Episode 1360 Scott Adams - Biden Speech, Senator Tim Scott's Rebuttal Through the Persuasion Filter

hey everybody come on in uh while we're waiting for everybody to come in i'd like to do something that i've seen other people do on video and i know it's very popular it's called an eating video in which you just watch me eat some of my favorite foods i'm going to start doing that now this is real good broccoli i got this broccoli from uh door dashing from one of my local restaurants it's delicious it's uh it's got a little lemon on it it's just exactly the right christmas oh you don't see any food oh oh oh well that's probably because you don't use doordash if you use doordash you know that they don't always bring the food but they'll definitely charge you last night i was talking to christina about my favorite dish a broccoli chilled broccoli dish i ordered it from my favorite restaurant now i usually order two this is a true story i i often order two entrees because the the ratio of times that they forget to bring one of the orders is so high that you have to order two dinners to get a pretty good chance they'll bring one of them and i'm just wondering do you have that same experience are you having the experience where your door dash and one of the orders is just always missing i say 75 of the time the order is incomplete but you paid for it anyway so i just wondered in the comments but while we're waiting for that um if you'd like to enjoy this all you need is a couple of marker glasses tango challenge time canteen dragon flash vessel of any kind fill it with favorite liquid i like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure the dopamine of the day and the thing that makes everything better it's called the simultaneous sip it's gonna happen right now go oh yeah that's good so yes that's one thing the food delivery business has to get right um and and i don't think that they quite understand the impact it has because the service is amazing if you've ever used the doordash app it's like a miracle it's like one of the best apps you'll ever see in your life so it's a great service but when they don't bring the food you ordered and then they charge you for it and there's no obvious way even to reverse the charge i looked i looked is there a way to reverse the charge or complain not really so i need to fix that all right rasmussen did a poll and asked people if they thought that biden's first hundred days was a success only 36 percent said yes but of course conservatives thought he was a big failure and liberals thought he was great but um 36 percent of moderates say his first hundred days were a failure i'm not sure i would say that i don't know what happened in his first hundred days that we that you would define as failure per se there are certain things that he did that you don't like but failure is a pretty big word certainly he screwed the pooch on immigration certainly he's looking to spend a lot of money and introduce socialism that you don't like but i don't know if that's a failure since that was what he was trying to do everything that looks like a failure is pretty close to what he said he would do if he got elected you know including opening up the border so i don't know i guess you have to ask yourself what failure means if somebody is doing what they said they would do you just don't like it uh we'll talk of course more about biden here first some other fun stuff project veritas as you know is suing the new york times for saying some things about uh their their uh projects and apparently the new york times legal defense is that they're injecting unlabeled opinion into their news stories that seems like quite an admission doesn't it that the the parts that are under a complaint were opinion but they seemed to be embedded in news so i think project veritas just got a huge win in just getting the new york times to admit the degree to which they insert opinion into news if all that comes to that is that the public is more informed about how much opinion is is uh injected into news that's probably a good thing uh so again i'll say that project veritas is one of the most constructive forces in the country right now weird isn't it that they're one of the most constructive forces because they're a push back against the media propaganda and you just need that you need as much pushback as you can get here's an alarming story apparently rudy giuliani was the subject of fb federal investigators executing a search warrant on his new york city apartment and they seized his electronic devices and it was being reported that it's a sign that some criminal investigation is ramping up uh about his dealings in ukraine and including whether he violated the pharah stuff to which i say that feels like speculation doesn't it i think that's speculation as to why they're looking at his stuff and do you believe that this is legitimate or do you believe that this is just political here's my take on it the default assumption has to be that this is illegitimate unfortunately because what we've you know what we've witnessed from you know uh the russia collusion hoax all the way through what we noticed and and also we notice any trump allies being picked off one by one in whatever ways they can get them so i have to assume this is illegitimate subject to any evidence that shows it is legitimate but isn't your starting position that this is illegitimate and i'm not sure i would have said that i know two years ago i think two years ago if i heard that anybody had been a subject of a search warrant by federal authorities i would have said to myself probably there's a good reason i mean maybe not innocent until proven guilty but probably they had a good reason do you believe that they probably had a good reason in this case because i don't i don't think we live in a country where that benefit of a doubt can be given to our federal investigators i don't think we can give them that benefit of a doubt anymore and so as a country i think we've got to put pressure on them to say if you're going to if you're going to see somebody's electronic devices which is one of the most serious things i can think of short of actual physical rape that would make you feel abused and and victimized right so short of anything that's actually literally physical this is the biggest violation i could even imagine imagine having your home or your office like essentially violated by people who are going to look through all of your electronic devices and there's nothing you can do about it how do you feel about that it would feel like a physical attack wouldn't it like the way you would the way you would process it would be almost like a sexual assault i mean i i shouldn't say that because obviously i can't understand what that would feel like so that's a little bit hyperbole you can take it that way but it's pretty pretty damn bad and uh again the government really needs to explain that uh i guess also there's a search warrant for victoria tensing's um assets i don't know what they're looking for because she's worked with giuliani on some stuff i have a victoria tensing story have i told you ever that for weird reasons i end up in the middle of history in lots of ways and i don't know why it's just it's one of these weird coincidences well here's just a weird little story one day a a tv host doesn't doesn't matter who so just for privacy i won't tell you but i was doing a book tour i know a year and a half ago or two years whatever and the tv host had uh get a note for me from victoria tensing now if you want to be worried let me tell you how to get worried have somebody hand you a note from the famous lawyer that's just scary because because the first thing i thought was oh my god what kind of trouble am i in who's suing me now like what what you know why does a famous i'll call her a tv lawyer just because you see her on tv a lot but she's a lawyer turns out you know i i called her to find out what it was about and it was just a mistaken identity she thought she literally thought i was someone else so she had some questions of a completely different person so i had nothing to do with me but i can't tell you how many times i'm in the center of some kind of thing or i've met some person who's in the news through random weird ways i don't i just don't understand how this keeps happening to me it's the simulation all right um let's talk about biden's joint address to congress how many of you watched it did i meet her no i never met her we just had one phone call and she immediately realized that she should have been talking to somebody else so that we didn't have any actual business it was just mistaken identity um so the biden address happened uh kevin mccarthy had i think the best tweet about it he said uh this could have just been done by email and i'm gonna give that an a plus for uh for insulting uh tweets it's not quite trump level but but it's pretty darn good we could have just done this by email it's like the ultimate insult if if your address could have been done by email all right let's see how the reactions were um even cnn said that for a first speech to the uh to congress that uh biden got the lowest very positive reaction so here's how cnn described it biden had 51 percent but trump was 57 obama was 68 and bush was 66.

so biden didn't do too well on the positive reactions but i also have to wonder you know how much of this is the ever declining uh bipartisanship yeah it could be that just that uh you know people during obama were more likely to be a little bit friendlier to the other side and of course obama was a better orator but uh kind of interesting button got such a low number i'll give you my own opinion here in a minute but uh well i'll give it to you now um i thought biden's speech was capable i'm going to criticize a number of things you probably know where i'm going with most of them but i would say you know the criticisms are mostly just the the naked political politicization you know so the the naked partisanship is all the problems but they're also so obvious that i don't know i have the biggest problem in the world with it i don't mind a little naked partisanship if it's just obvious that's what's going on you know as long as it's obvious that feels like good labeling at least so let's talk about some of the specific things he said one of them is white supremacy is our biggest threat in the united states um is it how do you measure a biggest threat now he's talking biggest threat in terms of you know violence and people killing people not climate change or anything like that but in terms of people killing people he says white supremacy is the biggest based on intel he says intel agencies and i would ask you this is that bigger than the brainwashing from the media because it seems to me that nobody does anything in this country in any kind of a big trend way unless the media has brainwashed them to do it so whenever you see somebody say you know people are doing this you got to go back one level and say but why why are there lots of mass shootings is it because of white supremacy some of them are but what but why are there so many not just white supremacists but why are there so many shootings it's the news the news is the biggest problem if the news did not cover it the way they cover it it wouldn't be happening so if you say white supremacy is the biggest threat in the united states ask yourself this would it be if the news were just the news because i don't think it would be i feel as though the news is what has caused uh yeah let me say something really provocative here you ready i believe that white supremacy is made far worse by the way the news handles the news and that the white supremacists would just be sitting quietly thinking their white supremacist thoughts if the news didn't tell them they were at war and that they were being threatened and and white people are bad and critical race theory is is the way imagine a world with no critical race theory and no media pushing it and no wokism and no all of that would white supremacists be as dangerous as many people think they are i don't think so i think that white supremacist just like everybody else responds to the news so if the news is telling them they're under threat what the hell are they going to do right so it seems to me that ignoring the media as the biggest threat to democracy is really a giant blind spot biden said that he promised 100 million uh coveted 19 shots in 100 days but he will reach over 220 million in 100 days unambiguously good job and apparently we're doing better than most of our peers you know israel did a great job but in terms of our more equivalent types of countries we're doing great apparently but here's the thing do you think that trump would not have continued fine-tuning the process and also gotten to the same level what evidence do we have that this wouldn't have been exactly the same under trump because all this fine tuning you know the things that they figured out and improved the ways to make more vaccine the ways to get more people involved that's all happening at the administration level right it's not like the president said get cvs involved get walgreens on the phone did he i mean did either of them i feel as if we would be in exactly the same place because the president isn't doing any of this the president is watching and taking credit you know after you get things going unambiguously trump was responsible for project warp speed because it's well documented that he forced people to do things they didn't want to do that's actual leadership but simply letting your bureaucracy perform exactly the way you'd expect them to i'm going to say that that probably would have been the same under trump i think it would have been or at least we have no evidence that it should have been different in any way but it is nonetheless a great accomplishment and i remember that i told you in the beginning that you could not predict how well we would do with vaccinations in the final months by looking at anything that happened in the beginning months you know i told you that that curve was was going to go and in the final months we'd be just so good at it getting vaccines to the right people that it would look amazing and what happened several months into the vaccines we got so good at it it looks amazing i mean it doesn't even look possible it's so good i guess half of adults have got at least one shot all right um cnn says that uh biden is casting vaccines as a way to get everyone back to normal and that it's a key tactic biden will employ to pressure people to get the shots now and and he did say some things like that he talked about parents saying the smiles on their kids faces because everybody's vaccinated and grandparents hugging their children and grandchildren because they're vaccinated and stuff so he does do a little about that but conservatives some of conservatives most pointed criticism is that at least the cdc and fouchy and those people are not doing this so so the criticism is that the government is not doing a good enough job saying if you get your vaccination at least you can go back to something normal rather biden is still talking about normal but the actual guidelines are not so normal right so i think the conservative criticism is accurate but cnn is saying that biden is doing this i don't think he is i think he's doing it a little bit which is really different from saying if you get your vaccination do anything you want which i think is what what you'd cr mostly conservatives probably want here's an interesting fact apparently obamacare is getting stronger during these uh during the hundred days you know 800 000 americans were enrolled blah blah and even cnn said we've reached a place where a few people are talking about repealing the affordable care act that's true isn't it i don't feel people even talking about you know repealing obamacare and here's something that i told you early on in which i gave obama incredible credit for and i'm going to do it again i know you don't like this but any any nod toward any objective analysis just has to include this you probably didn't notice this but when obama was explaining why he was backing the original version of obamacare he said in direct language so this is not my interpretation he said it in direct language i'm paraphrasing but very directly he said our plan is to put out a bad plan again i'm paraphrasing he didn't say that our plan is to put out a bad plan get the public pregnant with it and then it'll be too hard to take it away but it will be possible to fix it so he intentionally and said it directly i'm going to put out there a bad plan again he didn't use the word bad you know it was like imperfect or something i'm going to put out a bad plan and i'm going to make people not be able to get rid of it and i'm going to make them have to fix it what happened he put out a bad plan people couldn't get rid of it they had to fix it now i don't know how fixed it is but 800 000 people just signed up for it and it is true i don't hear many people talking about killing it obama pulled off one of the most clever persuasion strategies you'll ever see and he told you right in front of your face which is the fun part he told you what he was doing and then he just did it and it worked now you can hate obamacare that's a separate separate issue whether it's good or bad but technique wise 100 a plus um china tariffs even cnn noted and i'll read exactly what they say it's notable that biden has not reversed trump's tariffs on china how about that didn't you kind of think that biden might reverse the tariffs on china and go a little easy on china doesn't look like it right now again if we're going to be objective got to give him credit he did not reverse the tariffs and that's got to hurt china um but the way the way biden talks about china is different from trump trump was more more competitive more directly you know saying we've got to do got to do more stuff biden's plan which i'm not sure is a bad one so far i'm going to be open-minded about this so far but here's the situation he's he said explicitly and then he's modeled it that he's not going to be insulting china he's just going to be competing with him but if they cross the line he's going to be tough with him wherever we need to be tough but mostly he's not going to be insulting their ways he's going to be just competing with him now dan says i'm out idiot you know if there's anything that i said that makes you say i'm out so far you're probably just an idiot i can't even listen to this because he said something good about biden is that what just happened all right if you can't handle the fact that sometimes trump can do good things and sometimes biden can do good things you really don't belong on this live stream you should just go away i'm out too bye craig says good i don't really want anybody on here who can't handle hearing that the the other team did something right if you can't handle that you should go away immediately so if there are any more of you would like to go away i'd like to see you do it right away all right so is a biden's plan better to talk nice to china and let them i don't know i suppose commit genocide on the uyghurs and harvest organs and just sort of put a little pressure on them about it but don't care too much i don't know it might it might be fine as long as he keeps the economic pressure on him and he's doing a lot of other things like pushing electric cars and batteries and you know uh he's got the made in america thing going on i would say that biden has number one accurately identified china as our biggest future problem do you have a problem with that trump did the same thing right so both trump and biden have now accurately said china is our biggest challenge i can't argue with that they're both right and biden has kept the tariffs on kept the pressure on he's going to fund industries that will compete against them now did you also hear i don't know if this is true but i saw a story that said china's population decreased for the first time ever did you hear that maybe not the first time ever i don't know about world war ii but uh is that true china's population decreased because if that's true they probably have an old people bomb coming like a lot of retired people like like a lot of retired people like a lot a lot of retired people and that's sort of in their future i feel like they're in a lot of trouble like a lot of trouble i don't know if they know it but they are i'm sure they know it so i'm not going to give biden a hard time for not being hard enough on china he's got a strategy maybe it's okay but it does seem to leave the uyghurs out it does seem to leave any political people were being oppressed out uh it looks like but maybe that there was nothing we could do about it right unless you're gonna attack china nothing was gonna change all right apparent apparently vice president harris has been put in charge of the american jobs plan which is really the infrastructure plan with a different name so now she's got the immigration at least in terms of the south american you know firming it up so the immigration is less and now this those are pretty big jobs for a vice president pretty big jobs so they're clearly grooming her for the the next rung we don't know when um joe biden's persuasion on climate crisis i hate to say it i'm going to give him another a plus if anybody else wants to leave this would be the time i'm going to give him an a plus in persuasion all right remember we're just limiting this to his persuasion the the topic of climate change you can have your own opinion on but you're not going to hear this at the moment right now just the persuasion he used and here's what he said he said it's not a climate crisis um we have failed to use the most important word when it comes to meeting the climate crisis jobs jobs and jobs he says for me when i think about climate change i think jobs really smart mark is out goodbye mark really smart it is very smart for biden to talk about climate change and whatever we're doing about it as a way to create jobs is it true well that's a different question would it actually create good jobs it might i don't know who knows maybe it would take away as many good jobs as it creates but in terms of persuasion where the truth is a little less important than the persuasion this is pretty good because if you're trying to sell climate change to conservatives and they don't believe it has anything to do with saving the planet many of them don't what are you going to do instead you say to him we're going to increase jobs he's saying the same thing about the you know the american jobs plan which is basically infrastructure he calls it a jobs plan how smart is that it's pretty smart do you know what republicans like more than anything except maybe god and the constitution and guns jobs jobs so if you're trying to reach the other side talking about climate crisis as jobs instead of arguing about science is pretty solid especially if you put china in there and say hey china's going to have all the electric cars china's going to make all the batteries that'll be the future of power china is doing all the nuclear energy if you make it jobs and you make china the enemy suddenly the conservatives say i like jobs i don't like china i don't know if the science of climate change is quite exactly right but i like jobs and i don't like china so i'm on board a little bit right not bad this is good stuff i hate to tell you that although biden is a horrible you know or orator and uh he's got plenty of problems in his speech but this part's good it's just good um and he also talked about opportunity for women especially in the paycheck fairness act and there's a real problem brewing that i don't know if everybody's seen yet so the me too stuff as important as the topic is had an unintended uh consequence that men don't like to hang out with women or even hire attractive women if they have an option because if you hire an attractive woman in the era of me too even if you know you'll be fine your co-worker might do something wrong right so you're just introducing a danger into the workplace that's a pretty big one now will that cause men who are in a position to hire to hire fewer women i would assume so certainly people say it i've talked to lots of people who will say it right out loud i'm not going to hire a woman because i'm just going to get sued or my staff will get sued somebody's going to get sued now add on top of that the paycheck fairness act um i know i know i've got a mostly conservative audience i get it that you all believe there's no such thing as a wage gap i get it and i agree as far as i know there is no such thing as a real gender wage gap but it is widely believed by i don't know two-thirds of the world but as far as i know there's no evidence of it there's just bad analyses there's comparing the wrong things they're comparing people with less experience the more they're they're not comparing how much people are even trying to get the ceo job how much do they want it you know none of that's in any analysis so certainly there's in my opinion and i've looked into it enough to have a pretty informed opinion on this and i have a degree in economics i don't think there's any evidence that there's a wage gap my experience shows it's the opposite meaning that if you're a woman with exactly the same qualifications as a man you're gonna get promoted over the man every time like every time did i mention every time equal qualifications woman and man in a corporate world which one gets promoted every time it's the woman in 2021 because the corporations need to have more diversity and i'm not arguing against diversity i kind of like it i like diversity i do think it adds but it has this this impact that a woman in the workplace is like the most valuable asset anybody ever had so so we're trying to fix a problem that doesn't exist now imagine that you're a woman in the workplace and you look at your male coworker and the male coworker is making more money than you what are you going to do are you going to say to yourself oh my my co-worker took more classes has more experience than this has worked more years are you going to say that not once you'll never say that if your male coworker is making more than you it doesn't matter if there are reasons you're going to sue your employer or put pressure on them to have an equal pay is that because you're a woman and there's something wrong with women no you would do the same thing as a man right if if if i were in a situation where i could get a raise by complaining about women getting overpaid i would do it all is fair in in negotiating for salary do you think your employer wouldn't try to screw you by telling you some to to keep your your pay low of course they would that's how it works your employer tries to keep your pay low you try to say what you can to get it up if i could say that women were overpaid and you must make it fair by paying me more i wouldn't care if that was true i wouldn't care if i had a good basis for my argument i'd just throw it in there see if i get a raise so i feel as if this paycheck fairness act has the same potential uh blowback as the sexual harassment stuff and making men less likely to want to work with women so let's watch for that biden says he wants to end cancer as we know it it's within our power again i like it i like it i don't know if you're following any of the stuff with mrna vaccines but apparently there's some some reason to believe that we have some technologies that have a pretty high possibility of taking a big bite out of cancer i love the fact that biden says it's a top priority sort of a moonshot thing good leadership i'd say i don't know what he's doing about it exactly but i like that it's up there as a priority because i think we can maybe close it out in the next 10 years as possible um let's see uh cnn is calling biden's lodestar they like put a good name on it that we have to prove to the autocrats of the world that democracy still works so that's sort of a big theme of his presidency is showing that democracies are better than say chinese communist leadership or or russian or any autocracy but is it true do you think democracies are more effective in helping the country that autocracies because i'm not sure that's true i prefer freedom right if i have choice i'm going to take a democracy but why is the united states doing better than let's say china in innovation is it because of the form of government i don't think so it feels like a cultural difference that if you're in a country that doesn't mind you failing as much as you want before you succeed you probably get more risk-taking than a country that says oh you shamed your family and failed that company you started didn't work blah blah could be because america has fewer nepotism problems less corruption fewer people in the top you know with puppet strings could be a lot of things but i don't think it has anything to do with democracy versus autocracy does it and even the the autocrats have capitalism they have some form of capitalism right so it's an interesting um it's an interesting theme to prove that democracy still works because i don't know that it does i don't know that we really can compete with a qualified autograph we could certainly compete with bad autocrats like just dictators that are destroying their own country but but china's got a really capable leader i feel like i feel like if you're lucky enough to have a really qualified capable autocrat aren't you going to do better i mean certainly it ends up with you know genocide and part of the country nobody wants that but just trying to make the economy hum and compete with other countries and build your military i'm not so sure democracy is the best way to go i'm not but it would be it's an interesting match-up and i i think i'm glad that biden wants to push that match up but i don't know if it's true the dumbest thing biden said was that the the so-called insurrection on january 6 was an existential crisis a test of whether our democracy could survive was it was it was those people who entered the capital uh was that an existential crisis for the country did democracy almost end that day let me put it in context every night there's a cleaning crew that goes into the capitol building carrying these large blunt objects sometimes they have mops at the end sometimes brooms but blunt objects and they go in and they occupy the capital and then they clean it and then they leave now i'm not going to say that the cleaning crew is identical to the protesters who took over the capitol building i'm just saying they're almost identical neither them seemed to be interested in using deadly weapons neither them had the intention of staying forever they went there for a specific purpose they did their specific purpose and then they left it's a lot like the cleaning crew so if you're going to say that the insurrection was an existential crisis and i think he said it was the worst thing since the civil war there are a few things you're leaving out between the civil war now was the uh was the occupation of the capitol building for a few hours worse than pearl harbor was it worse than uh 911 was it worse than timothy mcveigh blowing up a federal building was it worse than russia gate or the shooting of steve scalise i'm pretty sure it wasn't worse than any of those things yeah and not only was it not worse than any of those things it was very similar in type to the cleaning crew some people who came in for a reason didn't shoot any weapons and left when they were done that's my that's my best comparison honestly if you think this was an insurrection there was a an actual risk to democracy you're either brainwashed or stupid or or you're a politician you're just lying so let me say that clearly if you think the january 6th thing was an actual risk like an actual risk to the country you're either stupid or brainwashed there's no other possibility that's it all right um and let me remind you that if conservatives really planned an insurrection it would be louder that's all i'm going to say because i'm on i'm on youtube so i don't want to use any words that'll get me kicked off but wouldn't you agree an actual insurrection that involved the most well-armed citizens on the planet you don't think it would be a little bit louder if you know what i mean there'd be a little bit more noise so look for that if you're wondering if the conservatives have decided to stage a revolution it'll be a lot louder a lot louder all right i had a fascinating and fun time looking at cnn's fact-checking of biden's uh speech and so they did a good job of showing the uh the text and then the fact check for each of the things he claimed and as you as you might imagine they were a little bit generous but my fav my favorite part was where they just gave up uh on one of them so here's what uh biden said and then i'm gonna read you cnn's fact check and see if it doesn't look like they just gave up all right so biden says my fellow americans trickle down economics has never worked all right so trickle-down economics has never worked now cnn's going to fact-check that so if you were going to check the statement trickle-down economics has never worked what would that look like would it look like well here's some studies that say it works or here's some studies that say it doesn't work that's what you're expecting right if you're going to trickle down economics it doesn't has never worked what would it sound like well here's what cnn wrote you hear that reagan republicans question mark trickle down economics the idea that letting the wealthy in corporations have low taxes and few regulations will unleash so much growth that everyone will benefit may be on the ropes as inequality grows wait what where's my fact check all the the fact check is mocking reagan republicans the fact jack didn't even address the fact it actually ignored the fact and just insulted people who believed the fact this is their fact check now why is that why is it that the cnn doesn't simply say yeah this trickle-down economics has never worked all the economists agree do you know why they can't fact-check that assume because it works now i don't know that to be true because it's sort of hard it's really hard to really know if it worked in my opinion but it feels like cnn just didn't want to even address the question so instead they just mocked people who believed it that's new so biden talked about changing the gun laws and he said talk to the most responsible gun owners most hunters they'll they'll tell you there's no possible justification for having a hundred rounds do you think there's no possible justification for having a hundred rounds does anybody think that let me suggest a possible rationalization or reason really to have a hundred rounds here's my reason biden on changing gun laws talk to most responsible gun owners most hunters they'll tell you there's no possible justification for having 100 rounds that's the justification that's the justification the fact that he would say that out loud as president of the united states tells me i need more bullets because the government is looking to take away one of your basic rights if the government is acting to take away one of your basic rights and this basic right goes right to the heart of freedom which is not letting the government run roughshod over you being armed enough that it just wouldn't ever work i feel like biden just gave you all the reason you'd ever need to have all the rounds that you could ever buy he is the justification i'm watching the comments you all agree with this by the way did you think it as soon as you heard it the moment i heard this i thought well maybe they didn't have justification before but you certainly just gave it to him immediately after seeing biden say i have no reason to have a hundred rounds immediately i thought to myself how can i get more ammo did anybody think that how many of you thought to yourself my god how can i get more more guns and more weapons because he's talking this way i bet a lot of you did you have seen the yeses in the comments um so biden's also going to raise my taxes and other rich people he says he says it's time for corporate america and the wealthiest 1 americans to pay their fair share what do you think about that do you think that wealthy americans should pay their fair share why not right i think wealthy americans should pay their fair share who would disagree with that statement nobody right so it's good persuasion so you start with the thing everybody agrees with it's time for corporate america and the wealthiest one percent to pay their fair share who argues against paying your fair share nobody so it's good persuasion he starts with pacing and then it gets weird uh he said a recent study shows that 55 of the nation's biggest corporations paid zero in federal income tax last year um i need some permission to curse permission to curse there will be swearing it's coming up if you've got children send them away cursing is coming up so yes so after saying that rich people should pay their fair share he says 55 of the big corporations paid zero income tax let me uh let me put a little context on this joe biden um i'm not one of the 55 largest corporations i'm not and do you know why so first of all i work seven days a week and i only get paid for the value that i produce it's like a direct thing i produce more value more people you know watch me on youtube more people will buy my comic that's it i work seven days a week probably 60 hours a week on average i'm not a big corporation joe biden you for trying to take my money i'm paying my fair share well over 50 for most of my career yeah most of it and conflating me with amazon.com is just you it's really just you i worked for my money don't compare me to amazon.com he's yours right he's yours amazon.com is yours that's your problem not mine solve your problem your problem joe biden i work for a living i don't you know make billions of dollars because i started a company successfully and conflating me and all the people who were let's say doctors or lawyers consultants entrepreneurs we're not the we're not the we're the ones who make this whole country work no obviously you need everybody working but you couldn't take away this group of americans the ones who are individuals just excelling and inventing stuff you know curing people of diseases fixing legal problems were kind of important the people who just go to work but do do enough value they you know create enough value that we get into this amazon.com conversation do you think i'm anywhere near amazon.com i i earned every penny i have and i don't think you should take it away from me by changing the rules after i made my money that's my problem if this had always been the rules if i had entered my career with a certain set of rules i would have said oh okay you know that's what i chose but when you change the rules after i make my money and now you're going to take a out of a third of it away or whatever it's going to be not cool let me suggest an improvement to make this at least somewhat equitable and it would go like this i don't believe that anybody over a 50 should ever have their taxes increased that's it now how you treat corporations is separate if you want to put a minimum tax on corporations you know that's something to talk about but i don't think an individual who's just working for a living is not a corporation just works for a living and is successful if you're over 50 and you raise their taxes not cool just not cool and anybody over 50 should just vote out of office anybody who even thinks of raising their taxes because that group worked their whole life to have what they have and it isn't your job to take it away and give it to somebody who didn't do that it's just not cool so if biden said i'm going to tax the corporations a little more have some minimum tax i'd be open to that conversation i don't really know if the economists have sorted out whether that's good or bad or even if they can tell but when you tax people above a certain age and take the money that they've worked all their life to earn through no crime no crime you so that's what i think of joe biden all right um new york times in a tweet as referred to biden's economic plans as biden's latest ambitious economic package is ambitious uh a good news word ambitious is a persuasion word right now it is ambitious i would say that it's an accurate word it's a very ambitious plan but if you're only going to pick one word is that the one you pick that's the one that sums it all up it's ambitious i would have said huge huge enormous if you said enormous there would be no um no opinion in there but as soon as you say ambitious that's an opinion and the new york times is already defending against defending against project veritas for their opinions that they're packaging as news here's another example that's an opinion packaged as news all right here's some fake news that probably fooled you did you see that on twitter uh the phrase uncle tim was trending obviously a insulting play on the phrase uncle tom and it was because of tim scott senator tim scott's rebuttal how many of you saw that trending and then you said to yourself my god these liberals are so racist god they're so racist they're so racist that not only would somebody use this phrase uncle tim very insulting but so much it would be trending how many of you fell for that do you know why it was trending do you know why because one guy said it in a tweet and conservatives went crazy and retweeted it saying my god look at this the conservatives retweeted it so much one guy just one guy then it trended and then once it trended the conservatives said look at how bad these liberals are they made this thing trend but of course it was the conservatives it was one guy look at all the all the tweets they're all pointing to the same guy one idiot and and you got fooled into thinking that the liberals are all saying uncle tom it was one guy if you don't see how this uh uh this happens you're missing a pretty big part of the media um my biggest problem with tim scott is that he's got a pretty good shot of being president i would say uh but he shares my name and i i'm not cool with that because if we ever had a president scott and of course people refer to the president by just their last name you know biden and trump scott i would have to wake up every day hearing what scott did that people don't like and i can't have that so while i think senator tim scott is a very qualified guy certainly has every qualifications i would look for in a president but i just can't have it i just i just can't have somebody with my name as president that would be that would just be too annoying for four to eight years um so a lot of people uh on the right loved tim scott's rebuttal i listened to it this morning and uh i didn't see it honestly i i was expecting the the senator scott's speech to be like a i heard a number of people saying it's the best one they've ever seen which i don't doubt by the way it might actually be the best one anybody's ever seen for a rebuttal because the the bar for rebuttals is like super low right you know that the rebuttal people are usually pathetic in my experience you get your adam shifts being the rebuttal guy if you if you have adam schiff be your rebuttal guy you don't even care about the rebuttal i mean you wouldn't put that guy in there but that happens right so to have anybody do a a solid job looks like the best that's ever happened so he did a solid job i would say that the senator is a very capable speaker and he had lots of themes about coming together etc i don't think any of it matters because it just it just looks like conservatives talking to conservatives so i don't think that senator scott has language that is penetrating the other side and when he said america is not a racist country everybody with good reading comprehension said the following oh he means that the country is not racist by design because everybody can move up but obviously obviously he's not saying there are no racists in the country obviously obviously he's not saying that everybody's starting from the same place obviously but because he made this statement which i think was just a pure mistake in my opinion that america is not a racist country there are lots of ways you could have said that that would have avoided the problem that you walked into which is that will be taken out of context easily in a context it already is and it's being used as a sign that republicans don't understand racism exists so i mean he dug a hole and he fell into his own hole so it was a huge persuasion mistake in my opinion to say the phrase america is not a racist country even if you believe it's true and even if you're pretty sure republicans will agree with you because you're trying to you're trying to persuade the other side or what's the point i mean talking to your own side is not really persuading anybody so i would say that that was a mistake because it opened up easy attack vector and you know van jones waited in here he said that the united states is still struggling with racism in every institution did tim scott disagree with that no no tim scott never said anything that is the disagreement with that but they can make it look like it is and that's that was his mistake um and then and then van jones also said to tim scott's credit he said how different he sounds from all republicans does he did you think that tim scott sounded different from all republicans because i didn't get that at all i i got that it was right down the middle it's the most republican speech ever because he was saying you know the wokeness don't worry about it everybody's got a chance you know everybody can succeed in this country i didn't think it was even a little bit outside the mainstream it was right down the middle now why would anybody think this does not sound like republicans well if you spend too much time watching cnn content you would think this was not mainstream it's the most mainstream thing you've ever heard he went right down the middle tim scott didn't even he didn't even touch the edge of mainstream republican thought you didn't even get close but if you watch cnn you think you did all right so um one of the things that i find interesting is that whoever gets to do the rebuttal it means that the party has decided that this is somebody who's going to get a little attention and as i watch the you know the 2024 race start to come together i feel like we're going to see another repeat of 2016 in one sense am i wrong that there are a lot of republicans that are really qualified to be president let me just list them ron desantis could he be qualified to be president could he win i think he could um tim scott is he qualified could he win the presidency yes i think he could uh ted cruz a little bit harder because he's a little more provocative right the the left has a little more problem with him but could he get nominated yes does he have all the qualifications for a president yes he absolutely does um name some other names um did i say tom cotton uh chris christie i think he's got a little more baggage so to speak but remember remember when trump was running the one of the biggest comments was uh there are a lot of republicans that are looking pretty solid pompeo right yeah mike pompeo solid nikki haley gets a little more controversial christy holm gnome a little more controversial but certainly the republicans have a strong field so i'd be a little bit worried uh i hear i see trey gowdy being mentioned but i don't know that he wants to run for the office by the way if trey gowdy ever ran for president is there any chance he would lose because there's nobody on the republican side that i can think of who's even close to his level of skill i just don't know that he's interested in the job oh richard grinnell another good another good obvious candidate who has all the qualifications for president um imagine this uh just just just for fun imagine that the republicans just say we just want to win and all they do the republicans all they do is they just say what is it going to take to win and we're just going to do that win win win is all we want who would they run let me give you a proposal so this is not my suggestion of who should be president just just a mental exercise imagine a ticket of tim scott and richard grinnell yeah does that ticket lose how how would how would they ever lose seriously you put you put a you know one of the most successful gay open politicians as vice president which is probably you know right where his experience level would put him you take the most successful black republican senator i think fully qualified put him at the top of the ticket did you watch any republicans last night say anything racist about tim scott nothing nothing in this big old racist republican party allegedly got millions of racists not only that but white supremacy is the biggest problem according to the the intel agencies it's the biggest problem and who do the republicans say let's put our champion up there they pick a highly qualified black senator to be their champion how many how many racists did you hear saying uh i wish we hadn't picked the black guy zero how many republicans are there 80 million i don't know 70 million what what is the number of republicans not a freaking person not even one said you know he's black maybe we shouldn't have it no not one not even one so how would that ticket ever lose you know because again tim scott's right down the middle of republican thinking so every republican is going to be on board black voters are going to say ah i don't like republicans but he's pretty solid and maybe maybe this time i'll you know i'll give a little extra effort to show up and vote i don't know i think that ticket would be unbeatable let me give you another ticket that i think would be unbeatable uh trey gowdy at the top and anybody at vice president i i don't think he could possibly lose and here's why have you ever seen him talk there's nobody who has a better grasp of persuasion um and the facts that i don't think anybody's close right now there are lots of people who have the facts and are really solid um take a tom cotton who i'm liking quite a bit lately especially because of his stand against china but tom cotton is not quite as interesting am i right he's not quotable trey gowdy is quotable as hell which is unfortunately you know 70 percent of being president is being really quotable he's interesting to look at he's never boring have you ever been bored by trey gowdy nope not once when he's on if you're flipping through the channels and trey gowdy is talking you stop don't you how many other people would make you stop flipping through the channels just immediately say oh i got to see what he says trump right but then but then the list is really short of people that you wouldn't just switch the channel um some people are saying trump will win a third i don't know he might be happier as a king maker and a power behind the power and he might have some legal issues etc somebody says you act like rhinos aren't a thing ridiculous how am i acting like that i don't know what that means um if if you put any of the people that i mentioned uh for a candidate for republican for the presidency republicans are not going to vote for the democrat because they don't think they're republican is perfect that's not going to happen somebody says gowdy is a rhino that's why he would win sorry that's why he would win the the fact that uh he can't be pre painted as you know so right wing that he's crazy that's why you'd win do you know why obama won because you couldn't really pay him as as left as you wanted to he was just a little too darn centrist and he made him hard to attack so while republicans might say damn it that rhino that rhino is not doing what we want and they might even be right but who the hell are they going to vote for they're not going to not vote for him if the uh if the other option is kamala harris for example so it just doesn't matter if he's a if you call him a rhino or if he agrees with you on everything it does matter he would still win easily um in my opinion now i think uh desantis has a solid shot unless there's some uh you know you always have to wait for the opposition research you know god knows what any of them have in their past but he's solid but he's not interesting so that ron desantis has the not interesting problem he's sort of uh more of a technician and a strategist and a wonk and a and a manager he's a leader definitely a leader which not all managers are he's definitely the leader but it just doesn't have the sizzle that you might need to get people to show up so you're gonna have to have somebody with a little edge just to get people to show up uh i see matt gates being mentioned a number of times every day that goes by matt gates gets stronger because if you're not hearing him getting taken down and we haven't even heard that there's a real person who's an accuser of anything right so he just went through this giant scandal situation and weeks later weeks later not even the name of an accuser or even proof that there is one it's not even that we don't know the name we don't really know there is one so if it turns out that this was always a biased hit job the way it looks uh he could become teflon if this doesn't take him out so you know the whole uh don't go after the king unless you can finish him off like you don't want a wounded king who knows who you are that's really bad for you it's been two and a half months that was weird my phone just started up on its own um so if matt gase does not get completely taken out by this scandal he will be the politician that lived through this scandal and it didn't take him out that covers you with teflon because the next time somebody wants to take them out they're going to say well it's going to have to be better than that one because that didn't even put a dent in him so if he recovers he's dangerous but we'll see if he does the arizona audit we're not hearing anything about that yet are we is there any uh evidence coming out of that that's uh reliable but i can't wait for the i can't wait for that now the the arizona audit is fascinating because i don't know exactly what they're testing or checking or auditing so i don't know if they're really going to see the whole picture or not but let's say that they're going to see a lot of the picture and they're going to see a lot of the things that at least republicans claim there should be some problems there they suspect what happens if the audit comes out clean do any of you expect that to happen because i think that could easily happen that the audience looks at everything and it's kind of okay do you think that's possible that's totally possible you know i'm seeing people say no chance no way yes no it's totally possible because they're not looking everywhere right so even if you believe that there's some bad stuff hiding somewhere in the system i doubt that the audit is seeing enough of the system that you could know for sure if you found anything that was there i don't know that we'll ever know but what happens if they don't find anything what happens if all the ballots are at least accurate or enough of them are that it obviously looks just like errors nothing to worry about i heard that mike lindell had a tough appearance on jimmy kimmel but i haven't seen that yet uh that will be interesting i might look for that on replay to see what that's about but you shouldn't be watching jimmy kimmel you know why right uh because that's when gut fell's on you should be watching guffield there is no jimmy kimmel anymore on the east coast you can watch him on the west coast because you could watch got felt at eight but on the east coast there's no reason to watch jimmy kimmel anymore all right that's all for now and i will talk to you tomorrow

hey everybody

come on in uh while we're waiting for

everybody to come in i'd like to

do something that i've seen other people

do on video and

i know it's very popular it's called an

eating video

in which you just watch me eat some of

my favorite foods

i'm going to start doing that now

this is real good broccoli i got this

broccoli

from uh door dashing from one of my

local restaurants

it's delicious it's uh

it's got a little lemon on it it's just

exactly the right

christmas

oh you don't see any food oh

oh oh well that's probably because you

don't use

doordash if you use doordash

you know that they don't always bring

the food

but they'll definitely charge you

last night i was talking to christina

about my favorite dish

a broccoli chilled broccoli dish i

ordered it from my favorite restaurant

now i usually order two

this is a true story i i often

order two entrees because the

the ratio of times that they forget to

bring one of the orders

is so high that you have to order

two dinners to get a pretty good chance

they'll bring one of them

and i'm just wondering do you have that

same experience

are you having the experience where your

door dash and

one of the orders is just always missing

i say

75 of the time the order is incomplete

but you paid for it anyway

so i just wondered in the comments but

while we're waiting for that um

if you'd like to enjoy this all you need

is a couple of marker glasses tango

challenge time canteen dragon flash

vessel of any kind

fill it with favorite liquid i like

coffee and join me now

for the unparalleled pleasure the

dopamine

of the day and the thing that makes

everything better it's called the

simultaneous sip

it's gonna happen right now go

oh yeah that's good

so yes that's one thing the food

delivery business has to get right

um and and i don't think that they quite

understand

the impact it has because

the service is amazing if you've ever

used the doordash app it's like a

miracle it's like one of the best

apps you'll ever see in your life so

it's a great service

but when they don't bring the food you

ordered and then they charge you for it

and there's no obvious way even to

reverse the charge i looked

i looked is there a way to reverse the

charge or complain

not really so i need to fix that

all right rasmussen did a poll and asked

people

if they thought that biden's first

hundred days was a success

only 36 percent said yes but of course

conservatives thought he was a big

failure and liberals thought he was

great

but um 36 percent of moderates

say his first hundred days were a

failure

i'm not sure i would say that i don't

know what happened in his first hundred

days

that we that you would define as failure

per se

there are certain things that he did

that you don't like but

failure is a pretty big word certainly

he

screwed the pooch on immigration

certainly

he's looking to spend a lot of money and

introduce socialism that you don't like

but i don't know if that's a failure

since that was what he was trying to do

everything that looks like a failure is

pretty close to what he said he would do

if he got elected

you know including opening up the border

so i don't know

i guess you have to ask yourself what

failure means if somebody is doing what

they said they would do

you just don't like it uh we'll talk of

course more about biden here

first some other fun stuff project

veritas as you know is suing the new

york times for

saying some things about uh their their

uh projects

and apparently the new york times legal

defense

is that they're injecting unlabeled

opinion

into their news stories

that seems like quite an admission

doesn't it

that the the parts that are under a

complaint

were opinion but they seemed to be

embedded

in news so

i think project veritas just got a huge

win

in just getting the new york times to

admit

the degree to which they insert opinion

into

news if all that comes to that

is that the public is more informed

about how much opinion

is is uh injected into news

that's probably a good thing uh so again

i'll say that project veritas is one of

the

most constructive forces in the country

right now

weird isn't it that they're one of the

most constructive forces

because they're a push back against the

media propaganda

and you just need that you need as much

pushback as you can get

here's an alarming story apparently

rudy giuliani was the subject of

fb federal investigators executing a

search warrant

on his new york city apartment and they

seized his electronic devices

and it was being reported that it's a

sign that some criminal investigation is

ramping up

uh about his dealings in ukraine

and including whether he violated the

pharah

stuff to which i say that feels like

speculation doesn't it

i think that's speculation as to why

they're looking at his stuff

and do you believe that this is

legitimate

or do you believe that this is just

political

here's my take on it the default

assumption has to be that this is

illegitimate

unfortunately because what we've you

know what we've witnessed from

you know uh the russia collusion

hoax all the way through what we noticed

and and also we notice any trump allies

being picked off one by one

in whatever ways they can get them so

i have to assume this is illegitimate

subject to any evidence that shows it is

legitimate

but isn't your starting position that

this is illegitimate

and i'm not sure i would have said that

i know two years ago

i think two years ago if i heard that

anybody had been

a subject of a search warrant by federal

authorities

i would have said to myself probably

there's a good reason

i mean maybe not innocent until proven

guilty

but probably they had a good reason do

you believe that they

probably had a good reason in this case

because i don't

i don't think we live in a country where

that benefit of a doubt

can be given to our federal

investigators

i don't think we can give them that

benefit of a doubt anymore and so as

a country i think we've got to put

pressure on them to say

if you're going to if you're going to

see somebody's electronic devices

which is one of the most serious things

i can think of

short of actual physical rape

that would make you feel abused and and

victimized

right so short of anything that's

actually literally physical

this is the biggest violation i could

even imagine

imagine having your home or your office

like essentially violated

by people who are going to look through

all of your electronic devices and

there's nothing you can do about it

how do you feel about that it would feel

like a physical attack wouldn't it

like the way you would the way you would

process it would be

almost like a sexual assault i mean i i

shouldn't say that because

obviously i can't understand what that

would feel like so

that's a little bit hyperbole you can

take it that way but it's pretty

pretty damn bad and uh

again the government really needs to

explain that uh i guess also there's a

search warrant for

victoria tensing's um

assets i don't know what they're looking

for because she's worked with giuliani

on some stuff i have a victoria tensing

story

have i told you ever that for weird

reasons i end up in

the middle of history in lots of ways

and i don't know why it's just it's one

of these weird coincidences

well here's just a weird little story

one day a

a tv host doesn't doesn't matter who so

just for privacy i won't tell you but i

was doing a book tour

i know a year and a half ago or two

years whatever and the tv host had

uh get a note for me from victoria

tensing

now if you want to be worried let me

tell you how to get worried

have somebody hand you a note from the

famous lawyer

that's just scary because because

the first thing i thought was oh my god

what kind of trouble am i in

who's suing me now like what what you

know why does a

famous i'll call her a tv lawyer just

because you see her on tv a lot but

she's a lawyer

turns out you know i i called her to

find out what it was about

and it was just a mistaken identity she

thought

she literally thought i was someone else

so she had some questions of a

completely different

person so i had nothing to do with me

but

i can't tell you how many times i'm in

the center of some kind of

thing or i've met some person who's in

the news through

random weird ways i don't i just don't

understand how this keeps happening to

me

it's the simulation all right um

let's talk about biden's joint address

to congress how many of you watched it

did i meet her no i never met her we

just had one phone call and

she immediately realized that she should

have been talking to somebody else

so that we didn't have any actual

business it was just mistaken identity

um so the biden

address happened uh kevin mccarthy had i

think the best

tweet about it he said uh this could

have just been done by email

and i'm gonna give that an a plus for uh

for insulting uh tweets

it's not quite trump level but but it's

pretty darn good

we could have just done this by email

it's like the ultimate insult

if if your address could have been done

by email

all right let's see how the reactions

were

um even cnn said that for a first

speech to the uh to congress that uh

biden got the

lowest very positive reaction so here's

how cnn

described it biden had 51 percent but

trump was 57

obama was 68 and bush was 66.

so biden didn't do too well on the

positive reactions

but i also have to wonder you know how

much of this is the

ever declining uh bipartisanship

yeah it could be that just that uh you

know

people during obama were more likely to

be a little bit

friendlier to the other side and of

course obama was a better orator

but uh kind of interesting button got

such a low number

i'll give you my own opinion here in a

minute but uh well i'll give it to you

now

um i thought biden's speech

was capable i'm going to criticize a

number of things

you probably know where i'm going with

most of them but i would say

you know the criticisms are mostly just

the the naked

political politicization you know so the

the naked

partisanship is all the problems

but they're also so obvious that i don't

know i have the biggest problem in the

world with it

i don't mind a little naked partisanship

if it's just

obvious that's what's going on you know

as long as it's obvious

that feels like good labeling at least

so let's talk about some of the specific

things he said

one of them is white supremacy is our

biggest threat in the united states

um is it how do you measure

a biggest threat now he's talking

biggest threat in terms of

you know violence and people killing

people

not climate change or anything like that

but in terms of people killing people

he says white supremacy is the biggest

based on intel he says

intel agencies and i would ask you this

is that bigger than the brainwashing

from the media

because it seems to me that nobody does

anything

in this country in any kind of a big

trend

way unless the media has brainwashed

them to do it

so whenever you see somebody say

you know people are doing this you got

to go back one level and say

but why why are there lots of mass

shootings

is it because of white supremacy some of

them are

but what but why are there so many

not just white supremacists but why are

there so many shootings

it's the news the news is the biggest

problem

if the news did not cover it the way

they cover it

it wouldn't be happening so if you say

white supremacy is the biggest threat in

the united states

ask yourself this would it be

if the news were just the news because i

don't think it would be

i feel as though the news is what has

caused

uh yeah let me say something really

provocative here you ready

i believe that white supremacy is made

far worse

by the way the news handles

the news and that the white supremacists

would just be sitting quietly thinking

their white supremacist

thoughts if the news didn't tell them

they were at war

and that they were being threatened and

and white people are bad and critical

race theory is

is the way imagine a world with no

critical race theory and no media

pushing it and no wokism and no all of

that

would white supremacists be as dangerous

as many people think they are

i don't think so i think that white

supremacist

just like everybody else responds to the

news

so if the news is telling them they're

under threat

what the hell are they going to do

right so it seems to me that

ignoring the media as the biggest threat

to democracy

is really a giant blind spot

biden said that he promised 100 million

uh coveted

19 shots in 100 days but he will reach

over 220 million in 100 days

unambiguously good job

and apparently we're doing better than

most of our peers

you know israel did a great job but in

terms of

our more equivalent types of countries

we're doing great apparently but here's

the thing

do you think that trump would not have

continued

fine-tuning the process and also gotten

to the same level

what evidence do we have that this

wouldn't have been exactly the same

under trump because all this fine tuning

you know the things that they figured

out and improved the ways to make more

vaccine the ways to get

more people involved that's all

happening at the administration level

right

it's not like the president said get cvs

involved

get walgreens on the phone did he i mean

did either of them

i feel as if we would be in exactly the

same place

because the president isn't doing any of

this

the president is watching and taking

credit you know after you get things

going

unambiguously trump was responsible for

project warp speed because it's well

documented that he forced people to do

things they didn't want to do

that's actual leadership but simply

letting your bureaucracy perform

exactly the way you'd expect them to

i'm going to say that that probably

would have been the same under trump i

think it would have been

or at least we have no evidence that it

should have been different

in any way but it is nonetheless a great

accomplishment

and i remember that i told you in the

beginning

that you could not predict how well we

would do with vaccinations

in the final months by looking at

anything that happened in the beginning

months

you know i told you that that curve was

was going to go

and in the final months we'd be just so

good at it

getting vaccines to the right people

that it would look amazing

and what happened several months into

the vaccines

we got so good at it it looks amazing

i mean it doesn't even look possible

it's so good

i guess half of adults have got at least

one shot

all right um

cnn says that uh biden is casting

vaccines as a way to get everyone back

to normal

and that it's a key tactic biden will

employ to pressure people to get the

shots

now and and he did say some things like

that he talked about parents

saying the smiles on their kids faces

because everybody's vaccinated

and grandparents hugging their children

and grandchildren because they're

vaccinated and stuff

so he does do a little about that but

conservatives

some of conservatives most pointed

criticism

is that at least the cdc and fouchy and

those people

are not doing this so

so the criticism is that the government

is not doing a good enough job

saying if you get your vaccination at

least you can go back to something

normal

rather biden is still talking about

normal

but the actual guidelines are not so

normal right

so i think the conservative criticism is

accurate

but cnn is saying that biden is doing

this

i don't think he is i think he's doing

it a little bit

which is really different from saying if

you get your vaccination

do anything you want which i think is

what

what you'd cr mostly conservatives

probably want

here's an interesting fact apparently

obamacare is getting stronger

during these uh during the hundred days

you know 800 000

americans were enrolled blah blah and

even cnn said we've reached a place

where a few people

are talking about repealing the

affordable care act

that's true isn't it i don't feel people

even talking about

you know repealing obamacare

and here's something that i told you

early on

in which i gave obama incredible credit

for

and i'm going to do it again i know you

don't like this

but any any nod toward any objective

analysis

just has to include this you probably

didn't notice this

but when obama was explaining why he was

backing the original version of

obamacare

he said in direct language so this is

not my interpretation

he said it in direct language i'm

paraphrasing but very directly

he said our plan is to put out a bad

plan

again i'm paraphrasing he didn't say

that our plan is to put out a bad

plan get the public pregnant with it

and then it'll be too hard to take it

away

but it will be possible to fix it

so he intentionally and said it directly

i'm going to put out there

a bad plan again he didn't use the word

bad

you know it was like imperfect or

something i'm going to put out a bad

plan

and i'm going to make people not be able

to get rid of it and i'm going to make

them have to fix it

what happened he put out a bad plan

people couldn't get rid of it they had

to fix it

[Laughter]

now i don't know how fixed it is but 800

000 people just signed up for it

and it is true i don't hear many people

talking about killing it

obama pulled off one of the most

clever persuasion strategies you'll ever

see

and he told you right in front of your

face which is the fun part

he told you what he was doing and then

he just did it and it worked

now you can hate obamacare that's a

separate separate issue whether it's

good or bad

but technique wise 100

a plus um

china tariffs even cnn

noted and i'll read exactly what they

say it's notable that biden has not

reversed

trump's tariffs on china how about that

didn't you kind of think that biden

might reverse

the tariffs on china and go a little

easy on china

doesn't look like it right now

again if we're going to be objective got

to give him credit

he did not reverse the tariffs and

that's got to hurt china

um but the way the way biden

talks about china is different from

trump trump was more

more competitive more directly you know

saying we've

got to do got to do more stuff

biden's plan which i'm not sure is a bad

one

so far i'm going to be open-minded about

this so far

but here's the situation he's he said

explicitly and then he's modeled it that

he's not going to be insulting china

he's just going to be competing with him

but

if they cross the line he's going to be

tough with him wherever we need to be

tough

but mostly he's not going to be

insulting their ways

he's going to be just competing with him

now dan says i'm out

idiot

you know if there's anything that i said

that makes you say i'm out

so far you're probably just an idiot

i can't even listen to this because he

said something good about biden

is that what just happened all right if

you can't handle the fact that sometimes

trump can do good things and sometimes

biden can do good things

you really don't belong on this live

stream you should just go away

i'm out too bye craig says

good i don't really want anybody on here

who can't handle

hearing that the the other team did

something right

if you can't handle that you should go

away immediately

so if there are any more of you would

like to go away i'd like to see you do

it right away

all right so is a

biden's plan better to talk nice to

china and let them

i don't know i suppose commit genocide

on the uyghurs and

harvest organs and just sort of put a

little pressure on them about it but

don't care too much i don't know it

might

it might be fine as long as he keeps the

economic pressure on him and he's doing

a lot of other things like

pushing electric cars and batteries and

you know uh

he's got the made in america thing going

on

i would say that biden has number one

accurately identified china as our

biggest

future problem do you have a problem

with that

trump did the same thing right so both

trump and biden have now

accurately said china is our biggest

challenge

i can't argue with that they're both

right

and biden has kept the tariffs on kept

the pressure on

he's going to fund industries that will

compete against them

now did you also hear i don't know if

this is true but i saw a story that said

china's population decreased for the

first time ever

did you hear that maybe not the first

time ever i don't know about world war

ii

but uh is that true china's population

decreased

because if that's true they probably

have an old people bomb

coming like a lot of retired people like

like a lot of retired people

like a lot a lot of retired people

and that's sort of in their future i

feel like

they're in a lot of trouble like a lot

of trouble i don't know if they know it

but they are

i'm sure they know it so i'm not going

to give

biden a hard time for not being hard

enough on china

he's got a strategy maybe it's okay

but it does seem to leave the uyghurs

out it does seem to leave

any political people were being

oppressed out

uh it looks like but maybe that there

was nothing we could do about it right

unless you're gonna attack china nothing

was gonna change

all right apparent apparently vice

president harris has been put in charge

of the american jobs plan which is

really the infrastructure plan with a

different name

so now she's got the immigration at

least in terms of the south american

you know firming it up so the

immigration is less and now this

those are pretty big jobs for a vice

president

pretty big jobs so they're clearly

grooming her for the

the next rung we don't know when

um joe biden's persuasion on climate

crisis

i hate to say it i'm going to give him

another a plus

if anybody else wants to leave this

would be the time

i'm going to give him an a plus in

persuasion

all right remember we're just limiting

this to his persuasion

the the topic of climate change you can

have your own opinion on

but you're not going to hear this at the

moment right now just the persuasion he

used and here's what he said

he said it's not a climate crisis

um we have failed to use the most

important word when it comes to meeting

the climate crisis

jobs jobs and jobs

he says for me when i think about

climate change i think

jobs really smart

mark is out goodbye mark really smart

it is very smart for biden to talk about

climate change

and whatever we're doing about it as a

way to create

jobs is it true well that's a different

question

would it actually create good jobs it

might

i don't know who knows maybe it would

take away as many good jobs as it

creates

but in terms of persuasion where

the truth is a little less important

than the persuasion

this is pretty good because if you're

trying to sell climate change to

conservatives and they don't believe it

has anything to do with

saving the planet many of them don't

what are you going to do instead you say

to him we're going to increase jobs

he's saying the same thing about the you

know the american jobs plan which is

basically infrastructure

he calls it a jobs plan how smart is

that

it's pretty smart do you know what

republicans like

more than anything except maybe god and

the constitution

and guns jobs jobs

so if you're trying to reach the other

side

talking about climate crisis as jobs

instead of arguing about

science is pretty solid especially if

you put

china in there and say hey china's going

to have all the electric cars

china's going to make all the batteries

that'll be the future of power

china is doing all the nuclear energy if

you make it

jobs and you make china the enemy

suddenly the conservatives say i like

jobs i don't like china

i don't know if the science of climate

change is quite exactly right

but i like jobs and i don't like china

so i'm on board a little bit right

not bad this is good stuff i hate to

tell you

that although biden is a horrible you

know or

orator and uh he's got plenty of

problems in his speech

but this part's good it's just good

um

and he also talked about opportunity for

women especially in the paycheck

fairness act

and there's a real problem

brewing that i don't know if everybody's

seen yet

so the me too stuff as important as the

topic is

had an unintended uh consequence that

men don't like to hang out

with women or even hire attractive women

if they have an option because if you

hire an attractive woman

in the era of me too even if you know

you'll be fine

your co-worker might do something wrong

right

so you're just introducing a danger into

the workplace

that's a pretty big one now will that

cause

men who are in a position to hire to

hire

fewer women i would assume so

certainly people say it i've talked to

lots of people who will say it right out

loud i'm not going to

hire a woman because i'm just going to

get sued or my staff will get sued

somebody's going to get sued now add on

top of that the paycheck

fairness act um i know i know

i've got a mostly conservative audience

i get it

that you all believe there's no such

thing as a wage gap

i get it and i agree

as far as i know there is no such thing

as a real gender wage gap

but it is widely believed by i don't

know

two-thirds of the world but as far as i

know there's no evidence of it

there's just bad analyses there's

comparing the wrong things

they're comparing people with less

experience the more they're

they're not comparing how much people

are even trying to get the ceo job

how much do they want it you know none

of that's in any analysis

so certainly there's in my opinion and

i've looked into it

enough to have a pretty informed opinion

on this and i have a degree in economics

i don't think there's any evidence that

there's a wage gap

my experience shows it's the opposite

meaning that if you're a woman with

exactly the same qualifications as a man

you're gonna get promoted over the man

every time

like every time did i mention

every time equal qualifications

woman and man in a corporate world which

one gets promoted

every time it's the woman in 2021

because the corporations need to have

more diversity

and i'm not arguing against diversity i

kind of like it

i like diversity i do think it adds

but it has this this impact

that a woman in the workplace is like

the most

valuable asset anybody ever had

so so we're trying to fix a problem that

doesn't exist now imagine that you're a

woman in the workplace

and you look at your male coworker and

the male coworker is making more money

than you

what are you going to do are you going

to say to yourself oh

my my co-worker took more classes

has more experience than this has worked

more years

are you going to say that not once

you'll never say that if your male

coworker is making more than you

it doesn't matter if there are reasons

you're going to sue

your employer or put pressure on them to

have an equal pay

is that because you're a woman and

there's something wrong with women

no you would do the same thing as a man

right

if if if i were in a situation

where i could get a raise by complaining

about

women getting overpaid i would do it

all is fair in in negotiating for salary

do you think your employer wouldn't try

to screw you by telling you some

to to keep your your pay low of course

they would

that's how it works your employer tries

to keep your pay low

you try to say what you can to get it up

if i could say that women were overpaid

and you must make it fair by

paying me more i wouldn't care if that

was true

i wouldn't care if i had a good basis

for my argument

i'd just throw it in there see if i get

a raise

so i feel as if this paycheck fairness

act

has the same potential uh blowback

as the sexual harassment stuff and

making men less likely to want to work

with women

so let's watch for that biden says he

wants to end cancer as we know it

it's within our power again

i like it i like it

i don't know if you're following any of

the stuff with mrna

vaccines but apparently there's some

some reason to believe that we have some

technologies that have a pretty high

possibility of taking a big bite out of

cancer

i love the fact that biden says it's a

top priority sort of a moonshot thing

good leadership i'd say i don't know

what he's doing about it exactly but

i like that it's up there as a priority

because i think we can

maybe close it out in the next 10 years

as possible

um let's see

uh cnn is calling biden's

lodestar they like put a good name on it

that we have to prove to the autocrats

of the world

that democracy still works so that's

sort of a big

theme of his presidency is showing that

democracies are better than

say chinese communist leadership

or or russian or any autocracy

but is it true do you think

democracies are more

effective in helping the country that

autocracies because i'm not sure that's

true i prefer freedom

right if i have choice i'm going to take

a democracy

but why is the united states doing

better than

let's say china in innovation

is it because of the form of government

i don't think so it feels like a

cultural difference that if you're

in a country that doesn't mind you

failing as much as you want

before you succeed you probably get more

risk-taking

than a country that says oh you shamed

your family and failed

that company you started didn't work

blah blah could be because america has

fewer nepotism problems less corruption

fewer people in the top you know with

puppet strings could be a lot of things

but i don't think it has anything to do

with democracy versus autocracy

does it and even the the autocrats have

capitalism

they have some form of capitalism right

so

it's an interesting um it's an

interesting theme

to prove that democracy still works

because i don't know that it does i

don't know that we really can compete

with a qualified autograph

we could certainly compete with bad

autocrats like just dictators that are

destroying their own country

but but china's got a really capable

leader

i feel like i feel like if you're lucky

enough to have a really qualified

capable autocrat

aren't you going to do better i mean

certainly it ends up with you know

genocide and part of the country nobody

wants that

but just trying to make the economy hum

and compete with other countries and

build your military

i'm not so sure democracy is the best

way to go i'm not

but it would be it's an interesting

match-up and i i think i'm glad that

biden wants to push that match up but i

don't know if it's true

the dumbest thing biden said was that

the

the so-called insurrection on january 6

was an

existential crisis a test of whether our

democracy could survive

was it was it was

those people who entered the capital uh

was that an existential crisis for the

country

did democracy almost end that day

let me put it in context

every night there's a cleaning crew that

goes into the capitol building

carrying these large blunt objects

sometimes they have mops at the end

sometimes brooms but blunt objects

and they go in and they occupy the

capital

and then they clean it and then they

leave

now i'm not going to say that the

cleaning crew is identical

to the protesters who took over the

capitol building

i'm just saying they're almost identical

neither them seemed to be interested in

using deadly weapons

neither them had the intention of

staying forever

they went there for a specific purpose

they did their specific purpose and then

they left

it's a lot like the cleaning crew so if

you're going to say that the

insurrection was

an existential crisis

and i think he said it was the worst

thing since the civil war

there are a few things you're leaving

out between the civil war now

was the uh was the occupation of the

capitol building for a few hours

worse than pearl harbor

was it worse than uh 911

was it worse than timothy mcveigh

blowing up a federal building was it

worse than

russia gate or the shooting of steve

scalise

i'm pretty sure it wasn't worse than any

of those things

yeah and not only was it not worse than

any of those things

it was very similar in type to the

cleaning crew

some people who came in for a reason

didn't shoot any weapons

and left when they were done

that's my that's my best comparison

honestly if you think this was an

insurrection there was a

an actual risk to democracy you're

either brainwashed or stupid

or or you're a politician you're just

lying so let me say that

clearly if you think the january 6th

thing

was an actual risk like an actual risk

to the country you're either stupid

or brainwashed there's no other

possibility

that's it all right

um and let me remind you that if

conservatives really

planned an insurrection it would be

louder that's all i'm going to say

because i'm on

i'm on youtube so i don't want to use

any words that'll

get me kicked off but wouldn't you agree

an actual insurrection that involved

the most well-armed citizens on the

planet you don't think it would be a

little bit louder

if you know what i mean there'd be a

little bit more noise

so look for that if you're wondering if

the conservatives

have decided to stage a revolution

it'll be a lot louder a lot louder

all right i had a fascinating and

fun time looking at cnn's fact-checking

of biden's

uh speech and so they did a good job of

showing the uh

the text and then the fact check for

each of the things he claimed

and as you as you might imagine they

were a little bit generous

but my fav my favorite part was where

they just gave up

uh on one of them so here's what uh

biden said and then i'm gonna read you

cnn's

fact check and see if it doesn't look

like they just gave up

all right so biden says my fellow

americans

trickle down economics has never worked

all right so trickle-down economics has

never worked

now cnn's going to fact-check that

so if you were going to check the

statement trickle-down economics has

never worked

what would that look like would it look

like well here's some studies that say

it works

or here's some studies that say it

doesn't work that's what you're

expecting right

if you're going to trickle down

economics it doesn't has never worked

what would it sound like well here's

what cnn wrote

you hear that reagan republicans

question mark

trickle down economics the idea that

letting the wealthy in corporations have

low taxes

and few regulations will unleash so much

growth that everyone will benefit

may be on the ropes as inequality grows

wait what where's my fact check

all the the fact check is mocking reagan

republicans

the fact jack didn't even address the

fact

it actually ignored the fact and just

insulted

people who believed the fact

this is their fact check now why is that

why is it that the cnn doesn't simply

say

yeah this trickle-down economics has

never worked

all the economists agree do you know why

they can't fact-check that

assume because it works now i don't know

that to be true

because it's sort of hard it's really

hard to really

know if it worked in my opinion but it

feels like

cnn just didn't want to even address the

question so instead they just

mocked people who believed it that's new

so biden talked about changing the gun

laws and he said

talk to the most responsible gun owners

most hunters

they'll they'll tell you there's no

possible justification for having a

hundred rounds

do you think there's no possible

justification

for having a hundred rounds

does anybody think that

let me suggest a possible

rationalization

or reason really to have a hundred

rounds

here's my reason biden on changing gun

laws

talk to most responsible gun owners most

hunters they'll tell you there's no

possible justification for having 100

rounds

that's the justification

that's the justification the fact that

he would say that out loud

as president of the united states tells

me i need more bullets

because the government is looking to

take away one of your basic rights

if the government is acting to take away

one of your basic rights

and this basic right goes right to the

heart of freedom

which is not letting the government run

roughshod over you

being armed enough that it just wouldn't

ever work

i feel like biden just gave you all the

reason you'd ever need to have all the

rounds that you could ever buy

he is the justification i'm watching the

comments you all agree with this by the

way did you think it as soon as you

heard it

the moment i heard this i thought well

maybe they didn't have justification

before

but you certainly just gave it to him

immediately after seeing biden say i

have no

reason to have a hundred rounds

immediately i thought to myself how can

i get more ammo

did anybody think that how many of you

thought to yourself

my god how can i get more more guns and

more weapons

because he's talking this way i bet a

lot of you did you have seen the yeses

in the comments

um so biden's also going to raise my

taxes

and other rich people he says he says

it's time for

corporate america and the wealthiest 1

americans

to pay their fair share what do you

think about that do you think that

wealthy americans should pay their fair

share

why not right i think wealthy americans

should pay their fair share

who would disagree with that statement

nobody right

so it's good persuasion so you start

with the thing everybody agrees with

it's time for corporate america and the

wealthiest one percent to pay their fair

share

who argues against paying your fair

share

nobody so it's good persuasion he starts

with pacing

and then it gets weird uh

he said a recent study shows that 55 of

the nation's biggest corporations

paid zero in federal income tax last

year

um i need some permission to curse

permission to curse

there will be swearing it's coming up

if you've got children send them away

cursing is coming up

so yes so after saying that rich people

should pay their

fair share he says 55 of the big

corporations paid zero income tax

let me uh

let me put a little context on this joe

biden

um i'm not

one of the 55 largest corporations

i'm not and do you know why

so first of all i work seven days a week

and i only get paid for the value that i

produce

it's like a direct thing i produce more

value

more people you know watch me on youtube

more people will buy my comic

that's it i work seven days a week

probably 60 hours a week on average

i'm not a big corporation

joe biden you

for trying to take my money i'm paying

my fair share

well over 50 for most of my career

yeah most of it and conflating me

with amazon.com is just

you it's really just you i

worked for my money

don't compare me to amazon.com

he's yours right he's yours

amazon.com is yours that's your

problem

not mine solve your problem

your problem joe biden i work for a

living

i don't you know make billions of

dollars

because i started a company successfully

and conflating me and all the people who

were let's say

doctors or lawyers consultants

entrepreneurs

we're not the we're not the

we're the ones who make this whole

country work

no obviously you need everybody working

but you couldn't take away this group of

americans the ones who are

individuals just excelling and inventing

stuff

you know curing people of diseases

fixing legal problems

were kind of important the people who

just go to work

but do do enough value they you know

create enough value

that we get into this amazon.com

conversation

do you think i'm anywhere near

amazon.com

i i earned every penny i have

and i don't think you should take it

away from me by changing the rules

after i made my money that's my

problem

if this had always been the rules if i

had entered

my career with a certain set of rules i

would have said oh

okay you know that's what i chose but

when you change the rules

after i make my money and now you're

going to take a out of a third of it

away or whatever it's going to be

not cool let me suggest an improvement

to make this at least somewhat

equitable and it would go like this i

don't believe that anybody over a 50

should ever have their taxes increased

that's it now how you treat corporations

is separate if you want to put a minimum

tax on corporations

you know that's something to talk about

but i don't think an

individual who's just working for a

living is not a corporation

just works for a living and is

successful if you're over 50

and you raise their taxes not

cool

just not cool and anybody over 50 should

just vote out of office

anybody who even thinks of raising their

taxes because that group worked their

whole life

to have what they have and it isn't your

job to take it away and give it

to somebody who didn't do that

it's just not cool so if biden said i'm

going to tax the corporations a little

more

have some minimum tax i'd be open to

that conversation i don't really know

if the economists have sorted out

whether that's good or bad or even if

they can tell

but when you tax people above a certain

age

and take the money that they've worked

all their life to earn through

no crime no crime

you so that's what i think of joe

biden

all right um new york times in a tweet

as referred to biden's economic plans as

biden's latest ambitious economic

package

is ambitious uh

a good news word

ambitious is a persuasion word

right now it is ambitious i would say

that it's an accurate word

it's a very ambitious plan but if you're

only going to pick

one word is that the one you pick

that's the one that sums it all up it's

ambitious

i would have said huge huge

enormous if you said enormous

there would be no um no opinion in there

but as soon as you say ambitious that's

an opinion

and the new york times is already

defending against

defending against project veritas

for their opinions that they're

packaging as news

here's another example that's an opinion

packaged as news

all right here's some fake news that

probably fooled you

did you see that on twitter uh the

phrase uncle tim

was trending obviously a insulting play

on the phrase uncle tom

and it was because of tim scott senator

tim scott's

rebuttal how many of you saw that

trending

and then you said to yourself my god

these liberals are so racist

god they're so racist they're so racist

that not only would somebody use this

phrase uncle tim

very insulting but

so much it would be trending

how many of you fell for that

do you know why it was trending

do you know why because one guy

said it in a tweet and conservatives

went crazy

and retweeted it saying my god look at

this the conservatives retweeted it so

much

one guy just one guy

then it trended and then once it trended

the conservatives said

look at how bad these liberals are they

made this thing trend

but of course it was the conservatives

it was one guy

look at all the all the tweets they're

all pointing to the same guy

one idiot and and you got fooled

into thinking that

the liberals are all saying uncle tom it

was one guy

if you don't see how this uh uh this

happens you're missing a pretty big

part of the media um

my biggest problem with tim scott

is that he's got a pretty good shot of

being president i would say

uh but he shares my name and i i'm not

cool with that

because if we ever had a president scott

and of course people refer to the

president by just their last name you

know biden and trump

scott i would have to wake up every day

hearing what scott did that people don't

like

and i can't have that so while i think

senator tim scott is a very qualified

guy

certainly has every qualifications i

would look for in a president

but i just can't have it i just i just

can't have somebody with my name as

president that would be

that would just be too annoying for four

to eight years

um so

a lot of people uh on the right loved

tim scott's rebuttal

i listened to it this morning and uh

i didn't see it honestly

i i was expecting the the senator

scott's

speech to be like a i heard a number of

people saying it's the best one they've

ever seen

which i don't doubt by the way it might

actually be the best one anybody's ever

seen for a rebuttal

because the the bar for rebuttals is

like super low

right you know that the rebuttal people

are usually pathetic

in my experience you get your adam

shifts being the rebuttal guy

if you if you have adam schiff be your

rebuttal guy

you don't even care about the rebuttal i

mean you wouldn't put that guy in there

but that happens right

so to have anybody do a a solid job

looks like the best that's ever happened

so he did a solid job

i would say that the senator is a very

capable speaker

and he had lots of themes about coming

together etc

i don't think any of it matters because

it just it just looks like

conservatives talking to conservatives

so i don't think

that senator scott has language that is

penetrating the other side

and when he said america is not a racist

country

everybody with good reading

comprehension said the following

oh he means that the country is not

racist

by design because everybody can move up

but obviously obviously he's not saying

there are no racists in the country

obviously obviously he's not saying that

everybody's starting from the same place

obviously but because he

made this statement which i think was

just a pure mistake in my opinion

that america is not a racist country

there are lots of ways you could have

said that

that would have avoided the problem that

you walked into

which is that will be taken out of

context

easily in a context it already is and

it's being

used as a sign that republicans don't

understand

racism exists so

i mean he dug a hole and he fell into

his own hole

so it was a huge persuasion mistake in

my opinion

to say the phrase america is not a

racist country

even if you believe it's true and even

if you're pretty sure

republicans will agree with you because

you're trying to

you're trying to persuade the other side

or what's the point i mean talking to

your own side is

not really persuading anybody so i would

say that that was a mistake

because it opened up easy attack vector

and you know van jones waited in here he

said

that the united states is still

struggling with racism in every

institution

did tim scott disagree with that no

no tim scott never said anything that is

the disagreement with that

but they can make it look like it is and

that's that was his mistake

um and then and then van jones also said

to tim scott's credit he said how

different he sounds from all republicans

does he did you think that tim scott

sounded different from all republicans

because i didn't get that at all i i got

that it was

right down the middle it's the most

republican

speech ever because he was saying you

know

the wokeness don't worry about it

everybody's got a chance

you know everybody can succeed in this

country

i didn't think it was even a little bit

outside the mainstream

it was right down the middle now why

would anybody think this does not sound

like republicans

well if you spend too much time watching

cnn content

you would think this was not mainstream

it's the most mainstream thing you've

ever heard

he went right down the middle tim scott

didn't even

he didn't even touch the edge of

mainstream republican thought

you didn't even get close but if you

watch cnn you think you did

all right

so um one of the things that i find

interesting is that whoever gets to do

the rebuttal it means that the party has

decided that this is somebody who's

going to get a little attention

and as i watch the you know the 2024

race

start to come together i feel like we're

going to see another repeat

of 2016 in one sense

am i wrong that there are a lot of

republicans that are really

qualified to be president

let me just list them ron desantis

could he be qualified to be president

could he win

i think he could um tim scott

is he qualified could he win the

presidency

yes i think he could uh ted cruz

a little bit harder because he's a

little more provocative right the the

left has a little more problem with him

but could he get nominated yes

does he have all the qualifications for

a president

yes he absolutely does um

name some other names um did i say tom

cotton

uh chris christie i think he's got a

little more baggage so to speak

but remember remember when trump was

running the

one of the biggest comments was uh there

are a lot of republicans that are

looking pretty solid pompeo right

yeah mike pompeo solid

nikki haley gets a little more

controversial christy holm

gnome a little more controversial but

certainly

the republicans have a strong field so

i'd be a little bit worried

uh i hear i see trey gowdy being

mentioned but i don't know that he wants

to run for the office

by the way if trey gowdy ever ran for

president

is there any chance he would lose

because there's nobody on the republican

side that i can

think of who's even close to his level

of skill

i just don't know that he's interested

in the job oh richard grinnell another

good

another good obvious candidate who has

all the qualifications for president

um imagine this

uh just just just for fun imagine that

the republicans just say

we just want to win and all they do

the republicans all they do is they just

say what is it going to take to win

and we're just going to do that win win

win is all we want

who would they run let me give you

a proposal so this is not my suggestion

of who should be president

just just a mental exercise imagine

a ticket of tim scott and richard

grinnell

yeah does that ticket lose

how how would how would they ever lose

seriously you put you put a you know one

of the most successful

gay open politicians as vice president

which is probably you know right where

his experience level

would put him you take the most

successful black

republican senator i think

fully qualified put him at the top of

the ticket

did you watch any republicans last night

say anything racist about tim scott

nothing nothing

in this big old racist republican party

allegedly

got millions of racists not only that

but white supremacy is the biggest

problem according to the

the intel agencies it's the biggest

problem

and who do the republicans say let's put

our champion up there

they pick a highly qualified black

senator to be their champion how many

how many racists did you hear saying uh

i wish we hadn't picked the black guy

zero how many republicans are there

80 million i don't know 70 million what

what is the number of republicans

not a freaking person not even one

said you know he's black maybe we

shouldn't have it no

not one not even one

so how would that ticket ever lose

you know because again tim scott's right

down the middle of republican thinking

so every republican is going to be on

board

black voters are going to say ah i don't

like republicans but he's

pretty solid and maybe maybe this time

i'll

you know i'll give a little extra effort

to show up

and vote i don't know i think that

ticket would be unbeatable

let me give you another ticket that i

think would be unbeatable

uh trey gowdy at the top

and anybody at vice president

i i don't think he could possibly lose

and here's why

have you ever seen him talk there's

nobody who has a better grasp

of persuasion um

and the facts that i don't think

anybody's close

right now there are lots of people who

have the facts and are really solid

um take a tom cotton who i'm liking

quite a bit lately

especially because of his stand against

china but tom cotton is

not quite as interesting

am i right he's not quotable

trey gowdy is quotable as hell

which is unfortunately you know 70

percent of being president

is being really quotable he's

interesting to look at

he's never boring have you ever been

bored

by trey gowdy nope not once

when he's on if you're flipping through

the channels and trey gowdy is talking

you stop don't you how many other people

would make you stop

flipping through the channels just

immediately say oh i got to see what he

says

trump right but then but then the list

is really short

of people that you wouldn't just switch

the channel

um some people are saying trump will win

a third i don't know he might be happier

as a king maker and a

power behind the power and he might have

some legal issues

etc somebody says you act like rhinos

aren't a thing

ridiculous how am i acting like that

i don't know what that means um

if if you put any of the people that i

mentioned

uh for a candidate for republican

for the presidency republicans are not

going to vote for the democrat

because they don't think they're

republican is perfect that's not going

to happen

somebody says gowdy is a rhino

that's why he would win

sorry that's why he would win the the

fact that

uh he can't be pre painted as

you know so right wing that he's crazy

that's why you'd win do you know why

obama won

because you couldn't really pay him as

as left as you wanted to

he was just a little too darn centrist

and he made him hard to attack so while

republicans might say

damn it that rhino that rhino is not

doing what we want and they might even

be right

but who the hell are they going to vote

for they're not going to not vote for

him

if the uh if the other option is kamala

harris for example

so it just doesn't matter if he's a if

you call him a rhino or if he

agrees with you on everything it does

matter he would still win easily

um in my opinion now i think uh

desantis has a solid shot unless there's

some

uh you know you always have to wait for

the opposition research

you know god knows what any of them have

in their past

but he's solid but he's not

interesting so that ron desantis has the

not

interesting problem he's sort of uh more

of a

technician and a strategist and a wonk

and a and a manager he's a leader

definitely a leader

which not all managers are he's

definitely the leader

but it just doesn't have the sizzle

that you might need to get people to

show up so you're gonna have to have

somebody with a little edge just to get

people to show up

uh i see matt gates being mentioned a

number of times

every day that goes by matt gates gets

stronger

because if you're not hearing him

getting taken down

and we haven't even heard that there's a

real person who's an accuser

of anything right so he just went

through this giant

scandal situation and

weeks later weeks later not even the

name of an accuser or even

proof that there is one it's not even

that we don't know the name

we don't really know there is one

so if it turns out that this was always

a

biased hit job the way it looks

uh he could become teflon if this

doesn't take him out

so you know the whole uh don't go after

the king unless you can finish him off

like you don't want a wounded king who

knows who you are

that's really bad for you

it's been two and a half months that was

weird my phone just started up on its

own

um so if matt gase does not get

completely taken out by this scandal

he will be the politician that lived

through this scandal

and it didn't take him out that covers

you with teflon because the next time

somebody wants to take them out

they're going to say well it's going to

have to be better than that one because

that didn't even put a dent in him

so if he recovers he's dangerous but

we'll see if he does

the arizona audit we're not hearing

anything about that yet are we

is there any uh evidence coming out of

that that's

uh reliable but i can't wait for the

i can't wait for that now the the

arizona audit is fascinating

because i don't know exactly what

they're testing or checking

or auditing so i don't know if they're

really going to see the whole picture or

not

but let's say that they're going to see

a lot of the picture and they're going

to see

a lot of the things that at least

republicans claim

there should be some problems there they

suspect

what happens if the audit comes out

clean

do any of you expect that to happen

because i think that could easily happen

that the audience looks at everything

and it's

kind of okay do you think that's

possible

that's totally possible you know i'm

seeing

people say no chance no way yes no

it's totally possible because they're

not looking everywhere right

so even if you believe that there's some

bad stuff hiding somewhere in the system

i doubt that the audit is seeing enough

of the system

that you could know for sure if you

found anything that was there

i don't know that we'll ever know but

what happens if they don't find anything

what happens if all the ballots

are at least accurate or enough of them

are that

it obviously looks just like errors

nothing to worry about

i heard that mike lindell had a tough

appearance on jimmy kimmel but i haven't

seen that yet

uh that will be interesting i might look

for that on replay to see what that's

about

but you shouldn't be watching jimmy

kimmel you know why right

uh because that's when gut fell's on you

should be watching guffield

there is no jimmy kimmel anymore on the

east coast you can watch him on the west

coast because you could watch got felt

at eight

but on the east coast there's no reason

to watch

jimmy kimmel anymore all right

that's all for now and i will talk to

you

tomorrow