Episode 1241 Scott Adams - How the Fake News Industry Manufactures HOAXES, Today's Fresh Example

hey everybody come on in did you think 2021 was gonna be boring nope i'm glad we saved up all the craziness for the first week day after the the holidays i feel like i was worried things might get boring but then we've got the lizard squad we'll talk about that in a moment i said lizard squad that's actually in the news the lizard squad but before we get to that fun news all you need to enjoy this in the maximum possible way and why would you settle for anything less frankly would you no no you're not going to settle for less so get your copper marker glass tanker chelsea's die in a canteen jugger flask a vessel of any kind and get ready to maximize your experience with the little thing i call the simultaneous sip feeling connected to people all over the world better than even fungi yeah you think fungi are connected underneath the forest floor well they are but not as much as we're going to be connected in a moment with a simultaneous sip the dopamine of the day have i built this up a little too much go no no i didn't build it up too much it was just as good as i thought it would be sometimes i think i'm exaggerating then no not exaggerating at all story number one the fellow named tyler bowier uh he reports that he was uh he was elected to the gop chair in maricopa county and he says he met with uh then senator mccain who is now the late senator mccain and he said he met with him just out of respect for the office and that uh this is what he said he tried to buy me off by offering local chamber money chamber of commerce i guess local chamber money he said he controlled he wasn't shy about it it didn't work and now what do you think of that story does that sound true well senator mccain is not here to defend himself so it's a little bit unfair because the person isn't here to defend himself but i don't see anything about it that strikes me as a lie i mean it doesn't seem like something you would make up because it's got this detail about the chamber money he said he controlled that's not exactly the kind of lie you would make up right if you're going to make this up as a lie you would say senator mccain said he had some money you know and he would put it my way or something but you wouldn't say something so specific that he controlled the chamber money and over that's pretty specific i think he's telling the truth and my only comment on this is that i prefer bribers who don't get caught scene um in other news some employees of google and alphabet are trying to organize to create a union we don't know how the well they'll do but i won i wondered why do you need a union at google don't you you always hear it's like the best place to work and people are fighting to work there and salaries are good and benefits are great and it's a prestigious job in the middle of the most active industry in the world and a great place to live in many places depending on where the office is why would you need a union and so i looked at the details turns out they're not so focused on compensation no they're not really focused on working conditions some of the things you would expect from a union nope they're focused on the lack of wokeness at google because as woke as google is it's not woke enough because it's doing contracts for the department of defense you know protect country homeland security so that's no good according to these folks at google and what else has they done uh they've profited from advertisements by hate groups now when i say hey group i mean a group that somebody else doesn't like maybe that group is a hate group maybe they're not but if you hate them well let's call them a hate group it's close enough so those were their the two things that they surfaced as being worthy of note for their major claims are two wokeness items now how perfect is it that google could be taken down by wokeness i don't know that it'll happen but it's a fun story but not as fun as yeah i'm gonna get to trump's phone call i'm building you up to it it's this is the build up um so attorney lynnwood who as you know is working for the president's uh benefit on the election fraud stuff but that's not all he's doing it turns out that lynnwood has something else to say today totally believable and it goes like this now let me be very clear this is not my opinion what you're going to hear now is somebody else's opinion or fact we don't know but it goes like this linwood tweeted i believe chief justice john roberts and a multitude of powerful individuals worldwide are being blackmailed in a horrendous scheme involving rape and murder of children captured on videotape it's captured on videotape well if it's captured on videotape obviously it's true because there's never anything that's on videotape that's not true hold that thought hold that thought for later but given that it's right there on video and apparently he has access to it there's a crypto key and there's a file and something and he apparently has access to it wouldn't you think you might see i don't know one screenshot for example i don't have to see the whole video because it sounds like the video is pretty bad which totally exists and you know why you know it exists comes from a credible source called the lizard squad now if you are going to be a credible organization one way to advertise your credibility is to name yourself the lizard squad there apparently some hackers who got into these files and have determined that these are actual files showing rape and murder of children and wouldn't you expect to see at least a screen grab maybe not something that shows the whole story but wouldn't you like to know that at least chief justice roberts is on it because if he's not on one of these videos i'm not so sure there's any kind of evidence and by now wouldn't we see at least a screenshot not the whole video of course we don't want to see that but a screenshot or how about has he shown it to somebody else let's say a prosecutor uh has he shown it to a prosecutor and has the prosecutor said yes i've looked at this video looks real to me or at least something i need to look into to find out if it's real where's that kind of missing kind of missing well here's my take on this i think the odds that john roberts is on any kind of a blackmail video are really really small like really really small like if you were to take all of the allegations that have ever been made since the beginning of time and rank them from most credible to least this might be close the least now let me say this as clearly as i can because i know you're not gonna hear me this is one of those topics where i could look at you and say 2 plus 2 equals 4 and a lot of you will go away saying he keeps saying 2 plus 2 is 5.

i don't know what's wrong with him and i'll just say 2 plus 2 is 4 and you'll hear 2 plus 2 is 5.

it's going to happen right now are you ready it'll happen right now not to all of you but some of you watching will hear two plus two is five when i say two plus two is four are you ready here it comes i'm guaranteed it's gotta be true that there are very important people who are being blackmailed by major intelligence services that's got to be true because it falls into the category of something that would have a high upside potential blackmailing important people if you're an intelligence agency your risk of getting in trouble for it is zero because that's actually your job what is somebody gonna say uh hey intelligence agency your your guy is trying to blackmail me and what is the boss of the guy doing the blackmailing gonna say is he gonna say oh i gotta fire that guy no no the head of the agency would say well that's why we hired him he's supposed to be blackmailing you and by the way he did a good job so you better shut up because we got all the evidence on you so if you have a case where there's no risk of penalty at least for the person doing the blackmailing because it's literally their job in an intelligence agency there's a gigantic upside and then the third thing that's necessary to be guaranteed that it happens is that there are a lot of people involved if there were only one important person in the world well there's a pretty good chance they haven't murdered or raped anybody but if you have lots of leaders you can guarantee some number of them and it might be a pretty big percentage like an alarming percentage of them 20 30 and 50 it's a big number have done at least something they could be blackmailed for maybe it's 80 but i would say minimum 30 percent of leaders have something they could be blackmailed for so under those conditions what are the odds that there are sexual predators and uh rapists i guess that's the same um in government in major in major roles the answer is a hundred percent a hundred percent there's 100 chance that people are in power are doing bad things there's a hundred percent chance that intelligence agencies are trying to find out about them there's a hundred percent chance that in some number of cases they have succeeded and there's a hundred percent chance that it makes a difference that that some intelligence agencies have leverage over number of people now that said if you were to pick any one allegation about any one person and here's an example an allegation the worst possible allegation against chief justice roberts what are the odds that any one specific thing is true in the context of knowing that the larger story is definitely true there definitely are people doing bad things definitely being blackmailed by intelligence agencies probably more than one of them at the same time um those two things are not incompatible so do you hear this it can be definitely true that it's happening well almost statistically you know if you're just going to put an odds on it any one person who gets accused very low odds so i would say the odds that chief justice roberts is actually doing anything like any of these allegations vanishingly small so small i wouldn't even think of it as being in the category of things that might be true that's how small the odds of this being true are at the same time it could be true that there's this stuff going on but not for the any individual you can't make that claim so unless he's got a screenshot of justice roberts i would not look for that to be true all right the epic times is reporting that a there was a data analysis by something called the data integrity group so i guess they do data analysis and they did a time series uh look at all the votes coming in on election day and make the following claim that at least over 400 000 votes were switched switched meaning removed i think at least subtracted from trump i don't know if i don't know if in this context they mean that it was added to biden or is just removed from trump a little unclear but it doesn't matter for the point all right the point is and now here's the payoff now i've been telling you before that simplification is going to be the key because you've got a whole bunch of complicated claims about all kinds of things in the election they all conflate and did the courts rule on them or did they only rule on doctrine of latches and you know was it only about standing the whole thing is way too complicated for the public to understand what if anybody and i talked about this is going to sound familiar because i talked about this in a different context if anybody in that data analysis world who's got a claim can boil that down to one thing that can be checked that's going to be powerful because you've got a whole bunch of claims that are hard to check if you could take even one important thing let's say something that affected 400 000 votes if you could boil that one claim of 400 000 votes down to one verifiable objective fact you just look at it and if you're not looking at it you can't tell but if you are looking at it you know and apparently this group did that they they boiled it down to one simple data fact that you could just observe now they make a claim that in my opinion is probably false and i'm saying probably just because the way the world works right it's not based on anything about the data integrity group it's not based on the reporting of the epoch times it's not based on anything that it's just if you live in the world long enough there are some things you just expect not to be true in the end and this sort of fits in that category but here's the genius part of it all you have to do is check and i'm going to tell you what their claim is and when you see how simple it is you're actually going to feel it i tell you this sometimes every once in a while there will be a little piece of knowledge your your your understanding of the world you live in just goes up a little bit like you reach a little higher level of awareness and sometimes you can feel it like you'll get a little goosebumps or something i'm going to do that to some of you now most of you won't feel it but some of you are going to feel it here's your goosebumps here's the claim that is so simple just check it goes like this quote there were vote movements across all candidates of course you know the vote is changing in real time as the candidates are are getting their votes counted and they say however we did not see the same type of negative decrements meaning votes decreasing in real time from a total that was higher to lower to any of the other candidates that we saw with president trump's tallies and they happened repeatedly the the trump ones with no explanation said linda mclaughlin a member of the group now that is a very specific simple claim which the data that they have available to them apparently shows now here's my problem i'm not telling you to believe this okay so if it sounds like i'm saying hey this is a credible one believe this one i'm not there i'm not there at all but what i love about it is that it's a claim you don't have to believe or disbelieve you can just check it all right now if it's true that only president trump's vote counts showed several times when they went down and nobody else ever ever experienced even one issue of where any other vote count either bidens or anybody else on the ticket republican or democrat anybody else if no other vote count all night ever showed one decrease but the trump votes did a number of times easy to check right because apparently they have the data they can just look at it say okay here it was it decreased and the other ones didn't now do you think if that claim is checked then it would stand up oh and somebody's saying in the comments that it was true across multiple states i believe that's true that it was not in one place it was multiple counties now how do you like the fact that this is boiled down to something that you could just check it you don't have to wonder now based on the claim you should not believe it if all you've read is the claim zero credibility just like every other claim about the election no credibility but if the other side doesn't weigh in and say you idiots there's a perfectly good reason why it looked like that was happening but it really wasn't i'd wait to hear that but what if you'd ever hear that because as linda mclaughlin says that no explanation has been offered don't you think that would be something they'd want to explain and don't you think it wouldn't be hard to explain it if there were an explanation for example and i'll just brainstorm what it might be it could be that they've got different sources reporting and that every once in a while there's you know a an artifact where there's a slight timing problem and it looks like something was decreased but it really wasn't it was just decreased before it increased or something right you could imagine they'd say look this is normal we'll show you that it happened in other elections we'll show you that it happened to bite into will show you that it happened to other candidates a defense would be easy it would be easy to defend it just tell tell us why it happened or tell us it didn't happen easy so do you think that this exclusive story in the epic times will be picked up by all the major media because now we know a way to find out for sure if the election was stolen isn't that good news we don't have to wonder in fact we could probably be sure of it in 24 hours all you need is somebody who's got a got the opposite opinion about what this data means how somebody qualified have them look at the same data and then tell us what they think if they look at the data and they have a good explanation i'm open to that indeed i'm not only open to it i'm far more likely to believe the explanation because most of these things are going to be explained away like 95 percent minimum will be explained away why would this be different so i would expect it's not real but every day we go in which the explanation the alternate explanation doesn't exist it's a little harder to believe it's not real isn't it now do we live in a world where the news can just disappear something this important well let's talk about the trump phone call so you all saw the news trump made a phone call with i guess was the georgia attorney general and other people in that office and job in which he was listing his grievances and evidence for why the election was stolen and he had a pretty long list of of things like dead people voting and people whose addresses don't check out and there were places where he claimed that there were more votes than registered voters etc now i listen to the entire hour because i think you need to because if you're just a clip coming out you won't know what to believe um but i listen to the whole hour and i have a few thoughts number one the president is very poorly advised at the moment i mean shockingly poorly advised now do i blame the president for thinking that there are all these irregularities which have been in my opinion mostly debunked in my opinion right there's some room for opinion on this but i feel as if he's mixing claims that have not been debunked and are definitely worth looking into and look pretty strong like this epic times one i don't know if that's true but it looks pretty strong and hasn't been debunked as far as i know so wouldn't you like to look into that a little bit of course you would but by mixing stuff that at least again just in my opinion sounds transparently and obviously not true somebody's not telling the president the the truth there is nobody in his circle at the moment who apparently feels safe that they can say um you got some strong things you can say and you got some weak things and maybe just leave the weak things alone because if the strong ones work that's all you need why would you throw weak ones in there and ruin the whole thing so i would say that for those of you who have been following the claims they seemed almost embarrassingly uninformed so that was my take now you know from if you've watched me i could not be a bigger booster of trump right to the point of a flaw i'm a booster to the point of flaw but even i didn't think the stuff he was saying about the election was too credible in in whole there were parts of it that i didn't know and i'd like to know more about them definitely stuff to look into but the way it was interpreted by the news is uh in the form of a hoax oh here's the other thing i noticed he's the president of the united states i'll be at lame duck it looks like at this point and he could not get the people on that phone call to be even a little bit cooperative not at all so watching the president of the united states trying to make a basically a karen phone call and complain about the service and he couldn't get the supervisor to say anything helpful it was shocking to see how little power he had how did it get reported when we saw how little power the president has the the president couldn't even get the other people to be polite basically i mean he couldn't get anything out of him and they're his own party how is that reported obviously a dictator obviously trying to force things through if you listen to it man that was no dictator that was whatever you are when you're complaining to the dmv and they're not hearing it that's what was happening there was no that wasn't hitler that was karen complaining and nobody cared that was it now it was uh characterized of course as that he was you know he was pressuring and it was illegal and all the all the bad people say it's illegal he's pressuring but if you listen to the whole call there are a few things that are very clear number one i would say with complete confidence and i believed this before but the the phone call removes all doubt and it's this i'm not a mind reader but that call makes it really really clear that trump believes it was stolen so if you're thinking to yourself he doesn't really believe it was stolen it was some kind of a trick to stay in power uh in my mind there's no chance of that you hear the phone call he absolutely thinks he got screwed he's got lots of evidence that he believes a lot of it i don't but he's convinced i mean he sounds like a true believer and he sells that completely so if you're worried about uh you know he's a dictator that should dispel that because you didn't see much dictator stuff going on but the fake news cnn has turned it into a scandal because they need trump for their ratings and they and here's the uh the pattern of how they turn real news to fake news you see it in this example and you've seen it a number of other times once you see the pattern it's just kind of funny they use the same trick first they'll take an audio or a video tape that's longish and they'll cut out a quote that's out of context where have you seen that done you saw that with the covington kids you saw it with the fine people hoax and you saw it with the drinking bleach or inject injecting disinfectant hoaxes in each case if you had heard the entire uh piece you would have said to yourself uh that's the opposite of what the news said for example in the fine people oaks before before the quote that was taken trump talked about the people who were there who are not racist just there for the statues and then after that he made sure that you knew that he was condemning totally the neo-nazis and the and the racists who were there but if you take out the the clarification and also the context they they started and just show the clip looks like he called nazis fighting people if you look at the covington kids clip all they do is clip out the parts you know before and after and it looks like the kid is the the bad person but if you see the whole clip it's obvious that the person he was with or the the guy who claimed to be a native american or he was i don't remember the story you could tell that he was the the aggressor likewise with the uh drinking bleach hoax if you hear it in all of its context you're the first part where the president sets it up as talking about light as a disinfectant then he talks about it and then he clarifies about light so if you don't hear that he set it up as light and then he wrapped it up as light and all they take out is injecting uh injecting a disinfectant that's how they create the hoax now the fake edit is not enough by itself all right that's not bad enough by itself you you need the other steps and i'll get to them all right so in the case of this phone call what they took in a quote uh they they took little pieces and a quote and where he's saying stuff that makes it sound as if he's pressuring him to cheat now the opposite is happening trump is pressuring him to look into allegations to make sure that nobody cheated that is literally the opposite of asking him to as cnn reports it find votes so the second part of this is that the fake news will use uh persuasion primers these are words wit and phrases which if you hear them at the same time you've heard the story for the first time they prime you to see the story a certain way these are brainwashing persuasion primers none of this is an accident they know how to do this it's the fourth time in a row you've seen it same pattern every time so the the primer words that they use in this case are pressured to find votes here's another way to describe exactly what you you heard on the the audio the president forcefully was promoting his idea that the people in charge should look into the allegations of fraud so that the public can understand that the election was either clean which would be good or they'd find that it wasn't which would be good in another way so did that sound like pressuring to find votes meaning manufacture you know manufacture about nothing did that sound the same because what i said was just objectively true you listen to it he's making his case he's presenting his claims for fraud he says we just want a fair vote we just want to know i just want you to look into it that's all and but if you hear pressured and fine votes and you pair it with a clip which doesn't have the rest of the context it looks like what a mob boss talking they they like to use the things that you've uh that you've believed before now because the whole he's a mob boss was already a meme they just take a meme that is already active in your mind and they just attach a new thing to it it's much easier to attach fake news to an existing meme oh he's like a mob boss yeah whenever he makes a private phone call or thinks it's private he talks like a mob boss and here he is making a phone call like a mob boss now if you listen to it there wasn't anything even close to talking like a mob boss i mean not even close to anything like that the tone was not that it was just asking for for something to be looked into that was it and the the the boldness with which they they try this is amazing here's some more phrases from cnn the president was caught on tape caught on tape now what do you imagine is true of somebody who was caught on tape well they're guilty what does it mean to be uh on a a recording if you were caught there they're signaling that he's guilty before they've even told you what the content is that's a primer that's that's brainwashing right um so we use caught on tape no it wasn't caught on tape there was simply an audio tape which has been available to the public in which not much of anything happened that's not even close to being caught and by the way i prefer presidents who don't get caught on audio here's another sentence directly out of cnn's coverage that the tape quote exposes the depth of his corruption suppose you knew there was a long tape you only heard one part of it which was something about finding votes and then you read cnn saying that this tape exposes the depth of his corruption wouldn't you kind of think that the parts you didn't hear were more confirming the depth of his corruption nothing like that on the tape not even close nothing even in that general category of corruption not even close it's just him asking for data to be looked at because they've got some claims they they would like some data to be released by the state to make sure the claims are true or false just just nothing like exposing the depth of corruption he literally just asked questions that's it they said it was a smoking gun anytime you hear any of these phrases you're you're being brainwashed these are not news phrases they're not even close to news it's just straight up brainwashing at this point and then step three they bernstein it so you know you bring in uh uh burns bernstein or bernstein bernstein it's bernstein right so they bring in bernstein just to say it's worse than watergate literally just to say that now have i taught you the track the trick of having a big opening offer so if you're negotiating which is in a way similar to persuading and at least in the way i'm going to use it now if you start with a big opening offer it it anchors people to the first thing they heard so if i say to you i'm going to sell you my car and it's worth a quarter of a million dollars the first thing you think is there's no car you drive that's worth a quarter of a million dollars well you're that's true it's not worth that or anywhere near it but it's the first number you hear so now i say all right maybe it's not worth a quarter of a million but man i'd like to get a hundred thousand for it now the hundred thousand doesn't sound so bad because you got primed with the 250 and even though the thing is only worth thirty five thousand dollars used suddenly the hundred doesn't sound so bad because you got pride with that 250.

that's what bernstein does the worse than watergate guy comes in to give you the first offer worse than watergate and in your mind you're like wow whoa that's big now later when you get more let's say you get more information about what was on there you're already primed so maybe you maybe you come down a little from worse than watergate in your mind but you're like yeah i'm not sure it's quite worse than watergate but sounds like it's pretty bad see so that's how their brainwashing works start with a big offer it's worse than watergate and then it's hard to get you off that no matter how much data comes out later they use repetition because if they say it enough you'll think it's true if you hear a new story or item a hundred times you're going to believe it's more true than if you heard it once it's just how your brain is operating they make you think past the sale so you've got things like exposing his depth of corruption or caught on tape those are manipulation phrases to make you think past the sale the sale is whether anything bad happened and they're making you think it is exposing the depth of his corruption by making you think of all the other corruption it's like but they haven't made the sale they're making you think past it there's no sale that anything bad happened they're making you think all the way to not only did it happen but it's like this other stuff that turns out it didn't happen either all right then of course you do the mind reading you know what is the president's state of mind yeah he's like he's thinking like a mob boss and he's trying to pressure this guy he's not trying to get a justice no in his mind it's not about justice because cnn can read his mind you can't but they can they got pundits with powers and they read his mind and they find out that no despite all of his words that clearly and repeatedly say he just wants to know what happened and can we see the data please now there are some legal reasons it's hard to give them the data but that's a separate story but if you mind read them none of that's happening he's just trying to be a dictator and then the most important part which is disappearing the debunks so this video which is debunking it thoroughly will not be highly highly rated on social media and so anybody who's going to do what i just did will just sort of get disappeared now you might say to yourself well that's cnn right cnn's crazy but at least people will go over to fox news and they'll read the real story it might even agree with you scott and they might even be on the same side so you go over to this fox news and you look for the story and uh good luck finding it now i don't know what's up with fox news but i would think this would be like one of the big stories as opposed to not mentioned so take that for whatever it means i would think this one would be mentioned but must be a story there i i'm sure fox news will cover it eventually and the opinion the opinion shows later today we'll cover it of course but it's sort of suspiciously not there at the moment unless it happened in the last hour um all right here's so here's some more uh cnn bad behavior they also say quote legal experts say trump broke the law by pressuring blah blah blah blah well if he pressured him maybe he broke the law i don't know what law they're talking about but if he was just talking to him and asking for data is that breaking the law so here so here's cnn acting like a law has been broken when you can just listen to the tape and it's obvious no laws are broken um all right here's another story just because the simulation loves us and gives us lots of code reuse all six members of the congressional group we call the squad you know the progressives aoc etc uh they all voted to put nancy pelosi over the top as speaker unanimous they were so nancy pelosi must be doing something right the squad loves her now i have to admit when i first saw that the phrase lizard squad was trending i thought well that's not a nice thing to call aoc and the other people and in that squad i feel it's unkind to call them the lizard squad but it turns out that lizard squad was a different squad i got that wrong lizard squad was the hackers as opposed to the squad who are also lizards but they go by a different name uh also lizards because they're part of congress not because they're see see this taken out of context imagine that quote becomes the part they take out of my my live stream and miss the part where i say no it's because they're in congress they're lizards it's not because it's these you know few few people in the squad that are lizards they're all lizards but you take that part out um my uh twitter friend zach says that uh watching the biden presidency is gonna be like watching a bad spin-off of a tv show you know the trump tv show is just so awesome and top-rated show but then you know they do the spin-off of the minor characters so it's like trump was the tv show friends and biden is going to be like joey you know the spin-off show about just joey it's like yeah we're gonna watch it by habit and reflex and maybe it'll remind us of friends but it's not friends it's not friends all right um here's a little uh tip for you uh i don't know how much how much backing this has by science but there was a study saying that if you drink alcohol um soon after getting the vaccination it will make the vaccination way less effective there's something about alcohol that makes the the meds in the vaccination a little less active so don't drink alcohol within several days of getting the vaccination so you have all been made more safe by watching this live stream um here's a question for you remember howard schultz who was the founder of starbucks and he was running for president for a while what if he had been elected would howard schultz could you trust him to make decisions about whether starbucks should be open how do you do that i feel as if howard schultz although i have lots of confidence in him as a you know a smart operator and capable and all that i have only only good thoughts about him but he would be in quite a bind wouldn't he because one of the biggest questions in the pandemic is does a place like starbucks stay open or just go out of business how could he make that decision or even be part of it or i mean i i don't see how that would have worked but you know short of having a pandemic he would have been fine but as soon as it's a pandemic he's the wrong match for the job right remember i've told you that there's no such thing as bad presidents and good presidents they're just presidents who coincidentally are matched for a task trump perfectly matched for a whole bunch of tasks mostly international but uh howard schultz would have been a bad match for a pandemic just because you would never know if he was doing something because of starbucks you just wouldn't be able to know that uh and i'm not casting any aspersions on schultz like i said i have only good feelings about him but it'd be a bad position to put him in gordon chang who talks quite a bit about north korean chinese an expert in that region is recommending that we cut all ties with china think about that cut all ties with china now gordon chang is not random crazy guy on twitter he knows what he's talking about and if gordon chang is telling you we'd better cut all ties with china you need to take that seriously now i know that the president listens to him so he probably is taking you seriously and it's not very easy i mean no i and i made the case just briefly when we say all ties with china it's because every interaction we have with them is militarily bad for the united states i say militarily because anything that kills americans at the hands of our enemy that we're in a hot war with it's a cyber war but it's a hot war anything that your enemy does to kill people in your country is an act of war so whether it's they send us fentanyl they do trade deals that are illegal they steal our ip they send spies over you know you can just go down the list every contact with china is militarily negative to the united states so we should de-list their companies from the stock exchange president did that we should send all of their uh their residents home that are trying to get educations here we should stop trading with them we should bring all of our we should have an order to bring all of our companies home now um and i don't i just don't know oh and this other news thing is that jack ma the founder of alibaba and multi-multi hundreds of billions i don't know he's super rich guy um i guess he criticized the regime and he disappeared so far for a week now it's really hard for a billionaire to disappear if somebody like you know elon musk or you know bill gates were not seen for a week and it were a national story it wouldn't take long to find him you know hey he was at the retreat or he just took some break from social media or something but it's been a week and we don't know where one of the richest people in china is and very public guy like jack ma is always on tv he's like very public so what if he never shows up because that's possible we might never see him again he could be making shoes and with the uyghurs right now anything could happen now i imagine he will turn up soon but his attitude will be adjusted is my guess i think the regime probably will talk to him and say you know if you'd like to stay oh alive and a billionaire let me tell you how to do it and it's not the way you're playing it right now but the other thing that's interesting is that jack ma is no ordinary guy whatever it was that turned him into one of the richest people in the world was not an accident he's got skills and he's got billions of dollars and skills and did i mention skills and here's my question as strong as the chinese communist party is i mean it's immensely strong i don't know if they're messing with the right person right now because if he's already got a little problem with the leadership and they're doing something with him right now you don't want to let him out let me say this a different way if china is doing something bad to jack ma they better finish him because you don't want that guy loose with his billions and really really mad at the regime because he is important you know he has enough probably inside knowledge contacts people he could bribe he could probably take down the government because i think that any any billionaire in this country who was like really serious about taking down the government could have a good shot at it now china of course you assumed that they would close him down the minute he tried anything he'd obviously have to leave the country and he'd have to get most of his money out if he could but if he gets out of the country with his money and they tortured him jack ma could take down china i think they've got a dangerous situation on their hands i don't think they can ever let him out if they're doing something bad to him now they might reach some agreement where they don't do something too bad maybe just some house arrest and then when they've talked to him enough he just feels like i don't want to go through this again it wasn't that bad it was just house arrest for a week but i don't you know next time it could be bad so i just won't say bad things about china i would think that's the way it's going to go i i think that he's a smart guy and they'll just figure something out and he'll just shut up about china but did i mention he's jack ma now i don't know much about him i just know that you don't you don't get where he is by not having skill not being brave not doing things that people don't expect not being able to push through a brick wall as if it didn't exist so i don't know you know what is real capabilities are but one assumes they're pretty good china might be in trouble we'll see that is my show for the day and i've got some things to do so i'm gonna run off and do those things uh somebody says zuckerberg took down trump you could make that argument yeah you know there were there were too many other variables to isolate one thing but if zuckerberg and facebook did not exist trump would probably be president i mean that's that's not a reasonable and unreasonable thing to think all right i hope you enjoyed this episode and uh i will talk to you tomorrow all right youtubers you've got another minute uh why do you think the trump tape was leaked well it was because his enemies probably thought that they could uh make something out of it now the interesting part is that a lot of people are going to hear the president make a lot of claims about election fraud so there's at least some thought that maybe the president's team released it because by turning it into national news which just has to be covered uh all of his allegations get out there so it might be good for the president to do that explain lead stories i don't know what that means calendar drama so uh as somebody pointed out on twitter the dilbert calendar is printed in china and so the question was hey if uh if uh what's this chappelle can get netflix to take his old show off the air can't i get my publisher to use a different printing company that's not exactly a good analogy if i were chappelle and i had an ancient show that i probably made little or no money on at this point and all all that all netflix had to do is just you know click a box and it doesn't appear anymore because it's probably as simple as that right just click a box and that that little part of their business just doesn't exist anymore probably doesn't make much difference to chappelle because the way hollywood um deals are made even though it was his show i doubt he had profits going forward i doubt it or if he did there weren't much so he didn't give up anything so chappelle basically gave up nothing of any value and in order to for netflix to give him what he wanted they probably just had to check a box and they couldn't even tell the difference in their profits because it's one of you know thousands and thousands of properties by comparison my publisher i believe does all of their printing for all of their properties in china it's not easy for them to stop doing that right away they can't just check a box and then there's no printing in china do you have any idea how hard it would be for a major publishing company to change where they publish all of their books it's a big deal now this is why i promote an executive order that just orders companies out of china american companies because your publisher it's not really fair to ask a publisher why don't you decrease your profits by 30 percent and spend your entire next year trying to figure out how to do this thing that there probably isn't even enough capacity in the united states to get done or you know you'd have to take it somewhere so the the chappelle thing was the smallest possible ask there's no real cost i mean immeasurably small and just check a box mine would be an entire publishing company working for a year changing everything that they do maybe there would be no dilbert calendars that would make a big impact on me it's not the same thing but i'm on board with getting the dilbert calendar out of china so if you if you wonder if you wonder what i want it's that but i also work in the real world and it's not really fair to ask a publisher to make that kind of a change until it's either legally necessary or there's some kind of alternative that doesn't look so bad you know do it in vietnam or wherever so that's where i stand on that all right uh and i will talk to you tomorrow

hey everybody come on in

did you think 2021 was gonna be boring

nope i'm glad we saved up all the

craziness

for the first week day after the the

holidays

i feel like i was worried things might

get

boring but then we've got the lizard

squad

we'll talk about that in a moment

i said lizard squad that's actually in

the news

the lizard squad but before we get to

that fun news all you need to enjoy this

in the maximum

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would you no no you're not going to

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so get your copper marker glass tanker

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a vessel of any kind and get ready to

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thing i call

the simultaneous sip feeling connected

to people

all over the world better than even

fungi yeah you think fungi are connected

underneath the forest floor well they

are

but not as much as we're going to be

connected in a moment

with a simultaneous sip the dopamine of

the day have i built this up a little

too much

go

no no i didn't build it up too much

it was just as good as i thought it

would be sometimes i think i'm

exaggerating then

no not exaggerating at all

story number one

the fellow named tyler bowier

uh he reports that he was uh he was

elected to the gop

chair in maricopa county and he says he

met with uh

then senator mccain who is now the late

senator mccain

and he said he met with him just out of

respect for the office and that

uh this is what he said he tried to buy

me off

by offering local chamber money chamber

of commerce i guess

local chamber money he said he

controlled he wasn't shy about it

it didn't work and now what do you think

of that story

does that sound true well senator mccain

is not here to defend himself

so it's a little bit unfair because

the person isn't here to defend himself

but

i don't see anything about it that

strikes me as

a lie i mean it doesn't seem like

something you would make up

because it's got this detail about the

chamber money he said he controlled

that's not exactly the kind of lie you

would make up right

if you're going to make this up as a lie

you would say

senator mccain said he had some money

you know and he would put it my way or

something but you wouldn't say something

so specific

that he controlled the chamber money and

over that's pretty

specific i think he's telling the truth

and my only comment on this is that

i prefer bribers who don't get caught

scene um in other news

some employees of google and alphabet

are trying to

organize to create a union we don't know

how the well they'll do

but i won i wondered why do you need a

union

at google don't you you always hear it's

like the best place to work and

people are fighting to work there and

salaries are good

and benefits are great and it's a

prestigious job in the middle of the

most

active industry in the world and a great

place to live in many places depending

on where the office is

why would you need a union

and so i looked at the details

turns out they're not so focused on

compensation no they're not really

focused on working conditions

some of the things you would expect from

a union nope

they're focused on the lack of wokeness

at google because as woke as google is

it's not woke enough because it's doing

contracts for the

department of defense

you know protect country homeland

security

so that's no good according to these

folks at google and what else has they

done

uh they've profited from advertisements

by hate groups now when i say hey group

i mean a group that somebody else

doesn't like

maybe that group is a hate group maybe

they're not but if you hate them

well let's call them a hate group it's

close enough

so those were their the two things that

they surfaced

as being worthy of note for their major

claims

are two wokeness items now

how perfect is it that google could be

taken down

by wokeness i don't know that it'll

happen

but it's a fun story but not as fun

as yeah i'm gonna get to trump's phone

call

i'm building you up to it it's this is

the build up

um so attorney lynnwood who as you know

is working

for the president's uh benefit on the

election fraud stuff

but that's not all he's doing it turns

out that

lynnwood has something else to say today

totally believable and it goes like this

now let me be very clear this is not

my opinion

what you're going to hear now is

somebody else's opinion

or fact we don't know but it goes like

this

linwood tweeted i believe chief justice

john roberts

and a multitude of powerful individuals

worldwide

are being blackmailed in a horrendous

scheme involving

rape and murder of children captured on

videotape

it's captured on videotape well if it's

captured on videotape

obviously it's true because there's

never anything that's on videotape

that's not true

hold that thought hold that thought for

later

but given that it's right there on video

and apparently he has access to it

there's a

crypto key and there's a file and

something and he apparently has access

to it

wouldn't you think you might see

i don't know one screenshot

for example i don't have to see the

whole video because it sounds like the

video is pretty bad

which totally exists

and you know why you know it exists

comes from a credible source called the

lizard squad

now if you are going to be a credible

organization

one way to advertise your credibility is

to name yourself the lizard squad

there apparently some hackers who got

into

these files and have determined that

these are

actual files showing

rape and murder of children and

wouldn't you expect to see at least a

screen grab

maybe not something that shows the whole

story

but wouldn't you like to know that at

least

chief justice roberts is on it

because if he's not on one of these

videos

i'm not so sure there's any kind of

evidence

and by now wouldn't we see at least a

screenshot

not the whole video of course we don't

want to see that

but a screenshot or how about has he

shown it to somebody else let's say a

prosecutor

uh has he shown it to a prosecutor and

has the prosecutor said yes

i've looked at this video looks real to

me

or at least something i need to look

into to find out if it's real

where's that kind of missing

kind of missing well here's my take on

this i think the odds that

john roberts is on any kind of a

blackmail video are really really small

like really really small like

if you were to take all of the

allegations that have ever been made

since the beginning of time

and rank them from most credible to

least

this might be close the least now

let me say this as clearly as i can

because i know you're not gonna

hear me this is one of those topics

where i could look at you and say 2 plus

2 equals 4

and a lot of you will go away saying he

keeps saying 2 plus 2 is 5.

i don't know what's wrong with him and

i'll just say 2 plus 2 is 4

and you'll hear 2 plus 2 is 5. it's

going to happen right now

are you ready it'll happen right now not

to all of you

but some of you watching will hear two

plus two is five when i say two plus two

is four are you ready

here it comes i'm

guaranteed it's gotta be true

that there are very important people who

are being blackmailed

by major intelligence services

that's got to be true because it falls

into the category of

something that would have a high upside

potential blackmailing

important people if you're an

intelligence agency

your risk of getting in trouble for it

is zero

because that's actually your job what is

somebody gonna say uh

hey intelligence agency your your guy is

trying to blackmail me

and what is the boss of the guy doing

the blackmailing gonna say

is he gonna say oh i gotta fire that guy

no

no the head of the agency would say well

that's why we hired him

he's supposed to be blackmailing you and

by the way

he did a good job so you better shut up

because we got

all the evidence on you so

if you have a case where there's no risk

of penalty at least for the person doing

the blackmailing because it's literally

their job

in an intelligence agency there's a

gigantic upside

and then the third thing that's

necessary to be guaranteed that it

happens

is that there are a lot of people

involved if there were only

one important person in the world well

there's a pretty good chance they

haven't murdered or

raped anybody but if you have lots of

leaders

you can guarantee some number of them

and it might be a pretty big percentage

like an alarming percentage of them

20 30 and 50 it's a big number

have done at least something they could

be blackmailed for

maybe it's 80 but i would say minimum 30

percent

of leaders have something they could be

blackmailed for

so under those conditions what are the

odds that there

are sexual predators and uh

rapists i guess that's the same um

in government in major in major roles

the answer is a hundred percent a

hundred percent

there's 100 chance that people are in

power are doing bad things

there's a hundred percent chance that

intelligence agencies are trying to find

out about them

there's a hundred percent chance that in

some number of cases they have succeeded

and there's a hundred percent chance

that it makes a difference

that that some intelligence agencies

have leverage over

number of people now that said

if you were to pick any one allegation

about any one person

and here's an example an allegation the

worst possible allegation

against chief justice roberts what are

the odds

that any one specific thing is true

in the context of knowing that the

larger story is definitely true

there definitely are people doing bad

things definitely being blackmailed by

intelligence agencies

probably more than one of them at the

same time

um those two things are not incompatible

so do you hear this it can be definitely

true that it's happening

well almost statistically you know if

you're just going to put an odds on it

any one person who gets accused very low

odds so i would say the odds that chief

justice roberts is actually doing

anything like

any of these allegations vanishingly

small

so small i wouldn't even think of it as

being in the category of things that

might be true

that's how small the odds of this being

true are at the same time

it could be true that there's this stuff

going on but not for the any individual

you can't make that claim so unless he's

got a screenshot of justice roberts

i would not look for that to be true

all right the

epic times is reporting that a

there was a data analysis by something

called the data integrity group so i

guess they do data analysis

and they did a time series uh look at

all the votes coming in on election day

and make the following claim that at

least over 400 000 votes

were switched switched meaning removed i

think

at least subtracted from trump i don't

know if

i don't know if in this context they

mean that it was added to biden or is

just

removed from trump a little unclear but

it doesn't matter for the point

all right the point is and now here's

the payoff

now i've been telling you before that

simplification

is going to be the key because you've

got a whole bunch of complicated claims

about all kinds of things in the

election

they all conflate and did the courts

rule on them or did they only

rule on doctrine of latches and you know

was it only about standing

the whole thing is way too complicated

for the public to understand

what if anybody and i talked about this

is going to sound familiar because i

talked about this in a different context

if anybody in that data analysis world

who's got a claim

can boil that down to one thing that can

be checked

that's going to be powerful because

you've got a whole bunch of claims that

are hard to check

if you could take even one

important thing let's say something that

affected 400 000 votes

if you could boil that one claim of 400

000

votes down to one verifiable

objective fact you just look at it

and if you're not looking at it you

can't tell but if you are looking at it

you know and apparently this group did

that

they they boiled it down to one

simple data fact

that you could just observe now they

make a claim

that in my opinion is probably false

and i'm saying probably just because the

way the world works right

it's not based on anything about the

data integrity group it's not based on

the reporting of the epoch times it's

not based on anything that

it's just if you live in the world long

enough

there are some things you just expect

not to be true in the end

and this sort of fits in that category

but here's the genius part of it

all you have to do is check and i'm

going to tell you what their claim is

and when you see how simple it is

you're actually going to feel it i tell

you this sometimes every once in a while

there will be a little piece of

knowledge

your your your understanding of the

world you live in just goes up a little

bit

like you reach a little higher level of

awareness and sometimes you can feel it

like you'll get a little goosebumps or

something i'm going to do that to some

of you now most of you won't feel it but

some of you are going to feel it

here's your goosebumps here's the claim

that is so simple just check

it goes like this quote there were vote

movements across

all candidates of course you know the

vote is

changing in real time as the candidates

are are getting their votes counted

and they say however we did not see the

same type of negative decrements

meaning votes decreasing in real time

from a total that was

higher to lower to any of the other

candidates

that we saw with president trump's

tallies

and they happened repeatedly the the

trump ones

with no explanation said linda

mclaughlin a member of the group

now that is a very specific

simple claim which the data that they

have available to them

apparently shows now

here's my problem i'm not telling you to

believe this okay

so if it sounds like i'm saying hey this

is a credible one believe this one i'm

not there

i'm not there at all but what i love

about it

is that it's a claim you don't have to

believe or disbelieve

you can just check it all right now

if it's true that only president trump's

vote counts showed several times when

they went down

and nobody else ever ever experienced

even

one issue of where any other vote count

either bidens or anybody else on the

ticket

republican or democrat anybody else if

no other vote count all night ever

showed one decrease

but the trump votes did a number of

times

easy to check right because apparently

they have the data they can just look at

it say okay here it was it decreased

and the other ones didn't now do you

think

if that claim is checked then it would

stand up

oh and somebody's saying in the comments

that it was true across multiple states

i believe that's true that it was not in

one place it was

multiple counties now how do you like

the fact

that this is boiled down to something

that you could just check it

you don't have to wonder now based on

the claim

you should not believe it if all you've

read is the claim

zero credibility just like every other

claim about the election

no credibility but if the other side

doesn't weigh in

and say you idiots there's a perfectly

good reason

why it looked like that was happening

but it really wasn't

i'd wait to hear that but

what if you'd ever hear that because as

linda mclaughlin says that no

explanation has been offered

don't you think that would be something

they'd want to explain

and don't you think it wouldn't be hard

to explain it

if there were an explanation for example

and i'll just

brainstorm what it might be it could be

that they've got different

sources reporting and that every once in

a while there's you know a

an artifact where there's a slight

timing problem

and it looks like something was

decreased but it really wasn't

it was just decreased before it

increased or something

right you could imagine they'd say look

this is normal

we'll show you that it happened in other

elections we'll show you that it

happened to bite into

will show you that it happened to other

candidates a defense would be easy

it would be easy to defend it just tell

tell us why it happened or tell us it

didn't happen

easy so do you think that this

exclusive story in the epic times will

be picked up by all the major media

because now we know

a way to find out for sure if the

election was stolen

isn't that good news we don't have to

wonder

in fact we could probably be sure of it

in 24 hours

all you need is somebody who's got a got

the opposite opinion

about what this data means how somebody

qualified

have them look at the same data and then

tell us what they think

if they look at the data and they have a

good explanation i'm open to that

indeed i'm not only open to it i'm far

more likely to believe the explanation

because

most of these things are going to be

explained away like 95 percent

minimum will be explained away why would

this be different

so i would expect it's not real but

every day we go in which the explanation

the alternate explanation doesn't exist

it's a little harder to believe it's not

real isn't it

now do we live in a world where the news

can just

disappear something this important well

let's talk about the trump phone call

so you all saw the news trump made a

phone call with

i guess was the georgia attorney general

and other people in that

office and job in which he was listing

his

grievances and evidence for why the

election was stolen

and he had a pretty long list of of

things like dead people voting and

people whose

addresses don't check out and there were

places where he claimed that there were

more votes than registered voters etc

now i listen to the entire hour

because i think you need to because if

you're just a clip coming out

you won't know what to believe um but i

listen to the whole hour

and i have a few thoughts number one

the president is very

poorly advised at the moment i mean

shockingly poorly advised now

do i blame the president for thinking

that there are all these irregularities

which have been in my opinion mostly

debunked

in my opinion right there's some room

for opinion on this

but i feel as if he's mixing

claims that have not been debunked and

are definitely worth

looking into and look pretty strong like

this epic times one

i don't know if that's true but it looks

pretty strong and hasn't been debunked

as far as i know

so wouldn't you like to look into that a

little bit of course you would

but by mixing stuff that at least again

just in my opinion

sounds transparently and obviously not

true

somebody's not telling the president the

the truth

there is nobody in his circle at the

moment

who apparently feels safe that they can

say um

you got some strong things you can say

and you got some weak things

and maybe just leave the weak things

alone

because if the strong ones work that's

all you need why would you throw weak

ones in there and

ruin the whole thing so i would say that

for those of you who have been following

the claims

they seemed almost embarrassingly

uninformed so that was my take

now you know from if you've watched me i

could not be a bigger booster

of trump right to the point of a flaw

i'm a booster to the point of flaw

but even i didn't think the stuff he was

saying about the election was

too credible in in whole there were

parts of it that i didn't know and i'd

like to know more about them

definitely stuff to look into but the

way it was interpreted by the news

is uh in the form of a hoax oh here's

the other thing i noticed

he's the president of the united states

i'll be at lame duck

it looks like at this point and he could

not get

the people on that phone call to be even

a little bit

cooperative not at all so

watching the president of the united

states trying to make a

basically a karen phone call and

complain about the service

and he couldn't get the supervisor to

say

anything helpful it was shocking

to see how little power he had how did

it get reported

when we saw how little power the

president has

the the president couldn't even get the

other people to be polite basically

i mean he couldn't get anything out of

him and they're his own party

how is that reported obviously a

dictator

obviously trying to force things through

if you listen to it man that was no

dictator

that was whatever you are when you're

complaining to the dmv

and they're not hearing it that's what

was happening

there was no that wasn't hitler that was

karen complaining and nobody cared that

was it

now it was uh characterized of course as

that he was

you know he was pressuring and it was

illegal and all the

all the bad people say it's illegal he's

pressuring but if you listen to the

whole call

there are a few things that are very

clear number one i would say with

complete confidence and i believed this

before

but the the phone call removes all doubt

and it's this

i'm not a mind reader but that call

makes it

really really clear that trump believes

it was stolen

so if you're thinking to yourself he

doesn't really believe it was stolen

it was some kind of a trick to stay in

power

uh in my mind there's no chance of that

you hear the phone call he absolutely

thinks he got screwed

he's got lots of evidence that he

believes a lot of it i don't

but he's convinced i mean he sounds like

a true believer

and he sells that completely

so if you're worried about uh you know

he's a dictator

that should dispel that because you

didn't see much

dictator stuff going on but the fake

news

cnn has turned it into a scandal because

they need trump

for their ratings and they and here's

the uh

the pattern of how they turn real news

to fake news you see it in this example

and you've seen it a number of other

times

once you see the pattern it's just kind

of funny they use the same trick

first they'll take an audio or a video

tape that's longish and they'll cut out

a quote that's out of context

where have you seen that done you saw

that with the covington kids you saw it

with the fine people hoax

and you saw it with the drinking bleach

or inject injecting disinfectant hoaxes

in each case if you had heard the entire

uh

piece you would have said to yourself uh

that's the opposite of what the news

said

for example in the fine people oaks

before

before the quote that was taken trump

talked about the people who were there

who are not racist just there for the

statues

and then after that he made sure that

you knew that he was condemning totally

the neo-nazis and the

and the racists who were there but if

you take out the the

clarification and also the context they

they started and just show the clip

looks like he called

nazis fighting people if you look at the

covington kids clip all they do is clip

out the parts you know before and after

and it looks like the kid is the

the bad person but if you see the whole

clip it's obvious that the person

he was with or the the guy who claimed

to be a native american or he was i

don't remember the story

you could tell that he was the the

aggressor

likewise with the uh drinking bleach

hoax

if you hear it in all of its context

you're the first part where the

president sets it up as talking about

light as a disinfectant then he talks

about it

and then he clarifies about light

so if you don't hear that he set it up

as light

and then he wrapped it up as light and

all they take out

is injecting uh injecting a

disinfectant that's how they create the

hoax now

the fake edit is not enough by itself

all right that's not bad enough by

itself you you need the other steps and

i'll get to them all right so in the

case of this phone call

what they took in a quote uh they they

took little pieces and a quote and

where he's saying stuff that makes it

sound as if

he's pressuring him to cheat now the

opposite is happening

trump is pressuring him to look into

allegations

to make sure that nobody cheated

that is literally the opposite of asking

him to as cnn reports it

find votes so the second part of this

is that the fake news will use uh

persuasion primers

these are words wit and phrases which if

you hear them

at the same time you've heard the story

for the first time

they prime you to see the story a

certain way these are brainwashing

persuasion primers none of this is an

accident

they know how to do this it's the fourth

time in a row you've seen it

same pattern every time so the the

primer words that they use in this case

are pressured to find votes

here's another way to describe exactly

what you

you heard on the the audio the president

forcefully was promoting his idea

that the people in charge should look

into the allegations of fraud

so that the public can understand that

the election was either clean which

would be good

or they'd find that it wasn't which

would be good in another way

so did that sound like pressuring to

find votes

meaning manufacture you know manufacture

about nothing

did that sound the same because what i

said was just objectively

true you listen to it he's making his

case he's presenting his claims for

fraud

he says we just want a fair vote we just

want to know

i just want you to look into it that's

all

and but if you hear pressured and fine

votes

and you pair it with a clip which

doesn't have the rest of the context

it looks like what a mob boss talking

they they like to use the

things that you've uh that you've

believed before

now because the whole he's a mob boss

was already a meme they just take a meme

that is already active in your mind and

they just attach a new thing to it

it's much easier to attach fake news to

an existing meme

oh he's like a mob boss yeah whenever he

makes a private phone call or thinks

it's private

he talks like a mob boss and here he is

making a phone call

like a mob boss now if you listen to it

there wasn't anything even

close to talking like a mob boss

i mean not even close

to anything like that the tone was not

that

it was just asking for for something to

be looked into that was it

and the the the boldness with which they

they try this is amazing here's some

more phrases from cnn

the president was caught on tape

caught on tape now what do you imagine

is true

of somebody who was caught on tape

well they're guilty what does it mean

to be uh on a a recording if you were

caught there they're signaling that he's

guilty

before they've even told you what the

content is that's a primer

that's that's brainwashing right um

so we use caught on tape no it wasn't

caught on tape

there was simply an audio tape which has

been available to the public

in which not much of anything happened

that's not even close

to being caught and by the way

i prefer presidents who don't get caught

on audio

here's another sentence directly out of

cnn's coverage

that the tape quote exposes the depth

of his corruption suppose you

knew there was a long tape you only

heard one part of it which was something

about

finding votes and then you read cnn

saying that this tape exposes the depth

of his corruption

wouldn't you kind of think that the

parts you didn't hear

were more confirming the depth of his

corruption

nothing like that on the tape not even

close

nothing even in that general category of

corruption

not even close it's just him asking for

data to be looked at

because they've got some claims they

they would like some data to be released

by the state

to make sure the claims are true or

false

just just nothing like exposing the

depth of corruption

he literally just asked questions that's

it

they said it was a smoking gun

anytime you hear any of these phrases

you're you're being brainwashed

these are not news phrases they're not

even close to news

it's just straight up brainwashing at

this point and then step three

they bernstein it so you know you bring

in

uh uh burns bernstein or bernstein

bernstein it's bernstein right so they

bring in bernstein

just to say it's worse than watergate

literally

just to say that now have i taught you

the track

the trick of having a big opening offer

so if you're negotiating which is in a

way similar to persuading

and at least in the way i'm going to use

it now if you start with a big

opening offer it it anchors people to

the first thing they heard

so if i say to you i'm going to sell you

my car and it's worth a quarter of a

million dollars

the first thing you think is there's no

car you drive that's worth a quarter of

a million dollars well you're

that's true it's not worth that or

anywhere near it

but it's the first number you hear so

now i say all right maybe it's not worth

a quarter of a million but

man i'd like to get a hundred thousand

for it now the hundred thousand doesn't

sound

so bad because you got primed with the

250

and even though the thing is only worth

thirty five thousand dollars

used suddenly the hundred doesn't sound

so

bad because you got pride with that 250.

that's what bernstein does

the worse than watergate guy comes in to

give you the first offer

worse than watergate and in your mind

you're like wow

whoa that's big now later

when you get more let's say you get more

information about what was on there

you're already primed so maybe you maybe

you come down a little from worse than

watergate in your mind but you're like

yeah i'm not sure it's quite worse than

watergate

but sounds like it's pretty bad see

so that's how their brainwashing works

start with a big offer it's worse than

watergate

and then it's hard to get you off that

no matter how much data comes out later

they use repetition because if they say

it enough

you'll think it's true if you hear a new

story or item

a hundred times you're going to believe

it's more true than if you heard it once

it's just how your brain is operating

they make you think past the sale

so you've got things like exposing his

depth of corruption or caught on tape

those are manipulation phrases to make

you think past the sale

the sale is whether anything bad

happened

and they're making you think it is

exposing the depth of his corruption

by making you think of all the other

corruption it's like

but they haven't made the sale they're

making you think past it

there's no sale that anything bad

happened

they're making you think all the way to

not only did it happen but it's like

this other stuff

that turns out it didn't happen either

all right then of course you do the mind

reading you know what is the president's

state of mind yeah he's

like he's thinking like a mob boss and

he's trying to pressure this guy

he's not trying to get a justice

no in his mind it's not about justice

because cnn can read his mind you can't

but they can they got pundits with

powers

and they read his mind and they find out

that no

despite all of his words that clearly

and repeatedly say he just wants to know

what happened

and can we see the data please now there

are some

legal reasons it's hard to give them the

data but that's a separate story

but if you mind read them none of that's

happening

he's just trying to be a dictator and

then the most important part which is

disappearing the debunks

so this video which is debunking it

thoroughly

will not be highly highly rated on

social media

and so anybody who's going to do what i

just did

will just sort of get disappeared now

you might say to yourself well that's

cnn

right cnn's crazy but at least people

will go over to fox news and they'll

read the real story

it might even agree with you scott and

they might even be on the same side

so you go over to this fox news and you

look for the story and

uh good luck finding it

now i don't know what's up with fox news

but i would think this would be

like one of the big stories as opposed

to

not mentioned so

take that for whatever it means i would

think this one would be mentioned

but must be a story there i i'm sure fox

news will cover it eventually and the

opinion

the opinion shows later today we'll

cover it of course

but it's sort of suspiciously not there

at the moment

unless it happened in the last hour um

all right here's so here's some more uh

cnn

bad behavior they also say quote legal

experts say

trump broke the law by pressuring blah

blah blah blah

well if he pressured him maybe he broke

the law i don't know what law they're

talking about

but if he was just talking to him and

asking for data is that breaking the law

so here so here's cnn acting like a law

has been broken

when you can just listen to the tape and

it's obvious no laws are broken

um all right here's another story just

because the simulation

loves us and gives us lots of code reuse

all six members of the congressional

group we call the squad

you know the progressives aoc etc uh

they all voted to

put nancy pelosi over the top as speaker

unanimous they were

so nancy pelosi must be doing something

right the squad loves her

now i have to admit when i first saw

that the phrase lizard

squad was trending i thought well that's

not a nice thing to call

aoc and the other people and in that

squad

i feel it's unkind to call them the

lizard squad

but it turns out that lizard squad was a

different squad

i got that wrong lizard squad was the

hackers

as opposed to the squad who are also

lizards but they go by a different name

uh also lizards because they're part of

congress not because they're

see see this taken out of context

imagine that quote becomes the part they

take out of my

my live stream and miss the part where i

say no it's because they're in congress

they're lizards

it's not because it's these you know few

few people in the squad that are lizards

they're all lizards

but you take that part out um

my uh twitter friend zach says that uh

watching the biden presidency is gonna

be like watching a bad spin-off

of a tv show you know the trump tv show

is just so awesome and

top-rated show but then you know they do

the spin-off of the minor characters

so it's like trump was the tv show

friends

and biden is going to be like joey you

know

the spin-off show about just joey it's

like

yeah we're gonna watch it by

habit and reflex and maybe it'll remind

us of friends

but it's not friends it's not friends

all right um here's a little uh

tip for you uh i don't know how much

how much backing this has by science but

there was a study

saying that if you drink alcohol um soon

after getting the vaccination it will

make the vaccination

way less effective there's something

about alcohol that makes the

the meds in the vaccination a little

less active so don't drink alcohol

within several days of getting the

vaccination

so you have all been made more safe by

watching this live stream

um here's a question for you remember

howard schultz who was the founder of

starbucks

and he was running for president for a

while what if he had been elected

would howard schultz could you trust him

to make decisions about whether

starbucks should be open

how do you do that i feel as if

howard schultz although i have lots of

confidence in him as a

you know a smart operator and capable

and all that

i have only only good thoughts about him

but

he would be in quite a bind wouldn't he

because one of the biggest questions in

the pandemic is

does a place like starbucks stay open or

just go out of business

how could he make that decision or even

be part of it or i mean i

i don't see how that would have worked

but

you know short of having a pandemic he

would have been fine

but as soon as it's a pandemic he's the

wrong match for the job right

remember i've told you that there's no

such thing as bad presidents and good

presidents

they're just presidents who

coincidentally are matched for a task

trump perfectly matched for a whole

bunch of tasks mostly international

but uh howard schultz would have been a

bad match

for a pandemic just because you would

never know if he was doing something

because of starbucks you just wouldn't

be able to know that

uh and i'm not casting any aspersions on

schultz like i said i have only good

feelings about him

but it'd be a bad position to put him in

gordon chang who

talks quite a bit about north korean

chinese an expert in that region

is recommending that we cut all ties

with china

think about that cut all ties with china

now gordon chang is not random crazy guy

on twitter he knows what he's talking

about

and if gordon chang is telling you we'd

better cut

all ties with china you need to take

that seriously

now i know that the president listens to

him so he probably is taking you

seriously

and it's not very easy i mean no i and i

made the case just

briefly when we say all ties with china

it's because every interaction we have

with them

is militarily bad for the united states

i say militarily

because anything that kills americans at

the hands of our

enemy that we're in a hot war with it's

a cyber war but it's a hot war

anything that your enemy does to kill

people in your country is an act of war

so whether it's they send us fentanyl

they do trade deals that are illegal

they steal our ip they send spies over

you know you can just go down the list

every contact with china is militarily

negative

to the united states so we should

de-list their companies from the stock

exchange

president did that we should send all of

their uh

their residents home that are trying to

get educations here

we should stop trading with them we

should bring all of our

we should have an order to bring all of

our companies home

now um and i don't i just don't know

oh and this other news thing is that

jack

ma the founder of alibaba and

multi-multi

hundreds of billions i don't know he's

super rich guy

um i guess he criticized the regime and

he disappeared

so far for a week now it's really hard

for a billionaire to disappear

if somebody like you know elon musk or

you know bill gates were not seen for a

week and it were a national story

it wouldn't take long to find him you

know hey he was at the retreat or he

just

took some break from social media or

something but it's been a week

and we don't know where one of the

richest people in china is and very

public guy

like jack ma is always on tv he's like

very public

so what if he never shows up

because that's possible we might never

see him again

he could be making shoes and with the

uyghurs right now

anything could happen now i imagine he

will turn up soon but his

attitude will be adjusted is my guess i

think the regime

probably will talk to him and say you

know if you'd like to stay

oh alive and a billionaire

let me tell you how to do it and it's

not the way you're playing it right now

but the other thing that's interesting

is that jack ma is no

ordinary guy whatever it was

that turned him into one of the richest

people in the world was not an

accident he's got skills

and he's got billions of dollars

and skills and did i mention skills

and here's my question as strong as the

chinese communist party is

i mean it's immensely strong i don't

know if they're messing with the right

person right now

because if he's already got a little

problem with the leadership

and they're doing something with him

right now

you don't want to let him out let me say

this

a different way if china is doing

something bad

to jack ma they better finish him

because you don't want that guy loose

with his billions

and really really mad at the regime

because he is important

you know he has enough probably inside

knowledge

contacts people he could bribe he could

probably take down the government

because i think that any any billionaire

in this country who was like really

serious about taking down the government

could have a good shot at it now china

of course

you assumed that they would close him

down the minute he tried anything he'd

obviously have to leave the country

and he'd have to get most of his money

out if he could but if he gets out of

the country with his money

and they tortured him jack ma

could take down china i think they've

got a dangerous situation on their hands

i don't think they can ever let him out

if they're doing something bad to him

now they might reach some agreement

where they don't do something too bad

maybe just some house arrest

and then when they've talked to him

enough he just feels like i don't want

to go through this again

it wasn't that bad it was just house

arrest for a week

but i don't you know next time it could

be bad so i just won't say bad things

about china

i would think that's the way it's going

to go i i think that he's a smart guy

and they'll just figure something out

and he'll just shut up about china

but did i mention

he's jack ma now i don't know much about

him i just know that you don't you don't

get where he is

by not having skill not being brave

not doing things that people don't

expect not being able to push through a

brick wall

as if it didn't exist so i don't know

you know what is real capabilities are

but one assumes they're pretty good

china might be in trouble we'll see that

is my show for the day and i've got some

things to do so i'm gonna

run off and do those things uh somebody

says zuckerberg

took down trump you could make that

argument yeah you know there were there

were too many other variables to isolate

one thing but if

zuckerberg and facebook did not exist

trump would probably be president i mean

that's that's not a reasonable and

unreasonable thing to think

all right i hope you enjoyed this

episode and

uh i will talk to you tomorrow

all right youtubers you've got another

minute

uh why do you think the trump tape was

leaked well it was because

his enemies probably thought that they

could uh

make something out of it now the

interesting part is that a lot of people

are going to hear

the president make a lot of claims about

election fraud

so there's at least some

thought that maybe the president's team

released it

because by turning it into national news

which just has to be covered

uh all of his allegations get out there

so it might be good for the president to

do that

explain lead stories i don't know what

that means

calendar drama so uh as somebody pointed

out

on twitter the dilbert calendar is

printed in china

and so the question was hey if uh if uh

what's this chappelle can get netflix to

take

his old show off the air can't i get

my publisher to use a different printing

company

that's not exactly a good analogy if i

were chappelle

and i had an ancient show that i

probably made little or no money on

at this point and all all that

all netflix had to do is just you know

click a box and it doesn't appear

anymore

because it's probably as simple as that

right just click a box and that

that little part of their business just

doesn't exist anymore

probably doesn't make much difference to

chappelle because the way hollywood

um deals are made even though it was his

show i doubt he had profits going

forward

i doubt it or if he did there weren't

much so he didn't give up anything

so chappelle basically gave up nothing

of any value

and in order to for netflix to give him

what he wanted

they probably just had to check a box

and they couldn't even tell the

difference in their profits because it's

one

of you know thousands and thousands of

properties

by comparison my publisher i believe

does

all of their printing for all of their

properties in china

it's not easy for them to stop doing

that right away

they can't just check a box and then

there's no printing in china

do you have any idea how hard it would

be for a major publishing company

to change where they publish all of

their books

it's a big deal now this is why i

promote an

executive order that just orders

companies out of china

american companies because your

publisher

it's not really fair to ask a publisher

why don't you decrease your profits by

30 percent

and spend your entire next year trying

to figure out how to do this thing that

there probably isn't even enough

capacity in the united states to get

done

or you know you'd have to take it

somewhere so

the the chappelle thing was the smallest

possible ask there's no real cost

i mean immeasurably small and just check

a box

mine would be an entire publishing

company working for a year

changing everything that they do maybe

there would be no dilbert calendars that

would make a big impact on me

it's not the same thing but i'm on board

with getting the dilbert calendar out of

china so if you if you wonder if you

wonder what i want

it's that but i also work in the real

world

and it's not really fair to ask a

publisher to make that kind of a change

until it's either legally necessary

or there's some kind of alternative that

doesn't look so bad you know do it in

vietnam or wherever

so that's where i stand on that all

right uh and i will talk to you

tomorrow