Episode 1376 Scott Adams - UFOs Eating Our Earth Fish, Cost of Opposing Trump, Solar Powered Slavery

oh yeah i'm uh wearing my mask because uh i live in california and i don't know if you know this about california but unlike a lot of the states where they'll use data and science and stuff like that we don't do that here nope nope we just we just wear masks that's all we do you're probably saying but scott you're all alone and there's nobody near you well that's true but that's no reason to let down your guard is it no it's not no it's not all right i'm just kidding but here's the good news and i'll tell you this right after the simultaneous sip yeah you're about to be wandering into the best part of your day you didn't really even try very hard all you did is click a link and here you are just about the best thing that's going to happen and all you need is a couple of marker glasses tanker shelves to sign a canteen jug or flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid i like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day the thing that makes oh just everything better everything it's called the simultaneous sip and it's going to happen now if you're ready go so as you know the cdc has said that masks are not terribly necessary if you're fully vaccinated but states still get to make up their own decisions so my state uh the dumbest and most incompetent of all states in the universe has decided it's going to keep its mask mandated in place now i was walking around a little bit since the mandate had been lifted by the federal government and i do note that california is fully compliant people riding their bikes all by themselves wearing masks people jogging all by themselves with nobody nobody within viewing distance massed up yeah we are so fully masked in california you can't get a virus past us let me tell you but several retailers walmart costco trader joe's have said that you don't need a mask if you're fully vaccinated but of course the state can overrule that as it does in california but here's what you need to know governments they rule when they're credible if your government is doing reasonable enough stuff the public will probably follow them when your government be it federal or be a state starts doing things which are obviously not reasonable i mean just obviously not reasonable at that point your obligation to obey them disappears now there's a risk right you still take the risk if you disobey it obey them but your obligation is gone you don't have an ethical or moral obligation to obey any government rule that's unreasonable you don't i mean there's a risk so i'm not suggesting that you disobey any rules or regulations but you have no moral or ethical responsibility to obey unreasonable authority that alone will guarantee that things will fix themselves pretty quickly when you combine that with the fact that there will be an intense competitive pressure imagine if you will i can't imagine this quite because i'm in a i'm in california but imagine if you were in a different state and there was a store here that said you had to wear a mask if you're fully vaccinated and then there's one right next to it selling similar products but you know one has a mask requirement and one doesn't there's no competition the the moment the the competitive difference becomes obvious which will be in i mean it'll be in the first week of sales right the the very first day there are one grocery store requires a mask and the other one doesn't the sales are going to reflect that immediately right how long do stockholders put up with somebody not obeying the federal government's guidelines the cdc and it's lowering their profits how long do the stockholders put up with that wait a minute you're not following the cdc standard and it's lowering your profit and all you have to do is say stop doing that you don't have to build something you don't need to invest in something you don't need to move anything or change anything you just need to put out a thing that says we'll just stop requiring that and then your profits will go up there isn't any chance that you're going to have a long-term situation where there's a competitive business that requires a mask right as long as their competitors are not and of course that's going to happen so i wouldn't worry about this all working itself out in the next i don't know 30 days or so but it's taking longer than it should uh alec baldwin is in news complaining about cancel culture it's like a forest fire that just needs more fuel now when alec baldwin is complaining about canceled culture which could also be described as completely agreeing with president trump cancel cultures in trouble isn't it because i think cancer culture has now you know clearly jumped the shark when uh when alec baldwin is complaining about cancel culture because it did happen to him i mean he has a he has a legitimate complaint it happened to his wife uh i feel like cancel culture is sort of running out of fuel a little bit because if you get the leftiest lefty guy to like it there's not much left right now of course it will plague us for a while but you can see there there seems to be a turning point i would say and i would say the turning point is alec baldwin speaking out in public about it it'd be one thing if he had a private opinion about it but alec baldwin saying it in public so i think i think we're turning the corner on that i continue to look at the cost of opposing trump because you've seen that so many people who are anti-trump something bad happens to them have you noticed that i don't know if it's a selective memory or just the way the news works probably that but it seems like trump's opposition not only it's bad for them personally but then there's a big cost to it for example um apparently biden is re who knows if this is true right but biden reportedly lashed out at his own health and human services head over the handling of the migrant children so joe biden it is reported but again you know i think it's an anonymous report about a private conversation in the oval office what credibility do you put on a private anonymous report of something well not much right but in this case uh it is a do you remember that all the leaks from anonymous sources about trump were negative for trump but here's a leak i guess it'd be a leak about a story about uh joe biden that makes joe biden look extra good behind closed doors not only is joe biden fighting for the migrant children but he's even beating up his own appointed person for not fighting hard enough or doing well enough to save the children so totally credible anonymous report that makes joe biden look like a good fighter huh now so i i believe the story is fake news or at least planted news you know you you could call that fake news or not because it could be true but also you know a a strategic leak but my point is that if that works in favor of joe biden then the story that i get from this is that fixing this problem turned out to be really hard and it wasn't just a case of whether you were republican or democrat it's just hard to fix it so even biden with all the resources in the world and all of the good intentions apparently he couldn't even get his own hand-picked person to to fix it well enough so uh i think that gives us a little perspective about trump's performance on that same topic now i also asked on a on twitter how many executive orders did trump make in which he cut regulations do you know the number because i remember i feel like it was reported at one time because he was doing that thing where they'd cut 10 regulations for every one that they introduced what did the number get up to can somebody tell me in the comments google that for me and tell me how many regulations he got rid of is it in the hundreds or is it in the thousands it's a lot right so i think it's at least high hundreds am i wrong about that somebody's saying 500 but i don't know i don't know if you actually know the number all right so let's say some big number whether it's hundreds or low thousands is somewhere in that range how many of them have been reversed by biden do you know what percentage we hear about some specific ones right you've heard about some of his executive orders that have been reversed but reversing an executive order is different from reinstituting some regulations that trump got rid of with an executive order right so we do know that executive orders have been reversed but what percentage of the let's say hundreds of of regulations have been reversed by biden because he really liked those regulations why don't you know that why don't i know it why is there no headline on that how big a story is that it's pretty big right because that would tell you that would tell you if trump did something that's amazing you know he'd got rid of a whole bunch of regulations and when they were looked at carefully even biden didn't want them is that what happened because i don't know that that's what happened is it possible that they're privately being reversed and it's just not being reported because i feel like it would be reported if there was any big action on it so one of two things is possible either trump did an amazing job of getting rid of unnecessary regulations or biden is reversing lots of regulations back to having a regulation and we don't know about it which would also be a big story am i wrong that this is a gigantic story that is completely ignored have you seen the story about it it was a pretty big deal when i would talk to my anti-trump friends one of the top i don't know top five things that they would say is that trump has gotten rid of all these regulations that were protecting us so how about a little follow-up how many people have died so far because of those lack of protections how much economic development did we have that we wouldn't have had because he got rid of those i don't know do you know pretty big question total lack of reporting um china landed its rover on mars at the same time that we have our assets up there on mars so what's that tell you we're talking about the future let's talk about the future so it looks like china and the united states are already in a land grab for mars you knew it was going to happen you just didn't know when but now it's happening allow me to make the following suggestion we should get a military asset up there really quickly just one kind of rover that could maybe you know maybe it's uh maybe it's one of those flying drones but just bring one military asset up there that can take out somebody else's drone and i imagine we could do it without you know getting caught i think just the the video would go off and they wouldn't know what happened um yeah our rover should have been armed and maybe it is we don't know because at some point we are going to have to prevent china from having assets on mars i feel like that's going to have to happen and whoever gets there first with some serious equipment should be able to stop anything that lands from that point on because everything would be weak when it lands right anything that's going through that what is it seven minutes of bad turbulence before you land on mars and there's no communication if you could take it out while it's still weak and before it's actually you know set up and transmitting back to earth who would know who would know so we should militarize mars right away is my opinion because if china does it first we could be in trouble um so keep an eye on that so here's a story about some more ufo sightings and apparently there is yet another oval shaped grainy image of a ufo that was flying over the ocean fairly low over the ocean for a long time i mean you know they followed this thing for a long time so we don't we do know for sure that it was a grainy oval that much is confirmed and then the grainy oval dived into the ocean wow you didn't even know ufos could do that did you i mean if you were a if you were a spaceship from another planet um it would be hard enough to get all the way to earth with a device that can actually fly in our atmosphere and not run out of fuel and all that but apparently they're so good that they can even fly through the atmosphere they can fly through space they can fly through earth's atmosphere and then they can dive into our oceans and then later the reports are that the ufo after it dived into the ocean it re-emerged with a smaller ufo in its beak now if that's not proof that ufos are real i don't know what is i mean you know we we have this good image of uh ufos splashing into the water in a place where uh aquatic birds are plentiful and when you look at these birds on uh infrared as these images are they're infrared it turns out that the wings don't show up as well as the body because the body is warmer or it's a different temperature from the surface but the wings are closer to the same temperature as the outside air so it turns out that when you do an infrared picture of a bird in flight it looks like sort of a grainy oval thing that seems to move in a way that physics can't explain and not only that but physics can't explain how it dives into the water now and then when it's hungry and it merges with a small ufo in its peak so this is all a mystery and i hope we can i hope somebody smart can unravel this because um it looks like we've been visited by extraterrestrials so uh today i invested in some ericsson stock you know the telecom company from sweden um they make equipment that competes with uh huawei and china and uh beijing is apparently uh threatening sweden because sweden banned huawei's technology and is threatening to uh retaliate against eriksen because that's you know big company in sweden so uh just to support erickson i immediately went online and bought a bunch of their stock now let me be careful here i don't necessarily believe that's a good investment you understand that right it's not a recommendation i don't make financial recommendations except to diversify and i got rid of my turkish telecom by the way an update i used to have uh i used to have some stock in the turkish cell phone company but i sold that last week for uh patriotic reasons because turkey is just not playing nice and now i'm buying some erickson also for um to defend them basically just to defend their stock now i don't i don't think that it's priced apparently the analysts are not in love with it so i can't tell you that you should buy a lot of it but if you wanted to buy it for uh let's just say anti-china reasons it's out yeah that's an option um so israel apparently gave some warning recently to a building that had al jazeera and the associated press but uh reportedly also maybe some hamas secret service in it i don't know for sure i don't know that that's a confirmed thing but they gave them a little warning and then they it looks like they shot two missiles into the base of the building and it was a very impressive relatively controlled explosion in which the building sort of went down like this ish it was impressive i didn't know that you could bring down a building almost like a controlled demolition if you hit it just right and you know how the building is built apparently but they can uh because that's what happened and uh i have the following comments about this um i think that going forward and certainly it's already been true that when there's a military action between a strong military power and uh let's say a smaller military power could be terrorists could be you know isis or something that the first thing the strong the strong military wants to do is get rid of the media because the strongest military can't do what it needs to do which is going to get really bloody and there's going to be a lot of bodies some of them will be civilians maybe a lot of them in order to win the bigger military has to first get rid of the cameras and and the reporting so the first thing you need to do is take out the press ideally not you know not killing them but just taking them off the field so that they can't report that's what happened with isis i mean the fact that there was no no good reporting on the ground allowed the military to do what they needed to do which i imagine was pretty bad right because that's the job of the military if you see pictures it makes you think oh we gotta stop doing this if you don't see pictures you don't necessarily think you need to stop doing it because pictures are what influence us so get rid of the media get rid of the pictures now i would imagine that this kind of pressure on the media even if nobody got hurt which i hope is the case it's going to make them feel like maybe they need to do what israel wants them to do in the future right if you want to keep your building so there's that now there's also the story and uh joel pollock was reporting on this in bray bart the israel apparently uh you know it faked a ground invasion to get all of the the fighters into the tunnels big tunnel network and then they bombed the tunnel network so they bombed a tunnel network and the news is reporting something like a hundred deaths like altogether do you think that after bombing the tunnel network then number one we can count the number of deaths because they're still in the tunnels right do you think it's only 100 people have died after the tunnel network got bombed was the tunnel network so lame that there were only a few dozen people in it i feel like they got a lot more deaths than this but who knows right it's going to be hard to count people who are pre-buried so the beauty of bombing uh the terrorists who in the tunnels is that you don't have to have a funeral with a body there's no photograph of the body there's just bombs and then that's all you know they're pre-buried so um then there's additional story that says that maybe israel used the foreign press and lied to them this is this is the allegation that israel directly and repeatedly lied to entities like the new york times so that they would report there was going to be a ground invasion at the same time reportedly i don't know how reliable this is but reportedly israel was telling israeli media sources no there's totally not going to be a ground invasion now i don't know if this is true is it true that they really told the local media no ground invasion at the same time they were telling the new york times and others oh totally ground invasion no no but what is the net effect of that well the net effect of that is to make the press that is not already owned by presumably the uh israeli you know secret service or whatever um it makes any any independent press in another country less credible less credible because uh if you knew that the main press in the united states had gotten a story this big about an israeli invasion and gotten it wrong what are you going to think the next time they have a story about israel you're going to think well this is the same one who got that last story wrong so israel is taking out the media they're taking out any media in terms of credibility and and they're taking out a building of the media which is feels like a warning as well even if the real target was you know some other asset in the building um glenn greenwald is uh has a good sub stack article on liz cheney and says that she lied about her role in spreading the discredited cia russian bounty story now the dispute is that cheney was asked about it and said that she had only talked about it as an if as in if it's true then we should act a certain way and if it's true then trump is doing the wrong stuff if it's true now her claim is that she always talked about it in the conditional if it's true glenn greenwald objects to that characterization with with lots of examples of things she said but when i look at exactly the things she said it's really carefully chosen for example some of her words were about it is reported if somebody says it has been reported that does that sound like if to you does that sound like if it's true if somebody says it has been reported well i think if i interpret uh glenn greenwald correctly and i might not be but if i do he's saying that that's more of that's more of a direct statement that it's true because you're mentioning the report you're not using the word if but it's it's really kind of gray in my opinion because it's really careful wording to say it's reported because it's reported is true what you don't know is that the thing actually happened the only thing that's true is it's reported but then as greenwald points out it's a common trick that her father used which was to leak a story to the press and then talk about the story in the press as if it's public information now and it must be true because it's in the press so you got to watch out for that trick because you'll see it a lot um i saw a tweet by an attorney matthew diperno and he's talking about michigan counties and there apparently some audit stuff going on about the election and it seems that there's evidence now in writing that a number of the counties decided to not keep the image of the ballots so the machines will count the ballots but they also take an image of them to store and in order to not store the image you have to actively turn it off because the default the way it's built to work the way it's built to work thank you optimus so uh michigan apparently many of the counties decided to actively turn off the image control why would they do that what would be a legitimate reason for turning off a function which is built into the machine as an audit security safeguard why would you turn it off give me a legitimate reason any legitimate reason now it sounds like they turned it off because maybe they didn't want to go through the bother of an audit or something but is that a good reason that doesn't sound like a reason does it so that the first thing you need to know is that any story about the election has to be judged with a lot of skepticism so i don't know if it's true that michigan counties decided to turn off this feature but if it's true and there does seem to be evidence of it the question that matthew asks is was a crime committed and does rico apply because if these counties organized in other words they talked to each other and they said hey if you turn it off i'll turn it off and we'll be fine then they're coordinating a criminal activity which is a rico problem now am i wrong that there is also some disappearing data in arizona so that we've got at least two or three of the trouble uh the trouble or at least the the places that people have questions about the election how many of them have to be erased before you say uh-oh and let me ask you this let's say the only thing you knew is that there was one state that couldn't be audited suppose that's all you knew and let's say that democrats and republicans agreed on the following point um hypothetically so i'll use my if here if it's true that both arizona and michigan and maybe another state you know there's still some suspicion about some other states but if there was something that could have been audited and should have been maintained and was deleted before an audit is the election still valid is it because it seems to me and my guess is it's still legally valid yes but in your mind would you trust an election in which the ability to audit it was intentionally erased and intentionally is the important part if data had been let's say accidentally destroyed then i would say well there's nothing to see here accidents happen but if there is an intention and then it appears to be some kind of an intention involved here to delete auditable records was the election still valid i feel as if you could make an argument that the election is not valid if it can't be audited and that the reason it can't be honored that this is important that the reason they can't be audited is because people made specific decisions to get rid of stuff if that's true it's not a legitimate election now it might be legal it might be certified it might be you know done and done you know i'm not saying that anything would be reversed or anything would happen or even that the system didn't work more or less i'm just saying you couldn't really call it legitimate if it became unauditable by human intention immediately after the election i mean if i were the supreme court i would actually overturn the election if this were true now i don't know if there's a legal basis for that but i might look for one because if you're the supreme court um part of the reason it's human beings is that they do get to look at the big picture like what is really good for the world and also compatible with the the constitution ideally you want them only to be compatible with the constitution but if there's any gray area that's why we have humans that's why we pick wise educated people to be on the supreme court because sometimes sometimes you need to you know move into the gray area to get a better outcome and i don't know if i'm the supreme court and i look at information being deleted after the election and before an audit personally i would throw out the election that's what i would do but i don't know that they could actually get away with that all right here's my question for you we're talking about infrastructure all the time and everybody's arguing about what is and what is not infrastructure i'm on the side of defining it broadly you know i don't really have a complaint with buddha judge or the democrats um calling things infrastructure that are barely infrastructure as long as they also need to get funded you know elections have consequences right i mean the democrats get to throw some stuff in this bag as a as a process i'm not too concerned about it even if i might disagree a lot about some of the specifics i'm not too concerned that they're calling things you know infrastructure that's just a you know way to get there but here's my question to you if you were to list our most important infrastructure for national security what would be on the list so here's my list i would have 5g really close to the top of infrastructure priorities especially make sure there's no huawei in there and also making sure that we have enough of a 5g industry that we can you know help our allies not have huawei technology i'd also say that nasa and militarizing space is a top infrastructure because it doesn't matter so much today but in 20 years it might be the only thing that matters who controls space so space force and working with nasa or whoever else they need to work with i think space infrastructure has got to be a really high priority for the future i would say nuclear energy right at the top of the list both for powering our space exploration and control and also for climate change and also for just having enough electricity that's clean so i would say nuclear energy would be right in the top five i'd say our energy grid and controlling it and i would i would include an energy grid pipelines and cyber security you know i worry that our cyber security is really just uh nothing more than mutually assured destruction which isn't good enough if they're private hackers because we can't find them so those are the ones that just jump to the top of uh top of my list manage our forests um yeah i mean in california managing our forests is way up there because the fires uh yeah the government's priority is to find all the white supremacists that don't exist all right so those would be my priorities um so joe biden's climazar john kerry was asked about uh slave labor in china specifically the uyghurs uh being part of making solar panels that apparently we'd have to buy a lot of or at least components of if we wanted to go big on climate you know green energy and john kerry amazingly said he couldn't guarantee that we wouldn't be buying products of slave labor and genocide and i feel like he made an argument that we might have to live with that that in order to uh deal with a existential crisis as he would say but i don't uh of climate change that you might have to deal with a genocidal uh group and allow their slave labor and their genocide to make the products that keeps us safe from running out of energy and polluting the world how is that moral argument sitting with you pretty good huh why is it that we're building infrastructure and we're trying to solve climate change and we're buying ship from china doesn't it seem like infrastructure should include making our own stuff now if you look at uh now the other issue of course is that the solar panels and solar energy takes gigantic amounts of land which nuclear does not and others other things do not as much and the waste created by it is amazing and it's made by slaves so it might be that solar energy and then it also is not consistently um powering anything because the sun is not consistent so it could be that we're coming to coming around to the thought that solar energy at least the way we can do it now is the worst thing we can do and i i feel like there's a good argument that is literally the worst thing you can do now we might have to do some things in the short term just because it takes a while to do nuclear energy but uh yeah solar has turned into bad on every level bad on land use bad on pollution in the sense that the panels have to go somewhere bet on ethics because slave labor is making it bad on economics because we're giving money to china bad on national security because we're giving money to china so you know i i guess we're finally wising up to uh the real costs and benefits of solar uh and there's also a big question about apparently biden approved the first major offshore wind farm that will power 400 000 homes so it's a really massively big project about 12 miles off the coast in massachusetts now you might imagine that lots of people oppose this but once again the parts for these windmills are mostly made in europe mostly made in europe shouldn't our infrastructure include funding or something to make this stuff in the united states there's no way we can make this stuff competitively you know apple can't make a windmill probably don't want to because it kills a lot of birds but i don't know how many jobs that's going to create if the parts are made in europe so we'll see um and made in china too people are saying on the comments all right uh how many birds will it take out yeah exactly you know it's amazing to me that we can't figure out how to keep birds away from windmills doesn't it seem like that's doable i mean what would it take to scare a bird away i feel like that the bar is not that high right i feel like there's something you could do with i don't know infrared or something fluttering or some uh big scary owls or something you know if if you made the windmills at the top look like a predator you know with like a beak and you know big predator eyes and stuff would birds see the big predator head and still fly directly into it yeah yeah giant owl statue right i feel like there's a way to handle this problem maybe it doesn't work at night or something well you can light it uh send the send the ufos after them yeah the other problem is that these uh these windmills have apparently destroyed uh hundreds of ufos just hundreds of ufos have been just chopped up in these windmills yeah what about hurricanes it's a good question i assume that they're built to withstand hurricanes although i don't know how how would a windmill ever ever survive a hurricane and do you have any hurricane risk 12 miles outside of massachusetts maybe a little bit um even firecrackers he keeps coming back i don't know who you're talking about oh you're talking about a bird so you've got a bird that just keeps coming back um nuclear means nationalization of the power grid i don't know that point so somebody's saying that if we go more nuclear we have to nationalize the power grid i don't understand that point at all what's the connecting tissue all right let me tell you in advance i'm planning a trip in june so i might miss a few days of this i want to give you some warning about that but that's a jew and i'll tell you about it when we get there and um oh yes juan reminds me that chip manufacturing should be in the top five it turns out the the united states doesn't do much making chips anymore and i don't know when that changed i i thought there was one point when the united states made most of the chips am i wrong about that and now we barely are in the business or something i don't know how many we make but it's mostly overseas so it does seem like we should have chips and 5g and uh some other stuff here uh yeah we make we make junk food over here that's our specialty in america making food that will kill us um hey zach thank you you know um i appreciate the offer so i maybe i'll just say this here a lot of people um say they'd like to you know grab a cup of coffee or something when they're in the area and i always appreciate it because it means people are enjoying what i do but i pretty much never say yes to that so uh i have barely enough time to do the things i need to do and really i don't have enough time to do them so i don't really ever just sort of take a coffee i just don't do it but but thank you for offering why shouldn't it be done by private companies i don't know what you mean all right all right thanks so much for watching today and those of you who are subscribing on locals we've got a deal going on right now you can get a a year subscription with two months free if you wanted to try it out that's over at locals uh just go to locals.com and look for me and it's where i do all the naughty stuff and the provocative stuff that i don't show you here and that's all for now talk to you tomorrow

oh yeah i'm uh wearing my mask

because uh i live in california

and i don't know if you know this about

california but

unlike a lot of the states where they'll

use data

and science and stuff like that we don't

do that here

nope nope we just we just wear masks

that's all we do

you're probably saying but scott you're

all alone and there's nobody near you

well that's true but that's no reason to

let down your guard is it

no it's not no it's not all right i'm

just kidding

but here's the good news and i'll tell

you this

right after the simultaneous sip

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you didn't really even try very hard all

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to happen and all you need is a couple

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a canteen jug or flask a vessel of any

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the thing that makes

oh just everything better everything

it's called the simultaneous sip and

it's going to happen now if you're ready

go so as you know the cdc has said

that masks are not terribly necessary if

you're fully vaccinated

but states still get to make up their

own decisions

so my state uh the dumbest and most

incompetent of all states

in the universe has decided it's going

to keep its mask mandated in place

now i was walking around a little bit

since the mandate had been lifted by the

federal government

and i do note that california is fully

compliant

people riding their bikes all by

themselves wearing masks

people jogging all by themselves with

nobody

nobody within viewing distance massed up

yeah we are so fully masked in

california you can't get a virus past us

let me tell you but

several retailers walmart costco trader

joe's

have said that you don't need a mask if

you're fully vaccinated but of course

the state

can overrule that as it does in

california

but here's what you need to know

governments they rule

when they're credible if your government

is doing

reasonable enough stuff the public will

probably follow them

when your government be it federal or be

a state

starts doing things which are obviously

not reasonable

i mean just obviously not reasonable

at that point your obligation to obey

them

disappears now there's a risk

right you still take the risk if you

disobey it obey them

but your obligation is gone

you don't have an ethical or moral

obligation

to obey any government rule

that's unreasonable you don't

i mean there's a risk so i'm not

suggesting that you disobey any

rules or regulations but you have no

moral or ethical

responsibility to obey unreasonable

authority that alone will guarantee that

things will

fix themselves pretty quickly when you

combine that with the fact that there

will be

an intense competitive pressure

imagine if you will i can't imagine this

quite because i'm in a

i'm in california but imagine if you

were in a different state

and there was a store here that said you

had to wear a mask if you're fully

vaccinated

and then there's one right next to it

selling similar products

but you know one has a mask requirement

and one doesn't

there's no competition the

the moment the the competitive

difference becomes obvious

which will be in i mean it'll be in the

first week of sales

right the the very first day there are

one grocery store requires a mask and

the other one doesn't

the sales are going to reflect that

immediately right

how long do stockholders put up with

somebody not obeying the federal

government's

guidelines the cdc and it's lowering

their profits

how long do the stockholders put up with

that wait a minute

you're not following the cdc standard

and it's

lowering your profit and all you have to

do is say

stop doing that you don't have to build

something you don't need to invest in

something

you don't need to move anything or

change anything you just need to put out

a thing that says

we'll just stop requiring that and then

your profits will go up

there isn't any chance

that you're going to have a long-term

situation where there's a competitive

business

that requires a mask right as long as

their competitors are not and of course

that's going to happen

so i wouldn't worry about this all

working itself out in the next

i don't know 30 days or so but it's

taking longer than it should

uh alec baldwin is in news complaining

about cancel culture it's like a forest

fire that just needs more fuel

now when alec baldwin

is complaining about canceled culture

which could also be described as

completely agreeing with president trump

cancel cultures in trouble isn't it

because i think cancer culture has now

you know clearly jumped the shark

when uh when alec baldwin is complaining

about cancel culture because it did

happen to him

i mean he has a he has a legitimate

complaint it happened to his wife

uh i feel like cancel culture

is sort of running out of fuel a little

bit

because if you get the leftiest lefty

guy to like it

there's not much left right now of

course it will plague us for a while but

you can see there

there seems to be a turning point i

would say

and i would say the turning point is

alec baldwin speaking out in public

about it it'd be one thing if he had a

private opinion about it

but alec baldwin saying it in public

so i think i think we're turning the

corner on that

i continue to look at the cost of

opposing trump

because you've seen that so many people

who are anti-trump something bad happens

to them have you noticed that

i don't know if it's a selective memory

or just the way the news works

probably that but it seems like trump's

opposition

not only it's bad for them personally

but then

there's a big cost to it for example

um apparently biden is re

who knows if this is true right but

biden reportedly lashed out

at his own health and human services

head

over the handling of the migrant

children

so joe biden it is reported

but again you know i think it's an

anonymous report

about a private conversation in the oval

office

what credibility do you put on a private

anonymous report of something well

not much right but in this case uh it is

a

do you remember that all the leaks from

anonymous sources about trump were

negative for trump

but here's a leak i guess it'd be a leak

about a story about uh joe biden that

makes

joe biden look extra good behind closed

doors

not only is joe biden fighting for the

migrant children

but he's even beating up his own

appointed person

for not fighting hard enough or doing

well enough to save the children

so totally credible anonymous report

that makes joe biden look like a good

fighter

huh now so i

i believe the story is fake news or at

least planted news

you know you you could call that fake

news or not because it could be true

but also you know a a strategic leak

but my point is that if that works in

favor of joe biden then the story that i

get from this

is that fixing this problem turned out

to be really hard

and it wasn't just a case of whether you

were republican or democrat

it's just hard to fix it so even biden

with all the resources in the world and

all of the good intentions

apparently he couldn't even get his own

hand-picked person to to fix it well

enough

so uh i think that gives us a little

perspective about trump's performance

on that same topic now i also asked on a

on twitter how many executive orders

did trump make in which he cut

regulations

do you know the number because i

remember i feel like it was reported at

one time because he was doing that thing

where they'd cut 10 regulations for

every one that they introduced

what did the number get up to can

somebody tell me in the comments

google that for me and tell me how many

regulations he

got rid of is it in the hundreds or is

it in the thousands

it's a lot right so i think it's at

least high hundreds

am i wrong about that somebody's saying

500 but i don't know i don't know if you

actually know the number

all right so let's say some big number

whether it's hundreds or low thousands

is somewhere in that range how many of

them have been reversed

by biden do you know

what percentage we hear about some

specific ones

right you've heard about some of his

executive orders that have been reversed

but reversing an executive order is

different

from reinstituting some regulations

that trump got rid of with an executive

order

right so we do know that executive

orders have been reversed but

what percentage of the let's say

hundreds

of of regulations have been reversed by

biden because he really liked those

regulations

why don't you know that why don't i know

it

why is there no headline on that how big

a story is that

it's pretty big right because that would

tell you

that would tell you if trump did

something that's

amazing you know he'd got rid of a whole

bunch of regulations

and when they were looked at carefully

even biden didn't want them

is that what happened because i don't

know that that's what happened

is it possible that they're privately

being reversed and it's just not being

reported

because i feel like it would be reported

if there was any

big action on it so one of two things is

possible

either trump did an amazing job

of getting rid of unnecessary

regulations

or biden is reversing lots of

regulations back to having a regulation

and we don't know about it which would

also be a big story

am i wrong that this is a gigantic story

that is completely ignored

have you seen the story about it it was

a pretty big deal when i would talk to

my anti-trump friends

one of the top i don't know top five

things that they would say

is that trump has gotten rid of all

these regulations that were protecting

us

so how about a little follow-up how many

people have died so far

because of those lack of protections

how much economic development did we

have that we wouldn't have had

because he got rid of those i don't know

do you know

pretty big question total lack of

reporting um

china landed its rover on mars

at the same time that we have our assets

up there on mars

so what's that tell you

we're talking about the future let's

talk about the future

so it looks like china and the united

states are already

in a land grab for mars

you knew it was going to happen you just

didn't know when

but now it's happening allow me to make

the following suggestion

we should get a military asset up there

really quickly

just one kind of rover that could maybe

you know maybe it's uh maybe it's one of

those flying drones

but just bring one military asset up

there that can

take out somebody else's drone

and i imagine we could do it without you

know getting caught i think just the

the video would go off and they wouldn't

know what happened

um yeah our rover should have been armed

and maybe it is we don't know because at

some

point we are going to have to prevent

china from

having assets on mars i feel like that's

going to have to happen

and whoever gets there first with some

serious equipment

should be able to stop anything that

lands from that point on

because everything would be weak when it

lands right

anything that's going through that what

is it

seven minutes of bad turbulence before

you land on mars

and there's no communication if you

could take it out while it's still weak

and before it's actually you know set up

and transmitting back to earth

who would know who would know

so we should militarize mars right away

is my opinion because if china does it

first

we could be in trouble um

so keep an eye on that so here's a

story about some more ufo sightings

and apparently there is yet another

oval shaped grainy image of a ufo

that was flying over the ocean fairly

low over the ocean

for a long time i mean you know they

followed this thing for a long time so

we don't we do know for sure that it was

a grainy oval

that much is confirmed and then the

grainy oval

dived into the ocean wow

you didn't even know ufos could do that

did you i mean

if you were a if you were a spaceship

from another planet

um it would be hard enough to get all

the way to earth

with a device that can actually fly in

our atmosphere

and not run out of fuel and all that but

apparently they're so good

that they can even fly through the

atmosphere they can fly through space

they can fly through earth's atmosphere

and then they can dive into our oceans

and then later the reports are

that the ufo after it dived into the

ocean it re-emerged

with a smaller ufo in its beak

now if that's not proof that ufos are

real

i don't know what is i mean

you know we we have this good image of

uh ufos splashing into the water

in a place where uh aquatic birds

are plentiful and when you look at these

birds on

uh infrared as these images are they're

infrared

it turns out that the wings don't show

up as well as the body

because the body is warmer or it's a

different temperature from the surface

but the wings are closer to the

same temperature as the outside air so

it turns out that when you do an

infrared

picture of a bird in flight it looks

like sort of a grainy oval thing

that seems to move in a way that physics

can't explain

and not only that but physics can't

explain how it dives into the water now

and then

when it's hungry and it merges with a

small ufo in its peak

so this is all a mystery and i hope we

can i hope somebody smart

can unravel this because um it looks

like we've been visited

by extraterrestrials so

uh today i invested in some ericsson

stock

you know the telecom company from sweden

um they make equipment that competes

with uh huawei

and china and uh beijing is apparently

uh

threatening sweden because sweden banned

huawei's technology and is threatening

to

uh retaliate against eriksen because

that's

you know big company in sweden so

uh just to support erickson i

immediately went online

and bought a bunch of their stock now

let me be careful here

i don't necessarily believe that's a

good investment

you understand that right it's not a

recommendation

i don't make financial recommendations

except to diversify

and i got rid of my turkish telecom

by the way an update i used to have uh

i used to have some stock in the turkish

cell phone company

but i sold that last week for uh

patriotic reasons

because turkey is just not playing nice

and now i'm buying some erickson

also for um to defend them

basically just to defend their stock now

i don't i don't think that it's priced

apparently the analysts are not in love

with it

so i can't tell you that you should buy

a lot of it but if you wanted to buy it

for

uh let's just say anti-china reasons

it's out yeah that's an option um

so israel apparently gave some warning

recently

to a building that had al jazeera and

the

associated press but uh reportedly

also maybe some hamas secret service in

it

i don't know for sure i don't know that

that's a confirmed thing

but they gave them a little warning and

then they it looks like they shot two

missiles into the base of the building

and it was a very impressive

relatively controlled explosion in which

the building sort of went down like this

ish it was impressive i didn't know that

you could

bring down a building almost like a

controlled demolition if you hit it just

right and you know how the building is

built apparently

but they can uh because that's what

happened

and uh i have the following comments

about this

um i think that going forward and

certainly it's already

been true that when there's a military

action

between a strong military power

and uh let's say a smaller military

power could be terrorists

could be you know isis or something that

the first thing the

strong the strong military wants to do

is get rid of the media because the

strongest military can't do what it

needs to do

which is going to get really bloody and

there's going to be a lot of bodies

some of them will be civilians maybe a

lot of them

in order to win the bigger military has

to first get rid of the cameras and and

the reporting

so the first thing you need to do is

take out the press

ideally not you know not killing them

but just taking them off the field

so that they can't report that's what

happened with isis

i mean the fact that there was no

no good reporting on the ground allowed

the military to do what they needed to

do

which i imagine was pretty bad right

because

that's the job of the military if you

see pictures

it makes you think oh we gotta stop

doing this if you don't see pictures

you don't necessarily think you need to

stop doing it because pictures

are what influence us so get rid of the

media get rid of the pictures

now i would imagine that this kind of

pressure on the media

even if nobody got hurt which i hope is

the case

it's going to make them feel like maybe

they need to do what

israel wants them to do in the future

right if you want to keep your building

so there's that now there's also the

story

and uh joel pollock was reporting on

this in bray bart

the israel apparently uh you know

it faked a ground invasion to get all of

the

the fighters into the tunnels big tunnel

network

and then they bombed the tunnel network

so they bombed a tunnel network and

the news is reporting something like a

hundred deaths

like altogether do you think

that after bombing the tunnel network

then number one we can count the number

of deaths

because they're still in the tunnels

right

do you think it's only 100 people have

died after the tunnel network got bombed

was the tunnel network so lame that

there were only a few dozen people in it

i feel like they got a lot more deaths

than this

but who knows right it's going to be

hard to count people who

are pre-buried so the beauty of bombing

uh the terrorists who in the tunnels is

that you don't have to have a funeral

with a body there's no photograph of the

body

there's just bombs and then

that's all you know they're pre-buried

so um then there's additional story that

says

that maybe israel used the foreign press

and lied to them this is this is the

allegation

that israel directly and repeatedly lied

to entities like the new york times so

that they would report there was going

to be a ground invasion

at the same time reportedly i don't know

how reliable this is

but reportedly israel was telling

israeli media sources

no there's totally not going to be a

ground invasion

now i don't know if this is true

is it true that they really told the

local media no ground invasion

at the same time they were telling the

new york times and others oh totally

ground invasion

no no but what is the net effect of that

well the net effect of that

is to make the press that is not already

owned by

presumably the uh israeli

you know secret service or whatever um

it makes any any independent press in

another country

less credible less credible

because uh if you knew that the main

press in the united states had gotten a

story this big

about an israeli invasion and gotten it

wrong

what are you going to think the next

time they have a story about israel

you're going to think well this is the

same one who got that last story wrong

so israel is taking out the media

they're taking out

any media in terms of credibility

and and they're taking out a building of

the media which is

feels like a warning as well even if the

real target was

you know some other asset in the

building um glenn greenwald

is uh has a good

sub stack article on liz cheney and says

that she lied about her role

in spreading the discredited cia russian

bounty story now

the dispute is that cheney was asked

about it and said that

she had only talked about it as an

if as in if it's true

then we should act a certain way and if

it's true

then trump is doing the wrong stuff if

it's true

now her claim is that she always talked

about it

in the conditional if it's true

glenn greenwald objects to that

characterization

with with lots of examples of things she

said

but when i look at exactly the things

she said

it's really carefully chosen for example

some of her words were about

it is reported if somebody says

it has been reported that does that

sound like

if to you does that sound like if it's

true

if somebody says it has been reported

well i think if i interpret uh glenn

greenwald

correctly and i might not be but if i do

he's saying that that's more of that's

more of a direct statement that it's

true

because you're mentioning the report

you're not using the word if

but it's it's really kind of gray

in my opinion because it's really

careful wording

to say it's reported because it's

reported is true

what you don't know is that the thing

actually happened the only thing that's

true is it's reported

but then as greenwald points out

it's a common trick that her father used

which was to leak a story to the press

and then talk about the story in the

press

as if it's public information now and it

must be true because it's in the press

so you got to watch out for that trick

because you'll see it a lot

um i saw a tweet by an attorney matthew

diperno and he's talking about michigan

counties and there

apparently some audit stuff going on

about the election

and it seems that there's evidence now

in writing

that a number of the counties decided to

not

keep the image of the ballots so the

machines will

count the ballots but they also take an

image of them to store

and in order to not store the image

you have to actively turn it off because

the default the way it's built to work

the way it's built to work

thank you optimus so

uh michigan apparently many of the

counties decided to

actively turn off the image control

why would they do that what would be a

legitimate reason

for turning off a function which is

built into the machine

as an audit security safeguard

why would you turn it off give me a

legitimate reason

any legitimate reason now it sounds like

they

turned it off because maybe they didn't

want to go through the bother of an

audit or something

but is that a good reason that doesn't

sound like a reason

does it so that the first thing you need

to know is that any story about the

election

has to be judged with a lot of

skepticism so i don't know if it's true

that michigan counties decided to turn

off this feature but if it's true and

there does seem to be evidence of it

the question that matthew asks is was a

crime committed

and does rico apply because if these

counties

organized in other words they talked to

each other and they said hey

if you turn it off i'll turn it off and

we'll be fine

then they're coordinating a criminal

activity

which is a rico problem now

am i wrong that there is also some

disappearing data in

arizona so that we've got at least two

or three of the trouble uh

the trouble or at least the the places

that people have questions about the

election

how many of them have to be erased

before you say

uh-oh and let me ask you this

let's say the only thing you knew is

that

there was one state that couldn't be

audited

suppose that's all you knew and let's

say that

democrats and republicans agreed on the

following point

um hypothetically so i'll use my if here

if it's true that both arizona

and michigan and maybe another state you

know

there's still some suspicion about some

other states but if there was something

that could have been audited

and should have been maintained and was

deleted before an audit

is the election still valid

is it because it seems to me

and my guess is it's still legally valid

yes

but in your mind would you trust an

election

in which the ability to audit it was

intentionally

erased and intentionally is the

important part

if data had been let's say accidentally

destroyed

then i would say well there's nothing to

see here accidents happen

but if there is an intention and

then it appears to be some kind of an

intention involved here

to delete auditable records

was the election still valid i feel as

if you could make an argument

that the election is not valid if it

can't be audited

and that the reason it can't be honored

that this is important that the reason

they can't be audited

is because people made specific

decisions to get rid of stuff

if that's true it's not a legitimate

election now it might be legal

it might be certified it might be you

know done and done

you know i'm not saying that anything

would be reversed or anything would

happen

or even that the system didn't work more

or less

i'm just saying you couldn't really call

it legitimate

if it became unauditable by human

intention

immediately after the election i mean if

i were the supreme court

i would actually overturn the election

if this were true

now i don't know if there's a legal

basis for that but i might look for one

because if you're the supreme court um

part of the reason it's human beings is

that they do get to look at the big

picture

like what is really good for the world

and also compatible with the

the constitution ideally you want them

only to be compatible with the

constitution

but if there's any gray area that's why

we have humans

that's why we pick wise educated people

to be on the supreme court

because sometimes sometimes you need to

you know move into the gray area to get

a better outcome

and i don't know if i'm the supreme

court and i look at

information being deleted after the

election and before an audit

personally i would throw out the

election that's what i would do

but i don't know that they could

actually get away with that

all right here's my question for you

we're talking about infrastructure all

the time and everybody's arguing about

what is and what is not infrastructure

i'm on the side of defining it broadly

you know i don't really have a complaint

with buddha judge or

the democrats um calling things

infrastructure that are barely

infrastructure

as long as they also need to get funded

you know

elections have consequences right i mean

the democrats

get to throw some stuff in this bag

as a as a process i'm not too concerned

about it

even if i might disagree a lot about

some of the specifics

i'm not too concerned that they're

calling things

you know infrastructure that's just a

you know way to get there

but here's my question to you if you

were to list our most

important infrastructure for national

security

what would be on the list so here's my

list

i would have 5g really close to the top

of infrastructure priorities especially

make sure there's no huawei in there and

also making sure that

we have enough of a 5g industry that we

can

you know help our allies not have huawei

technology i'd also say that nasa

and militarizing space is a top

infrastructure because it doesn't matter

so much today but in 20 years it might

be the only thing that matters

who controls space so space force

and working with nasa or whoever else

they need to work with

i think space infrastructure has got to

be a really high priority

for the future i would say nuclear

energy

right at the top of the list both for

powering our space exploration and

control

and also for climate change and also for

just having enough electricity that's

clean

so i would say nuclear energy would be

right in the top five

i'd say our energy grid and controlling

it

and i would i would include an energy

grid

pipelines and cyber security

you know i worry that our cyber security

is really just uh nothing more than

mutually assured

destruction which isn't good enough if

they're private hackers

because we can't find them so those are

the ones that just jump to the top

of uh top of my list

manage our forests um yeah

i mean in california managing our

forests is way up there because the

fires

uh yeah the government's priority is to

find all the white supremacists that

don't exist

all right so those would be my

priorities um

so joe biden's climazar john kerry

was asked about uh slave labor in china

specifically the uyghurs uh being part

of making solar panels that apparently

we'd have to buy a lot of

or at least components of if we wanted

to go big

on climate you know green energy

and john kerry amazingly

said he couldn't guarantee that we

wouldn't be buying products of slave

labor and genocide

and i feel like he made an argument that

we might have to live with that

that in order to uh deal with a

existential crisis as he would say

but i don't uh of climate change

that you might have to deal with a

genocidal

uh group and allow their slave labor

and their genocide to make the products

that keeps us safe from running out of

energy and polluting the world

how is that moral argument sitting with

you

pretty good huh why is it that we're

building infrastructure

and we're trying to solve climate change

and we're buying ship from china

doesn't it seem like infrastructure

should include

making our own stuff now if you look at

uh now the other issue of course is that

the solar panels

and solar energy takes gigantic amounts

of land

which nuclear does not and others other

things do not as much

and the waste created by it is amazing

and it's made by slaves so

it might be that solar energy and then

it also is not consistently

um powering anything because the sun is

not consistent

so it could be that we're coming to

coming around to the thought that solar

energy

at least the way we can do it now is the

worst thing we can do

and i i feel like there's a good

argument that is literally the worst

thing you can do now we might have to do

some things in the short term

just because it takes a while to do

nuclear energy

but uh yeah solar has turned into

bad on every level bad on land use

bad on pollution in the sense that the

panels have to go somewhere

bet on ethics because slave labor is

making it

bad on economics because we're giving

money to china

bad on national security because we're

giving money to china

so you know i i guess we're

finally wising up to uh the real costs

and benefits of solar

uh and there's also a big question about

apparently biden approved the first

major offshore wind farm

that will power 400 000 homes so it's a

really massively big project about 12

miles off the coast

in massachusetts now you might imagine

that lots of people oppose this

but once again the parts for these

windmills

are mostly made in europe mostly made in

europe

shouldn't our infrastructure include

funding or something to make this stuff

in the united states

there's no way we can make this stuff

competitively

you know apple can't make a windmill

probably don't want to because it kills

a lot of birds

but i don't know how many jobs that's

going to create

if the parts are made in europe so we'll

see

um and made in china too people are

saying on the comments

all right uh how many birds will it take

out yeah exactly you know

it's amazing to me that we can't figure

out how to keep birds away from

windmills

doesn't it seem like that's doable i

mean what would it take to scare a bird

away

i feel like that the bar is not that

high right

i feel like there's something you could

do

with i don't know infrared or something

fluttering or some

uh big scary owls or something

you know if if you made the windmills

at the top look like a predator you know

with like a beak

and you know big predator eyes and stuff

would birds

see the big predator head and still fly

directly into it yeah yeah giant owl

statue

right i feel like there's a way to

handle this problem

maybe it doesn't work at night or

something well you can light it

uh send the

send the ufos after them yeah the other

problem is that these uh

these windmills have apparently

destroyed

uh hundreds of ufos

just hundreds of ufos have been just

chopped up

in these windmills

yeah what about hurricanes it's a good

question i assume that they're built to

withstand hurricanes

although i don't know how how would a

windmill ever

ever survive a hurricane and do you have

any hurricane risk

12 miles outside of massachusetts

maybe a little bit

um even firecrackers

he keeps coming back i don't know who

you're talking about oh you're talking

about a bird

so you've got a bird that just keeps

coming back

um nuclear means nationalization of the

power grid i don't know

that point so somebody's saying that if

we go more nuclear

we have to nationalize the power grid i

don't understand that point at all

what's the connecting tissue

all right let me tell you in advance i'm

planning a

trip in june so i might miss a few days

of this i want to give you some warning

about that but that's a jew and i'll

tell you about it when we get there

and um oh

yes juan reminds me that chip

manufacturing should be in the top five

it turns out the the united states

doesn't do much

making chips anymore and i don't know

when that changed

i i thought there was one point when the

united states

made most of the chips am i wrong about

that

and now we barely are in the business or

something

i don't know how many we make but it's

mostly overseas

so it does seem like we should have

chips and 5g

and uh some other stuff here

uh yeah we make we make junk food over

here

that's our specialty in america making

food that will kill us

um hey zach

thank you you know um i appreciate the

offer

so i maybe i'll just say this here a lot

of people

um say they'd like to you know

grab a cup of coffee or something when

they're in the area and i always

appreciate it

because it means people are enjoying

what i do but i

pretty much never say yes to that so

uh i have barely enough time to do the

things i need to do

and really i don't have enough time to

do them so i don't really ever just sort

of

take a coffee i just don't do it but

but thank you for offering

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why shouldn't it be done by private

companies i don't know what you mean

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