Episode 1251 Scott Adams - Wuhan Lab Allegations, the Coup Persuasion Success, and my Pineal Gland

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to the future largely ignored are you watching all the headlines about the uh all the movement toward breaking the let's say the monopoly that the teachers unions have on schools there's a lot happening a lot a lot of states moving forward with saying hey let's let's propose at least funding the students so lots of action lots of proposals imagine if school choice could become real realer so that you have real school choice for everybody that would solve most of our problems it would take a big bite out of systemic racism let's say every kid gets a good education or can that takes a lot of problems away right and it's the teachers unions that prevent that good thing from happening but they're having a lot of problems now because they're keeping the schools closed and i would guess this will lead to less support for teachers unions and more support for choice so that's a gigantic story if it goes the right way gigantic transforms the country protects us forever i mean it's really big the other one is that the the government and i don't know what the trump administration can make permanent but at least in terms of current priorities the government has decided to go big on small nuclear reactors to be used for space now you don't realize yet how big a deal that is but if the government is decided that nuclear power is necessary for space space force space exploration space defense and it is that means that our domestic industry will get a big boost because they'll do a lot of things in maybe the government sector for military and that will almost certainly create smaller cheaper better new technology reactors that might even be safe from a meltdown so that is something that would affect climate change no matter what you thought about the actual risk of that it will change our whole energy structure it changes our defense posture in the future gigantic you take those two stories just the nuclear energy for space and how that will ripple through everything and then just the school choice stuff that's springing up everywhere and like lots of little flowers those are transformative golden age almost almost if i told you before that uh you should expect a demolition phase before rebuilding because there was already stuff here the united states already exists you don't you don't have a green field where you say well i imagine we build something from nothing you don't have that option you gotta you have to do demolition and i feel as if 2020 was a year of demolition now some of it wasn't our choice right coronavirus just made us rethink every assumption which was a really bad pandemic but what is the unintended consequence if you will of rethinking every assumption it's really good it's really really good like really really so good you can't even wrap your head around it the pandemic is nothing but bad in terms of what it's doing to us at the moment but making us rethink from scratch every assumption about commuting what is the nature of school how do we interact do we shake hands i mean just everything medicine how we deliver medicine how we make vaccines i mean a lot changed but we're still in the middle of the fight so when you're middle in the middle of the fight against the pandemic that's where your concentration is but if you just took a moment just take a moment to just rise above it a little bit look at it from 35 000 feet just get a little distance from it there is something amazing that is forming now are there also bad things that we have to watch out for that are forming oh yeah there are oh yeah but we'll talk about that too it's all optimism today i'm feeling good about america uh part of it is that the things that are going wrong are just sort of funny they're they're sort of laughably funny problems i'll get i'll tell you a few of those in a bit uh apparently mike pompeo allegedly he's going to report today that we have dramatic new evidence about the virus allegedly leaking from a wuhan lab but the biggest part of it the bombshell part is that the allegation includes the fact that they quote cultured the virus now i don't know what they mean by cultured the virus i assume that means it's at least modified or created by humans right so it's at the very least modified now that would be new information right it's something that we suspected it's not something that's ever been confirmed but just to make it interesting great britain is saying it's not true so britain says it is not a credible source of intel and that they don't believe that it has shown that it is a cultured virus or that it even came from the wuhan lab lab so you've got allegedly we haven't seen it yet but this is the reporting that mike pompeo will say we have new evidence that wuhan was the source of the leak and that they had cultured the virus so it was at least partially man man human modified let's say less sexist and great britain says there and tell people say that's not true so who are you going to believe so you've got our intel agencies as stark contrast to the british intel agencies so who do you trust which one of them is the credible one neither neither our our intelligence agencies aren't credible for this kind of story there might be some kind of things for which our intelligence agencies are credible by its nature i suppose but this isn't one of them if your own intelligence agency tells you something like this and there's no source and there's no document they can show you i wouldn't trust it this is weapons of mass destruction all over again there is zero credibility to the mike pompeo story unless you see it with your own eyes if mike pompeo goes on tv or whatever and says we have secret intelligence information that i can't share with you it means nothing you should put zero credibility on that now what about great britain if i'm saying there's zero credibility am i agreeing with great britain and therefore great britain is the credible one no no great britain's intelligence agencies are not credible not even a little bit in fact their job is to fool people if you're taking as your model of credibility somebody whose entire job is to fool people well you're not really smart so you have two intelligence agencies on opposite sides of the story and neither of them have any credibility so what do you do with that i'm planning to ignore it and you can make your own decision but i would say this is a story about no information hello the breaking headline is today we have no credible information on anything whatsoever that's the news if you're interpreting it as hey i think i just found out something about wuhan uh no we don't live in a world where you can trust our intelligence agencies on this kind of question at all like zero is exactly the right amount of trust which doesn't mean it's not true by the way if you think i'm saying it's not true then it escaped from the the lab or it's not true that it was cultured i don't know i don't have an opinion on that but i know i can't trust anybody else's opinion that i know all right um so it looks like new york city is canceling their contracts with the trump organization for their their iconic central park skating rink and something else in retaliation over the mega mob capital riot what is the unintended consequence of people punishing the trump business for something they didn't like about trump's uh role as president doesn't that pretty much guarantee that you don't get business people running for president anymore let me ask you if i ran for president should i expect that my income would go up or down you already know the answer to that it would go down anybody who already has some established kind of a business would be crazy to go into politics watching what happened to trump now if trump had gone through his term and simply been loved or hated in whatever degree you know he was and then they just said okay but now you go back to your private industry and that's you know that's just separate just do what you want to do that would be fair but the moment you make it acceptable i mean new york city's uh government is doing this in public and bragging about it they're not it's not like it's undercover or anything they're actually publicly punishing him for his political actions in his business is that the standard you want why would anybody successful run for president if they could if their business will be punished because of their decisions remember half of the country is going to hate whatever you do why would you go into a situation where half the country is going to put you out of business even if the half loves you i wouldn't do it a number of people have been asking me to run for president partly because the republicans have no more leadership i'm not even a republican that would be sort of the first requirement i would think to run for president as a republican i would be an excellent choice but i'm not crazy enough to take that job i can't think of anything that would make me want to do that job i mean i love my country but i'm not going to walk into a suicide situation don't love it that much let me say let me say that clearly in case you didn't hear it i love my country but i'm not going to intentionally run into a buzzsaw that i don't have to run into so i'm not going to run for office that would be stupid for me now if you don't have money and so you don't have a business to lose and your life is politics well that seems safer here's the funniest story you probably saw this uh if you watched tucker carlson or so some of the video clips so joe biden so far has the worst start to a presidency i've ever seen now i've only seen presidents during my lifetime but i've never seen a worse start and here's another example of it uh not al so not only you know did he start by calling half of the country a bunch of racists which if he did nothing else that would be the worst start of any presidency but it gets better he just appointed to the head of department of justice civil rights prosecution so the person responsible for prosecuting civil rights violations in this country at the federal level i guess had once written a uh an article while she was at harvard so the good news is she went to harvard so when you hear that biden is uh is putting people in place who uh went to harvard that sounds okay at least there that's proof that they have high intelligence and are capable of succeeding so so far so good let's see did she say anything that would be say controversial or as does she have any history or background saying something that would not make her let's say the perfect choice for the head of the department of justice civil rights prosecution what could that be something maybe in that domain that she may have said at some point in the past that would have some relevance to the current job situation because you know one of the big complaints about trump is they didn't make good hiring decisions now i've semi defended that by saying he didn't have many choices because people didn't want to work for him because of the reputation so therefore he had a small pool of people who were even willing to take the job so that was part of trump's problem and i've also said that he fires better and firing is the real skill when you hire people you're kind of guessing like ah they've never done this exact job but i feel like they could that's sort of guessing but when they don't do the job well the firing is the skill part it's like okay pull the trigger and he was good at that trump's a good fire but how is biden doing so he picked somebody for the head of the doj civil rights prosecution who had once written a paper saying that black citizens she happens to be african-american that's important to the story she says that blacks black people are superior to white people mentally physically and spiritually and that there's a good reason for that it's because they're pineal gland doesn't have enough melanin or something um now i don't need to tell you the science does not back her opinion i also don't know if she still holds the opinion because this was a while ago right so if you're in college you can say some you can say some dumb stuff in college i don't mind that and i've suggested the 20-year rule the 20-year rule is you just ignore anything that happened 20 years ago but that would kind of depend on her disavowing it today yeah has she ever retracted that is exactly the story had she retracted and said you know that was just a dumb thing it was just a college thing i was just being you know i was being academic i was trying to be provocative i don't hold those views now if she had said that i would at least attempt to be consistent with my view that the 20-year rule should apply to whatever dumbass racist thing usually is racist but whatever racist or homophobic thing you said 20 years ago you're probably a different person by now and if you're a different person by now maybe you should be judged by who you are instead of something else um but what could be funnier than joe biden who is one of his big claims to fame is that he does good hiring compared to trump and he hires somebody who literally says that black people are superior mentally physically and spiritually because of some science that isn't real science you need to retract that really hard i don't know how much of a retraction you'd need to hear to feel that it was real but i think you need a pretty serious retraction on that one if she if she wholeheartedly disavowed her old views i would still hate it but i would want to be consistent with my views on republicans and everybody else which is if it was 20 years ago and you don't hold that view now i'm going to let it go but she hasn't repudiated it so at the moment it's just it's hilarious how how incompetent this is i mean how incompetent would you have to be to pick this person for that job that's like the ultimate presidential incompetence and let me tell you i love being just a critic it was so much harder when i was trying to put a you know the persuasion spin on trump and say well yeah he said this but you have to understand how this is going to work out that was hard work criticizing biden for being a dummy is really fun and easy so my workload went down about 50 um here's some more stupid news that this is so dumb that when i read it you're not even gonna believe this is true but i swear to god this is true uh you know there's facial recognition apps now and law enforcement is using them to figure out you know who was in the capital and also other stuff and apparently the lapd has announced that they will allow a technology that uses a database of existing mugshots so they they're okay with using a database of existing mugshots and facial recognition against their small existing database because that's they only have mug shots they don't have everybody else in the world who is not in a mug shop but they're not going to use clear view or or tools like it clearview is sort of the leader in terms of accuracy there but clearview has trained its technology and they use this is the right phrase trained its technology on three billion photos now people think that clearview stores the photos like they've scraped them and they've got a database of all the photos that didn't happen clearview doesn't store any photos they have looked at all the photos and turned them into a formula or an algorithm or a mathematical construct so what they store is math they don't have a photo of you in their database they've got math that was a result of your facial features so that's all they have is math and then that math becomes a pointer to where on the internet the actual public information is you on on facebook etc so lapd has decided that they will use facial recognition but only on a tool that hardly ever works so they've decided that they won't use a reliable tool that could find pretty much everybody i mean close to 100 percent so they that's evil so they're not going to use the evil tool that is 100 effective or near it but they will use the evil tool because it's the same thing it's still facial recognition right they will use the one that doesn't work now that sounds like i made that up doesn't it but we're actually in a world where an entity will announce proudly they proudly announced that they will use the tool that is if i had to put a a number on it maybe five percent as good as clearview but the same technology in this not the same technology but in the sense that they're both facial recognition this is happening this is actually happening like out loud right in front of us we choose to use the one that's five percent effective is equally evil you know if you think facial recognition is evil that's what it is and they're not hiding it it is facial recognition but they only want to use the one that doesn't work and they said that in public what somebody says clear view is intrusive well it's facial recognition that works it's only more intrusive than other things because it works better that's the only thing that makes it different anyway i thought that was funny scientists have done an experiment with snails and they found that they can make the snail remember something that never happened do you know what else never happened scientists making snails remember something never happened i don't think i have to actually read the story to know that whatever a snail remembers i don't know if you can test that but let's say they taught this snails to do something if they saw some if they saw something they'd seen before so maybe there's a way you can test false memories that way but i thought that's not really the story that you can make a snail believe something that didn't happen you know what the story is the fake news does that literally every day are you surprised that scientists working really hard can fool a snail i'm not really surprised because 75 percent of the people i interacted with on twitter today also are operating under false memories they were implanted by the fake news and it's why it's quite obvious you just read their opinion you go oh you got that one from the fake news that's not real it's exactly like the snail how much did we what kind of a grant did we do to find out this night the scientists can can give snails fake news and they'll believe it because if you can do it to a living human being easily and effectively and consistently are you really surprised you can do it to a snail i'm just saying there are some sciences more useful than others here's a question i have in my my ever my my attempt to get as close to cancellation as i can without actually getting canceled i don't want to get cancelled by the way and i'll i will intentionally do things to make sure i don't go far enough that that's likely but i'm not sure it's up to me because all it would take is one what would it take to get me canceled if i don't do anything wrong what would it take to get me canceled snail false memory right all it takes is the fake news to tell the the snails that they have a false memory of me doing something is that hard nope it's real easy i'll give you some examples in a bit where the fake news is actively telling people to remember something that didn't happen it's happening right now it's actually the headline the main news right now is the snails it's just that you're the snails and the the news is telling you something that didn't happen and it has become a memory i'm gonna tell you in a moment a memory that at least half the country has maybe three quarters an actual memory that didn't happen we'll get to that in a minute so if you think you're different than the snail hold on for that so here's a question that i asked provocatively if the mega protesters if they were all mega who knows that assaulted the capital if they were planning a violent assault meaning that they planned a violent overthrow you know with uh you know universal violence as opposed to there were members of the group who definitely were violent and literally killed people or at least one so there definitely were violent people there who went there to be violent but here's the question i have the mega people were armed to the teeth some of them were right and if you looked at the number of guns owned by the people who attended probably most did not take their weapons but the amount of them that attended who owned um weapons and i'm not talking about clubs i'm talking about actual guns are you a little bit surprised that there was an insurrection of the most gun owning people on the earth i think that's true wouldn't republicans be maybe among or the most gun-owning people on earth and none of them shot anybody am i right have you heard any story of a maga person even aiming a weapon at another human now i don't know that it didn't happen but i haven't heard the story about it there's no reporting on it all of those weapons all of those weapons thousands of them that they had access to some of them actually brought weapons not one person brandished a weapon as in aiming it as somebody now what kind of an insurrection is that when the people with massive weaponry don't bring it and the ones that brought it didn't even attempt to use it what do you call that well we'll get into that um here's what i'd call it the fake news has sold you on the idea that there was a coup attempt and or and insurrection so those words used not exactly the same as each other but you know i think the coup attempt is a little more let's say organized because it assumes that there's somebody you're putting in charge whereas an insurrection maybe it's less organized i don't know or maybe they're the same doesn't matter for my purposes but here's what got lost in the story and this is how all of the snails will be reprogrammed what ted cruz and the other republic republicans were asking for was not quote overthrowing the election but how is it being reported it's being reported that those senators were quote trying to overturn an election did ted cruz ever say i would like to overturn this election nope how about josh hawley did he say i would like to overturn the election nope nope there wasn't a single person who said let's overturn the election at least not in congress not a single person did um did trump say let's overturn the election nope nope don't know anybody who knows that all i know is ted cruz saying let's have let's use 10 days for an audit we have 10 days it won't slow anything down it won't change the outcome unless we found out something we don't know and wouldn't it make the whole country feel more confident in the process so congress was trying to take a an election that did not have credibility with enough of the public to be you know really called a a high-class quality credible election now it might have been fair and free how would i know i don't have any direct direct evidence that i have access to i only have news reports so it might have been fair enough and free enough but it is still a fact that half the country ish doesn't believe it was as fair as it should have been so when you've got senators like ted cruz who i believe is a genuine patriot and josh howley genuine patriot and the others matt gates etc when they're asking for 10 days to improve the reliability and credibility of an election that's not just for republicans that's for everybody is there one of you who would not be better off with a more transparent election well i mean you can make an argument if it changed the result of who got in office and you like biden more than you like trump then yeah maybe but wouldn't you be better off with a system that works wouldn't you be better off knowing that the election worked the fake news has brainwashed the public into thinking this was an actual coup to which i ask you this provocative question if this were a coup attempt as opposed to trying to force congress to have a 10-day audit and have some transparency which the public required if it were a real coup how exactly was that coup going to work did they think these clever coup plotters that once they had occupied two empty rooms that they were then the leaders of the country was that their thinking uh once we get in these empty rooms with all this furniture we run the country now is that what they thought because i don't think so i don't think they thought that did they think that by stealing the magic lectern which did happen nancy's lectern was stolen were they thinking if we can get a hold of the magic golden lectern we will have power over the whole world i don't think they thought that it looked more like they were getting souvenirs so let me ask you this if i said to you there are some senators who want more transparency in the election so that we can be sure we had a solid election and that's better than the situation we have with great uncertainty does that sound like a coup is a coup where you take the existing system and try to improve it as it stands that is the opposite of a coup if you're trying to make the current system work better transparently which is all they ask for just an audit you're doing the opposite of a coup a coup is changing that system and changing the outcome now could an outcome change yes but only if the system worked it only the only way the outcome could change is if the system were repaired through transparency and we can see what happened with an audit and if and we don't know that would be the case and if that repairing of the transparency caused a re-vote or some re-evaluation that could happen but it's the opposite of a coup when you're trying to make sure the public feels confident with the existing system changing the existing system is the coup so when these people came in there and they were obviously trying to um intimidate congress so some people said to me scott scott scott what you don't understand is no it's not about stealing the golden lectern so you have power it's not about them thinking that a coup could be accomplished by fully occupying two empty rooms they didn't think that they were trying to bully and intimidate and scare congress into doing something and that's bad that is bad except what exactly was it they were trying to bully and scare and threaten congress into doing was it were they trying to bully and scare and threaten congress into doing something illegal no no they weren't trying to get them to do anything illegal were they trying to threaten and congress into doing something that their own rules of congress wouldn't allow them to do no no congress could have done what they what the protesters wanted they could do an audit in fact ted cruz had suggested it so wouldn't you say that the congress was being threatened and bullied into doing the job because i would say that if half of the country feels there's no credibility in the election and they have 10 days to do something that might make a difference and you want them to do that thing which can be done it's practical it wouldn't change anything in terms of the timing and it's their job you actually had an insurrection to try to force congress just to do its job that actually happened and that's being presented as a coup attempt and an insurrection it's literally the opposite it was an insurrection mostly right there were some bad elements in there who had their own they must have had their own motives so i'm not trying to minimize the fact that there were some bad people in that group and what those bad people did they have to be held fully accountable for you know it's illegal you could execute them for all i care especially the one who beat the cop anybody who beat that cop you can execute them i'm i'm fine with that this would be illegal but i'm just saying that the mass the ma the far majority of these people that are being called the insurrection and the coup were literally trying to intimidate congress into doing its job for the first time and that's being called a coup right encouraging congress to just simply do its job that's it they didn't ask them to do something that's not their job they didn't ask them to quit none of that they just asked them to do their job that's it now you could argue that maybe they shouldn't have done their job that way etc but you can't argue what the intent was because if the intent was a coup i think they would use some weapons if the intent was an insurrection like an actual change of government based on their threats or their actual violence would they do it that way what kind of a weak-ass coup takes over two empty rooms steals a lectern and says i think we got this i think we're in charge of the united states now that's not a thing that's what the fake news sold to the snails the snails believed there was a coup and they will never believe anything else because the snails have been programmed by the fake news to think that instead of a bunch of people taking a body of uh of you know the government the congress which had what a 13 approval rating let me tell you if patriots surround a a part of the government that has a 13 percent rating of approval and they're refusing to do the most basic part of their job which is hey could you maybe give us some assurance that the election was fair pretty basic to the job i would say um if they're not willing to do their job shouldn't and they have 13 approval whose fault is it that uh patriots surrounded their building the bad ones went inside we don't condone that whatsoever totally disavow the ones who went inside but you should expect that they're going to surround the building you should you should expect a free speech kind of demonstration i mean if you didn't expect that so uh trump uh will either be impeached or almost impeached based on the fact that although his words did not encourage violence and specifically said the opposite he said be peaceful specifically be peaceful but i do think it's a fair it is a fair criticism that he should have known what would happen even though his words you know we're not um telling them to do that it wouldn't have been too hard to know that you're creating a dangerous situation so i think he has to take responsibility for that the same way he can take credit for some of the great things he did but if it's true that trump could be impeached or almost impeached because he should have known it's not what he did intentionally it's what he should have known would have been the result even though his specific actions didn't have that tell for for a problem he should have known that his actions would have caused that i agree with that but should congress have known that denying an audit under this condition would create violence yeah you just got quiet didn't you should congress have known that not backing the audit which there was no problems with it didn't have a budget problem didn't have a timing problem there was no objection to it it could have been done should congress have known that this would cause violence absolutely they should have known and all i ask is for some consistency i will not push back on attempts to impeach trump over this because i do think he's got something to answer for all leaders have to answer for the result of their actions right the fact that he wasn't intending this to happen matters but it doesn't excuse it right because you can be impeached for a mistake i would say it was a mistake it was a big one it was a big mistake but it wasn't intentional i do you think do you think that trump wanted violence i think that's the last thing he wanted i think that's the very last thing he wanted it's obvious that he wanted pressure on congress but pressured to do an audit not pressure to overturn the election not pressure to enter the building but there's no way trump wanted that but buck stops at the top you know if i'm if i'm going to be even a little bit consistent the person in charge gets the blame and the person in charge gets the credit if things go right even if they weren't directly involved those are the rules and i don't think we should change them i'm not going to change it for trump but i want to be consistent kamala harris was promoting violence by the bl black lives matter protesters i think that should be treated the same so i can support impeaching trump over this even understanding in my opinion that he didn't intend any of it to happen but the same way uh kamal harris actually actively supported i'll say unrest i won't say violence she didn't use that word but she was certainly in favor of unrest which guaranteed death and destruction guaranteed it and of course she would know that so how does kamala harris not get impeached it's the same standard and secondly how do all of the members of congress who voted against the 10-day audit how in did they not know that they were going to get attacked for that how the did they not know that was going to cause that problem right same standard all right let me read this comment um the coup insurrection false narrative is beyond annoying yeah the dems used it against uh yeah right that comment disappeared for reasons that i'm not clear as i was reading it but thank you for the comment um so how do you feel living among the snails who have been convinced that an attempt to solidify and protect the republic as it stands has been turned by the fake news into a coup attempt and an insurrection where plainly it wasn't plainly you don't need to be an expert on insurrections you just have to look at it and say uh they took over a room you can't control a country by taking over a room an empty room now some of you are saying but but they meant to take members of congress hostage let's say that's true there was a guy there with twist eyes right that that showed some intent but let's say worst case scenario that some of the people who were in the building intended to harm or take control of let's say members of congress do you know what's wrong with this how could you control the united states by taking hostage any number of people who have a 13 approval rating and are not doing the will of the people i do not condone any kind of hostage taking that i hope that's obvious i don't condone any violence and i absolutely disavow anybody who entered the building they should have stayed out of the building period but if you're going to say this was a coup attempt you have to you have to complete the story i'm just asking anybody who thinks it was a coup to complete the story and the story is if they took hostages in congress would they control the country no no not even a little bit who named a member of congress that we wouldn't sacrifice as opposed to overthrowing the government of the united states i'm a big fan of mike pence even though he's very unpopular with a lot of people this week i've been saying since the beginning that if you judge him for his job as a vice president spectacular i really think he's one of the strongest vice presidents we've ever had even though i disagree with him on lgbtq stuff and other stuff so i don't think he should be president but as a vice president damn good now as much as i like mike pence imagine if you will if the the alleged coup attempt people had taken him hostage and were planning to kill him if they didn't get their way then did the coup attempt people have they taken over the country would that work hey we got your vice president we're going to do bad things to him unless you let us run the country or put trump in in charge and let trump have a second term would that work no no we might love mike pence but we're not going to trade his life for the country that's not how it works we would say well if that's the way it's got to be you know we're going to miss mike pence there isn't a single person in the world who would trade the country for mike pence and mike pence is awesome great guy you know overall i know some of you think he's a traitor for not for not wanting to vote the way he did et cetera i think you i think he's a good person who's just trying to figure out the best option and of bad options i just see him as a good person you don't have to agree with him i don't either i don't agree with all of his decisions but i feel like he's a good person still still if one person in our government is taken hostage we're not going to overthrow the government turn it to the president whoever the president is you could pick trump or biden or anybody else bad people take the president hostage sometime in the future do they own the country no no not even a little bit not even slightly you could take every member of congress hostage and it wouldn't have any effect on controlling the country because the rest of the country would say oh well i guess we need some new politicians and we would just go on like it didn't even happen you know we would of course kill all the coup people first but it wouldn't stop us there's no way that any of those actions conceivably in the most wild imagination could have turned into anything like a coup there was just no no connecting tissue that could have made that even slightly possible not one percent nothing and yet the snails have been convinced it happened all right um glenn beck's getting in trouble for referring to the uh the private company social media censorship of some voices as a digital holocaust and then the people who um you know like the auschwitz museum people etc say stop using our holocaust analogies because you're trivializing the holocaust i have two things to say about that number one never don't don't compare things to the holocaust the whole point of the holocaust is that it can't be compared to other things unless it's an actual another holocaust like if somebody actually kills six million people of some identified group well yeah that's all the cost but i don't call censorship and stuff like that a holocaust right it does it does cheapen the holocaust so i agree that it's a word that there are some words you want to preserve right right you just want to preserve some words and not not water down their meaning because they're important but here's the fun part and the second part having suffered from four years of hitler analogies about trump i really did kind of enjoy the glenn beck is making a legitimate it's legitimate i mean it's as legitimate as the uh as the charges against trump for being hitler meaning neither of them are legitimate because nothing really compares to hitler nothing compares to the holocaust where it's just hyperbole but it's completely fair that after four years of listening to it you want to send a little back i kind of enjoyed that and i have to tell you when it was obvious that trump wasn't going to get a second term i i suffered a little bit of not depression nothing like that but maybe a little bit of pre-sadness that i wouldn't be entertained in the future wouldn't be fun things to talk about but uh that doesn't seem to be the case so making fun of biden will be way more entertaining than defending trump because it'll be so easy um john dvorak wrote a really provocative article talking about how the poor countries seemed i was talking about this yesterday how the countries with low incomes seem to be doing better on the coronavirus than the countries with good health care systems and i was speculating there we don't know why that is maybe it's sunshine or bad reporting or you know any one of ten things or ivermectin or hydroxycholera queen everybody's got their own private theory but uh john devorak's theory is the most provocative of them all and i'm not telling you i agree with this i'm just going to tell you his opinion because it's so fun and his opinion is it's mass hysteria that the countries that have a let's say a well-developed news social media industry they've generated a mass hysteria so that our impression of what's happening is way out of line with what's happening and that the poor countries don't have the same you know robust social media fake news kind of influence and so they don't know that they're in a pandemic and the hypothesis and again this is not my opinion i'm going to tell you in my opinion in a moment but the hypothesis is that mass hysteria is so strong that if you get enough of it going it looks like you have a pandemic when maybe you don't now part of his argument is we don't see bodies piled up in these third world countries and i that's a mystery right if these other countries are doing everything wrong at least according to the developed countries they are because they're not they don't have the you know all the uh high quality health care if they're doing everything wrong where are the bodies wouldn't we notice i mean even though we don't have great information about what's happening in you know congo or some african country we don't have great information but wouldn't we notice by now it'd be a lot of dead people maybe there are we just haven't noticed that would be weird somebody says they bury them yeah but you still notice i mean they'd be talking about it so i don't think i quite buy into uh john's theory only because we do have bodies piled up if you count the number of people who seem to have died if you look at the impact on icus where there's a hot space it looks like real real disease to me it looks real to me so there may be there may be some some way that uh john dvorak's opinion about the mass hysteria or at least a hypothesis let's say it's a hypothesis as opposed to an opinion i don't want to i don't want to oversell his opinion uh he needs to do that himself but let's scale the hypothesis it's really interesting and the part of the hypothesis i like and the thing that makes it provocative is that it's entirely possible for a mass hysteria to cause people to think they're having health problems they're not but i don't think that's happening in this case because i think there are too many doctors looking at too many real things and too many real patients but you never know it's just a fun thought um let's see i'd like to give a random compliment today i told you i'd be giving out random compliments uh especially to people who you don't expect me to be complimenting today's compliment is to geraldo rivera yeah i know i know what you're gonna say hold on just hold on it's not as bad as you think you can handle this i know you can so geraldo of course has uh been quite brutal on the president trump um who have been friends for a long time so haralda's been a booster overall but he's you know disagreed on immigration and some other some other things so here's what he said in a tweet he said regardless of how the senate ultimately votes i think he's talking about impeachment he says it's entirely appropriate that trump be impeached by the house he knew what mob what the mob intended from the jump and uh basically that's his point he knew what they were going to do so it's it's on him and he uh he goes after trump pretty hard now here's my compliment to geraldo yes he took a selfie with his shirt off over the age of 70.

yes uh capone's fault did not go the way maybe he hoped yes he does do a lot of self-promotion that's his job so do i if you do this for a living you do a lot of self-promotion that's sort of what you do that is part of the job but here's what i love about uh geraldo and the following compliment geraldo doesn't give a what you think about his opinion and i could not love that more he geraldo has said more opinions that more people disagree with and said it you know with complete bravery i guess would be the right thing he is one brave mofo he will say absolutely anything he thinks is true no matter what you think of it and he'll say it in public and there are not many people like that now i don't agree with heraldo on a number of things you know i've been watching him for a long time sometimes i like him his opinions sometimes i disagree but in every case don't you feel he's telling you his honest opinion that's the special part it looks like i mean you can't read minds but my opinion of his opinion is that every time he gives it i'm seeing an actual opinion when you watch almost anybody else who's in this business and i think i could put myself in that category unfortunately you can smell the bias right like it just reeks some people just reek of bias even when they're saying things that are true they still wreak of bias geraldo does not he does not reek of bias he can take a position on the left when it looks like it makes sense to him even if i disagree and he can take a position on the right if he thinks it makes sense that is special right you need more of geraldo even if you disagree with them you don't need less of that you need a lot more of it in my opinion um stephen beschloss a historian i believe he tweeted that after the grim week i was talking about some some of members of congress tried to come to work with concealed carry i guess and they felt that they needed it for their safety and they the they set off the i guess the security alarms and they refused to be patted down now i didn't hear the rest of the story whether they were let in or not but they were apparently they were strapped and they were they had weapons now beshlos um says that maybe i shouldn't be surprised by the disgraceful level of arrogance of congress people who refuse to go through a metal detector arrogance and selfishness qualities that helped us get into this mess to which i say uh steven did you notice that congress was just invaded by armed people with twist eyes ah i feel as though congress has a right to defend themselves it's called the constitution and i don't think we should ask them to go to work in that environment without feeling safe and if what it takes for them to feel safe is their second amendment rights who has more second amendment rights than a congress person you know ideally we all have the same rights but you know be serious they've got some they've got extra rights because they're in congress they shouldn't have but they do and i completely back 100 the congress people who wanted to be armed if you put me in a situation where my personal security was as as loose and tentative as apparently the security is for the capitol building i would want to i would have one concealed carry because who was going to stop the you know if they got in who is going to stop him it looks like the police were standing aside i'd want to be armed so i'm i'll back the people who tried to be armed for that um i made a prediction here that the odds of democrats permanently shutting republicans out of power um and that's the worry the worry is that they have so much power now they'll they'll be uh um changing the voting districts and they'll be adding the district of columbia and they'll they'll add get rid of the filibuster and they'll pack the courts and everything so the worry is that the democrats will just have this firm permanent control on power maybe maybe that's definitely one of the things that could happen but if you're looking at the odds i would say the odds of democrats self-destructing is way higher you know if you're going to look at the next election i will feel like it looks good for democrats already because the democrats will have to either not do the things they promised such as opening the border or they have to do the things they promised and watch a disaster unfold because if you open the border i don't feel like there are two ways that could go i feel like that's one of those few situations where you don't have to guess which way it's going to go it would be a humanitarian disaster i would imagine i don't i don't see how it could go any other way but uh this is all by way of saying if you're worried that the democrats have a stranglehold on power uh i think they're self-destructing because when they were out of power at least the presidency they had the luxury of saying crazy stuff and not having to do any of it now if they say crazy stuff they're either going to disappoint because they don't do it or they're going to do it and show that none of their plans work that's all that's left they don't have a path to success because if you think it well they'll get in there and they'll they'll shut down the republicans and and they'll do good work because if they do those two things they'd have power forever do a good job shut down the republicans permanent situation but i don't think so i mean anything's possible but it looks like democrats are going to self-destruct just by i mean look at that appointment of kristen clarke the the woman who had the 20 year old or whatever claim about the pineal gland making black people superior he appointed that woman that that's the kind of uh that's the kind of action we're going to see out of the biden administration it's literally laughably stupid it's just laughably stupid now i'm sure all democrats thought that of everything that trump did but that's my point my point is that being in power is hard being a critic which i am right now where i just get to criticize people for whatever the hell they're doing real easy i just moved from the hardest job in the world to the easiest not really feeling any pain at the moment all right yeah there is stupidity on all sides of the aisles um i believe that is what i wanted to talk about today should the trump wing of republicans form a new party now now if if the republicans want any hope of ever getting power back they need to be one party the reason it worked with trump is that he managed to do the near impossible which is he unified the republican party so now i don't think you want to start another party what are the chances of 2024 having auditable elections i would say zero zero as far as i can tell there is no interest in the government not real and just there are people talking but there doesn't seem to be any real interest in fixing the election system have you seen it i don't see uh i don't i don't see biden saying i'm going to make this my highest priority to make this auditable i don't see any chance it's going to happen so i'm seeing a question about uh the patrick byrne story i think that's the story about italy being somehow involved in fixing the election so my my take on that just quickly i've talked about that before my take is that patrick byrne is like a really smart guy if you look into his background and credentials he's super smart and successful too so you've got that on one hand super smart successful person making a claim but the claim is of a nature that i don't believe ever right so the claim is sufficiently fantastical that i dismiss it as sort of a bigfoot kind of a claim which doesn't mean it's not true i'm just saying that if you were going to look at claims that sort of have that vibe you know it's complicated and you know you can't see nobody's showing you the direct evidence it's people who talk to people about a complicated scheme and another country anytime a story has all of those qualities to it you should bet against it so if i had to bet 10 to one odds is if i had to bet but that's ten to one is there a ten percent chance it's real yeah maybe maybe ten percent chance um remember i've told you that any individual claim is almost certainly false but that doesn't change the fact that you have a big system that involves software and the odds of a big important system that involves software not being hacked is zero now i don't know if it was hacked this year i don't know if the hacks if they happened changed any results i don't know if there were just as many hacks for trump as against him i don't know if there are any hacks i just know that this system has to be hacked eventually it's either happened is happening or will happen that's the guarantee because all systems get hacked all you need is an insider to be willing to take a bribe that's all it takes um somebody says it looks more real than other claims i don't think so i don't think it's more real than the ones who have been debunked on the surface i don't know what the reality is just on the surface doesn't look real uh there are no techies explaining the vote switching yeah the whole the whole vote switching thing uh i just saw a reference to none of that being real because i guess the tv reporting and i can't claim this to be true it's just something i saw on the internet that the way the tv reports the the votes as they come in is estimates and so as new information comes in to change their estimate it is actually completely normal and built into the system that since their estimates sometimes they go up a little and sometimes they go down a little but on average they mostly go up so it would have happened to both candidates and there's no story here except the estimates were showing on the screen which you interpreted to be actual votes now i don't know if that's true but if you if you told me yeah which is more true that version that those numbers were not dependable and they were just estimates or that right in front of us votes were being taken from one candidate and given to another on national tv while you could watch it maybe maybe that happened but i would bet against that right i would bet against that you could watch it happen in real time and it was just on television uh it feels a lot more likely that they were working with estimates that were being updated and sometimes they went backwards but not usually somebody says we saw it happen what i'm telling you is you didn't you didn't see it happen what i'm telling you is that if the alternate explanation is correct i don't know if it is but if the alternate explanation is that you saw estimates then no you did not see the vote count decreasing you saw estimates which of course will move back and forth as new information comes in dr schieve has one part of election fraud in massachusetts court i don't know that story but i'll be interested in it uh you think it was a major vote harvesting yeah benford's law somebody saying that's been debunked so one of the problems is that a lot of things that you heard as claims you did not hear the debunk and i i felt that problem too and i complained about it there should have always been some master list of all the allegations along with what was at least presented as a debunk whether it was real or not so if you've never heard that the benford's law thing was debunked ask yourself if you're getting good information because it was debunked all right um that's all i got for now and um somebody says benford's law is not debunked it's just not definitive that's uh i think that's an accurate statement but doesn't really disagree with debunked meaning that there's a claim that rather than saying yeah this is really strong evidence of something it just means you can't tell so i would call that debunked but i accept your clarification that's all i got for you and i'll talk to you tomorrow all right youtubers i don't have much else to say uh yeah benford's is a invitation to 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so one of the uh unintended consequences

of the coronavirus and the school

shutdowns and all of that

is that uh states are breaking out all

over the place

trying to assert their assert their

ability to

allow students to choose where they go

to school

what the biggest two stories in the

country

in terms of how important they will be

to the future

largely ignored are you watching all the

headlines about the

uh all the movement toward breaking the

let's say the monopoly that the teachers

unions have on schools

there's a lot happening a lot a lot of

states

moving forward with saying hey let's

let's propose at least

funding the students so lots of action

lots of proposals

imagine if school choice could become

real realer so that you have real

school choice for everybody that would

solve most of our problems

it would take a big bite out of systemic

racism

let's say every kid gets a good

education or can

that takes a lot of problems away right

and it's the teachers unions that

prevent that

good thing from happening but they're

having a lot of problems now

because they're keeping the schools

closed and i would guess

this will lead to less support for

teachers unions

and more support for choice so that's a

gigantic story

if it goes the right way gigantic

transforms the country protects us

forever

i mean it's really big the other one is

that the

the government and i don't know what the

trump administration can make

permanent but at least in terms of

current priorities

the government has decided to go big on

small nuclear reactors to be used for

space now you don't realize yet how big

a deal that is

but if the government is decided that

nuclear power

is necessary for space space force space

exploration

space defense and it is that means that

our domestic

industry will get a big boost because

they'll do a lot of things in maybe the

government sector for military and that

will

almost certainly create smaller cheaper

better

new technology reactors that

might even be safe from a meltdown

so that is something that would affect

climate change no matter what you

thought about the actual risk of that

it will change our whole energy

structure it changes our

defense posture in the future gigantic

you take those two stories just the

nuclear energy for

space and how that will ripple through

everything

and then just the school choice stuff

that's springing up everywhere and

like lots of little flowers those are

transformative

golden age almost

almost if i told you before that

uh you should expect a demolition phase

before rebuilding because there was

already stuff here

the united states already exists you

don't you don't have a green field where

you say well

i imagine we build something from

nothing you don't have that option

you gotta you have to do demolition and

i feel as if 2020 was a year of

demolition

now some of it wasn't our choice right

coronavirus just

made us rethink every assumption which

was

a really bad pandemic

but what is the unintended consequence

if you will

of rethinking every assumption

it's really good it's really really good

like really really so good you can't

even

wrap your head around it the pandemic is

nothing but bad in terms of what it's

doing to us at the moment

but making us rethink from scratch

every assumption about commuting

what is the nature of school how do we

interact do we shake hands i mean just

everything

medicine how we deliver medicine how we

make vaccines i mean a lot changed

but we're still in the middle of the

fight so when you're middle

in the middle of the fight against the

pandemic

that's where your concentration is but

if you just took a moment

just take a moment to just rise above it

a little bit

look at it from 35 000 feet

just get a little distance from it there

is something

amazing that is forming

now are there also bad things that we

have to watch out for that are forming

oh yeah there are oh yeah

but we'll talk about that too

it's all optimism today i'm feeling good

about america

uh part of it is that the things that

are going wrong are just sort of funny

they're they're sort of laughably funny

problems

i'll get i'll tell you a few of those in

a bit uh

apparently mike pompeo allegedly he's

going to report today that

we have dramatic new evidence about the

virus

allegedly leaking from a wuhan lab but

the biggest part of it the bombshell

part

is that the allegation includes the fact

that they quote

cultured the virus now i don't know what

they mean

by cultured the virus i assume that

means it's at least modified or

created by humans right so it's at the

very least

modified now that would be new

information

right it's something that we suspected

it's not something that's ever been

confirmed

but just to make it interesting great

britain

is saying it's not true so britain says

it is not a

credible source of intel and that they

don't believe

that it has shown that it is a cultured

virus

or that it even came from the wuhan lab

lab

so you've got allegedly we haven't seen

it yet but this is the reporting that

mike pompeo will say we have new

evidence

that wuhan was the source of the leak

and that they had cultured the virus

so it was at least partially man man

human modified let's say

less sexist and

great britain says there and tell people

say that's not true

so who are you going to believe so

you've got

our intel agencies as stark contrast to

the british

intel agencies so who do you trust which

one of them is the credible one

neither neither

our our intelligence agencies aren't

credible for this kind of story

there might be some kind of things for

which

our intelligence agencies are credible

by its nature i suppose

but this isn't one of them if your own

intelligence agency tells you something

like this

and there's no source and there's no

document they can show you

i wouldn't trust it this is weapons of

mass destruction all over again

there is zero credibility

to the mike pompeo story unless you see

it

with your own eyes if mike pompeo goes

on tv

or whatever and says we have secret

intelligence information that i can't

share with you

it means nothing

you should put zero credibility on that

now

what about great britain if i'm saying

there's zero credibility

am i agreeing with great britain and

therefore

great britain is the credible one no

no great britain's intelligence agencies

are not credible

not even a little bit in fact

their job is to fool people if you're

taking

as your model of credibility somebody

whose entire job is to fool people

well you're not really smart so you have

two intelligence agencies on

opposite sides of the story and neither

of them have

any credibility so what do you do with

that

i'm planning to ignore it and you can

make your own decision but

i would say this is a story about no

information

hello the breaking headline is today we

have no credible information

on anything whatsoever that's the news

if you're interpreting it as hey i think

i just found out

something about wuhan uh no

we don't live in a world where you can

trust our intelligence agencies on this

kind of question

at all like zero is exactly the right

amount of trust

which doesn't mean it's not true by the

way if you think i'm saying it's not

true

then it escaped from the the lab or it's

not true

that it was cultured i don't know i

don't have an opinion on that

but i know i can't trust anybody else's

opinion

that i know all right um so it looks

like new york city is canceling their

contracts with the trump organization

for their their iconic central park

skating rink and

something else in retaliation

over the mega mob capital riot what is

the unintended consequence

of people punishing the trump business

for something they didn't like about

trump's

uh role as president doesn't that pretty

much guarantee

that you don't get business people

running for president anymore

let me ask you if i ran for president

should i expect that my income would go

up or down

you already know the answer to that it

would go down

anybody who already has some established

kind of a business

would be crazy to go into politics

watching what happened to trump

now if trump had gone through his term

and

simply been loved or hated in whatever

degree

you know he was and then they just said

okay but now you go back to your private

industry and that's

you know that's just separate just do

what you want to do

that would be fair but the moment you

make it

acceptable i mean new york city's

uh government is doing this in public

and bragging about it

they're not it's not like it's

undercover or anything they're actually

publicly punishing him for his political

actions in his business

is that the standard you want why would

anybody successful

run for president if they could if their

business will be punished

because of their decisions remember half

of the country is going to hate whatever

you do

why would you go into a situation where

half the country

is going to put you out of business even

if the half loves you

i wouldn't do it a number of people have

been asking me to run for president

partly because the republicans have no

more leadership

i'm not even a republican that would be

sort of

the first requirement i would think to

run for president as a republican

i would be an excellent choice but i'm

not crazy enough to take that

job i can't think of anything that would

make me want to do that job

i mean i love my country but i'm not

going to walk into a suicide situation

don't love it that much let me say let

me say that clearly in case you didn't

hear it

i love my country but i'm not going to

intentionally run into a buzzsaw

that i don't have to run into so i'm not

going to run for office

that would be stupid for me now if you

don't have money

and so you don't have a business to lose

and your life is politics

well that seems safer

here's the funniest story you probably

saw this uh if you watched

tucker carlson or so some of the video

clips so

joe biden so far has the worst start to

a presidency i've ever seen

now i've only seen presidents during my

lifetime

but i've never seen a worse start and

here's another example

of it uh not al so not only you know did

he start by calling half of the country

a bunch of racists

which if he did nothing else that would

be the worst start of any presidency

but it gets better he just appointed

to the head of department of justice

civil rights prosecution

so the person responsible for

prosecuting civil rights

violations in this country at the

federal level i guess

had once written a uh an article

while she was at harvard so the good

news is

she went to harvard so when you hear

that biden is

uh is putting people in place

who uh went to harvard that sounds okay

at least there that's proof that they

have high intelligence and

are capable of succeeding so so far so

good let's see did she say anything that

would be say controversial

or as does she have any history or

background

saying something that would not make her

let's say the perfect choice

for the head of the department of

justice

civil rights prosecution what could that

be something maybe in that domain

that she may have said at some point in

the past that would have some relevance

to the current job situation because

you know one of the big complaints about

trump is they didn't make

good hiring decisions now i've semi

defended that by saying he didn't have

many choices

because people didn't want to work for

him because of the reputation

so therefore he had a small pool of

people who were even willing to take the

job

so that was part of trump's problem and

i've also said that he

fires better and firing is the real

skill

when you hire people you're kind of

guessing like ah they've never done this

exact job but i feel like they could

that's sort of guessing but when they

don't do the job

well the firing is the skill part it's

like okay

pull the trigger and he was good at that

trump's a good fire

but how is biden doing so he picked

somebody for the head of the doj

civil rights prosecution who had once

written a paper saying that

black citizens she happens to be

african-american that's important to the

story

she says that blacks black people

are superior to white people mentally

physically and spiritually

and that there's a good reason for that

it's because they're pineal gland

doesn't have enough melanin or something

um now i don't need to tell you

the science does not back her opinion

i also don't know if she still holds the

opinion

because this was a while ago right so if

you're in college you can say some

you can say some dumb stuff in college i

don't mind that and i've suggested the

20-year rule

the 20-year rule is you just ignore

anything that happened 20 years ago

but that would kind of depend on her

disavowing it today

yeah has she ever retracted that is

exactly the story

had she retracted and said you know that

was just a dumb thing

it was just a college thing i was just

being

you know i was being academic i was

trying to be provocative

i don't hold those views now if she had

said that

i would at least attempt to be

consistent with my view

that the 20-year rule should apply to

whatever dumbass

racist thing usually is racist but

whatever racist or homophobic thing you

said 20 years ago

you're probably a different person by

now

and if you're a different person by now

maybe you should be judged by

who you are instead of something else

um but

what could be funnier than joe biden who

is one of his big

claims to fame is that he does good

hiring compared to trump

and he hires somebody who literally says

that black people are superior

mentally physically and spiritually

because of some science that isn't real

science

you need to retract that really hard

i don't know how much of a retraction

you'd need to hear

to feel that it was real but i think you

need a pretty serious retraction on that

one

if she if she wholeheartedly disavowed

her old views

i would still hate it but i would want

to be consistent with

my views on republicans and everybody

else which is if it was 20 years ago

and you don't hold that view now i'm

going to let it go

but she hasn't repudiated it so

at the moment it's just it's hilarious

how

how incompetent this is i mean how

incompetent would you have to be

to pick this person for that job that's

like the ultimate presidential

incompetence and let me tell you i love

being just a critic

it was so much harder when i was trying

to put a

you know the persuasion spin on trump

and say well yeah he said this but

you have to understand how this is going

to work out that was hard work

criticizing biden for being a dummy

is really fun and easy so my workload

went down about 50

um here's some more stupid news

that this is so dumb that when i read it

you're not even gonna believe this is

true

but i swear to god this is true uh you

know there's facial recognition apps now

and law enforcement is using them to

figure out you know who was in the

capital and

also other stuff and apparently the lapd

has announced

that they will allow a technology that

uses a

database of existing mugshots

so they they're okay with using a

database of existing mugshots

and facial recognition against their

small

existing database because that's they

only have mug shots

they don't have everybody else in the

world who is not in a mug shop

but they're not going to use clear view

or or tools like it clearview is sort of

the leader

in terms of accuracy there but

clearview has trained its technology

and they use this is the right phrase

trained its technology

on three billion photos now people think

that clearview stores the photos

like they've scraped them and they've

got a database of all the photos that

didn't happen

clearview doesn't store any photos

they have looked at all the photos and

turned them into

a formula or an algorithm or a

mathematical

construct so what they store is math

they don't have a photo of you in their

database they've got math

that was a result of your facial

features so that's all they have

is math and then that math becomes a

pointer to

where on the internet the actual public

information is you on

on facebook etc so lapd has decided that

they will use

facial recognition but only on a tool

that

hardly ever works so they've decided

that they won't use

a reliable tool that could find pretty

much everybody

i mean close to 100 percent so they

that's evil

so they're not going to use the evil

tool that is 100 effective

or near it but they will use the evil

tool because it's the same thing

it's still facial recognition right they

will use the one that doesn't work

now that sounds like i made that up

doesn't it

but we're actually in a world where an

entity will announce proudly

they proudly announced that they will

use the tool that is

if i had to put a a number on it maybe

five percent as good

as clearview but the same technology

in this not the same technology but in

the sense that they're both facial

recognition

this is happening this is actually

happening like out loud

right in front of us we choose to use

the one that's five percent effective

is equally evil you know if you think

facial recognition is evil

that's what it is and they're not hiding

it it is facial recognition

but they only want to use the one that

doesn't work and they said that in

public

what somebody says clear view

is intrusive well it's facial

recognition that works

it's only more intrusive than other

things because it works better

that's the only thing that makes it

different anyway

i thought that was funny

scientists have done an experiment with

snails

and they found that they can make the

snail remember something that never

happened

do you know what else never happened

scientists making snails remember

something

never happened i don't think i have to

actually read the story

to know that whatever a snail remembers

i don't know if you can test that

but let's say they taught this snails to

do something if they saw some

if they saw something they'd seen before

so maybe there's a way you can test

false memories that way but

i thought that's not really the story

that you can make a snail

believe something that didn't happen you

know what the story is

the fake news does that literally every

day

are you surprised that scientists

working really hard can fool a snail

i'm not really surprised because

75 percent of the people i interacted

with on twitter today

also are operating under false memories

they were implanted by the fake news and

it's why it's quite obvious

you just read their opinion you go oh

you got that one from the fake news

that's not real

it's exactly like the snail how much did

we

what kind of a grant did we do to find

out this night the scientists

can can give snails fake news and

they'll believe it

because if you can do it to a living

human being easily and

effectively and consistently are you

really surprised you can do it to a

snail

i'm just saying there are some sciences

more useful than others

here's a question i have in my my ever

my my attempt to get as close to

cancellation as i can

without actually getting canceled i

don't want to get cancelled by the way

and i'll i will intentionally do things

to make sure i don't go far enough

that that's likely but i'm not sure it's

up to me because all it would take is

one

what would it take to get me canceled if

i don't do anything wrong

what would it take to get me canceled

snail

false memory right all it takes is the

fake news to

tell the the snails that they have a

false memory of me doing something

is that hard nope it's real easy

i'll give you some examples in a bit

where the fake news is

actively telling people to remember

something that didn't happen

it's happening right now it's actually

the headline the main news right now

is the snails it's just that you're the

snails

and the the news is telling you

something that didn't happen

and it has become a memory i'm gonna

tell you in a moment

a memory that at least half the country

has maybe three quarters

an actual memory that didn't happen

we'll get to that in a minute so if you

think you're different than the snail

hold on for that so here's a question

that i

asked provocatively if the

mega protesters if they were all mega

who knows

that assaulted the capital

if they were planning a violent assault

meaning that they planned a violent

overthrow

you know with uh you know universal

violence as opposed to there were

members of the group who definitely were

violent

and literally killed people or at least

one

so there definitely were violent people

there who went there to be violent

but here's the question i have the mega

people

were armed to the teeth some of them

were

right and if you looked at the number of

guns owned by the people who attended

probably most did not take their weapons

but the amount of them that attended who

owned

um weapons and i'm not talking about

clubs i'm talking about

actual guns are you a little bit

surprised

that there was an insurrection of the

most gun

owning people on the earth i think

that's true

wouldn't republicans be maybe among

or the most gun-owning people on earth

and none of them shot anybody

am i right have you heard any story

of a maga person even aiming a weapon at

another human

now i don't know that it didn't happen

but i haven't heard the story about it

there's no reporting on it

all of those weapons all of those

weapons

thousands of them that they had access

to

some of them actually brought weapons

not one person

brandished a weapon as in aiming it as

somebody

now what kind of an insurrection is that

when the people with massive weaponry

don't bring it and the ones that brought

it

didn't even attempt to use it what do

you call that

well we'll get into that

um here's what i'd call it

the fake news has sold you on the idea

that there was a

coup attempt and or and insurrection

so those words used not exactly the same

as each other

but you know i think the coup attempt is

a little more

let's say organized because it assumes

that there's somebody you're putting in

charge

whereas an insurrection maybe it's less

organized i don't know

or maybe they're the same doesn't matter

for my purposes

but here's what got lost in the story

and this is how all of the snails will

be reprogrammed

what ted cruz and the other republic

republicans were asking for

was not quote overthrowing the election

but how is it being reported it's being

reported that those

senators were quote trying to overturn

an election

did ted cruz ever say i would like to

overturn this election

nope how about josh hawley

did he say i would like to overturn the

election

nope nope there wasn't a single person

who said let's overturn the election at

least not in congress

not a single person did

um did trump say let's overturn the

election

nope nope don't know anybody who knows

that

all i know is ted cruz saying let's have

let's use 10 days for an audit

we have 10 days it won't slow anything

down it won't change the outcome unless

we found out something we don't know

and wouldn't it make the whole country

feel more confident

in the process so

congress was trying to take a an

election

that did not have credibility with

enough of the public to be

you know really called a a high-class

quality

credible election now it might have been

fair and free

how would i know i don't have any direct

direct

evidence that i have access to i only

have news reports

so it might have been fair enough and

free enough

but it is still a fact that half the

country

ish doesn't believe it was as fair as it

should have been

so when you've got senators like ted

cruz who i believe

is a genuine patriot and josh howley

genuine patriot and the others matt

gates etc

when they're asking for 10 days to

improve the

reliability and credibility of an

election

that's not just for republicans

that's for everybody is there one of you

who would not

be better off with a more transparent

election well i mean you can make an

argument

if it changed the result of who got in

office and you like biden more than you

like trump

then yeah maybe but wouldn't you be

better off with a system that works

wouldn't you be better off knowing that

the election worked

the fake news has brainwashed

the public into thinking this was an

actual coup

to which i ask you this provocative

question

if this were a coup attempt as opposed

to

trying to force congress to have a

10-day audit

and have some transparency which the

public

required if it were a real coup

how exactly was that coup going to work

did they think these clever

coup plotters that once they had

occupied

two empty rooms that they were then the

leaders of the country

was that their thinking uh once we get

in these empty rooms

with all this furniture we run the

country now

is that what they thought because i

don't think so

i don't think they thought that did they

think

that by stealing the magic lectern

which did happen nancy's lectern was

stolen

were they thinking if we can get a hold

of the magic

golden lectern we will have power over

the whole world

i don't think they thought that it

looked more like they were getting

souvenirs

so let me ask you this if i said to you

there are some senators who want more

transparency in the election so that we

can be sure we had

a solid election and that's better than

the situation we have with great

uncertainty

does that sound like a coup is a coup

where you take the existing system and

try to improve it as it stands

that is the opposite of a coup

if you're trying to make the current

system

work better transparently

which is all they ask for just an audit

you're doing the

opposite of a coup a coup is changing

that system

and changing the outcome now could an

outcome change

yes but only if the system worked

it only the only way the outcome could

change is if the system

were repaired through transparency

and we can see what happened with an

audit and if and we don't know that

would be the case

and if that repairing of the

transparency caused a re-vote or some

re-evaluation that could happen

but it's the opposite of a coup

when you're trying to make sure the

public feels confident with the existing

system

changing the existing system is the coup

so when these people came in there and

they were obviously trying to

um intimidate congress so some people

said to me scott scott scott

what you don't understand is no it's not

about

stealing the golden lectern so you have

power

it's not about them thinking that a coup

could be accomplished by

fully occupying two empty rooms

they didn't think that they were trying

to bully and intimidate

and scare congress into doing something

and that's bad

that is bad except

what exactly was it they were trying to

bully and scare and threaten congress

into doing

was it were they trying to bully and

scare

and threaten congress into doing

something illegal

no no they weren't trying to get them to

do anything illegal were they trying to

threaten and

congress into doing something that their

own

rules of congress wouldn't allow them to

do

no no congress could have done what they

what the protesters wanted

they could do an audit in fact ted cruz

had

suggested it so

wouldn't you say that the congress was

being threatened

and bullied into doing the job because

i would say that if half of the country

feels

there's no credibility in the election

and they have 10 days to do something

that might make a difference

and you want them to do that thing which

can be done it's practical

it wouldn't change anything in terms of

the timing

and it's their job you actually had an

insurrection to try to force congress

just to do its job that actually

happened

and that's being presented as a coup

attempt

and an insurrection it's literally the

opposite

it was an insurrection mostly right

there were some bad elements in there

who had their own

they must have had their own motives so

i'm not trying to minimize the fact

that there were some bad people in that

group and what those bad people did they

have to be held fully accountable for

you know it's illegal you could execute

them for all i care

especially the one who beat the cop

anybody who beat that cop you can

execute them i'm

i'm fine with that this would be illegal

but i'm just saying that the mass the ma

the far majority of these people that

are being called the insurrection and

the coup

were literally trying to intimidate

congress into doing its job for the

first time

and that's being called a coup right

encouraging congress to just simply do

its job

that's it they didn't ask them to do

something that's not their job

they didn't ask them to quit none of

that

they just asked them to do their job

that's it now you could argue that maybe

they shouldn't have done their job that

way etc

but you can't argue what the intent was

because if the intent

was a coup i think they would use some

weapons

if the intent was an insurrection like

an actual change of government based on

their

threats or their actual violence would

they do it that way

what kind of a weak-ass coup takes over

two empty rooms

steals a lectern and says i think we got

this

i think we're in charge of the united

states now

that's not a thing that's what the fake

news

sold to the snails the snails believed

there was a coup

and they will never believe anything

else because the snails have been

programmed

by the fake news to think that instead

of a bunch of people taking

a body of uh of

you know the government the congress

which had what a

13 approval rating let me tell you if

patriots

surround a a part of the government

that has a 13 percent rating of approval

and they're refusing to do the most

basic part of their job which is

hey could you maybe give us some

assurance that the election was fair

pretty basic to the job i would say

um if they're not willing to do their

job

shouldn't and they have 13 approval

whose fault is it that uh

patriots surrounded their building the

bad ones went inside

we don't condone that whatsoever totally

disavow the ones who went inside

but you should expect that they're going

to surround the building

you should you should expect a free

speech

kind of demonstration i mean if you

didn't expect that

so uh trump uh will either be impeached

or almost impeached based on the fact

that although his words did not

encourage violence

and specifically said the opposite he

said

be peaceful specifically be peaceful

but i do think it's a fair it is a fair

criticism

that he should have known what would

happen

even though his words you know we're not

um telling them to do that it wouldn't

have been too hard to know

that you're creating a dangerous

situation so i think he has to take

responsibility for that the same way he

can take credit for some of the great

things he did

but if it's true that trump could be

impeached or almost impeached because he

should have known it's not what he did

intentionally

it's what he should have known would

have been the result

even though his specific actions didn't

have that tell for

for a problem he should have known that

his actions would have caused that i

agree with that

but should congress have known that

denying

an audit under this condition would

create violence

yeah you just got quiet didn't you

should congress have known

that not backing the audit which

there was no problems with it didn't

have a budget problem

didn't have a timing problem there was

no objection to it

it could have been done should congress

have known

that this would cause violence

absolutely they should have known

and all i ask is for some consistency

i will not push back on attempts

to impeach trump over this

because i do think he's got something to

answer for

all leaders have to answer for the

result of their actions right

the fact that he wasn't intending this

to happen

matters but it doesn't excuse it

right because you can be impeached for a

mistake

i would say it was a mistake it was a

big one it was a big mistake

but it wasn't intentional i do you think

do you think that

trump wanted violence i think that's the

last thing he wanted

i think that's the very last thing he

wanted it's obvious that he wanted

pressure on

congress but pressured to do an audit

not pressure to overturn the election

not pressure to enter the building

but there's no way trump wanted that but

buck stops at the top you know if i'm

if i'm going to be even a little bit

consistent the person in charge gets the

blame

and the person in charge gets the credit

if things go right even if they weren't

directly involved those are the rules

and i don't think we should change them

i'm not going to change it for trump

but i want to be consistent kamala

harris was

promoting violence by the bl black lives

matter

protesters i think that should be

treated the same

so i can support impeaching trump

over this even understanding in my

opinion that he didn't intend any of it

to happen

but the same way uh kamal harris

actually actively

supported i'll say unrest i won't say

violence she didn't use that word

but she was certainly in favor of unrest

which guaranteed

death and destruction guaranteed it and

of course she would know that

so how does kamala harris not get

impeached

it's the same standard and secondly how

do

all of the members of congress who voted

against

the 10-day audit how in

did they not know that they were going

to get attacked for that

how the did they not know that was

going to cause that problem

right same standard

all right let me read this comment um

the coup insurrection false narrative is

beyond annoying

yeah the dems used it against uh

yeah right that comment disappeared for

reasons that i'm not clear as i was

reading it but thank you for the comment

um so

how do you feel living among the snails

who have been convinced that an attempt

to

solidify and protect the republic as it

stands

has been turned by the fake news into

a coup attempt and an insurrection where

plainly it wasn't

plainly you don't need to be an expert

on insurrections you just have to look

at it and say

uh they took over a room

you can't control a country by taking

over a room

an empty room now some of you are saying

but but they meant to take members of

congress

hostage let's say that's true there was

a guy there with twist eyes right that

that showed some intent

but let's say worst case scenario that

some of the people who were in the

building

intended to harm or take control of

let's say

members of congress do you know what's

wrong with this

how could you control the united states

by taking hostage

any number of people who have a 13

approval rating

and are not doing the will of the people

i do not condone any kind of hostage

taking

that i hope that's obvious i don't

condone any violence and i

absolutely disavow anybody who entered

the building

they should have stayed out of the

building period

but if you're going to say this was a

coup attempt

you have to you have to complete the

story i'm just asking anybody who thinks

it was a coup

to complete the story and the story is

if they took

hostages in congress would they control

the country

no no not even a little bit

who named a member of congress that we

wouldn't sacrifice

as opposed to overthrowing the

government of the united states

i'm a big fan of mike pence even though

he's very unpopular with a lot of people

this week

i've been saying since the beginning

that if you judge him

for his job as a vice president

spectacular

i really think he's one of the strongest

vice presidents we've ever had

even though i disagree with him on lgbtq

stuff and other stuff

so i don't think he should be president

but as a vice president

damn good now as much as i like mike

pence

imagine if you will if the

the alleged coup attempt people had

taken him hostage and were planning to

kill him

if they didn't get their way then did

the coup attempt

people have they taken over the country

would that work hey we got your vice

president

we're going to do bad things to him

unless you let us run the country

or put trump in in charge and let trump

have a second term

would that work no

no we might love mike pence

but we're not going to trade his life

for the country

that's not how it works we would say

well if that's the way it's got to be

you know we're going to miss mike pence

there isn't a single person in the world

who would trade the country

for mike pence and mike pence is awesome

great guy

you know overall i know some of you

think he's a traitor for not

for not wanting to vote the way he did

et cetera i think you

i think he's a good person who's just

trying to figure out

the best option and of bad options i

just see him as a good person

you don't have to agree with him i don't

either

i don't agree with all of his decisions

but i feel like he's a good person

still still

if one person in our government is taken

hostage we're not going to overthrow the

government

turn it to the president whoever the

president is you could pick

trump or biden or anybody else bad

people

take the president hostage sometime in

the future

do they own the country no

no not even a little bit not even

slightly

you could take every member of congress

hostage

and it wouldn't have any effect on

controlling the country

because the rest of the country would

say oh well i guess we need some new

politicians

and we would just go on like it didn't

even happen you know we would of course

kill all the coup people first but it

wouldn't stop us

there's no way that any of those actions

conceivably

in the most wild imagination

could have turned into anything like a

coup

there was just no no connecting tissue

that could have made that even slightly

possible

not one percent nothing and yet

the snails have been convinced it

happened all right

um glenn beck's getting in trouble

for referring to the uh the private

company

social media censorship of some voices

as a digital holocaust

and then the people who um you know like

the auschwitz museum people etc

say stop using our holocaust analogies

because

you're trivializing the holocaust i have

two things to say about that number one

never don't don't compare things to the

holocaust

the whole point of the holocaust is that

it can't be compared to other things

unless it's an actual another holocaust

like if somebody actually kills

six million people of some identified

group well yeah that's all the cost

but i don't call censorship and stuff

like that a holocaust right

it does it does cheapen the holocaust so

i agree that

it's a word that there are some words

you want to preserve

right right you just want to preserve

some words

and not not water down their meaning

because they're important

but here's the fun part and the second

part

having suffered from four years of

hitler analogies about trump

i really did kind of enjoy the

glenn beck is making a legitimate it's

legitimate

i mean it's as legitimate as the

uh as the charges against trump for

being hitler

meaning neither of them are legitimate

because nothing really compares to

hitler nothing compares to the holocaust

where it's just hyperbole but it's

completely fair

that after four years of listening to it

you want to send a little back

i kind of enjoyed that and

i have to tell you when it was obvious

that trump wasn't going to get a second

term

i i suffered a little bit of

not depression nothing like that but

maybe a little bit of pre-sadness that i

wouldn't be

entertained in the future

wouldn't be fun things to talk about but

uh that doesn't seem to be the case so

making fun

of biden will be way more entertaining

than defending trump because it'll be so

easy

um john dvorak wrote a really

provocative article

talking about how the poor countries

seemed

i was talking about this yesterday how

the countries with low incomes seem to

be doing better on the coronavirus

than the countries with good health care

systems

and i was speculating there we don't

know why that is

maybe it's sunshine or

bad reporting or you know any one of ten

things or

ivermectin or hydroxycholera queen

everybody's got their own

private theory but uh

john devorak's theory is the most

provocative of them all

and i'm not telling you i agree with

this i'm just going to tell you his

opinion

because it's so fun and his opinion is

it's mass hysteria

that the countries that have a let's say

a well-developed news social media

industry

they've generated a mass hysteria so

that our impression of what's happening

is way out of line with what's happening

and that

the poor countries don't have the same

you know robust

social media fake news kind of influence

and so they don't know that they're in a

pandemic

and the hypothesis and again this is not

my opinion

i'm going to tell you in my opinion in a

moment but the hypothesis

is that mass hysteria is so strong

that if you get enough of it going it

looks like you have a pandemic

when maybe you don't now part of his

argument is

we don't see bodies piled up in these

third world countries and i

that's a mystery right if these other

countries are doing everything wrong

at least according to the developed

countries they are

because they're not they don't have the

you know all the

uh high quality health care if they're

doing everything wrong where are the

bodies

wouldn't we notice i mean even though we

don't have great information about

what's happening in you know

congo or some african country

we don't have great information but

wouldn't we notice by now

it'd be a lot of dead people

maybe there are we just haven't noticed

that would be weird

somebody says they bury them yeah but

you still notice

i mean they'd be talking about it so

i don't think i quite buy into uh john's

theory only because we do have bodies

piled up if you count the number of

people who seem to have died

if you look at the impact on icus where

there's a hot space

it looks like real real disease to me it

looks real to me

so there may be there may be some

some way that uh john dvorak's opinion

about the mass hysteria

or at least a hypothesis let's say it's

a hypothesis as opposed to

an opinion i don't want to i don't want

to oversell

his opinion uh he needs to do that

himself

but let's scale the hypothesis it's

really interesting

and the part of the hypothesis i like

and the thing that makes it provocative

is that it's entirely possible for a

mass hysteria to cause people to think

they're

having health problems they're not but i

don't think that's happening in this

case

because i think there are too many

doctors looking at too many real things

and too many real patients but you never

know

it's just a fun thought um

let's see i'd like to give a random

compliment today

i told you i'd be giving out random

compliments uh

especially to people who you don't

expect me to be complimenting

today's compliment is to geraldo rivera

yeah i know i know what you're gonna say

hold on

just hold on it's not as bad as you

think

you can handle this i know you can

so geraldo of course has uh been quite

brutal on

the president trump um who have been

friends for a long time so haralda's

been a booster

overall but he's you know disagreed on

immigration and some other

some other things so here's what he said

in a tweet he said regardless of how the

senate ultimately votes i think he's

talking about impeachment

he says it's entirely appropriate that

trump be impeached by the house

he knew what mob what the mob intended

from the jump

and uh basically that's his point he

knew what they were going to do so it's

it's on him

and he uh he goes after trump pretty

hard

now here's my compliment to geraldo

yes he took a selfie with his shirt off

over the age of 70. yes uh

capone's fault did not go the way maybe

he hoped

yes he does do a lot of self-promotion

that's his job so do i if

you do this for a living you do a lot of

self-promotion that's

sort of what you do that is part of the

job

but here's what i love about uh geraldo

and

the following compliment geraldo doesn't

give a

what you think about his opinion

and i could not love that more he

geraldo

has said more opinions that more people

disagree with

and said it you know with

complete bravery i guess would be the

right thing he is one

brave mofo he will say

absolutely anything he thinks is true no

matter what you think of it and he'll

say it in public

and there are not many people like that

now i don't agree with heraldo on a

number of things

you know i've been watching him for a

long time sometimes i like him

his opinions sometimes i disagree but in

every case don't you feel he's telling

you his honest opinion

that's the special part it looks like

i mean you can't read minds but my

opinion of his opinion is that every

time he gives it

i'm seeing an actual opinion when you

watch

almost anybody else who's in this

business and i think i could put myself

in that category unfortunately

you can smell the bias right like

it just reeks some people just reek of

bias

even when they're saying things that are

true they still wreak of bias

geraldo does not he does not

reek of bias he can take a position on

the left when it looks like it makes

sense to him

even if i disagree and he can take a

position on the right

if he thinks it makes sense that is

special right you need more of

geraldo even if you disagree with them

you don't need less of that

you need a lot more of it in my opinion

um stephen beschloss a historian i

believe

he tweeted that after the grim week i

was talking about some

some of members of congress tried to

come to work

with concealed carry i guess and they

felt that they needed it for their

safety

and they the they set off the

i guess the security alarms

and they refused to be patted down now i

didn't hear the rest of the story

whether they were let in or not but they

were

apparently they were strapped and they

were they had weapons

now beshlos um says that

maybe i shouldn't be surprised by the

disgraceful level of

arrogance of congress people who refuse

to go through a metal detector

arrogance and selfishness qualities that

helped

us get into this mess to which i say

uh steven did you notice

that congress was just invaded by armed

people with

twist eyes ah

i feel as though congress has a right to

defend themselves

it's called the constitution and i don't

think we should ask them to go to work

in that environment

without feeling safe and if what it

takes for them to feel safe

is their second amendment rights who has

more second amendment rights than a

congress person

you know ideally we all have the same

rights but you know be serious

they've got some they've got extra

rights because they're in congress they

shouldn't have but they do

and i completely back

100 the congress people

who wanted to be armed if you put me in

a situation where my personal security

was as as loose and tentative as

apparently the

security is for the capitol building i

would want to

i would have one concealed carry because

who was going to stop the

you know if they got in who is going to

stop him it looks like the police were

standing aside

i'd want to be armed so i'm

i'll back the people who tried to be

armed for that um

i made a prediction here that the odds

of democrats

permanently shutting republicans out of

power

um and that's the worry the worry is

that they have so much power now they'll

they'll be uh um changing the voting

districts and they'll be adding the

district of columbia and they'll

they'll add get rid of the filibuster

and they'll pack the courts and

everything

so the worry is that the democrats will

just have this firm

permanent control on power maybe

maybe that's definitely one of the

things that could happen

but if you're looking at the odds i

would say the odds of democrats

self-destructing is way higher

you know if you're going to look at the

next election

i will feel like it looks good for

democrats already

because the democrats will have to

either

not do the things they promised such as

opening the border or

they have to do the things they promised

and watch a disaster unfold

because if you open the border i don't

feel like there are two ways that could

go

i feel like that's one of those few

situations

where you don't have to guess which way

it's going to go

it would be a humanitarian disaster i

would imagine

i don't i don't see how it could go any

other way but

uh this is all by way of saying if

you're worried that the democrats have a

stranglehold on power uh

i think they're self-destructing because

when they were out of power at least the

presidency

they had the luxury of saying crazy

stuff

and not having to do any of it now if

they say

crazy stuff they're either going to

disappoint because they don't do it

or they're going to do it and show that

none of their plans work

that's all that's left they don't have

a path to success because if you think

it well they'll get in there and they'll

they'll shut down the republicans and

and they'll do good work

because if they do those two things

they'd have power forever do a good job

shut down the republicans permanent

situation

but i don't think so i mean anything's

possible but it looks like democrats are

going to self-destruct

just by i mean look at that appointment

of kristen clarke

the the woman who had the 20 year old or

whatever

claim about the pineal gland making

black people superior

he appointed that woman that that's the

kind of

uh that's the kind of action we're going

to see out of the biden administration

it's literally laughably stupid

it's just laughably stupid now i'm sure

all democrats thought that of everything

that trump did but that's my point

my point is that being in power is hard

being a critic

which i am right now where i just get to

criticize people for whatever the hell

they're doing

real easy i just moved from the hardest

job in the world to the easiest

not really feeling any pain at the

moment all right

yeah there is stupidity on all sides of

the aisles

um i believe that is what i wanted to

talk about today

should the trump wing of republicans

form a new party now

now if if the republicans want any hope

of ever getting power back

they need to be one party the reason it

worked

with trump is that he managed to do the

near impossible which is

he unified the republican party

so now i don't think you want to start

another party

what are the chances of 2024 having

auditable elections i would say zero

zero as far as i can tell there is no

interest

in the government not real and just

there are people talking

but there doesn't seem to be any real

interest in fixing the election system

have you seen it i don't see uh

i don't i don't see biden saying i'm

going to make this my highest priority

to make this auditable

i don't see any chance it's going to

happen

so i'm seeing a question about uh the

patrick byrne

story i think that's the story about

italy being somehow involved in fixing

the election

so my my take on that just quickly i've

talked about that before my take is that

patrick byrne is like a really smart guy

if you look into his background and

credentials he's super smart

and successful too so you've got that on

one hand

super smart successful person making a

claim

but the claim is of a nature that i

don't believe

ever right so the claim is sufficiently

fantastical that i dismiss it as sort of

a

bigfoot kind of a claim which doesn't

mean it's not true

i'm just saying that if you were going

to look at claims that sort of

have that vibe you know it's complicated

and

you know you can't see nobody's showing

you the direct evidence it's

people who talk to people about a

complicated scheme

and another country anytime a story has

all of those

qualities to it you should bet against

it

so if i had to bet 10 to one odds is

if i had to bet but that's ten to one is

there a ten percent chance

it's real yeah maybe maybe ten percent

chance

um remember i've told you that any

individual

claim is almost certainly false but that

doesn't change the fact that you have a

big system that involves software

and the odds of a big important system

that involves software

not being hacked is zero

now i don't know if it was hacked this

year i don't know if the hacks

if they happened changed any results i

don't know if there were just as many

hacks for trump as against him

i don't know if there are any hacks i

just know that this system

has to be hacked eventually it's either

happened

is happening or will happen that's the

guarantee

because all systems get hacked all you

need is

an insider to be willing to take a bribe

that's all it takes

um somebody says it looks more real than

other claims i don't think so

i don't think it's more real than the

ones who have been debunked

on the surface i don't know what the

reality is just on the surface

doesn't look real uh there are no

techies explaining the vote switching

yeah

the whole the whole vote switching thing

uh

i just saw a reference to none of that

being real

because i guess the tv reporting

and i can't claim this to be true it's

just something i saw on the internet

that the way the tv reports the the

votes as they come in

is estimates and so as new information

comes in to change their estimate

it is actually completely normal and

built into the system

that since their estimates sometimes

they go up a little and sometimes they

go down a little

but on average they mostly go up

so it would have happened to both

candidates and there's no story here

except the estimates were showing on the

screen which you interpreted to be

actual votes

now i don't know if that's true

but if you if you told me yeah which is

more true

that version that those numbers were not

dependable and they were just estimates

or that right in front of us votes were

being taken from one candidate and given

to another

on national tv while you could watch it

maybe maybe that happened

but i would bet against that right i

would bet against

that you could watch it happen in real

time and it was just on television

uh it feels a lot more likely

that they were working with estimates

that were being updated and

sometimes they went backwards but not

usually

somebody says we saw it happen what i'm

telling you is you didn't

you didn't see it happen what i'm

telling you is that if the alternate

explanation is correct

i don't know if it is but if the

alternate explanation is that you saw

estimates then no you did not see

the vote count decreasing you saw

estimates which of course

will move back and forth as new

information comes in

dr schieve has one part of election

fraud in massachusetts court

i don't know that story but i'll be

interested in it

uh you think it was a major vote

harvesting

yeah benford's law somebody saying

that's been debunked

so one of the problems is that a lot of

things that you heard

as claims you did not hear the debunk

and i i felt that problem too and i

complained about it

there should have always been some

master list of all the

allegations along with what was at least

presented as a debunk whether it was

real or not so

if you've never heard that the benford's

law thing was debunked

ask yourself if you're getting good

information

because it was debunked all right

um that's all i got for now

and um somebody says benford's law is

not debunked

it's just not definitive that's uh i

think that's an accurate statement

but doesn't really disagree with

debunked

meaning that there's a claim that

rather than saying yeah this is really

strong evidence of something

it just means you can't tell so

i would call that debunked but i accept

your clarification

that's all i got for you and i'll talk

to you tomorrow

all right youtubers i don't have much

else to say

uh yeah benford's is a

invitation to investigate right it would

be good to have an audit so

all of these things are aired out

matthias says this was a horrible

periscope

i give a zero out of one

i'm going to put you out of your misery

we'll hide you on this channel

um i need a micro lesson on finishing

projects

i might do that one actually i've gotten

a few

uh requests for something in that

category

all right that's all for now