted to live stream when i was a kid even if you could do the live stream part you wouldn't be able to do the starting simultaneous part because people would be like i don't know my watch says you're five minutes early and half the other people would be it looks like you're about 10 minutes late according to me but thanks to the miracle of technology every one of you has the correct time and here you are so glad you're here and if you'd like to enjoy it to its fullest extent you know what you need it's a copper mug glass or a glass a tanker chelsea's die in a canteen jugger flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid i like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure the dopamine hit of the day the thing that makes everything better yeah it's called the simultaneous sip and i hope you sipped when i did i forgot to say go but uh if you did savor it savor it okay you gotta stop and smell the coffee sometimes well have you all heard that yeah periscope is going to be discontinued but fear not i will not be discontinued i will not be canceled yet so in march apparently periscope will be discontinued but you have the following options number one there may may or may not be i do not know a replacement so periscope will go away but we don't know if twitter will offer some kind of a replacement let's just say i've heard i've heard chatter that would suggest that's at least a possibility but in the meantime i'm always live on youtube where i am live streaming even right now as as you listen to me and uh of course i'll be on locals a subscription platform that has this stuff plus all of my stuff that i don't show you here because i would get in trouble so the the stuff i put on the locals platform locals.com uh i do this stuff that i think would be maybe a little too edgy here or extra stuff and lessons on persuasion to turn you into a superstar um so those are similar options and it's also available on podcasts if you want to listen to it hey there's a bunch of good news on covet uh oh and also uh i'm live on rumble as well so i don't know if i think we're we're updated on that um so rumble as well and also rockefin so any one of those you can find it good news on kovid uh we've you've heard this before but it's going to a new level which is dogs being trained to detect covet by sniffing your armpit now apparently you don't need the dog to actually get up get up in there you can just take a you know some kind of a towelette and you know swab your armpit make it available to the dog and the dog they believe the people studying this and there are a number of pilot programs going on but the people looking into it think the dog would be able to get up to between 75 and 100 percent effectiveness now imagine how quickly you could test if the dog could do it let's say let's say you're uh you get off an airplane or something and they want to test you when you reach the ground everybody gets a moist towelette everybody goes rat stand in line the dog just walks down the line boom the entire the entire plane is cleared it's pretty good if the this is one of those weird situations where the the least expected solution might be the one that is just the kill shot because if you can train dogs to do this there's no technology that's going to come close because literally the dog can just walk through a whole crowd as long as they've you know swabbed themselves and made it available test the whole room you know 10 minutes so and how long does it take to train a dog to detect a certain smell i don't know the answer to that but i'll bet it's not hard i'll bet it's not the hardest thing you've ever trained a dog to do so dogs might be our savior there are a number of pilot programs going on and look kind of promising now of course the other big big news is the facts vaccines being rolled out and all the conversation about who gets the vaccination first and all that conversation has been kind of boring because everybody says the same thing let us discuss who should get the vaccines first all right i'll give you my novel opinion you may not have heard this before but i'm thinking people in rest homes and nursing homes and maybe front line health care workers just like a hundred percent of the other people in the world why are we even talking about it does anyone disagree now those are the easy ones right but there's also a big conversation about who should do it in front of the public because wouldn't you like to see uh joe biden get a vaccination in public that would be good for i think confidence and i think that's good too and i i'll tell you in my opinion i'm pretty sure the vaccine is going to be safe but just in case you know i i again i'm really sure the vaccinations will be safe but just in case don't you think we should do kamala before joe biden yeah think about it think about it just in case um but the other thing that you should not do when you're deciding who should be on tv getting the vaccination you should not pick a cartoonist to go first let me tell you how that would go because i've thought you know i'm a public figure so as a public figure i you know i don't want to jump the line and in fact i'd like to go last if i could but i thought well maybe i have some responsibility right to show the public you know that uh i'm willing to get the vaccination but i'm really the wrong person to do it on tv or any kind of a live stream because i'm pretty sure i know how i would play it and it would be like this you know i'd be like okay uh give it to me i always look away i don't like to look you know i don't mind getting shots actually i just don't like looking at it so so i look away and then there'd be a little pinch you know they'd be like you're going to feel a little pinched and i'd be like and i'd be like oh oh you've you're done that's not bad i i really thought it was going to be more than that it's a little bit there's just like a little bit of uh you know you could feel it i mean you can feel that uh i got the vaccination but i've been hearing people say it was getting really stiff and stuff actually i can feel a little stiffness coming yeah a little bit coming whoa whoo whoa well because that packs quite a punch nothing you can't handle really but oh god whoa i feel like i might pass out here but i'll be fine and i i highly recommend you should all get ow wow for those of you listening on podcast what you missed was a hilarious impression of me becoming frozen now i will say again i will get the vaccination i'm sure the vaccination is safe uh if you didn't hear the story of how the vaccination process got sped up by by trump it's really interesting so here's a little tidbit that i heard just yesterday listening to the news which was that the normal uh process if they do a big study is that the fda i think it's the fda and whoever they work with looks looks at the data for something like six months i did not misspeak after a controlled study of a of a new drug the fda will look at the data and really study it for six months i think i got that right six months now have you ever studied data i've i've studied data i've done it for a living i've never seen any data i needed to study for six months the study itself might take six months but studying the data took six months until trump said not anymore basically trump basically just said no how about no it doesn't take six months to look at data what the hell were they doing all the time up until now if it took them months to look at data do you know how long it should take even if there's a lot of data how long it should take i'm thinking days i'm not thinking months and now apparently the people who do these things said oh well i guess we'll just do it in a more reasonable compressed amount of time i think they got it down to i had my numbers approximate but it was like something like taking it from six months down to one month and i'm still saying to myself a month what exactly takes a month i can't think of any data that would take a month to look at if it takes a month to look at it somebody organized it poorly so you really need to be talking to whoever gave you the data because there should be things like summaries and you know totals at the bottoms of columns and stuff i feel like they should have done a lot of work for you i don't know i was just amazed by that so when you hear that trump you know did the impossible with the warp speed stuff maybe maybe it was the impossible for other people but he just sort of made it happen and then they just did it and that's a lesson in in management let me let me give you uh the rookie lesson in management followed by the experienced person's lesson in management here's what young people and people who do not have experience think management would look like manager comes in and says to the the project experts you know the manager doesn't know much but the people working on the project know the details of the project and the manager says i need you to be done in a month and the project experts say whoa i i know that's what you want but let me show you the timelines the dependencies on the project there isn't actually any way to do this in less than two months all right now the inexperienced manager way to look at this is well the person who knows a lot more than i do and i hired them and i trust them says it's going to take two months i wanted it in one but i guess i have to accept two months that's the inexperienced person's view of management here's the experienced person's view of management i'd like this to be done in one month it's very important expert says no way to do this in less than two months and here's my reasons why manager looks blankly at expert and says do it in one month and then the expert does it in one month but without the part because the manager usually leaves that part out that's what an experienced manager does because they know that just about everything can be done faster and they have a sense of what that means in any particular context if they're good managers right so when trump was presented i wasn't in the room but one can imagine something like this happened you can imagine somebody's saying to trump and here's the process and the reason it takes all these years to do a vaccine is that it takes six months to look at the data and you can imagine the look on trump's face i don't know if any of this happened in real life but you can imagine this imagine trump listening to somebody tell him that the phase of just looking at the freaking data was going to take six months just imagine what he said right i'll tell you what he didn't say well you're the experts i guess it takes six months to look at data no no maybe biden would do that because biden says listen to the experts right maybe he would have said what can you do every single expert just said six months if that's what it takes to look at data and nobody's telling me it could be done faster what are you going to do but i think trump like an experienced manager and exactly what i would have said had i been president in the room i would have said stop stop hold on i'm gonna need a little more explanation about this six months to look at data because you're not producing the data you're just looking at it you're gonna have to get that six months down to a little bit shorter or somebody's gonna be fired i i'm guessing that that was a lot of what it looked like behind closed doors just you know conceptually anyway so uh vaccines coming um today at uh 1 p.m eastern time that would be 10 a.m for you californians i'm going to do a separate live stream interview with razeeb khan who's a spokesperson for traitwell t-r-a-i-t-w-e-l-l and he's a geneticist and he'll tell us about traitwell's new system i guess you'd say where you can upload your dna and some other information and it will tell you your relative your relative covered risk how cool is that now does it work is it real this is these are the questions i will ask them and uh i don't know the answers to the questions we'll we'll find out but imagine if you're trying to figure out who should get the vaccination first we'll also ask them about dna and privacy and stuff like that so i'll get into that so imagine if we could find out that some people have much lower risk than other people and even after you've uh accounted for comorbidities and lifestyle and age and all that um that should probably help us right if we could actually say well if we're going to do the high-risk people first it should at least help you identify them all right other good news it's just all good news day on covent the fda is actually authorizing its first over-the-counter at-home covent test you've been hearing me complaining about the lack of the rapid tests for a while now now i don't think this is exactly the same thing i've been talking about because this might be a little bit of a higher end higher i don't know but it might be a higher sensitivity but cost a little bit more still takes only 15 to 20 minutes to get a result at home with just your own nasal swab test you don't have to send it anywhere it comes with an app and i think that'll be available in a few months that's huge now the problem is um oh is somebody saying can he identify adverse reactions to the vaccine um i i'm sure that's not part of what they do at trade well but it's a heck of a question that's a heck of a question i'll ask him that thank you um so i had been saying that i thought there must be some kind of either uh why i was actually speculating there was some kind of corruption in our government for not already having approved these over-the-counter cheap tests i still think that's more likely the case than other explanations for why it wasn't here sooner and why we don't have more of them and maybe the lower sensitivity tests as well there's still something going on but when you hear that it takes six months to look at data i start saying oh maybe it is possible that incompetence could explain it you know because i ruled out incompetence just because it's so long now that you couldn't possibly say well it's just things just take a long time like i was ruling that out but now you hear how long it really takes or it used to take before trump was kicking their butts and you say to yourself it's actually maybe it wasn't corruption could it be they were actually just that incompetent i didn't want to believe it because it's easier to believe corruption but maybe who knows other good news covert wise is that mcconnell says mitch mcconnell says that the top leaders in congress are going to stay behind and not go home from washington over the holidays until they get an agreement so he's talking about the funding for covent relief in a variety of ways but if the rest of congress goes home does it matter that the leadership makes an agreement cause they can't vote on it because everybody went home so isn't it really just an agreement to see if they can agree among themselves so then they can go home but when congress comes back the rest of congress might not agree so it looks like just a clever way to go home for christmas without an agreement or at least without any legislation so the whole thing looks like to me but you know at least they know the optics look bad if they all go home so that's something what are we going to do with history it seems to me that in the old days the the winning team got to decide what the history was for the country right so if so if your country you won the war you get to write the history of the war and you write it your way but in the old days history would have basically one version per country at least through high school and you know most of college you could find other versions but there would be a mainstream version now history is being written and permanently recorded in the internet so everything that's happening will just sort of always be there we think so how do you deal with the fact that there are two completely different histories how do you write a history book at let's say the college level that would include this this era what would you say about the the trump administration would you say russia collusion was real would you say the find people hoax actually happened would you say that the president really did uh suggest drinking bleach because these are the things that will become the permanent record they become the new way the history is recorded it's no longer some consensus you know winner puts it in one version literally what do you do when you don't have one history anymore there will be at least two histories minimum you know you argue lots of them but i'm thinking that well let me put it in concrete terms imagine if history simply followed cnn's reporting right imagine if they just didn't vary from whatever cnn reported and we would allow that if cnn ever you know corrected anything that the correction would stand but basically the cnn's version of the world suppose you just took that and put it in a history class or textbook and said here's your history it was in the news and you know the new york times agreed with them and the washington post agreed with them there's your news yeah think about it would that be an actual history that's scary i don't even know what they will teach in school i like actually literally i don't know how they would teach it because who would agree what the real history was so here's what i'm thinking is our current situation when it comes to investing i'll use an analogy here in investing one of the few things that everybody agrees on no matter what kind of an expert you are on investing pretty much everybody agrees on one thing diversification is really important because if you're not diversifying putting your money in lots of different bets so that if some of them go bad you at least by luck you'll have some that went extra well to compensate so in finance if you're trying to you know pick one winning stock you're just a sucker because people don't can't do that you know we know that people don't have any skill to pick individual stocks even really really good people aren't good at it but everybody can diversify right so diversification fits it fixes most of the problems that you would have in the way you think about investing just get that one thing right you're in pretty good shape and i think the same thing is going to be true for the news and for history meaning that you will have to read a diverse bunch of sources to actually have any idea what was going on so you no longer can take a source and say well here's here's my news you've got to diversify if you're not watching the news on the left and the right you're not watching anything and i wouldn't say that either of them get it right they get different things wrong at different times but if you're not seeing both you don't know what's going on you really don't know what's going on so congress i mentioned this yesterday reached this big energy deal it looks like that includes nuclear energy some new technologies for that promoting that stuff and also carbon capture now every person who's let's say in the middle the political middle thinks these are good ideas i'm exaggerating a little bit but i would say that people in the middle whether they're democrats or republicans if they're in the middle they probably like nuclear energy now on the right they might like nuclear energy all the way from left to right but pretty much it's a good middle position nuclear power uh no matter what you think of climate change you still probably think nuclear energy is required and carbon capture i don't think anybody disagrees with it if some company wants to capture the carbon out of the air which is a thing and turn it into commercial products why not how could that be a bad idea so so here's my point that i'm working toward i feel as if we we get lost in what greg guff held often refers to as this prison of two ideas that you've either got your republican or you've got your democrat you know you've got your your your lefties or your righties and and your government is going to be one of those two things or if you're lucky it could be you know deadlocked but i think i think there might be something that's even better than that which is alternating trump-like presidents with biden like presidents in other words the best situation might be not a trump-like candidate forever and not a biden-like candidate forever it might be and i would make a strong argument for this actually and i'm going to right now that your best situation is to alternate and the reason is that they have different skills and there are some problems that some of them can solve the other cannot so let me give you an example of some things that i think trump was uniquely qualified for and if he hadn't done what he had done much of it will be lasting i think if he had not done those things another president i don't think could have done these things but i'm going to tell you that also there might be some things that biden can get done that you would want to get done things that you would want that even trump couldn't get done because he was you know sort of polarizing to say the least so here are things that trump probably did that are close to impossible so the middle east peace deals making north korea sort of a little buddy that doesn't bother us too much project warp speed incredible success decoupling from china i don't think you would have seen that from really anybody else i don't think anybody would have been as effective with isis and we haven't had much terrorism problems have we uh i don't think anybody would have done as good a job with iran if you think that that approach to it was the right way to go to you know put them in a position where they'll have to negotiate which is about where they are now uh trump got not just good employment he had record low unemployment i don't know if another president could have done that uh you know he did the nafta deals he's done other trade deals that probably wouldn't have happened he broke records for appointing judges if you'd like that kind of judge probably you know you needed trump to have if if trump had not gotten elected against all odds all of those positions would have gone the other way and that's a pretty big big deal if you like that kind of judge and i would argue that even trump's wall design for the wall with the border of mexico that even if biden says he doesn't like it and doesn't want to build a wall he's a little bit stuck and here's why you can get rid of bad policies but it's hard to get rid of bad design and what trump did was good design working with the experts so they the specific kind of wall that trump is putting up even though it's replacement for you know bad wall that even the democrats thought should be replaced his good design is probably so good it's going to make a difference compared to the little walls and fences they had before i would expect that biden is going to end up making noise about tearing down the wall or not building it and it will sort of drift and morph into okay we're only going to put wall where we had wall before which turns out to be the best place to put it because where we had wall before it wasn't a good wall but the only reason there was any wall there at all is because we really needed one so if you replace the bad wall with good wall which even democrats would agree with because you'd say we're not building more wall we're just making sure that you know these particular places don't have an issue and hey we got this good design and even the experts are still saying it's the best design it wasn't you know trump's personal you know design it was the experts that trump approved so i think biden is going to have to keep even the wall design because it just was a better wall they just figured out how to do it better you know i i think that'll last and i think even biden will uh will he'll not be as tight as trump on the border but even he's gonna have to do the obvious stuff how about nuclear energy oh let me uh go down the list the other things that trump did that i think wouldn't have been done he took a took a swipe at the pharma costs i don't know if that's going to be successful but that that thing where you get the most favorite nations pricing i don't think anybody else would have even tried that there's the telehealth across state lines i don't think anybody else would have changed regulations as regular as readily as trump did so there's a whole bunch of things that you just couldn't have gotten that are either permanent or at least the sticky and you get to keep that stuff now here's what a biden could bring you even if you were a republican you ready i think biden could do more for nuclear energy than trump for whatever reason trump didn't like to speak about nuclear energy uh he's favor of it you know he's mentioned it sort of on in a list of stuff but biden probably wouldn't get as much pushback from the left so maybe he can make something happen sell sell nuclear energy as it properly should be sold to the left as green energy that's really all he has to do if biden comes out tomorrow and says hey you need to know that nuclear energy is green energy and it's not just important it's probably the most important thing if biden said that out loud suddenly you could have a pretty robust more robust nuclear energy thing you might do something with health care if he's a little less polarizing maybe you'll get something done with transportation maybe he can do more to tamp down blm and antifa who are really just a they felt like a trump response so there might be a bunch of stuff you don't like about biden and i'm not going to argue that there was also a bunch of stuff you probably didn't like about trump even if you supported him my only point is that if each of these people do sticky things meaning that if each of them do what they can do that are good things the good things stick and then maybe it's time to try something else next time to pick up those those holes that the other one left behind well here's my take on the uh eric swalwell chinese spy lover story now i don't know if the lover part has been is just alleged or confirmed i know that his staff at least at one point refused to refuse to deny that they were intimately involved which doesn't mean they were it just means that that's i guess you have to just say that's part of the story i don't like to say that about anybody you know unless i saw it with my own eyes you know and i wouldn't want to see it with my own eyes but it's just part of the story now let's say that you believe that uh suawell was too close to the chinese spy and some people are saying he should be removed from the intelligence committee because that sounds bad right chinese spy intelligence committee pretty bad but the defense against that is that there's no evidence that he revealed any secrets now i'll bet that's i'll bet that's true you know whatever you want to say about swalwell he is also smart enough and he's in you know background as an attorney i think that he would be smart enough that he would not have revealed any intelligence secrets to even somebody he was close to i and i have no reason to believe that he did but is that your only problem i don't think that's your only problem now even if you could imagine that he was smart enough not to let any state secrets get to any civilian it shouldn't matter whether it was a spy or just a civilian should have been the same standard of you know no way know how for the secret stuff and i feel like he probably did that but here's the real risk if you were a planted chinese spy now i'm using the word spy i think that's fair right wouldn't you say and if you were a planted spy would you be untrained or you did do they just say hey uh christine fang fang fang as we like to call you your assignment is this young politician and uh your job is to go help china then what would she say uh help you in what way well you're you're gonna go do things with swell well and uh get close to him and see what you can do and then she would say see what i can do in what way can you be more specific am i stealing secrets what am i doing well yes if you get an opportunity to find out any secrets that's part of it but here's the part the news leaves out don't you think she was trained to persuade she's not just a receiver right if you're going to make if you're going to go through all the trouble to plant chinese spies all around the world in key positions are you going to send them there untrained you're not going to send her there untrained now let me give you a full scary thought now since i don't know if she is trained or trained in what way this is all speculation all right somebody's calling me a democrat apologist you might want to wait if you think i'm a democrat apologist yeah you might want to wait um and by the way if you if you think i'm a democrat apologist you're a idiot and you shouldn't be watching this live stream you should really find some other content that's less challenging because that's not what i do here it's not my job to be an apologist for anybody and anybody who's been around long enough knows i will take any position that seems reasonable no matter where that is i don't need to be anybody's apologist so just go away go watch some other content that's more to your liking so here's my take on swalwell if you really want to be if you want to be frightened of what's the worst case scenario imagine if fang fang had my skill just for persuasion now i don't mean just you know me specifically but anybody who was trained the way i was or indeed anybody who's even read my books would you want a chinese spy be getting close to one of our politician who had read any of my books right it's kind of dangerous so what do we know suawell was doing uh at least at one point he was selling the idea that there was russia collusion and you know how i'm always surprised when i find out that democrats believe what believe what they're saying imagine if you will that the reason that swalwell was so convinced there was russia a collusion is that maybe that had been suggested to him by somebody who was really really well trained as suggesting things think about it we just we just went through years of this piss ant eric swalwell looking the public straight in the eye and telling us he was pretty sure this was all russia collusion what if he believed it now was there any point when you thought he actually believed it because you say to yourself they don't believe that it's just something they're saying right he might have believed it he might still believe it because if you spend enough time with somebody who is trained as well as let's say i am just as an example i'm not like the world's greatest persuader i just am trained if you spend enough time with somebody who's trained you will believe anything there's almost no limit to what a trained persuader could make a swalwell believe you want to even be more afraid here it goes 20 percent of all people politicians smart people dumb people educated people uneducated people people in all countries about 20 percent can be convinced of anything they can be convinced there's something in the room that isn't even there they can be convinced that it's cold when it's hot they can be convinced of anything by a trained hypnotist now could try could china detect who are in the 20 i don't know but probably i don't know but probably in other words they there there's probably some signal that even hypnotists haven't figured out by the way even a trained hypnotist can't can't reliably know who's going to be in that 20 short of actually trying it out it's very misleading you think you would because your common sense says well it's going to be the the people that you imagine have weak minds but it isn't there's no correlation with intelligence education gullibility there's just no correlation with anything and hypnotists know that they know there's no correlation but suppose you had massive amounts of data and you could study what influenced some people and then you could find out what signals they give off in advance that would tell you that they're the type of people who could be signaled for example suppose you did a mass chinese experiment on your own public and you tried to influence people to believe something ridiculous but not harmful because you're just testing it's ridiculous but not harmful then you find out who believed it and you figure out what is it about these people who believe the most ridiculous stories what signal do they give off in other other realms the way they talk some experience they've had if china has looked for that they may have found it i'd love to know what they found because if a hypnotist ever learned that you'd be in real trouble because if if they found some some signal or some tell where i could just learn it and learn who the 20 are just you know by observing the public i would rule the world i don't even think that's an exaggeration you know as long as i imagine i'm the only one who knew the secret if i could tell who the 20 percent were i could form an army i could rule the world that's how powerful this stuff is now if swallow was in the 80 percent and fang fang did not have any special training it's still super dangerous there is a possibility that she had some serious training and it is a possibility he's in the 20 percent and if he's not they've got a lot of agents in a lot of places do you know how many times they got the 20 by luck 20 yeah 20 of all of those chinese agents are with somebody who can be convinced of anything and then they will be running our government completely unaware that they did not make up their own opinions and did the news cover this story which i would consider one of the biggest uh potential holes in security i've ever seen in my life and there have been some big ones cbs gave it zero minutes nbc zero minutes abc two minutes msnbc zero minutes cnn three minutes so there you go uh joe biden back in 2007 there's a clip of him on the internet this is like one of the great uh historical clip finds of all time you know you love going back and finding that hypocritical statement but this one goes way beyond hypocritical there are some things that are just hypocritical but but listen to this and tell me if hypocritical captures it because i think it's hypocritical plus there's a little extra going on here i'll tell you about it and this this is a direct quote from joe biden on camera talking to the public in 2007 quote uh he's talking about electronic voting machines which he was not in favor of at the time unless they had paper back up and he said quote how are you going to keep it from us being able to be in the position where you can manipulate the machines manipulate the records i think we should pass a federal law mandating that the same machines have paper trails that are mandatory blah blah let me read this first part again how are you who's you how are you he's talking to the public so how are you the public going to keep it meaning the voting machine situation from us us who the hell is us he's talking to the public and the public he is just referred to as you but when he says us that's a subset of the public that includes him does that include democrats or does it include politicians i think it at least includes politicians we'll give him the benefit of a doubt that he was not he was not limiting that to democrats when he says us but at least politicians being able to be in a position where you can manipulate the machines so in 2007 he knew that these were at great risk to be to be manipulated by politicians and thought it was a tremendous risk nothing happened apparently so his warning was not heated and so allegedly he used the loophole that people refused to close on his request he used that loophole to become president of the united states now that's of course only under the assumption that there was some fraud here and as you know we do not have proof of such a thing proof i say as opposed to evidence we don't have court proof of fraud at a level that would reverse the election we might it might be on the way but we do not have it as of this speaking so this is one of the most just jaw-dropping shocking things and and i have to i have to say uh if it were true that biden knew this was a way to rig an election and if it were true that let's say his operatives rigged it for him you know will give him the benefit of a doubt that he never gave an order to rig any machines i think that's fair but if the irony is that he was not heeded in his warning and he became the president of the united states because he was not heated in his direct warning it's kind of cool you know this is sort of like my appreciation for serial killers who are also industrious you can hate the killing part but still they're very industrious quite creative and if joe biden pulled this off you got to give him a little bit of credit for using the loophole that he warned you hey he warned you here's the funniest thing in the news uh cnn's uh trying to mock trump about his shower water standard so i guess this finally got put into law or whatever some kind of rule that your shower head will now if if you wanted to i guess you can get one that has more volume of water but here's the funny part cnn reports things that trump says at his rallies without without adding the context that when he's giving a rally talk he's there for entertainment when he gives a tweet he tweets like people tweet so right and he just does a better job of it than anybody else when he talks to a head of state he talks to them like a head of state and he does that well too so he adjusts his communication and his style for each of these forms of communication better than anybody's ever done in my opinion uh far better than anybody's ever done if you look at all the different realms you could pick any one realm and say somebody's you know does a better speech or something but there's nobody who communicates as well across multiple realms of communication but what cnn does is they will act as though they're all they're all just one if you don't understand that the things he says at a rally are meant for entertainment and you and you see it reported as if it's a presidential statement of fact it looks funny and that's what i'm going to read to you so this is these are trump's actual words uh as reported by cnn from i don't know what rally quote uh we have a situation where we're looking very strongly at sinks and showers and other elements of bathrooms now right away he already has me because never before has any as any president shown a genuine concern for your your bathroom inconveniences now if you tell me that's not the best example of the common touch you've ever seen i will argue with you nobody has ever applied let's say what we call the common touch better than you're going to hear right now this is the common touch you can't do this better okay so other elements of bathrooms where you turn the faucet on and in areas where there's tremendous amounts of water where the water rushes out to sea because you could never handle it and you don't get any water the president said last december during a round table with business leaders oh so i was doing a round table then the president went on you turn on the faucet and you don't get any water they take a shower and water comes dripping out just dripping out very quietly dripping out the president continued lowering his voice as he spoke about the drips people are flushing toilets 10 times 15 times as opposed to once now i stand corrected he said this in the context of a round table but he's he he used his rally speech he just he did it at the round table because it was a now the fact that anybody could anybody could read this and think that he was serious when he says people are flushing their toilets 10 to 15 times i mean i i give up after six i don't know about you i've never flushed the toilet 10 to 15 times and i figure if this is an average number and it's accurate there must be people flushing their toilet 25 times to make up for my low number but but you have to love the way he makes this visual so let me read it again but only listen to it for the extraordinary choice of visual uh persuasion so first of all you can feel it you can feel this because you can feel the water as he talks about you can feel it you can see it and that those are two important things all right so we have a situation where the talking about the sinks and showers where you turn the faucet on all right so so you can already you see in the movie you turn the faucet on and in areas where there's tremendous amounts of water and now you're seeing like this this rush of water like coming at you where the water rushes out to sea now i'm seeing the ocean i've seen the ocean and i'm seeing this pipe with all the water that came from my house that i couldn't handle i couldn't handle that kind of water i'm not meant for that kind of water i can't handle that but all this water is rushing through and it rushes out to the ocean the sea uh and then you turn the faucet on and you don't get any water and now i'm seeing the faucet and there's like nothing coming out i'm like great and it's just you know dry or sand is coming out or something and it's just dripping out very quietly dripping out it's not just dripping out it's dripping out so slowly that the drip is quiet you can't even hear the drip it is such a silent drip now you see the drip right you see it now you hear the drip you hear the freaking drip it's quiet it's not one of these trap trap trap things the president is very clear on this it's not a big drop it's a it's a low drip that's they're so bad all your all your water is rushing out to sea it's rushing out to sea and all you get is and you're flushing your toilet you're like flushing and flushing and the flush in the toilet 10 times up to 15 times it's it's like a little movie within a movie because you put yourself right in that scene and you're and you're standing in front of your toilet and you're like nope nope ah that's 11.

i think four or five more times might get it nope anyway this is some of the best communication the world has ever seen and when i tell you that trump will be appreciated more every year after his term or terms however many there end up being i am really serious about that i'm as confident as i could be that as as the noise and the fog clears and you just see the things he he pulled off the the things he did that other people can't do won't do have never done and will never do again it is truly extraordinary even even if you allow every criticism to be true the things that he did are just simply extraordinary um here's big news uh i guess this was news from june but i didn't see it until recently uh 66 million years ago an ancient marine reptile that they think was a mosasaur that which is a really big dinosaur i guess crawled down to the water and left a football-sized egg in antarctica which has been discovered so scientists have in their possession a dinosaur egg from an extinct giant marine reptile now i'm glad i didn't find it first because i would have been tempted to make an omelette out of it because you don't want to leave it for somebody to clone this egg i don't know if it has enough material in it to clone us a proper dinosaur but i feel like we're getting closer to that jurassic park wise so we're gonna maybe have a dinosaur but i would have just sort of eaten it as an omelet i know you can't really make an omelet out of a fossil come on come on yeah i don't i didn't see in the story whether they got any useful dna on it that would be the big question right um and then lastly president-elect uh biden can we call him that let's just call him a uh perspective maybe president biden probable president biden he picked for his department of energy former governor jennifer uh granholm now here's the fun part of the story i've seen jennifer granholm as a pundit on cnn i think just cnn lots and lots of times i didn't know she was a governor so i knew i knew she had some role that made her a capable pundit but i didn't know she was governor i only just knew her from lots of appearances on cnn but here's the funny part while i often disagree with people on cnn i don't often think they're batshit crazy so for example if i see you know jake tapper say something i might disagree with it but i don't think he's bad crazy he seems completely sane but jennifer granholm and i'm not saying this because she's female i know you want to you want to jump on that right oh you said the man's not crazy but why is why is the woman got to be crazy there are plenty of crazy men do you need me to list all the crazy men feel better will you feel better then if i do that i'm not going to but they're crazy people all over the place but i remember watching her and thinking well she is just badger crazy i guess she was a big russia collusion truther so she does have a history of being really really gullible here's the punch line she'd be in charge of our nuclear energy which i think includes nuclear weapons at least the civilian aspect or scientific aspect of it i don't know if joe biden could have made a worse choice if he's trying to make me feel comfortable about that area i actually can't think of anybody who would make me feel less confident that a a serious people i mean really you can name a lot of people even people that you you're annoyed by who are you know let's say on cnn but they don't look crazy don lemon doesn't look crazy i mean unless you count a little bit of tds but i think that's a sketchy choice there bye bye fracking maybe we'll see i think even fracking is going to be too sticky the the problem like i said before and it applies to a lot of different areas there are a whole bunch of things that trump did that even if you wanted to reverse them they're really sticky take north korea what will joe biden do with north korea i don't know if he'll have a meeting with kim jong-un but he's probably not going to want to modify the current situation too much right it's sort of sticky the way it is so uh adam schiff looks psychotic well what would what would you think if we found out that the main russia collusion advocates all had some connection with a chinese spy now i'm not saying that's the case i'm saying it would explain a lot wouldn't it you know because you would assume that china would want to redirect our attention toward russia and away from them right so if if it turned out and i think i tweeted about this as soon as i found out about the swalwall thing i think i tweeted that if adam schiff doesn't have a close connection to a chinese spy i would be surprised i don't have any information that that's the case but he acts in a way that you you look at it and you go uh what's going on there is he a 20 percenter if i had to guess probably is probably is so but i there's no way to know all right that's all for now and i will talk to you tomorrow all right periscope is off you youtubers still here for now uh yeah all right do you have any questions for me uh am i happier today well i i'm really stoned right now so that really worked people usually think i'm i'm high when i do my morning periscopes but i assure you that except for today uh that has not been the case all right thank you uh that is all for now oh yes and um season five of the expanse thanks for reminding me season five of the expense is on tonight and i will be watching that uh thoughts on dueling electors well you know i guess technically the you know trump still has some whiff of a chance but i don't think having a uh i don't think having a path to victory makes any difference at this point because i think the system has decided that it doesn't matter if he has a path or not it doesn't matter if the election was thrown doesn't matter how much fraud they find at this point i think it's just too late all right um that's all for now and i'll talk to you later you

you know it just occurred to me

that when i was a kid it would have been

hard to do this even if we had this

technology

because all of our clocks were different

when i was a kid most of our clocks were

on

slightly different times so if

you wanted to live stream when i was a

kid

even if you could do the live stream

part

you wouldn't be able to do the starting

simultaneous part

because people would be like i don't

know my watch says

you're five minutes early and half the

other people would be

it looks like you're about 10 minutes

late according to me

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savor it okay

you gotta stop and smell the coffee

sometimes

well have you all heard that yeah

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but fear not i will not be discontinued

i will not be canceled

yet so in march

apparently periscope will be

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there may may or may not be

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so periscope will go away but we don't

know if twitter will

offer some kind of a replacement

let's just say i've heard

i've heard chatter that would suggest

that's at least a possibility

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youtube where i am live streaming even

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as as you listen to me and uh of course

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so the the stuff i put on the locals

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locals.com uh i do this stuff that i

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and lessons on persuasion to turn you

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um so those are similar options and it's

also available on

podcasts if you want to listen to it hey

there's a bunch of

good news on covet

uh oh and also uh i'm live on rumble as

well

so i don't know if i think we're we're

updated on that um so rumble

as well and also rockefin so any one of

those you can find it

good news on kovid uh

we've you've heard this before but it's

going to a new level which is

dogs being trained to detect covet

by sniffing your armpit now apparently

you don't need the dog to actually get

up get up in there

you can just take a you know some kind

of a towelette and

you know swab your armpit make it

available to the dog

and the dog they believe the people

studying this and there are a number of

pilot programs going on

but the people looking into it think the

dog would be able to get up to

between 75 and 100 percent

effectiveness now imagine how quickly

you could test if the dog could do it

let's say let's say you're uh you get

off an airplane or something

and they want to test you when you reach

the ground everybody gets a moist

towelette

everybody goes rat stand in line the dog

just walks down the line

boom the entire the entire plane is

cleared it's pretty good

if the this is one of those weird

situations where

the the least expected solution might be

the one that is just the kill shot

because if you can train dogs to do this

there's no technology that's going to

come close because

literally the dog can just walk through

a whole crowd

as long as they've you know swabbed

themselves and made it available

test the whole room you know 10 minutes

so and how long does it take to train a

dog

to detect a certain smell i don't know

the answer to that but i'll bet it's not

hard

i'll bet it's not the hardest thing

you've ever trained a dog to do

so dogs might be our savior there are a

number of pilot programs going on

and look kind of promising

now of course the other big big news is

the facts vaccines being rolled out and

all the conversation about who gets the

vaccination

first and all that conversation has been

kind of boring

because everybody says the same thing

let us discuss

who should get the vaccines first

all right i'll give you my novel opinion

you may not have heard this before but

i'm thinking

people in rest homes and nursing homes

and

maybe front line health care workers

just like a hundred percent of the other

people in the world

why are we even talking about it does

anyone

disagree now those are the easy ones

right

but there's also a big conversation

about who should do it

in front of the public because wouldn't

you like to see

uh joe biden get a vaccination

in public that would be good for i think

confidence

and i think that's good too and i i'll

tell you in my opinion

i'm pretty sure the vaccine is going to

be safe

but just in case you know

i i again i'm really sure the

vaccinations will be safe

but just in case

don't you think we should do kamala

before joe biden

yeah think about it think about it just

in case

um but the other thing that you should

not do

when you're deciding who should be on tv

getting the vaccination

you should not pick a cartoonist to go

first

let me tell you how that would go

because i've thought

you know i'm a public figure

so as a public figure i you know i don't

want to jump the line and

in fact i'd like to go last if i could

but i thought well maybe i have some

responsibility

right to show the public

you know that uh i'm willing to get the

vaccination

but i'm really the wrong person to do it

on tv or

any kind of a live stream because i'm

pretty sure i know how i would play it

and it would be like this you know i'd

be like

okay uh give it to me

i always look away i don't like to look

you know i don't mind getting shots

actually i just don't like looking at it

so so i look away and then there'd be a

little pinch you know they'd be like

you're going to feel a little pinched

and i'd be like and i'd be like

oh oh you've you're done

that's not bad i i really thought it was

going to be more than that it's a little

bit there's just like a little bit of uh

you know you could feel it i mean you

can feel that uh i got the vaccination

but i've been hearing people say it was

getting really

stiff and stuff actually i can feel a

little stiffness coming

yeah a little bit coming whoa whoo

whoa well because that packs quite a

punch

nothing you can't handle really but oh

god

whoa i

feel like i might pass out here but i'll

be fine and i

i highly recommend you should all get ow

wow

for those of you listening on podcast

what you missed was a hilarious

impression

of me becoming frozen

now i will say again

i will get the vaccination i'm sure the

vaccination is safe

uh if you didn't hear the story of how

the

vaccination process got sped up by

by trump it's really interesting

so here's a little tidbit that i heard

just yesterday listening to the news

which was that the normal uh process

if they do a big study is that the

fda i think it's the fda and whoever

they work with

looks looks at the data

for something like six months

i did not misspeak after a controlled

study

of a of a new drug the fda will look at

the data and really study it for

six months i think i got that right six

months

now have you ever studied data

i've i've studied data i've done it for

a living

i've never seen any data i needed to

study for six months

the study itself might take six months

but studying the data

took six months until

trump said not anymore

basically trump basically just said

no how about no it doesn't take six

months

to look at data what the hell

were they doing all the time

up until now if it took them months

to look at data do you know how long it

should take

even if there's a lot of data how long

it should take i'm thinking

days i'm not thinking months

and now apparently the people who do

these things said oh well i guess we'll

just do it in a

more reasonable compressed amount of

time i think they got it down to

i had my numbers approximate but it was

like

something like taking it from six months

down to one month

and i'm still saying to myself a month

what exactly takes a month

i can't think of any data that would

take a month to look at

if it takes a month to look at it

somebody organized it poorly

so you really need to be talking to

whoever gave you the data

because there should be things like

summaries and

you know totals at the bottoms of

columns and stuff i feel like they

should have done a lot of work for you

i don't know i was just amazed by that

so when you hear that

trump you know did the impossible with

the warp speed stuff

maybe maybe it was the impossible for

other people

but he just sort of made it happen and

then they just did it

and that's a lesson in in management

let me let me give you uh the rookie

lesson in management

followed by the experienced person's

lesson in management

here's what young people and people who

do not have experience

think management would look like manager

comes in and says to the

the project experts you know the manager

doesn't know much but the

people working on the project know the

details of the project

and the manager says i need you to be

done in a month

and the project experts say whoa i i

know that's what you want

but let me show you the timelines the

dependencies on the

project there isn't actually any way to

do this

in less than two months all right

now the inexperienced manager way

to look at this is well the person who

knows a lot more than i do

and i hired them and i trust them says

it's going to take two months i wanted

it in one

but i guess i have to accept two months

that's the inexperienced

person's view of management here's the

experienced person's view of management

i'd like this to be done in one month

it's very important

expert says no way to do this in less

than two months and here's my

reasons why manager looks blankly at

expert and says

do it in one month and then the

expert

does it in one month but without the

part because the manager usually

leaves that part out

that's what an experienced manager does

because they know

that just about everything can be done

faster

and they have a sense of what that means

in any particular context if they're

good managers

right so when trump was presented i

wasn't

in the room but one can imagine

something like this happened

you can imagine somebody's saying to

trump and here's the process

and the reason it takes all these years

to do a vaccine is that it takes six

months to look at the data

and you can imagine the look on trump's

face i don't know if any of this

happened in real life

but you can imagine this imagine trump

listening to somebody tell him that the

phase of just

looking at the freaking data was going

to take six months

just imagine what he said right

i'll tell you what he didn't say well

you're the experts

i guess it takes six months to look at

data no

no maybe biden would do that because

biden says listen to the experts right

maybe he would have said what can you do

every single expert just said six months

if that's what it takes to look at data

and nobody's telling me

it could be done faster what are you

going to do

but i think trump like an experienced

manager

and exactly what i would have said had i

been president

in the room i would have said stop stop

hold on

i'm gonna need a little more explanation

about this six months to look at data

because you're not producing the data

you're just looking at it you're gonna

have to get that six months down to a

little bit

shorter or somebody's

gonna be fired i i'm guessing that that

was a lot of what it looked like behind

closed doors just

you know conceptually anyway so

uh vaccines coming um

today at uh 1 p.m

eastern time that would be 10 a.m for

you californians

i'm going to do a separate live stream

interview

with razeeb khan who's a spokesperson

for

traitwell t-r-a-i-t-w-e-l-l

and he's a geneticist and he'll tell us

about

traitwell's new system

i guess you'd say where you can upload

your dna

and some other information and it will

tell you your relative

your relative covered risk

how cool is that now does it work

is it real this is these are the

questions i will ask them

and uh i don't know the answers to the

questions we'll we'll find out

but imagine if you're trying to figure

out who should get the

vaccination first we'll also ask them

about dna and privacy and stuff like

that

so i'll get into that

so imagine if we could find out that

some people have much lower risk than

other people

and even after you've uh accounted for

comorbidities and lifestyle and age and

all that

um that should probably help us right if

we could actually say well

if we're going to do the high-risk

people first

it should at least help you identify

them all right

other good news it's just all good news

day

on covent the fda is actually

authorizing

its first over-the-counter at-home

covent test

you've been hearing me complaining about

the lack of the rapid tests

for a while now now i don't think this

is exactly the same thing i've been

talking about

because this might be a little bit of a

higher end

higher i don't know but it might be a

higher

sensitivity but cost a little bit more

still takes only 15 to 20 minutes to get

a

result at home with just your own nasal

swab test you don't have to send it

anywhere

it comes with an app and i think that'll

be available in a few months

that's huge now the problem is

um oh is somebody saying can he identify

adverse reactions to the vaccine um i

i'm sure that's not part of what they do

at

trade well but it's a heck of a question

that's a heck of a question i'll ask him

that thank you

um so

i had been saying that i thought there

must be some kind of either

uh why i was actually speculating there

was some kind of corruption

in our government for not already having

approved these over-the-counter

cheap tests i still think that's more

likely the case than other explanations

for why it wasn't here sooner

and why we don't have more of them and

maybe the lower sensitivity tests

as well there's still something going on

but when you hear

that it takes six months to look at data

i start saying

oh maybe it is possible that

incompetence could explain it

you know because i ruled out

incompetence

just because it's so long now that you

couldn't possibly say well

it's just things just take a long time

like i was ruling that out

but now you hear how long it really

takes or it used to take before trump

was

kicking their butts and you say to

yourself it's

actually maybe it wasn't corruption

could it be they were actually just that

incompetent

i didn't want to believe it because it's

easier to believe corruption but

maybe who knows

other good news covert wise is that

mcconnell says mitch mcconnell says that

the top

leaders in congress are going to stay

behind

and not go home from washington over the

holidays until they get

an agreement so he's talking about the

funding for

covent relief in a variety of ways but

if the rest of congress goes home does

it matter that the leadership

makes an agreement cause they can't vote

on it

because everybody went home so

isn't it really just an agreement to

see if they can agree among themselves

so then they can go home

but when congress comes back the rest of

congress might not agree

so it looks like just a clever way to go

home for christmas

without an agreement or at least without

any legislation

so the whole thing looks like

to me

but you know at least they know the

optics look bad if they all go home

so that's something

what are we going to do with history

it seems to me that in the old days the

the winning team got to decide what the

history was for the country right

so if so if your country you won the war

you get to write the history of the war

and

you write it your way but in the old

days

history would have basically one version

per country at least through high school

and you know most of college

you could find other versions but there

would be a mainstream version

now history is being written and

permanently recorded in the internet

so everything that's happening will just

sort of always be there

we think so how do you deal with the

fact that there are two completely

different histories

how do you write a history book at let's

say

the college level that would include

this this era what would you say

about the the trump administration would

you say

russia collusion was real would you say

the

find people hoax actually happened

would you say that the president really

did

uh suggest drinking bleach because these

are the things that will become the

permanent

record they become the new way the

history is recorded

it's no longer some consensus you know

winner puts it in one version literally

what do you do when you don't have one

history anymore

there will be at least two histories

minimum

you know you argue lots of them

but i'm thinking that

well let me put it in concrete terms

imagine if history

simply followed cnn's reporting

right imagine if they just didn't vary

from whatever cnn reported and we would

allow that if cnn ever

you know corrected anything that the

correction would stand

but basically the cnn's version of the

world

suppose you just took that and put it in

a history

class or textbook and said here's your

history it was in the news

and you know the new york times agreed

with them and the washington post agreed

with them

there's your news yeah think about it

would that be an actual history that's

scary i don't even know what they will

teach in school

i like actually literally i don't know

how they would teach it

because who would agree what the real

history was

so here's what i'm thinking is our

current situation

when it comes to investing i'll use an

analogy here

in investing one of the few things that

everybody agrees on

no matter what kind of an expert you are

on investing

pretty much everybody agrees on one

thing diversification

is really important because if you're

not diversifying putting your money in

lots of different bets

so that if some of them go bad you at

least by luck you'll have some that went

extra well to compensate so

in finance if you're trying to you know

pick one

winning stock you're just a sucker

because

people don't can't do that you know we

know that people don't have any skill

to pick individual stocks even really

really good people aren't good at it

but everybody can diversify right

so diversification fits it fixes

most of the problems that you would have

in the way you think about investing

just get that one thing right you're in

pretty good shape and i think the same

thing is going to be true for the news

and for history meaning that

you will have to read a diverse

bunch of sources to actually have any

idea what was going on

so you no longer can

take a source and say well here's here's

my news

you've got to diversify if you're not

watching the news on the left

and the right you're not watching

anything

and i wouldn't say that either of them

get it right

they get different things wrong at

different times but if you're not

seeing both you don't know what's going

on

you really don't know what's going on

so congress i mentioned this yesterday

reached this big

energy deal it looks like that includes

nuclear energy some new technologies for

that

promoting that stuff and also carbon

capture

now every person who's let's say

in the middle the political middle

thinks these are good ideas i'm

exaggerating a little bit but i would

say that people in the middle

whether they're democrats or republicans

if they're in the middle

they probably like nuclear energy now

on the right they might like nuclear

energy all the way

from left to right but pretty much it's

a good

middle position nuclear power uh

no matter what you think of climate

change you still probably think nuclear

energy is

required and carbon capture i don't

think anybody disagrees with it if some

company wants to

capture the carbon out of the air which

is a thing

and turn it into commercial products why

not

how could that be a bad idea so

so here's my point that i'm working

toward

i feel as if we we get lost in what

greg guff held often refers to as this

prison of two ideas

that you've either got your republican

or you've got your democrat

you know you've got your your your

lefties or your righties

and and your government is going to be

one of those two things

or if you're lucky it could be you know

deadlocked

but i think i think there might be

something that's

even better than that which is

alternating trump-like presidents

with biden like presidents

in other words the best situation might

be

not a trump-like candidate forever

and not a biden-like candidate forever

it might be and i would make a strong

argument for this actually

and i'm going to right now that your

best situation

is to alternate and the reason is that

they have different skills

and there are some problems that some of

them can solve

the other cannot so let me give you an

example of some things that i think

trump was uniquely qualified for and if

he hadn't done what he had done

much of it will be lasting i think if he

had not done those things

another president i don't think could

have done these things

but i'm going to tell you that also

there might be some things that biden

can get done

that you would want to get done things

that you would want that even trump

couldn't get done

because he was you know sort of

polarizing to say the least

so here are things that trump probably

did that are close to impossible

so the middle east peace deals making

north korea sort of a little buddy that

doesn't bother us too much

project warp speed incredible success

decoupling from china i don't think you

would have seen that from

really anybody else i don't think

anybody would have been as

effective with isis and we haven't had

much

terrorism problems have we uh i don't

think anybody would have done as good a

job with iran

if you think that that approach to it

was the right way to go to

you know put them in a position where

they'll have to negotiate

which is about where they are now uh

trump got

not just good employment he had record

low unemployment i don't know if another

president could have done that

uh you know he did the nafta deals he's

done other trade deals

that probably wouldn't have happened he

broke records for appointing judges if

you'd like that kind of judge

probably you know you needed trump to

have if if trump had not gotten

elected against all odds all of those

positions would have gone the other way

and that's a pretty

big big deal if you like that kind of

judge

and i would argue that even trump's wall

design

for the wall with the border of mexico

that even if biden says he doesn't like

it

and doesn't want to build a wall he's a

little bit stuck

and here's why you can get rid of bad

policies but it's hard to get rid of bad

design

and what trump did was good design

working with the experts

so they the specific kind of wall that

trump is putting up

even though it's replacement for you

know bad wall that even the democrats

thought

should be replaced his good design

is probably so good it's going to make a

difference

compared to the little walls and fences

they had before

i would expect that biden is going to

end up

making noise about tearing down the wall

or not building it and it will sort of

drift and morph into

okay we're only going to put wall where

we had wall before

which turns out to be the best place to

put it because where we had wall before

it wasn't a good wall but the only

reason there was any wall there at all

is because we really needed one so if

you replace the bad wall

with good wall which even democrats

would agree with

because you'd say we're not building

more wall we're just making sure that

you know these particular places don't

have an issue

and hey we got this good design and even

the experts are still saying it's the

best design it wasn't you know trump's

personal

you know design it was the experts that

trump approved

so i think biden is going to have to

keep

even the wall design because it just was

a better wall

they just figured out how to do it

better you know i

i think that'll last and i think even

biden will

uh will he'll not be as

tight as trump on the border but even

he's gonna have to do the obvious stuff

how about nuclear energy oh let me uh

go down the list the other things that

trump did that i think wouldn't have

been done he took a

took a swipe at the pharma costs i don't

know if that's going to be successful

but that

that thing where you get the most

favorite nations pricing

i don't think anybody else would have

even tried that

there's the telehealth across state

lines i don't think anybody else would

have changed

regulations as regular as readily as

trump did

so there's a whole bunch of things that

you just couldn't have gotten

that are either permanent or at least

the sticky

and you get to keep that stuff now

here's what a biden could bring you

even if you were a republican you ready

i think biden could do more for nuclear

energy

than trump for whatever reason trump

didn't like to speak about nuclear

energy

uh he's favor of it you know he's

mentioned it sort of on

in a list of stuff but biden probably

wouldn't get as much pushback from the

left

so maybe he can make something happen

sell

sell nuclear energy as it properly

should be sold to the left

as green energy that's really all he has

to do

if biden comes out tomorrow and says

hey you need to know that nuclear energy

is green energy

and it's not just important it's

probably the most important thing

if biden said that out loud

suddenly you could have a pretty robust

more robust nuclear energy thing

you might do something with health care

if he's a little less polarizing maybe

you'll get something done with

transportation maybe he can do more to

tamp down blm and antifa

who are really just a they felt like a

trump

response so there might be a bunch of

stuff you don't like about biden and i'm

not going to argue that

there was also a bunch of stuff you

probably didn't like about trump

even if you supported him my only point

is

that if each of these people do sticky

things

meaning that if each of them do what

they can do

that are good things the good things

stick

and then maybe it's time to try

something else next time

to pick up those those holes that the

other one left behind

well here's my take on the uh eric

swalwell

chinese spy lover story now i don't know

if the lover part

has been is just alleged or confirmed

i know that his staff at least at one

point refused

to refuse to deny that they were

intimately involved

which doesn't mean they were it just

means that that's

i guess you have to just say that's part

of the story

i don't like to say that about anybody

you know unless i saw it with my own

eyes

you know and i wouldn't want to see it

with my own eyes

but it's just part of the story now

let's say

that you believe that uh suawell was too

close to the chinese

spy and some people are saying he should

be removed from the intelligence

committee

because that sounds bad right

chinese spy intelligence committee

pretty bad

but the defense against that is that

there's no evidence

that he revealed any secrets

now i'll bet that's i'll bet that's true

you know whatever you want to say about

swalwell he is also

smart enough and he's in you know

background as an attorney

i think that he would be smart enough

that he would not have revealed any

intelligence secrets to even somebody he

was close to

i and i have no reason to believe that

he did

but is that your only problem

i don't think that's your only problem

now even if you could imagine

that he was smart enough not to let any

state secrets get to

any civilian it shouldn't matter whether

it was a spy or just a civilian

should have been the same standard of

you know no way know how

for the secret stuff and i feel like he

probably did that

but here's the real risk if you were a

planted

chinese spy now i'm using the word spy

i think that's fair right wouldn't you

say

and if you were a planted spy would you

be

untrained or

you did do they just say hey uh

christine fang fang fang as we like to

call you

your assignment is this young politician

and uh your job is to go help china

then what would she say uh help you in

what way

well you're you're gonna go do things

with

swell well and uh get close to him and

see what you can do

and then she would say see what i can do

in what way can you be more specific

am i stealing secrets what am i doing

well yes if you get an opportunity to

find out any secrets that's part of it

but here's the part the news leaves out

don't you think she was trained to

persuade

she's not just a receiver

right if you're going to make if you're

going to go through all the trouble to

plant

chinese spies all around the world in

key positions

are you going to send them there

untrained

you're not going to send her there

untrained now

let me give you a full scary thought

now since i don't know if she is trained

or trained in what way

this is all speculation

all right somebody's calling me a

democrat

apologist you might want to wait

if you think i'm a democrat apologist

yeah you might want to wait

um and by the way if you if you think

i'm

a democrat apologist you're a

idiot and you shouldn't be watching this

live stream you should really find some

other content that's less challenging

because that's not what i do here it's

not my job to be an apologist

for anybody and anybody who's been

around

long enough knows i will take any

position

that seems reasonable no matter where

that is i don't need to be anybody's

apologist

so just go away go watch some other

content that's more to your liking

so here's my take on swalwell if you

really want to be

if you want to be frightened of what's

the worst case scenario

imagine if fang fang had my skill

just for persuasion now i don't mean

just you know me

specifically but anybody who was

trained the way i was

or indeed anybody who's even read my

books

would you want a chinese spy

be getting close to one of our

politician who had read any of my books

right it's kind of dangerous so

what do we know suawell was doing

uh at least at one point he was selling

the idea that

there was russia collusion and you know

how i'm always surprised when i find out

that democrats believe

what believe what they're saying imagine

if you will

that the reason that swalwell was so

convinced there was russia a collusion

is that maybe that had been suggested to

him

by somebody who was really really well

trained

as suggesting things

think about it we just we just went

through

years of this piss ant eric swalwell

looking

the public straight in the eye and

telling us he was pretty sure

this was all russia collusion

what if he believed it

now was there any point when you thought

he actually believed it

because you say to yourself they don't

believe that it's just something they're

saying

right he might have believed it

he might still believe it because

if you spend enough time with somebody

who is trained as well as

let's say i am just as an example

i'm not like the world's greatest

persuader i just

am trained if you spend enough time with

somebody who's trained

you will believe anything there's almost

no limit

to what a trained persuader could make a

swalwell

believe you want to even be more afraid

here it goes 20 percent of all people

politicians smart people dumb people

educated people uneducated people

people in all countries about 20 percent

can be convinced

of anything they can be convinced

there's something in the room that isn't

even there

they can be convinced that it's cold

when it's hot

they can be convinced of anything by a

trained hypnotist

now could try could china

detect who are in the 20

i don't know

but probably i don't know

but probably in other words they there

there's probably some signal that even

hypnotists haven't figured out by the

way

even a trained hypnotist can't can't

reliably

know who's going to be in that 20 short

of actually

trying it out it's very misleading you

think you would

because your common sense says well it's

going to be the

the people that you imagine have weak

minds but it isn't

there's no correlation with intelligence

education

gullibility there's just no correlation

with anything

and hypnotists know that they know

there's no correlation

but suppose you had massive amounts of

data

and you could study what influenced some

people

and then you could find out what signals

they give off in advance

that would tell you that they're the

type of people who could be signaled for

example

suppose you did a mass chinese

experiment on your own public and you

tried to influence people

to believe something ridiculous but not

harmful

because you're just testing it's

ridiculous

but not harmful then you find out

who believed it and you figure out what

is it about these people who believe

the most ridiculous stories what signal

do they give off

in other other realms the way they talk

some experience they've had if china

has looked for that they may have found

it

i'd love to know what they found because

if a hypnotist ever learned that

you'd be in real trouble because if

if they found some some signal or some

tell

where i could just learn it and learn

who the 20

are just you know by observing the

public

i would rule the world i don't even

think that's an exaggeration

you know as long as i imagine i'm the

only one who knew the secret

if i could tell who the 20 percent were

i could form an army i could rule the

world

that's how powerful this stuff is now if

swallow was in the 80 percent

and fang fang did not have any special

training

it's still super dangerous

there is a possibility that she had some

serious training

and it is a possibility he's in the 20

percent

and if he's not they've got a lot of

agents

in a lot of places do you know how many

times

they got the 20 by luck

20 yeah 20

of all of those chinese agents are with

somebody who can be convinced

of anything and then they will be

running

our government completely unaware that

they did not make up their own opinions

and did the news cover this story which

i would consider one of the biggest

uh potential holes in security i've ever

seen in my life

and there have been some big ones cbs

gave it zero minutes

nbc zero minutes abc two minutes msnbc

zero minutes

cnn three minutes

so there you go

uh joe biden back in 2007 there's a

clip of him on the internet this is like

one of the great

uh historical clip finds of all time

you know you love going back and finding

that hypocritical statement

but this one goes way beyond

hypocritical

there are some things that are just

hypocritical

but but listen to this and tell me if

hypocritical captures it because i think

it's hypocritical plus

there's a little extra going on here

i'll tell you about it

and this this is a direct quote from joe

biden on camera

talking to the public in 2007

quote uh he's talking about electronic

voting

machines which he was not in favor of at

the time unless they had paper back up

and he said quote

how are you going to keep it from us

being able to be in the position

where you can manipulate the machines

manipulate the records

i think we should pass a federal law

mandating that the same machines

have paper trails that are mandatory

blah blah let me read this first part

again

how are you who's you

how are you he's talking to the public

so

how are you the public going to keep it

meaning the voting machine situation

from us

us who the hell is us

he's talking to the public and the

public he is just referred to as you

but when he says us that's a subset of

the public

that includes him does that include

democrats or does it include politicians

i think it at least includes politicians

we'll give him the benefit of a doubt

that he was not he was not limiting that

to democrats when he says

us but at least politicians

being able to be in a position where you

can manipulate the machines

so in 2007 he knew that these were

at great risk to be to be manipulated by

politicians and thought it was a

tremendous risk

nothing happened apparently so his

warning was not heated

and so allegedly he used the loophole

that people

refused to close on his request

he used that loophole to become

president of the united states

now that's of course only under the

assumption that there was some

fraud here and as you know we do not

have

proof of such a thing

proof i say as opposed to evidence we

don't have court proof

of fraud at a level that would reverse

the election we might it might be on the

way

but we do not have it as of this

speaking

so this is one of the most just

jaw-dropping

shocking things and and i have to i have

to say

uh if it were true that biden knew this

was a way to

rig an election and if it were true that

let's say his operatives rigged it for

him

you know will give him the benefit of a

doubt that he never gave an order to rig

any machines

i think that's fair but if the irony is

that he was not heeded in his warning

and he became the president of the

united states because he was not

heated in his direct warning

it's kind of cool you know

this is sort of like my appreciation for

serial killers who

are also industrious you can hate the

killing part

but still they're very industrious

quite creative and if joe biden pulled

this off

you got to give him a little bit of

credit for using the loophole that

he warned you hey he warned you

here's the funniest thing in the news uh

cnn's uh

trying to mock trump about his shower

water standard so i guess this finally

got put into law

or whatever some kind of rule

that your shower head will now if

if you wanted to i guess you can get one

that has more

volume of water but here's the funny

part cnn reports

things that trump says at his rallies

without without adding the context

that when he's giving a rally talk he's

there for entertainment

when he gives a tweet he tweets like

people tweet

so right and he just does a better job

of it than anybody else

when he talks to a head of state he

talks to them like a head of state

and he does that well too so he adjusts

his communication and his style for each

of these

forms of communication better than

anybody's ever done in my opinion

uh far better than anybody's ever done

if you look at

all the different realms you could pick

any one realm and say somebody's

you know does a better speech or

something but there's nobody who

communicates as well

across multiple realms of communication

but what cnn does is they will act as

though they're all

they're all just one if you don't

understand that the things he says

at a rally are meant for entertainment

and you and you see it reported as if

it's a presidential statement of fact

it looks funny and that's what i'm going

to read to you

so this is these are trump's actual

words uh as reported by cnn from i don't

know what

rally quote

uh we have a situation

where we're looking very strongly at

sinks and showers

and other elements of bathrooms now

right away

he already has me because

never before has any as any president

shown a genuine concern for

your your bathroom inconveniences

now if you tell me that's not the best

example of the common touch you've

ever seen i will argue with you

nobody has ever applied let's say what

we call the common touch

better than you're going to hear right

now this is the common touch

you can't do this better okay so other

elements of bathrooms

where you turn the faucet on and

in areas where there's tremendous

amounts of water where the water rushes

out to sea

because you could never handle it

and you don't get any water the

president said last december during a

round table with business leaders oh so

i was doing a round table

then the president went on you turn on

the faucet

and you don't get any water

they take a shower and water comes

dripping out

just dripping out very quietly

dripping out the president continued

lowering his voice as he spoke about the

drips people are flushing toilets

10 times 15 times as opposed to once

now i stand corrected he said this in

the context of a round table

but he's he he used his rally speech

he just he did it at the round table

because it was a

now the fact that anybody could anybody

could read this and think that he was

serious when he says people are flushing

their toilets

10 to 15 times i mean i

i give up after six i don't know about

you i've never flushed the toilet 10 to

15 times

and i figure if this is an average

number and it's accurate

there must be people flushing their

toilet 25 times to make up for

my low number

but but you have to love

the way he makes this visual so let me

read it again but only listen to it

for the extraordinary choice of visual

uh persuasion so first of all you can

feel it

you can feel this because you can feel

the water as he talks about

you can feel it you can see it

and that those are two important things

all right so we have a situation

where the talking about the sinks and

showers where you turn the faucet on all

right so

so you can already you see in the movie

you turn the faucet on

and in areas where there's tremendous

amounts of water and now you're seeing

like this

this rush of water like coming at you

where the water rushes out to sea

now i'm seeing the ocean i've seen the

ocean and i'm seeing this pipe

with all the water that came from my

house that i couldn't handle

i couldn't handle that kind of water i'm

not meant for that kind of water i can't

handle that

but all this water is rushing through

and it rushes out to the ocean

the sea uh and then you turn the faucet

on and you don't get any water and now

i'm seeing the faucet and there's like

nothing coming out i'm like great and

it's just

you know dry or sand is coming out or

something and

it's just dripping out very quietly

dripping out it's not just dripping out

it's dripping out so slowly that the

drip is quiet

you can't even hear the drip it is such

a silent drip

now you see the drip right you see it

now you hear the drip

you hear the freaking drip

it's quiet it's not one of these trap

trap trap things the president is very

clear on this it's not a big drop it's a

it's a low drip that's they're so bad

all your

all your water is rushing out to sea

it's rushing out to sea and all you get

is

and you're flushing your toilet you're

like flushing and flushing

and the flush in the toilet 10 times up

to 15 times

it's it's like a little movie within a

movie because you put yourself right in

that scene and you're

and you're standing in front of your

toilet and you're like nope

nope ah that's 11. i think four or five

more times might get it

nope anyway this is some of the best

communication the world has ever seen

and when i tell you that trump will be

appreciated more every year after his

term or terms however many there end up

being

i am really serious about that i'm as

confident as i could be

that as as the noise and the fog clears

and you just see the things he he pulled

off

the the things he did that other people

can't

do won't do have never done and will

never do again

it is truly extraordinary even even if

you allow

every criticism to be true the things

that he did are just simply

extraordinary

um here's big news uh i guess

this was news from june but i didn't see

it until recently

uh 66 million years ago an

ancient marine reptile that they think

was a

mosasaur that which is a really big

dinosaur i guess

crawled down to the water and left a

football-sized egg in antarctica

which has been discovered so scientists

have in their

possession a dinosaur egg

from an extinct giant marine reptile

now i'm glad i didn't find it first

because i would have been tempted to

make an omelette out of it

because you don't want to leave it for

somebody to clone this egg

i don't know if it has enough material

in it to clone us a proper dinosaur

but i feel like we're getting closer to

that jurassic park wise

so we're gonna maybe have a dinosaur

but i would have just sort of eaten it

as an omelet

i know you can't really make an omelet

out of a fossil

come on come on yeah i don't i didn't

see in the story whether they got any

useful dna on it that would be the big

question right

um and then lastly president-elect

uh biden can we call him that let's just

call him a

uh perspective maybe president biden

probable president biden

he picked for his department of energy

former governor jennifer uh granholm

now here's the fun part of the story

i've seen

jennifer granholm as a pundit on cnn

i think just cnn lots and lots of times

i didn't know she was a governor so i

knew i knew she had some role

that made her a capable pundit but i

didn't know she was governor i only just

knew her from lots of appearances on cnn

but here's the funny part while i often

disagree with people on cnn

i don't often think they're batshit

crazy

so for example if i see you know jake

tapper say something

i might disagree with it but i don't

think he's

bad crazy he seems completely sane

but jennifer granholm and i'm not saying

this

because she's female i know you want to

you want to jump on that right

oh you said the man's not crazy but why

is why is the woman got to be crazy

there are plenty of crazy men

do you need me to list all the crazy men

feel better

will you feel better then if i do that

i'm not going to

but they're crazy people all over the

place but i remember

watching her and thinking well she is

just badger crazy

i guess she was a big russia collusion

truther

so she does have a history of being

really really gullible

here's the punch line she'd be in charge

of our

nuclear energy which i think includes

nuclear weapons

at least the civilian aspect or

scientific aspect of it

i don't know if joe biden could have

made a worse choice

if he's trying to make me feel

comfortable about that area

i actually can't think of anybody who

would make me

feel less confident that a

a serious people i mean really you can

name a lot of people

even people that you you're annoyed by

who are you know let's say on cnn but

they don't look crazy

don lemon doesn't look crazy i mean

unless you count a little bit of tds

but

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i think that's a sketchy choice there

bye bye fracking maybe we'll see i think

even fracking is going to be too sticky

the the problem like i said before and

it applies to a lot of different areas

there are a whole bunch of things that

trump did

that even if you wanted to reverse them

they're really sticky

take north korea what will joe biden do

with north korea

i don't know if he'll have a meeting

with kim jong-un but he's probably not

going to want to

modify the current situation too much

right

it's sort of sticky the way it is so

uh adam schiff looks psychotic well what

would

what would you think if we found out

that the main

russia collusion advocates

all had some connection with a chinese

spy

now i'm not saying that's the case i'm

saying

it would explain a lot wouldn't it

you know because you would assume that

china would want to redirect our

attention

toward russia and away from them right

so if

if it turned out and i think i tweeted

about this as soon as i found out about

the swalwall thing

i think i tweeted that if adam schiff

doesn't have a close connection to a

chinese

spy i would be surprised

i don't have any information that that's

the case but he acts in a way

that you you look at it and you go uh

what's going on there

is he a 20 percenter if i had to guess

probably is probably is so

but i there's no way to know all right

that's all for now and i will talk to

you

tomorrow

all right periscope is off you youtubers

still here for now

uh yeah

all right do you have any questions for

me

uh am i happier today well i

i'm really stoned right now so that

really worked

people usually think i'm i'm high when i

do my morning periscopes

but i assure you that except for today

uh that has not been the case

all right thank you uh that is all for

now oh yes and um

season five of the expanse thanks for

reminding me

season five of the expense is on tonight

and i will be watching that uh

thoughts on dueling electors well you

know i guess

technically the

you know trump still has some whiff of a

chance

but i don't think having a uh i don't

think having a path

to victory makes any difference at this

point because i think the system has

decided that it doesn't matter if he has

a path or not

it doesn't matter if the election was

thrown doesn't matter

how much fraud they find at this point i

think

it's just too late all right um

that's all for now and i'll talk to you

later

you