Episode 1583 Scott Adams - The Political Left is Starting to Wake Up From its Zombie Trance
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View segment →y if I exaggerated that. Well, some terrible news from the Antwerp Zoo in Belgium. I hate to start with the bad news, but two hippos tested positive for a coronavirus at the Antwerp Zoo. When I read this, my first thought was that probably the cheetahs at the zoo are just going to treat it as a mil…
View segment →o notice now? Maybe they'll just never see this news because it was in the Washington Times, you know, so they're not going to necessarily see it. But I feel like it's the beginning of a crack in the two-movie model. I've been telling you since 2015 or so that we're watching two movies, but they're…
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View segment →right. You should all be following Michael Shellenberger on Twitter because he's the only person putting any of this in context. Bjorn Lomborg is doing a good job. He focuses a little more on the economic part of it. But Shellenberger does the best job of putting all this stuff in context. So really…
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View segment →official word is. The official word is the vaccinated people don't even have the virus as long. So if you're vaccinated maybe you could spread it just as much for a day but if you're unvaccinated you can spread it that same amount for let's say three days. I'm making up the numbers but do you get t…
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No, not true. I didn't feel a tingle in my fingernails, so probably I exaggerated that a little bit. You can feel it in my hair and every other atom of my being, but there was one fingernail. It was the damaged one. I couldn't feel it. So I'm sorry if I exaggerated that.
Well, some terrible news from the Antwerp Zoo in Belgium. I hate to start with the bad news, but two hippos tested positive for a coronavirus at the Antwerp Zoo. When I read this, my first thought was that probably the cheetahs at the zoo are just going to treat it as a mild cold. But I do worry about the hippos. Cheetahs probably just shake it off, but the hippos, you know what I mean, comorbidity.
Anyway, here's my favorite tiny story of the day. It's a tiny story, but I feel like it's telling us something's coming. I feel as though there's some foreshadowing in this story. And it goes like this. Apparently AOC, when asked about all the smash-and-grab robberies, was not aware that they're happening. She said, quote, "A lot of these allegations of organized retail theft are not actually panning out." AOC said in an interview with the Washington Times last week. I believe it's a Walgreens in California cited it, but the data didn't back it up, she added. What?
So here's why this is a big story. It's not a big story because a politician didn't know something. It's not a big story because a politician lied. Those would be ordinary stories. It's a big story because who in the world does not realize that AOC's plan for creating a new world in which human incentives are ignored is not working out so well? Not working out so well.
So the fact that she is ignoring something that everybody can see with their plain eyes — I mean, anybody who lives in the city is seeing this quite clearly, at least in a blue city — so the fact that she's denying it's even happening has got to be noticed by her base. That's the important part. It wouldn't mean anything if Republicans were mocking AOC yet again for the billionth time. But I feel like she's crossed a line here where even her own side is going to say, "But I'm watching a smash and grab," or "I just went to Nordstrom and the shelves are empty." You know, aren't they? Aren't they all going to notice now?
Maybe they'll just never see this news because it was in the Washington Times, you know, so they're not going to necessarily see it. But I feel like it's the beginning of a crack in the two-movie model. I've been telling you since 2015 or so that we're watching two movies, but they're playing at the same time on one screen. We're both looking at exactly the same stuff or similar stuff and completely different movies in our heads of what's going on. But I feel like they're starting to converge.
The only thing that can stop them from blending and merging at this point is Trump coming back. As soon as Trump comes back, it's boom, two movies again. But at the moment he's just out of the spotlight enough that the two movies are starting to merge. Now, not a lot, right? I'm talking about signs of something coming. They're definitely not merged. But I feel like the weight of the world is starting to nudge them in that direction. We'll talk a little bit more about that.
And I asked on Twitter, but I already saw the answer on the Locals. I said, "Has anyone called the Biden's Build Back Better 'Build a Smash and Grab'?" But apparently that was an obvious joke. Am I right? You've already seen that one. I hadn't seen it yet, but it's sort of an obvious joke. Have you all seen that one? I'm sure it's out there anyway.
Speaking of the fake news in the two movies, how many of you saw on social media video clips of a group of alleged right-wingers called the Patriot Front, all in matching uniforms and disguises with masks and matching hats, marching in Washington, D.C., with a bunch of American flags and stuff? How many saw that? Right now, when you saw it, did you say to yourself, first thought, first thought when you saw it, "Hey, there's a bunch of right-wing people dressed alike. It's another Charlottesville." How many of you thought that? Nobody. Nobody.
And if you went to CNN and then Fox News to find out about this group, what did you find? Because it's all over social media. If you consume any of the content on the right, it's all over the place. So go to CNN and see that story about the Patriot Front who all came out of a bunch of matching U-Haul vans and then got back in them and left. Do you see the story on CNN's website? No. No. Fact-check me on this, but I don't think CNN even covered the story. Why not? Why wouldn't they cover a story like that?
So I went to Fox News. I thought, okay, so CNN's going to try to ignore it because it's so obviously fake. So I went to Fox News because I thought Fox News would have some skepticism about it. It's not there. Now fact-check me on this. Check it right now. I don't believe either CNN or Fox News are even covering it. So did it happen? Did it happen? No, it doesn't matter that there's no violence. It just means, you know what it matters is that it's a scary bunch of people. Yeah, there's nothing on Fox and there's nothing on CNN. Explain that.
Why? Because you know Fox News would at least have a story that says it's obviously fake, right? Where is it? Where's the story? Did it even happen? Because if it's not being covered in the two most well-known news sites, did it even happen? Was there an event? And even if there wasn't an event, wouldn't it still be a story that so many people thought there was an event that didn't happen? How in the world is this not being covered?
Somebody says Microsoft covered it. You mean MSNBC? Somebody saw a live streaming. Who has the talking stick? I don't know what that means. Business Insider, Daily Beast, and Business Insider covered it. So do you remember my rule that if CNN and Fox News treat it the same, that means something? Fox News and CNN treated this the same by ignoring it. What's that mean? Because they didn't even report it as a mystery. You know, I would get it if they didn't know who was behind it and they're looking into it. That would make sense. But how do you not report that you're looking into it or that it's a mystery or that it's a question?
I just saw that Scott's on Gateway Pundit this morning. Am I? What's it say about me on Gateway Pundit this morning? So, but here's my main point about this alleged Patriot Front group. You want to hear the good news? Nobody believed it. Now take yourself mentally back four years ago. Just in your mind, just go back four years ago. Imagine the same event looking exactly the same. Does everybody believe it? Four years ago everybody would have believed that that was a real group marching. What do you believe today? Today nobody believed it. It was so unbelievable it didn't make the news. It was so unbelievable it didn't make CNN or Fox News. That's how unbelievable it was.
Oh, another truth bomb. Okay, that's what Gateway Pundit's talking about. One of my tweets or something. Okay, I'll take a look at that. Thank you for that.
So I would say that this is another indicator, similar to the AOC pretending she doesn't know there's any smash and grabs going on of any size anyway. The Patriot Front thing plus the AOC thing is suggesting to me that the credibility of the hoaxes is starting to decrease. It looks like the left is not as uncritically believing everything that happens or everything told. I believe that the left has gained skepticism, possibly for the first time.
All right. Yeah, most people were blaming the Lincoln Project. I don't know that the Lincoln Project was behind it necessarily, but the fact that that's your first instinct shows that we've all grown up, haven't we? Think about how your awareness of how the world really works has changed since the era of Trump, right? The way you think of reality itself, what you think of the news and how true it is, how you think of the narratives, completely different. And I would argue that we've inoculated ourselves maybe better than other countries.
Now I'm not your big international expert, but I'm going to put this out here. You know, we sometimes like to talk about American exceptionalism, which I generally reject as being just a little bit too "we're awesome." But there are some things that are unique to America. The Second Amendment, chief among them, that I think does make us different. But here's another one. I feel like America is now way ahead of the curve for understanding propaganda and its effect on people.
Now I don't know that, you know, it could turn out that Denmark is way ahead of us or something. I wouldn't know. But I feel as though the age of complete information warfare, where misinformation being fed into other adversarial countries is going to be World War III brainwashing, and I feel like America inoculated itself with the Trump experiment. Because the Trump, let's say, experience, the Trump experience caused so much fake news in the United States coming from official sources that the citizens of this country learned that news is fake or can be or is narrative and all those things. And I don't think we knew that five years ago. Like as a country we didn't know it. We suspected it, you know, people talked about it, but we didn't know it. Now we know it.
Now we know we shouldn't trust our own sources, even American seemingly patriotic entities such as our intelligence agencies. We know we can't trust them. I think this is the best possible spin on the situation, which I like to give you anyway. I think the United States will be the most inoculated country when the future waves of enormous fake news start washing over the rest of the world, as they will. It'll probably have, but I think this is healthy in a weird way. Nobody would have asked for it, but if you survive it you get stronger, right?
I think we survived the worst fake news attack that any country in the modern world recently has seen. I think, yeah. The next question, as Guy is saying on Locals, the next question is has it always been this way? Has it always been this way? And my guess is it has, but the targets were different. Meaning that the public has always been brainwashed to be patriotic, for example. But we haven't been brainwashed to be divisive against each other. We've been brainwashed to be on the same team, brainwashed to be consumers, brainwashed to like capitalism, brainwashed to like freedom, brainwashed to like everything that's American.
So we certainly have always been brainwashed, and certainly the news has bias toward that brainwashing. But I'm not sure any of that was negative. Was it? Steve is saying, Steve is saying read Mark Twain on the news. Yeah, the news has always been full of BS. But I think the BS before might have been just more entertainment BS as opposed to dividing the country BS. But I would imagine that the journalism of yore was pretty darn bad.
John Adams says democracy never lasts long. Well, it's because we're not a democracy. That's probably why we are a republic. Yeah, let's get those bike paths. Good comment.
All right. As you all know, CNN finally fired Chris Cuomo, their biggest star, whose show appeared between Erin Burnett and Don Lemon. Wink wink. Those of you on YouTube have no idea why that's funny, but the people at Locals are already laughing. And I guess there was some more information that came out and blah blah. But Chris Cuomo was the top-rated star. Yeah, as Fox News liked to proddingly say, he was their only star. I still laugh at that. The Fox News characterization of their competitors: they only had one star and he had to get fired. Their best guy. Well, they just lost their best guy. He got fired for being awful.
I'm sure he will emerge and be fine. But you know, I think CNN had to do what they had to do. So there's not much of a story there except that, look at the difference of the cast of characters when 2014 rolls around. Think about how many people were the main people you were listening to back in the beginning of the Trump presidential era. So many of them are gone, cancelled, right? That's a lot of cancelling.
Now here's another one. How many dynasties did Trump destroy? How many dynasties did he destroy? Well, he destroyed the Bush dynasty by taking out Jeb. He ended that line. He took out the Clinton dynasty by beating Clinton. And depending on your point of view, he may have taken out the Cuomo dynasty just simply by existing, you know, and causing them to sort of be on the other team, which puts heat on them, which creates an indirect series of events that probably took out another dynasty.
I think Trump has taken out three American dynasties. The McCain family maybe. Am I right? Cheney, I don't know. And Romney, nah, not so much. They weren't dynasties. But who has destroyed three dynasties before? And who taught us about fake news? I'll tell you, the legacy of Trump is unparalleled at this point. You know, he, I don't think historians will ever give him credit for teaching us about fake news, but he did. It's probably one of the greatest accomplishments of any president, teaching us about reality. It's the first time anybody told us what reality actually looked like.
All right. You may have seen a clip, and if you haven't I recommend it. Trump, I guess he crashed a wedding in Mar-a-Lago and he was giving a speech and he was talking about General Milley and about the Afghanistan pullout and how he had conversations with Milley. And Milley was telling him it would be cheaper to leave all the assets there than to take them out. And Trump talked about the wisdom of that a little bit. And at the end of the story Trump said — and I'm going to swear a little bit, send the children away, send the children away, I'm just quoting Trump — then Trump said on video to a full room of people about General Milley, who was his top general at the time, he said, quote, "That's when I realized he was a fucking idiot."
I'm in love. Trump, you're so much trouble. You're so much trouble. Why do you make me love you? Why? I mean, he's got flaws. I've seen them. I'm not blind to his flaws. You know, he's an expensive president. You get some good stuff, but it's going to be expensive. But stop making me love you. I want to simply make a decision about politics. I want to look at your policy stuff. I'd like to compare your policy preferences to your competition and come to some kind of an objective risk management decision about which political side has a better plan for each individual topic. That's what I want to do. That's what I would like to do.
But he makes it impossible by saying of his top general, "That's when I realized he was a fucking idiot." Because I was thinking those exact words. That General Milley looks like an idiot. I mean, he looks like one and he seems to act like one. And Trump is at it now. So you know, if it agrees with me it must be brilliant. That's my philosophy. And I just want to talk about Trump. I don't want to love him. Stop making me love you.
And I guess it's something about the boldness of that statement combined with the complete inappropriateness of it, combined with the complete truth of it. Who can put that stuff together, right? Completely true, completely provocative, completely inappropriate, completely perfectly said. Nobody else can do that. He's the only one. He's the only person in politics who can put that many layers together in one sentence. It's really unparalleled. You know, I think history is going to be way kinder to Trump than we will be in our lifetimes. Is the thing that he doesn't get credit for is that he's the best communicator. I mean, there are things that I criticize. He should have said better, etc. But damn, I don't think anybody's better overall. If you're looking at the total average, that guy can communicate.
All right. Even on CNN, Smurconish's show, they seem to be taking an opinion or a point of view — I'm not sure they would say of themselves — but that natural immunity, there's not a good reason to treat natural immunity if you've been infected by COVID different from being vaccinated because in fact it might be better than being vaccinated. And I guess the Europeans are not doing that. So even in Germany, where things are going to get pretty rough with your passports, etc., even in Germany apparently you can just say you already were infected and you're still good.
Why are we not doing that in the United States? I don't even know the reason. Do you? So you've got your science that would say it would be fine. Is it just money? Because I can't think of anything else it would be. Or is it a practical question because it's harder to demonstrate who already had it, right? Because I don't know, can you get a passport for having been infected in the past or is it just the honor system? So I suspect in the United States it might have more to do with the fact that people would lie and just say they were infected because they would, right? Hello, America.
So I suspect that our difference has nothing to do with science and everything to do with how do you create a practical standard that can actually work. But the net effect of that would be that we have the dumbest policy in the world. The dumbest policy. We'd be discriminating against the people who had the least reason to be discriminated against. You know, if you were to be logical you'd say, okay, the people with natural immunity are at the top of the heap and they have the most access of anybody. Next down would be somebody with two vaccinations or three, I guess. Next down would be two. But wouldn't you rank them that way if you were just doing it logically, right?
So it must be some kind of practical thing. But the Biden administration is not explaining it in any way that the public can be happy with it. So if they can't explain why they're doing it, you have to assume corruption. That's my rule. If your government does something that doesn't make sense to you and everybody can see that they haven't explained why they're doing it and the public is clearly confused, your default has to assume corruption. So the news should be reporting that if they're not explaining their thinking, if they're not explaining their thinking, it has to be a default assumption of corruption.
Just like with the rapid tests. Do I have any proof that corruption is the reason that America was so slow to get volume, low-price rapid tests? I don't have any proof, but it's the default assumption because there's no other explanation that I've seen. So default assumption that there's something crooked going on.
Here's the thing that is the least surprising thing in the world but is so stupid. Apparently there exists and has been found an alternative Mueller report that may be worse for Trump. Really? So apparently the people who put together the Mueller report created a second one that was worse for Trump and hid it away. And now I guess it's going to be useful because for a lot of good reasons they didn't want to put the provocative stuff in the final report. So now we get a whole new series of the Steele dossier, Russia collusion, and the Mueller report. It's coming back. Oh my God, it's coming back.
I don't even know what to say about that except maybe we should have predicted it, that there would be an alternative Mueller report. Are you freaking kidding me? The alternative Mueller report.
All right. Here's something I want to test to see how many of you are aware of this. According to official sources — so this is not your personal opinion, right? So don't give me your personal opinion. Tell me what you think the official people say. Is CO2 emissions from humans rising? Is CO2 rising in the world? Yes or no? Don't give me your own opinions. Give me the official one from science, the scientific official opinion. Go.
All right. Locals seems to have all the same opinion, but I'm not going to tell you on YouTube. On YouTube I'm saying yes, no, yes, yes. Let's wait for some more on Locals. I will tell you they all say it's not going up. Most of them. I'm saying no's. Yeah. What's the official one? Not your own opinion. Forget your own opinion. What's the official word on CO2? I'm saying yeses and no's. Yes and no's.
All right. You should all be following Michael Shellenberger on Twitter because he's the only person putting any of this in context. Bjorn Lomborg is doing a good job. He focuses a little more on the economic part of it. But Shellenberger does the best job of putting all this stuff in context. So really for the first time you can sort of understand what's going on. So if you read Shellenberger you're going to finally, finally feel like you understand the situation with climate change.
Here's what he says today, fresh tweet. He says most people think global carbon emissions have been rising. I thought that. I mean, I thought it until a week ago or so. I thought they had risen. But new data shows they actually declined over the last decade. I think natural gas is the reason, replacing coal in a lot of places. And then he says Shellenberger says emissions must still decline further. In other words, if we just kept them the same, because the emissions are already kind of high according to climate scientists that are high, and if you just kept them the same or even if it just went down a little bit, it would still be enough to raise the temperature.
But the temperature rise would be more likely based on this new data to be in the two and a half to three centigrade range, far less than the much feared six degree centigrade prediction. So already the official word on climate change — not me making stuff up, not me being a conspiracy theorist, right, just data — says that the warming will happen and it will cause disruption according to them. This is not me talking. But it will be in that two and a half to three degree centigrade range.
Did you know — let's put that in perspective as Michael Shellenberger goes on — he says did you know that warming is better than cooling for the planet, right? Warming would cause a bunch of problems, but cooling would cause a bunch of problems too. And we don't really live in a world where the temperature stays the same like forever. It's either going to go up or down. So it looks like it's going to go up. Is that more good or more bad?
Well, let's talk to a Yale economist, William Nordhaus, who won the Nobel Prize in 2018. So that's a recent win. He calculated the optimum temperature rise when accounting for both the costs and the benefits. Because rising temperatures also give you more plants, better farming, there's more land to farm, it becomes farmable when it wasn't. So those are the benefits. And then the negatives would be rising sea levels and maybe more storms and stuff.
So when he calculates all the possible bad stuff with all the possible good stuff, he finds that the ideal temperature rise to get the most benefits would be a little bit more than what's predicted to happen. This is the first time I've heard that based on the most current information we have. And then a Yale economist, Nobel Prize winner, calculating the costs and the benefits. It would be better if it got a little warmer. Better economically, better in terms of life quality, better in terms of number of people dying.
We've actually overshot the mark already. Climate change is over. It was the biggest problem in the world like six months ago. Turns out it's just done. Now how confident am I of this? Well, not. If anybody's confident about a long-range economic prediction they shouldn't be. But I'll tell you, from the beginning I've always thought that this would fall into the Adams law of slow-moving disasters. If you've got a disaster that's coming but it's moving slowly and you've got lots of time to adjust and come up with remediation, we're really good at that as a species. Human beings, as long as we have a warning, we're really good at it.
Oh, goodbye Scott's finally waking up. Scott's finally waking up, you idiot. I am not waking up. Jesus Christ. I use the "Scott's finally waking up" to the opinion he's always had. I don't know. I think the problem is the binaries. I call them the binaries. The binaries are the people who believe that there are only two opinions and that that's it. So if I don't agree with you completely with your opinion I've got to be in that other one opinion.
So my opinion is yeah, the people are probably making the planet warmer but it's hard to know if that'll be good or bad. That's always been my opinion. Always has. Never changed once. And yet the binaries are like, well I don't recognize his opinion to be exactly mine so therefore it must be somebody else's opinion. She's so boring to deal with the NPCs every day.
All right. So if you were worried about the golden age coming, we've got fusion is being funded at the highest levels. Our fusion energy because it has been reduced to an engineering problem, meaning that the odds of us maybe in 20 years but having unlimited cheap energy, really good. The odds of us being destroyed by climate change, really small. Really small. Climate change I think looks fixed.
I would even argue that our great division in this country may be well on the way to fixing itself now. As soon as Trump gets back in things might change, but so all bets are off. But at the moment I think the left has — you can tell by the polls they realized that Trump wasn't the problem, it was their own news sources. Now not all of them. And this happened. Scott is pretty woke up. All right. You're goodbye. Where is that? Oh, you got away from me before I could block you. Damn you.
All right. So we got that it could be that the mRNA technology and along with a number of other breakthroughs are making cancer look like it's completely defeatable. I mean these are things happening right now. My only concern is that World War III has already started depending on who you talk to. World War III, China versus the United States and maybe others, meaning that it's already a cyber war and it's already happening in space mostly in the cyber sense on satellites. And once we get to space it'll be full-on war because it has to be because humans always fight over territory and space has a lot of territory.
So gonna fix AIDS too. I mean I just saw there's a pill that you can buy, a pill for AIDS now that will reduce your virus to undetectable. Did you know that? Now I don't know if it works for everybody but you can buy a pill that reduces your AIDS to non-detectable. It's just a pill. I just saw an advertisement for it. What the hell?
So I'm also wondering about Fauci's technique. So I used to praise the gay activists because they made everybody worried about AIDS when really maybe just gay people should have been worried about it. Because I still don't know, I still have never met a heterosexual person with AIDS. And when you hear about famous people, I won't name names, but if you hear about a famous heterosexual who got AIDS I'm just going to hypothesize that maybe they weren't always with women every time. Just put that out there.
So I think the strategy wise — and was Fauci part of this? Do a fact check on me — but strategy wise they were very smart because if they said there's a gay problem in those days, could they have got funding if it was only a gay problem? You know, remember these were darker days in the United States. I don't think they could have gotten funding. I think they had to make it everybody's problem.
Now you come to the coronavirus. Do kids have a risk? Not much. Do healthy younger people with no comorbidities have a problem? Not much. But you have to make it everybody's problem to fix it for the people whose problem it is: older people, comorbidities, etc. It looks like the same play, doesn't it? To make it look like everybody's problem so that everybody will get on board with funding the solution or whatever you need to do for the solution for something less than the majority. It looks like the same play. I'm not even going to put a moral judgment on it. I'm just going to say it looks the same to me and it looks like it worked in both cases.
And when I say worked I mean got the attention that would maybe solve the problem. So there's a real ethical question involved in all of this stuff because they may have done what worked but maybe not ethically. And then you've got a dilemma. It's like well I like that it worked. I like that the gay community of the world is not being wiped out while we stand on the sidelines and ignore it because that could have happened, right? I mean that could happen pretty easily. But instead maybe we were the victims of hyperbole and maybe scared more than some of us needed to be. And that created the action that got the solution for the gay community. And I'm happy about that. I'm happy about the outcome. But it feels a little unethical the way we got there, right? So there's that.
Jesse Kelly asked this question. I know this is going to get me in trouble. He said, "Why do the vaccinated need to be protected from the unvaccinated?" Now the cleverness of that is that that was never the question exactly. It's more about why do the unvaccinated get their rights suppressed under our current situation. And is anybody who doesn't know what the logic of keeping the vaccinated from the unvaccinated is — is there anybody who doesn't know the official reason? You know this is not my opinion per se, but do you actually not know why that is?
A number of you say that you don't know. The answer is that if you put a bunch of unvaccinated people anywhere it increases hospitalizations. That's the whole story. It wouldn't matter if you put the unvaccinated people with vaccinated people or anybody else. You put unvaccinated people together, you get more virus. Now I'm not saying that that's a reason for restricting them because I'm an anti-mandate. Let me say that clearly. At this point in time with the current situation, risks and benefits, I don't see the mandate being right for America. But I don't doubt math.
If you put people without vaccinations together you're going to get more of it, more virus, than if you only put vaccinated people together. Does anybody disagree? Does anybody disagree with the math of it? Forget about what's right because you know I think we're all on the same page about no mandates probably if you're watching this. I just want to see. So has it been proven? It doesn't need to be proven. There's nothing to prove. If you put unvaccinated people in a room they have greater risk than vaccinated people. That's no question.
Is there anybody who doubts that if you had two rooms full of people, one who were all vaccinated and one of all unvaccinated, and you hadn't checked them for virus yet, so in both cases there could be a virus, right? So you've got a room of fully vaccinated people. You can still have a virus and still transmit it. And you've got one of no vaccinated people in it. You can still transmit the virus. Which one would, if you came back in a week, which one would have infected more people?
Some of you are going to say well we don't know, the data is unclear on that. And you know anybody who says data is unclear I'm already biased in your favor. But the data we have, correct or not, is that the vaccinated group would have no hospitalizations when you're done. How many would disagree with that statement? That if you had that study, you know, two rooms, one with only vaccinated and one with only unvaccinated, wouldn't it be true that if you infected both rooms and come back in a week the vaccinated people would have essentially zero hospitalizations? I don't know how much spread but zero hospitalizations. Whereas the other group would have some. Anybody disagree with that statement?
So I see people disagree and I respect the disagreement because all the information we get seems to be sketchy, right? You know as soon as you say I saw some information and therefore my opinion is final that's not very smart. We don't live in a world where I saw some reliable information and therefore I formed my opinion makes any sense anymore. It used to but now our data is so unreliable on everything that as soon as you say yeah I saw some data and therefore I made a decision I think you've departed reason. Unless you put a statistical figure on it like well 50-50 but I went this way.
So I would say that the answer is clear. You shouldn't act surprised. The answer is clear that unvaccinated people in the community are more likely to be hospitalized and that's it. So it's not really a mystery. But if you wanted to doubt that the data is accurate, well I have some sympathy for that. I have some appreciation for anybody who says every data is wrong.
Oh let me tell you what really pisses me off because I know this is in my future. So let's say any situation arises and there's going to be part of the country that says no the government is lying, right? It doesn't matter what the topic is. There's going to be some segment that says nope, government's lying, so don't believe them. Now does the government lie about every single thing? Well no, not everything. It lies a lot but not at every single thing.
So if you and I disagree about what a good prediction would look like in a given situation and let's say I say well I think the government is right this time because independent experts agree, whatever I say. Let's say I side with the government's point of view on a particular question. There will always be some people on the other side who took the other position. I hate it when that side is right. I hate it when the people who don't look at any of the data, don't look at any of the argument, they just say it's coming from the government so it's probably a lie, and then it turns out they're right. I freaking hate that. I hate that so much because it's me being wrong for the wrong reason, right? Yeah, track record, right. But I don't think the track record is like 100 lies. I don't think so. I hope not. But a lot, sure.
Malcolm Gladwell's Blink. I think that got a little debunked, that Blink concept. The vaccinated transmit as much as the unvaccinated now. Lucy. So Lucy's got a statement here that says the vaccinated transmit as much as the unvaccinated now. The official word is that that's debunked and untrue, which is different from whether it is actually untrue, right? You get that, right? But be aware what the official word is.
The official word is the vaccinated people don't even have the virus as long. So if you're vaccinated maybe you could spread it just as much for a day but if you're unvaccinated you can spread it that same amount for let's say three days. I'm making up the numbers but do you get that Lucy? That according to the official word there would be a really big difference but not at any moment. So there could be a moment in time when the vaccinated and unvaccinated person who's infected could be exactly the same for a moment but that moment only lasts a little while for the vaccinated because they resolve it faster and it lasts longer for the unvaccinated. Does everybody get that?
Now I'm not saying it's true. That's different because that would be believing the data. I'm just saying what the data says. That that's the official word, right? Everybody. So look in the comments Lucy and you'll see. Now I believe that where that belief came from is the studies that said that the vaccinated people who got infected had as much viral stuff, you know, that they were expelling as unvaccinated. And I think that's true. It just doesn't last as long and that's a big, big difference. How long it lasts.
All right. Adams. So now I'm gaslighting and goalpost moving. Now why would you pay a subscription fee to listen to me if you think any of that's true? In fact I just did a comic exactly about you. The comic I just wrote is about people accusing me of moving the goalposts when nothing like that has ever happened. It's the most common thing I get is you're moving the goalpost. I don't think I ever once.
Breakthrough cases have been rising. Well they should. They should, don't you think? That the vaccinated breakthrough cases should be rising even if the government is completely right about what vaccinations are at the moment. Addison's comment I agree with. So at the moment it looks increasingly clear that Omicron is a super mild version, right?
How many of you who are vaccinated or even unvaccinated have thought to yourself if you could just get some of that Omicron you would go get it today? Like if you could infect yourself and you knew it was the Omicron wouldn't you do it today? Now don't take any medical advice from me please please please do not do not do not do not take medical advice from a cartoonist. Some of you would die if you tried that technique. Let me be clear. If you try to intentionally infect yourself some of you are going to die. That's just going to happen. So don't take my advice.
But personally just what you know given the let's say incomplete nature of data so you can never know what's the right choice. But if you said to me Scott I can guarantee I can give you some of this Omicron stuff and it will make you naturally immune to all the rest of it and you're already vaccinated so there's not much risk. If that was the proposition and it looks like it might be yeah I would sign up for that. I would do it today. I wouldn't even wait. I'd say can I have that by lunchtime? Give me that Omicron. Give it to me hard.
All of us are going to die. Maggie says good philosophy. Sure.
Let me give you a trick to get you out of your temporary depression. Maybe I've told you this before but this will be gigantic for some of you. You ready? Do you ever have a day when you're just so unhappy and sad you think you could just kill yourself? You have now. Fortunately most of us just have that fleeting thought and it's not actually actualized. But let's say you have one of those days when you say damn it it's just not worth it.
Here's what you do. Redefine it this way. Say to yourself you know suppose I did plan to end it all and this was my last day. How would I act differently if it were my last day? Well you wouldn't have to worry about getting embarrassed would you? Suppose you could live one day of your life with no risk of embarrassment and you don't even worry about let's say exceeding the speed limit. You just stop worrying about what people think of you. You just imagine what it would be like if you were going to be gone tomorrow. Just go on gone like dead gone. And watch how that changes your everything. That sadness that you had will start to turn into a superpower. You can reframe it as a power because when you're in a bad mood you can do all the things that you wouldn't have done before.
Don't do anything that would kill you. Don't do anything that'll lose all your money or be irreversible, right? Don't do irreversible things. But do things that just were a stretch. Scare yourself. Scare the out of yourself. Walk up to that person you know is going to turn you down and ask them on a date. And then when they turn you down because you know maybe they will, how do you feel? Well you don't feel bad if you're going to die tomorrow. Like hopefully you're not going to die tomorrow and that's not your plan but frame it that way. Just allow yourself to feel it's the last day on earth. It changes everything. It's a really good trick. I use it all the time and it's amazing. You will thank me.
Yes it's like the movie It's a Wonderful Life in a sense. Yes. Scott in all capitals explain why the death counts are up since the vaccines and other treatments. Is that a mystery to anybody? Why would the death counts be up at the same time that vaccines are more fully implemented? Can anybody answer that? Because there's more infection. Was that hard? If there's more infection there's more death no matter what you're doing about it, right?
Why did World War II kill more people than your neighbors arguing about their trash cans? Because it was World War II and that's not you neighbor. You know it's not like arguing with your neighbor. If infections go through the roof the death count's going up no matter what. Doesn't matter how many people are vaccinated. And everybody's vaccinated. Once you get everybody vaccinated then if you die you're dying vaccinated. So yeah that might be a counting problem as well.
Then why more infections? The reason there's more infection is we're in a pandemic and we don't have anything that stops it. We know that. We wanted vaccines to stop it but they don't do that. Which doesn't mean that the vaccines are necessarily useless. They just don't stop it cold.
So pretty wrong Scott. Natural immunity does. Natural immunity does what? Because apparently there are people with natural immunity who've gotten it twice. Are you aware of that? That's the thing. So they probably were immunocompromised or something. Yes and we're all not sitting home. That's true. There's more interaction.
Jefferson deeply depressed from lost suffering 10 years ago. What do you do about somebody who had a loss 10 years ago and can't get over it? That would, I don't have a quick answer for that.
Yes I did predict that they would. If anybody doesn't know this I did predict at the beginning when Project Warp Speed was first announced I did predict it would fail to create a vaccine that actually stopped the coronavirus. And the reason I predicted it was not because I'm so smart. It's because all of the experts who had worked in that field said we've been working on this for decades and we can't, we're not even close. So we're definitely not going to do it in a year. And I thought well if everybody working in the field says they can't do it and they don't know how to do it probably they're right.
You know sometimes the Wright brothers, you know the rogues are right. But if you want to bet, place a bet, you should usually bet against the rogue exception. People sometimes they're right and then it makes big news and you remember them forever but not usually. Usually they're dead wrong. The people who are the skeptics and the resistors and such.
Why do we have more deaths? Was that with us having vaccines first? We just answered that because there's just more virus and unfortunately the vaccines don't prevent you from dying entirely. They just reduce it.
Let's see. Wow, a lot of comments today. Have you noticed that there's a tremendous amount of energy that just ramped up? The trolls came out. The paid trolls that always attacked anybody who says anything about Trump. So the trolls are out. But my YouTube traffic doubled just in the last few weeks. So something happened where the world was sort of sleepy over the summer and then just everything took off. Just the energy. Is it because of the weather? Could be.
All right. That's about all I have to say today. I'm going to turn off YouTube. I'm going to say a few more words to the Locals crowd. And yeah maybe maybe it's because it's winter. And I will talk to you tomorrow.
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my being but there was one fingernail it was the damaged one i couldn't feel it so i'm sorry if i exaggerated that well some terrible news from the antwerp zoo in belgium um i hate to start with the bad news but two hippos tested positive for a coronavirus at the antwerp zoo um when i read this uh my first thought was that probably the cheetahs at the zoo are just going to treat it as a mild cold but i do worry about the hippos cheetahs probably just shake it off but the hippos you know what i mean comorbidity anyway here's my favorite tiny story of the day it's a tiny story but i feel like it's telling us something's coming i feel as though there's some foreshadowing in this story and it goes like this apparently aoc when asked about all the smash and grab robberies um was not aware that they're happening she said quote a lot of these allegations of organized retail theft are not actually panning out aoc said an interview with the washington times last week i believe it's a walgreens in california cited it but the data didn't back it up she added what so here's why this is a big story it's not a big story because politician didn't know something it's not a big story because politician lied those would be ordinary stories it's a big story because who in the world does not realize that aoc's plan for for uh creating a new world in which human incentives are ignored is not working out so well not working out so well so the fact that she is ignoring something that everybody can see with her plain eyes i mean anybody who lives in the city is seeing this quite clearly so at least in a blue city so the fact that she's denying it's even happening has got to be noticed by her base that's the important part it wouldn't mean anything if you know republicans were mocking aoc yet again for the billionth time but i feel like she's crossed a line here where even her own side is going to say but i'm watching a smash and grab or i just went to nordstrom and uh the shelves are empty you know aren't they aren't they all gonna notice now maybe they'll just never see this news because it was in the you know it was in the washington times you know so they're not going to necessarily see it but i feel like it's the beginning of a crack in the in the two movie model i've been telling you since 2015 or so that we're watching two movies but they're playing at the same time on one screen we're both looking at exactly the same stuff or similar stuff and completely different movies in our heads of what's going on but i feel like they're starting to converge the only thing that can stop them from blending and merging at this point is trump coming back as soon as trump comes back it's boom two movies again but at the moment he's just out of the spotlight enough that the two movies are starting to starting to merge now not a lot right i'm talking about signs of something to coming they're definitely not merged but i feel like the weight of the world is starting to nudge them in that direction we'll talk a little bit more about that um and i asked i asked on twitter but i already saw the the answer on the locals i said has anyone called the biden's uh build back better build a uh smash and grab but uh apparently that was an obvious joke am i right you've already seen that one i hadn't i hadn't seen it yet but it's sort of an obvious joke have you all seen that one i'm sure it's out there anyway speaking of uh the fake news in the two movies how many of you saw on social media um video clips of a group of alleged right wingers called the patriot front all in matching uniforms and disguises with masks and matching hats marching in washington dc with a bunch of american flags and stuff how many how many saw that right now when you saw it did you say to yourself first thought first thought when you saw it hey there's a bunch of right wing people dressed alike it's another it's another charlottesville how many of you thought that nobody nobody and if you went to cnn and then fox news to find out about this group what'd you find because it's all over social media if you're if if you consume any of the content on the right it's all over the place so go to cnn and see that story about the uh about the patriot front uh who all came out of bunch of matching u-haul vans and then got back in him and left do you see the story on cnn's website no no fact check me on this but i don't think cnn even covered the story why not why wouldn't they cover a story like that so i went to fox news i thought okay so cnn's going to try to ignore it because it's so obviously fake so i went to cnn to at least see the debunk because i figure i'm sorry i went to fox news because i thought fox news would you know have some skepticism about it it's not there now fact-check me on this check it right now i don't believe either cnn or fox news are even covering it so did it happen did it happen no it doesn't matter that there's no violence it just imagine just means you know what it matters is that it's a scary bunch of people yeah there's nothing on fox and there's nothing on cnn explain that why because you know fox news would at least have a story that says it's obviously fake right where is it where's the story did it even happen because if it's not being covered in the the two you know most you know well-known news sites did it even happen was there was there an event and even if there wasn't an event wouldn't it still be a story that so many people thought there was an event that didn't happen how in the world is this now being covered somebody says uh microsoft covered it you mean msnbc somebody saw a live streaming uh who has the talking stick i don't know what that means business insider daily beast and business insider covered it so do you remember my rule that if cnn and fox news treat it the same that means something fox news and cnn treated this the same by ignoring it what's that mean because they didn't even report it as a mystery you know i would get like if they didn't know who who is behind it and they're looking into it that would make sense but how do you not report that you're looking into it or that it's a mystery or that it's a question i just saw that scott scottish on gateway pundit this morning am i what's it say about me on gateway pundit this morning so um but here's my main point about this alleged patriot front group you want to hear the good news nobody believed it now take yourself mentally back four years ago just just in your mind just go back four years ago imagine the same event looking exactly the same does everybody believe it four years ago everybody would have believed that that was a real group marching what do you believe today today nobody believed it it was so unbelievable it didn't make the news it was so unbelievable it didn't make cnn or fox news that's how unbelievable it was oh another truth bomb okay that's what gateway pundit's talking about one of my tweets or something uh okay i'll take a look at that thank you for that so i would say that this is another indicator similar to the aoc pretending she doesn't know there's any smash and grabs going on of any size anyway the patriot front thing plus the aoc thing is suggesting to me that the credibility of the hoaxes is starting to decrease it looks like the left is not as uncritically believing everything that happens or let everything told i believe that the left has gained skepticism possibly for the first time uh all right yeah most people were blaming the lincoln project i don't know that the lincoln project was behind it necessarily but the fact that that's your first instinct shows that we've all grown up haven't we think about how your awareness of how the world really works has changed and since the the era of trump right the way you think of reality itself the what you think of the news and how true it is why you think of the narratives completely different and i would argue that we've um inoculated ourselves maybe better than other countries now i'm not your big international expert but i'm going to put this out here you know we sometimes like to talk about you know american exceptionalism which i you know generally reject as being you know just a little bit too we're awesome but there are some things that are unique to america the second amendment chief among them that i think does make us different but here's another one i feel like america is now way ahead of the curve for understanding propaganda and its effect on people now i don't know that you know it could turn out that you know denmark is way ahead of us or something i wouldn't know but i feel as though the age of uh complete information warfare where misinformation being fed into other you know adversarial countries is going to be world war iii brainwashing and i feel like america inoculated itself with the trump experiment because the trump uh let's say experience the trump experience caused so much fake news in the united states coming from official sources that the citizens of this country learned that news is fake or can be or is narrative and all those things and i don't think we knew that five years ago like as a country we didn't know it we suspected it you know people talked about it but we didn't know it now we know it now we know we shouldn't trust our own sources even american seemingly patriotic you know entities such as our intelligence agencies we know we can't trust them i think this is the best possible spin on the situation which i like to give you anyway i think the united states will be the most inoculated country when when the future waves of enormous fake news start washing over the rest of the world as they will it'll probably have but i i think this is healthy in a weird way nobody would have asked for it but if you survive it you get stronger right i think we survived the worst fake news attack that any countries in the modern world recently have seen i think yeah the next question as as guy is saying on locals the next question is has it always been this way has it always been this way and my guess is it has but the targets were different meaning that the public has always been brainwashed to be patriotic for example but we haven't been patriot we haven't been brainwashed to be divisive against each other we've been brainwashed to be in the same team brainwashed to be consumers brainwashed like capitalism brainwashed to like freedom brainwashed like you know everything that's american so we certainly have always been brainwashed and certainly the news you know has bias toward that brainwashing but i'm not sure any of that was negative was it steve is saying steve is saying read mark twain on the news yeah the news has always been full of bs but i think the bs before might have been just more entertainment bs as opposed to dividing the country bs but i would imagine that the journalism of yore was pretty darn bad john adams says democracy never lasts long well it's because we're not a democracy that's probably why we are a republic yeah let's get those bike paths good comment all right uh as you all know uh cnn finally fired uh chris cuomo their biggest star whose show appeared between aaron burnett and don lemon wink wink um those of you on youtube have no idea why that's funny but the people at locals are already laughing and um i guess there was some more information that came out and blah blah but chris cuomo was the top-rated star yeah as as fox news liked to uh proddingly say he was their only star i still laugh at that the fox news's characterization of their of their characterization of their competitors they only had one star and he had to get fired their their best guy well they just left their lost their best guy he got fired for being awful um i'm sure he will emerge and be fine but you know i think cnn had to do what they had to do so there's not much of a story there except that uh look at the difference of the cast of characters when 2014 rolls around think about how many people were were the main people you were listening to back in the beginning of the trump you know presidential era so many of them are gone cancelled right that's a lot of cancelling now here's another one how many dynasties did trump destroy how many dynasties did he destroy well he destroyed the bush dynasty by taking out jeb he entered that line he took out the clinton dynasty by beating clinton and depending on your point of view he may have taken out the cuomo dynasty just simply by existing you know and and causing them to you know sort of be on the other team which puts heat on them which you know creates a you know indirect series of events that probably took out another dynasty i think trump has taken out three american dynasties the mccain family maybe am i right uh cheney i don't know i would and romney nah not so much they weren't dynasties but who who has destroyed three dynasties before and who who taught us about fake news i'll tell you the the legacy of trump is unparalleled at this point you know he i don't think historians will ever give him credit for teaching us about fake news but he did it's probably one of the greatest accomplishments of any president treating us teaching us about reality it's the first any first time anybody told us what reality actually looked like um all right uh you may have seen a clip and if you if you haven't i recommend it uh trump i guess he crashed a wedding in mar-a-lago and he was giving a speech and he was talking about general milley and about the afghan afghanistan poll out and how he had conversations with millie and billy was telling him it would be cheaper to leave all the assets there than to take them out and trump talked about the wisdom of that a little bit and at the end of the story trump said and i'm going to swear a little bit send the children away send the children away i'm just quoting trump then trump said on video to a full room of people about general milly who is his top general at the time he said quote that's when i realized he was a idiot i'm in love trump you're so much trouble you're so much trouble why do you make me love you why i mean he's got flaws i've seen him i'm not i'm not blind to his flaws you know he's an expensive president you get some good stuff but it's going to be expensive but stop making me love you i want to simply make a decision about politics i want to look at your policy policy stuff i'd like to compare your policy preferences to your competition and come to some kind of an objective risk management decision about which political side has a better plan for each individual topic that's what i want to do that's what i would like to do but he makes it impossible by saying of his top general that's when i realized he was a idiot because i was thinking those exact words that general milly looks like a idiot i mean he looks like one and he seems to act like one and trump is at it now so you know if it agrees with me it must be brilliant that's my philosophy and i just want to talk about trump i don't want to love him stop making me love you and i guess it's there's something about the boldness of that statement combined with the complete inappropriateness of it uh combined with the with the complete truth of it who can put that stuff together right completely true completely provocative completely inappropriate completely perfectly said nobody else can do that he's the only one he's the only person in politics who can put that many layers together in one sentence it's really unparalleled you know i think history is going to be way kinder to trump than we will be in our lifetimes is the the thing that he doesn't get credit for is that he's the best communicator i mean he does there are things that i criticize he should have said better etc but damn i don't think anybody's better overall if you're looking at the total average uh that guy can communicate all right um even on cnn smurkanish's show they seem to be taking a uh i'll say an opinion or a point of view i'm not sure they would say of themselves but uh that natural immunity there's not a good reason to treat natural immunity if you've been infected by covet different from being vaccinated because in fact it might be better than being vaccinated and i guess the uh the europeans are not doing that so even in germany where things are going to get pretty rough with your passports etc even in germany apparently you can just say you already were infected and you're still good why why are we not doing that in the united states i don't even know the reason do you so you got your science that would say it would be fine you've got your is it just money because i can't think of anything else it would be right or or is it um a practical question because it's harder to harder to demonstrate who already had it right because i don't know can you get a can you get a passport for having been infected in the past or is it just the honor system so i suspected the united states it might have more to do with the fact that people would like and just say they were infected because they would right hello america so i suspect that our difference has nothing to do with science and everything to do with how do you create a practical standard that can actually work but the the net effect of that would be that we have the dumbest policy in the world the dumbest policy we'd be discriminating against the people who had the least reason to be discriminated against you know if you were to be logical you'd say okay the people with natural immunity are at the top of the heap and they have the most access of anybody next down would be somebody with two vaccinations or three i guess next down would be two but wouldn't you rank them that way if you were just doing it logically right so it must be some kind of practical thing but the biden administration is not explaining it in any way that the public can be happy with it so if they can't explain why they're doing it you have to assume corruption that's my rule if if your government does something that doesn't make sense to you and everybody can see that they haven't explained why they're doing it and the public is clearly confused your default has to assume corruption so the news should be reporting that if they're not explaining their thinking if they're not explaining their thinking it has to be a default assumption of corruption just like with the the rapid tests do i have any proof that corruption is the reason that america was so slow to get volume low price rapid tests i don't have any proof but it's the default assumption because there's no other explanation that i've seen so um default assumption that there's something crooked going on um here's the thing that is the least surprising thing in the world but is so stupid apparently there exists and has been found an alternative mueller report that may be worse for trump really so apparently the who put together the mueller report created a second one that was worse for trump and hid it away and now i guess it's going to be useful because for a lot of good reasons they didn't want to put the provocative stuff in the final report so now we get a whole new series of the steele dossier russia collusion and the mueller report it's coming back oh my god it's coming back i i i i don't even know what to say about that except maybe we should have predicted it that there would be an alternative mueller report are you freaking kidding me the alternative mueller report all right um here's something i want to test to see how many of you are aware of this according to official sources so this is not your personal opinion right so don't give me your personal opinion tell me what you think the official people say is co2 emissions from humans is it rising is co2 rising in the world yes or no don't give me your own opinions give me the official one from science the scientific official opinion go all right locals seems to have all the same opinion but i'm not going to tell you on youtube on youtube i'm saying yes no yes yes let's wait for some more on locals i will tell you they all say it's not going up most of them i'm saying knows yeah what's the official one not your own opinion forget your own opinion what's the official word on co2 i'm saying yeses and no's yes and those all right you should all be following michael schellenberger on twitter because he's the only person putting any of this in context bjorn lomborg is doing a good job he focuses a little more on the economic part of it but shellenberger does the best job of putting all this stuff in context so really for the first time you can sort of understand what's going on so if you read if you reach helen berger you're gonna finally finally feel like you understand the situation with climate change here's what he says today fresh tweet he says most people think global carbon emissions have been rising i thought that i mean i thought it until you know i think a week ago or so i thought the horizon he says but new data shows they actually declined over the last decade i think natural gas is the reason replacing coal in a lot of places and then he says shellenberger says emissions must still decline further in other words if we just kept them the same because the emissions are already kind of high according to climate scientists that are high and if you just kept them the same or even if it just went down a little bit it would still be enough to raise the temperature but but the temperature rise would be more likely based on this new data to be in the two and a half to three centigrade range far less than the much feared six degree centigrade prediction so already the official already the official word on climate change not not me making stuff up you know not me being a conspiracy theorist right just data says that the warming will happen and it will cause disruption according to them this is not me talking but it will be in that uh two and a half to three degree centigrade range did you know let's put that in perspective as michael schellenberger goes on he says did you know that warming is better i'm paraphrasing here did you know that warming is better than cooling for the planet right warming would cause a bunch of problems but cooling would cause a bunch of problems too and we don't really live in a world where the temperature stays the same like forever it's either going to go up or down so it looks like it's going to go up is that more good or more bad well let's talk to a yale economist william nordhaus who won the nobel prize in 2018 so that that's a recent win uh he calculated the optimum temperature rise when accounting for both the costs and the benefits because rising rising temperatures also give you more plants better farming there's more land to farm it becomes farmable when it wasn't so those are the benefits and then the negatives would be you know rising sea levels and maybe more storms and stuff so when he calculates all the possible bad stuff with all the the possible good stuff he finds that the ideal temperature rise to get the most benefits would be a little bit more than what's predicted to happen this is the first time i've heard that based on the the most current information we have and then a yale economist nobel prize winner calculating the cost of the benefits it would be better if it got a little warmer better economically better in terms of life quality better in terms of number of people dying we've actually overshot the mark already climate change is over it was the biggest problem in the world like six months ago turns out it's just done now how confident am i of this well not right if anybody's confident about a long-range economic prediction they shouldn't be but i'll tell you it's from the beginning i've always thought that this would fall into the adams law of slow-moving disasters if you've got a disaster that's coming but it's moving slowly and you've got lots of time to adjust and you know come up with remediation we're really good at that as a species human beings as long as we have a warning we're really getting really good at oh you goodbye scott's finally waking up scott's finally waking up you idiot i am not waking up jesus christ i'd use her scots finally wake her up to the opinion he's always had i don't know i i i think the problem is the binaries uh i call them the binaries the binaries are the people who believe that there are only two opinions and that that's it so if i don't agree with you completely with your opinion i've got to be in that other one opinion so my opinion is yeah the people are probably making the planet warmer but it's hard to know if that'll be good or bad that's always been my opinion always has never changed once and yet the binaries are like well i don't i don't recognize his opinion to be exactly mine so therefore therefore it must be somebody else's opinion she's so boring to deal with the npcs every day all right so um if you were worried about the golden age coming we've got fusion is being funded at the highest levels of our fusion energy because it has been reduced to an engineering problem meaning that the odds of us maybe in 20 years but having unlimited cheap energy really good the odds of us being destroyed by climate change really small really small climate change i think looks fixed i would even argue that our great division in this country may be well on the way to fixing itself now as soon as trump gets back in things might change but so you know all bets are off but at the moment i think the left has you can tell by the polls they realized that trump wasn't the problem it was their own news sources now not all of them and this happened scott is pretty woke up all right you're goodbye where is that oh you got away from me before i could block you damn you all right so we got that it could be that the mr mrna technology and along with a number of other breakthroughs are making cancer look like it's completely defeatable i mean that's these are things happening right now my only concern is that world war iii has already started depending on who you talk to world war three china versus the united states and maybe others meaning that um it's already a cyber war and it's already happening in space mostly in the cyber sense on satellites and once we get to space it'll be full-on war because it has to be because humans always fight over territory and space has a lot of territory so gonna fix aids too i mean i just saw there's a pill that you can buy a pill for aids now that will reduce your virus to undetectable did you know that now i don't know if it works for everybody but you can buy a pill that reduces your age to non-detectable it's just a pill i just saw an advertisement for it what the hell so i'm also wondering about fauci's uh technique so i used to praise the uh the gay activists because they made everybody worried about aids when really maybe just gay people should have been worried about it because i still don't know i still have never met a heterosexual person with aids and and when you meet when you hear about famous people i won't name names but if you hear about a famous heterosexual who got aids i'm just gonna hypothesize that maybe they weren't always with women every time just put that out there so i think the strategy wise and was fouchy part of this do a fact check on me but strategy wise they were very smart because if they said there's a gay problem in those days could they have got funding if it was only a gay problem you know remember these were darker days in the united states i don't think they could have gotten funding i think they had to make it everybody's problem now now you come to the coronavirus do kids have a risk not much do healthy younger people with no comorbidities have a problem not much but you have to make it everybody's problem to fix it for the people whose problem it is older people comorbidities etc it looks like the same play doesn't it to make it look like everybody's problem so that everybody will get you know get on board with funding the solution or whatever you need to do for the solution uh for something less than the majority it looks like the same play i'm not even going to put a moral judgment on it i'm just going to say it looks the same to me and it looks like it worked in both cases and when i say worked i mean got the attention that would maybe solve the problem so there's a real ethical question involved in all of this stuff because they may have done what worked but maybe not ethically and then you've got a dilemma it's like well i like that it worked i like that the gay community of the world is not being wiped out while we stand on the sidelines and ignore it because that could have happened right i mean that could happen pretty easily but instead maybe we were the victims of hyper hyperbole and maybe scared more than some of us needed to be and that created the action that got the solution for the gay community and i'm happy about that i'm happy about the outcome but it feels a little unethical the way we got there right so there's that jessie kelly asked this question i know this is going to get me in trouble he said why do the vaccinated need to be protected from the unvaccinated now the cleverness of that is that that's that was never the question exactly is more about why do the uh unvaccinated get their rights suppressed under our current situation and is anybody who doesn't know what the logic of keeping the vaccinated from the unvaccinated is is there anybody who doesn't know the official reason you know this is not my opinion per se but do you actually not know why that is um a number of you say that you don't know the the answer is that if you put a bunch of unvaccinated people anywhere it increases hospitalizations that's the whole story it wouldn't matter if you put the unvaccinated people with vaccinated people or anybody else you put unvaccinated people together you get more virus now i'm not saying that that's a reason for restricting them because i'm an anti-mandate let me say that clearly at this point in time with the current situation risks and benefits i don't see the i don't see the mandate being right for america but i don't doubt math if you put if you put people without vaccinations together you're going to get more of it more virus than if you only put vaccinated people together does anybody does anybody disagree does anybody disagree with the math of it forget about what's right because you know i think we're all on the same page about no mandates probably if you're watching this i just want to see your so has it been proven it doesn't need to be proven there's nothing to prove if you put unvaccinated people in a room they have greater risk than vaccinated people that's no question is it is there anybody who doubts that if you had two rooms full of people one who were all vaccinated and one of all unvaccinated and you hadn't checked them for you know virus yet so in both cases there could be a virus right so you've got room of fully vaccinated people you can still have a virus and still transmit it and you've got one of no vaccinated people in it you can still transmit the virus which one would which one if he came back in a week which one would have infected more people some of you are going to say well we don't know the data is unclear on that and you know anybody who says data is unclear i'm i'm already biased in your favor but the data we have correct or not is that the vaccinated group would have no hospitalizations when you're done how many would disagree with that statement that if you had that study you know two rooms one with only vaccinated and one with only unvaccinated wouldn't it be true that if you infected both rooms and come back in a week the vaccinated people would have essentially zero hospitalizations i don't know how much spread but zero hospitalizations whereas the other group would have some anybody disagree with that statement so i see i see people disagree and i respect the disagreement because all the information we get seems to be sketchy right you know as soon as you say i saw some information and therefore my opinion is is final that's not very smart we don't live in a world where i saw some reliable information and therefore i formed my opinion makes any sense anymore it used to but now our data is so unreliable on everything that as soon as you say yeah i saw some data and therefore i made a decision i think you've departed reason unless you put a statistical you know figure on it like well 50 50 but i went this way so i would say that the answer is clear you shouldn't act surprised the answer is clear that unvaccinated people in the community are more likely to be hospitalized and that's it so it's not really a mystery but if you wanted to doubt that the data is accurate well i i have i have some sympathy for that i i have some appreciation for anybody who says every every date is wrong oh let me tell you what really pisses me off because i know this is in my future so let's say any situation arises and there's going to be part of the country that says uh no the government is lying right it doesn't matter what the topic is there's going to be some segment that says nope government's lying so don't believe him now does the government lie about every single thing well no i'm not everything it lies a lot but not at every single thing so if you and i disagree about you know what uh what a good prediction would look like in a given situation and let's say i say well i think the government is right this time because you know independent experts agree whatever i say let's say i side with the government's point of view on a particular question there always be some people on the other side who took the other position i hate it when that side is right i hate it when the people who don't look at any of the data don't look at any of the argument they just say you know it's coming from the government so it's probably a lie and then it turns out they're i freaking hate that i hate that so much because it's me being wrong for the wrong reason right yeah yeah track record right but i don't think the track record is like 100 lies i don't think so i hope not but a lot sure malcolm gladwell's blink i think that got a little debunked that that blink concept um the vaccinated transmit as much as the unvaccinated now lucy so lucy's got a statement here that says the vaccinated transmit as much as the vaccinated now the official word is that that's debunked and untrue which is different from whether it is actually untrue right you get that right but be aware what the official word is the official word is the vaccinated people don't even have the virus as long so if you're vaccinated maybe you're you could spread it just as much for a day but if you're unvaccinated you can spread it that same amount for let's say three days i'm making up the numbers but do you get that lucy that according to the official word there would be a really big difference but not at any moment so there could be a moment in time when the vaccinated and unvaccinated person who's infected could be exactly the same for a moment but that moment only lasts a little while for the vaccinated because they resolve it faster and it lasts longer for the unvaccinated does everybody get that now i'm not saying it's true that's different because that would be believing the data i'm just saying what the data says that that's the official word right everybody so look in the comments lucy and you'll see now i believe that where that belief came from is the studies that said that the vaccinated people who got infected had as much viral stuff you know that they were expelling as unvaccinated and i think that's true it just doesn't last as long and that's a big big difference how long it lasts all right um uh adams so so now i'm gaslighting and goal post moving now why would you pay a subscription fee to listen to me if you think any of that's true in fact i i just did a comic uh exactly about you the comic i just wrote is about people accusing me of moving the goal posts when when nothing like that has ever happened is the most common thing i get is you're moving the goal post i don't think i ever ever once breakthrough cases have been rising well they should they should don't you think that the vex breakthrough cases should be rising even if the government is completely right about what vaccinations are at the moment addison's comment i agree with so at the moment it looks increasingly clear that omicron is a super mild version right how many of you who are vaccinated or even unvaccinated have thought to yourself if you could guess some of that omicron you would go get it today like if you could infect yourself and you knew it was the omicron wouldn't you do it today now don't take any medical advice from me please please please do not do not do not do not take medical advice from a cartoonist some of you would die if you tried that technique let me be clear if you try to intentionally affect your infect yourself some of you are going to die that's just going to happen so don't take my advice but personally just what you know given given the let's say incomplete nature of data so you can never know what's the right choice but if you said to me scott i can guarantee i can give you some of this omicron stuff and it will make you naturally immune to all the rest of it and you're already vaccinated so there's not much risk if that was the proposition and it looks like it might be yeah i would sign up for that i would do it today i wouldn't even wait i'd say can i have that by lunchtime give me that omicron give it to me hard all of us are going to die maggie says good philosophy sure uh let me give you a trip uh a trick to get you out of your uh temporary depression maybe i've told you this before but this will be uh gigantic for some of you you ready do you ever have a day when you're just so unhappy and sad you think you could just kill yourself you have now fortunately most of us just have that fleeting thought and it's not actually you know actualized um but let's say you have one of those days when you say damn it it's just not worth it here's what you do redefine it this way say to yourself you know suppose i did plan to end it all and this was my last day how would i act differently if it were my last day well you wouldn't have to worry about getting embarrassed would you suppose you could live one day of your life with no risk of embarrassment and you don't even worry about let's say exceeding the speed limit you just stop worrying about what people think of you you just imagine what it would be like if you were going to be gone tomorrow just go on gone like dead gone and watch how that changes your everything that that sadness that you had will start to turn into a superpower you can reframe it as a power because when you're in a bad mood you can do all the things that you wouldn't have done before don't do anything that would kill you don't do anything that'll you know lose all your money or be irreversible right don't do irreversible things but do things that just were a stretch scare yourself scare the out of yourself walk up to that person you know is going to turn you down and ask them on a date and then when they turn you down because you know maybe they will how do you feel well you don't feel bad if you're going to die tomorrow like hopefully you're not going to die tomorrow and that's not your plan but frame it that way just allow yourself to feel it's the last day on earth it changes everything it's a really good trick i use it all the time and it's amazing you will thank me um yes it's like like the movie a wonderful life in the sense yes uh scott in all capitals explain why the death counts are up since the vaccines and other treatments is that a mystery to anybody why would the death counts be up at the same time that vaccines are more fully implemented can anybody answer that because there's more infection was that hard if there's more infection there's more death no matter what you're doing about it right why did world war ii kill more people than your neighbors arguing about their trash cans because it was world war ii and that's not you neighbor you know it's not like uh arguing with your neighbor if infections go through the roof the death counts going up no matter what doesn't matter how many people are infected um right and everybody's vaccinated once you get everybody vaccinated then if you die you're dying vaccinated so yeah that might be might be a counting problem as well um then why more infections the reason there's more infection is is we're in a pandemic and we don't have anything that stops it we know that we wanted vaccines to stop it but they don't do that which doesn't mean that the vaccines are necessarily useless they just don't stop it cold so pretty wrong scott natural immunity does natural immunity does what because apparently there are people with natural immunity who've gotten it twice are you aware of that that's the thing so they probably were immunocompromised or something uh yes and we're all we're all not sitting home that's true there's more interaction um jefferson deeply depressed from lost suffering 10 years ago um what do you do about somebody who had a loss 10 years ago and can't get over it uh that would i don't have a quick answer for that um yes i did predict that they would if if anybody doesn't know this i did predict at the beginning when project warp speed was first announced i did predict it would fail to create a vaccine that actually stopped the coronavirus and the reason i predicted it not was not because i'm so smart it's because all of the experts who had worked in that field said we've been working on this for decades and we can't we're not even close so we're definitely not going to do it in a year and i thought well if everybody work in the field says they can't do it and they don't know how to do it probably they're right you know sometimes the wright brothers you know the the rogues are right but if you want to bet place a bat you should usually bet against the rogue exception people sometimes they're right and then it makes big news and you remember them forever but not usually usually they're dead wrong the people who are the the skeptics and the resistors and and such um why do we have more deaths was that with us having vaccines first we just we just answered that because there's just more virus and and unfortunately the vaccines don't prevent you from dying entirely they just reduce it let's see wow a lot of comments today have you noticed that there's a tremendous amount of energy that just ramped up the the trolls came out the the paid trolls that always attacked the uh anybody who says anything about trump so the trolls are out but my my youtube traffic doubled just in the last you know i don't know a few weeks so something happened where the the world was sort of sleepy over the summer and then just everything took off just the energy is it because of the weather could be all right that's about all i have to say today i'm going to turn off youtube i'm going to say a few more words to the locals crowd and yeah maybe maybe it's because it's winter and i will talk to you tomorrow
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the dope being hit of the day the thing
that makes
everything better except timothy there
are his comments i don't know i can't
help you
and
it's going to happen right now and watch
it make you tingle everywhere go
no not true i didn't feel a tingle in my
fingernails so probably i exaggerated
that a little bit
you can feel it in my hair and every
other atom of my being but there was one
fingernail it was the damaged one
i couldn't feel it so i'm sorry if i
exaggerated that well some terrible news
from the antwerp zoo in belgium
um i hate to start with the bad news but
two hippos tested positive for a
coronavirus at the antwerp zoo
um
when i read this uh
my first thought was that
probably the cheetahs at the zoo are
just going to treat it as a mild cold
but i do worry about the hippos
cheetahs probably just shake it off
but the hippos
you know what i mean
comorbidity
anyway
here's my favorite tiny story of the day
it's a tiny story but
i feel like it's telling us
something's coming
i feel as though
there's some foreshadowing in this story
and it goes like this apparently aoc
when asked about all the smash and grab
robberies
um
was not aware that they're happening she
said quote a lot of these allegations of
organized retail theft are not actually
panning out aoc said an interview with
the washington times last week
i believe it's a walgreens in california
cited it but the data didn't back it up
she added
what
so here's why this is a big story it's
not a big story because politician
didn't know something
it's not a big story because
politician lied those would be ordinary
stories
it's a big story
because who in the world
does not realize that aoc's plan
for
for uh
creating a new world in which human
incentives are ignored
is not working out so well
not working out so well
so the fact that she is ignoring
something that everybody can see with
her plain eyes i mean anybody who lives
in the city is seeing this quite clearly
so at least in a blue city
so the fact that she's denying it's even
happening has got to be noticed by her
base that's the important part
it wouldn't mean anything
if you know republicans were mocking aoc
yet again for the billionth time
but i feel like she's crossed a line
here
where even her own side is going to say
but i'm watching a smash and grab
or
i just went to nordstrom and uh the
shelves are empty
you know aren't they
aren't they all gonna notice
now maybe they'll just never see this
news because it was in the you know it
was in the washington times
you know so they're not going to
necessarily see it
but
i feel like it's the beginning of
a crack
in the in the two movie model i've been
telling you since
2015 or so
that we're watching two movies but
they're playing at the same time on one
screen
we're both looking at exactly the same
stuff or
similar stuff and completely different
movies in our heads of what's going on
but i feel like they're starting to
converge
the only thing that can stop them from
blending and merging at this point
is trump coming back
as soon as trump comes back it's boom
two movies again but at the moment
he's just out of the spotlight enough
that the two movies are starting to
starting to merge
now not a lot right i'm talking about
signs of something to coming they're
definitely not merged
but i feel like
the weight of the world is starting to
nudge them in that direction we'll talk
a little bit more about that
um
and i asked i asked on twitter but i
already saw the the answer on the locals
i said has anyone called the biden's uh
build back better build a uh smash and
grab
but uh
apparently that was an obvious joke
am i right
you've already seen that one
i hadn't i hadn't seen it yet but
it's sort of an obvious joke
have you all seen that one
i'm sure it's out there anyway
speaking of uh the fake news in the two
movies
how many of you saw on social media
um
video clips of a group of alleged right
wingers called the
patriot front
all in matching uniforms and disguises
with masks and matching hats
marching in washington dc with a bunch
of american flags and stuff how many how
many saw that
right
now
when you saw it
did you say to yourself first thought
first thought when you saw it
hey
there's a bunch of right wing people
dressed alike
it's another
it's another charlottesville
how many of you thought that
nobody
nobody
and
if you went to cnn and then fox news to
find out about this group
what'd you find
because it's all over social media if
you're if if you consume any of the
content on the right it's all over the
place
so go to cnn and see that story about
the
uh about the patriot front
uh who all came out of bunch of
matching u-haul vans and then got back
in him and left
do you see the story on cnn's website
no
no
fact check me on this but i don't think
cnn even covered the story
why not
why wouldn't they cover a story like
that so i went to fox news i thought
okay so cnn's going to try to ignore it
because it's so obviously fake
so i went to cnn to at least see the
debunk because i figure i'm sorry i went
to fox news because i thought fox news
would you know have some skepticism
about it
it's not there
now fact-check me on this check it right
now
i don't believe either cnn or fox news
are even covering it
so
did it happen
did it happen
no it doesn't matter that there's no
violence it just imagine
just means you know what it matters is
that it's a scary bunch of people
yeah there's nothing on fox and there's
nothing on cnn explain that
why
because you know
fox news would at least have a story
that says it's obviously fake
right
where is it
where's the story
did it even happen
because if it's not being covered in the
the two you know most
you know well-known news sites
did it even happen was there was there
an event
and even if there wasn't an event
wouldn't it still be a story
that so many people thought there was an
event that didn't happen
how in the world is this now being
covered
somebody says uh
microsoft covered it you mean msnbc
somebody saw a live streaming
uh who has the talking stick i don't
know what that means
business insider daily beast and
business insider covered it
so do you remember my rule
that if cnn and fox news treat it the
same
that means something
fox news and cnn treated this the same
by ignoring it
what's that mean
because they didn't even report it as a
mystery
you know i would get like if they didn't
know who who is behind it and they're
looking into it that would make sense
but how do you not report
that you're looking into it
or that it's a mystery or that it's a
question
i just saw that scott scottish on
gateway pundit this morning
am i
what's it say about me on gateway pundit
this morning
so
um but here's my main point about this
alleged patriot front group
you want to hear the good news
nobody believed it
now take yourself mentally back
four years ago
just just in your mind just go back four
years ago imagine the same event
looking exactly the same
does everybody believe it
four years ago everybody would have
believed that that was a real group
marching
what do you believe today
today
nobody believed it
it was so unbelievable it didn't make
the news
it was so unbelievable
it didn't make cnn or fox news
that's how unbelievable it was
oh another truth bomb okay that's what
gateway pundit's talking about one of my
tweets or something
uh okay i'll take a look at that thank
you
for that
so i would say that this is another
indicator similar to the aoc
pretending she doesn't know there's any
smash and grabs going on of any size
anyway the patriot front thing plus the
aoc thing
is suggesting to me that the credibility
of the hoaxes
is starting to decrease
it looks like the left is not as
uncritically believing everything that
happens or let everything told
i believe that the left has gained
skepticism
possibly for the first time
uh
all right
yeah most people were blaming the
lincoln project i don't know that the
lincoln project was behind it
necessarily but the fact that that's
your first instinct
shows that
we've all grown up haven't we
think about how your awareness of how
the world really works
has changed and since the the era of
trump
right the way you think of reality
itself
the what you think of the news and how
true it is why you think of the
narratives completely different
and i would argue
that we've um
inoculated ourselves
maybe better than other countries
now
i'm not your big international expert
but i'm going to put this out here
you know we sometimes like to talk about
you know american exceptionalism
which i you know generally reject
as being you know just a little bit too
we're awesome
but
there are some things that are unique to
america the second amendment chief among
them that i think does make us different
but here's another one
i feel like america is now way ahead of
the curve
for understanding propaganda and its
effect on people
now i don't know that you know it could
turn out that you know denmark is way
ahead of us or something i wouldn't know
but i feel as though the age of uh
complete information warfare
where misinformation being fed into
other
you know adversarial countries
is going to be world war iii
brainwashing
and i feel like america
inoculated itself with the trump
experiment
because the trump uh let's say
experience the trump experience caused
so much fake news
in the united states coming from
official sources
that the citizens of this country
learned that news is fake
or can be or is narrative and all those
things and i don't think we knew that
five years ago like as a country we
didn't know it we suspected it you know
people talked about it but we didn't
know it
now we know it now we know we shouldn't
trust our own sources even american
seemingly patriotic you know entities
such as our intelligence agencies we
know we can't trust them i think
this is the best possible spin on the
situation which i like to give you
anyway
i think
the united states will be the most
inoculated country
when when the future waves of enormous
fake news start washing over the rest of
the world
as they will it'll probably have
but
i i think this is healthy
in a weird way nobody would have asked
for it but if you survive it you get
stronger right i think we survived
the worst fake news
attack
that any countries
in the modern world recently have seen i
think
yeah the next question as as guy is
saying on locals the next question is
has it always been this way
has it always been this way
and my guess is it has
but the targets were different
meaning that the public has always been
brainwashed to be patriotic for example
but we haven't been patriot we haven't
been brainwashed to be divisive against
each other
we've been brainwashed to be in the same
team
brainwashed to be consumers brainwashed
like capitalism
brainwashed to like freedom brainwashed
like you know
everything that's american
so we certainly have always been
brainwashed and certainly the news
you know has bias toward that
brainwashing but i'm not sure any of
that was negative
was it
steve is saying steve is saying read
mark twain on the news yeah the news has
always been full of bs
but i think the bs before
might have been just more entertainment
bs as opposed to dividing the country bs
but i would imagine that the journalism
of yore
was pretty darn bad
john adams says democracy never lasts
long well it's because we're not a
democracy that's probably why we are a
republic
yeah let's get those bike paths good
comment
all right uh as you all know uh cnn
finally fired uh chris cuomo
their biggest star
whose show appeared between aaron
burnett
and
don lemon
wink wink
um
those of you on youtube have no idea why
that's funny but the people at locals
are already laughing
and
um i guess there was some more
information that came out and blah blah
but chris cuomo was the top-rated star
yeah
as as fox news
liked to uh
proddingly say
he was their only star
i still laugh at that the fox news's
characterization of their
of their
characterization of their competitors
they only had one star and he had to get
fired
their their best guy
well they just left their lost their
best guy
he got fired for being awful
um
i'm sure he will emerge and be fine
but you know i think cnn had to do what
they had to do
so there's not much of a story there
except that
uh
look at the difference of the cast of
characters
when 2014 rolls around
think about how many people were were
the main people you were listening to
back in the beginning of the trump you
know presidential era
so many of them are gone
cancelled
right
that's a lot of cancelling now here's
another one
how many dynasties
did trump destroy
how many dynasties did he destroy
well he destroyed the bush dynasty by
taking out jeb
he entered that line he took out the
clinton dynasty by beating
clinton
and
depending on your point of view he may
have taken out the cuomo dynasty
just simply by existing you know and and
causing them to
you know sort of be on the other team
which puts heat on them which you know
creates a you know indirect series of
events that probably took out another
dynasty
i think trump has taken out three
american dynasties
the mccain family maybe
am i right
uh cheney i don't know i would and
romney nah not so much they weren't
dynasties
but who who has destroyed three
dynasties before and who who taught us
about fake news
i'll tell you the the legacy of trump
is unparalleled at this point
you know he i don't think historians
will ever give him credit for teaching
us about fake news
but he did
it's probably one of the greatest
accomplishments of any president
treating us teaching us about reality
it's the first any first time anybody
told us what reality actually looked
like
um
all right
uh you may have seen a clip and if you
if you haven't i recommend it uh trump i
guess he crashed a wedding in mar-a-lago
and he was giving a speech and he was
talking about general milley
and about the afghan
afghanistan poll out and how he had
conversations with millie and billy was
telling him it would be cheaper
to leave all the assets there than to
take them out
and trump talked about the wisdom of
that a little bit and
at the end of the story trump said and
i'm going to swear a little bit
send the children away send the children
away
i'm just quoting trump
then trump said on video to a full room
of people about general milly who is his
top general at the time he said quote
that's when i realized he was a
idiot
i'm in love
trump
you're so much trouble
you're so much trouble
why do you make me love you
why
i mean he's got
flaws
i've seen him i'm not i'm not blind to
his flaws
you know he's an expensive president
you get some good stuff but it's going
to be expensive
but
stop making me love you
i want to simply
make a decision about politics
i want to look at your policy policy
stuff
i'd like to
compare your policy preferences to your
competition and come to some kind
of an objective risk management decision
about which political side has a better
plan for each individual topic that's
what i want to do
that's what i would like to do
but he makes it impossible
by saying of his top general
that's when i realized he was a
idiot
because
i was thinking those exact words
that general milly looks like a
idiot
i mean he looks like one and he seems to
act like one and trump is at it now so
you know if it agrees with me it must be
brilliant that's my philosophy
and
i just want to talk about trump i don't
want to love him
stop making me love you
and i guess it's there's something about
the boldness of that statement
combined with the complete
inappropriateness of it
uh combined with the with the complete
truth of it
who can put that stuff together
right
completely true completely provocative
completely inappropriate
completely perfectly said
nobody else can do that
he's the only one
he's the only person in politics who can
put that many layers together in one
sentence
it's really unparalleled
you know i think history is going to be
way kinder to
trump than we will be in our lifetimes
is the the thing that he doesn't get
credit for is that he's the best
communicator i mean he does there are
things that i criticize he should have
said better etc but damn i don't think
anybody's better overall if you're
looking at the total average
uh that guy can communicate all right
um
even on cnn smurkanish's show
they seem to be taking a uh
i'll say an opinion or a point of view
i'm not sure they would say of
themselves
but uh that natural immunity there's not
a good reason to treat natural immunity
if you've been infected by covet
different from being vaccinated because
in fact it might be better than being
vaccinated and i guess the uh the
europeans are not doing that
so even in germany where things are
going to get pretty rough with your
passports etc even in germany apparently
you can just say you already were
infected and you're still good
why why are we not doing that in the
united states
i don't even know the reason do you
so you got your science
that would say it would be fine
you've got your
is it just money
because i can't think of anything else
it would be right
or or is it um a practical question
because it's harder to
harder to demonstrate
who already had it right
because i don't know can you get a can
you get a passport for having been
infected in the past or is it just the
honor system so i suspected the united
states it might have more to do with the
fact that people would like
and just say they were infected
because they would right
hello america
so i suspect that our difference has
nothing to do with science
and everything to do with how do you
create a practical
standard that can actually work but the
the net effect of that would be
that we have the dumbest
policy in the world
the dumbest policy we'd be
discriminating against the people who
had the least reason to be discriminated
against
you know if you were to be logical you'd
say okay
the people with natural immunity are at
the top of the heap and they have the
most access of anybody
next down would be somebody with two
vaccinations or three i guess
next down would be two
but wouldn't you rank them that way if
you were just doing it logically right
so it must be some kind of practical
thing but the biden administration is
not explaining it in any way that the
public can be happy with it
so if they can't explain why they're
doing it you have to assume corruption
that's my rule
if if your government does something
that doesn't make sense to you and
everybody can see
that they haven't explained why they're
doing it and the public is clearly
confused
your default has to assume corruption
so the news should be reporting
that if they're not explaining their
thinking
if they're not explaining their thinking
it has to be a default assumption of
corruption just like with the
the rapid tests
do i have any proof that corruption is
the reason that america was so slow to
get
volume low price rapid tests
i don't have any proof
but it's the default assumption because
there's no other explanation
that i've seen so um default assumption
that there's something crooked going on
um here's the thing that is the least
surprising thing in the world but is so
stupid
apparently
there exists and has been found
an alternative mueller report
that may be worse for trump
really
so apparently the who
put together the mueller report
created a second one that was worse for
trump
and hid it away
and now i guess it's going to be useful
because for a lot of good reasons they
didn't want to put the provocative stuff
in the final report
so now we get a whole new series
of the steele dossier
russia collusion
and the mueller report
it's coming back
oh my god it's coming back
i i i
i don't even know what to say about that
except maybe we should have predicted it
that there would be an alternative
mueller report are you freaking kidding
me the alternative mueller report
all right
um here's something i want to test to
see how many of you are aware of this
according to official sources so this is
not your personal opinion right
so don't give me your personal opinion
tell me what you think the official
people say
is co2 emissions from humans
is it rising
is co2 rising in the world yes or no
don't give me your own opinions give me
the official one from science
the scientific official opinion go
all right locals seems to have all the
same opinion but i'm not going to tell
you on youtube
on youtube i'm saying yes no yes yes
let's wait for some more
on locals i will tell you they all say
it's not going up most of them i'm
saying knows yeah what's the official
one not your own opinion forget your own
opinion what's the official word on co2
i'm saying yeses and no's yes and those
all right you should all be following
michael schellenberger
on twitter
because he's the only person putting any
of this in context bjorn lomborg is
doing a good job
he focuses a little more on the economic
part of it
but shellenberger does the best job of
putting all this stuff in context so
really for the first time
you can sort of understand what's going
on so if you read if you reach helen
berger
you're gonna finally
finally feel like you understand the
situation with climate change
here's what he says
today fresh tweet he says most people
think global carbon emissions have been
rising
i thought that
i mean i thought it until you know i
think a week ago or so
i thought the horizon he says but new
data shows they actually declined over
the last decade i think natural gas is
the reason replacing coal in a lot of
places
and then he says shellenberger says
emissions must still decline further in
other words if we just kept them the
same
because the emissions are already kind
of high
according to climate scientists that are
high
and if you just kept them the same
or even if it just went down a little
bit it would still be enough to raise
the temperature
but
but
the temperature rise would be more
likely based on this new data to be in
the two and a half to three
centigrade range
far less than the much feared six
degree centigrade
prediction
so already the official
already the official word on climate
change not not me
making stuff up
you know not me being a
conspiracy theorist right just
data
says that the warming will happen and it
will cause disruption according to them
this is not me talking
but it will be in that uh two and a half
to three degree centigrade range
did you know let's put that in
perspective
as michael schellenberger goes on
he says did you know
that warming is better i'm paraphrasing
here did you know that warming is better
than cooling for the planet right
warming would cause a bunch of problems
but cooling would cause a bunch of
problems too and we don't really live in
a world where the temperature stays the
same
like forever it's either going to go up
or down
so it looks like it's going to go up
is that more good or more bad well let's
talk to
a yale economist william nordhaus
who won the nobel prize in 2018 so that
that's a recent win
uh he calculated the optimum temperature
rise
when accounting for both the costs and
the benefits
because rising rising temperatures also
give you more plants better farming
there's more land to farm it becomes
farmable when it wasn't
so those are the benefits and then the
negatives would be you know rising
sea levels and maybe more storms and
stuff so when he calculates all the
possible bad stuff
with all the the possible good stuff
he finds that
the
ideal temperature rise to get the most
benefits
would be a little bit more
than what's predicted to happen
this is the first time i've heard that
based on the the most current
information we have and then a yale
economist
nobel prize winner
calculating the cost of the benefits
it would be better if it got a little
warmer
better economically better in terms of
life quality
better in terms of number of people
dying
we've actually overshot the mark already
climate change
is over
it was the biggest problem in the world
like six months ago
[Laughter]
turns out it's just done
now
how confident am i of this
well not right if anybody's confident
about a long-range economic prediction
they shouldn't be
but i'll tell you it's from the
beginning i've always thought that this
would fall into the adams law of
slow-moving disasters
if you've got a disaster that's coming
but it's moving slowly
and you've got lots of time to adjust
and you know come up with remediation
we're really good at that as a species
human beings as long as we have a
warning
we're really getting
really good at oh you
goodbye scott's finally waking up
scott's finally waking up
you idiot i am not waking up
jesus christ
i'd use her
scots finally wake her up to the opinion
he's always had
i don't know i i i think the problem is
the binaries
uh i call them the binaries the binaries
are the people who believe that there
are only two opinions
and that that's it
so if i don't agree with you completely
with your opinion i've got to be in that
other one opinion
so my opinion is yeah the people are
probably making the planet warmer
but it's hard to know if that'll be good
or bad
that's always been my opinion
always has never changed once
and yet the binaries are like well i
don't i don't recognize his opinion to
be exactly mine so
therefore
therefore it must be somebody else's
opinion
she's so boring to deal with the npcs
every day
all right so um if you were worried
about the golden age coming we've got
fusion is being funded at the highest
levels of our fusion energy because it
has been reduced to an engineering
problem
meaning that the odds of us
maybe in 20 years but having
unlimited cheap energy
really good the odds of us being
destroyed by climate change
really small
really small
climate change i think looks fixed
i would even argue that our great
division in this country
may be well on the way to fixing itself
now as soon as trump gets back in things
might change
but so you know all bets are off
but at the moment i think the left has
you can tell by the polls
they realized that
trump wasn't the problem
it was their own news sources now not
all of them
and this happened
scott is pretty woke up
all right you're goodbye
where is that
oh you got away from me before i could
block you damn you
all right so we got that
it could be that the mr mrna technology
and along with a number of other
breakthroughs are making
cancer look like it's completely
defeatable
i mean that's these are things happening
right now
my only concern is that world war iii
has already started
depending on who you talk to
world war three china versus the united
states and maybe others
meaning that
um it's already a cyber war and it's
already happening in space mostly in the
cyber sense on satellites and once we
get to space it'll be full-on war
because it has to be
because humans always fight over
territory and space has a lot of
territory
so gonna fix aids too i mean i just saw
there's a pill that
you can buy a pill for aids now
that will reduce your virus to
undetectable
did you know that
now i don't know
if it works for everybody
but you can buy a pill
that reduces your age to non-detectable
it's just a pill
i just saw an advertisement for it
what the hell
so
i'm also wondering about fauci's
uh technique
so i used to praise
the uh the gay
activists because they made everybody
worried about aids
when
really
maybe just gay people should have been
worried about it
because i still don't know i still have
never met a heterosexual person with
aids
and and when you meet when you hear
about famous people
i won't name names but if you hear about
a famous heterosexual who got aids
i'm just gonna
hypothesize that maybe they weren't
always with women every time
just put that out there
so
i think the strategy wise
and was fouchy part of this do a fact
check on me but strategy wise they were
very smart
because if they said there's a gay
problem in those days could they have
got funding
if it was only a gay problem
you know remember these were
darker days in the united states i don't
think they could have gotten funding
i think they had to make it everybody's
problem
now now you come to the
coronavirus
do kids
have a risk not much
do healthy younger people with no
comorbidities have a problem not much
but
you have to make it everybody's problem
to fix it for the people whose problem
it is older people comorbidities etc
it looks like the same play doesn't it
to make it look like everybody's problem
so that everybody will get you know get
on board with funding the solution or
whatever you need to do for the solution
uh for
something less than the majority
it looks like the same play i'm not even
going to put a
moral
judgment on it
i'm just going to say it looks the same
to me
and it looks like it worked in both
cases
and when i say worked
i mean got the attention
that
would maybe solve the problem
so there's a real ethical question
involved in all of this stuff
because they may have done what worked
but maybe not ethically
and then you've got a dilemma it's like
well
i like that it worked
i like that
the gay community
of the world is not being wiped out
while we stand on the sidelines and
ignore it because that could have
happened right i mean that could happen
pretty easily
but instead
maybe we were
the victims of hyper hyperbole and maybe
scared more than some of us needed to be
and that
created the action that got the solution
for the gay community
and i'm happy about that i'm happy about
the outcome
but
it feels a little unethical
the way we got there right
so
there's that jessie kelly asked this
question i know this is going to get me
in trouble he said why do the vaccinated
need to be protected from the
unvaccinated now the cleverness of that
is that that's that was never the
question exactly
is more about why do the uh unvaccinated
get their rights suppressed under our
current situation
and is anybody who doesn't know
what the logic of keeping the vaccinated
from the unvaccinated is is there
anybody who doesn't know
the official reason you know this is not
my opinion per se
but do you actually not know
why that is
um
a number of you say that you don't know
the the answer is that if you put a
bunch of unvaccinated people anywhere
it increases hospitalizations
that's the whole story
it wouldn't matter if you put the
unvaccinated people with vaccinated
people or anybody else you put
unvaccinated people together
you get more virus
now i'm not saying that that's a reason
for restricting them because i'm an
anti-mandate let me say that clearly
at this point in time with the current
situation risks and benefits
i don't see the
i don't see the mandate
being right for america
but
i don't doubt math
if you put
if you put people without vaccinations
together
you're going to get more of it more
virus than if you only put vaccinated
people together does anybody does
anybody disagree
does anybody disagree with the math of
it forget about what's right because you
know i think we're all on the same page
about no mandates probably if you're
watching this
i just want to see your
so has it been proven
it doesn't need to be proven there's
nothing to prove
if you put unvaccinated people in a room
they have greater risk
than vaccinated people that's no
question is it is there anybody who
doubts that if you had two rooms full of
people
one who were all vaccinated
and one of all unvaccinated
and you hadn't checked them for you know
virus yet so in both cases there could
be a virus right
so you've got room of fully vaccinated
people you can still have a virus and
still transmit it and you've got one of
no vaccinated people in it
you can still transmit the virus which
one would
which one if he came back in a week
which one would have infected more
people
some of you are going to say well we
don't know the data is unclear on that
and you know anybody who says data is
unclear i'm i'm already biased in your
favor
but the data we have
correct or not
is that the vaccinated group would have
no hospitalizations when you're done
how many would disagree with that
statement that if you had that study you
know two rooms one with only vaccinated
and one with only unvaccinated
wouldn't it be true
that if you infected both rooms
and come back in a week
the vaccinated people would have
essentially zero
hospitalizations
i don't know how much
spread but zero hospitalizations whereas
the other group would have some
anybody disagree with that statement
so i see i see people disagree and i
respect the disagreement because all the
information we get
seems to be
sketchy right
you know as soon as you say
i saw some information and therefore
my opinion is
is final
that's not very smart
we don't live in a world where i saw
some reliable information and therefore
i formed my opinion makes any sense
anymore it used to
but now our data is so unreliable on
everything
that as soon as you say yeah i saw some
data and therefore i made a decision
i think you've departed reason
unless you
put a statistical
you know figure on it like well 50 50
but i went this way
so
i would say that the answer is clear you
shouldn't act surprised
the answer is clear
that unvaccinated people in the
community are more likely to be
hospitalized
and that's it
so it's not really a mystery
but if you wanted to doubt that the data
is accurate well
i i have i have some sympathy for that
i i have
some appreciation
for anybody who says every every date is
wrong
oh let me tell you what really pisses me
off
because i know this is in my future
so let's say any situation arises
and there's going to be part of the
country that says
uh no the government is lying
right it doesn't matter what the topic
is
there's going to be some segment that
says nope government's lying
so don't believe him
now does the government lie about every
single thing
well no
i'm not everything
it lies a lot
but not at every single thing so
if you and i disagree about you know
what uh what a good prediction would
look like in a given situation
and let's say i say
well i think the government is right
this time because you know independent
experts agree whatever i say
let's say i side with the government's
point of view
on a particular question
there always be some people on the other
side who took the other position
i hate it when that side is right
i hate it when the people who don't look
at any of the data don't look at any of
the argument they just say you know
it's coming from the government so it's
probably a lie and then it turns out
they're
i freaking hate that
i hate that so much because
it's me being wrong
for the wrong reason
right yeah yeah track record right but i
don't think the track record is like 100
lies
i don't think so i hope not
but a lot sure
malcolm gladwell's blink i think that
got a little debunked that that blink
concept
um
the vaccinated transmit as much as the
unvaccinated now lucy so lucy's got a
statement here that says
the vaccinated transmit as much as the
vaccinated now the official word is that
that's debunked and untrue
which is different from whether it is
actually untrue right you get that right
but
be aware what the official word is the
official word is the vaccinated people
don't even have the virus as long
so
if you're vaccinated maybe you're you
could spread it just as much
for a day
but if you're unvaccinated you can
spread it that same amount for let's say
three days i'm making up the numbers
but do you get that lucy
that according to the official word
there would be a really big difference
but not at any moment
so there could be a moment in time
when the vaccinated and unvaccinated
person who's infected could be exactly
the same for a moment
but that moment only lasts a little
while for the vaccinated because they
resolve it faster and it lasts longer
for the unvaccinated does everybody get
that now i'm not saying it's true
that's different because that would be
believing the data i'm just saying what
the data says
that that's the official word right
everybody so look in the comments lucy
and you'll see now i believe that where
that belief came from
is the studies that said that the
vaccinated people who got infected had
as much viral stuff
you know that they were expelling
as unvaccinated
and i think that's true
it just doesn't last as long and that's
a big big difference how long it lasts
all right um
uh adams so so now i'm gaslighting and
goal post moving
now
why would you pay a subscription fee
to listen to me if you think any of
that's true
in fact i i just did a comic uh exactly
about you
the comic i just wrote is about people
accusing me of moving the goal posts
when when nothing like that has ever
happened
is the most common thing i get is you're
moving the goal post i don't think i
ever ever once
breakthrough cases have been rising well
they should
they should
don't you think that the vex
breakthrough
cases should be rising
even if the government is completely
right about what vaccinations are at the
moment
addison's comment i agree with so at the
moment
it looks
increasingly clear that omicron is a
super mild version right
how many of you who are vaccinated or
even unvaccinated have thought to
yourself if you could guess some of that
omicron you would go get it today like
if you could infect yourself and you
knew it was the omicron
wouldn't you do it today
now don't take any medical advice from
me please please please
do not
do not do not do not
take medical advice
from a cartoonist
some of you would die
if you tried that technique
let me be clear
if you try to intentionally affect your
infect yourself
some of you are going to die
that's just going to happen so don't
take my advice but personally
just what you know given given the
let's say incomplete nature of data so
you can never know what's the right
choice but if you said to me
scott i can guarantee i can give you
some of this omicron
stuff and it will make you naturally
immune to all the rest of it
and you're already vaccinated so there's
not much risk if that was the
proposition
and it looks like it might be
yeah i would sign up for that i would do
it today
i wouldn't even wait i'd say can i have
that by lunchtime
give me that omicron give it to me hard
all of us are going to die
maggie says
good philosophy
sure
uh let me give you a trip uh a trick to
get you out of your uh temporary
depression
maybe i've told you this before but this
will be uh gigantic for some of you you
ready
do you ever have a day when you're just
so unhappy and sad you think you could
just kill yourself
you have now fortunately most of us
just have that fleeting thought and it's
not actually you know
actualized um
but let's say you have one of those days
when you say damn it it's just not worth
it
here's what you do
redefine it this way
say to yourself you know
suppose i did
plan to end it all
and this was my last day
how would i act differently if it were
my last day
well you wouldn't have to worry about
getting embarrassed would you
suppose
you could live one day of your life with
no risk of embarrassment
and you don't even worry about let's say
exceeding the speed limit
you just stop worrying about what people
think of you
you just imagine what it would be like
if you were going to be gone tomorrow
just go on gone like dead gone
and watch how that changes
your everything
that that sadness that you had
will start to turn into a superpower
you can reframe it as a power
because when you're in a bad mood
you can do all the things that you
wouldn't have done before don't do
anything that would kill you don't do
anything that'll you know lose all your
money or be irreversible
right don't do irreversible things
but do things that just were a stretch
scare yourself
scare the out of yourself
walk up to that person you know is going
to turn you down
and ask them on a date
and then when they turn you down because
you know maybe they will
how do you feel
well you don't feel bad if you're going
to die tomorrow
like hopefully you're not going to die
tomorrow and that's not your plan
but
frame it that way
just allow yourself to feel it's the
last day on earth
it changes everything it's a really good
trick i use it all the time and
it's amazing
you will thank me
um
yes it's like like the movie a wonderful
life in the sense yes
uh
scott in all capitals explain why the
death counts are up since the vaccines
and other treatments
is that a mystery to anybody
why would the death counts be up
at the same time that
vaccines are more fully implemented can
anybody answer that
because there's more infection
was that hard
if there's more infection
there's more death
no matter what you're doing about it
right
why did world war ii kill more people
than
your neighbors arguing about their trash
cans
because it was world war ii
and that's not you neighbor you know
it's not like uh
arguing with your neighbor
if infections go through the roof the
death counts going up no matter what
doesn't matter how many people are
infected
um
right and everybody's vaccinated once
you get everybody vaccinated
then if you die you're dying vaccinated
so yeah that might be might be a
counting problem as well
um
then why more infections the reason
there's more infection is is we're in a
pandemic and we don't have anything that
stops it
we know that we wanted vaccines to stop
it but they don't do that
which doesn't mean that the vaccines are
necessarily useless they just don't stop
it cold
so
pretty wrong scott natural immunity does
natural immunity does what
because apparently there are people with
natural immunity who've gotten it twice
are you aware of that
that's the thing
so they probably were
immunocompromised or something
uh yes and we're all we're all not
sitting home that's true there's more
interaction
um
jefferson deeply depressed from lost
suffering 10 years ago
um what do you do about somebody who had
a loss 10 years ago and can't get over
it uh that would i don't have a quick
answer for that
um
yes i did predict that they would if if
anybody doesn't know this i did predict
at the beginning
when project warp speed was first
announced i did predict it would fail
to create a vaccine that actually
stopped the coronavirus and the reason i
predicted it not was not because i'm so
smart it's because all of the experts
who had worked in that field said we've
been working on this for decades
and we can't we're not even close
so we're definitely not going to do it
in a year
and i thought well if everybody work in
the field
says they can't do it and they don't
know how to do it
probably they're right
you know sometimes the wright brothers
you know the the rogues are right
but if you want to bet
place a bat
you should usually bet against the rogue
exception people
sometimes they're right and then it
makes big news and you remember them
forever but not usually usually they're
dead wrong the people who are the
the skeptics and the resistors and
and such um
why do we have more deaths was that with
us having vaccines first we just we just
answered that
because there's just more virus
and and unfortunately the vaccines don't
prevent you from dying entirely they
just reduce it
let's see
wow a lot of comments today have you
noticed that there's a tremendous amount
of energy that just ramped up the the
trolls came out the the paid trolls that
always attacked the uh anybody who says
anything about
trump
so the trolls are out but my my youtube
traffic doubled
just in the last
you know
i don't know a few weeks
so something happened where the the
world was sort of sleepy over the summer
and then
just everything took off just the energy
is it because of the weather
could be
all right that's about all i have to say
today i'm going to turn off
youtube i'm going to say a few more
words to the locals crowd
and
yeah maybe maybe it's because it's
winter and i will talk to you tomorrow
