Episode 1267 Scott Adams - Trump Presidential Library, Traveling With Restrictions, Fake News

hey everybody good morning how are you well it's nice to be home it was nice to be on vacation but it's nice to be home too and I get to finally be with all of you I apologize for oversleeping by 3 hours I guess every now and then I should have a full night sleep and my body decided that today was the day one of the problems with not sleeping much because I hate sleeping is that every now and then when I don't set my alarm clock I'll oversleep by three hours typically I I wake up 3:00 4: in the morning and and I'm done I just don't like sleep don't recommend being like me don't be like me instead be like this be a person who knows how to enjoy the simultaneous sip what he needs well you need a cup or mug glass of tanker Cher Stein a canteen Jugger flask of V of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee join me now for the unparallel pleasure of the open me and headend of the day the thing that makes everything better the thing you've been waiting for the thing that was late it's called the simultaneous Sip and man is it going to be good when you finally get it here it goes go yeah just as good as I told you right yeah you were thinking it's not going to going to be that good is it but it was once again how about that well let me start by telling you um how hard it is to travel during the age of Corona virus most of you know I was uh just on my Corona virus delayed honeymoon took us months to figure out how we could do this safely and and make it work and thanks to my wonderful wife Christina who is a uh genius at making stuff work she figured out how to get us to the other side of the world safely and back it was kind of amazing uh the the basic thing you need to know is that it's masks all the way we went to uh borab Bora which is in French Polynesia by Tahiti just sort of Leave California and head toward New Zealand but before you get to New Zealand you stop and uh that's where boror is and so we SP a week there it was most amazing week so here are the things you need to know the highlights um it was a high-end Resort it was the Four Seasons in Bora Bora could not have been better just it's impossible there isn't any possible way this trip could have been better once you get there getting there is hard but once you get there it's amazing best scenery feeling service you've ever seen the other thing that's amazing is that the uh the resort I don't know if they're going to last because their business was no more than I don't think there were more than 30 people at the entire Resort which is built to handle hundreds I don't know how many hundreds but I think 300 or so and there were maybe 30 of us there so entire swimming pools beaches with zero people except us so as a as a honeymoon it couldn't have been better like I'll never experience anything like this in my life again because it was a you know a top level experience with no other people for in a practical sense so I worry a great deal about the future of their business but uh man it could not have been better if you get a chance to go before the crowds pick up here's the risk profile we got tested once before we flew so we had to have a result now you I suppose we had a little bit of exposure theoretically before we flew but once on the plane uh at least I've seen studies that say that the planes are so good with their filtration these days that your odds of getting it on a plane are actually really really low uh people wear masks but of course they fall asleep and their masks fall off them so I would say masking is pretty good on the plane if you think that makes any difference I'll talk about that in a minute um so I wasn't worried about the plane and once you get there there are no people and the staff is all masked and they they do good social distancing Etc so they won't even clean your room if they think you're going to be around it for a while so so everything was done really really well I think the four seasons did everything that they could possibly do and then you get another test while you're there so you have to do one before you fly there once a few days after you've been there and then once right before you come back and we did that the same day now you've got to coordinate all this in a foreign country right so you've got to find a place in Tahiti that will give you a test that you'll get a result the same day so you can fly later that day do you know how worried I was that that wasn't going to work and and you know you've got four hours to get your test and it doesn't come and you think to yourself uh I'm in a foreign country and I can't fly home without this test and they said it'd be here by now and it's not you know you're checking your email you're thinking they got they wrote down a code wrong or something you'll never get home now of course of course these are silly traveler worries because it it's not likely that a place that's a tourist destination has not figured out how to get the tourist home that's the part I always forget is that I'm not the first person who ever had to figure this out obviously they have a system so the hotel works with you and the hotel will tell you where to get the test and they'll make sure that you can get a cab there and back and it's all very civilized and easy but boy I'll tell you that the distance they push that that swab down your nose in Tahiti that set a record I mean the American tests were bad enough but the Tahiti test they really went for some spelunking for depth there I think they tickled my brain a little bit but the bottom line is if if I had to judge how safe I was and this is the bottom line of this how safe I was traveling from the Corona virus versus how safe I would have been just staying home and socially distancing the you know the the normal but imperfect amount that we all do I feel like I was safer on on the road I don't know if you could measure that in any way but if I looked at all the testing that I did and all the other people did I ended up on an island in the middle of the Pacific without anybody who had either not been there two weeks without an infection already or or they got tested within you know the day that they they arrived so it actually probably safer than just normal life and probably a lot safer it probably wasn't even close you know without an actual scientific way to measure that I can't be sure so I'm only giving you a a sense of it I'm not giving you a scientific opinion it felt way safer than just staying home and that's that's a big credit to the system that's that has adjusted that much to to make that possible so the traveling I would say traveling with a mask is hard especially if you have to try to sleep sleep on the plane cuz it's a long flight we had a 4-Hour delay followed by a 7-hour flight on the way there if you had in the travel time and the taxi time and everything else you know 12 hours in a mask it's a long day but a lot of people who have just regular jobs are doing that every day so um not going to complain about it so it was all good so here's a question that people keep asking me I have uh apparently spoken differently about how we should look at business Clos Downs the lockdowns versus wearing masks and it's actually a fair question in one case I say that the business closures the forced closures do not have scientific backing to suggest that they work would you agree with that that we don't really have scientific backing to suggest that closing businesses as opposed to keeping them open with all the right restrictions we don't have evidence which one of those makes a difference now I just told you I did a a very complicated extensive you know travel and I did feel safer I don't know but it felt safer than normal life because it was so you know designed to be controlled where normal life is messy right but if it's designed to be controlled maybe they can do it better than your normal messy life right that's what I think so um I don't have a feeling of whether we can tell that closing businesses helps or hurts so we don't have science because it's it's hard to measure and it's kind of too early for to even know if you did so what do you do you don't have science but Common Sense kind of can point in both directions can it you could make a case that social distancing would be better served with business closures but then how do you factor in the fact that it wouldn't be normal business it would be opened under you know certain careful restriction would that make it safer than normal life it might who knows so I would say business closures are unproven scientifically and so there you should really you should really pause to see if you want to do that because we know the cost of it could be gigantic in terms of extra poverty and all the things that that causes but I say the opposite or something very different about masks and people would pointed out that looks like an inconsistency why is it that I say I can't make a determination about whether closing businesses make sense but my common sense of it which is largely an illusion common sense is an illusion but my my feeling of it having observed it up close my feeling of it is it's a mistake to close businesses there might be some exceptions like uh possibly a gym but no even a gym they would do good procedures so I was say anybody who is willing to open up and do careful procedures my my logical just experienced brain that sees the world says probably opening businesses would be a better you know Way Forward um and and California is starting to open up a little bit uh starting this week so that's good but I don't say that with masks now masks also have this problem that um we don't know exactly what masks are doing in the context of the Corona virus we know they've been measured in different contexts for different purposes in you know in the past we know that the experts overwhelmingly say you should use bks we know that uh other people point to other studies and say no these studies show masks don't make a difference so why is it that I would have a different opinion about masks in which I say you should go ahead and wear them take the recommendation of the experts whereas the business opening stuff I'm a little squishier on and I and it looks like maybe we should just open the businesses and not do that why why do I make that difference and the difference is this here at first some context you live in a life in a world in which you don't have scientific studies for almost anything you do you don't know that waking up a little early will make your life better or worse you don't know that this meal you ate is the smart one or not smart one you don't know if you know you don't know much about anything you don't know the house she might buy the job you might take the commute you choose almost everything you're doing all day long is stuff that nobody studied you've just lived in the world long enough where you say I think this looks like a better choice than this but there's no way to know you just got to take your shot masks are a little like that and there's a rule that I use that I apply to just about everything which is that friction pretty much always works now I'll leave I'll leave a little wiggle room because I'm sure there's some case where it doesn't but if you've lived long enough you see that wherever friction is applied or wherever it's removed it has exactly the predictable impact if you tax something people will do less of it if you build a wall it'll be harder for people to get over it won't stop it but it'll be harder might reduce it if you restrict anything you get less of it and with my living in the world without the science just living in the world I say hey if the problem is stuff shooting into your mouth and we know that that's far bigger problem than what you're touching that seems to be you know the common understanding if it's stuff that's shooting out of your mouth and you can put some friction on that thing does it stop every bit of the virus no no we know it doesn't stop all of the virus but we do know that the amount of the viral load makes a big difference in what the outcomes are so as long as we know that the degree of viral load makes a big difference and we and Common Sense and living in the world says well this mask probably limits some of that does it stop all of it no nobody thinks that nobody thinks a mask stops a virus nobody thinks that there's no expert who thinks that they think it might slow it down might add a little friction now do you need to do a scientific study in every situation in your life in which somebody's applying or taking away friction to know what kind of effect that will have you would be right 99% of the time if you just said that friction is a real thing and wherever it is added you get less of a thing wherever it's subtracted you get you get more of a thing that's it now could I be completely wrong could we look learn someday in the future that masking was more bad than good absolutely you could totally learn that so if you think I'm telling you I'm know I know with my Great Brain certainty 100% that you know masks are definitely the reason I don't think that's knowable and anybody who has that opinion I would respect that but I do think that if you're doing a risk management assessment given the how high the stakes are I would say it's a good risk and that the consensus of experts uh is still solidly prask if you see a growing number of experts who tell you masth don't work I would take that seriously but right now I don't see that I see people who are not experts looking at studies they don't understand which are usually on slightly different things you know what whether it works in a let's say a surgery setting etc for different different kinds of uh diseases uh I would wait for the a pretty big consensus of experts to say they don't work before I would even consider that they don't work and we don't have anything like that now if you've seen actual medical experts a consensus not a rando doctor person but actual growing consensus of doctors saying masks don't do anything I would take that seriously but that doesn't exist and you got to ask yourself why right because cuz there are people on every side of everything you don't have you you don't have enough doctors to form sort of a sort of a movement away from mask you don't that means something you should you should take that seriously now does that mean the ma that the experts are right no but since it matches with my uh common sense if you want to call it that it's always an illusion then I'm willing to take that as a reasonable risk to wear the masks here's the funniest uh scariest thing in the world there's some reporting that Trump is getting stronger by being out of the news the we've I think everybody has made the same observation that Trump if he just stopped talking for a while as president if he had just stopped talking for a while that his popularity would have gone through the roof if he just stopped being a little little bit as trumpy as he is now that's a ridiculous thing to hope for because the whole point of electing Trump is that he wasn't going to change he he wouldn't have even been elected in the first place if people thought he was going to be a different person when he took office right that's part of what you expected that Trump is Trump excuse me that said um he sort of uh let's say inv voluntarily forced into some silence after his office his term ended and the less he talks I feel like the more popular he's going to get because you've got this big populist energy if you will that suddenly became leaderless what happens when you have this much energy let's say the populist whatever the Trump movement was you have that much energy and then the leader goes silent what happens does the energy just dissipate well I guess the the people on the left hope that would happen does it transfer to another leader it could but who is that don't you think we' know by now who is the who is the natural inheritor of the energy that the Trump movement or the populist movement created I don't know we I mean there are some good Republican C Cate potentials for 1994 some of them more more trump-like than others but there's not really a natural you know there's not a name where every one of you would say well what about X not really right yeah Matt Gates I think is his own is his own person I don't see him as exactly a trump clone uh but but he would be at least in terms of the populist um policies would be very close to that so a yeah Ted gruz Cruz has some problems politically at the moment because he's being branded as being part of the Insurrection so here's the interesting part if you thought that Trump was a problem before the Democrats decide to crucify him let me say that again so you won't think I chose that word accidentally if the Democrats thought that Trump was a problem before they decided to crucify him and then he went silent for a while how many days and the only problem is if you thought that the so-called Insurrection was a problem where till you see the resurrection cuz the resurrection's going to be a bigger problem if you're a Democrat now I'm not going to predict that Trump after having been legally and politically crucified would go away effectively as if dead for a while while the movement that he led grows in his absence grows if he were to return it's a big problem now I predicted he won't that IID predicted that he would not be politically viable because he wouldn't be able to get the same people who supported him the same way before and I'm going to stick with that I'm going to stick with my prediction that he will not run for office again so I'm going to stick with that but if you wanted to guarantee that he did run for office and win just keep doing what you're doing because every time you hear somebody who is associated with Trump get taken down at first you say oh okay that's a special case that's somebody who did something illegal and of course the law is the law so I understand that one oh there's another one oh it's somebody okay well okay they did something else yeah I guess that was pretty bad so I guess that's a special case you know they were Trump supporter but that's a special well there's another one there's another one in head there's three more every time you hear another Trump supporter being taken down it starts with yeah those I guess they had to do that they broke some laws and then it starts to be people taken down for things they may or may not have thought people being taken down for signing up for to have a parl and gab account that just happened that was just in the news somebody got fired for simply having an account on parl parlor and uh Gab that's it that was the entire accusation they had an account in a alternative social media platform every time you hear about that stuff it feels as if the people who associated with it and all that populist energy might be picking up power it's exactly what the Democrats don't want to happen but I think they're doing it as aggressively as they possibly could and it's building up this sort of resentment Rev VY energy you don't want to build up too much resentment Revenge energy and that's what the de Democrats are doing because it's the more Revenge they put into the system the more it's going to come back wouldn't you agree we have a system in which the more Revenge you put into it the more is coming back that's there's no way around it the the Republicans are not going to sit there for four years of Revenge being taken out upon them without an equal and opposite reaction it just there isn't any way that can happen and so the Democrats are creating a situation for Trump's resurrection that is the one you don't want that's the one you don't want and I don't even think I want that one because that's going to be too much energy and not exactly the right place right that's too much energy and they they have a real problem here this is a real problem I'm still going to stick with my like I said my uh prediction that he won't run for office again but man are they making it dangerous they are really making it dangerous because if they don't if they don't take the boot off our neck pretty soon let me put it this way I don't know if this is a a a republican quality um I don't identify Republican as you know I don't identify even conservative as you know um but I have this quality and I I think it might be common to the right so I might have this in common which is I am really really flexible really flexible until I'm knocked and I can't even I can't even tell you where the knot kicks in because I'm always surprised in my normal life you know I'm exactly the same not just my political opinions but the way I live my in-person life very flexible very very flexible until I'm not and when I'm not it it just falls off a a cliff when when I'm not it's absolute there's no negotiation once I hit a certain point and I I scare people because I don't have any warning before that happens I worry that that's what's happen in with the political right which is they're flexible they're taking it all right all right we we gave it to you pretty hard when Trump was in charge you know okay all right a little slap a little slap we had that coming we said some bad things too okay another little slap I you turn the other cheek yeah not looking for trouble okay that's three that's three um I'm going to I'm going to shake that off that's four that's four um still okay holding it down don't want any trouble that's five you know where this is going right there there is a psychological atomic bomb that's being created by the actions the Revenge actions of the left that they can push a little bit you know they could get away with that and even people on the right I think at some level you're saying yeah elections have consequences I wish I wish our side won yeah we gave it to them pretty hard it's a it's a political game they're giving it back a little bit but there is a limit there is a limit and if they reach that limit they're going to get a leader of the populist movement that they didn't want could be Trump again that would be a big problem could be Trump again a big problem for the left anyway but it'll be somebody else and you don't want it to be me that's for sure you don't want it to be me all right the funniest story in the news is the uh talk about the Trump Library somebody wrote an article in the an opinion piece in the Washington Post saying that Trump should not have a uh Presidential Library he should not have a library come on well Joel Pollock uh called that out and and wrote about it and here here's just something that Joel wrote in Breitbart he said the paper who's talking about the Washington Post he said the paper whose motto is democracy dies in darkness presented an argument Thursday by an art and architecture critic Philip kenot about why the history of the Trump Administration should in fact be shrouded in darkness kenot wrote Trump must never have an official Presidential Library and Congress should move quickly to make sure he never will well game on not only as as Joel points out not only should Trump have a Presidential Library but it needs to be the best one at least in terms of popularity it needs to be the best one and the best way to do this would to be make it commercial would you not pay a small entry fee to see a properly designed Trump Presidential Museum oh yeah you would yeah you would you'd pay for that if he did it right right if it's just a boring Museum where you walk through and see some photos and stuff you're not going to you don't care about that too much but if he made it funny imagine if you will as Joel points out uh One Wing being the uh the Russia collusion mental hospital Wing imagine going into a trump Museum and you go into one room and it's nothing but a bunch of videos playing in a loop of uh Adam Schiff and other Republicans making accusations of the uh political uh of the uh Russia collusion hoax you could have one room for every hoax you could have the fine people hoax room you could have the drinking bleach hoax room but you could also have the CNN fake news room where it's an an entire exhibit of only the fake news that just was on CNN it' be clips and examples and then then the debunk of all you know you'd have the fake news and then the debunk of it why it's wrong and then kids could go learn there and and as a school outing you could go and you could learn how the news is all made up you tell me you wouldn't buy a ticket to that you would buy a ticket to that now add in an anim animatronics not animatronics let's say a a deep fake Trump who can who actually has some AI built in so it can interact with you it's like a a 3D hologram of trump but it's actually programmed with I guess Google and some other companies now have some AI That's whole Next Level so by the time it gets built maybe some of that will be available where I can really really understand the context of conversation then you build a hologram Trump who can speak back to you basically using tweets or things he said before so he matches them to your content but it's Trump's actual words he'd be saying what he tweeted or what he said in public some point you could totally build that you wouldn't want to see that you wouldn't want to go up and talk and have a conversation with uh deep fake holographic Trump you would do that you would do that all right so yeah Trump needs a Presidential Library and it needs to be commercial it needs to be huge hugely popular I mean and it just needs to be awesome I would mostly look forward to how they were named the restrooms uh cuz I think Adam Schiff needs to be part of that uh you or at least you know the uh the new green new toilets have two buttons depending on what your business was you you got the little button for you know number one and big button for number two well I think the big button should be named uh Adam Schiff and the little button should be whatever but then there should also be a I'd like to see a Stormy Daniels interactive exhibit sort of like a ride well you could use your imagination there I don't have to fill in the blanks all right um this is a predictable problem apparently there were a bunch of vaccinations available in Washington Heights a part of New York City which has high minority population I think mostly Hispanic if I'm correct and a bunch of white people came in and got those shots so they were available for people over 65 and a bunch of old white people went in there and and took those shots so they weren't available for other people now wouldn't it be better that maybe we didn't divide our health care by race I don't know how this could possibly go well you know I said this before I think on a tweet um I'm completely on board with the fact that African-American citizens should get some priority because they have worse outcomes I get that but there's such a big difference between asking me personally if I would mind waiting you know waiting for other people to go ahead in which case I'll say yeah I will you know that's a good argument some other people should go go ahead of me I mean we're all doing that right everybody's saying if you're over 80 you go first if you're if you're uh you know doing Frontline Healthcare you should go first Etc so I don't have any problem with the concept of as a citizen of letting other people go first and that and black citizens would be at the top of my list because they have worse outcomes so of course yeah I'm I'm completely on board with that but what happens when your government tells you that's the rule that's different isn't it if you ask me personally I'm fine with it but if you tell me it's the law that my race will determine my health care outcomes at least in this way I've got a problem with that I just don't feel that that's where the government should be getting involved but if you ask me voluntarily you know if if even let's say Joe Biden who is legally acknowledged as my president uh I don't have to agree with him politically if he simply said look the only way this is going to work is for you is for you citizens to um stay step up and make some sacrifice you know who you are don't get your shots first I'd say let us work that out because there are people whose psychological condition is such that they probably need to get it sooner because they can't deal with things psychologically right or they don't have the ability to socially isolate as well as I can if I can socially isolate better than 95% of the world and I think that's actually true in my case shouldn't I wait a little bit longer makes perfect sense to me you just have to ask the one of the things that's I think deeply missing in this country is just asking when was the last time somebody did that when was the last time your leaders said look I don't want this to be a law because it's a bad precedent I don't want to make it a law that you know white people go last for shots it's just not a good precedent but I will tell you you know what the risks are and I want you to act like good citizens I want you to do what's right use your conscience look at your own risk and reward nobody can make that decision for you and you decide what's right and then act on it that's all we're going to ask of you as Citizens you just decide what's right now I don't know how that would turn out maybe maybe that wouldn't work out but I feel like that's where we should on this we Joe Biden should be asking people like me because I'm sort of out in the bubble I'm not old enough that I can get get into the shots but I could make an argument about comorbidity I've got asthma so maybe I should be at the top of the line but I wouldn't mind waiting because I can socially isolate better than most people so special case I'll wait a little bit all right um just ask so that's a that's a direct a direct re quest to Joe Biden just ask seriously just ask I think a lot of people would be willing to help out um so I guess we have to talk about Game.

Stop and I guess I have a different opinion about this whole Game.

Stop stuff I'm watching it with the same level of entertainment you are uh I also don't care if the billionaire hedge fund people lose some money I don't know how that works for the people who invested with them I feel as though there're ordinary investors who would get it in the shorts no matter what happens but that's true of this the stock market in general so so I watch it with Amusement but here's what I'm not seeing that other people are seeing that it's some kind of a um it's marking some kind of a shift or it's telling us something about the larger society or or the little people versus the rich I don't see any of that I just see sort of a a one-off thing that somebody discovered they could do it grew in popularity of course part of that is you know the political climate and our history of uh the rich people getting richer Etc but to me it doesn't feel like the beginning of some kind of giant shift in culture or change or anything it just feels like a thing that happened I I don't see it having a large uh carryover now as I saw in the comments uh apparently a lot of Chinese youth are getting into this as well I would imagine that this will result in some kind of rule change because otherwise these large group of organized investors will uh destroy the market for gain because pretty you could pretty much Target any company and manipulate it in this way and apparently it's legal you know hedge funds are not that different but I guess this only works as a legal process if not too many people do it so that might be the long-term change is that if the hedphones have been doing it and now other people can organize to do it there's too much of it and if there's too much of it then maybe it has to be regulated away if there's some way to do that I don't know if it's even practical but uh so they might break break this opportunity for the hedge funds maybe we probably not so my my best guess about where this all comes out is it just becomes a new story that Fades away maybe there's a rule change that stops IT later um but I see it more as a prank than anything else and you know there's and of course there the sub stories about uh I guess the SEC said it was going to review how some of the brokerage firms acted when they stopped trading uh which disadvantaged the little investor so that has to be looked into but the it looks like the legal system or the government regulation system will look into it so I don't know that there's as much there as other people are thinking it feels like this feels like the kind of story that's a story because Trump is no longer in office you know something is going to fill the new cycle no matter what you take out Trump and there's this giant empty spot that has to be filled I don't know this story isn't interesting to me but um it's capturing the imagination who do you think would who do you think would be the natural leader of the populist movement if let's say if Trump does not resurrect who would be the natural leader give me some names now I heard you know Matt Gates uh I've heard uh well who who do you think who would even qualify to take that role you yeah you know there wouldn't be a better president than me on some level but I would never want that job so it's never going to happen the the only the only thing that would make me a good president I probably had more bad qualities than good so don't don't vote for me for president um but the one good thing I would bring is I wouldn't feel the need to lie to you maybe if you take the job suddenly you have all kinds of reasons to lie but I wouldn't really feel the need to because I don't think there's anything I couldn't explain in a way I just wouldn't need to so um but it would be the worst job in the world so I wouldn't want it all right in the news uh FBI Attorney Kevin Klein Smith you heard of him on the Russia collusion hoax business he forged an he forged email in cter Page's Visa Pro his fisa process and he he forged an email just think about that us attorney forged an email ruined the life of this Carter page guy for all practical purposes his his professional career just got knapped and all he rece received for that was a 12 months probation 400 hours of community service and $100 fin now I don't know what is typical for what kind of a uh sentence you get for that kind of a crime I suppose they probably say something along the lines of no prior crimes uh maybe they argued he thought he had a good reason I'm not sure that should make a difference uh maybe they just said this is similar to similar to other crimes oh I'm seeing people say Tulsi gabard ran Paul uh for a populist leader um maybe so so but what do you think of this 12 months of probation no jail time for throwing the entire country and people's specific lives into horrible situation I feel as if this is not even close to appropriate if you forge something in the role of a government professional especially an FBI attorney that's got to mean something that's different from a regular crime right can you treat a government action against a citizen the same as you could just do citizen to Citizen crimes I feel as if he's being sentenced as if this were just a regular white color crime this was not a regular white color crime this almost destroyed the whole freaking country and it destroyed some people's lives for sure this should have been 5 to 10 years that feels about right to me 5 to 10 years wouldn't you say if you were just going to compare it to other crimes that you're aware of 5 to 10 years completely inappropriate um and this is the sort of thing that in the context of the Trump energy or populist gaining momentum will while Trump is sort of absent from it at the moment this is the sort of thing that's adding energy to that cuz this seems so blatantly uh I hate to say unfair but that's how people will register you know the world there's no such thing as fairness but people will register this as unfair in other news black lives matter movement has been uh nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize which is interesting for a movement which many would consider a racist movement now obviously its intention is to be anti-racist but in in application it became a overt racist movement I would say now that is not to say that the people in it are bad people but in terms of just how it evolved and what it turned into I would say that it turned from an anti-racism thing into just a completely racist movement uh even though the the goals of it of course most people would agree with of all that uh black lives matter of course so um I I think the the Nobel Peace Prize has become just ridiculous at this point I mean yeah it always has been ridiculous but it went to a new level of ridiculousness I suppose we say that every year um funniest thing I'm seeing lately in the news is do you remember Daniel Dale who I guess works for CNN as their fact Checker so during the Trump Administration he would come on and fact check Trump and say everything that Trump said was was wrong and now he's uh he's in the role of Defending Biden for things taken out of context about Biden so he claims that this was taken out of context that when that when Biden was talking about executive orders you know he said something along the lines of you shouldn't do a lot of executive orders unless you were a dictator now apparently that was completely taken out of context and it was right it was taken out of context so how is that different from every CNN story about Trump pretty much all of the news about Trump was just stuff taken out of context but they didn't didn't call it out now Daniel Dale will have to call out all the times that Biden is taken out of context so he went from a cool job where you get to criticize Trump all the time into a way less cool job where he's got to defend Biden for things that Biden maybe should have said a little more clearly or added as a better context or something so poor Daniel Dale his job just got demoted to Biden apologizer apologist I mean um apparently China had this clever scheme to uh one of the big companies was offering to build test labs in this country and the accusation here is that that would have allowed them to collect a bunch of DNA from Americans and that China is in the process of collecting as much American DNA as they can now I can't think there probably a whole bunch of ways you can misuse DNA and of course the scariest one is any kind of a weapon that would be DNA specific uh which we do worry could be possible I think it might be possible actually so that's pretty dangerous thing but here's the question that this asks that this raises why is it in the year 2021 Chinese companies have something close to free reign in the United States they I'm sure they have restrictions but Chinese companies can do business in the United States in a way that American companies can't do business in China now you can do some kinds of business but it's not anywhere close to equal why do we let that happen why in the world would we let our our rival China do something closer to unrestricted business in our country with this kind of risk you know if they put if they put any technology into your company you've got a risk that they're stealing your SE Secrets through the technology if they do any kind of medical thing you've got a risk that they're going to steal your DNA if you do any kind of other thing there's going to be some other risk every time the Chinese are buying into this country it opens up some kind of a risk why do we let them do business here why is that legal does anybody have any idea why that's legal I can't think of any reason why that should be legal if we can't do it in their country now if they opened up and said hey let's just make it the same you can do you can do whatever whatever we do there you can do here but that's not going to happen if we can't do business in their country they should not be able to do business in our country they should be the same and why is that even controversial who's on the other side of that argument is there somebody in the United States who says yeah yeah we really do want the Chinese to be putting their money in into our into our economy are they putting so much in that we would be we go into a depression if they stop investing I don't know I guess I need to know more about that but I've never heard a reason why China should do business with us when we can't do the same kind of business with them if there is an argument for that I'd love to hear it but I think it's just stupid from a security perspective it just seems stupid um are you having the same impression I have with uh Joe Biden's spokesperson Jen here's my take on her day one oh she seems pretty capable you know she seems bright and uh look like a perfect choice for the job really I I thought it was a good choice although I feel like they should have chosen a uh a woman of color um but you know she she looked very capable and qualified and she had a good background and Etc But as time goes by do you know some personalities the more you see them the less you like them but there are others the more you see them the more you like them you know some people don't they don't wear well if you know what I mean there's something about Jen basaki who is let's say whatever is the opposite of Dana Pino I'll just pick her as my example the more you see of Dana Perino who had been spokesperson under a bush the more you see of her the more you like her she just has one of those personalities the more you see the more you like that's why she's you know has a lot of time on Fox News the public likes seeing her but the more I see of Jen and this has nothing to do with being a Democrat has nothing to do with being a woman right so if you're looking for any isms I don't think it has anything to do with any of that she just has a personality that the more you see of it the less you like it am I right and and the reason I use you know Dana Pino as my opposite example is because she doesn't have that and I would say Kaylee Mc.

An even if you hated how she treated the Press she's also one of those personalities where the more you see of her the more you like her and that's just not true of everybody the more you see of Adam Schiff the less you like him right now could it be that I'm being biased simply by political leanings and I'm thinking to myself no I'm just agreeing with people I want to agree with and I'm just having some bias about people who might have a different opinion from me could be I mean it might be it might be that that's all that's happening here but I put the question out to you it seems like there's something about her that a little bit lasts a long time if you know what I mean are are you is anybody getting that same Vibe very capable very smart but a little bit of her goes a long way and I don't know if that's going to be a factor going forward um but the story related to this is that uh when she was asked whether they're going to see Joe Biden some more for these press conferences and she only answered cleverly oh are you eager to see him is that what you're saying and the reporter said sure and then she didn't answer the question don't you think it's going to be more and more of a story the longer Biden goes without uh opening himself up to unfriendly questions because the whole point of the these uh presidential press conference things is that it opens you up to unfriendly questions is Biden going to avoid unfriendly questions for four years can he get away with that probably can um here's something I recommend to you on CNN uh I've said this before but while I criticize CNN's uh news coverage quite a bit CNN as a network does some non- news programming that often is really good some a lot of the CNN specials they're just just about say a certain topic they're quite well done uh and I recommend them quite often they've got one coming up that's being teased I think Anderson Cooper is running this and uh they're talking to some Q supporters to sort of dig down and figure out what's up with it with the Q Believers and there's a a teaser where Anderson Cooper is talking to a completely rational looking guy a guy who you'd say to yourself and first of all uh he looked like he might have a I'm guessing no I don't want to guess somebody's ethnicity but I'll say he's the person he was talking to is not a uh typical uh white Bred looking guy let's just say that but I won't guess what his ethnic background is but that makes it interesting too because you're Imagining the CU Believers as a bunch of you know super white people but here was one that Anderson was talking to who was not in that category and said that he believed that at one point that Anderson Cooper eight babies he said that to Anderson Cooper and then he apologized for thinking that Anderson Cooper ate babies and then he went on to say other things he believed about uh cubing working with interdimensional uh blue birdlike creatures what what and here's the amazing thing the guy he's he interviewed look like a completely normal smart person who could operate in the world and do just about anything a very capable reasonable looking person and that person looked right in the camera and said to Anderson Cooper yeah I believed you ate babies sorry blue avens is what I guess the Q people call it now what do you make of this do you say yourself well that's a crazy person or do you say to yourself there's there are lots of crazy people do you imagine that the Q people are mentally weak do you think that the Q people are extra gullible do you think that the Q people uh have some kind of strange mental defect that makes them believe these things whereas you do not here's the bad news people they're completely normal that's the bad news the bad news is the people who believe that Q uh the stories that Anderson Cooper was eating babies the people who believe that completely normal or at least average or typical or routine human beings how do I know that you're not going to like this I probably lose a few followers in the next few minutes because people believe every religion no matter what religion you have which I think we can agree can we can we stipulate something that whatever religion you have is the true one let's just agree with that now I don't know what your religion is they're probably different but just say that the one you have that's the right one okay but now that you know that you have the right religion lucky you you could have you could have gotten it wrong but you didn't you got the right one that means that there are billions of regular people who got the wrong religion do you know what you would believe if you got the wrong religion it might involve magical sounding stuff a little bit for the wrong Reas religion now your religion is the right one so lucky for you uh you're smart and wise and you don't fall for gullible stuff but yours is the good one but you can observe that there are people who look otherwise normal who got all the wrong religion people thinking you're reincarnating well unless you believe that in which case it would be right but if other people believed it you don't that's crazy um so you have religions in which there people walking on order and resurrecting maybe that's the real one but you got other ones in which somebody's writing a flying horse to Heaven maybe that's the real one and maybe the the other one's not some people believe in reincarnation as I said some people believe in heaven some people believe there's nothing there one thing you can say for sure is that regular normal human beings with completely functional brains will believe anything it's actually just built into our nature we will believe anything but here's the only thing I want to add to that because on some level you do that right the thing I want to add to that is that the way humans believe is almost like choosing what clothes you're going to wear I think that and you can see it with this uh this person who was talking to Anderson Cooper the the exq believer he the way he spoke of it was almost like a lifestyle choice to adopt a set of beliefs because adopting that set of beliefs had some benefits maybe it made you part of a group maybe it made you interested maybe it was intellectually stimulating but whatever the reason was it was just a choice and I would submit to you that people choose their their filter or the the set of things they believe based on what just feels good the same way you decide well I'll wear this shirt or this other shirt when you get dressed how do you make that decision which shirt to put on say well I like this one this is a better shirt today I feel like this shirt and that belief is more like that that we pick the belief that sort of gives us some benefits makes us feel good makes us feel connected whatever and that we don't actually say are these beliefs based on science or truth can I prove it am I being G what about those other people why do they believe something different it's nothing like that it's simply a lifestyle choice to buy into a set of beliefs and then treat them as though they're true even on some level knowing that you just made a choice to treat them as true as opposed to them being objectively true anyway you should watch the Q special I think you're actually going to learn a lot about how completely normal people can choose choose to believe something crazy I'll give you an example of that when I watch the uh uh one of my favorite shows is about uh ancient astronauts and ancient aliens uh allegedly have you know building the pyramids and allegedly interacting with lots of uh lots of different early cultures speaking of which I'll show you a picture if I can do this on camera so in uh Tahiti they've got all of these let's see if I can do this if I can hold it just right you can see it there's a little totem looking picture all over the place in Tahiti where it looks like an alien like the this big eyed alien thing and they're all over the place as if the early tahitians had had contact with an alien race and that now they're building them into all their their imagery and I thought to myself well maybe they just liked you know creating a AR creatures that looked identically to how we would imagine an alien looks it's just a coincidence maybe maybe that's what's going on but when I watch those shows I suspend my critical thinking and I allow myself to live in a reality in which the aliens did come down and taught people how to build pyramids and those are why the cave drawings look like Advanced aliens with spaceships sometimes now do what when I do that when I accept that reality for the point of entertaining myself by watching this am I really accepting it as an actual reality or am I accepting it as an entertainment reality and I feel like it's different my my inner sense of it is that if you put a gun to my head and said all right now you're going to have to bet with your real money or or we're going to you know kill you if you're wrong you have to bet did the aliens teach the early people how to build the pyramids all right you got to put your real money on it now I'd bet against it I'd bet against it and I wouldn't feel too unsafe when I did I'd feel confident that I could bet against the aliens having built the pyramids or helped on that but when I watch those shows I like to accept it as true because it makes it more fun so I find that I can wear reality like a shirt I can just put on my alien astronaut shirt and I can just wear it for a while and then I can just take it off and if somebody says now you have to bet your real money I'd say Oh Real Money real money okay let me take off the shirt once you learn that people can change their their religion basically like they can change a shirt because it's more of a lifestyle decision it's not based on what you really think is true in many cases once you realize that distinction it starts explaining a lot of what you see that people are adopting a belief that just feels good and they will and they can lose that belief if there's something that makes it stop feeling good and the Q stuff you know had this business in the capital which was an event that made it stop feeling good and the moment it stopped feeling good there were some people such as this guy talking to Anderson Cooper who said okay it doesn't feel good anymore now I'll change my belief all right um who killed more people the CCP or Q well that's easy all right uh that's about all I got now um I'm just looking at your comments people love the ancient alien stuff it just captures your imagination all right was it a good honeymoon yes it was yes it was um I'd show you some pictures but you'd feel bad all right I'm going to put together some uh some some of my best I think I've had some time to plan micro lessons on how to program your brain now it's my favorite topic how to reprogram your brain but I've got another take on it that I think will be useful that will be on the locals platform only for subscribers and some other micro lessons that be on there this week and uh somebody says if aliens were real we'd have seen photos by now yeah given that all we have is uh we have cameras in every pocket in the Civilized world yeah I think we would have a picture of an alien by now I think so yeah locals is a platform um in which subscribers can subscribe to my content That You Don't See otherwise so I have the the stuff that you do see but I add I add useful content that you wouldn't see otherwise I'd like to know how to sleep um I think I did did I not do a micro lesson on that already if not I will and I will talk to you tomorrow all right You.

Tubers sorry I uh was not streaming on You.

Tube while I was out of the country the the button disappeared so there's some things you just can't do outside the country and for some reason that I didn't have that option um yes I am back in California all right uh just looking at your comments all right that's all we got for today and I will talk to you tomorrow

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everybody good morning how are

you well it's nice to be home it was

nice to be on vacation but it's nice to

be home too and I get to finally be with

all of you I apologize for oversleeping

by 3

hours I guess every now and then I

should have a full night sleep and my

body decided that today was the day one

of the problems with not sleeping much

because I hate sleeping is that every

now and then when I don't set my alarm

clock I'll oversleep by three

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everything better the thing you've been

waiting for the thing that was late it's

called the simultaneous Sip and man is

it going to be good when you finally get

it here it goes

go yeah just as good as I told you right

yeah you were thinking it's not going to

going to be that good is it but it was

once again how about that well let me

start by telling you um how hard it is

to travel during the age of Corona virus

most of you know I was uh just on my

Corona virus delayed honeymoon took us

months to figure out how we could do

this safely and and make it work and

thanks to my wonderful wife Christina

who is a uh genius at making stuff work

she figured out how to get us to the

other side of the world safely and back

it was kind of amazing uh the the basic

thing you need to know is that it's

masks all the way we went to uh borab

Bora which is in French Polynesia by

Tahiti just sort of Leave California and

head toward New Zealand but before you

get to New

Zealand you stop and uh that's where

boror

is and so we SP a week there it was most

amazing week so here are the things you

need to know the highlights um it was a

high-end Resort it was the Four Seasons

in Bora Bora could not have been better

just it's impossible there isn't any

possible way this trip could have been

better once you get there getting there

is hard but once you get there it's

amazing best scenery feeling service

you've ever

seen the other thing that's amazing is

that the uh the resort I don't know if

they're going to last because their

business was no more than I don't think

there were more than 30 people at the

entire Resort which is built to handle

hundreds I don't know how many hundreds

but I think 300 or so and there were

maybe 30 of us there so entire swimming

pools beaches with zero people except us

so as a as a honeymoon it couldn't have

been better like I'll never experience

anything like this in my life again

because

it was a you know a top level experience

with no other people for in a practical

sense so I worry a great deal about the

future of their business but uh man it

could not have been better if you get a

chance to go before the crowds pick up

here's the risk profile we got tested

once before we flew so we had to have a

result now you I suppose we had a little

bit of exposure theoretically before we

flew

but once on the plane uh at least I've

seen studies that say that the planes

are so good with their filtration these

days that your odds of getting it on a

plane are actually really really

low uh people wear masks but of course

they fall asleep and their masks fall

off them so I would say masking is

pretty good on the plane if you think

that makes any difference I'll talk

about that in a minute um so I wasn't

worried about the plane and once you get

there there are no people and the staff

is all masked and they they do good

social distancing Etc so they won't even

clean your room if they think you're

going to be around it for a while so so

everything was done really really well I

think the four seasons did everything

that they could possibly do and then you

get another test while you're there so

you have to do one before you fly there

once a few days after you've been there

and then once right before you come back

and we did that the same day now you've

got to coordinate all this in a foreign

country right so you've got to find a

place in Tahiti that will give you a

test that you'll get a result the same

day so you can fly later that day do you

know how worried I was that that wasn't

going to work and and you know you've

got four hours to get your test and it

doesn't come and you think to yourself

uh I'm in a foreign country and I can't

fly home without this test and they said

it'd be here by now and it's not you

know you're checking your email you're

thinking they got they wrote down a code

wrong or something you'll never get home

now of course of course these are silly

traveler worries because it it's not

likely that a place that's a tourist

destination has not figured out how to

get the tourist

home that's the part I always forget is

that I'm not the first person who ever

had to figure this out obviously they

have a system so the hotel works with

you and the hotel will tell you where to

get the test and they'll make sure that

you can get a cab there and back and

it's all very civilized and easy but boy

I'll tell you that the distance they

push that that swab down your nose in

Tahiti that set a record I mean the

American tests were bad enough but the

Tahiti test they really went for some

spelunking for depth there I think they

tickled my brain a little bit but the

bottom line is if if I had to judge how

safe I was and this is the bottom line

of this how safe I was traveling from

the Corona virus versus how safe I would

have been just staying home and socially

distancing the you know the the normal

but imperfect amount that we all do I

feel like I was safer on on the road I

don't know if you could measure that in

any way but if I looked at all the

testing that I did and all the other

people did I ended up on an island in

the middle of the Pacific without

anybody who had either not been there

two weeks without an infection already

or or they got tested within you know

the day that they they arrived so it

actually probably safer than just normal

life and probably a lot safer it

probably wasn't even close you know

without an actual scientific way to

measure that I can't be sure so I'm only

giving you a a sense of it I'm not

giving you a scientific opinion it felt

way safer than just staying home and

that's that's a big credit to the system

that's that has adjusted that much to to

make that possible so the traveling I

would say traveling with a mask is hard

especially if you have to try to sleep

sleep on the plane cuz it's a long

flight we had a 4-Hour delay followed by

a 7-hour flight on the way there if you

had in the travel time and the taxi time

and everything else you know 12 hours in

a mask it's a long day but a lot of

people who have just regular jobs are

doing that every day so um not going to

complain about it so it was all good so

here's a question that people keep

asking me I have uh apparently spoken

differently about how we should look at

business Clos Downs the lockdowns versus

wearing masks and it's actually a fair

question in one case I say that the

business closures the forced closures do

not have scientific backing to suggest

that they work would you agree with that

that we don't really have scientific

backing to suggest that closing

businesses as opposed to keeping them

open with all the right restrictions we

don't have evidence which one of those

makes a difference now I just told you I

did a a very complicated extensive you

know travel and I did feel safer I don't

know but it felt safer than normal life

because it was so you know designed to

be controlled where normal life is messy

right but if it's designed to be

controlled maybe they can do it better

than your normal messy life right that's

what I think

so um I don't have a feeling of whether

we can tell that closing businesses

helps or hurts so we don't have science

because it's it's hard to measure and

it's kind of too early for to even know

if you

did so what do you do you don't have

science but Common Sense kind of can

point in both directions can it you

could make a case that social distancing

would be better served with business

closures but then how do you factor in

the fact that it wouldn't be normal

business it would be opened under you

know certain careful restriction

would that make it safer than normal

life it might who knows so I would say

business closures are unproven

scientifically and so there you should

really you should really pause to see if

you want to do that because we know the

cost of it could be gigantic in terms of

extra poverty and all the things that

that

causes but I say the opposite or

something very different about masks and

people would pointed out that looks like

an

inconsistency why is it that I say I

can't make a determination about whether

closing businesses make sense but my

common sense of it which is largely an

illusion common sense is an illusion but

my my feeling of it having observed it

up close my feeling of it is it's a

mistake to close

businesses there might be some

exceptions like uh possibly a gym but no

even a gym they would do good procedures

so I was say anybody who is willing to

open up and do careful procedures my my

logical just experienced brain that sees

the world says probably opening

businesses would be a better you know

Way Forward um and and California is

starting to open up a little bit uh

starting this week so that's good but I

don't say that with masks now masks also

have this problem that um we don't know

exactly what masks are doing in the

context of the Corona virus we know

they've been measured in different

contexts for different purposes in you

know in the past we know that the

experts overwhelmingly say you should

use bks we know that uh other people

point to other studies and say no these

studies show masks don't make a

difference so why is it that I would

have a different opinion about masks in

which I say you should go ahead and wear

them take the recommendation of the

experts whereas the business opening

stuff I'm a little squishier on and I

and it looks like maybe we should just

open the businesses and not do that why

why do I make that difference and the

difference is this here at first some

context you live in a life in a world in

which you don't have scientific studies

for almost anything you do you don't

know that waking up a little early will

make your life better or worse you don't

know that this meal you ate is the smart

one or not smart one you don't know if

you know you don't know much about

anything you don't know the house she

might buy the job you might take the

commute you choose almost everything

you're doing all day long is stuff that

nobody studied you've just lived in the

world long enough where you say I think

this looks like a better choice than

this but there's no way to know you just

got to take your

shot masks are a little like that and

there's a rule that I use that I apply

to just about everything which is that

friction pretty much always works now

I'll leave I'll leave a little wiggle

room because I'm sure there's some case

where it doesn't but if you've lived

long enough you see that wherever

friction is applied or wherever it's

removed it has exactly the predictable

impact if you tax something people will

do less of it if you build a wall it'll

be harder for people to get over it

won't stop it but it'll be harder might

reduce it if you restrict anything you

get less of it and with my living in the

world without the science just living in

the world I say hey if the problem is

stuff shooting into your mouth and we

know that that's far bigger problem than

what you're touching that seems to be

you know the common understanding if

it's stuff that's shooting out of your

mouth and you can put some friction on

that thing does it stop every bit of the

virus no no we know it doesn't stop all

of the virus but we do know that the

amount of the viral load makes a big

difference in what the outcomes are so

as long as we know that the degree of

viral load makes a big difference and we

and Common Sense and living in the world

says well this mask probably limits some

of that does it stop all of it no nobody

thinks that nobody thinks a mask stops a

virus nobody thinks that there's no

expert who thinks that they think it

might slow it down might add a little

friction

now do you need to do a scientific study

in every situation in your life in which

somebody's applying or taking away

friction to know what kind of effect

that will have you would be right 99% of

the time if you just said that friction

is a real thing and wherever it is added

you get less of a thing wherever it's

subtracted you get you get more of a

thing that's it now could I be

completely wrong could we look learn

someday in the future that masking was

more bad than good absolutely you could

totally learn that so if you think I'm

telling you I'm know I know with my

Great Brain certainty 100% that you know

masks are definitely the reason I don't

think that's knowable and anybody who

has that opinion I would respect that

but I do think that if you're doing a

risk management assessment given the how

high the stakes

are I would say it's a good risk and

that the consensus of experts uh is

still solidly prask if you see a growing

number of experts who tell you masth

don't work I would take that seriously

but right now I don't see that I see

people who are not experts looking at

studies they don't understand which are

usually on slightly different things you

know what whether it works in a let's

say a surgery setting etc for different

different kinds of uh diseases

uh I would wait for the a pretty big

consensus of experts to say they don't

work before I would even consider that

they don't work and we don't have

anything like that now if you've seen

actual medical experts a consensus not a

rando doctor person but actual growing

consensus of doctors saying masks don't

do anything I would take that seriously

but that doesn't exist and you got to

ask yourself why right because cuz there

are people on every side of everything

you don't have you you don't have enough

doctors to form sort of a sort of a

movement away from mask you don't that

means something you should you should

take that seriously now does that mean

the ma that the experts are right no but

since it matches with my uh common sense

if you want to call it that it's always

an illusion then I'm willing to take

that as a reasonable risk to wear the

masks here's the funniest uh scariest

thing in the

world there's some reporting that Trump

is getting

stronger by being out of the news the

we've I think everybody has made the

same observation that Trump if he just

stopped talking for a while as president

if he had just stopped talking for a

while that his popularity would have

gone through the roof if he just stopped

being a little little bit as trumpy as

he is now that's a ridiculous thing to

hope for because the whole point of

electing Trump is that he wasn't going

to

change he he wouldn't have even been

elected in the first place if people

thought he was going to be a different

person when he took office right that's

part of what you expected that Trump is

Trump excuse me that said um he sort of

uh let's say inv voluntarily forced into

some silence after his office his term

ended and the less he talks I feel like

the more popular he's going to get

because you've got this big populist

energy if you will that suddenly became

leaderless what happens when you have

this much energy let's say the populist

whatever the Trump movement was you have

that much energy and then the leader

goes silent what happens

does the energy just

dissipate well I guess the the people on

the left hope that would happen does it

transfer to another

leader it could but who is that don't

you think we' know by now who is the who

is the natural inheritor of the energy

that the Trump movement or the populist

movement created I don't know we I mean

there are some good Republican C Cate

potentials for 1994 some of them more

more trump-like than others but there's

not really a natural you know there's

not a name where every one of you would

say well what about

X not really right yeah Matt Gates I

think is his own is his own person I

don't see him as exactly a trump

clone uh but but he would be at least in

terms of the populist um policies would

be very close to that so a yeah Ted gruz

Cruz has some problems politically at

the moment because he's being branded as

being part of the

Insurrection so here's the interesting

part if you thought that Trump was a

problem before the Democrats decide to

crucify

him let me say that again so you won't

think I chose that word

accidentally if the Democrats thought

that Trump was a problem before they

decided to crucify

him and then he went silent for a while

how many

days and the only problem is if you

thought that the so-called Insurrection

was a

problem where till you see the

resurrection cuz the resurrection's

going to be a bigger problem if you're a

Democrat now I'm not going to

predict that Trump after having been

legally and politically

crucified would go away effectively as

if dead for a

while while the movement that he led

grows in his absence

grows if he were to

return it's a big problem

now I predicted he won't that IID

predicted that he would not be

politically viable because he wouldn't

be able to get the same people who

supported him the same way before and

I'm going to stick with that I'm going

to stick with my prediction that he will

not run for office again so I'm going to

stick with that but if you wanted to

guarantee that he did run for office and

win just keep doing what you're doing

because every time you hear somebody who

is associated with Trump get taken

down at first you say oh okay that's a

special case that's somebody who did

something illegal and of course the law

is the law so I understand that one oh

there's another one oh it's somebody

okay well okay they did something else

yeah I guess that was pretty bad so I

guess that's a special case you know

they were Trump supporter but that's a

special well there's another one there's

another one in head there's three more

every time you hear another Trump

supporter being taken down it starts

with yeah those I guess they had to do

that they broke some laws and then it

starts to be people taken down for

things they may or may not have thought

people being taken down for signing up

for to have a parl and gab account that

just happened that was just in the news

somebody got fired for simply having an

account on parl parlor and uh Gab that's

it that was the entire accusation they

had an account in a alternative social

media

platform every time you hear about that

stuff it feels as if the people who

associated with it and all that populist

energy might be picking up power it's

exactly what the Democrats don't want to

happen but I think they're doing it as

aggressively as they possibly could and

it's building up this sort of resentment

Rev VY

energy you don't want to build up too

much resentment Revenge energy and

that's what the de Democrats are doing

because it's the more Revenge they put

into the system the more it's going to

come back wouldn't you agree we have a

system in which the more Revenge you put

into it the more is coming back that's

there's no way around it the the

Republicans are not going to sit there

for four years of Revenge being taken

out upon them without an equal and

opposite reaction it just there isn't

any way that can happen and

so the Democrats are creating a

situation for Trump's

resurrection that is the one you don't

want that's the one you don't want and I

don't even think I want that one because

that's going to be too much

energy and not exactly the right place

right that's too much energy and

they they have a real problem here this

is a real problem I'm still going to

stick with my like I said my uh

prediction that he won't run for office

again but man are they making it

dangerous they are really making it

dangerous because if they don't if they

don't take the boot off our neck pretty

soon let me put it this way I don't know

if this is

a a a republican quality um I don't

identify Republican as you know I don't

identify even conservative as you know

um but I have this quality and I I think

it might be common to the right so I

might have this in common which is I am

really really

flexible really

flexible until I'm

knocked and I can't even I can't even

tell you where the knot kicks in because

I'm always surprised in my normal life

you know I'm exactly the same not just

my political opinions but the way I live

my in-person life very

flexible very very flexible until I'm

not and when I'm not it it just falls

off a a

cliff when when I'm not it's

absolute there's no negotiation once I

hit a certain point and I I scare people

because I don't have any warning before

that happens I worry that that's what's

happen in with the political right which

is they're flexible they're taking it

all right all right we we gave it to you

pretty hard when Trump was in charge you

know okay all right a little slap a

little slap we had that coming we said

some bad things too okay another little

slap I you turn the other cheek yeah not

looking for trouble okay that's three

that's three um I'm going to I'm going

to shake that off that's four that's

four um still okay holding it down don't

want any trouble that's

five you know where this is going

right there there is a

psychological atomic bomb that's being

created by the actions the Revenge

actions of the left that they can push a

little bit you know they could get away

with that and even people on the right I

think at some level you're saying yeah

elections have consequences I wish I

wish our side won yeah we gave it to

them pretty hard it's a it's a political

game they're giving it back a little bit

but there is a

limit there is a

limit and if they reach that

limit they're going to get a leader of

the populist movement that they didn't

want could be Trump again that would be

a big problem could be Trump again a big

problem for the left anyway

but it'll be somebody else and you don't

want it to be me that's for

sure you don't want it to be me all

right the funniest story in the news is

the uh talk about the Trump Library

somebody wrote an article in the an

opinion piece in the Washington Post

saying that Trump should not have a uh

Presidential

Library he should not have a

library come on well Joel Pollock uh

called that out and and wrote about it

and here here's just something that Joel

wrote in Breitbart he said the paper

who's talking about the Washington Post

he said the paper whose motto is

democracy dies in darkness presented an

argument Thursday by an art and

architecture critic Philip kenot about

why the history of the Trump

Administration should in fact be

shrouded in darkness kenot wrote Trump

must never have an official Presidential

Library and Congress should move quickly

to make sure he never will well

game

on not only as as Joel points out not

only should Trump have a Presidential

Library but it needs to be the best one

at least in terms of popularity it needs

to be the best one and the best way to

do this would to be make it

commercial would you not pay a small

entry fee to see a properly designed

Trump Presidential Museum oh yeah you

would yeah you would you'd pay for that

if he did it right right if it's just a

boring Museum where you walk through and

see some photos and stuff you're not

going to you don't care about that too

much but if he made it

funny imagine if you will as Joel points

out uh One Wing being the uh the Russia

collusion mental hospital

Wing imagine going into a trump Museum

and you go into one room and it's

nothing but a bunch of videos playing in

a loop of uh Adam Schiff and other

Republicans making accusations of the uh

political uh of the uh Russia collusion

hoax you could have one room for every

hoax you could have the fine people hoax

room you could have the drinking bleach

hoax room but you could also have the

CNN fake news room where it's an an

entire exhibit of only the fake news

that just was on CNN it' be clips and

examples and then then the debunk of all

you know you'd have the fake news and

then the debunk of it why it's wrong and

then kids could go learn there and and

as a school outing you could go and you

could learn how the news is all made

up you tell me you wouldn't buy a ticket

to that you would buy a ticket to that

now add in an anim animatronics not

animatronics let's say a a deep fake

Trump who can who actually has some AI

built in so it can interact with you

it's like a a 3D hologram of trump but

it's actually programmed with I guess

Google and some other companies now have

some AI That's whole Next Level so by

the time it gets built maybe some of

that will be available where I can

really really understand the context of

conversation then you build a hologram

Trump who can speak back to you

basically using tweets or things he said

before so he matches them to your

content but it's Trump's actual words

he'd be saying what he tweeted or what

he said in public some point you could

totally build that you wouldn't want to

see that you wouldn't want to go up and

talk and have a conversation with uh

deep

fake holographic Trump you would do that

you would do that all

right so yeah Trump needs a Presidential

Library and it needs to be commercial it

needs to be huge hugely popular I mean

and it just needs to be awesome I would

mostly look forward to how they were

named the

restrooms uh cuz I think Adam Schiff

needs to be part of that uh you or at

least you know the uh the new green new

toilets have two buttons depending on

what your business was you you got the

little button for you know number one

and big button for number two well I

think the big button should be named uh

Adam Schiff and the little button should

be whatever but then there should also

be a I'd like to see a Stormy Daniels

interactive

exhibit sort of like a

ride well you could use your imagination

there I don't have to fill in the blanks

all

right um this is a predictable problem

apparently there were a bunch of

vaccinations available in Washington

Heights a part of New York City which

has high minority population I think

mostly Hispanic if I'm correct and a

bunch of white people came in and got

those shots so they were available for

people over 65 and a bunch of old white

people went in there and and took those

shots so they weren't available for

other people

now wouldn't it be

better that maybe we didn't divide our

health care by

race I don't know how this could

possibly go

well you know I said this before I think

on a tweet um I'm completely on board

with the fact that African-American

citizens should get some priority

because they have worse outcomes I get

that but there's such a big difference

between asking me personally if I would

mind waiting you know waiting for other

people to go ahead in which case I'll

say yeah I will you know that's a good

argument some other people should go go

ahead of me I mean we're all doing that

right everybody's saying if you're over

80 you go first if you're if you're uh

you know doing Frontline Healthcare you

should go first Etc so I don't have any

problem with the concept of as a citizen

of letting other people go first and

that and black citizens would be at the

top of my list because they have worse

outcomes so of course yeah I'm I'm

completely on board with that but what

happens when your government tells you

that's the rule that's different isn't

it if you ask me personally I'm fine

with it but if you tell me it's the law

that my race will determine my health

care outcomes at least in this way I've

got a problem with that I just don't

feel that that's where the government

should be getting involved but if you

ask me voluntarily you know if if even

let's say Joe Biden who is

legally acknowledged as my president uh

I don't have to agree with him

politically if he simply said look the

only way this is going to work is for

you is for you citizens to um stay step

up and make some sacrifice you know who

you are don't get your shots first I'd

say let us work that out because there

are people whose psychological condition

is such that they probably need to get

it sooner because they can't deal with

things

psychologically right or they don't have

the ability to socially isolate as well

as I can if I can socially isolate

better than 95% of the world and I think

that's actually true in my case

shouldn't I wait a little bit longer

makes perfect sense to me you just have

to ask the one of the things that's I

think deeply missing in this country is

just

asking when was the last time somebody

did that when was the last time your

leaders said look I don't want this to

be a law because it's a bad precedent I

don't want to make it a law that you

know white people go last for shots it's

just not a good precedent but I will

tell you

you know what the risks are and I want

you to act like good citizens I want you

to do what's right use your conscience

look at your own risk and reward nobody

can make that decision for you and you

decide what's right and then act on it

that's all we're going to ask of you as

Citizens you just decide what's right

now I don't know how that would turn out

maybe maybe that wouldn't work out but I

feel like that's where we should on this

we Joe Biden should be asking people

like me because I'm sort of out in the

bubble I'm not old enough that I can get

get into the shots but I could make an

argument about comorbidity I've got

asthma so maybe I should be at the top

of the line but I wouldn't mind waiting

because I can socially isolate better

than most people so special case I'll

wait a little bit all

right um just ask so that's a that's a

direct a direct re quest to Joe Biden

just ask seriously just ask I think a

lot of people would be willing to help

out

um so I guess we have to talk about

GameStop and I guess I have a different

opinion about this whole GameStop stuff

I'm watching it with the same level of

entertainment you are uh I also don't

care if the billionaire hedge fund

people lose some money I don't know how

that works for the people who invested

with them I feel as though there're

ordinary investors who would get it in

the shorts no matter what happens but

that's true of this the stock market in

general so so I watch it with Amusement

but here's what I'm not seeing that

other people are seeing that it's some

kind of a um it's marking some kind of a

shift or it's telling us something about

the larger society or or the little

people versus the rich I don't see any

of that I just see

sort of a a one-off thing that somebody

discovered they could do it grew in

popularity of course part of that is you

know the political climate and our

history of uh the rich people getting

richer

Etc but to me it doesn't feel like the

beginning of some kind of giant shift in

culture or change or anything it just

feels

like a thing that happened I I don't see

it having a

large uh carryover

now as I saw in the comments uh

apparently a lot of Chinese youth are

getting into this as well I would

imagine that this will result in some

kind of rule change because otherwise

these large group of organized investors

will uh destroy the market for gain

because pretty you could pretty much

Target any company and manipulate it in

this way and apparently it's

legal you know hedge funds are not that

different

but I guess this only works as a legal

process if not too many people do it so

that might be the long-term change is

that if the hedphones have been doing it

and now other people can organize to do

it there's too much of it and if there's

too much of it then maybe it has to be

regulated away if there's some way to do

that I don't know if it's even practical

but uh so they might break break this

opportunity for the hedge funds maybe we

probably not so my my best guess about

where this all comes out is it just

becomes a new story that Fades away

maybe there's a rule change that stops

IT later

um but I see it more as a prank than

anything else and you know there's and

of course there the sub stories about uh

I guess the SEC said it was going to

review how some of the brokerage firms

acted when they stopped trading uh which

disadvantaged the little investor so

that has to be looked into but the it

looks like the legal system or the

government regulation system will look

into it so I don't know that there's as

much there as other people are thinking

it feels like this feels like the kind

of story that's a story because Trump is

no longer in office you know something

is going to fill the new cycle no matter

what you take out Trump and there's this

giant empty spot that has to be

filled I don't know this story isn't

interesting to me but um it's capturing

the imagination

who do you think would who do you think

would be the natural leader of the

populist movement if let's say if Trump

does not resurrect who would be the

natural leader give me some names now I

heard you know Matt Gates uh I've heard

uh well who who do you think who would

even

qualify to take that

role you yeah you know there wouldn't be

a better president than me on some level

but I would never want that job so it's

never going to happen the the only the

only thing that would make me a good

president I probably had more bad

qualities than good so don't don't vote

for me for president um but the one good

thing I would bring is I wouldn't feel

the need to lie to

you maybe if you take the job suddenly

you have all kinds of reasons to lie but

I wouldn't really feel the need to

because I don't think there's anything I

couldn't explain in a way

I just wouldn't need

to so um but it would be the worst job

in the world so I wouldn't want it all

right in the news uh FBI Attorney Kevin

Klein Smith you heard of him on the

Russia collusion hoax business he forged

an he forged email in cter Page's Visa

Pro his fisa process and he he forged an

email just think about that us attorney

forged an email ruined the life of this

Carter page guy for all practical

purposes his his professional career

just got knapped and all he rece

received for that was a 12 months

probation 400 hours of community service

and $100

fin

now I don't know what is typical for

what kind of a uh sentence you get for

that kind of a crime I suppose they

probably say something along the lines

of no prior

crimes uh maybe they argued he thought

he had a good reason I'm not sure that

should make a

difference uh maybe they just said this

is similar to similar to other crimes oh

I'm seeing people say Tulsi gabard ran

Paul uh for a populist leader um maybe

so so but what do you think of this 12

months of probation no jail time for

throwing the entire country and people's

specific lives into horrible

situation I feel as if this is not even

close to

appropriate if you forge something in

the role of a government professional

especially an FBI attorney that's got to

mean something that's different from a

regular crime right

can you treat a government action

against a

citizen the same as you could just do

citizen to Citizen crimes I feel as if

he's being sentenced as if this were

just a regular white

color

crime this was not a regular white color

crime this almost destroyed the whole

freaking country and it destroyed some

people's lives for sure this should have

been 5 to 10 years

that feels about right to me 5 to 10

years wouldn't you say if you were just

going to compare it to other crimes that

you're aware of 5 to 10

years completely

inappropriate um and this is the sort of

thing that in the context of the Trump

energy or populist gaining momentum will

while Trump is sort of absent from it at

the moment this is the sort of thing

that's adding energy to that cuz this

seems so

blatantly uh I hate to say unfair but

that's how people will register you know

the world there's no such thing as

fairness but people will register this

as

unfair in other news black lives matter

movement has been uh nominated for a

Nobel Peace

Prize which is interesting for a

movement which many would consider a

racist movement now obviously its

intention is to be anti-racist but in in

application it became a overt racist

movement I would say now that is not to

say that the people in it are bad people

but in terms of just how it evolved and

what it turned into I would say that it

turned from an anti-racism thing into

just a completely racist movement uh

even though the the goals of it of

course most people would agree with of

all that uh black lives matter of

course so

um I I think the the Nobel Peace Prize

has become just ridiculous at this point

I mean yeah it always has been

ridiculous but it went to a new level of

ridiculousness I suppose we say that

every year um funniest thing I'm seeing

lately in the news is do you remember

Daniel Dale who I guess works for CNN as

their fact Checker so during the Trump

Administration he would come on and fact

check Trump and say everything that

Trump said was was wrong and now he's uh

he's in the role of Defending Biden for

things taken out of context about

Biden so he claims that this was taken

out of context that when that when Biden

was talking about executive orders you

know he said something along the lines

of you shouldn't do a lot of executive

orders unless you were a dictator now

apparently that was completely taken out

of context and it was right it was taken

out of context so how is that different

from every CNN story about Trump pretty

much all of the news about Trump was

just stuff taken out of context but they

didn't didn't call it out now Daniel

Dale will have to call out all the times

that Biden is taken out of context so he

went from a cool job where you get to

criticize Trump all the time into a way

less cool job where he's got to defend

Biden for things that Biden maybe should

have said a little more clearly or added

as a better context or something so poor

Daniel Dale his job just got demoted to

Biden apologizer apologist I

mean

um apparently China had this clever

scheme to uh one of the big companies

was offering to build test labs in this

country and the accusation here is that

that would have allowed them to collect

a bunch of DNA from Americans and that

China is in the process of collecting as

much American DNA as they

can now I can't think there probably a

whole bunch of ways you can misuse DNA

and of course the scariest one is any

kind of a weapon that would be DNA

specific uh which we do worry could be

possible I think it might be possible

actually so that's pretty dangerous

thing but here's the question that this

asks that this raises why is it in the

year

2021 Chinese companies have something

close to free reign in the United States

they I'm sure they have restrictions but

Chinese companies can do business in the

United States in a way that American

companies can't do business in China now

you can do some kinds of business but

it's not anywhere close to equal why do

we let that

happen why in the world would we let our

our rival China do something closer to

unrestricted business in our country

with this kind of risk

you know if they put if they put any

technology into your company you've got

a risk that they're stealing your SE

Secrets through the technology if they

do any kind of medical thing you've got

a risk that they're going to steal your

DNA if you do any kind of other thing

there's going to be some other risk

every time the Chinese are buying into

this country it opens up some kind of a

risk why do we let them do business here

why is that

legal does anybody have any idea why

that's legal

I can't think of any reason why that

should be legal if we can't do it in

their country now if they opened up and

said hey let's just make it the same you

can do you can do whatever whatever we

do there you can do here but that's not

going to happen if we can't do business

in their country they should not be able

to do business in our country they

should be the same and why is that even

controversial who's on the other side of

that argument is there somebody in the

United States who says yeah yeah we

really do want the Chinese to be putting

their money in into our into our

economy are they putting so much in that

we would be we go into a depression if

they stop investing I don't know I guess

I need to know more about that but I've

never heard a reason why China should do

business with us when we can't do the

same kind of business with them if there

is an argument for that I'd love to hear

it but I think it's just stupid from a

security perspective it just seems

stupid

um are you having the same impression I

have with uh Joe Biden's spokesperson

Jen

here's my take on her day one oh

she seems pretty capable you know she

seems bright and uh look like a perfect

choice for the job really I I thought it

was a good choice although I feel like

they should have chosen a uh a woman of

color um

but you know she she looked very capable

and qualified and she had a good

background and Etc But as time goes by

do you know some personalities the more

you see them the less you like them but

there are others the more you see them

the more you like them you know some

people don't they don't wear well if you

know what I mean there's something about

Jen

basaki who is let's say whatever is the

opposite of Dana Pino I'll just pick her

as my example the more you see of Dana

Perino who had been spokesperson under a

bush the more you see of her the more

you like

her she just has one of those

personalities the more you see the more

you like that's why she's you know has a

lot of time on Fox News the public likes

seeing her but the more I see of Jen

and this has nothing to do with

being a Democrat has nothing to do with

being a woman right so if you're looking

for any isms I don't think it has

anything to do with any of that she just

has a

personality that the more you see of it

the less you like it am I right and and

the reason I use you know Dana Pino as

my opposite example is because she

doesn't have that and I would say Kaylee

McAn even if you hated how she treated

the

Press she's also one of those

personalities where the more you see of

her the more you like her and that's

just not true of everybody the more you

see of Adam Schiff the less you like him

right now could it be that I'm being

biased simply by political leanings and

I'm thinking to myself no I'm just

agreeing with people I want to agree

with and I'm just having some bias about

people who might have a different

opinion from me could be I mean it might

be it might be that that's all that's

happening here but I put the question

out to you it seems like there's

something about her that a little bit

lasts a long time if you know what I

mean are are you is anybody getting that

same Vibe very capable very smart but a

little bit of her goes a long way and I

don't know if that's going to be a

factor going

forward um but the story related to this

is that uh when she was asked whether

they're going to see Joe Biden some more

for these press conferences and she only

answered cleverly oh are you eager to

see him is that what you're saying and

the reporter said

sure and then she didn't answer the

question don't you think it's going to

be more and more of a story the longer

Biden goes without uh opening himself up

to unfriendly questions because the

whole point of the these uh presidential

press conference things is that it opens

you up to unfriendly questions

is Biden going to avoid unfriendly

questions for four years can he get away

with that probably can um here's

something I recommend to you on

CNN uh I've said this before but while I

criticize CNN's uh news coverage quite a

bit CNN as a network does some non- news

programming that often is really good

some a lot of the CNN specials they're

just just about say a certain topic

they're quite well done uh and I

recommend them quite

often they've got one coming up that's

being teased I think Anderson Cooper is

running this and uh they're talking to

some Q supporters to sort of dig down

and figure out what's up with it with

the Q Believers and there's a a teaser

where Anderson Cooper is talking to a

completely rational looking guy a guy

who you'd say to yourself and first of

all uh he looked like he might have a

I'm guessing no I don't want to guess

somebody's ethnicity but I'll say he's

the person he was talking to is not a uh

typical uh white Bred looking guy let's

just say that but I won't guess what his

ethnic background is but that makes it

interesting too because you're Imagining

the CU Believers as a bunch of you know

super white people but here was one that

Anderson was talking to who was not in

that category and said that he believed

that at one point that Anderson Cooper

eight

babies he said that to Anderson Cooper

and then he apologized for thinking that

Anderson Cooper ate

babies and then he went on to say other

things he believed about uh cubing

working with

interdimensional uh blue birdlike

creatures

what

what and here's the amazing thing the

guy he's he interviewed look like a

completely normal smart person who could

operate in the world and do just about

anything a very

capable reasonable looking person and

that person looked right in the camera

and said to Anderson Cooper yeah I

believed you ate babies

sorry blue avens is what I guess the Q

people call it

now what do you make of this do you say

yourself well that's a crazy

person or do you say to yourself there's

there are lots of crazy people do you

imagine that the Q people

are mentally

weak do you think that the Q people are

extra

gullible do you think that the Q

people uh have some kind of strange

mental defect that makes them believe

these things whereas you do not here's

the bad news

people they're completely

normal that's the bad

news the bad news is the people who

believe that Q uh the stories that

Anderson Cooper was eating babies the

people who believe that completely

normal or at least average or typical or

routine human beings how do I know that

you're not going to like this

I probably lose a few followers in the

next few

minutes because people believe every

religion no matter what religion you

have which I think we can agree can we

can we stipulate something that whatever

religion you have is the true

one let's just agree with that now I

don't know what your religion is they're

probably different but just say that the

one you have

that's the right one okay but now that

you know that you have the right

religion lucky you you could have you

could have gotten it wrong but you

didn't you got the right one that means

that there are billions of regular

people who got the wrong

religion do you know what you would

believe if you got the wrong

religion it might involve magical

sounding stuff a little bit for the

wrong Reas religion now your religion is

the right

one so lucky for you uh you're smart and

wise and you don't fall for gullible

stuff but yours is the good one but you

can observe that there are people who

look otherwise

normal who got all the wrong religion

people thinking you're

reincarnating well unless you believe

that in which case it would be

right but if other people believed it

you don't that's

crazy um so you have religions in which

there people walking on order and

resurrecting maybe that's the real one

but you got other ones in which

somebody's writing a flying horse to

Heaven maybe that's the real one and

maybe the the other one's

not some people believe in reincarnation

as I said some people believe in heaven

some people believe there's nothing

there one thing you can say for

sure is that regular normal human beings

with completely functional brains will

believe anything it's actually just

built into our nature we will believe

anything but here's the only thing I

want to add to that because on some

level you do that right the thing I want

to add to that is that the way humans

believe is almost like choosing what

clothes you're going to

wear I think that and you can see it

with this uh this person who was talking

to Anderson Cooper the the exq believer

he the way he spoke of it was almost

like a lifestyle choice to adopt a set

of

beliefs because adopting that set of

beliefs had some benefits maybe it made

you part of a group maybe it made you

interested maybe it was intellectually

stimulating but whatever the reason was

it was just a

choice and I would submit to you that

people choose their their filter or the

the set of things they believe based on

what just feels good

the same way you decide well I'll wear

this shirt or this other shirt when you

get dressed how do you make that

decision which shirt to put on say well

I like this one this is a better shirt

today I feel like this shirt and that

belief is more like that that we pick

the belief that sort of gives us some

benefits makes us feel good makes us

feel connected whatever and that we

don't actually say are these beliefs

based on science or truth can I prove it

am I being G

what about those other people why do

they believe something different it's

nothing like that it's simply a

lifestyle choice to buy into a set of

beliefs and then treat them as though

they're true even on some level knowing

that you just made a choice to treat

them as true as opposed to them being

objectively

true anyway you should watch the Q

special I think you're actually going to

learn a lot about how completely normal

people can choose choose to believe

something crazy I'll give you an example

of

that when I watch the uh uh one of my

favorite shows is about uh ancient

astronauts and ancient aliens uh

allegedly have you know building the

pyramids and allegedly interacting with

lots of uh lots of different early

cultures speaking of which I'll show you

a picture if I can do this on camera so

in uh Tahiti they've got all of these

let's see if I can do this if I can hold

it just right you can see it there's a

little totem looking picture all over

the place in Tahiti where it looks like

an

alien like the this big eyed alien thing

and they're all over the place as if the

early tahitians had had contact with an

alien race and that now they're building

them into all their their imagery and I

thought to myself well maybe they just

liked you know creating a AR creatures

that looked identically to how we would

imagine an alien looks it's just a

coincidence

maybe maybe that's what's going on but

when I watch those

shows I suspend my critical thinking and

I allow myself to live in a reality in

which the aliens did come down and

taught people how to build pyramids and

those are why the cave drawings look

like Advanced aliens with spaceships

sometimes now do what when I do that

when I accept that reality for the point

of entertaining myself by watching this

am I really accepting it as an actual

reality or am I accepting it as an

entertainment

reality and I feel like it's

different my my inner sense of it is

that if you put a gun to my head and

said all right now you're going to have

to bet with your real money or or we're

going to you know kill you if you're

wrong you have to bet did the aliens

teach the early people how to build the

pyramids all right you got to put your

real money on it now I'd bet against

[Laughter]

it I'd bet against it and I wouldn't

feel too unsafe when I did I'd feel

confident that I could bet against the

aliens having built the pyramids or

helped on that but when I watch those

shows I like to accept it as true

because it makes it more fun so I find

that I can wear reality like a shirt I

can just put on my alien astronaut shirt

and I can just wear it for a while and

then I can just take it off and if

somebody says now you have to bet your

real money I'd say Oh Real Money real

money okay let me take off the

shirt once you learn that people can

change their their religion basically

like they can change a shirt because

it's more of a lifestyle decision it's

not based on what you really think is

true in many cases once you realize that

distinction it starts explaining a lot

of what you see that people are adopting

a

belief that just feels good and they

will and they can lose that belief if

there's something that makes it stop

feeling good and the Q stuff you know

had this business in the capital which

was an event that made it stop feeling

good and the moment it stopped feeling

good there were some people such as this

guy talking to Anderson Cooper who said

okay it doesn't feel good anymore now

I'll change my

belief all right um who killed more

people the CCP or Q well that's

easy all right uh that's about all I got

now

um I'm just looking at your comments

people love the ancient alien stuff it

just captures your

imagination all right

was it a good honeymoon yes it was yes

it was um I'd show you some pictures but

you'd feel bad all right I'm going to

put together some uh some some of my

best I think I've had some time to plan

micro lessons on how to program your

brain now it's my favorite topic how to

reprogram your brain but I've got

another take on it that I think will be

useful that will be on the locals

platform only for subscribers and some

other micro

lessons that be on there this week

and uh somebody says if aliens were real

we'd have seen photos by now yeah given

that all we have is uh we have cameras

in every pocket in the Civilized world

yeah I think we would have a picture of

an alien by now I think so yeah locals

is a platform um in which subscribers

can subscribe to my content That You

Don't See otherwise so I have the the

stuff that you do see but I add I add

useful content that you wouldn't see

otherwise I'd like to know how to sleep

um I think I did did I not do a micro

lesson on that already if not I will and

I will talk to you

tomorrow all right YouTubers sorry I uh

was not streaming on YouTube while I was

out of the country the the button

disappeared so there's some things you

just can't do outside the country and

for some reason that I didn't have that

option

um yes I am back in

California all right

uh just looking at your comments all

right that's all we got for today and I

will talk to you tomorrow