Episode 1378 Scott Adams - UFOs Confirmed, Fake News Tries Erasing Trump's Obvious Successes, More

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zero texas the whole state of texas zero cover deaths yesterday wow now it's not going to stay at zero of course but wow they had the lowest seven day covet positivity rate ever lowest coverage hospitalization in 11 months wow wow amazing so i was out last night going to dinner and i gotta tell you my my little town is so hoppin i mean there is some pent up energy let me tell you the the number of people who are out you can't park you know if stores are just packed the restaurants you can't get a reservation it is hopping where i am now is it where you are traffic is crazy again yeah vaccines are working so um new york the washington post has an interesting analysis if you can call it that and one of their claims in this article is that because israel has the iron dome which is pretty good at shooting down the incoming rockets coming from gaza that that's making it harder to get peace because why would israel need any peace if they're stopping 90 of the rockets now is that a good analysis that the reason you can't get peace is because the the is that one of the sides is too strong um i i think that we should not discourage people from having a strong national defense because it might prevent them from suing for peace that they don't need and don't want i would say that israel is in a good position they don't need any peace so what is better than having a peace you don't want and probably wouldn't hold anyway versus having you know a dominant control of your own security situation i feel like i feel like peace isn't even the first choice is it because it wouldn't be a real beast yeah there would still be terrorists doing what terrorists do you could get maybe the leaders to agree but it wouldn't stop the terrorists so i don't think that israel has any reason for peace with gaza let's say they just don't have any reason there's nothing to be gained as long as they have a dominant uh situation so you know and israel is getting bigger and stronger every day so whatever they're doing is working and they get situations like this and they take care of it probably be done in a month before it flares up again later somebody says palestinians use peace to get money from their wars well there's definitely a monetary incentive to everything all right um so we're also seeing uh the news trying to ruin trump's legacy about the abraham accords now watch watch the fake news do this what they're trying to do is they're trying to say that the abraham accords were really about the palestinian situation even though and you know nobody involved in the palestinian situation directly was even part of it but the idea was that if israel and the other arab countries got along maybe it would isolate the palestinians and possibly cause them to be a little more flexible if if indeed that's what it takes but you're seeing the news trying to say that the trouble with israel and the palestinians is somehow negating one of the greatest accomplishments of all time diplomatically which is the abrahamic courts so watch how the news tries to make these two different things into one thing now i would argue that the abraham accords are holding meaning that the other arab countries are not you know they're not jumping on israel and pulling out of the accord obviously it's a giant success obviously you just look at it and you say to yourself wait did israel and those countries that made an agreement with it still keep their agreement yeah even when the gaza is uh hurling rockets and and israel's responding is still held so it's exactly what it was intended to do which is isolate the palestinian situation and maybe make that easier to either deal with or to solve in the long run so it is disgusting to watch the fake news try to turn a gigantic success into a failure by making it look like it was really intended to do something directly with the palestinian violence which didn't it was never meant to be a direct uh address to that problem um matthew mcconaughey is apparently quietly putting out fuelers to see if he should run for uh governor now apparently he polls uh so high that he might actually win if the polling were accurate and held now what do you think of that do you think that whatever problems we have will be solved by a governor matthew mcconaughey well i liked him a lot more before he did that uh those lincoln commercials is it lincoln where it just is so cringy from beginning to end i don't know uh he apparently does have he's got a college degree and some kind of uh i think the arts um or some some kind of bachelor of science and some kind of communication or arts sort of thing so and he was thinking about a law being a lawyer at one point so apparently he's academically smart so he's got that working for him academically quite smart and he's well-meaning and probably liked by both democrats and republicans to some extent i don't know if he needs to be governor because i don't know that there's a problem there in the first place i mean does governor abbott is he doing a bad job that i don't know about i mean i've heard criticisms but all the all the governors are getting criticized so i don't know if this is a problem that needs to be solved but i feel like there's something terribly broken with the world if matthew mcconaughey can become governor or somebody says he wrote a book too um you know i think reagan was a different animal because he was always political even when he was an actor uh but i don't know i just don't know about actors becoming governors just doesn't feel like a good a good trend for the long time long term you know arguably even arnold schwarzenegger was kind of political before he ran for office all right uh how many of you saw the 60 minutes on the ufos so there's there are more videos of alleged ufos which tend to be these oval shaped objects which they never get a good picture of but they can definitely see it on the infrared and on the radar so we know something's there i feel like it's fair to say there's something and when we say ufos are confirmed which i cheekily did in my tweet about this live stream confirming a ufo isn't anything it's like confirming that there's confusion it doesn't confirm anything it just confirms that we don't know what they are so when you say it ufos are confirmed of course people think you've confirmed aliens but nothing like that has happened all right so here's the question there was at least one part of the 60 minutes apart that i hadn't heard before there were four pilots in the same situation i guess it might have been two jets with two pilots each and they they all four of them saw the same thing they report that there was some oval object making the ocean swirl and then it flew away and it went right past them and you know they could they could clearly see it etc and they didn't want to talk about it until now and so you have to ask yourself what is more likely that four people really saw something that is not of earthly design because apparently it was doing things that earth technology can't do or they always seem to do that is it more likely that four people are lying or mistaken or is it more likely that that there are aliens who are visiting with advanced technology which one of those is more likely well let's put it in context most of our headlines are about things that people see that aren't there right most of our hoaxes and in fact most of our headlines even today today just pick a day most of our headlines today are about things that people saw that weren't there it's most of the news most of your experience every day involves people clearly seeing things that aren't there your co-workers remember a conversation that didn't happen the news is reporting something that didn't happen i i just gave you an example you'll be a few more before we're done so one hypothesis that four people could have the same crazy hallucination or just mistaken perception that is the most common thing in the entire world it feels like it's not right because we all think that our perceptions are pretty good so we think well our perceptions are good other peoples must be at least a little bit good so it seems like it would be really unusual that four people would see a ufo right up close and they'd be military people and they'd have the same story what are the odds that that didn't really happen really high really high like close to 100 high it's the most common thing in your experience is that people see things that aren't there now how common is it in all of our experience to see a confirmed alien spaceship well so far none in in the history of civilization so far none confirmed but we certainly have lots of stories about them now if you have one situation which is the most common situation in reality people saying things that don't exist even when multiple people see it very common versus something that's never happened and would be extraordinary and violate physics if it did kind of equal odds would you say no not even close if i if i could bet my entire net wealth and and have a certain answer you know hypothetically if you could know for sure i would bet my entire net wealth that is not an alien spaceship now i don't even know if it's a spaceship could be anything but we'll maybe someday we'll know here's another uh news that i'd say i'm a little skeptical of apparel there's a story in usa today that a uh a woman who is a black homeowner had her home appraised twice and worried that she was getting a low appraisal because she was black so she decided to do an experiment in which he got a white family to pretend it was their house and then the third appraisal of their house was double double what the first two were so clear racism right what else could it be i mean it's in the news so it must be true i can't imagine that the news would report something that's totally untrue but do you believe that one woman's house was appraised by two people for i guess 110 125 and then the third one was double it was like 249 000 or something like that do you think that sounds plausible because the usa today reported it like it's true no it's not plausible it's not it's not even slightly plausible and you should see the comments on the the tweet from people who do appraisals for a living the people who do appraisals for a living say nope not possible because you have to show your work the appraisal business is about comparables finding other homes that are sold for a certain price that are similar if the appraisal doesn't show that the other homes in your area sold for a similar price you're not going to turn then you're not going to turn in that appraisal because your own appraisal would say it's fake here are all the other houses just like yours and then here's yours completely different than all the other houses like yours and we're going to just keep it that way because we're appraising it for half of what all the other houses are worth do you think that happened no no it didn't happen now some people are speculating that what did happen is that the first two appraisals uh i think we do know this was during the the the depths of the coronavirus problem when nothing looked like it was worth anything and then the third appraisal happened when things were picking up the stock market was up by 50 percent or whatever whatever the number was and home values were zooming so but still doubled do you think your home doubled no i don't know what the real story is but this is not real all right and have i told you about stories that are a little bit too on the nose a little bit too on the nose isn't it the the clever black single mom i think actually i think she's a single mom i'm not sure about that part but you know she she's she's a victim of racism so bad that her home was praised at half of its value no that didn't happen i'm sorry now if i'd seen this story and said there's a 30 difference i wouldn't have even questioned it really i mean i would have been horrified if there was a if there were a 30 difference that would be horrifying but i might have believed it but not double come on i mean the news isn't even trying anymore when they report stories like this they're just so obviously not true remember i told you that the the disagreement between dr fauci and rand paul about whether uh fauci had ever supported funding for gain of function stuff in uhan and i said to you that my theory was that they were both correct disagreeing but both correct and the reason that i gave is that gain of function was probably being used in two different ways so that they were both right they were just using the the phrase differently and i feel like that's confirmed now let me tell you what the collins who's the head of the nih said and i want to listen to his exact wording all right so here he'll be denying that they were involved in any funding for a gain of a gain of what do you call it so here's what he says quote let me be very clear we never approved any grant that would have supported gain of function circ research on dangerous coronaviruses okay keyword dangerous to see if they could be more transmissible or lethal for individuals in the human species he added and they said that was not something that we would have done now watch the exact wording here we never approved that kind of research and that's something senator paul might want to be a bit more clear about that kind of research so he starts out by saying talking about gain of function on dangerous coronaviruses and he says we never funded that kind of research but gain and function as a big category and gain a function to weaponize it is a subset of that category so is it true that they did non-weaponized research on gain of function but they did not fund in any way weaponizing gain of function i feel like that's what's going on so this looks like fake news meaning that it looks like there's a disagreement but they're just using the words differently i think that's my that's my current hypothesis do you remember project veritas said that had an under undercover video of a cnn a technical director i think he was and he was saying about cnn plans to panic us about the climate as their next big theme that they'll weave into everything well here's your example of your cnn climate panic porn and ever so their tweet today in an ever warming climate ripple effects or chain reactions could lead to altered weather patterns across the globe thanks to a melting antarctic ice sheet a new study says so here's my problem what would happen if we knew that let's say we knew that the fake news was damaging people's brains because they were getting too afraid they were frightened to death about white supremacists under the bed now they're frightened to death that the arctic ice sheet will cause you know the earth to fall apart from global change global climate change what would happen to your brain if you were believing the news it would be massive mental health problems right now here's my question if the news created massive mental health problems for profit you know they're not they're not trying to give you mental health problems but it's an outcome of all the fake news who would report it if it were happening that's a problem isn't it if the problem was you know imagine hypothetically it's a massive mental health problem directly caused by fake news who would report it who would report it there's nobody to report it right it's one of the biggest problems in the country by far but the news can't report it this is one where even you know fox news can't even report it about cnn cnn can't even report that about fox news and they fight all the time but reporting it would require accepting that you're both at least a little bit part of that process so the news can't report on what might be the biggest story in the country right now massive mental health problems from the news now is there any science to support that apparently yes apparently there's plenty of science are we following the science and reporting that the news is creating massive mental health problems nope nope we don't follow the news in that case will climate change become a precursor for war under the bush doctrine well that's interesting i feel as if climate change and racism have the same overall quality that you can apply them to every other topic everything could be something about racism everything could be something about climate change you can make those fit anything so will somebody use it to justify a war definitely yeah we don't know the details but we know climate change will be will be used to justify everything all right um now how about uh i just saw a mention of the new york times article ben was it ben smith yeah ben smith was writing in new york times about the story about the jeopardy contestant who won three times in a row but when he's the first time he held up one finger the second time he won he held up two to show he'd won twice and the third time when he held up three fingers he unfortunately decided not to do these three fingers but to do the these i can't do it without i can't i can't give you an example but uh he used like a uh a catcher in baseball uses uh uses these three fingers to say three and apparently there was a big organization of past participants on jeopardy it's a thriving you know sub community on the internet and they decided that he was really sending the secret white supremacist hand gesture now ben smith just rips that apart and essentially just treats it like nonsense and the tone of ben's article is that all of these past jeopardy contestants who are by definition way smarter about facts than the average person were completely bamboozled by the belief that they could see a white supremacist right in front of them now ufos some people believe exist because so many people saw it with their own eyes with their own eyes they saw it they saw the ufos so therefore they must exist right well several million people saw this poor jeopardy contestant look like a white supremacist and apparently he's not so um is this mental health problem i think yes i think it is i'm saying that the uh the news should be covered by the fda maybe should the news be regulated by the fda because it's like a drug you could make that argument i mean it would never fly but from a scientific perspective yeah you could make that argument um so are uh can we say that there's a massive mental health problem because all of these jeopardy contestants thought they saw something that didn't exist yeah yeah we can to me that looks exactly like proof of a major mental illness caused by the fake news um 538 is reporting that nearly every republican who voted to impeach trump including liz cheney has been either admonished by the party or attracted at least one primary challenger so it really kind of suggests that trump is still in charge of the republican party because he can take out anybody who opposed him if trump can still take out and i think he can anybody who opposed him how is anybody going to prevent him from being nominated again i mean i'm not saying you'd want to prevent it i'm just saying it feels like nothing can stop it at this point i i feel like trump can just take out one person after another until until the field is clear so i don't know that that's going to happen but it's certainly possible all right here's some fake news alert so you may have seen some video clips of the director of the cdc rachelle wallensky and she mentioned there that we now have and this was mentioned in a tweet on this week abc news said uh let's see she's quoted as saying we now have science that has really just evolved in the last two weeks that demonstrates that these vaccines are safe they are effective what wait what what did i just say are you telling me that the head of the cdc only found out in the last two weeks that the vaccines are safe and effective that's what the tweet says and it's a tweet from this week abc that wouldn't be fake news right i mean they wouldn't they wouldn't just blatantly tweet out a complete falsehood would they but it looks like they're saying that the cdc just figured out that vaccines are safe that's what the quote says i'm reading it with my own eyes it's got to be true because i'm looking at it right if you see it with your own eyes it's true isn't that what we've all learned no i hope not no you see it with your own eyes it doesn't mean anything doesn't mean it's true at all in fact the tweet is completely misleading compared to the situation so i listened to the full clip and the the tweet is just misleading of course they've known that the vaccinations had passed all the testing of course they knew the vaccines were safe there was more to the statement this is a rupaur she got the the statement was kind of cut off so that uh it looked like she was just talking about the safety of the vaccines as if they had just discovered it this week or last week no the specific thing she said is that we just discovered like in the last few days that if you're vaccinated but you also get the the coronavirus which can happen you basically can't spread it that's a big deal that's a gigantic big deal that you can't spread it even if you have it as long as you're vaccinated that changes everything and that was the main context of the the rest of her point she said we know the vaccines are safe and effective and recently we found out they're even better than we thought that's all it was she literally said nothing except things you'd you'd want her to say which is we thought it was safe now we know it's extra safe and on top of that we know that vaccinated people who have it can't give it that's gigantic totally uh but the way it was taken out of context i think you're going to see some fake news that acts like they didn't know it was safe or something nothing like that is true not that anybody could know for sure anything safe there's a uh big news in the nuclear energy business so apparently there's this uh consortium led by rolls royce that is building these smaller nuclear reactors and uh they call them the small modular reactors smrs and they're going to build all these mini reactors and they found some new technology to increase their output and make them even better so now these factory-built reactors did you hear that factory-built reactors they're going to build a nuclear power plant in a factory and then ship it to the location do you know how big a deal that is that's everything that's everything that's the end of climate change is a problem if if they can pull this off and apparently it aims to bring 10 mini nuclear reactors into use by 2035 with the first one coming in around 2030.

now of course things get delayed but if you're building your reactor in a factory you're going to be able to at least build it on time or on time-ish and i wouldn't think that they would build it unless they knew that they could get it approved and had a location for it so i feel like this is some of the biggest news in the world like i'll go further this is some of the biggest news in human civilization some of the biggest news in human civilization if they can pull this off yeah paul well portable i think is maybe uh overstating it but it looks like they can build it in a factory maybe move you know one part at a time to where it needs to be and then assemble it but if they pull this off i mean seriously this would be like the discovery of electricity it's that big because it changes climate change it changes pollution it would change wars i mean it would change the balance of power it would it would uh allow us to you know it's probably just you know that the fact that we're getting this good at nuclear energy would allow us to populate space because you need small nuclear reactors for space and you need lots of people who are trained to build them which you need a domestic domestic industry to get that now this is happening over in great britain i believe yeah in the uk uh but certainly if they're doing it over there and they will prove that these factory-built uh generators work that could be huge uh michael smerkanisch over on cnn uh and i've often told you that on cnn he's the i would say one of the two or three most objective people on that network and he says there was a survey and a tweet he said survey on whether donald trump deserves any thanks for the speed of the vaccine now what do you think somebody saying that new scale nu scale is building some reactors in idaho so the united states is is doing a lot with small nuclear reactors too um but do you think what do you think do you think that people in the country believe that trump should get credit for how fast the vaccines came out and when i saw that i said to myself wait a minute are you telling me that there's anybody who wouldn't give him credit for that anybody you you could find are you serious you can find one person even one person in the whole world can you even find me one person who would say that trump was not directly responsible for the speed of vaccines just find me one person let's see how the poll went half of the people say no i'm sort of rounding but basically half of the country says no he doesn't get credit for that what and it turns out that the exact numbers you know it's it's roughly half and half but the exact numbers line up really really close to the 2020 election results so basically even the simplest truth the simplest truth that trump did make a difference on the speed of the vaccines the most unambiguous simplest truth reported exactly the same on every network like even msnbc i think correct me if i'm wrong but i think even msnbc's would say yeah trump got us vaccines faster don't they do they even argue with that how in hell do half of the country not know that's true how in hell and the answer is they just they voted for their team that's all that has nothing to do with any information or facts or anything it's just people voted for their team uh rasmussen poll polled uh people to find out if uh people thought that trump or biden had better policies about uh israel what do you think people said do you think that conservatives thought trump was better on israel or biden surprise conservatives thought trump was better about israel but how about how about liberals well big surprise the liberals say that trump was worse in dealing with israel now again yeah there's always room for disagreement and it's definitely an opinion but i don't feel like this one is close i don't feel that this was a close call i'm positive that trump did better with israel in terms of policy i don't think there's any question about that the abraham accords of course you know being a big context for that uh it's just amazing that there's a disagreement on that which is further proof that we don't use facts or data so you all remember the story of the ceo of coca-cola getting a little extra awoke and going public with his opinions on the election and uh today there's uh the first dilbert cartoon on dilbert's ceo deciding to get more political because he thinks it'll be good for business maybe it won't be so you've got a few days of dilbert's ceo being say inspired by the ceo of coca-cola now how many of you know elon musk's one of his rules for work this has been widely reported that elon musk has a let's say a philosophy for how tesla should be managed and he explicitly says this i'm paraphrasing but he explicitly says this that if you're doing if you have a company rule that could show up in a dilbert comic maybe you shouldn't do it a very simple rule if you look at the rule and you say to yourself oh that could end up in a dilbert comic strip maybe don't do that rule maybe that's a rule you should rethink so that's the the elon musk theory and the ceo of coca-cola will be testing out that concept because he did just become a character in a dilbert comic we'll see how that works out for him all right that is pretty much what i want to talk about just checking my many notes all right is there anything i forgot to talk about today um mustafa says we can colonize mars but your printer won't work when we get there yeah yeah that's probably true all right anything else i forgot all right we should about the teachers unions let me ask you this is it my imagination or have the teachers unions completely destroyed all their credibility now they still have tons of power so maybe that won't change at all but i feel as though the teachers unions were a lot more popular a year ago and i've been hammering on him for a year corey deangelis has been doing an amazing job hammering on the teachers unions trying to get school choice a little bit more accepted and i feel as if there's been a big change now i've been trying for a long time to paint the teachers unions as the primary source of systemic racism because they are if you fixed education everything else would go better right there'd still be racism you can't eliminate that sort of thing totally but if everybody got a fair shot at an education which they don't have now i feel like the problem of systemic racism would get a lot less even though it would never go to zero so i'm getting lots of suggestions here for how to destroy my printer i like the trebuchet yeah i might have to build a tray mache just to see how far i can did i pronounce that right uh to see how far i can toss my printer all right let's see my senses the teachers unions are still big but now very brittle yeah i think so i i feel as if we're getting close to the breaking point now apparently there is more of a waiting list for classic uh charter schools than there are spaces so there's that didn't make sense but there's a waiting list for charter schools and as long as there is that pressure is going to continue and i think there are a lot more a lot more prominent people willing to take on the teachers unions you know have i told you that the the government gets to be in charge until they just can't do their job and then the citizens are in charge now that's not written in the constitution right and nowhere in the constitution does it say does it say if you're uh if your leaders are incompetent you can just take over and just make the decisions for them doesn't say that but it's true sometimes there's just for whatever reason our leaders just can't leave for example in the coronavirus leaders can't lead the way we want them to because leaders have to focus on safety over lifestyle makes sense you don't want them to change that but it requires that toward the end of the pandemic that the citizens take control and i'll tell you i in my town it looks like it's already happening i mean the masks were pretty much off yesterday it's a lot of you want to see my printer be destroyed i'm just watching the the comments go by anyway my point is on with the teachers unions uh neither the republicans nor the democrats can go as hard against them as they'd like because the teachers unions are too strong so they could they could fund you to be removed from office if you go against them so politicians are the wrong tool for fixing school choice because they're too weak compared to the teachers unions but i don't have that problem the teachers unions can't hurt me i mean they could try but what are they going to do the teachers unions can't hurt corey deangelis the teachers unions can't hurt any blue czech person who retweets anything they hear eyes say about the teachers unions and so i would say that this is yet yet again another case where by design you know what it is that it means to be a leader in america and how you get your money and how you get reelected by design our political leaders can't help us on this it's sort of going to have to come from the the parents and the public so i think the public has just got to take control of this decision yeah at some point there's going to be enough public force that the politicians will just have to cave so we have to be more powerful than the teachers unions or the teachers unions get everything they want so what does social media give you how many times have i told you that our current form of government is no longer a republic this is real we're not a republican anymore we are something closer to an influencer based democracy meaning that we let the public we let the leaders you know pick up the garbage and you know make sure we have the military and do the basic stuff right but the moment our leaders can't do a decision they're just the wrong tool for the job as they are with coronavirus once it gets to the end of it anyway the public just takes over and when i say the public takes over there are usually some influencers some handful of influencers who have enough influence that pretty soon they they start moving the numbers if you look at the uh school choice preference polling you look at it today compared to a year ago pretty big move right there's way more interest in in school choice than it was even one year ago where did that come from none of it came from our leaders correct me if i'm wrong but name the leader who's always talking about school choice um who now i know that republicans talk about it all the time but it's usually just in a list like there's no leader you can say oh there's that's the that's the school choice person you know in the way that you could say aoc is sort of a climate change you know leader like it or not i mean she's associated with it but who is who is the leader who's going against the teachers unions they just talk about it trump talks about it a little bit he doesn't really try too hard right um yeah so so my point is that the public does run the country at this point via influencers via social media which eventually will push the news business which will eventually push the politicians but for these complicated ones it's the public the public is already in charge you used to be betsy devos yeah but bessie devos when you have that job you just don't get much attention if you're if you're in the cabinet yeah all the republicans talk about it but it's not like a big theme you know it's not like climate change or anything you should be but it's not uh did you hear the story there was just a massive amount of fentanyl that got captured at the border border massive amount now you know that that mostly comes from china so now we know that china is killing us with fentanyl intentionally and we know that the coronavirus came from the wuhan lab we don't know the details of that but would it be fair to say that we are already losing a chemical and biological war to china so china is polluting our atmosphere which will cause us to spend massively on climate change because they're polluting it sending us fentanyl and coronavirus it's basically full-scale world war three chemical warfare chemical biological warfare we're in it i mean we're in the middle of a gigantic war that just took half a million casualties this year but we just act like it's something else so um i'm not on the side that says that china released any kind of virus intentionally i think that would be crazy like you know even if you could imagine they had some kind of a way they could come out ahead by doing it i just don't see any leader doing that just don't see it the the that would be fair to say tell me uh is are you saying paul that uh that i'm going into too much hyperbole um that's how the big lie works bro what is how the big lie works how many of you believe the big lie meaning that uh it's proven that the election was fair and untainted and that anybody who suggests is not is part of the big lie how many of you watching this video uh buy into the notion that that's the big lie how many of you because that's pure um brainwashing if you buy into that phrase the big lie you you've bought into one of the most blatant pure brainwashing persuasion plays of all time because you can't really know what happened in the thing you didn't look for or you haven't looked for completely you can't know something isn't there if you didn't look so the certainty with which the big lie is branded as you know we know this to be true that it's a lie it's amazing it's amazing that uh that that's even legal let me go further it shouldn't be legal to use the phrase the big lie shouldn't be legal because it does make a claim that's not true and that not true claim that we know for sure what the result was either fair or unfair my take is that we couldn't know it's unknowable given that nobody was looking for it and it wasn't transparent so it feels like you should be illegal to just blatantly do fake news like that uh the great thing about education is the teachers unions are being hollowed out by local individual decisions that's right there will be enough people who are going to home homeschool that two things are going to happen one it's going to make it more obvious that the schools need to compete or fail and number two the homeschooling if you get more and more people homeschooling than the the technology and the systems which do homeschooling will just get better and apparently they're really good now so they'll just keep getting better all right yes teachers are good and unions teachers unions are bad not unions are bad but teachers unions are bad um somebody says the big lie is abide in one that's no more smart you know it if you're gonna say that we know for sure either way that's just that's just not where the smart people should be the smartest the smart people here's the smartest opinion because it's mine defenestrate the printer maybe i will the smartest opinion on the election uh credibility is that we can't know because we haven't looked for it um so we don't know if it was fair or not fair it's unknowable but we do know that the system has installed the president so the system did what the system did so i'd say that the system gave us a president and that's fine somebody says scott's ego is taking over well you get banned for that now what will i do shall i just uh i'll hide i'll just hide you so you don't exist anymore um keep in mind that all criticism is welcome but you have to give a reason scott's ego is taking over is not a reason and if there's somebody here who operates without their ego please let me know because i would like to meet such an amazing person uh all right uh oligarchs do work i don't know what that means uh logic arguments please yes yes please all right that's all i got for now i'm just babbling and i will talk to you tomorrow

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texas governor abbott reports

that the number of coveted related

deaths in texas yesterday was

zero

zero

texas

the whole state of texas

zero cover deaths yesterday

wow

now it's not going to stay at zero of

course

but

wow they had the lowest seven day covet

positivity rate ever

lowest coverage hospitalization in 11

months

wow

wow amazing

so i was out last night

going to dinner

and i gotta tell you my my little town

is so hoppin

i mean there is some pent up energy let

me tell you

the the number of people who are out you

can't park

you know if stores are just packed the

restaurants you can't get a reservation

it is hopping where i am now is it where

you are traffic is crazy again

yeah vaccines are working

so um

new york the washington post has an

interesting analysis

if you can call it that

and one of their claims in this article

is that because israel has the iron dome

which is pretty good at shooting down

the incoming rockets coming from gaza

that that's making it harder to get

peace

because why would israel

need any peace if they're stopping 90 of

the rockets

now

is that a good analysis

that the reason you can't get peace

is because the the

is that one of the sides is too strong

um i i think that we should not

discourage people from having a strong

national defense

because it might prevent them from suing

for peace that they don't need and don't

want

i would say that israel is in a good

position they don't need any peace

so what is better

than having a peace you don't want and

probably wouldn't hold anyway versus

having

you know a dominant control

of your own security situation

i feel like

i feel like peace isn't even the first

choice is it

because it wouldn't be a real beast yeah

there would still be terrorists doing

what terrorists do you could get maybe

the leaders to agree

but it wouldn't stop the terrorists

so i don't think that

israel has any

reason for peace with gaza let's say

they just don't have any reason

there's nothing to be gained as long as

they have a dominant

uh situation

so

you know and israel is getting bigger

and stronger every day so whatever

they're doing is working and

they get situations like this and they

take care of it

probably be done in a month before it

flares up again later

somebody says palestinians use peace to

get money from their wars

well there's definitely a monetary

incentive to everything

all right

um

so we're also seeing uh the news trying

to ruin

trump's legacy

about the abraham accords

now watch watch the fake news do this

what they're trying to do

is they're trying to say that the

abraham accords were really about

the palestinian situation even though

and you know nobody involved in the

palestinian situation

directly was even part of it

but the idea was that if israel and the

other arab countries got along

maybe it would isolate

the palestinians and

possibly cause them to be a little more

flexible

if if indeed that's what it takes

but you're seeing the news trying to say

that the trouble with israel and the

palestinians

is somehow negating

one of the greatest accomplishments of

all time diplomatically which is the

abrahamic courts

so watch how the news tries to make

these two different things into one

thing

now i would argue

that the abraham accords are holding

meaning that the other arab countries

are not

you know they're not jumping on israel

and pulling out of the accord

obviously

it's a giant success

obviously you just look at it and you

say to yourself wait did israel and

those countries that made an agreement

with it

still keep their agreement yeah

even when the

gaza is uh hurling rockets and and

israel's responding is still held

so it's exactly what it was intended to

do

which is isolate the palestinian

situation

and maybe make that easier to either

deal with or to solve in the long run

so

it is disgusting to watch the fake news

try to turn a gigantic success

into a failure by making it look like it

was really intended to do something

directly

with the palestinian violence which

didn't it was never meant to be a direct

uh address to that problem

um

matthew mcconaughey is

apparently quietly putting out fuelers

to see if he should run for uh governor

now apparently he polls

uh so high that he might actually win if

the polling were accurate and held

now what do you think of that

do you think that whatever problems we

have

will be solved by a governor matthew

mcconaughey

well

i liked him a lot more before he did

that uh those lincoln commercials

is it lincoln

where it just is so cringy from

beginning to end

i don't know

uh he apparently does have he's got a

college degree and

some kind of uh

i think the arts

um or some some kind of bachelor of

science and some kind of communication

or arts sort of thing

so and he was thinking about a law being

a lawyer at one point so apparently he's

academically smart

so he's got that working for him

academically quite smart

and

he's well-meaning

and probably liked by both democrats and

republicans to some extent

i don't know if he needs to be governor

because i don't know that there's a

problem there in the first place i mean

does governor abbott

is he doing a bad job that i don't know

about

i mean i've heard criticisms but all the

all the governors are getting criticized

so i don't know if this is a problem

that needs to be solved but

i feel like

there's something terribly broken with

the world

if matthew mcconaughey can become

governor

or somebody says he wrote a book too

um

you know i think reagan was a different

animal because he was always political

even when he was an actor

uh but i don't know

i just don't know about actors becoming

governors

just doesn't feel like a good

a good trend for the long time long term

you know arguably even arnold

schwarzenegger was kind of political

before he ran for office

all right

uh how many of you saw the 60 minutes on

the ufos

so there's there are more videos of

alleged ufos which tend to be these oval

shaped objects

which they never get a good picture of

but they can definitely see it on the

infrared and on the radar

so we know something's

there i feel like it's fair to say

there's

something

and when we say ufos are confirmed which

i cheekily did in my tweet about this

live stream

confirming a ufo isn't anything

it's like confirming that there's

confusion

it doesn't confirm anything it just

confirms that we don't know what they

are

so when you say it ufos are confirmed of

course people think you've confirmed

aliens

but nothing like that has happened all

right so here's the question

there was at least one part of the 60

minutes apart that i hadn't heard before

there were four pilots

in the same situation i guess it might

have been two jets with two pilots each

and they they

all four of them saw the same thing they

report that there was some oval object

making the ocean swirl and then it flew

away and it went right past them and you

know they could they could clearly see

it etc and they didn't want to talk

about it until now

and so you have to ask yourself

what is more likely

that four people really saw something

that is not of earthly design because

apparently

it was doing things that earth

technology can't do

or they always seem to do that

is it more likely that four people

are

lying or mistaken

or

is it more likely

that

that there are aliens who are visiting

with advanced technology

which one of those is

more likely

well let's put it in context

most of our headlines

are about things that people see that

aren't there

right

most of our hoaxes

and in fact most of our headlines even

today today just pick a day

most of our headlines

today

are about things that people saw

that weren't there

it's most of the news

most of your experience

every day

involves people clearly seeing things

that aren't there your co-workers

remember a conversation that didn't

happen the news is reporting something

that didn't happen

i i just gave you an example you'll be a

few more before we're done

so

one hypothesis that four people could

have the same crazy

hallucination

or just mistaken perception

that is the most common thing in the

entire world

it feels like it's not right because we

all think that our perceptions are

pretty good

so we think well our perceptions are

good other peoples must be at least a

little bit good

so it seems like it would be really

unusual that four people would see a

ufo

right up close

and they'd be military people and they'd

have the same story

what are the odds that that didn't

really happen

really high

really high

like

close to 100 high

it's the most common thing

in your experience is that people see

things that aren't there

now

how common is it in all of our

experience

to see a confirmed

alien spaceship

well

so far none

in in the history of civilization

so far none

confirmed

but

we certainly have lots of stories about

them

now if you have one situation which is

the most common situation in reality

people saying things that don't exist

even when multiple people see it very

common

versus something that's never happened

and

would be extraordinary and violate

physics if it did

kind of equal odds would you say no

not even close

if i if i could bet my entire net wealth

and and have a certain answer you know

hypothetically if you could know for

sure

i would bet my entire net wealth

that is not an alien spaceship

now i don't even know if it's a

spaceship could be anything

but we'll maybe someday we'll know

here's another uh news that i'd say i'm

a little skeptical of apparel there's a

story in usa today

that a uh a woman who is a black

homeowner

had her home appraised twice

and worried that she was getting a low

appraisal because she was black

so she decided to do an experiment in

which he got a white family to pretend

it was their house

and then the third appraisal of their

house was double

double what the first two were

so

clear racism right what else could it be

i mean it's in the news so it must be

true

i can't imagine that the news would

report something that's totally untrue

but do you believe that one woman's

house

was appraised

by two people for i guess 110 125

and then the third one

was double it was like 249 000 or

something like that

do you think that sounds plausible

because the usa today reported it like

it's true

no it's not plausible

it's not

it's not even slightly plausible

and you should see the comments on the

the tweet from people who do appraisals

for a living the people who do

appraisals for a living say

nope

not possible

because you have to show your work

the appraisal business is about

comparables

finding other homes that are sold

for a certain price

that are similar

if the appraisal doesn't show that the

other homes in your area sold for a

similar price

you're not going to turn then you're not

going to turn in that appraisal

because your own appraisal would say

it's fake

here are all the other houses just like

yours

and then here's yours completely

different than all the other houses like

yours

and we're going to just keep it that way

because we're appraising it for half of

what all the other houses are worth do

you think that happened

no

no it didn't happen

now some people are speculating that

what did happen is that the first two

appraisals uh i think we do know this

was during the

the

the depths of the coronavirus problem

when nothing looked like it was worth

anything

and then the third appraisal happened

when things were picking up the stock

market was up by 50 percent or whatever

whatever the number was

and home values were zooming

so

but still

doubled do you think your home doubled

no i don't know what the real story is

but this is not real

all right

and have i told you about stories that

are a little bit too on the nose

a little bit too on the nose isn't it

the the clever black single mom i think

actually

i think she's a single mom i'm not sure

about that part

but

you know she she's

she's a victim of racism so bad that her

home was praised at half of its value

no that didn't happen i'm sorry now if

i'd seen this story and said there's a

30 difference

i wouldn't have even questioned it

really i mean i would have been

horrified if there was a if there were a

30 difference

that would be horrifying

but i might have believed it

but not double

come on i mean the news isn't even

trying anymore when they report stories

like this they're just so obviously not

true

remember i told you that the

the disagreement between dr fauci and

rand paul

about whether uh fauci had ever

supported funding for gain of function

stuff in uhan

and i said to you that my theory was

that they were both

correct

disagreeing

but both correct and the reason that i

gave

is that gain of function was probably

being used in two different ways

so that they were both right they were

just using the the phrase differently

and i feel like that's confirmed now let

me tell you what the collins who's the

head of the nih said and i want to

listen to his exact wording all right

so here he'll be denying that they were

involved in any funding for a

gain of a

gain of what do you call it

so here's what he says quote let me be

very clear we never approved any grant

that would have supported gain of

function circ research on dangerous

coronaviruses

okay keyword dangerous

to see if they could be more

transmissible or lethal for individuals

in the human species he added

and they said

that was not something that we would

have done

now watch the exact wording here we

never approved that kind of research

and that's something senator paul might

want to be a bit more clear about

that kind of research

so he starts out by saying

talking about

gain of function

on dangerous coronaviruses and he says

we never funded that kind of research

but

gain and function as a big category

and gain a function to weaponize it is a

subset of that category

so

is it true that they did

non-weaponized research on gain of

function

but they did not

fund in any way

weaponizing gain of function

i feel like that's what's going on so

this looks like fake news

meaning that it looks like there's a

disagreement but they're just using the

words differently i think

that's my that's my current hypothesis

do you remember project veritas said

that had an under undercover video of a

cnn

a technical director i think he was

and

he was saying about cnn plans to panic

us about the climate as their next big

theme that they'll weave into everything

well here's your example of your cnn

climate panic porn

and ever

so their tweet today in an ever warming

climate

ripple effects or chain reactions could

lead to altered weather patterns across

the globe thanks to a melting antarctic

ice sheet a new study says

so

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here's my problem

what would happen

if we knew that let's say we knew

that the fake news was damaging people's

brains

because they were getting too afraid

they were frightened to death about

white supremacists under the bed

now they're frightened to death that the

arctic ice sheet will cause you know the

earth to fall apart from global change

global climate change

what would happen to your brain

if you were believing the news

it would be massive mental health

problems right

now here's my question

if the news

created massive mental health problems

for profit

you know they're not they're not trying

to give you mental health problems

but it's an outcome of all the fake news

who would report it if it were happening

that's a problem isn't it if the problem

was you know imagine hypothetically it's

a massive

mental health problem directly caused by

fake news

who would report it

who would report it

there's nobody to report it

right

it's one of the biggest problems in the

country by far

but the news can't report it

this is one where even you know fox news

can't even report it about cnn cnn can't

even report that about fox news and they

fight all the time

but reporting it would require accepting

that you're both at least a little bit

part of that process

so the news can't report

on what might be the biggest story in

the country right now massive

mental health problems

from the news

now

is there any science to support that

apparently yes

apparently there's plenty of science

are we following the science and

reporting that the news is creating

massive mental health problems

nope nope we don't follow the news in

that case

will climate change become a precursor

for war under the bush doctrine well

that's interesting

i feel as if

climate change and racism have the same

overall quality

that you can apply them to every other

topic

everything could be something about

racism everything could be something

about climate change you can make those

fit

anything

so will somebody use it to justify a war

definitely

yeah we don't know the details but we

know climate change will be will be used

to justify

everything

all right

um

now how about uh

i just saw a mention of the new york

times article ben

was it ben smith

yeah ben smith was writing in new york

times about the story about the jeopardy

contestant

who won three times in a row but when

he's

the first time he held up one finger the

second time he won he held up two to

show he'd won twice

and the third time when he held up three

fingers he unfortunately decided not to

do these three fingers

but to do the

these i can't do it

without i can't i can't give you an

example but uh he used like a uh a

catcher in baseball

uses uh uses these three fingers to say

three

and

apparently there was a big organization

of past participants on jeopardy

it's a thriving

you know sub community on the internet

and they decided that he was really

sending the secret white supremacist

hand gesture

now ben smith just rips that apart and

essentially just treats it like nonsense

and the tone of ben's article

is that all of these

past jeopardy contestants

who are by definition

way smarter about facts

than the average person

were completely bamboozled

by the belief that they could see a

white supremacist right in front of them

now

ufos some people believe exist

because so many people saw it with their

own eyes

with their own eyes they saw it they saw

the ufos so therefore they must exist

right well

several million people saw this poor

jeopardy contestant

look like a white supremacist

and apparently he's not

so

um

is this mental health problem

i think yes

i think it is

i'm saying that the uh the news should

be covered by the fda

maybe should the news

be regulated by the

fda because it's like a drug

you could make that argument i mean it

would never fly

but from a scientific perspective yeah

you could make that argument

um

so are uh

can we say that there's a massive mental

health problem because all of these

jeopardy contestants thought they saw

something that didn't exist

yeah yeah we can

to me that looks exactly like

proof of a major mental illness caused

by the fake news

um

538 is reporting that nearly every

republican who voted to impeach trump

including liz cheney

has been either admonished by the party

or attracted at least one primary

challenger

so it really kind of suggests that trump

is still in charge of the republican

party

because he can take out anybody who

opposed him

if trump can still take out and i think

he can

anybody who opposed him

how is anybody

going to prevent him from being

nominated again

i mean i'm not saying you'd want to

prevent it i'm just saying

it feels like nothing can stop it at

this point

i i feel like trump can just take out

one person after another until

until the field is clear

so i don't know that that's going to

happen but it's certainly possible

all right here's some fake news alert

so you may have seen some video clips of

the director of the cdc

rachelle wallensky

and

she mentioned there that we now have and

this was mentioned in a tweet on this

week abc news

said uh

let's see she's quoted as saying we now

have science that has really just

evolved in the last two weeks

that demonstrates that these vaccines

are safe they are effective

what

wait what what did i just say

are you telling me

that the head of the cdc

only found out in the last two weeks

that the vaccines are safe and effective

that's what the tweet says

and it's a tweet from this week abc

that wouldn't be fake news right i mean

they wouldn't they wouldn't just

blatantly tweet out

a complete falsehood

would they

but it looks like they're saying that

the cdc just figured out that vaccines

are safe

that's what the quote says i'm reading

it with my own eyes

it's got to be true

because i'm looking at it

right if you see it with your own eyes

it's true

isn't that what we've all learned no

i hope not no you see it with your own

eyes it doesn't mean anything doesn't

mean it's true

at all in fact

the tweet is completely misleading

compared to the situation so i listened

to the full clip and the the tweet is

just misleading

of course they've known that the

vaccinations had passed all the testing

of course they knew the vaccines were

safe

there was more to the statement this is

a rupaur

she got the the statement was kind of

cut off

so that uh it looked like she was just

talking about the safety of the vaccines

as if they had just discovered it this

week or last week

no

the specific thing she said is that we

just discovered like in the last few

days that if you're vaccinated

but you also get the

the coronavirus

which can happen

you basically can't spread it

that's a big deal

that's a gigantic big deal

that you can't spread it even if you

have it

as long as you're vaccinated that

changes everything and that was the main

context of the the rest of her point

she said we know the vaccines are safe

and effective

and recently we found out they're even

better than we thought

that's all it was she literally said

nothing except things you'd

you'd want her to say which is we

thought it was safe

now we know it's extra safe and on top

of that we know that vaccinated people

who have it can't give it that's

gigantic

totally

uh but

the way it was taken out of context i

think you're going to see some fake news

that acts like they didn't know it was

safe or something nothing like that is

true

not that anybody could know for sure

anything safe

there's a uh

big news

in the nuclear

energy business so apparently there's

this uh consortium led by

rolls royce

that is building these smaller nuclear

reactors and uh

they call them the small modular

reactors smrs

and they're going to build all these

mini reactors and they found some new

technology to increase their output and

make them even better

so now these factory-built reactors

did you hear that

factory-built reactors

they're going to build

a nuclear power plant

in a factory

and then ship it to the location

do you know how big a deal that is

that's everything

that's everything that's the end of

climate change is a problem

if if they can pull this off

and apparently

it aims to bring 10 mini nuclear

reactors into use by 2035

with the first one coming in around

2030. now of course things get delayed

but if you're building your reactor in a

factory

you're going to be able to at least

build it on time or on time-ish

and i wouldn't think that they would

build it unless they knew that they

could get it approved and had a location

for it so i feel like

this is some of the biggest news in the

world

like

i'll go further

this is some of the biggest news

in human civilization

some of the biggest news

in human civilization

if they can pull this off

yeah paul well portable i think is maybe

uh overstating it but it looks like they

can build it in a factory maybe move you

know one part at a time to where it

needs to be and then assemble it but

if they pull this off

i mean seriously

this would be like the discovery of

electricity it's that big

because it changes climate change it

changes pollution

it would change wars

i mean it would change the balance of

power

it would it would uh allow us to

you know it's probably just you know

that the fact that we're getting this

good at nuclear energy would allow us to

populate space

because you need small nuclear reactors

for space and you need lots of people

who are trained to build them which you

need a domestic

domestic industry to get that now this

is happening over in great britain i

believe yeah in the uk

uh but certainly if they're doing it

over there and they will prove that

these factory-built uh generators work

that could be huge

uh michael smerkanisch over on cnn

uh and i've often told you that on cnn

he's the

i would say one of the two or three

most objective people on that network

and he says there was a survey and a

tweet he said survey on whether donald

trump deserves any thanks for the speed

of the vaccine

now

what do you think

somebody saying that new scale nu scale

is building some reactors in idaho so

the united states is is doing a lot with

small nuclear reactors too

um but do you think

what do you think do you think that

people in the country believe that trump

should get credit for how fast the

vaccines came out

and when i saw that i said to myself

wait a minute are you telling me that

there's anybody who wouldn't give him

credit for that anybody you you could

find

are you serious you can find one person

even one person

in the whole world can you even find me

one person who would say that trump was

not directly

responsible for the speed of vaccines

just find me one person

let's see how the poll went

half of the people say no

i'm sort of rounding but basically

half of the country

says no he doesn't get credit for that

what

and it turns out that the exact numbers

you know it's it's roughly half and half

but the exact numbers line up really

really close to the 2020 election

results

so basically

even the simplest truth

the simplest truth

that trump did make a difference on the

speed of the vaccines the most

unambiguous

simplest truth

reported exactly the same

on every network

like even msnbc i think

correct me if i'm wrong but i think even

msnbc's would say yeah

trump got us vaccines faster don't they

do they even argue with that

how in hell

do half of the country

not know that's true

how in hell and the answer is

they just they voted for their team

that's all that has nothing to do with

any information or

facts or anything it's just people voted

for their team

uh rasmussen poll

polled uh people to find out if uh

people thought that trump or biden had

better policies about

uh israel

what do you think people said do you

think that conservatives thought trump

was better on israel or biden

surprise

conservatives thought trump was better

about israel

but how about

how about liberals

well big surprise

the liberals say that trump was worse

in dealing with israel

now

again

yeah there's always room for

disagreement and it's definitely an

opinion but

i don't feel like this one is close

i don't feel that this was a close call

i'm positive that trump did better with

israel in terms of policy

i don't think there's any question about

that

the abraham accords of course you know

being a big context

for that

uh

it's just amazing that there's a

disagreement on that which is further

proof that we don't use facts or data

so you all remember the story of the ceo

of coca-cola getting a little extra

awoke and going public with his opinions

on the election

and uh

today there's uh the first dilbert

cartoon on dilbert's ceo deciding to get

more political because he thinks it'll

be good for business

maybe it won't be

so you've got a few days of dilbert's

ceo being

say inspired by the ceo of coca-cola

now how many of you know

elon musk's one of his rules for

work

this has been widely reported that elon

musk has a

let's say a philosophy for how

tesla should be managed

and he explicitly says this i'm

paraphrasing but he explicitly says this

that

if you're doing if you have a company

rule

that could show up in a dilbert comic

maybe you shouldn't do it

a very simple rule if you look at the

rule and you say to yourself oh that

could end up in a dilbert comic strip

maybe don't do that rule maybe that's a

rule you should rethink

so that's the the elon musk theory and

the ceo of coca-cola will be

testing out that concept because he did

just become

a character in a dilbert comic

we'll see how that works out for him

all right

that

is pretty much what i want to talk about

just checking my many notes

all right

is there anything i forgot to talk about

today

um

mustafa says we can colonize mars but

your printer won't work when we get

there

yeah

yeah that's probably true

all right anything else i forgot

all right we should

about the teachers unions

let me ask you this

is it my imagination

or have the teachers unions completely

destroyed all their credibility now they

still have tons of power

so maybe that won't change at all

but

i feel as though

the teachers unions were

a lot more popular a year ago

and i've been hammering on him for a

year corey deangelis has been doing an

amazing job hammering on the teachers

unions trying to get

school choice a little bit more accepted

and

i feel as if there's been a big change

now i've been trying for a long time to

paint the teachers unions as the primary

source

of systemic racism because they are if

you fixed education

everything else would go better

right there'd still be racism you can't

eliminate that sort of thing totally

but if everybody got a fair shot at an

education which they don't have now

i feel like the problem of systemic

racism would get a lot less

even though it would never go to zero

so

i'm getting lots of

suggestions here for

how to destroy my printer i like the

trebuchet

yeah

i might have to build a tray mache just

to see how far i can did i pronounce

that right

uh to see how far i can toss my printer

all right let's see

my senses the teachers unions are still

big but now very brittle

yeah i think so

i i feel as if

we're getting close to the breaking

point

now apparently there is more of a

waiting list for classic uh charter

schools

than

there are spaces

so there's that didn't make sense but

there's a waiting list for charter

schools and as long as there is that

pressure is going to continue and i

think there are a lot more

a lot more prominent people willing to

take on the teachers unions

you know have i told you that

the the government gets to be in charge

until they just can't do their job

and then the citizens

are

in charge

now that's not written in the

constitution right

and nowhere in the constitution does it

say does it say if you're uh if your

leaders are incompetent you can just

take over and just make the decisions

for them doesn't say that

but it's true

sometimes there's just for whatever

reason

our leaders just can't leave

for example in the coronavirus

leaders can't lead the way we want them

to

because leaders have to focus on safety

over lifestyle

makes sense you don't want them to

change that but it requires that toward

the end of the pandemic that the

citizens take control and i'll tell you

i in my town it looks like it's already

happening i mean the masks were pretty

much off yesterday

it's a lot of you want to see my printer

be destroyed i'm just watching the the

comments go by anyway my point is on

with the teachers unions uh neither the

republicans nor the democrats can go as

hard against them as they'd like because

the teachers unions are too strong so

they could they could fund you to be

removed from office if you go against

them so politicians are the wrong tool

for fixing school choice

because they're too weak compared to the

teachers unions

but

i don't have that problem

the teachers unions can't hurt me

i mean they could try but what are they

going to do the teachers unions can't

hurt corey deangelis

the teachers unions can't hurt any blue

czech person who retweets anything they

hear eyes say about the teachers unions

and so i would say

that this is yet yet again another case

where by design you know what it is that

it means to be a leader in america and

how you get your money and how you get

reelected

by design our political leaders can't

help us on this

it's sort of going to have to come from

the the parents and the public

so i think the public has just got to

take control of this decision yeah at

some point there's going to be enough

public force

that the politicians will just have to

cave

so we have to be more powerful than the

teachers unions or the teachers unions

get everything they want

so

what does social media give you

how many times have i told you

that our current form of government is

no longer a republic

this is real

we're not a republican anymore

we are something closer to an influencer

based

democracy

meaning that we let the public we let

the leaders you know pick up the garbage

and you know make sure we have the

military and do the basic stuff right

but the moment our leaders

can't do a decision they're just the

wrong tool for the job

as they are with coronavirus once it

gets to the end of it anyway

the public just takes over

and when i say the public takes over

there are usually some influencers

some handful of influencers who have

enough influence

that pretty soon they they start moving

the numbers if you look at the uh school

choice

preference polling

you look at it today compared to a year

ago

pretty big move

right there's way more interest in

in school choice than it was even one

year ago where did that come from

none of it came from our leaders

correct me if i'm wrong

but name the leader who's always talking

about school choice

um

who now i know that

republicans talk about it all the time

but it's usually just in a list

like there's no leader you can say oh

there's that's the that's the school

choice person

you know in the way that you could say

aoc is sort of a climate change

you know leader

like it or not i mean she's associated

with it

but who is who is the leader

who's going against the teachers unions

they just talk about it trump talks

about it a little bit

he doesn't really try too hard right

um yeah so so my point is that the

public does run the country at this

point

via influencers via social media which

eventually will push the news business

which will eventually push the

politicians

but for these complicated ones it's the

public the public is already in charge

you used to be betsy devos yeah but

bessie devos

when you have that job

you just don't get much attention if

you're if you're in the cabinet

yeah all the republicans talk about it

but it's not like a big theme you know

it's not like climate change or anything

you should be but it's not

uh did you hear the story there was just

a massive amount of fentanyl that got

captured at the border border

massive amount

now you know that that mostly comes from

china

so now we know that china is killing us

with fentanyl intentionally

and we know that the coronavirus came

from the wuhan lab

we don't know the details of that but

would it be fair to say that we are

already losing a chemical and biological

war to china

so china is polluting our atmosphere

which will cause us to spend massively

on climate change because they're

polluting it

sending us fentanyl

and coronavirus

it's basically full-scale world war

three chemical warfare chemical

biological warfare

we're in it i mean we're in the middle

of a gigantic war

that just took half a million casualties

this year but we just act like it's

something else

so

um i'm not on the side that says that

china released any kind of virus

intentionally i think that would be

crazy

like you know even if you could imagine

they had some kind of a way they could

come out ahead by doing it

i just don't see any leader doing that

just don't see it

the the that would be fair to say tell

me uh is are you saying paul that uh

that i'm going into too much hyperbole

um

that's how the big lie works bro

what is how the big lie works

how many of you believe

the big lie

meaning that uh it's proven that the

election was fair and untainted

and that anybody who suggests is not is

part of the big lie

how many of you watching this video

uh buy into the notion that that's the

big lie

how many of you

because that's pure um

brainwashing

if you buy into that phrase the big lie

you you've bought into

one of the most blatant

pure brainwashing

persuasion plays of all time

because you can't really know what

happened

in the thing you didn't look for or you

haven't looked for completely you can't

know something isn't there if you didn't

look

so the certainty with which the

big lie

is branded as you know we know this to

be true that it's a lie

it's amazing it's amazing that uh that

that's even legal

let me go further

it shouldn't be legal to use the phrase

the big lie

shouldn't be legal

because it does make a claim

that's not true

and that not true claim that we know for

sure what the result was either fair or

unfair

my take is that we couldn't know it's

unknowable given that nobody was looking

for it and it wasn't transparent

so

it feels like you should be illegal to

just blatantly do fake news like that

uh the great thing about education is

the teachers unions are being hollowed

out by local individual decisions

that's right there will be enough people

who are going to home homeschool

that two things are going to happen one

it's going to make it more obvious that

the schools need to compete or fail

and number two the homeschooling if you

get more and more people homeschooling

than the the technology and the systems

which do homeschooling will just get

better and apparently they're really

good now so they'll just keep getting

better

all right

yes teachers are good and

unions

teachers unions are bad

not unions are bad but teachers unions

are bad

um somebody says the big lie is abide in

one

that's no more smart

you know it

if you're gonna say that we know for

sure

either way

that's just that's just not where the

smart people should be the smartest the

smart people here's the smartest opinion

because it's mine

defenestrate the printer

maybe i will the smartest opinion on the

election uh

credibility is that we can't know

because we haven't looked for it

um so we don't know if it was fair or

not fair it's unknowable

but we do know that the system has

installed the president so the system

did what the system did

so i'd say that the

system gave us a president and that's

fine

somebody says scott's ego is taking over

well

you get banned for that

now what will i do shall i just uh i'll

hide i'll just hide you

so you don't exist anymore

um

keep in mind that all criticism is

welcome

but you have to give a reason

scott's ego

is taking over is not a reason

and if there's somebody here who

operates without their ego

please let me know because i would like

to meet such an amazing person

uh

all right uh oligarchs do work i don't

know what that means

uh

logic arguments please

yes yes please all right that's all i

got for now i'm just babbling and i will

talk to you tomorrow