Episode 1736 Scott Adams - All The Disinformation, Including The Disinformation Board
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Well, I've added some members to my personal disinformation board. I told you yesterday that I've created my own disinformation board. These are the people you should look to to find out what's true and what isn't. Now importantly, in order to be a member of my disinformation board, you don't have to apply and you can't turn it down because you're on the board if I say you're on the board. And that's the end of the story.
So the people I put on the board are not the people I agree with. That's not the point. So you're going to see some people on this that you'll say, "What? Why is that person on the disinformation board when I don't agree with anything they ever say?" And the answer is this: there are people who can violate the narrative and have a track record of doing so.
I'm going to give you my list of people who are already on there, and I'll tell you who I added today based on user comments and just thinking about it more. So Glenn Greenwald, Bari Weiss, Bill Maher, Andrew Sullivan, Alex Berenson, Mike Cernovich, Matt Taibbi, Tulsi Gabbard, Ilhan Omar — we'll talk about that one — Alan Dershowitz, Michael Shellenberger. And the ones I added today were Ian Bremmer, Bret Weinstein, Eric Weinstein, Dave Rubin, and Dr. Drew. Dr. Drew I meant to have on the original list. I just forgot. So correcting the list as we go.
And I think this is a pretty strong list because everybody on this list has a very clear background of violating their own narrative, meaning the narrative on their team. So let's talk about Ilhan Omar. Glenn Greenwald is the first one that pointed this out to me. I wasn't aware of this, but on several notable occasions she has gone against the Democrat narrative. I think free speech was one of them. And while there are plenty of things she's going to say that I don't agree with, she's one of the people you want to look to because anytime somebody violates the narrative, that's more useful.
Did I not add Jonathan Turley? What the hell is wrong with me? I've had his name here to add about five times. Yeah, Jonathan Turley. I'll add him for the next time. Thank you. Great suggestion.
So remember this is not about agreeing with them. It's only people who can violate the narrative and have demonstrated quality thinking. That's it. So I'm not saying that these will tell you the truth. You get that, right? So the purpose of the disinformation board, my personal one, is not that they're always right and they're not fact checkers. They're like a red flag. If there's something happening, if there's not a single person on this list who questions a story in the news, a specific story, it's probably true. If you see three or four people on this list — and that's not many out of the whole list — if three or four people on the list say, "No, you're forgetting this or you're leaving out this or you got it wrong," I would take that really seriously. Because this is the list of people who, if they tell you a fact is wrong, I'm going to listen to that.
Now the people who are silent on it might just not have enough information about it, so I wouldn't look at the percentage of people. I would just see who is saying it's fake and are they violating the narrative.
All right. I'm loving the fact that there seems to be some kind of organic movement to improve the fake news situation. So I'm doing it right now. So this disinformation board for myself, I'm really just trying something. I'm just throwing out an idea. It didn't cost anything, just some tweets. If it helps you because you start following these people and it makes you better informed, then that's great. You see, just a small little thing that I can do from my position. And I feel like lots of people are trying to do the same thing. There's a whole bunch of people who are thinking, "Well, what could I do? Like what do I do?"
Let me answer this question I'm seeing on the Locals platform. Somebody's asking why I didn't add Naval Ravikant to my list. He would be the most quality thinker maybe that I know, period. But he also doesn't get into politics. So he's very consistent about staying out of politics. You know, he'll talk about free speech but that's barely political. So I wanted people who actually deal with the stuff that is the subject of fake news most often.
All right. So lots of people doing stuff. Let me give you some more examples. Bill Maher, of course. I would like to wake up someday on a Saturday and see that Bill Maher is not trending, which has nothing to do with Bill Maher. It's just that the reason he trends is that he's calling out his own team. And you know, until he runs out of material to insult his own team. And by the way he insults both teams, so he's not firing it only at his own team. And that's why he's on my list, because he goes after both sides.
But you see Bill Maher essentially using his position to try to make things better. And I would say he is, to me it looks like he's succeeding wildly and in a way that I think is really impressive actually, because he's staying on it. He's got the audience, he's got the access, and he can tell them that their narrative is a little messed up. It's probably the best example of what we're saying.
Now a number of people are saying, "What can we do about this fake news and disinformation?" And there is a book you can read that teaches you how to be more immune from disinformation. It turns out I wrote it. It's called *Loserthink*. I think it's behind me. Yeah, it's behind me. It's that one in the middle.
Now *Loserthink* is written specifically for this problem. And it turns out that the situation or the times caught up to me. I mean obviously fake news has been a problem for a number of years but it's reached some kind of a peak. And now that the book is out, somebody says, "Nice shell." Look, it's not a shill when you're talking about your own book. It happens to be exactly aimed at the biggest problem in the world.
So there's always some troll who will find the worst way to spin everything. Nice shill. Let me tell you some more about the book. I've already been paid. I got an advance. Most of my books don't sell past the advance, which means you're asking for the right things. So I'm not even going to make money from this. I won't make a penny if you buy my book. Do you understand that, Michelle? You understand that my personal income won't change a bit if you buy that book because I'm already paid. I don't even have any requirement to market it at this point. I mean in the beginning you do, but not at this point. That literally the only reason I'm recommending it is this is exactly the book that's written for exactly this problem. So try to deal with that, okay?
All right. So I tweeted that out. If anybody hasn't read *Loserthink*, it is exactly on target for our current situation.
Well, I told you that after publishing my comic in which I introduced the new character Dave, who is a black engineer in the Dilbert group, I got a lot of newspapers who wouldn't run that. Their reasoning was, who knows. I think some of them just didn't think it was worth the provocation or something. So I'm not sure that there's anybody who pushed back on it. I haven't heard anybody.
Yeah, let me say this definitively. Although a number of newspapers decided not to run that series — so they just put repeats in there or left a blank — nobody complained. Let me say that again. So I have many client newspapers who run Dilbert. Thousands of them. A few thousand. Not a single one of them said this is offensive. Not one. But a number of them didn't run it. Do you know why? Was it worth the hassle? That's it. Just wasn't worth the hassle or something. I think in some cases different entities within the newspaper made the decision, so it's not even clear that the decision is some kind of coordinated decision. I think just somebody said we don't need this trouble. Something like that.
Now immediately after that I've got a Sunday comic that my editor called me and said, you know, maybe you'd want to wait a week or so for this one. Now my own editor is very unlikely to edit me for content. I don't know the last time that happened actually, if ever. I think it's maybe never happened that I can think of. So I've been edited for lots of other reasons but not for being too provocative.
So let me give a shout out to Andrews McMeel and Universal Press, part of the same company, for being very pro-speech, very pro-creator, very free speech, and have always been on the side of the creator. Completely unambiguously on the side of the creators. Now having said that, they're also a business. And so when my editor said, you know, this Sunday that you submitted, I feel like we need to wait at least a week because things are a little too hot. And really that's just managing the clients, which is not really censorship because it'll run. It'll just run a week later when some of the energy is siphoned off. So wait for that one. It's so hot that it couldn't be published immediately.
And now of course I do it partly for attention. That's how my business model works, right? If you're a creator you have to do some things sometimes that are just about attracting attention. It's part of the model. Everybody understands that, right?
The reason I put Ilhan Omar on my list of disinformation board is partly because I think she belongs there but partly because I knew it would make your hair catch on fire, right? So let me be fully transparent. I am in the kind of business where sometimes quite overtly — and I hope it's transparent — I do things just to get attention. You get that, right? I think everybody's okay with that, aren't you? As long as I'm doing it completely in front of you. Trump does the same thing. When Trump does something to get attention you understand it as technique and part of the process, right?
So I asked the question yesterday. I just asked the Twitter public if I were to sell Dilbert as an intellectual property without my involvement — so if I were to walk away and just say okay, you can have the artwork and the idea and you can create new content, you can make movies and TV, you can make calendars, you can put words in their mouth, you can redraw them, you can do anything you want. I just sell the IP. And I asked the public what did they think someone would pay for it.
Now the reason I did that is not because I don't know how to put a deal together. A lot of this is the amazing thing about Twitter. Just hold this in your head for a second that this happened yesterday. I just think I'm taking a walk and I think, oh, wouldn't it be interesting to know what the wisdom of the crowd was, sort of the average opinion. Because the average opinion of the crowd in a weird magical way will be very similar to what an expert would say it's worth. Do you know why? Because what something is worth is what somebody's willing to pay for it. That's it. If somebody pays it, I guess that's what it was worth to at least one person.
So if you ask a bunch of people who don't know anything about the topic and then you average their answers, you end up being just about where an expert is. And it's not a coincidence. It's because the expert is sort of imagining what anybody else would think in the same situation. You know, sort of a common way of thinking of a thing. And if the public thinks of a thing a certain way there's a really good chance that an expert will think of it that way too if it's the average of the public. So it's just one of these weird connections you don't think should make sense. You think the expert should be completely different from the average of people who don't know anything. But it's just a weird experiment. You find out that they're very similar. And the reason is because we all have a psychologically common base for understanding what things are worth essentially.
So I asked that question partly to put the idea in the public that it's for sale in case anybody thought of buying it. But the interesting part about it is that I get a response from an investment banker, successful investment banker Carol Roth, who offered to give me some deal composition concepts. Now where else in the world do you just ask a question while you're taking a walk and one of the most qualified people there could be — somebody who literally was an investment banker successfully and retired from that — and you get immediate useful advice? At the same time this was kind of blowing my mind a little bit.
One of the people who responded to my question was Thomas Massie. So he's an MIT graduate, congressperson. So I'm getting advice from a sitting member of Congress with an MIT education. If you don't know what that means, you don't get into MIT if you're an average student, if you know what I mean, right? They don't take average students. So how amazing is Twitter that not only is it going to be, I think, our biggest bulwark against fake news eventually, but that you can just ask a question like that and get such qualified responses? It's just ridiculous. It's ridiculous.
Likewise, have you noticed how many times Elon Musk has responded to average Twitter users in the last few weeks? It really is mind-blowing every time I see it because a lot of the people he's responding to are people I know from either Twitter or real life or both. And to see how often he responds to a valid question that catches his interest, it just makes the world seem so small but also it makes the world look like it's working. That the person who has the best information on stuff can answer the question.
I'll give you an example. There's somebody on Twitter talking about he was testing, I guess, Tesla's current version of their self-driving car software and said something like — I guess it was a study that says it was eight times safer than human driving. Eight times safer than human driving. And Elon Musk saw that and he tweets, "This trend will be well over 10 times safer with the update that they're working on right now, the software update."
So think about that. The self-driving car is already — I don't know if you can really measure this because there's no way to know what self-driving cars would do at scale. That's got to be different than one car. But there is a study, if you want to believe studies, that says that it is eight times safer than human-driven cars in terms of accidents.
Now why did Elon Musk feel he needed to weigh in on that point and to modify it from eight times as safe to 10 times? Because that's not much of a difference, is it? If somebody told you something was eight times safer than the alternative you wouldn't say, "Whoa, I'm not going near that until it's 10 times safer," would you? Literally there's no, in terms of your decision making, there is no difference between eight times safer and 10 times safer. Two times safer would be enough. That's all you needed. Your decision would be a no-brainer at two times better. But eight times better, there's no conversation. At 10 times better you wonder why you even had to update it. Well why do we even care if it's eight times better?
Well here's why. Have I mentioned that Elon Musk understands persuasion better than just about anybody? I mean he gets it right all the time. All the time he gets it right. Here's another example. 10 times is way better than eight times not because it's numerically better. I mean it is. That's a pretty big difference. That would be 25 percent bigger, right? So that's a big difference. But that's not the important part. The important part is our brains are tuned to big round numbers. No reason. It's just what we've been listening to. We're used to it. And so 10 times, that's the number you can sell, right? Eight times better is technical data. 10 times better and you can make the sale.
And the sale is we need to change the law so self-driving cars are here because they're 10 times safer. I mean just think of that. 10 times safer. That's a marketing number. And there's a reason that Tesla doesn't have a marketing department and that Elon Musk literally runs the marketing for Tesla while he's tweeting on the toilet. I mean not every time but enough of the times that it's impressive. And here it is again. Simply by emphasizing the 10 times versus the eight times he's done what his marketing department couldn't have done for him. And it comes from him so it gets more attention. So it's basically he is very competently replacing marketing with just tweeting. I mean he actually is doing that. It just doesn't seem like it's possible but he's doing it right in front of you.
All right. Speaking of technology there is an amazing, amazing story that I believe no one else has discussed and so I will discuss it now because we're right in the middle of a story that is going to have an interesting endpoint. But when you're in the middle of a story sometimes you don't know you're in the story. And here's the story.
I take you back in the wayback machine to when the United States said, you know, if we started manufacturing things in China it'd be a lot cheaper. Not only would it be a lot cheaper but we can move the stuff over there that's dangerous, as the EPA would not let us do in the United States. Like there's going to be some industrial waste. We can't do that here. How about China? We've got lower standards. So I believe that some of the manufacturing move to China was because we couldn't do it here. Some of it was because it was cheaper. And I think the cheaper part became the important part over time.
Then what happened next? Well the United States suffered, did they not, by the lack of manufacturing jobs. And we did the best we could to adjust. People took service jobs that aren't as good. You know, that's a problem. But at the moment we're at 3.6 unemployment. We're fully employed. 3.6 is what economists would call, ish in that range, economists would call that full employment. Because you wouldn't want it any better. If it were better it would be worse because that would mean you couldn't hire anybody unless you took them from another job. That would be the worst case scenario. You can't hire anybody unless you ruin another company by taking an employee that's necessary, right? You don't want that. You need a little bit of slop. 3.6 unemployment is just enough people who are floating around that you can hire somebody who doesn't already have a job sometimes. And that seems to be pretty important to keep everything moving.
And so here we are. We gave up all of our manufacturing and yet still the biggest economy. Here's the interesting part. What happens next? Because you saw that Biden is pushing 3D printing. 3D printing of products, especially metal products. They could make a rotor for a helicopter with a 3D printer, slap it on the helicopter and it flies.
Now what would be the cost of building a factory to make — there can't be many helicopter rotors. You're not making millions of them. You might make hundreds of them. And you don't have any shipping. You don't have any foreign language stuff or taxes or all the difficulty of dealing with another culture and nation. You just turn on the printer, feed it the software and it builds you a helicopter rotor.
We are at the precipice of destroying China because we turned them into a manufacturing company with manual labor and then we're going to obsolete it. But not until we'd already had an alternative. Our employment is on track so we can replace the entire supply chain concept with 3D printing, robots and AI. Those three technologies — AI, 3D printing and robots — completely will take manufacturing out of the mix. China is in big trouble.
Because one of the things I was thinking about yesterday is every time there's something that the United States is especially good at — let's say air power, developing aircraft and owning the sky — something the United States is uniquely amazing at, they tend to be the most important things. Have you noticed that? Like owning aviation. Well that's like the most important thing. How about space? We seem to be, thanks to SpaceX and other things, we seem to be leading in space. That's going to be really, really important. Military, really, really important. And we lead that. So the United States seems to be really good at leading at technologies and things that matter a lot.
China looks like it's going to be really good at controlling their population and manufacturing, which will be obsolete. The size of China's problem is immense. It's immense. I don't know how they get past it.
Meanwhile we've got problems with baby formula and fertilizer and water shortages in the west and all kinds of food related things. How worried am I about all of those things? Pretty worried. Pretty worried. But they all fall into an interesting category of things that humans are good at working out if they have to. They're all in that category.
Are you as surprised as I am that we still have food? Because I don't know how that happened. How did we go through the pandemic and we still fed ourselves? Like I don't know how. How did things just sort of kind of work? Yeah, now the baby formula looks like it could be a serious problem but I'll bet we'll just nurse more and we'll find substitutes and there will be do-it-yourself formulas for making your own formula at home and there'll be some industries that pop up and somebody else will make it. So as long as we have time we can solve all this stuff. I feel as if we'll be okay. I feel as if we'll be okay. Yet it does make sense to worry about it. And if I were you I'd make sure I had enough food and toilet paper to get through three months. Something like that.
I saw a photo of all the ships that are docked off of China's coast and it's just like a solid color of dots and it looks like the whole system is falling apart if you look at that picture. But what the picture is lacking is how many days would it take for all of those ships to be served. If it's a four day delay — I just pick a random number — it's not really a problem. You can wait four days for your anything basically. But if it's a year I don't know what happens. That all the stuff goes bad on the ship. I don't know. It seems like pretty bad. And it does seem like we must be working on fixing even the port situation and the supply chain problem. There must be tons of people putting lots of energy into that.
But let me go back to the 3D printing leapfrog technology. Here's a little business tip that everybody experienced in business understands but those of you who are not experienced in business might be hearing this like a novel concept for the first time. If you make a product and it's a big hit, you're a private company and everybody loves your product and they're buying it like crazy — let's say it's a technology product because that's a better example. It's a technology product. Doesn't matter what it is. What's the first thing you should do if you have a really successful product and people love it? The first thing you should do if you are that company is you should try to put yourself out of business as fast as possible. And by that I mean making a new product that's so good nobody would ever buy that old product again. It wouldn't make sense. Because you have to do that or else somebody else is going to build that product, right? You have to cannibalize your own product in order to move ahead. And everybody who is experienced — yeah, Apple is a perfect example — everybody who's experienced in business knows this to be true. You have to cannibalize your own product so somebody else doesn't do it for you. It's the only way you can stay ahead, right?
Yeah, Amazon does that. Basically everybody successful does that. Now look at this situation where we moved our manufacturing to China. That looked exactly like this. I don't know that it was planned in any way but it's going to work out that way. It's going to work out that we cannibalize our own manufacturing in this country and that that was important for us to get to the new kind of manufacturing: 3D printing, robots, AI. And we're going to be experts at those three things and more while other countries are trying to figure out what do you do when all these manufacturing jobs go away, right?
So we did the play of the century with bringing manufacturing to China and then becoming the experts at obsoleting that technology. We won everything. We won everything. We just don't know it yet. We won everything. This is as hard as you could win. We obsoleted our own industry but after we gave it to China and made them dependent on it. You can't win harder than that. Honestly that's as hard as you can win. Now we'll say it depends on us actually being able to do this 3D printing and changing the supply chain but I think that's within our ability.
One of the things I learned yesterday is that our 3D printing capability is way beyond what the public understands. We keep seeing things like, oh there's this 3D printed house. This is just this big machine that puts down concrete on the walls and it's kind of cool the first time you see it. You go, okay, it's an automatic concrete machine but you're calling it a 3D printer. Okay, but I'm not really that impressed by an automatic concrete machine.
Do you know what impresses me? Let me say it again. They 3D printed a helicopter rotor. Are we done here? They 3D printed a helicopter rotor, metal, and slapped it on and it works. Wait, I'm not done. It didn't just work. It was lighter, better and faster and cheaper. Lighter, better, faster, cheaper. That's what kills China because China can make stuff that's maybe just as good as 3D printing? No they can't. They can't make stuff as good as 3D printing. The regular manufacturing process would not be close to being able to get the specific engineering.
And I guess I learned this yesterday. This is what's different about 3D printing is that the software has improved, not just the hardware to print anything you want but the software now knows how to print it. That's the big change. So for example it would know that a component is going to have pressure on one end of it. Let's say there's going to be more physical pressure on one end of it. You can just put that into the machine, say okay this side will have more pressure, and it will just build it to be more solid on one side. That's just one example. Yeah, stronger because you could do a lattice situation with less material.
Now I think that's the correct answer. I'm being told that it would be all these things and I was just sort of filling in from common sense which might be wrong. That let's say if you're doing an ordinary metal anything you would probably — it would just be a solid metal piece, right? Because that's just the easiest thing to do. You put it in a mold, you take it out, it's just solid metal. But if you're 3D printing it at a really fine detail couldn't you do the walls of your device, let's say a metal device, couldn't you do it with a little lattice work, little tiny latticework that would use 10% of the material while being stronger? Are there enough engineers here? I'm saying yes, isn't that true? I think I see people agreeing with me that you can make it lighter, stronger, cheaper, right? That's all you can do. All of it. I believe you can do all of that.
All right. That's why it's a big deal.
What is happening in California? I saw this Michael Shellenberger tweet and boy would I hate to be running for governor against Michael Shellenberger. So he's running as an independent in California. But what, as I've told you many times, what he does differently than anybody else politician is he's written books and done deep research on the exact problems that affect a lot of people but California especially. Everything from the addiction and homelessness to energy to water, like all those things he became an expert on. So who wants to run against that? I mean that's the strongest candidate I've ever seen. Let me say it again. Shellenberger is the strongest political candidate I've ever seen. Now will he get enough attention as an independent in California? That's a tough road. But I'll tell you there's nobody ever did it better so far. It's just ridiculous how good it is.
And one of the things he pointed out is that my state California is being ravaged by drought. And Shellenberger says that California under Governor Newsom has failed to build a single water storage, water recycling or desalinization project. And I thought, what? It's literally the biggest problem in the state that we're going to run out of water. Are you telling me that in his entire term he hasn't done a single thing that would be useful? Now I realize it takes years to build these things but at least we should be looking at something that started. You know, we should be talking about the dam that's almost done or nothing.
And I thought what about the other stuff? Well he at least he's working on like the homeless and the drug problem except he's doing all the wrong things. He's giving them homes and drugs. That's exactly the wrong thing you want to do. You want to take them and unfortunately force them into some kind of treatment because it's a medical problem. It's not a housing problem. That's what Shellenberger teaches us. And it does look to me that on all the big problems Newsom has either done nothing or what he did was literally the opposite of what one should do according to anybody who knows anything about the topics. Yeah they've had plenty of time to do this stuff. That is correct.
Let's talk about the disinformation board that Biden is — especially there was something that was bothering me about the person that they chose for the head of it whose name I can't remember. So there's a woman who's chosen to be the head of the disinformation board and we're seeing a bunch of her videos and stuff. And I was trying to figure out what is the word that is capturing how I'm feeling about it. And it wasn't until I saw a Glenn Greenwald tweet: did they intentionally pick the most ridiculous person for the job? Is it just a troll? And I thought there it is. That was the word. Ridiculous. Ridiculous was the word. And that is so ridiculous it doesn't look serious.
To that point I saw a tweet from Dean Squirrel, I believe he's in Canada, and he says he doesn't really follow American politics. When I first saw this — meaning the video of that head of the disinformation board — when I first saw this I thought it was an online prank, a slash hoax thing. Not kidding. No, I know he's not kidding. It looks like a prank. It isn't as far as I know. But doesn't it look exactly like one? If you do something serious, especially something important like this, and it looks like a prank to somebody who wasn't paying attention, well you did it wrong. I think you did it wrong.
All right. Speaking of disinformation there are two kinds roughly speaking. One is the kind that's just wrong information but the other is diversion. Diversion is what keeps us from seeing the truth sometimes. There are lots of things that keep us from doing that but we often get diverted. Like a magician makes you look over here while the real trick's over here.
So here are some of the diversions that are happening right now. Racism narratives are a diversion from understanding that it's really always about rich versus poor. But if the poor knew that that was what was going on, that it's just rich versus poor, they could easily organize under our system because they have free social media, everybody can vote. They could just vote themselves a bunch of benefits. But they don't because they think the problem is racism. If the poor people said, "Oh the problem is rich versus poor. Let's go vote ourselves some benefits." But it'll never happen because they're diverted by racism.
Now we see the disinformation boards and the fact checkers and the fake news and everything and I feel like what that's diverting us from is understanding that our own team is lying to us also. You know the other team, whoever you think the other team is, it doesn't matter left or right. Whoever you think the other team is you're sure they're lying. You see lots of examples. But you're not so sure about your team, aren't you? But your team's lying too. And I think that when you're talking about fake news and disinformation boards both sides are then encouraged to think that their side is right and the other side is lying. That's a diversion. It's a diversion from the fact that both sides are lying all the time. It doesn't mean they're wrong all the time. I mean somebody's gonna be right if there are two different sides. But the purpose of the teams is to lie and persuade.
That was a weird sound. It was a turn. Their turkeys gobbling right outside my door. We have lots of wild turkeys here. I hope it's a turkey. So then here's another diversion. The abortion narrative is diverting us from the Democrat approval levels on the Democrat record, the Biden administration record. Everything is diversion. I get it. See the turkeys are gobbling at me because I forgot to put Jonathan Turley on my disinformation board. And they're turkeys so they're using the simulation to remind me. Turkey, turkey, Turley. Okay got it. Put him on the disinformation board. Got it.
All right. I don't know how many turkeys there are out there but I think they're massing for an attack. That is a lot of turkey noise. I may take the Locals people over and look at them after we're done here.
All right. Let's talk about some new disinformation. Did you see the news on social media that apparently is fake news that Pfizer documents show that the vaccines were never safe for pregnancy if people were pregnant or breastfeeding? Did any of you see that on social media? Some kind of a document that purported to be a Pfizer document. Now it's fake news but it would act like the drug was not tested or wasn't safe for pregnancy and breastfeeding. How many of you saw that? Did you know that that Pfizer document wasn't from a Pfizer document? So all of you who believed you saw a Pfizer document that says they know that vaccines were not safe during pregnancy or breastfeeding, that was not even a Pfizer document. That was from another entity altogether. It was fake news. And the other entity apparently has updated their opinion on it so there's actually nothing there. There is no information about it being safe or unsafe during pregnancy and breastfeeding. I added the unsafe part just because I'm unaware of anything. So pretty much all of the ivermectin stories, pretty much all of the vaccine — oh did you know about this data story? They're pretty much all fake. You should believe anything about vaccines, any study about vaccines and any study about ivermectin. Just assume it's not real. Just assume it's not true. That should be your starting assumption. If somebody can convince you it is true, well good for them. But you shouldn't start that way. You should start with fake and then if somebody can convince you, well let's see if they can do it.
I saw this is amazing. The head of Media Matters was on C-SPAN and was asked by a caller about the suspicious nature of Hunter Biden getting half a million dollars for his paintings. And the caller asked how can we be sure that Hunter Biden is not selling influence as opposed to selling artwork. And the head of Media Matters, Angelo Carusone I guess, said quote that there's no reasonable suspicion behind it. In other words there's no reasonable suspicion that Hunter Biden is selling paintings for what seems to be outrageously high prices because the people buying the paintings are just in the influence buying game. There is no reasonable suspicion behind it. Really? Really? Because to me this is the definition of reasonable suspicion. Not proof. Nobody's claiming any proof. Has anybody said there's proof? Nobody. Nobody said there's proof. Everybody thinks it's something you ought to look at. A little suspicious.
But here's what this made me think. I wondered about the Biden family reunions when you know that every single thing that Hunter Biden does is going to be a problem for the rest of the family. And then Hunter Biden says, you know I went to rehab and I'm getting off the drugs. And you can imagine his family and Joe Biden and Jill and everybody saying, oh that is great. That is the best news. So you know we're used to you doing only the worst possible thing to embarrass us but thank goodness, thank goodness you're getting off the drugs. And then you say and I'm not going to do any more deals in China. And then the rest of the Biden family goes, oh God I thought you were going to keep doing that because that is so embarrassing to the rest of us. Thank goodness you're not going to be doing the drugs anymore and you're not going to be doing deals with China. And then Hunter says and no more deals with Ukraine. I mean wouldn't be practical at this point but no more deals with Ukraine. And then the Biden family says thank you, thank you. Finally. And then they say so what are you going to do with your free time? And then Hunter Biden, the black sheep of the family says, oh artwork. I'm going to go into the art business. And the family said, ah finally. Finally something that will not embarrass us. And then Hunter says yeah I think I could get quite a bit for these paintings. And then the Biden family says that's great. Well you know we're really happy for you and you're a pretty good painter so this looks like this could be pretty good. And then he says yeah I'm going to price them at half a million dollars a piece or at least one of them. And then the Biden family says, what? Wait a minute there. We thought you said you were gonna price like one painting for half a million dollars. And he said yeah I'm gonna price each painting for several hundred thousand dollars. And then the Biden family says, okay we didn't think we heard you right there. It almost sounded like you're going to sell for half a million dollars. You didn't really say that did you? And he said yeah. And then the entire Biden family says are you serious? You can't do anything that doesn't look like a scheme.
There of all the things you could do in the whole world, of all the sports you could do, of all the businesses you could be in, all the things you could invest in, the classes you could take, the skills you could learn, all the things in the world you could do, you have to find the one thing that would embarrass us. And he does. I feel as if Joe Biden is living in a simulation and his theme is that Hunter won't stop embarrassing him in public and there's just nothing he can do about it. It'll just go from one thing to another thing to another thing. It looks almost intentional doesn't it? I mean it's hard to imagine that one person could do thing after thing after thing that just makes his father look bad. Who even does that? Like most people can make their parents look bad if they try. Let's say you get a drunk driving arrest. Well that makes your parents look bad indirectly sort of a little bit. But we also do other things most of us. Like I've probably done some things that would have made my parents embarrassed. Okay I can think of one in particular. I'll give you an example.
When I was very new to media and I had not been media trained I was asked by Bon Appetit magazine, a magazine about food, to do a little special thing in the back where they'd have some celebrity talk about their favorite restaurant or something. So I agreed to do it and then they interviewed me and I made this joke. I said that my mother was the second worst cook in the world after her mother. Now that's something that we kind of said in the family. It was like a family joke that was also true. It was true. My mother was the inspiration for Dilbert's mother who had a cooking show called Cooking with Salt. It was just salt. So basically would you like it seasoned? A little salt. That'll work. Yeah salt was great. I love salt. But I made this comment to the author of Bon Appetit magazine and I said to myself my mother's never going to read Bon Appetit magazine, am I right? The one thing I don't have to worry about is I knew for sure that my mother living in a little country mountain place she definitely was not reading Bon Appetit magazine and certainly not reading cover to cover to get to the last page. That's how stupid I was if you can even imagine that level of media stupidity. Yep, yep. It took approximately 10 seconds from the publication of that article for one of my mother's friends to mail it to her and say I hope you've seen this. That's right. That's what friends are for. That's what friends are for.
So have I ever embarrassed my parents? Oh yeah. Yes I have. Yes I have as a matter of fact. But the difference between me and Hunter Biden is I still sometimes do things that don't embarrass people. Sometimes. I mean not all the time but I sometimes go into a business enterprise that if it worked it would just make everybody happy. It wouldn't make anybody embarrassed. Like how is it that Hunter can't find anything, anything in that domain of don't embarrass your parents? Nothing. There's not a single thing he can do that doesn't embarrass his parents. What's up with that?
Is your dad a piece of — you know both of my parents are deceased. Have you read Hunter's autobiography? I haven't.
All right. So there's no reasonable suspicion there's anything going on there.
All right I believe we've talked about it all except that this minister of truth started out with some fake news I think. So this minister of truth woman, the head of it, said that it's not conservatives, it's not just conservatives who are being silenced on social media as the conservatives believe, but that there are many studies, many studies — I'm not going to mention them because there are many of them. Oh you want to link to the study? I'm not going to give you a link to the study. There's many studies. Many, many, many studies. And these studies show that some liberals are also being censored. So the idea that censorship is sort of working against conservatives has been debunked and debunked by the many, many studies of which I will not link and will not mention. Many, many of them. And it those studies show that liberals are censored too.
Now did you catch the trick? Did you catch the trick that she used? And then I used it as well. Tell me if these two things are opposites. Most of the media suppression is against conservatives but there have been studies that show that liberals also have been censored. Are those opposites? Does one debunk the other? No. But she presented them like they do. In other words she literally — and I don't think this is delving into personal opinion. I don't think this is a subjective statement — the head of disinformation tried to tell us that these studies would show that there was the same amount. No she didn't say it. This was the clever part. She simply said that the studies show that liberals also get banned. I'll bet that's true. I'll bet there's at least one case of that. Two would be plenty. If there were ever two people in the history of banning and they were liberal and they got banned then her statement is right. The studies have shown that people on the left also get banned. It would just take one or two. Does she mention how many? No. Does she compare the rate of conservatives being banned or suppressed to the rate of the other side? No. And wasn't that the only question? That was the only question. The only question was how much for conservative versus liberal and she answered it with an absolute instead of how much. Oh they both have a little problem there. That is intellectually dishonest. It is disinformation by design. That is clearly designed as disinformation. Her statement could not have been more clearly intended to mislead. It was intended to mislead and it did.
Now when Greenwald asked did they intentionally pick the most ridiculous person for the job it's not just the way she looks because she has a theatrical mannerism which would probably work great in a lot of contexts but not this one. Not this one. This is the only job you don't want somebody exactly like that. If you put her in lots of different jobs I mean you come up with a dozen right off the top of your head where her personality would be perfect. Like big personality, she's not shy of the camera. You can think of all kinds of jobs she'd be perfect for but not this one. You don't want somebody who looks like she's acting to be your disinformation czar. That's the opposite of what you want.
All right that ladies and gentlemen is everything I wanted to talk about. I believe I have helped you all to a better life. If you haven't read *Loserthink*, my book right up there, you really should because it is the answer to disinformation or at least it's one of them. So if you would read that book it would tell you how to spot fake news with very practical specific things to look for. And once you have that toolbox you say oh it's one of those and then you could spot it easily.
I'll give you one example. If you see news that's too incredible to believe it's because it's almost certainly not true. The news that makes our hair catch on fire and go oh I can't believe that happened — it didn't happen 95% of the time. Sometimes yes weird things do happen. That's a real thing. But when you see the news that let's say the news that the Russians were paying a bounty for American deaths in Afghanistan or something like that, like that would be such a shocking story that's probably not true. And sure enough there's no confirmation.
Be a turkey volume guessing man. Six. Like the Supreme Court made abortion illegal. Yeah. So did you know that most abortions are performed with just a pill? How many of you knew that? That's something I learned from Dr. Drew. And I think Dr. Drew had an interview with Bill Maher and then immediately after Dr. Drew met with Bill Maher, Bill Maher said he learned a lot about abortion. And one of the things he learned is the same, literally the same thing that Dr. Drew told me when I was on Dr. Drew's show just the other day. He told me that the vast majority of abortions are just a pill. I didn't know that. Did you know that?
Well I guess it's a technical definition of what an abortion is. So if there was anything that was going to take hold, to use non-scientific terms, if anything was in the process of becoming a life and it stopped it from happening I'm going to call that an abortion. You know you can word play it all you want but yeah. We talked about the horse dewormer thing. That's just such a big simulation coincidence.
All right. And then *2000 Mules*. I haven't seen it yet but I plan to as soon as I find it somewhere. If anybody has a link to somewhere I can actually see the actual video *2000 Mules* will you send it to me on Twitter? Because people keep telling me where it is but I can't find it or I can't find it in a way that plays. I found it on Rumble and it didn't play. I don't know why.
Oh have you mentioned ultra maga? Yeah you thank you I should have mentioned that. So as you know now Biden is going with this ultra maga extremist messaging. So once again when they don't have an argument they have to go for a personality. That's what they're doing. So it's just another typical Democrat approach to attack the people in the United States like entire categories of people and just dismissing them. But I don't think it's working. That ultra maga thing doesn't seem to be working. And they're also bringing back dark Brandon. So the Democrats have not — essentially they have given up. I was going to say it seems subjective but I think we can say it objectively can't we? Would it be fair to say just objectively if you take your bias for a second to the degree we can do that, does it look like the Democrats gave up and they're only struggling to win based on personality problems and fake news and it doesn't look like they're trying to win on content? The Republicans are still definitely trying to win on content because they have the strongest case in the world. Well this worked when Trump was president such as the border. Just do that again. Do whatever he was doing. It must have been working. So they have a pretty strong argument of practical solutions. You know hire more cops. How about that? You got too much crime? Stop letting people out of jail. How about that, right? So they're very practical solutions even if you prefer them not to be the solution. But the Democrats have just given up. They're not asking for anything that's real at this point. It feels like it's just personality and fear and all that stuff.
All right I've got ultra dark omega mega. The ultra dark mega. All right. Virtual premiere for what? Or the virtual premiere not for the movie. Have you considered that they made the disinformation position look ridiculous on purpose so that people won't see it as a legitimate threat to their freedom? I don't think so. That goes into the too clever category. Like I will certainly suspect people of all kinds of bad behavior but when it gets to be that clever I think that's a little too clever, right?
Banned adopt videos. Got it. What's that mean? All right. Did I watch Amber Heard’s performance yesterday? I watched only some clips. She obviously seemed to be acting. It didn't look real at all. So I can't wait to see what happens with that.
My pick for the Kentucky Derby? I think it's going to be some kind of a horse. Probably wins that.
Thoughts on the managerial class? That's what the entire Dilbert comic is about.
He weighed. He's waiting for the cross-examination. Okay. Why was Roe versus Wade never codified into law? There weren't enough votes. That's why. That's why. See one of the reasons why you don't want Congress to codify it into law is because you want the states to do it, don't you? Like why would you piss off half of the states when all the states can have what the states want by a majority? If you can give every state what they want by a majority within their state why would you make a national law that would thwart 50 percent of the states? That's the opposite of our system. Our system is that you want the states to have as much control over the things that make sense for them to control and you want the states to have no control over things that doesn't make sense for them to control such as national defense, right? You don't want them controlling that. But when it comes down to like what happens to an individual making a really tough life and death decision you want to boil that down right as close to the individual as you can get it. You know down to the doctor and the person. If the state is as close as you can get then I'll take it. But the people want the federal government to do it, want to thwart the will of the people in the state that they don't live in in many cases. That doesn't seem right.
Oh I can see it on the local site. So Dinesh has a site on Locals and if you're a subscriber you can see it there. I don't know if he's got a subscription locked or not. You can unlock things on Locals. So can somebody tell me if is it locked or unlocked on Locals? The *2000 Mules*. Somebody will tell me in a second. Locked or unlocked. Yeah it's hard to Google. Try googling it. It's locked. Okay so you'd have to be a subscriber. Somebody says it's free but other people say it's locked. Oh you can't access it until 8 pm tonight. Okay so there's a little ambiguity of it but I'll tell you that Dinesh is doing a great job of marketing. It could not be a better time, a better content. And you know he's got just the right amount of censorship to give him some audience. Dinesh is locked down on Twitter still. Somebody says you can buy it at Salem.com at noon. What is Salem.com? I don't know what that is.
All right that's all for now. I'll go talk to you tomorrow.
morning everybody wow don't you look good today did you do something like work out or start eating right amazing well i do talk to a lot of people who tell me their life has been benefited by this live stream i hope you're one of them and if you'd like to take it up a notch and wouldn't you wouldn't you yeah you would all you need is a copper mug or a glass of tanker tell us this time you can't teach a plastic vessel of any kind wow i'm seeing messages of people losing a lot of weight good for you and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure that's the dopamine of the day the thing that makes everything better everything and it's called the simultaneous zip it happens now go that's so good well i've added some members to my personal disinformation board i told you yesterday that i've created my own disinformation board these are the people you should look to to find out what's true and what isn't now importantly in order to be a member of my disinformation board you don't have to apply and you can't turn it down because you're on the board if i say you're on the board and that's the end of the story so the people i put on the board are not the people i agree with that's not the point so you're going to see some people on this that you'll say what why is that person on the disinformation board when i don't agree with anything they ever say and the answer is this there are people who can violate the narrative and to have a track record of doing so i'm going to give you my list of people who are already on there and i'll tell you who i added today based on user comments and just thinking about it more so glenn greenwald jeff pilkington bill maher andre shrugged anatoly lebarsky um mike cernovich matt tybee tulsi gabbard elon omar we'll talk about that one uh alan dershowitz michael schellenberger and the ones i added today were ian bremmer brett weinstein eric weinstein dave rubin and dr drew dr drew i meant to have on the original list i just forgot a name so correcting the list as we go and uh i think this is a pretty strong list because everybody on this list has a very clear uh background of violating their own narrative meaning the narrative on their team so let's talk about elon omar um glenn greenwald is the first one that pointed this out to me i wasn't aware of this but on several notable occasions she is she's gone against the democrat narrative i think free speech was one of them and while there are plenty of things she's going to say that i don't agree with she's one of the people you want to look to because anytime somebody violates the narrative that's more useful did i not add jonathan turley what the hell is wrong with me i i've had his name here to add about five times yeah jonathan turley i'll add him for the next time thank you great suggestion so remember this is not about agreeing with them it's only people who can violate the narrative and have demonstrated you know quality thinking that's it so um i'm not saying that these will tell you the truth you get that right so the the purpose of the disinformation board my personal one is not that they're always right and they're not fact checkers they're like a red flag if there's some happening if if there's not a single person on this list who questions a story in the news a specific story it's probably true if you see three or four people on this list and that's not many out of the whole list if three or four people on the list say uh no you're forgetting this or you're leaving out this or you got it wrong i would take that really seriously because this is the list of people who if they tell you a fact is wrong i'm going to listen to that now the people who are silent on it might just not have enough information about it so i wouldn't look at the percentage of people i just see who is saying is fake and are they violating the narrative all right i'm loving the fact that there seems to be some kind of organic um some kind of organic movement to improve the fake news situation so i'm doing it right now so this this disinformation board for myself i'm really just trying something right i'm just throwing out an idea it didn't cost anything just some tweets if it helps you because you start following these people and it makes you better informed then that's great you see you know just a small little thing that i can do for my position and i feel like lots of people are trying to do the same thing there's a whole bunch of people who are thinking well what could i do like what do i do um let me answer this question i'm seeing on uh the locals platform somebody's asking why i didn't add naval ravicon to my list he would be you know the most quality thinker maybe that i know period but he also doesn't get into politics so he's very consistent about staying out of politics you know he'll talk about free speech but that's you know barely political um so i wanted people who actually deal with the stuff that is the is the subject of fake news most often all right so lots of people doing stuff let me give you some more examples um bill maher of course i would like to wake up someday on a saturday and see that bill maher is not trending which has nothing to do with bill maher it's just it's just that the reason he trends is that he's calling out on his own team and you know until he runs out of material to you know insult his own team and by the way he insults both teams so he's not firing it only at his own team and that's why he's on my list because he goes after both sides but you see bill maher essentially using his position to try to make things better and i would say he is to me it looks like he's succeeding wildly and in a way that i think is really impressive actually because he's staying on it he's got the audience he's got the access and he can he can tell them that their narrative is is a little messed up it's probably the best example of what we're saying now a number of people are saying what can we do about this fake news and disinformation and there is a book you can read that teaches you how to be more immune from disinformation it turns out i wrote it it's called loser think i think it's behind me yeah it's behind me it's that one in the middle now loserthink is written specifically for this problem and it turns out that the the situation or the times caught up to me i mean obviously fake news has been a problem for a number of years but it's reached some kind of a peak and now now that the book is out somebody says nice shell look it's not a show when you're talking about your own book it happens to be exactly aimed at the biggest problem in the world so so there's always some troll who will find the worst way to spend everything nice shell let me tell you some more about the book i've already been paid i got an advance you know most most of my books don't sell past the advance which means you're asking for the right events um so i'm not even going to make money from this i won't make a penny if you buy my book do you understand that michelle you understand that my personal income won't change a bit if you buy that book because i'm already paid i don't i don't even have any requirement to market it at this point i mean in the beginning you do but not at this point that literally the only reason i'm recommending it this is exactly the book that's written for exactly this problem so try to deal with that okay um all right so i uh tweeted that out if anybody hasn't read loser think it is exactly on target for our current situation well i told you that after uh publishing my comic in which i introduced the new character dave who is a black engineer in the dilbert group got a lot of newspapers who wouldn't run that their reasoning was who knows i think they some of them just didn't think it was worth the provocation or something so i'm not sure that there's anybody who pushed back on it i haven't heard anybody yeah let me say this definitively although a number of newspapers decided not to run that series so they just put repeats in there or left a blank nobody complained let me say that again so i have many client newspapers who run dilbert thousands of them thousands a few thousand not a single one of them said this is offensive not one but a number of them didn't run it do you know why was it worth the hassle that's it just wasn't worth the hassle or something i i think in some cases you know different entities within the newspaper made the decision so it's not even clear that you know the decision is some kind of coordinated decision i think just somebody said we don't need this trouble something like that now immediately after that i've got a sunday comic that my editor called me and said you know ah maybe you'd want to wait a week or so for this one now my own editor is very unlikely to edit me for content i don't know the last time that happened actually if ever i think it's maybe never happened that i can think of so i've been edited for lots of other reasons but not for being too provocative so let me give a shout out to uh you know andrews mcneil and universal press part of the same company for being very pro-speech very pro-creator very free speech and have always been on the side of the creator completely unambiguously on the side of the creators now having said that they're also a business and so when my editor said you know this sunday that you submitted i feel like we need to wait at least a week because things are a little too hot and really that's just managing managing the clients which is not really censorship because it'll run it'll just run a week later when some of the energy you know is siphoned off uh so wait for that one it's so hot that it couldn't be published immediately and now of course i do it partly for attention that's how my business model works right if you're a creator you have to do some things sometimes that are just about attracting attention it's part of the model everybody understands that right the reason i put elon omar on my list of disinformation board is partly because i think she believes there belongs there but partly because i knew it would make your hair catch on fire right so let me be fully transparent i am in the kind of business where sometimes quite overtly and i hope it's transparent i do things just to get attention you get that right i think everybody's okay with that aren't you as long as i'm doing it completely you know in front of you trump does the same thing when trump does something to get attention you understand it as technique and part of the part of the process right so i asked the question yesterday about i just asked the twitter public if i were to sell dilbert as an intellectual property without my involvement so if i were to walk away and just say okay you can have the the artwork and the idea and you can create new content you can make movies and tvs you can make calendars you can put words in their mouth you can redraw them you can do anything you want i just sell the ip and i asked the public what did i what did they think someone would pay for it now the reason i did that is not because i don't know how to put a deal together a lot of this is the amazing thing about twitter just hold this in your head for a second that this happened yesterday i i just think i'm taking a walk and i think oh wouldn't it be interesting to know what the wisdom of the crowd was sort of the average opinion because the average opinion of the crowd in a weird magical way will be very similar to what an expert would say it's worth do you know why because because what something is worth is what somebody's willing to pay for it that's it if somebody pays it i guess that's what it was worth to at least one person so if you ask a bunch of people who don't know anything about the topic and then you average their answers you end up being just about where an expert is and it's not a coincidence is because the expert is sort of imagining what anybody else would think in the same situation you know sort of a common way of thinking of a thing and if the public thinks of a thing a certain way there's a really good chance that an expert will think of it that way too if the average of the public so it's just one of these weird connections you don't think should make sense you think the expert should be completely different from the average of people who don't know anything but it's just a weird experiment you find out that they're very similar and the reason is because we all have a psychologically common base for understanding what things are worth essentially so i asked that question partly to um put the idea in the public that is for sale in case anybody thought of buying it but um the the interesting part about is that i get a response from an investment banker successful investment banker carol roth who offered to give me you know some some deal composition um concepts now where else in the world do you just ask a question while you're taking a walk and one of the most you know qualified people there could be somebody who literally was an investment banker successfully and retired from that and you get immediate useful um advice at the same time this was kind of blowing my mind a little bit one of the people who responded to my question was thomas massey so he's you know mit graduate congress person so i'm getting advice from a sitting member of congress with an mit education if you don't know what that means you don't get into mit if you're an average student if you know what i mean right they don't take average students so how amazing is is twitter that not only is it going to be i think our biggest bulwark against fake news eventually but that you can just ask a question like that and get such qualified responses it's just ridiculous it's ridiculous likewise have you noticed how many times elon musk has responded to average twitter users in the last few weeks it's really is mind-blowing every time i see it because a lot of the people he's responding to are people i know from either from twitter or real life or both and to see him how often he responds to a valid question that catches his interest it just makes the world seem so small but also it makes the world look like it's working that the person who has the best information on stuff can answer the question i'll give you an example there's somebody on twitter talking about he was testing i guess tesla's current version of their self-driving car software and said something like i guess it was a study that says it was eight times safer than human driving eight times safer than human driving and elon musk saw that and he tweets this trend will be well over 10 times safer with the update that they're working on right now the software update so think about that the self-driving car is already i don't know if you can really measure this because there's no way to know what self-driving cars would do as scale that's got to be different than one season two seas but there is a study if you want to believe studies that says that it is eight times safer than human driven cars in terms of accidents now why did elon musk feel he needed to weigh in on that point and to modify it from it will be eight times as successful to 10 times because that's not much of a difference is it if somebody told you something was eight times safer than the alternative you wouldn't say whoa i'm not going near that until it's ten times safer would you literally there's no in terms of your decision making there is no difference between eight times safer and ten times safer two times safer would be enough that's all you needed your decision would be a no-brainer at two times better but eight times better it's it's a you know there's no conversation at ten times better you wonder why you even had to update it well why do we even care is eight times better well here's why have i mentioned that elon musk understands persuasion better than just about anybody i mean he gets it right all the time all the time he gets it right here's another example ten times is way better than eight times not because it's numerically better i mean it is that's a pretty big difference that would be 25 percent bigger right so that's a big difference but that's not the important part the important part is our brains are tuned to big round numbers no reason it's just what we've been listening to we're used to it and so 10 times is that's the number you can sell right eight times better is technical data ten times better and you can make the sale and the sale is we need to change the law so self-driving cars are here because they're ten times safer i mean just think of that ten times safer that's that's a marketing number and there's a reason that tesla doesn't have a marketing department and that that elon musk literally runs the marketing for tesla while he's tweeting on the toilet i mean not every time but enough of the times that it's impressive and here it is again simply by emphasizing that the ten times versus the eight times he's done what his marketing department couldn't have done for him and it becomes from him so it gets more attention so it's basically he is very competently replacing marketing with just tweeting i mean he actually is doing that it just doesn't seem like it's possible but he's doing it right in front of you all right speaking of technology there is an amazing amazing story that i believe no one else has discussed and so i will discuss it now because we're right in the middle of a story that that uh is going to have an interesting end point but when you're in the middle of a story sometimes you don't know you're in the story and here's the story i take you back in the way back machine to when the united states said you know if we started manufacturing things in china it'd be a lot cheaper not only would it be a lot cheaper but we can move the stuff over there that's dangerous as uh you know the the epa would not let us do in the united states like you know there's going to be some industrial waste we can't do that here how about china we've got lower standards so i believe that some of the manufacturing move to china was because we couldn't do it here some of it was because it was cheaper and i think the cheaper part became the important part over time then what happened next well the united states suffered did they not by the lack of manufacturing jobs and we we did the best we could to adjust people took service jobs that aren't as good you know that that's a problem but at the moment we're at 3.6 unemployment we're fully employed 3.6 is what economists would call ish in that range economists would call that full employment because you wouldn't want it any better if it were better it would be worse because that would mean you couldn't hire anybody unless you took them from another job that would be the worst case scenario you can't hire anybody unless you ruin another company by taking an employee that's necessary right you don't want that you need you need a little bit of slop you know 3.6 unemployment is just enough people who are floating around that you can hire somebody who doesn't already have a job sometimes and that that seems to be pretty important to keep everything moving and so here we are we gave up all of our manufacturing and yet still the biggest economy here's the interesting part what happens next because you saw that biden is pushing 3d printing 3d printing of products especially metal products they could make a rotor for a helicopter with a 3d printer slap it on the helicopter and it flies now what would be the cost of building a factory to make there can't be many helicopter rotors you know you're not making millions of them you might make hundreds of them and you don't have any shipping you don't have any foreign language stuff or taxes or all the difficulty of dealing with a another culture and nation you just turn on the printer feed it the software and it builds you a helicopter rotor we are at the at the precipice of destroying china because we turn them into a manufacturing company with manual labor and then we're going to obsolete it but not until we'd already had an alternative our employment is on track so we can replace the entire supply chain concept with 3d printing robots and ai those three technologies ai 3d printing and robots completely will take manufacturing out of the mix china is in big trouble because one of the things i was thinking about yesterday is every time there's something that the united states is especially good at let's say air power developing aircraft and owning the sky something the united states is uniquely amazing at they're they tend to be the most important things have you noticed that like owning aviation well that's like the most important thing how about space we seem to be you know thanks to spacex and other things we seem to be leading in space that's going to be really really important military really really important and we leave that so the united states seems to be really good at leading at technologies and things that matter a lot china looks like it's going to be really good at um controlling their population and um i don't know manufacturing which will be obsolete i the the size of china's problem is immense it's immense i don't know how they get past it meanwhile we've got problems with baby baby formula and fertilizer and water shortages in the west and all kinds of food related things how worried am i about all of those things pretty worried pretty worried but they all fall into an interesting category of things that humans are good at working out if they have to they're all in that category are you as surprised as i am that we still have food because i don't i don't know how that happened how did we go through the pandemic and we still fed ourselves like i don't know how how did things just sort of kind of work yeah now the baby formula is looks like it could be a serious problem but i'll bet we'll just you know we'll nurse more and we'll find substitutes and there will be do-it-yourself formulas for making your own formula home and there'll be you know some industries that pop up and somebody else will make it so as long as we have time we can solve all this stuff i feel as if we'll be okay i feel as if we'll be okay yet it does make sense to worry about it and if i were you i'd i would make sure i had enough food and toilet paper to get through three months something like that i saw a photo of all the ships that are docked off of china's coast and it's just like a solid you know color of dots and it looks like it looks like the whole system is falling apart if you look at that picture but what the picture is is lacking is how many days would it take for all of that all those ships to be served if it's a four day delay i just pick a random number it's not really a problem you can wait four days for your anything basically but if it's a year i don't know what happens that all the stuff goes bad on the ship i don't know it seems like pretty bad and it does seem like we must be working on fixing even the uh the port situation and the supply chain problem there must be tons of people putting lots of energy into that but let me go back to the the 3d printing leapfrog technology here's a little business tip that everybody experienced and business understands but those of you who are not experienced in business might be hearing this like a novel concept for the first time if you make a product and it's a big hit you're a private company and everybody loves your product and they're buying it like crazy let's say it's technology because that's a better example it's a technology product doesn't matter what it is what's the first thing you should do if you have a really successful product and people love it the first thing you should do if you are that company is you should try to put yourself out of business as fast as possible and by that i mean making a new product that's so good nobody would ever buy that old product again it wouldn't make sense because you have to do that or else somebody else is going to build that product right you have to cannibalize your own product in order to move ahead and everybody who is experienced yeah apple is a perfect example everybody who's experienced the business knows this to be true you have to cannibalize your own product so somebody else doesn't do it for you it's the only way you can stay ahead right yeah amazon does that basically everybody successful does that now look at this situation where we moved our manufacturing to china that looked exactly like this i don't know that it was planned in any way but it's going to work out that way it's going to work out that we cannibalize our own manufacturing in this country and that that was important for us to get to the new kind of manufacturing 3d printing robots ai and we're going to be experts at those three things and more while other countries are trying to figure out what do you do when all these manufacturing jobs go away right so we did the play of the century with with bringing manufacturing to china and then becoming the experts at obsoleting that technology we want everything we won everything we just don't know it yet we won everything this is this is as hard as you could win we obsolated our own industry but after we gave it to china and made them dependent on it you can't win harder than that honestly that's as hard as you can win now we'll say it depends on us actually being able to do this 3d printing and changing the supply chain but i think that's within our ability one of the things i learned yesterday is that our 3d printing capability is way beyond what the public understands we keep seeing things like oh there's this 3d printed house this is just this big machine that puts down concrete on the walls and it's kind of cool the first time you see it you go okay it's an automatic concrete machine but you're calling it a 3d printer okay but i'm not really that impressed by an automatic concrete machine do you know what impresses me let me say it again they 3d printed a helicopter rotor are we done here they 3d printed a helicopter router metal and slapped it on and it works wait i'm not done it didn't just work it was lighter better and faster and cheaper lighter better faster cheaper that's what kills china because china can make stuff that's maybe just as good as 3d printing no they can't they can't make stuff as good as 3d printing the regular manufacturing process would not be close to being able to get the specific engineering and i guess i learned this yesterday this this is what's different about 3d printing is that the software has improved not just the hardware to print anything you want but the software now knows how to print it that's the big change so for example it would know that a component is going to have pressure on one end of it let's say there's going to be more you know physical physics pressure on one end of it you can just put that into the machine say okay this side will have more pressure and it will end it will just build it to be solid more solid on one side that's just one example yeah stronger because you could do a lattice situation with less material now i think that's the correct answer i'm being told that it would be all these things and i was just sort of filling in from common sense which might be wrong that um let's say if you're doing a an ordinary metal anything you would probably it would just be a solid metal piece right because that's just the easiest thing to do you put it in a mold you take it out it's just solid metal but if you're 3d printing it at a really fine detail couldn't you do the the walls of your device let's say a metal device couldn't you do it with a little lattice work little tiny latticework that would use 10 of the material while being stronger are there enough engineers here i'm saying yes isn't true i think i see people agreeing with me that you can make it lighter stronger cheaper right that's all you can do all of it i believe i believe you can do all of that all right that's why it's a big deal what what is happening in california i saw this michael schellenberger tweet and boy would i hate to be running for governor against michael shellenberger so he's running as an independent in california but what as i've told you many times what he what he does differently than anybody else politician is he's written books and done deep research on the exact problems that affect a lot of people but california especially everything from the the addiction and homelessness to energy to water like all those things he became an expert on so who wants to run about against that i mean that's the strongest candidate i've ever seen let me say it again schellenberger is the strongest political candidate i've ever seen now will he get enough attention as an independent in california that's that's a tough that's a tough road but i'll tell you there's nobody ever did it better so far it's just ridiculous how good it is and one of the things he pointed out is that my state california is being ravaged by drought and schallenberger says that the california under governor newson has failed to build a single water storage water recycling or desalinization project and i thought what it's literally the biggest problem in the state that we're going to run out of water are you telling me that in his entire term he hasn't done a single thing that would be useful now i realize it takes years to build these things but at least we should be looking at something that started you know we should be talking about the dam that's almost done or nothing and i thought what about the other stuff well he at least he's working on like the homeless and the drug problem except he's doing all the wrong things he's giving them homes and drugs that's exactly the wrong thing you want to do you want to take them and unfortunately force them into some kind of treatment because it's a medical problem it's not a housing problem that's what schellenberger teaches us and i it does look to me that on all the big problems newsome has either done nothing or what he did was literally the opposite of what one should do according to anybody who knows anything about the topics yeah they've had plenty of time to do this stuff that is correct um let's talk about the disinformation board that biden is especially there there was something that was bothering me about the the person that they chose for the head of it whose name i can't remember so there's a woman who's chosen to be the head of the disinformation board and we're seeing a bunch of her videos and stuff and i was trying to figure out what is the word that is capturing how i'm feeling about it and it wasn't until i saw a glenn greenwald tweet uh did they intentionally pick the most ridiculous person for the job is it just a troll and i thought there it is that was the word ridiculous ridiculous was the word and that is so ridiculous it doesn't look serious to that point i saw a tweet from uh dean uh squirrel i believe he's in canada and he says he i don't really follow american politics when i first saw this meaning the video of that head of the disinformation board when i first saw this i thought it was an online prank a slash hoax thing not kidding no i know he's not kidding it looks like a prank it isn't as far as i know but doesn't it look exactly like one if you do something serious especially something important like this and it looks like a prank to somebody who wasn't paying attention well you did it wrong i think you did it wrong all right um speaking of disinformation there are two kinds roughly speaking one is the kind that's just wrong information but the other is diversion diversion is what keeps us from seeing the truth sometimes there are lots of things that keeps us from doing that but we often get diverted like a magician makes you look over here all the real tricks over here so here are some of the diversions that are happening right now racism narratives are a diversion from understanding that it's really always about rich versus poor but if the poor knew that that was what was going on that is just rich versus poor they could easily organize under our system because they have free social media everybody can vote they can just vote themselves a bunch of benefits but they don't because they think the problem is racism if the poor people said oh the problem is rich versus poor let's go vote ourselves some benefits but it'll never happen because they're diverted by racism now we see the disinformation boards and the the fact checkers and the fake news and everything and i feel like what that's diverting us from is understanding that our own team is lying to us also you know the other team whoever you think the other team is it doesn't matter left or right whoever you think the other team is you're sure they're lying you see lots of examples but you're not so sure about your team aren't you but your team's lying too and i think that when you're talking about fake news and disinformation boards uh both sides are then encouraged to think that their side is right and the other side is lying that's a diversion it's a diversion from the fact that both both sides are lying all the time it doesn't mean they're wrong all the time i mean somebody's gonna be right if they're two different sides uh but the purpose of the teams is to lie and persuade that it was a weird sound it was a turn their turkeys gobbling right outside my door we have lots of wild turkeys here i hope it's a turkey so then here's another uh diversion uh the abortion narrative is diverting us from the democrat approval levels on the democrat record the biden administration record everything is everything is diversion i get it see the the turkeys are gobbling at me because i forgot to put jonathan turley on my disinformation board and and their turkeys so they're using the simulation to remind turkey turkey turley okay got it put them on the information board disinformation got it all right i don't know how many turkeys there are out there but i think they're i think they're massing for an attack that is a lot of turkey noise i may take i might take the locals people over and look at them after we're done here all right this all right let's talk about some new disinformation um did you see the news on social media that apparently is fake news that pfizer documents show that the vaccines were never safe for pregnancy if people were pregnant or breastfeeding did any of you see that on social media some kind of a document that purported to be a pfizer document now it's fake news but it would act like the drug was not tested or wasn't safe for pregnancy and breastfeeding how many of you saw that did you know that that pfizer document wasn't from a pfizer document so all of you who believed you saw a pfizer document that says they know that vaccines were not safe during pregnancy or breastfeeding that was not even a pfizer document that was from another entity altogether it was fake news and the other entity apparently has updated their opinion out of it so there's actually nothing there there is no information about it being safe or unsafe during pregnancy and breastfeeding i added the unsafe part just because i'm unaware of anything so pretty much all of the ivermectin stories pretty much all of the vaccine oh did you know about this data story they're pretty much all fake you should believe anything about vaccines any study about vaccines and any study about ivermectin just assume it's not real just assume it's not true that should be your your starting assumption if somebody can convince you it is true well good for them but you shouldn't start that way you should start with fake and then if somebody can convince you well let's see if they can do it um i saw this is amazing the head of media matters was on c-span and was asked by a caller uh does about the suspicious nature of hunter biden getting half a million dollars for his paintings and they call her ask how can we be sure that hunter biden is not selling influence as opposed to selling artwork and the head of media matters uh uh angelo curacao carousone i guess said quote uh that there uh there's no reasonable suspicion behind it in other words there's no reasonable suspicion that hunter biden is selling paintings for what seems to be outrageously high prices because the people buying the paintings are just in the influence buying game there is no reasonable suspicion behind it really really because to me this is the definition of reasonable suspicion not proof nobody's claiming any proof has anybody said there's proof nobody nobody said there's proof everybody everybody thinks it's something you ought to look at a little suspicious but here's what this made me think i wondered about the biden family reunions when you know that every single thing that hunter biden does is going to be a problem for the rest of the family and then hunter biden says you know i went to uh rehab and uh i'm getting off getting off the drugs and you can imagine his family and joe biden and jill and everybody saying oh that is great that is the best news so you know we're used to you doing only the worst possible thing to embarrass us but thank goodness thank goodness you're getting off the drugs and and then you say and and i'm not going to do any more deals in china and then the rest of the biden family goes oh god i thought you were going to keep doing that because that is so embarrassing to the rest of us thank goodness you're not going to be doing the drugs anymore and you're not going to be dealing deals with china and then hunter says and no more deals with ukraine i mean wouldn't be practical at this point but no more deals with ukraine and then the biden family says thank you thank you finally and then they say so what are you going to do with your free time and then hunter biden the black sheep of the family says oh artwork i'm going to go into the art business and the family said ah finally finally something that will not embarrass us and then hunter says yeah i think i could get quite a bit for these paintings and then the hunter family says that's great well i you know we're really happy for you and you're pretty good painter so this looks like this could be pretty good and then he says yeah i'm going to price them at half a million dollars a piece or at least one of them and then the biden family says what i wait for a minute there we thought you said you were gonna price like one painting for half a million dollars and they said yeah i'm gonna price each painting for several hundred thousand dollars and then the biden family says okay we didn't think we heard you right there uh it almost sounded like it almost sounded like you're going to pay to pay your and so try to sell for half a million dollars you didn't really say that did you and they said yeah and then the entire bible says are you serious you can't do anything that doesn't look like a scheme there of all the things you could do in the whole world of all the sports you could do of all the businesses you could be in all the things you could invest in the classes you could take the skills you could learn all the things in the world you could do you have to find the one thing that would embarrass us and he does i feel as if joe biden is living in a simulation and his theme is that hunter won't stop embarrassing him in public and there's just nothing he can do about it it'll just go from one thing to another thing to another thing it looks almost intentional doesn't it i mean it's hard to imagine that one person could do thing after thing after thing that just makes his father look bad who even does that like most most people can make their parents look bad if they try let's say you get you know drunk driving arrest well that makes your parents look bad indirectly sort of a little bit but we also do other things most of us like i've probably done some things that would have made my parents embarrassed uh okay i can think of one in particular i'll give you an example when i was very new to media and i had not been media trained i was asked by a bonus bon appetit magazine a magazine about food to do a little special thing in the back where they'd have some celebrity talk about their favorite restaurant or something so i agreed to do it and then they interviewed me and i made this joke i said that my mother was the second worst cook in the world after her mother now that's something that we kind of said in the family it was like a family joke that was also true it was true my mother was the inspiration for dilbert's mother who had a cooking show called cooking with salt it was just salt so basically would you like your seasoned about salt that'll work yeah salt was great i love salt but i made this comment to the the author of bon appetit magazine and i said to myself my mother's never going to read bon appetit magazine am i right the one thing i don't have to worry about is i knew for sure that my mother living in a little country mountain place she definitely was not reading bon appetit magazine and certainly not reading a cover to cover to get to the last page that's how stupid i was if you can even imagine that level of media stupidity yep yep it took approximately 10 seconds from the publication of that article for one of my mother's friends to mail it to her and say i hope you've seen this that's right that's what friends are for that's what friends are for so have i ever embarrassed my parents oh yeah yes i have yes i have as a matter of fact but the difference between me and hunter biden is i still sometimes do things that don't embarrass people sometimes i mean not all the time but i sometimes go into a business enterprise that if it worked it would just make everybody happy it wouldn't make anybody embarrassed like how is it the hunter can't find anything anything in that domain of don't embarrass your parents nothing there's not a single thing he can do that doesn't embarrass his parents what's up with that is your dad a piece of you know both of my parents are are deceased um have you read hunter's autobiography i haven't all right so there's no reasonable suspicion there's anything going on there all right i believe we've uh talked about it all except that this minister of truth uh started out with some fake news i think um so this minister of truth woman the head of it said that it's not conservatives it's not just conservatives who are being silenced on social media as the conservatives believe but that there are many studies many studies i'm not going to mention them because there are many of them oh you want to link to the study i'm not going to give you a link to the study there's many studies many many many studies and these studies show that some liberals are also being censored so the idea that censorship is sort of working against conservatives has been debunked and debunked by the many many studies of which i will not link and will not mention many many of them and it those studies show that liberals are censored too now did you catch the trick did you catch the trick that she used and then i i used it as well tell me if these two things are opposites most of the most of the the media suppression is against conservatives but there have been studies that show that liberals also have been censored are those opposites does one debunk the other no but she presented them like they do in other words she literally this uh and i don't think this is delving into personal opinion i don't think this is a subjective statement the head of disinformation tried to tell us that these studies would show that there was the same amount no she didn't say it this was the clever part she simply said that the studies show that liberals also get banned i'll bet that's true i'll bet there's at least one case of that two would be plenty if there were ever two people in the history of banning and they were liberal and they got banned then her statement is right the studies have shown that people on the left also get banned it would just take one or two does she mention how many no does she compare the rate of conservatives being banned or suppressed to the rate of the other side no and wasn't that the only question that was the only question the only question was how much for conservative versus liberal and she answered it with an absolute instead of how much oh they both have a little problem there that is intellectually dishonest it is disinformation by design that is clearly designed as disinformation her statement could not have been more clear to mislead it was intended to mislead and it did now when greenwald asked did they intentionally pick the most ridiculous person for the job it's not just the way she looks because she has a theatrical mannerism which would probably work great in a lot of contexts but not this one not this one this is the only job you don't want somebody exactly like that if you put her in lots of different jobs i mean you come up with a dozen right off the top of your head where her personality would be perfect like you know big personality she's not shy of the camera you can think of all kinds of jobs she'd be perfect for but not this one you don't want somebody who looks like she's acting to be your disinformation czar that's the opposite of what you want all right that ladies and gentlemen is everything i wanted to talk about i believe i have helped you all to a better life if you haven't read lose or think my book right up there you really should because it is the answer to disinformation or at least it's one of them so if you would read that book it would tell you how to spot fake news with very practical specific things to look for and once you have that toolbox you say oh it's one of those and then you could spot it easily i'll give you one example if you see news that's too incredible to believe it's because it's almost certainly not true the news that makes our hair catch on fire and go oh i can't believe that happened it didn't happen 95 of the time sometimes yes weird things do happen that's a real thing but when you see the news that let's say the news that the russians were paying the tel we're paying a bounty for american debt in afghanistan or something like that like that would be such a shocking story that's probably not true and sure enough there's no confirmation um be a turkey volume guessing man six like the supreme court made abortion illegal yeah so did you know that most abortions are performed with just a pill how many of you knew that that's something i learned from dr drew and i think dr drew had a interview with bill maher and then immediately after dr drew met with bill maher bill maher said he learned a lot about abortion and one of the things he learned is the same literally the same thing that dr drew told me when i was on dr drew show just the other day he told me that the vast majority of abortions are just a pill i i didn't know that did you know that um well i guess it's a it's a there's a technical definition of what an abortion is so if if there was anything that was going to take hold to use non-scientific terms if anything was on in the process of becoming a life and it stopped it from happening i'm going to call that an abortion you know you can you can word play it all you want but yeah we talked about the horse dewormer thing that's just such a big simulation coincidence all right uh and then 2000 mules i haven't seen yet but i plan to as soon as i find it somewhere if anybody has a link to somewhere i can actually see the the actual video 2000 mules will you send it to me on twitter because people keep telling me where it is but i can't find it or i can't find it in a way that plays i found it on rumble and it didn't play i don't know why oh have you mentioned ultra mega yeah you thank you i should have mentioned that so as you know now uh biden is going with this ultra mega extremist messaging so once again when they don't have an argument they have to go for a personality that's what they're doing so it's just another you know um it's just a typical democrat approach to attack the people in the united states like entire entire categories of people and just dismissing them but i don't think it's working that ultra mega thing doesn't seem to be working uh and they're also bringing back dark it's dark concert so the democrats have not essentially they have given up i was going to say it's this seems subjective but i think we can say it objectively can't we would it be fair to say just objectively if if you take your bias for a second to the degree we can do that does it look like the democrats gave up and and they're only struggling to win based on personality problems and fake news and it doesn't look like they're what they're trying to win on content the republicans are still definitely trying to win on content because they have the strongest case in the world well this worked when trump was president such as the border just do that again do whatever he was doing it must have been working so they have a pretty strong argument of practical solutions you know hire more cops how about that you got too much crime stop letting people out of jail how about that right so they're very practical solutions even if you prefer them not to be the solution but the democrats have just given up they're not asking for anything that's real at this point it feels like it's just personality and fear and all that stuff uh all right i've got ultra dark omega mega the the ultra dark mega all right virtual premiere for what or the virtual premiere not for the movie have you considered that they made the disinformation position look ridiculous on purpose so that people won't see it as a legitimate threat to their freedom i don't think so that that goes into the too clever category like i will certainly suspect people of all kinds of bad behavior but when it gets to be that clever i think that's a little too clever right uh banned adopt videos got what's that mean all right uh did i watch amber turd's performance yesterday i watched only some clips she obviously seemed to be acting it didn't look real at all so i can't wait to see what happens with that my pick for the kentucky derby i think it's going to be some kind of a horse probably wins that um thoughts on the managerial class that's what the entire dilbert comic is about um he weighed he's waiting for the cross-examination okay why was roe versus wade never codified into law there weren't enough votes that's why that's why see one of the reasons why you don't want congress to codify into law is because it's because you want the states to do it don't you like why would you piss off half of the states when all the states all the states can have what the states want by a majority if you can give every state what they want by a majority within their state why would you make a national law that would thwart 50 percent of the states that's the opposite of our system our system is that you want the states to have as much control over the things that make sense for them to control and you want that you want the states to have no control over things that doesn't make sense for them to control such as national defense right you don't want them controlling that but when it comes down to like what happens to an individual making a really tough life and death decision you want to boil that down right as close to the individual as you can get it you know down to the doctor and the person if the state's as close as you can get then i'll take it but the people want the federal government to do it want to thwart the will of the people in the state that they don't live in in many cases that doesn't seem right oh i can see it on the local site so dinesh has a site on locals and if you're a subscriber you can see it there uh i don't know if he's he's got a subscription locked or not you can unlock things on on locals so can somebody tell me if is it locked or unlocked on locals the 2000 mules somebody will tell me in a second locked or unlocked yeah it's hard to google try googling it it's locked okay so you'd have to be a subscriber somebody says it's free but other people say it's locked oh you can't access it until 8 pm tonight okay so there's a little ambiguity of it but i'll tell you that dinesh is doing a great job of marketing could it could not be a better time at a better content and you know he's got he's got just the right amount of censorship to to give him some audience dinesh is locked down on twitter still somebody says you can buy it at salem.com at noon what is salem.com i don't know 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well i've added some members to my
personal disinformation board
i told you yesterday
that i've created my own disinformation
board these are the people you should
look to
to find out what's true and what isn't
now importantly in order to be a member
of my disinformation board you don't
have to apply
and you can't turn it down
because you're on the board if i say
you're on the board and that's the end
of the story
so the people i put on the board are not
the people i agree with
that's not the point so you're going to
see some people on this that you'll say
what
why is that person on the disinformation
board when i don't agree with anything
they ever say
and the answer is
this
there are people who can violate the
narrative
and to have a track record of doing
so i'm going to give you my list of
people who are already on there and i'll
tell you who i added today based on user
comments and just thinking about it more
so glenn greenwald jeff pilkington bill
maher andre shrugged
anatoly lebarsky
um
mike cernovich matt tybee tulsi gabbard
elon omar
we'll talk about that one
uh alan dershowitz michael
schellenberger and the ones i added
today were ian bremmer brett weinstein
eric weinstein
dave rubin
and dr drew
dr drew
i meant to have on the original list i
just
forgot a name
so correcting the list as we go
and
uh i think this is a pretty strong list
because everybody on this list has a
very clear
uh background of violating their own
narrative meaning the narrative on their
team
so let's talk about elon omar
um glenn greenwald is the first one that
pointed this out to me i wasn't aware of
this
but on several notable occasions she is
she's gone against the democrat
narrative
i think free speech was one of them
and
while there are plenty of things she's
going to say that i don't agree with
she's one of the people you want to look
to
because anytime somebody violates the
narrative that's more useful
did i not add jonathan turley
what the hell is wrong with me i i've
had his name here to add about five
times yeah jonathan turley
i'll add him for the next time thank you
great suggestion so remember this is not
about agreeing with them it's only
people who can violate the narrative and
have demonstrated
you know quality thinking that's it
so
um i'm not saying that these will tell
you the truth
you get that right
so the the purpose of the disinformation
board my personal one
is not that they're always right
and they're not fact checkers
they're like a red flag if there's some
happening
if if there's not a single person on
this list
who questions a story in the news a
specific story
it's probably true
if you see three or four people on this
list and that's not many out of the
whole list if three or four people on
the list say uh
no
you're forgetting this or you're leaving
out this or you got it wrong i would
take that really seriously
because this is the list of people who
if they tell you a fact is wrong
i'm going to listen to that now the
people who are silent on it
might just not have enough information
about it so i wouldn't look at the
percentage of people
i just see who is saying is fake and are
they violating the narrative
all
right i'm loving the fact that there
seems to be some kind of organic
um some kind of organic movement to
improve
the fake news situation
so i'm doing it
right now so this this disinformation
board for myself
i'm really just trying something right
i'm just throwing out an idea
it didn't cost anything just some tweets
if it helps you because you start
following these people and it makes you
better informed then that's great you
see you know just a small little thing
that i can do for my
position
and i feel like lots of people are
trying to do the same thing there's a
whole bunch of people who are thinking
well what could i do like what do i do
um
let me answer this question i'm seeing
on
uh the locals platform somebody's asking
why i didn't add naval ravicon
to my list
he would be you know the most quality
thinker
maybe that i know period
but he also doesn't get into politics
so he's very consistent about staying
out of politics
you know he'll talk about free speech
but that's you know barely political
um
so i wanted people who actually deal
with the stuff that is the is the
subject of fake news most often
all right
so lots of people doing stuff
let me give you some more examples
um bill maher of course
i would like to wake up someday on a
saturday
and
see that bill maher is not trending
which has nothing to do with bill maher
it's just it's just that the reason he
trends is that he's calling out
on his own team
and
you know until he runs out of material
to you know insult his own team and by
the way he insults both teams so he's
not firing it only at his own team
and that's why he's on my list because
he goes after both sides but you see
bill maher
essentially
using his position
to try to make things better and i would
say he is
to me it looks like he's succeeding
wildly
and in a way that i think is really
impressive actually because he's staying
on it he's got the audience he's got the
access and he can he can tell them that
their narrative is is a little messed up
it's probably the best example of what
we're saying
now
a number of people are saying what can
we do about this fake news and
disinformation
and
there is a book you can read
that teaches you how to be more immune
from disinformation
it turns out i wrote it it's called
loser think i think it's behind me
yeah it's behind me it's that one in the
middle
now loserthink is written specifically
for this problem
and it turns out that the
the situation or the times caught up to
me i mean obviously fake news has been a
problem for a number of years
but it's reached some kind of a peak
and now now that the book is out
somebody says nice shell
look it's not a show when you're
talking about your own book it happens
to be exactly aimed at the biggest
problem in the world
so so
there's always some troll who will find
the worst way to spend everything nice
shell
let me tell you some more about the book
i've already been paid
i got an advance
you know most most of my books don't
sell past the advance which means you're
asking for the right events
um
so i'm not even going to make money from
this i won't make a penny if you
buy my book do you understand that
michelle
you understand that
my personal income won't change a bit if
you buy that book because i'm already
paid
i don't i don't even have any
requirement to market it at this point i
mean in the beginning you do
but not at this point that literally the
only reason i'm recommending it this is
exactly the book that's written
for exactly this problem
so
try to deal with that okay
um
all right
so i uh tweeted that out if anybody
hasn't read loser think
it is exactly on target for our current
situation
well i told you that after uh publishing
my comic in which i introduced the new
character dave who is a black engineer
in the dilbert group
got a lot of newspapers who wouldn't run
that
their reasoning was
who knows
i think they some of them just didn't
think it was
worth the
provocation or something
so i'm not sure that there's anybody who
pushed back on it i haven't heard
anybody
yeah let me say this definitively
although a number of newspapers decided
not to run that series
so they just put repeats in there or
left a blank
nobody complained
let me say that again
so i have many client newspapers who run
dilbert thousands of them thousands a
few thousand
not a single one of them
said this is offensive
not one
but a number of them didn't run it do
you know why
was it worth the hassle
that's it just wasn't worth the hassle
or something i i think in some cases you
know different entities within the
newspaper made the decision so
it's not even clear that you know the
decision is some kind of coordinated
decision
i think just somebody said
we don't need this trouble
something like that
now
immediately after that i've got a sunday
comic
that my editor called me and said you
know ah
maybe you'd want to wait a week or so
for this one
now my own editor is very unlikely to
edit me for content
i don't know the last time that happened
actually if ever
i think it's maybe never happened
that i can think of so i've been edited
for lots of other reasons but not for
being too provocative
so let me give a shout out to uh you
know
andrews mcneil and universal press
part of the same company
for being very pro-speech very
pro-creator very
free speech and have always been on the
side of the creator completely
unambiguously on the side of the
creators
now
having said that they're also a business
and so when my editor said you know this
sunday that you submitted
i feel like we need to wait at least a
week
because things are a little too hot
and really that's just managing
managing the clients which is not really
censorship because it'll run it'll just
run a week later when some of the energy
you know is siphoned off
uh so wait for that one it's so hot that
it couldn't be published immediately
and now of course i do it partly for
attention
that's how my business model works right
if you're a creator you have to do some
things sometimes
that are just about attracting attention
it's part of the model everybody
understands that right the reason i put
elon omar on my list of disinformation
board
is partly because i think she believes
there belongs there
but partly because i knew it would make
your hair catch on fire
right so
let me be fully transparent
i am in the kind of business
where sometimes quite overtly and i hope
it's transparent i do things just to get
attention
you get that right i think everybody's
okay with that aren't you as long as i'm
doing it completely
you know in front of you trump does the
same thing
when trump does something to get
attention
you understand it as technique and part
of the part of the process
right
so i asked the question yesterday about
i just asked the twitter public if i
were to sell dilbert
as an intellectual property without my
involvement
so if i were to walk away and just say
okay you can have the
the artwork and the idea and you can
create new content you can make movies
and tvs you can make calendars you can
put words in their mouth you can redraw
them you can do anything you want i just
sell the ip
and i asked the public what did i what
did they think
someone would pay for it
now the reason i did that is not because
i don't know how to put a deal together
a lot of
this is the amazing thing about twitter
just hold this in your head for a second
that this happened yesterday i i just
think i'm taking a walk and i think oh
wouldn't it be interesting to know what
the wisdom of the crowd was sort of the
average opinion because the average
opinion of the crowd
in a weird magical way
will be very similar to what an expert
would say it's worth
do you know why
because because what something is worth
is what somebody's willing to pay for it
that's it
if somebody pays it
i guess that's what it was worth to at
least one person
so
if you ask a bunch of people who don't
know anything about the topic
and then you average their answers
you end up being just about where an
expert is
and it's not a coincidence is because
the expert is
sort of imagining
what anybody else would think in the
same situation
you know sort of a common way of
thinking of a thing
and if the public thinks of a thing a
certain way there's a really good chance
that an expert will think of it that way
too if the average of the public so it's
just one of these weird connections you
don't think should make sense you think
the expert should be completely
different from
the average of people who don't know
anything but it's just a weird
experiment you find out that they're
very similar and the reason is because
we all have a psychologically common
base for understanding what things are
worth
essentially
so i asked that question partly to um
put the idea in the public that is for
sale in case anybody thought of buying
it
but
um
the the interesting part about is
that i get a response from an investment
banker
successful investment banker carol roth
who offered to give me you know some
some deal composition um
concepts
now
where else in the world
do you just ask a question while you're
taking a walk
and one of the most you know qualified
people there could be somebody who
literally was an investment banker
successfully and retired from that
and you get immediate
useful
um advice at the same time this was kind
of blowing my mind a little bit one of
the people who responded to my question
was thomas massey
so he's you know mit graduate congress
person
so i'm getting advice from
a sitting member of congress with an mit
education
if you don't know what that means
you don't get into mit
if you're an average student if you know
what i mean right they don't take
average students
so
how amazing is is twitter
that not only is it going to be
i think our biggest bulwark against fake
news eventually
but that you can just ask a question
like that and get
such qualified responses it's just
ridiculous it's ridiculous
likewise have you noticed how many times
elon musk has responded to average
twitter users in the last few weeks it's
really is mind-blowing every time i see
it
because a lot of the people he's
responding to are people i know
from either from twitter or real life or
both
and to see him how often he responds to
a valid question that catches his
interest
it just makes the world seem so small
but also
it makes the world look like it's
working
that the person who has the best
information on stuff
can answer the question i'll give you an
example
there's somebody on twitter
talking about he was testing i guess
tesla's current version of their
self-driving car
software
and said something like i guess it was a
study that says it was eight times
safer than human driving
eight times safer than human driving
and elon musk saw that and he tweets
this trend
will be well over 10 times safer
with the update that they're working on
right now the software update
so
think about that
the self-driving car is already i don't
know if you can really measure this
because there's no way to know what
self-driving cars would do as scale
that's got to be different than one
season two seas but there is a study if
you want to believe studies
that says that it is eight times
safer than human driven cars in terms of
accidents
now why did elon musk feel he needed to
weigh in on that point
and to modify it from it will be eight
times as successful to 10 times because
that's not much of a difference is it
if somebody told you something was eight
times safer than the alternative
you wouldn't say whoa
i'm not going near that until it's ten
times safer would you
literally there's no in terms of your
decision making there is no difference
between eight times safer and ten times
safer
two times safer would be enough
that's all you needed
your decision would be a no-brainer at
two times better
but eight times better it's it's a
you know there's no conversation at ten
times better you wonder why you even had
to update it well why do we even care is
eight times better
well here's why
have i mentioned that elon musk
understands persuasion better than just
about anybody
i mean he gets it right all the time all
the time he gets it right here's another
example
ten times is way better than eight times
not because it's numerically better i
mean it is that's a pretty big
difference
that would be
25 percent bigger right so that's a big
difference but that's not the important
part
the important part is our brains are
tuned to big round numbers
no reason
it's just what we've been listening to
we're used to it and so 10 times
is
that's the number you can sell
right eight times better
is technical data
ten times better and you can make the
sale and the sale is we need to change
the law so self-driving cars are here
because they're ten times safer
i mean just think of that ten times
safer
that's that's a marketing number
and there's a reason that
tesla doesn't have a marketing
department
and that that elon musk literally runs
the marketing for tesla while he's
tweeting on the toilet
i mean not every time but
enough of the times that it's impressive
and here it is again simply by
emphasizing that the ten times versus
the eight times he's done what his
marketing department couldn't have done
for him
and it becomes from him so it gets more
attention so it's basically he is very
competently
replacing marketing with just tweeting
i mean he actually is doing that it just
doesn't seem like it's possible but he's
doing it right in front of you
all right speaking of technology
there is an amazing amazing story that i
believe no one else has discussed and so
i will discuss it now
because we're right in the middle of a
story that that uh
is going to have an interesting end
point
but when you're in the middle of a story
sometimes you don't know you're in the
story and here's the story
i take you back in the way back machine
to when the united states said you know
if we started manufacturing things in
china
it'd be a lot cheaper
not only would it be a lot cheaper but
we can move the stuff over there that's
dangerous
as uh
you know the the epa would not let us do
in the united states like you know
there's going to be some industrial
waste we can't do that here
how about china
we've got lower standards
so i believe that some of the
manufacturing
move to china was because we couldn't do
it here
some of it was because it was cheaper
and i think the cheaper part became the
important part over time then what
happened next
well the united states suffered
did they not by the lack of
manufacturing jobs
and
we we did the best we could to adjust
people took service jobs that aren't as
good
you know that that's a problem but at
the moment we're at 3.6 unemployment
we're fully employed
3.6 is what economists would call ish in
that range
economists would call that full
employment because you wouldn't want it
any better if it were better it would be
worse
because
that would mean you couldn't hire
anybody
unless you took them from another job
that would be the worst case scenario
you can't hire anybody unless you ruin
another company by taking an employee
that's necessary right you don't want
that
you need you need a little bit of slop
you know 3.6 unemployment is just enough
people who are floating around that you
can hire somebody who doesn't already
have a job
sometimes
and that that seems to be pretty
important to keep everything moving
and so
here we are we gave up all of our
manufacturing and yet
still the biggest economy
here's the interesting part
what happens next
because you saw that biden is pushing 3d
printing
3d printing of products
especially metal products they could
make a rotor for a helicopter
with a 3d printer slap it on the
helicopter and it flies
now
what would be the cost of building a
factory to make there can't be many
helicopter rotors
you know you're not making millions of
them you might make hundreds of them
and
you don't have any shipping you don't
have any foreign language stuff or taxes
or all the difficulty of dealing with a
another culture and nation
you just turn on the printer feed it the
software and it builds you a helicopter
rotor
we are at the
at the precipice
of destroying china
because we turn them into a
manufacturing company with manual labor
and then we're going to obsolete it but
not until we'd already had an
alternative our employment is on track
so we can replace the entire supply
chain concept with 3d printing
robots
and ai
those three technologies ai 3d printing
and robots
completely will take manufacturing
out of the mix
china
is in big trouble
because one of the things i was thinking
about yesterday is
every time there's something that the
united states is especially good at
let's say air power
developing aircraft and owning the sky
something the united states is uniquely
amazing at
they're they tend to be the most
important things
have you noticed that
like owning aviation
well that's like the most important
thing how about space
we seem to be you know thanks to spacex
and other things we seem to be leading
in space
that's going to be really really
important military really really
important and we leave that
so
the united states seems to be really
good at leading at technologies
and things that matter a lot
china
looks like it's going to be really good
at
um controlling their population and
um
i don't know manufacturing which will be
obsolete
i
the the size of china's problem is
immense it's immense i don't know how
they get past it
meanwhile we've got problems with baby
baby formula and
fertilizer and water shortages in the
west and all kinds of food related
things
how worried am i about
all of those things
pretty worried
pretty worried
but they all fall into an interesting
category
of things that humans are good at
working out if they have to
they're all in that category
are you as surprised as i am that we
still have food
because i don't i don't know how that
happened
how did we go through the pandemic
and we still fed ourselves
like i don't know how
how did things just sort of kind of work
yeah now the baby formula is looks like
it could be a serious problem but i'll
bet we'll just you know we'll nurse more
and we'll find substitutes and
there will be do-it-yourself formulas
for making your own formula home and
there'll be
you know some industries that pop up and
somebody else will make it
so
as long as we have time
we can solve all this stuff
i feel as if we'll be okay
i feel as if we'll be okay yet it does
make sense to worry about it and if i
were you i'd i would
make sure i had enough food and toilet
paper to get through
three months
something like that i saw a photo of all
the ships that are docked off of china's
coast and it's just like a solid
you know color of dots
and it looks like it looks like the
whole system is falling apart if you
look at that picture but what the
picture is is lacking
is how many days would it take
for all of that all those ships to be
served
if it's a four day delay i just pick a
random number
it's not really a problem
you can wait four days for your anything
basically
but if it's a year
i don't know what happens that all the
stuff goes bad on the ship i don't know
it seems like pretty bad
and it does seem like we must be working
on fixing even the uh
the port situation and the supply chain
problem there must be tons of people
putting lots of energy into that but let
me go back to the the 3d printing
leapfrog technology
here's a little business
tip that everybody experienced and
business understands but those of you
who are not experienced in business
might be hearing this like a novel
concept for the first time
if you make a product and it's a big hit
you're a private company and everybody
loves your product and they're buying it
like crazy let's say it's technology
because that's a better example it's a
technology product doesn't matter what
it is
what's the first thing you should do
if you have a really successful product
and people love it
the first thing you should do if you are
that company is you should try to put
yourself out of business as fast as
possible
and by that i mean making a new product
that's so good nobody would ever buy
that old product again
it wouldn't make sense
because you have to do that or else
somebody else is going to build that
product
right you have to cannibalize your own
product
in order to move ahead and everybody who
is experienced yeah apple is a perfect
example everybody who's experienced the
business knows this to be true
you have to cannibalize your own product
so somebody else doesn't do it for you
it's the only way you can stay ahead
right yeah amazon does that
basically everybody successful does that
now look at this situation where we
moved our manufacturing
to china that looked exactly like this
i don't know that it was planned in any
way but it's going to work out that way
it's going to work out that we
cannibalize our own manufacturing in
this country
and that that was important for us to
get to the new kind of manufacturing 3d
printing robots ai and we're going to be
experts at those three things and more
while other countries are trying to
figure out what do you do when all these
manufacturing jobs go away
right so we did the play of the century
with with bringing manufacturing to
china and then becoming the experts at
obsoleting that technology
we want everything
we won everything
we just don't know it yet
we won everything
this is this is as hard as you could win
we obsolated our own industry but after
we gave it to china and made them
dependent on it you can't win harder
than that honestly that's as hard as you
can win
now we'll say it depends on us actually
being able to do this 3d printing and
changing the supply chain but i think
that's within our ability
one of the things i learned yesterday is
that our 3d printing capability
is way beyond
what the public
understands
we keep seeing things like oh there's
this 3d printed house
this is just this big machine that puts
down concrete on the walls
and it's kind of cool the first time you
see it
you go okay
it's an automatic concrete machine but
you're calling it a 3d printer okay
but i'm not really that impressed by an
automatic concrete machine
do you know what impresses me
let me say it again
they 3d printed
a helicopter rotor
are we done here
they 3d printed a helicopter router
metal
and slapped it on and it works
wait i'm not done
it didn't just work
it was lighter better and faster and
cheaper
lighter better faster cheaper
that's what kills china
because china can make stuff that's
maybe just as good as 3d printing no
they can't they can't make stuff as good
as 3d printing the regular manufacturing
process would not be close
to being able to
get the specific engineering and i guess
i learned this yesterday this this is
what's different about 3d printing is
that the software
has improved
not just the hardware to print anything
you want
but the software now knows how to print
it that's the big change
so for example it would know that a
component is going to have pressure on
one end of it
let's say there's going to be more
you know physical physics pressure on
one end of it you can just put that into
the machine
say okay this side will have more
pressure and it will end it will just
build it to be solid more solid on one
side
that's just one example
yeah stronger because you could do a
lattice situation with less material now
i think that's the correct answer i'm
being told that it would be all these
things
and i was just sort of filling in from
common sense which might be wrong
that um
let's say if you're doing a
an ordinary metal anything
you would probably it would just be a
solid metal piece right because that's
just the easiest thing to do
you put it in a mold you take it out
it's just solid metal but if you're 3d
printing it at a really fine detail
couldn't you do the the walls of your
device let's say a metal device couldn't
you do it with a little lattice work
little tiny latticework that would use
10 of the material while being stronger
are there enough engineers here i'm
saying yes isn't true
i think i see people agreeing with me
that you can make it lighter stronger
cheaper right that's all you can do all
of it i believe
i believe you can do all of that
all right that's why it's a big deal
what
what is happening in california
i saw this michael schellenberger tweet
and boy would i hate to be running for
governor against michael shellenberger
so he's running as an independent in
california but what as i've told you
many times what he what he does
differently than anybody else politician
is he's written books and done deep
research on the exact problems that
affect a lot of people but california
especially everything from the
the addiction and homelessness to
energy to water
like all those things he became an
expert on
so who wants to run about against that
i mean that's the strongest candidate
i've ever seen
let me say it again
schellenberger is the strongest
political candidate
i've ever seen
now will he get enough attention as an
independent in california
that's that's a tough
that's a tough road but i'll tell you
there's nobody ever did it better so far
it's just ridiculous how good it is and
one of the things he pointed out is that
my state california is being ravaged by
drought
and schallenberger says that
the california under governor newson
has failed to build a single water
storage water recycling or
desalinization project
and i thought
what
it's literally the biggest problem in
the state that we're going to run out of
water
are you telling me that in his entire
term
he hasn't done a single thing that would
be useful
now i realize it takes years to build
these things but at least we should be
looking at something that started
you know we should be talking about the
dam that's almost done or
nothing
and i thought what about the other stuff
well he at least he's working on like
the homeless and the drug problem except
he's doing all the wrong things
he's giving them homes and drugs
that's exactly the wrong thing you want
to do you want to take them and
unfortunately force them into some kind
of treatment because it's a medical
problem it's not a housing problem
that's what schellenberger teaches us
and
i
it does look to me that on all the big
problems
newsome has either done nothing or what
he did was literally the opposite of
what one should do
according to anybody who knows anything
about the topics
yeah they've had plenty of time to do
this stuff that is correct
um
let's talk about the disinformation
board that biden is
especially there there was something
that was bothering me about the
the person that they chose for the head
of it whose name i can't remember so
there's a woman who's chosen to be the
head of the disinformation board and
we're seeing a bunch of her videos and
stuff
and i was trying to figure out what is
the word
that is capturing how i'm feeling about
it and it wasn't until
i saw a glenn greenwald tweet
uh
did they intentionally pick the most
ridiculous person for the job is it just
a troll
and i thought there it is
that was the word ridiculous
ridiculous was the word and that is so
ridiculous it doesn't look serious
to that point i saw a tweet from uh dean
uh
squirrel i believe he's in canada and he
says he i don't really follow american
politics when i first saw this meaning
the video of that head of the
disinformation board when i first saw
this i thought it was an online prank a
slash hoax thing not kidding no i know
he's not kidding
it looks like a prank
it isn't
as far as i know
but doesn't it look exactly like one if
you do something serious
especially something important like this
and it looks like a prank to somebody
who wasn't paying attention
well you did it wrong i think you did it
wrong
all right
um speaking of
disinformation
there are two kinds roughly speaking
one is the kind that's just wrong
information
but the other is diversion
diversion is what keeps us from seeing
the truth sometimes there are lots of
things that keeps us from doing that but
we often get diverted like a magician
makes you look over here all the real
tricks over here so here are some of the
diversions that are happening right now
racism narratives
are a diversion from understanding that
it's really always about rich versus
poor
but if the poor knew that that was what
was going on that is just rich versus
poor
they could easily organize under our
system
because they have free social media
everybody can vote they can just vote
themselves a bunch of benefits
but they don't
because they think the problem is racism
if the poor people said oh the problem
is rich versus poor
let's go vote ourselves some benefits
but it'll never happen because they're
diverted
by racism
now we see the disinformation boards and
the the fact checkers and the fake news
and everything and i feel like what
that's diverting us from is
understanding that our own team is lying
to us also
you know the other team whoever you
think the other team is it doesn't
matter left or right whoever you think
the other team is you're sure they're
lying
you see lots of examples but you're not
so sure about your team aren't you
but
your team's lying too and i think that
when you're talking about fake news and
disinformation boards
uh both sides are then encouraged to
think that their side is right and the
other side is lying
that's a diversion
it's a diversion from the fact that both
both sides are lying all the time
it doesn't mean they're wrong all the
time
i mean
somebody's gonna be right if they're two
different sides uh but the purpose of
the teams is to lie and persuade
that
it was a weird sound
it was a turn
their turkeys gobbling right outside my
door we have lots of wild turkeys here
i hope it's a turkey
so then here's another uh diversion
uh the abortion narrative is diverting
us from the
democrat approval
levels on the democrat record the biden
administration record
everything is
everything is diversion
i get it
see the the turkeys are gobbling at me
because i forgot to put jonathan turley
on my disinformation board
and
and their turkeys
so they're using the simulation to
remind turkey turkey turley
okay got it put them on the information
board disinformation
got it
all right
i don't know how many turkeys there are
out there but i think they're
i think they're massing for an attack
that is a lot of turkey noise
i may take i might take the locals
people over and look at them after we're
done here
all right
this
all right let's talk about some new
disinformation
um
did you see the news
on social media that apparently is fake
news
that pfizer
documents show that the
vaccines were never safe for pregnancy
if people were pregnant or breastfeeding
did any of you see that on social media
some kind of a document that purported
to be a pfizer document
now it's fake news but it would act like
the drug was not tested or wasn't safe
for pregnancy and breastfeeding how many
of you saw that
did you know that that pfizer document
wasn't from a pfizer
document
so all of you who believed you saw a
pfizer document that says they know that
vaccines were not safe during pregnancy
or breastfeeding that was not even a
pfizer document
that was from another entity altogether
it was fake news
and the other entity
apparently has updated their opinion out
of it
so there's actually nothing there there
is no information
about it being safe or unsafe during
pregnancy and breastfeeding
i added the unsafe part just because i'm
unaware of anything
so
pretty much all of the ivermectin
stories
pretty much all of the vaccine oh did
you know about this data story they're
pretty much all fake
you should believe anything about
vaccines any study about vaccines and
any study about ivermectin just assume
it's not real
just assume it's not true
that should be your your starting
assumption if somebody can convince you
it is true well good for them
but you shouldn't start that way you
should start with fake and then if
somebody can convince you well let's see
if they can do it
um
i saw
this is amazing
the head of media matters was on c-span
and
was asked by a caller
uh does about the suspicious nature of
hunter biden getting half a million
dollars for his paintings
and they call her ask how can we be sure
that hunter biden is not selling
influence
as opposed to selling artwork
and the head of media matters uh
uh angelo
curacao
carousone i guess
said quote uh that there uh there's no
reasonable suspicion behind it
in other words there's no reasonable
suspicion that hunter biden is selling
paintings for what seems to be
outrageously high prices because the
people buying the paintings are just in
the influence buying game
there is no reasonable suspicion behind
it
really
really
because to me this is the definition of
reasonable suspicion
not proof
nobody's claiming any proof
has anybody said there's proof nobody
nobody said there's proof
everybody
everybody thinks it's something you
ought to look at a little suspicious
but here's what this made me think
i wondered about the biden family
reunions
when you know that every single thing
that hunter biden does is going to be a
problem for the rest of the family
and then hunter biden says you know
i went to uh rehab
and uh i'm getting off getting off the
drugs
and you can imagine his family and joe
biden and jill and everybody saying oh
that is great that is the best news
so you know we're used to you doing only
the worst possible thing to embarrass us
but thank goodness
thank goodness you're getting off the
drugs and and then you say and and
i'm not going to do any more deals in
china
and then the rest of the biden family
goes
oh god i thought you were going to keep
doing that because that is so
embarrassing to the rest of us thank
goodness you're not going to be doing
the drugs anymore and you're not going
to be dealing deals with china
and then hunter says and
no more deals with ukraine i mean
wouldn't be practical at this point but
no more deals with ukraine and then the
biden family says
thank you
thank you
finally
and then they say so what are you going
to do with your free time
and then hunter biden the black sheep of
the family says oh artwork i'm going to
go into the art business and the family
said ah finally
finally something that will not
embarrass us
and then hunter says yeah i think i
could get quite a bit for these
paintings
and then the hunter family says that's
great
well i you know
we're really happy for you and you're
pretty good painter
so this looks like this could be pretty
good
and then he says yeah i'm going to price
them at half a million dollars a piece
or at least one of them
and then the biden family says
what
i wait for a minute there we thought you
said you were gonna price like one
painting for half a million dollars
and they said yeah i'm gonna price each
painting
for several hundred thousand dollars
and then the biden family says
okay we didn't think we heard you right
there uh it almost sounded like
it almost sounded like you're going to
pay to pay your and so try to sell for
half a million dollars you didn't really
say that did you
and they said yeah
and then the entire bible says
are you serious
you can't do
anything
that doesn't look like a scheme
there of all the things you could do in
the whole world
of all the sports you could do
of all the businesses you could be in
all the things you could invest in the
classes you could take the skills you
could learn all the things in the world
you could do
you have to find the one thing that
would embarrass us
and he does i feel as if joe biden is
living in a simulation
and his theme
is
that
hunter won't stop embarrassing him in
public
and there's just nothing he can do about
it it'll just go from one thing to
another thing to another thing
it looks
almost intentional
doesn't it
i mean it's hard to imagine
that one person could do
thing after thing after thing
that just makes his father look bad who
even does that
like most most people can make their
parents look bad if they try
let's say you get you know drunk driving
arrest well that makes your parents look
bad indirectly sort of a little bit
but we also do other things
most of us
like i've probably done some things that
would have made my parents embarrassed
uh okay i can think of one in particular
i'll give you an example
when i was very new to
media and i had not been media trained
i was asked by a bonus bon appetit
magazine a magazine about food
to do a little special thing in the back
where they'd have some celebrity talk
about their favorite restaurant or
something so i agreed to do it and then
they interviewed me and i made this joke
i said that my mother was the second
worst cook in the world
after her mother
now
that's something that we kind of said in
the family it was like a family joke
that was also
true
it was true
my mother was the inspiration for
dilbert's mother
who had a cooking show called cooking
with salt
it was just salt so basically would you
like your seasoned
about salt
that'll work yeah salt was great i love
salt
but i made this comment to the
the author of bon appetit magazine and i
said to myself
my mother's never going to read bon
appetit magazine am i right
the one thing i don't have to worry
about
is i knew for sure
that my mother living in a little
country mountain place she definitely
was not reading bon appetit magazine and
certainly not reading a cover to cover
to get to the last page
that's how stupid i was
if you can even imagine
that level of media stupidity yep yep
it took approximately
10 seconds
from the publication of that article for
one of my mother's friends to
mail it to her
and say
i hope you've seen this
that's right that's what friends are for
that's what friends are for
so have i ever embarrassed my parents oh
yeah
[Laughter]
yes i have
yes i have as a matter of fact but
the difference between me and hunter
biden
is i still sometimes do things that
don't embarrass people
sometimes i mean not all the time but i
sometimes go into a business
enterprise that
if it worked it would just make
everybody happy
it wouldn't make anybody embarrassed
like how is it the hunter can't find
anything
anything in that domain of don't
embarrass your parents nothing there's
not a single thing he can do that
doesn't embarrass his parents what's up
with that
is your dad a piece of you know
both of my parents are are deceased
um have you read hunter's autobiography
i haven't
all right
so there's no reasonable suspicion
there's anything going on there
all right i believe we've
uh talked about it all except that this
minister of truth
uh started out with some fake news i
think
um so this minister of truth woman the
head of it said
that it's not conservatives it's not
just conservatives who are being
silenced on social media as the
conservatives believe
but that there are many studies many
studies i'm not going to mention them
because there are many of them
oh you want to link to the study i'm not
going to give you a link to the study
there's many studies many many many
studies and these studies show that some
liberals are also being censored
so the idea that censorship is sort of
working against
conservatives
has been debunked and debunked by the
many many studies of which i will not
link and will not mention many many of
them and
it those studies show that
liberals are
censored too
now
did you catch the
trick did you catch the trick that she
used
and then i i used it as well
tell me if these two things are
opposites
most of the
most of the
the media suppression is against
conservatives
but there have been studies that show
that liberals also
have been censored
are those opposites
does one debunk the other
no but she presented them like they do
in other words
she literally
this uh and i don't think this is
delving into personal opinion
i don't think this is a subjective
statement
the head of disinformation
tried to tell us
that these studies would show that there
was the same amount
no she didn't say it this was the clever
part she simply said that the studies
show that
liberals also get banned
i'll bet that's true
i'll bet there's at least one case of
that
two would be plenty if there were ever
two people in the history of banning
and they were liberal and they got
banned then her statement is right the
studies have shown that people on the
left also get banned
it would just take one or two
does she mention how many
no does she compare the rate of
conservatives being banned or suppressed
to the rate
of the other side no
and wasn't that the only question
that was the only question
the only question was how much
for
conservative versus liberal and she
answered it with an absolute instead of
how much
oh they both have
a little problem there
that is intellectually
dishonest
it is disinformation by design
that is clearly designed as
disinformation her statement could not
have been more clear
to mislead
it was intended to mislead and it did
now when greenwald asked did they
intentionally pick the most ridiculous
person for the job it's not just the way
she looks
because she has a theatrical mannerism
which would probably work great in a lot
of contexts
but not this one
not this one this is the only job you
don't want somebody exactly like that
if you put her in
lots of different jobs i mean you come
up with a dozen right off the top of
your head
where her personality would be perfect
like you know big personality
she's not shy of the camera
you can think of all kinds of jobs she'd
be perfect for but not this one you
don't want somebody who looks like she's
acting
to be your disinformation czar
that's the opposite of what you want
all right
that ladies and gentlemen
is everything i wanted to talk about
i believe i have
helped you all to a better life
if you haven't read lose or think
my book
right up there
you really should because it is the
answer to disinformation or at least
it's one of them
so if you would read that book it would
tell you how to spot fake news with very
practical specific things to look for
and once you have that toolbox
you say oh it's one of those
and then you could spot it easily i'll
give you one example
if you see news that's too incredible to
believe
it's because it's almost certainly not
true
the news that makes our hair catch on
fire and go oh i can't believe that
happened
it didn't happen
95 of the time sometimes yes weird
things do happen that's a real thing but
when you see the news that
let's say the news that
the russians were paying the tel we're
paying a bounty for american debt in
afghanistan or something like that like
that would be such a shocking story
that's probably not true
and sure enough there's no confirmation
um
be a turkey volume guessing man
six
like the supreme court made abortion
illegal yeah
so did you know that most abortions are
performed with just a pill
how many of you knew that that's
something i learned from dr drew
and i think dr drew had a interview with
bill maher
and then immediately after dr drew met
with bill maher
bill maher said he learned a lot about
abortion and one of the things he
learned is the same literally the same
thing that dr drew told me when i was on
dr drew show just the other day
he told me that
the vast majority of abortions are just
a pill
i i didn't know that
did you know that
um
well i guess it's a it's a
there's a technical definition of what
an abortion is
so if if there was anything that was
going to
take hold to use non-scientific terms if
anything was on in the process of
becoming a life
and it stopped it from happening
i'm going to call that an abortion
you know you can you can word play it
all you want but
yeah we talked about the horse dewormer
thing
that's just such a big simulation
coincidence
all right uh and then 2000 mules i
haven't seen yet but i plan to as soon
as i find it somewhere
if anybody has a link to somewhere i can
actually see the the actual video 2000
mules will you send it to me on twitter
because people keep telling me where it
is but
i can't find it
or i can't find it in a way that plays i
found it on rumble and it didn't play i
don't know why
oh have you mentioned ultra mega yeah
you thank you i should have mentioned
that so as you know now uh biden is
going with this ultra mega extremist
messaging
so once again
when they don't have an argument
they have to go for a personality
that's what they're doing so it's just
another
you know um
it's just a typical democrat approach
to attack the people in the united
states like entire entire categories of
people
and just dismissing them
but i don't think it's working that
ultra mega thing doesn't seem to be
working
uh and they're also bringing back dark
it's dark concert so the democrats have
not essentially they have given up i was
going to say it's this seems subjective
but i think we can say it objectively
can't we
would it be fair to say just objectively
if if you take your bias
for a second to the degree we can do
that does it look like the democrats
gave up
and and they're only struggling to win
based on personality problems and fake
news and it doesn't look like they're
what they're trying to win on content
the republicans are still definitely
trying to win on content
because they have the strongest case in
the world
well this worked when trump was
president
such as the border
just do that again
do whatever he was doing it must have
been working so they have a pretty
strong argument of practical solutions
you know hire more cops how about that
you got too much crime stop letting
people out of jail how about that right
so they're very practical
solutions even if you prefer them
not to be the solution
but the democrats have just given up
they're not asking for anything that's
real
at this point
it feels like it's just personality and
fear and all that stuff
uh
all right
i've got ultra dark omega mega
the
the ultra dark mega
all right
virtual premiere for what
or the virtual premiere
not for the movie
have you considered that they made the
disinformation position look ridiculous
on purpose
so that people won't see it as a
legitimate threat to their freedom i
don't think so
that that goes into the too clever
category
like i will certainly suspect people of
all kinds of
bad behavior
but when it gets to be that clever i
think
that's a little too clever
right
uh banned adopt videos got what's that
mean
all right
uh did i watch amber turd's performance
yesterday i watched only some clips she
obviously seemed to be acting it didn't
look real at all
so i can't wait to see what happens with
that
my pick for the kentucky derby i think
it's going to be some kind of a horse
probably wins that
um thoughts on the managerial class
that's what the entire dilbert comic is
about
um
he weighed he's waiting for the
cross-examination okay
why was roe versus wade never codified
into law there weren't enough votes
that's why
that's why
see one of the reasons why you don't
want
congress to codify into law
is because
it's because you want the states to do
it
don't you
like why would you piss off half of the
states when all the states all the
states can have what the states want by
a majority if you can give every state
what they want
by a majority within their state why
would you make a national law
that would thwart 50 percent of the
states
that's the opposite of our system our
system is that you want the states to
have as much control
over the things that make sense for them
to control
and you want that you want the states to
have no control over things that doesn't
make sense for them to control such as
national defense
right you don't want them controlling
that but when it comes down to like what
happens to an individual making a really
tough life and death decision
you want to boil that down right as
close to the individual as you can get
it
you know down to the doctor and the
person
if the state's as close as you can get
then i'll take it
but the people want the federal
government to do it want to thwart the
will of the
people
in the state that they don't live in in
many cases
that doesn't seem right
oh i can see it on the local site so
dinesh has a site on locals and if
you're a subscriber you can see it there
uh i don't know if he's he's got a
subscription locked or not you can
unlock things on on locals so
can somebody tell me if is it locked or
unlocked on locals
the 2000 mules somebody will tell me in
a second
locked or unlocked
yeah it's hard to google try googling it
it's locked okay so you'd have to be a
subscriber
somebody says it's free but other people
say it's locked
oh you can't access it until 8 pm
tonight okay so there's a little
ambiguity of it but i'll tell you that
dinesh is doing a great job of marketing
could it could not be a better time at a
better content and
you know he's got he's got just the
right amount of censorship to
to give him some audience
dinesh is locked down on twitter still
somebody says
you can buy it at salem.com at noon
what is salem.com i don't know what that
is
all right that's all for now i'll go
talk to you tomorrow