Episode 1826 Scott Adams - Will Democrats Run Paul Pelosi And Hunter Biden As Their Dream Ticket?

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is people are pretty sure that other people are could be offended and they're defending those people but we ran out of people who were offended i don't even know the last time i heard about anybody being offended personally now when people say they're offended really it's just language they're just saying oh i'm offended that you called me bold well not really i get called bald fairly often and i can't remember the last time i felt offended you know maybe i didn't like it maybe it's not the message i wanted to take forward about myself but offend it i don't know it just feels like it's an opinion happening in somebody else's skull can anybody remember the last time you were offended sometimes you just don't like what people are saying but offended uh you just think there's something wrong with the person who said it right so i i just think we should recognize that we're no longer in a world where people are offended we're just pretty sure other people are do you know what do you know what it means when you think somebody else is offended think about it think about it when it meet what it means for the people who the people who say that well i'm not offended but on behalf of those other people i'm going to defend them what's that really saying it's really kind of offensive isn't it it's kind of offensive that somebody thinks they need to defend me for example or you or somebody else why is somebody else telling me that i'm so weak that i'm going to be offended right if you're offended by language you're kind of weak now if the language has a real world impact on you and you're complaining about that yeah by all means it has a real world impact but if if i'm protecting you because i think you're going to be offended i kind of think you're weak don't i i'm not sure that i want that well here's some fake news it was uh it wasn't on the real news but it was on the social media but it's fake that elon musk was considering building a private airport in texas there near where he lives but elon responded that by saying that he lives five minutes from the austin airport who would be dumb to build his own airport kind of would be because if you have a private jet it just sits there at the public airport until you're ready to use it now you do have to compete for a runway he said that they could use another runway so probably there are times when he has to wait 20 minutes to fly or something i don't think it's a big deal if you're five minutes from an airport you have a private jet that's just sitting there you just got to wait your turn to use the runway right i can't imagine that he'd need to build his own airport for in that situation seems like it'd be a waste so i believe in what he says that's fake news um so as i've told you stefan collinson is the person who writes opinion pieces for cnn when there's uh really no substance to write about but you still have to say something bad about republicans or trump he'll he'll jump into the breach and find something there uh and here's how the start of his opinion piece on cnn starts today quote liz cheney has posed the question with with which america may have to wrestle for months to come here's the question if if there is evidence that ex-president donald trump committed crimes in seeking to overturn the 2020 election what message will send if he's not charged stephen coulson wants you to know that's a big question we should wrestle with yeah i'm going to stop thinking about war with china supply chain inflation let me let me think about the hypothetical that the committee that has been investigating for however long has so far found absolutely nothing that looks even slightly like a crime but if they did in the imaginary world if we could find a hypothetical imaginary world in which trump did commit a crime in the imaginary world well the america would have to wrestle with it in that imaginary world do you see where we're at we're at a point where he has to propose speculative hypothetical crimes because the january 6 committee didn't find anything do you think that that collinson would would simply say that if there was any evidence if any evidence had been presented if any evidence existed already do you think the january 6 committee would have said you know we're going to save the good stuff for last would they do that do you think we'd get to this point and have no evidence they even remember this is not me saying there's no evidence that wouldn't mean anything to you this is his biggest critic essentially admitting with his hypothetical question i think that's how you'd have to interpret it he's admitting that there's no evidence of trump committing a crime they've actually turned a complete lack of evidence into a hypothetical crime all right here's another one hypothetically if stephen collinson had murdered a prostitute how would you feel if no charges were filed i feel bad about that i don't know about you but as stephen collinson has ever there's no evidence he's ever done this by the way i don't want to suggest there's any evidence he ever has or would murder a prostitute but if he did if he did i think we all have to wrestle with the question of what would happen if he didn't get charged what would happen that's all they have there's a great piece by joel in breitbart today in which he's noted that there's a lot of stuff moving in the right direction in this country what could be a better endorsement that things are moving in the right direction than the biggest issue ah there's nothing there our big our biggest issue is that so-called insurrection that turns out not to be an insurrection and it wasn't an insurrection it was just people getting a little worked up over something that was bad but not as bad as they say all right alex jones apparently lost his uh case there in court so he's got to pay 4.1 million to the parents of the san diego parents now let's check the fake news on this is cnn reported today that uh jones has made you know dozens of millions or hundreds of millions of dollars they say peddling his conspiracy theories and so 4.1 million would be a drop in the bucket because according to them at one point he was making over 800 000 a day in 2018.

now let's compare that cnn reporting that he has tons and tons of money to the fact that he's declared bankruptcy which doesn't mean he's out of money that just means he might need time to generate the cash to pay any debts with the fact that i asked my digital assistant what uh alex jones's net worth is and is pretty close to the 4.1 million they the you know amazon says 5 million if you use their digital system now what do you think do you think alex jones's net worth is closer to 5 million in which cases 4 million would take him down you know quite a bit uh 80 percent is he already being charged 80 of his entire net worth or does he have tons and tons of millions left over you have no idea no idea but uh alex jones has said that it was a mistake he's he doesn't believe what he said about the sandy hook thing being fake and he apologized unreservably in my opinion it was just a direct apology for mistake now he does claim that he didn't know he was wrong what do you think do you think alex jones knew it wasn't true or do you think he thought it was true when he was reporting it what do you think i actually don't know i don't know i really don't know because there are plenty of people who are educated and well informed who believe ridiculous conspiracy theories look how many people believe that president trump said that you should maybe think about drinking bleach a lot of well-educated well-informed people literally believe that like actually believe it so if you tell me that alex jones who appears to be you know a capable communicator somebody who's built a big entity that you know made a lot of money apparently so how can he be so capable and yet believe something that would that's so ridiculously untrue in your opinion but you just have to look around almost everybody that you know is believing something just as ridiculous but sometimes you don't notice because you believe it too right if you believe it's true too you don't notice other people believing ridiculous things all the time so is it possible i mean i can't read his mind i don't i don't know what he believed i really don't but i would say this is a genuine mystery in my opinion i think it's a genuine mystery what he really believed i have no way of knowing well china suspended some diplomacy and some you know various things that we were dealing with them in international relations and i guess that's real they're trying to be tough and respond to nancy pelosi going to taiwan and i feel like nothing good came out of this am i am i wrong on one hand you want to protect the right of any american especially high-ranking american politician to travel wherever they want to an allied country so on one hand it's just you know preserving her i guess right to do so but nothing good came of it it just made china more angry and they're going to stop talking to us about some things that might matter so i don't know it looks like a loss yeah it looks like we didn't gain anything at all on the other hand if china is going to be a dick and stop talking to us about anything productive i think we can go in and kill their fence and all dealers in country now i know it's really hard to get cia assets into china it's probably pretty hard but if we can i think we should just take out their fentanyl dealers just murder them where they are as terrorists i think we could deter in fact i think we could declare china a terrorist state as long as they're sending us fentanyl we should talk about it why would we consider saying that the cartels are terrorists if we're not considering the people who send them their weapons part of the terrorist organization in this case weapons being the fentanyl so i think we should deter declare the fentanyl production facilities and anything that helps them maybe including the government if the government is helping them i don't know if they are just declare them terrorists and then declare our intention to kill them we should also start sending home chinese born or chinese resident students that are in the united states just kick out 10 a week 10 a day whatever it takes until they're all gone so uh if we're going to be that way let's be that way looks like maybe we are going to be that way new cold war which i know so here's a story that i keep seeing on the internet but i believe there is nothing to it how many of you believe the following thing to be true and i'm telling you advance in advance i see no evidence to to say this is true i believe this is completely made up but i've seen it a number of times on twitter so i'll tell you what it is you tell me if you think this is true do you think that all cause mortality is way up meaning people who are not elderly are dying from things that they weren't dying from two years ago that the baseline of just ordinary non-non-covariate related as far as you know non-covalent related deaths are way up for basically everything do you think that's true because you've seen things on twitter that say it's true right but try googling it you can't google it there's no news story that supports it if you can find any credible source please tweet it at me because i didn't see any and i looked i looked for it i don't the only place you can find it though is on sketchy sources on twitter now i know you're saying the ethical skeptic some of you would say he's not a sketchy source but i don't know who he is and i've seen a lot of stuff out of him that i don't understand meaning he prints a lot of stuff that i look at and i go i don't i don't know where the data come from where it came from or how to interpret it you're lying what am i lying about somebody's accusing me of lying lie why would i lie about any of this what would even be the point of it i hope you're not talking to me uh i need at least an incentive to lie what would be my reason i can't even think of one anyway i looked around and i could not deduce that was true i did see a video of somebody who claimed to be a insurance company ceo making the claim that there's there's no other explanation except that the vaccinations must have caused some autoimmune problem that makes every other kind of disease seem worse for a while except the name of that insurance company wasn't even in the video right i mean are you going to believe somebody who says their insurance company executive and they don't name the company and what about the other executives do they say the same thing is there anybody who's actually associated with an actual company that i've heard of that would say all cause mortality is up and we don't know why and secondly we really don't know why if you just made everybody fatter and more sedentary and then made them worry more wouldn't they die of everything more often am i wrong i mean i'm no doctor but just take the baseline health of people and don't change anything except you make them way fatter exercise way less and i'm going to throw in another one spend two years avoiding germs what's that do to your immune system spend two years avoiding germs pretty well let's say you successfully avoided germs because i didn't get you know during the covid lockdown i didn't get any other illness did you did anybody catch a common cold during the pandemic i didn't did anybody catch a common cold i i feel like we have an entire civilization that just took its own immune response down by avoiding germs for two years so uh so we're getting fat we were more sedentary we had more to worry about uh we didn't have the same social benefits we had we have more fentanyl there's more crime uh and we've probably avoided germs maybe too much for two years it might have weakened our ability to fight the next group that come along i'm saying germs as you know a general word for i'm just saying germs is the general word for anything that affects your autoimmune system or your immune system so i'm going to call bs on this until somebody gives me a real source all right here is this little sir croth scott adams the most desperate pro vaxxer on the internet first of all i'm not provax second of all you're uninformed thirdly you're defaming me like like a so stop doing it and thirdly or fourthly you're gone boom all right you you have to get a little bit higher level of interaction than you're coping you're coping no i'm not coping god damn idiots all right let's get back to some positivity um so a question asked of uh kirby in the government in the biden administration he was asked by fbn's uh ed edward lawrence this is the question it's a good question given the aggression we're seeing from china and the fbi director saying that china is the number one threat to the u.s in the next 10 years would biden caution companies from expanding in china that's a good question isn't it if the biden administration is saying china is our biggest threat wouldn't the binding administration also be responsibly acting to caution companies not to expand business and the answer was that private companies make their own decisions since when since when do private companies make their own decisions how about this uh new tax plan that the congress is is uh looks like they'll probably pass they would raise the minimum tax on corporations was that the corporations deciding to pay more taxes or was that the government telling companies what to do pay more taxes i mean since when does the government not tell companies what to do it's the very thing they do all the time so that's a dumb answer and it's an avoiding answer if if we think that china is our number one threat our government should be warning us against it in fact i would say that would be pretty basic to their essential mission i would say the government's central mission is to find out what's happening in the rest of the world and warn us about it and tell us where to do business and where not to do business that's exactly what they should be doing i want more of that not less totally now if they told me not to do business in a place that didn't have any reason not to do business then i would say oh well that's inappropriate i want to do business with this country you don't have any good reasons don't tell me not to do it but if they know that the united states is likely to continue pressuring china and vice versa if we know that don't you think a little bit of heads up to our corporations isn't is appropriate a little bit heads up you know and the question was not will the government make it illegal to expand in china that wasn't the question if the question had been should the government make it illegal to expand then i think you know the the answer we're going to let corporations decide would be appropriate but but i think at least a warning would be fair um and what do you think about this question of whether private companies will make their own decisions let's say the government doesn't get involved is it still true that private companies make their own decisions i would add a caveat to that private companies or yeah private companies do make their own decisions as long as i'm not interested if i'm interested and i am in in the case of china then they're not going to make their own decisions i'm i'm going to make china so toxic that they can't decide to work there so you have to ask yourself what is free will and what's their own decisions there's there's some gray area here because i do think that i can pollute china enough in terms of people's opinion about how smart it would be to do business there i i do have the platform i have a big enough platform and because i i'm the dilbert guy i have enough of a track record of telling businesses what they can't do i've been doing it for years for probably 30 years now i've been telling corporations what they can't do and then they stop doing it do you know how many companies have told me that they stopped a policy because they saw it getting mocked in a dilbert comic a lot a lot it's not it's not a random you know rare thing a lot the entire business management business book market fell apart when i started market mocking it i don't know if there's anything in business anymore that i've mocked that has survived i mean even dress codes dress codes have largely gone away i mean i was mocking those in the 90s you know cubicles started to go away i mean pretty much anything i mock ends up you know being at risk so no the companies do not have their own say about china i will make it so difficult to do business in china because of the risk it's a real risk by the way i'm doing you a patriotic positive thing here so there's there's no negativity to this i will make it impossible what about esg the only reason the esg still exists in business is that i haven't taken it on yet but when i do i'll give it six months and that's gonna get really embarrassing now dilbert doesn't have the same clout it used to have right in the 90s i could i could pretty much take something out in a week right now it would take a little while but mockery is a really powerful force in the corporate world no ceo wants to be on the receiving end of mockery it's really terrible now somebody i was waiting for this comment what took you so long somebody at youtube said i'm drunk with power i was looking for a little more pushback i was looking for somebody to say scott you're you're dreaming you can't actually cause corporations to yeah i can i actually can cause corporations to act differently that that is absolutely demonstrated in my in my history and there's no reason to believe it wouldn't continue happening so i'll only use my powers for good um speaking of power ron desantis uh has suspended a tampa state attorney for being too woke i guess the attorney wasn't going to act on the state's new abortion restrictions and desantis suspended him without pay for basically just not doing his job what is the point of hiring a state attorney who doesn't believe the the laws of the of his own state no matter what you think about the abortion laws no matter what you think about social justice and wokeness no matter what you think about any of that if if a person gets hired to do a job and then says i'm not going to do it i don't think there's any question about whether they have to go i i love this all right um the other thing we learned is that desantis claims that he was not aware that his staff turned down the invitation to be on the view now i think he agreed with their decision but what kind of staff turns that down without talking to the boss do you believe that do you believe that desantis's staff turned down an invitation to the view in in very news making language without checking with it it's possible it's possible because you know bureaucracy isn't big companies and blah blah it's possible there's something but i would probably fire that staff no no no no no somebody's saying that's a smart staff no no no you have to fire them he should fire them because they made a decision that was his decision and that wasn't theirs to make because he may have played it differently right i he may have he may have said you know this is one this is one time that i might want to go into the belly of the lion i'm strong enough now that i can survive that i'm you know i'm quick enough that i can make this work i i think they took that option away from their boss and they should be fired for that like if if somebody did that to me i'd at least demote them whoever made the decision can you imagine having would you put up with the risk of that happening again if your employee made that decision for you and presented it as your decision and did it flamboyantly it's the flamboyant part that's that's cause for termination yeah if you do if you make a decision on my behalf flamboyantly without checking on me oh you're so fired you're so fired how many people who have ever managed employees would agree with me that that's a firing offense i want to see if anybody agrees now you you'd have to take the entire situation into effect so i'm oversimplifying it it's not the only variable in play but if it were the only variable in play that's a firing offense yeah i guess some of you agree with me so i think we could we can all uh there's no inconsistency you can like desantis and still say maybe that was a staffing problem you know it's not like there's anybody at his level who doesn't have staffing problems you know i mean i i say the same thing about cuomo yeah i think cuomo took a lot of heat for maybe a staff mistake about the nursing homes i get he may be he's the one who signed off on it blah blah but he was advised you know somebody presented him the option i just think everybody has staffing problems i'm not sure exactly how much you can assume is the top boss's actual problem or or they caused it so here's a question that i want all of you to start asking your democrat friends just for fun just for fun um the question is if you could rig the 20 if you believed let's put it in i'll just paraphrasement if you believed a racist were coming into office for the presidency and you believe this was definitely a terrible racist and you had the option of rigging the election let's say you're in a position to do so if you had the option of ringing the election to keep an unknown racist out of office would you do it and if you say no that you wouldn't do it what the hell is wrong with you are you a coward or are you not a patriot because i would let me say it as clearly as possible if there was somebody running for president who was a confirmed known racist or i believed it to be true i mean i could be wrong but let's say i believed it to be true because i'd accepted what the news told me if i believed it to be true and i was in a position to stop that person from coming to office pretty sure i'd do it especially if i thought i had a chance of getting away with it right now you know we all like to think that we would have shot hitler if we had a chance but you know people aren't that brave really i feel like if i could get away with it and i could stop a racist from coming to office i feel like that would be the patriotic thing to do i remind you that we are a nation of laws created by the biggest law breakers the world has ever known so do you do what they say or what they did because the founders were the biggest law breakers a revolution a revolution's about as hard as you can break the law you can't break the law any harder than that we were created by law breakers that's our dna and our dna says completely clearly correct me if i'm wrong if you're an american re read your own dna doesn't your dna say follow the law totally follow the law unless things go too far and then break the law right nobody says that directly but it's in your dna everybody follow the law unless there's some like weird situation that just has gone too far and then you pick up your rifle if you need to you break the law you cheat you do what you need to do like you're not you're not protected from the obligation to protect your country because there's some legal legal way that the other team is doing it your obligation to your family your country doesn't go away in a real emergency that doesn't go away because there's some law in the way no the law is the least important thing if you have a genuine emergency the genuine emergency says do what makes sense it doesn't a genuine emergency doesn't say do what is legal it's the opposite a genuine emergency says always do what makes sense period no you never get out of that side of that double or you're in trouble so i feel like that's a fair question to democrats if they didn't cheat in 2022 under the their belief that trump was you know literally some kind of a racist white supremacist dictator monster if they didn't cheat they need to explain that and if they're not willing to cheat in 2024 they need to explain that why they're not on the side of the country right now they might be mistaken in their beliefs i believe they are but they're not acting on their beliefs in a way that you would even imagine could be slightly patriotic slightly positive even slightly worthy of praise there's a real character problem if they're not willing to act on their beliefs or maybe it's telling us those are not real beliefs right i've said this before if you're standing in the middle of the street and you see a truck coming at you and it doesn't look like it's going to stop and you don't get out of the way that's somebody who doesn't believe there's a truck because they didn't get out of the way but if you get out of the way well that means you believe the truck was there right so if you're not acting on the thing you you believe on there's something going on so if they said trump was a big old racist dictator who was going to destroy the world they say that very clearly and often if they were not willing to act on it what's wrong with their character and i think you could be asking that directly isn't your character defective like why don't you do something about that so the the analogy um let me teach you how to use analogies an analogy should tell you exactly one point is not trying to be the same as the subject you're talking about the one point from my analogy is that people will act on what they think is true will you accept that somebody standing in front of a moving truck will act based on what they believe is true is that really a truck coming at me don't tell me the analogy is wrong if you don't know how to understand an analogy there's just one minor thin little thing that an analogy tries to do and if you go beyond that and say well those are not exactly the same thing well then you should not be in this conversation at all now if i may criticize myself why am i using an analogy when i know they don't work because there are too many people too dumb to to process them case in point somebody who's too dumb to process an analogy i keep making the i keep making the assumption that my yeah my audience is smarter you can handle that but some people sneak in on youtube who don't understand how analogies work oh your analogy is not exactly the same thing as the thing you're at uh you're comparing it to um if it were the same thing then there wouldn't be any point let me give you an analogy the way this gentleman would like you to see them i'd like to talk about this this little power pack is a little bit extra battery i'd like to make an analogy by comparing this to it this identical one because that's a good analogy so we'll compare this to this identical one and everything i say about this one will be true of this one what is the point right no the analogies are supposed to be different all right if you don't get that part you should find a less challenging podcast all right rasmussen tells us that the midterms are narrowing just like everybody told you would happen did i tell you that the by the time election day comes along that the polling that said at one point republicans had a nine point advantage of a generic republican against a generic democrat in the midterms nine points and then for a while it hung around eight and dropped a five but five is still pretty big and now it's down to three so we went from nine to three um uh i'll get rid of you for just being a jerk goodbye all right so why is it that it's narrowing why is it that i knew it would narrow that the lead would narrow and then it did why is that that's an honest question why why was it such a big gap and now it's narrowing is it the media because it seems to me the uh the january 6th thing fell apart the january 6 thing showed apparently no crime for trump and no insurrection uh planning so so he has a free path to the white house you would think that all of these things would make biden less popular here's what i think it is there was a rob reiner tweet that said provocatively that biden has accomplished more in his term so far than any president in 60 years and i read that and i thought actually you know i think it's a little hyperbolic but it's directionally probably true if you look at the legislation that biden has done if you look at the impact he's had on things and um i would say he's accomplished a lot for his base or he's on he's on the cusp of doing so assuming his latest legislation gets through if you were to just look at his legislation it looks like he will have his name on some pretty big pieces of legislation right now don't don't confuse accomplishment for things you want i'm saying things his base wants i i feel like he has moved the bar on some things that his base wants so we've got gas prices coming down at the moment that should make a difference in the vote we've got inflation is bad and but we also might get used to it it's weird but you can get used to something that just sort of lays there in the baseline and i worry that although inflation may stay high if it starts drifting down all before the midterms that will be enough if inflation will say inflation is you know 9.5 um today whatever it is it's in that range now let's say that drifts down to six percent still way too much right but let's say it drifts down to six percent before election day it's going to take all the energy out of it because you're going to think to yourself well it looks like it's under control and it could easily drift down a little bit it wouldn't take much it just has to directionally look like it's going down so i think that biden's got legislative successes at least the news will report it that way ukraine seems to be a stalemate so we just stopped thinking about it his disastrous withdrawal from afghanistan happened so early in the term that we're already forgetting about it employment looks pretty good employment looks pretty good and he's starting to do some trump-like things like build a little bit of the wall and maybe promoting the abrahamic chords that he had been a little negative on so if you take the fact that he's first of all triangulating in other words he's he's quite consciously it seems accepting some points of view that are a little bit republican that i just mentioned so um i would say that it's all of those things i would say that basically he's just sort of getting everything trending in the right direction probably by luck probably by luck but i feel it too i was saying it the other day in my opinion our country's moving in the right direction we're decoupling from china that seems real i think nuclear is now getting the attention it deserves i think that we're starting to look at all of our energy sources a little bit closer to you know not crippling one to benefit the other that looks good we have more people being covered by health care if you don't mind the expense of that that looks good i don't know i see a lot of things moving in the right direction and i feel like that's probably the reason that the reason that his poll numbers are improving is that i feel like other people feel too now you might say but what about nancy pelosi and in taiwan i feel like that's popular right it might in fact you know increase our risk with china but i feel like it's popular in the united states is it not is it not popular so stop watching cnn i watch both i watch the left and the right if you're not watching the left and the right um all right so we're all getting used to being screwed no no i'm not saying it at all you know the inflation's a real problem and i don't have a solution for that nor does anybody else um stop watching msnbc you know everybody who's telling me to stop looking at the news on the other side does that feel like good advice it's literally the basis of the show as i'm looking at the news on both sides and trying to tell you when being on a team is less smart than looking at the issue like it's exactly what i'm trying to do is look at both sides no i'm not going to stop doing that if i didn't look who would so you think it's pollster corruption i disagree because there are too many polls that are looking to watch this if you see rasmussen and also a lot of polls that are clearly left-leaning start to agree that the gap is narrowing i wouldn't worry about pollster corruption in that situation but if you saw rasmussen saying there was a a nine point gap when the the sketchier pollsters started saying there was no gap well i'd worry about that but i think you're going to see all of them moving you know a few points above apart but moving toward the the same answer i think um yeah let's talk about brittany griner so we've got this mass american basketball player who had some weed and in russia that's a pretty bad bad defense she got nine years for some weed and she wasn't selling it she was using it for her own purposes now obviously i say obviously i can't confirm it but to me it's obvious that putin is using this as a negotiating uh thing and if it looks like that's what's happening given that we've offered some i think we've offered an arms dealer or something in return i feel like we should just you know grab some russian that they care about and just trade them back i mean if it's literally going to be a hostage situation well let's just take a hostage you know they did yeah if russia takes a hostage we can take hostage i mean we would need some you know reason for why we're doing it you know lavrov would be top of my list i know you can't arrest a diplomat or can you um scott do you like golf i hope that's a joke but how how hard do you think we should go on russia to release brittany griner now she she knew what was illegal she probably didn't know it was a nine-year thing uh i wouldn't have done that i mean i wouldn't have imagined it would really happen it's hard to imagine it like your head has a hard time holding that as a possibility but it was real how hard should we go so some are saying no that's her own problem right no while i would agree with you that she made her own bed and when people create their own problems they have to they have to answer for it however that's not really the context here the context here is that putin just took an american hostage that's not good if putin takes an american hostage we have to respond in kind i don't know what that looks like but we're going to need to take somebody hostage that we don't already have to trade them back so um i'd say take a hostage they did all right um so jobs looks good employee employment is up added half a million jobs we you know we thought it would be half as many as that um unemployment still looks not bad um who thinks is a good idea to take drugs into a foreign country well i'm not going to excuse brittany greiner's mistake i'll just point out that she is a young person and she is american and she didn't get arrested because of her drugs right i mean maybe that was the reason she got arrested i guess but i don't think the nine the nine year thing is political and i think we have to treat it that way i think it's just an act of war i realize is compatible with their laws but it's obvious in this this context it's obvious it's just an act of war what would trump do in this situation because i feel like biden is just being kind of quiet about it maybe quiet diplomacy what would he do you think trump would do nothing i don't know i think trump likes saving celebrities i think for trump saving a saving a black woman would be too irresistible i think trump would be he would throw everything on it am i wrong do it do i not know trump or something you you don't think you don't think trump would throw everything at this because it would look so good yeah it would be counter to his narrative it would be pro-american it would be right on right on message in fact if you want her to be released i think trump's your best shot yeah i i think he i think all it takes is making it a priority i'm not sure there's much more nuance to it than that i i think if trump just said hold on stop everything just stop everything if you don't give her back yeah we're going to send you know ukraine you'd never want them to have or something like that something like that all right uh he's already working on it you think maybe he is maybe trump is already working on it but i don't think china wants trump to succeed so uh they're not going to do it when he's out of office that's for sure i don't think so why didn't trump legalize marijuana i don't know but my only assumption is that he's just so anti-drug that he just can't get there that's my guess but i don't know i don't it's just pure speculation because i can't read his mind but there's no um i don't believe there's any argument he's ever made i'm not i've never heard him make an argument one way or the other about legalizing marijuana yeah i think he just doesn't like any of that business period and you know while i disagree with him on that point uh it's not a it's not a terrible position to take but i think it would be consistent with republicans to at least get the federal government out of that business so why he didn't do that i think would just be a mistake how about that it can can i just say that's just a clean mistake on trump's part to not at least make some motion to legalize it because he always had the cover that it's up to the states and that would be the most consistent thing any republican ever said so uh there are several topics which i would say trump failed completely at he failed completely of fentanyl completely right there's no i can't give him any i thought he took a run at it but he failed right i'll give him credit for taking a run at it uh i think he failed on health care i think he failed on prescription drugs um i think he he didn't get the wall built you know you could say that was his failure that was congress maybe um yeah i i would say there's all kinds of things that he just unambiguously failed at but compared to the alternative yeah what was the other candidate going to succeed at all that i don't know maybe um scott is messing with your hesitant well i'm not trying to do that right now uh completely disagree with marijuana well it's up to congress to change the laws correct but the leader of the united states should be weighing in and if trump had said i will sign it if you send it to me i would have loved to hear that but it didn't happen all right uh i have standards when it comes to trump but none for joe what the are you talking about how did you watch this podcast and say that i have standards for trump and not for biden because i've never criticized biden biden hasn't fixed the border he messed up energy have you missed me criticizing biden are you kidding really you're what you're a member of the locals subscription service which means you have enough interest in my content that you subscribe to it and you've never heard me criticize biden i just gave biden a long list of kudos did i i just said he did things for his side are you 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yeah yeah yeah so here's another sign of

the golden age

i'm going to make the following

pronouncement

nobody is offended by anything anymore

you probably didn't notice

kind of snuck up on you

and you think it's true right you you

think it's not true you think that

people are offended all the time by

language and insults

nope

what has happened is people are pretty

sure that other people are could be

offended and they're defending those

people

but we ran out of people who were

offended

i don't even know the last time i heard

about anybody being offended personally

now when people say they're offended

really it's just

language

they're just saying oh

i'm offended that you called me bold

well not really

i get called bald fairly often and i

can't remember the last time i felt

offended

you know maybe i didn't like it

maybe it's not the message i wanted to

take forward about myself but

offend it i don't know

it just feels like it's an opinion

happening in somebody else's skull

can anybody remember the last time you

were offended

sometimes you just don't like what

people are saying but offended

uh you just think there's something

wrong with the person who said it right

so i i just think we should recognize

that we're no longer in a world where

people are offended

we're just pretty sure other people are

do you know what do you know what it

means when you think somebody else is

offended

think about it

think about it when it meet what it

means

for the people who the people who say

that well i'm not offended

but on behalf of those other people i'm

going to defend them what's that really

saying

it's really kind of offensive isn't it

it's kind of offensive

that somebody thinks they need to

defend me for example or you or somebody

else

why is somebody else telling me that i'm

so weak that i'm going to be offended

right

if you're offended by language

you're kind of weak

now if the language has a real world

impact on you and you're complaining

about that yeah by all means it has a

real world impact

but if if i'm protecting you because i

think you're going to be offended i kind

of think you're weak don't i

i'm not sure that i want that

well here's some fake news it was uh it

wasn't on the real news but it was on

the social media

but it's fake that elon musk was

considering building a private airport

in texas there near where he lives but

elon responded that by saying that he

lives five minutes from the austin

airport who would be dumb to build his

own airport

kind of would be

because

if you have a private jet

it just sits there at the public airport

until you're ready to use it

now you do have to compete for

a runway he said that they could use

another runway so probably there are

times when he has to wait

20 minutes to fly or something

i don't think it's a big deal if you're

five minutes from an airport you have a

private jet that's just sitting there

you just got to wait your turn to use

the runway right

i can't imagine that he'd need to build

his own airport for

in that situation

seems like it'd be a waste so i believe

in what he says that's fake news

um

so as i've told you stefan collinson is

the person who writes

opinion pieces for cnn when there's uh

really no substance to write about but

you still have to say something bad

about republicans or trump

he'll he'll jump into the breach and

find something there

uh and here's how the start of his

opinion piece on cnn starts today quote

liz cheney has posed the question

with

with which america

may have to wrestle for months to come

here's the question

if

if

there is evidence that ex-president

donald trump committed crimes in seeking

to overturn the 2020 election

what message will send if he's not

charged

stephen coulson wants you to know that's

a big question we should wrestle with

yeah i'm going to stop thinking about

war with china

supply chain inflation

let me let me think about

the hypothetical

that the committee that has been

investigating for however long

has so far found absolutely nothing that

looks even slightly like a crime

but if they did

in the imaginary world

if we could find a hypothetical

imaginary world in which trump did

commit a crime in the imaginary world

well the america would have to wrestle

with it in that imaginary world

do you see where we're at

we're at a point where he has to propose

speculative hypothetical crimes because

the january 6 committee didn't find

anything

do you think that that collinson would

would simply

say that if there was any evidence

if any evidence had been presented

if any evidence existed already

do you think the january 6 committee

would have said you know

we're going to save the good stuff for

last

would they do that

do you think we'd get to this point and

have no evidence they even

remember this is not me saying there's

no evidence that wouldn't mean anything

to you

this is his biggest critic

essentially admitting with his

hypothetical question i think that's how

you'd have to interpret it he's

admitting that there's no evidence

of trump committing a crime

they've actually turned a complete lack

of evidence

into a hypothetical crime

all right here's another one

hypothetically

if stephen collinson had

murdered a prostitute

how would you feel if no charges were

filed

i feel bad about that i don't know about

you

but as stephen collinson has ever

there's no evidence he's ever done this

by the way i don't want to suggest

there's any evidence he ever has or

would

murder a prostitute

but if he did if he did i think we all

have to wrestle with the question of

what would happen if he didn't get

charged

what would happen

that's all they have

there's a

great piece by joel in breitbart

today

in which he's noted that there's a lot

of stuff moving in the right direction

in this country

what could be a better endorsement that

things are moving in the right direction

than the biggest issue

ah there's nothing there

our big our biggest issue is that

so-called insurrection that turns out

not to be an insurrection and it wasn't

an insurrection it was just

people getting a little worked up over

something that was bad but not as bad as

they say

all right

alex jones apparently lost his uh

case there in court

so he's got to pay 4.1 million to the

parents of the san diego parents

now let's check the fake news on this

is cnn reported today that uh

jones has made

you know

dozens of millions or hundreds of

millions of dollars

they say peddling his conspiracy

theories

and so 4.1 million would be

a drop in the bucket because according

to them at one point he was making over

800 000 a day

in 2018.

now let's compare that cnn reporting

that he has

tons and tons of money

to the fact that he's declared

bankruptcy

which doesn't mean he's out of money

that just means he might need time to

generate the cash to pay any debts

with the fact that i asked my digital

assistant

what uh alex jones's net worth is

and is pretty close to the 4.1 million

they the you know

amazon

says 5 million if you use their digital

system

now what do you think

do you think alex jones's net worth is

closer to 5 million in which cases 4

million

would

take him down you know quite a bit

uh 80 percent

is he already being charged 80 of his

entire net worth or does he have tons

and tons of millions left over

you have no idea

no idea

but uh alex jones has said that it was a

mistake

he's he doesn't believe what he said

about the sandy hook thing being fake

and he apologized unreservably in my

opinion it was just a direct apology for

mistake

now he does claim that he didn't know he

was wrong

what do you think

do you think alex jones knew it wasn't

true

or do you think he thought it was true

when he was reporting it

what do you think

i actually don't know

i don't know

i really don't know

because there are plenty of people who

are educated and well informed who

believe

ridiculous conspiracy theories

look how many people believe that

president trump said

that

you should maybe think about drinking

bleach

a lot of

well-educated well-informed people

literally believe that like actually

believe it

so if you tell me that alex jones who

appears to be

you know a capable communicator somebody

who's built a big entity that you know

made a lot of money apparently

so how can he be so capable

and yet believe something that would

that's so ridiculously untrue in your

opinion

but you just have to look around

almost everybody that you know is

believing something just as ridiculous

but sometimes you don't notice because

you believe it too

right if you believe it's true too you

don't notice other people believing

ridiculous things all the time

so is it possible i mean i can't read

his mind i don't i don't know what he

believed i really don't but i would say

this is a genuine mystery in my opinion

i think it's a genuine mystery what he

really believed

i have no way of knowing

well china suspended some

diplomacy and some

you know various things that we were

dealing with them

in international relations

and i guess that's real

they're trying to be tough and

respond to nancy pelosi going to taiwan

and

i feel like nothing good came out of

this

am i am i wrong

on one hand you want to protect the

right of any american especially

high-ranking american politician

to travel wherever they want

to an allied country

so on one hand it's just you know

preserving her

i guess right to do so

but

nothing good came of it it just made

china more angry and they're going to

stop talking to us about some things

that might matter

so i don't know it looks like a

loss

yeah it looks like we didn't gain

anything at all

on the other hand if china is going to

be a dick and stop talking to us about

anything productive i think we can go in

and kill their fence and all dealers in

country

now i know it's really hard to get cia

assets into china it's probably pretty

hard

but if we can i think we should just

take out their fentanyl dealers just

murder them where they are as terrorists

i think we could deter

in fact i think we could declare china a

terrorist state as long as they're

sending us fentanyl

we should talk about it

why would we consider

saying that

the cartels are terrorists if we're not

considering the people who send them

their weapons part of the terrorist

organization in this case weapons being

the fentanyl

so i think we should deter declare

the fentanyl production facilities and

anything that helps them

maybe including the government if the

government is helping them i don't know

if they are

just declare them terrorists and then

declare our intention to kill them

we should also start sending home

chinese born or chinese resident

students that are in the united states

just kick out 10 a week 10 a day

whatever it takes until they're all gone

so

uh if we're going to be that way let's

be that way looks like maybe we are

going to be that way

new cold war which i know

so here's a story that i keep seeing on

the internet but i believe there is

nothing to it

how many of you believe the following

thing to be true

and i'm telling you advance in advance i

see no evidence to to say this is true

i believe this is completely made up

but i've seen it a number of times on

twitter so i'll tell you what it is you

tell me if you think this is true

do you think that all cause mortality is

way up

meaning

people who are not elderly are dying

from things that they weren't dying from

two years ago

that the baseline of just ordinary

non-non-covariate related as far as you

know non-covalent related deaths are way

up for basically everything

do you think that's true

because you've seen things on twitter

that say it's true right

but try googling it

you can't google it there's no news

story that supports it

if you can find any credible source

please tweet it at me because i didn't

see any and i looked i looked for it i

don't

the only place you can find it though is

on sketchy sources on twitter

now i know you're saying the ethical

skeptic

some of you would say he's not a sketchy

source but i don't know who he is

and i've seen a lot of stuff out of him

that i don't understand

meaning he prints a lot of stuff that i

look at and i go i don't i don't know

where the data come from where it came

from or how to interpret it

you're lying

what am i lying about somebody's

accusing me of lying

lie

why would i lie about any of this

what would even be the point of it i

hope you're not talking to me

uh

i need at least an incentive to lie what

would be my reason

i can't even think of one

anyway

i looked around and i could not deduce

that was true i did see a video

of somebody who claimed to be a

insurance company ceo

making the claim that there's there's no

other explanation

except that

the vaccinations must have caused some

autoimmune

problem that makes every other kind of

disease seem worse for a while

except the name of that insurance

company wasn't even in the video

right

i mean are you going to believe somebody

who says their insurance company

executive and they don't name the

company

and what about the other executives do

they say the same thing is there anybody

who's actually associated with an actual

company that i've heard of

that would say all cause mortality is up

and we don't know why

and secondly

we really don't know why

if you just made everybody fatter and

more sedentary

and then made them worry more wouldn't

they die of everything more often

am i wrong

i mean i'm no doctor

but just take the baseline health of

people and don't change anything except

you make them way fatter

exercise way less

and i'm going to throw in another one

spend two years avoiding germs

what's that do to your immune system

spend two years avoiding germs pretty

well

let's say you successfully avoided germs

because i didn't get

you know during the covid lockdown

i didn't get any other illness did you

did anybody catch a common cold during

the pandemic i didn't

did anybody catch a common cold

i i feel like we have an entire

civilization

that just took its own immune response

down by avoiding

germs for two years

so

uh

so we're getting fat we were more

sedentary we had more to worry about

uh we didn't have the same social

benefits we had we have more fentanyl

there's more crime

uh and we've probably avoided germs

maybe too much for two years it might

have weakened our ability to fight the

next group that come along i'm saying

germs as you know a general word for

i'm just saying germs is the general

word for anything that

affects your autoimmune system or your

immune system

so

i'm going to call bs

on this until somebody gives me a real

source

all right here is this little

sir croth

scott adams the most desperate pro

vaxxer on the internet

first of all i'm not provax

second of all you're uninformed

thirdly you're defaming me like

like

a so stop doing it

and thirdly

or fourthly you're gone

boom

all right

you

you have to get a little bit higher

level of interaction than

you're coping

you're coping

no i'm not coping

god damn

idiots

all right let's get back to some

positivity

um

so a question asked of uh

kirby in the government in the biden

administration

he was asked by fbn's uh ed edward

lawrence this is the question it's a

good question

given the aggression we're seeing

from china and the fbi director saying

that china is the number one threat to

the u.s in the next 10 years

would biden caution companies from

expanding in china

that's a good question isn't it

if the biden administration is saying

china is our biggest

threat wouldn't the binding

administration also be

responsibly acting to caution companies

not to expand business

and the answer was that private

companies make their own decisions

since when

since when do private companies make

their own decisions

how about this uh new tax plan that

the congress is

is uh

looks like they'll probably pass

they would raise the minimum tax on

corporations was that the corporations

deciding to pay more taxes or was that

the government telling companies what to

do

pay more taxes

i mean

since when does the government not tell

companies what to do it's the very thing

they do all the time so that's a dumb

answer

and it's an avoiding answer

if

if we think that china is our number one

threat

our government should be warning us

against it in fact i would say that

would be pretty basic to their

essential mission

i would say the government's central

mission

is to find out what's happening in the

rest of the world and warn us about it

and tell us where to do business and

where not to do business that's exactly

what they should be doing

i want more of that not less

totally now if they told me not to do

business in a place that didn't have any

reason not to do business

then i would say oh

well that's inappropriate i want to do

business with this country you don't

have any good reasons don't tell me not

to do it

but if they know

that the united states is likely to

continue pressuring china and vice versa

if we know that

don't you think a little bit of heads up

to our corporations isn't is appropriate

a little bit heads up

you know and the question was not

will the government make it illegal to

expand in china that wasn't the question

if the question had been

should the government make it illegal to

expand

then i think you know the the answer

we're going to let corporations decide

would be appropriate

but

but i think at least a warning would be

fair

um and what do you think about this

question of whether private companies

will make their own decisions

let's say the government doesn't get

involved

is it still true that private companies

make their own decisions

i would add a caveat to that

private companies or yeah private

companies do make their own decisions

as long as i'm not interested

if i'm interested

and i am in in the case of china then

they're not going to make their own

decisions

i'm i'm going to make china so toxic

that they can't decide to work there

so you have to ask yourself

what is free will and what's their own

decisions there's there's some gray area

here

because i do think that i can pollute

china enough

in terms of people's opinion about how

smart it would be to

do business there

i i do have the platform

i have a big enough platform and because

i i'm the dilbert guy

i have enough of a track record of

telling businesses what they can't do

i've been doing it for years

for

probably 30 years now

i've been telling corporations what they

can't do

and then they stop doing it

do you know how many companies have told

me that they stopped a policy because

they saw it getting mocked in a dilbert

comic a lot

a lot

it's not it's not a random you know rare

thing a lot

the entire

business management business book market

fell apart

when i started market mocking it i don't

know if there's anything in business

anymore that i've mocked that has

survived

i mean even dress codes

dress codes have largely gone away i

mean i was mocking those in the 90s

you know cubicles started to go away i

mean pretty much anything i mock

ends up

you know being at risk so no

the companies do not have their own say

about china i will make it so difficult

to do business in china because of the

risk it's a real risk by the way i'm

doing you a

patriotic positive thing here so there's

there's no negativity to this

i will make it

impossible

what about esg

the only reason the esg still exists in

business is that i haven't taken it on

yet

but when i do

i'll give it six months and that's gonna

get really embarrassing

now dilbert doesn't have the same clout

it used to have right in the 90s i could

i could pretty much take something out

in a week

right now it would take a little while

but mockery is a really powerful force

in the corporate world no ceo wants to

be

on the receiving end of mockery

it's really terrible

now somebody i was waiting for this

comment

what took you so long

somebody at youtube said i'm drunk with

power

i was looking for a little more pushback

i was looking for somebody to say scott

you're you're dreaming you can't

actually

cause

corporations to yeah i can i actually

can

cause corporations to act differently

that that is absolutely demonstrated in

my in my history

and there's no reason to believe it

wouldn't continue happening

so i'll only use my powers for good

um speaking of power

ron desantis

uh has suspended a tampa state attorney

for being too woke i guess the attorney

wasn't going to

act on the state's new abortion

restrictions

and desantis suspended him without pay

for basically just not doing his job

what is the point of hiring a state

attorney who doesn't believe the the

laws of the of his own state

no matter what you think about the

abortion laws no matter what you think

about

social justice and wokeness no matter

what you think about any of that

if if a person gets hired to do a job

and then says i'm not going to do it

i don't think there's any question about

whether they have to go

i i love this

all

right um

the other thing we learned is that

desantis claims that he was not aware

that his staff

turned down the invitation to be on the

view

now i think he agreed with their

decision

but

what kind of staff turns that down

without talking to the boss

do you believe that

do you believe that desantis's staff

turned down an invitation to the view

in in very news making language without

checking with it

it's possible

it's possible

because you know bureaucracy isn't big

companies and blah blah it's possible

there's something but i would probably

fire that staff

no no no no no somebody's saying that's

a smart staff no no no you have to fire

them

he should fire them

because they made a decision that was

his decision and that wasn't theirs to

make

because he may have played it

differently

right

i

he may have he may have said you know

this is one this is one time that i

might want to go into the

belly of the lion i'm strong enough now

that i can survive that i'm

you know i'm quick enough that i can

make this work

i i think they took that option away

from their boss and they should be fired

for that

like if if somebody did that to me i'd

at least demote them

whoever made the decision can you

imagine having would you put up with the

risk of that happening again

if your employee made that decision for

you

and presented it as your decision and

did it flamboyantly

it's the flamboyant part that's

that's cause for termination

yeah if you do if you make a decision on

my behalf

flamboyantly without checking on me oh

you're so fired

you're so fired

how many people who have ever managed

employees would agree with me

that that's a firing offense

i want to see if anybody agrees

now you you'd have to take the entire

situation into effect so i'm

oversimplifying it it's not the only

variable in play

but if it were the only variable in play

that's a firing offense yeah i guess

some of you agree with me

so i think we could we can all uh

there's no inconsistency you can like

desantis and still say maybe that was a

staffing problem

you know it's not like there's anybody

at his level who doesn't have staffing

problems

you know i mean i i say the same thing

about cuomo

yeah i think cuomo took a lot of heat

for maybe a staff mistake about the

nursing homes i get he may be he's the

one who signed off on it blah blah but

he was advised

you know somebody presented him the

option

i just think everybody has staffing

problems i'm not sure exactly how much

you can

assume is the top boss's actual problem

or or they caused it

so

here's a question that i want all of you

to start asking your democrat friends

just for fun just for fun

um

the question is

if you could rig the 20 if you believed

let's put it in i'll just paraphrasement

if you believed

a racist were coming into office for the

presidency

and you believe this was definitely a

terrible

racist

and you had the option of rigging the

election let's say you're in a position

to do so if you had the option of

ringing the election to keep an unknown

racist out of office

would you do it

and if you say no that you wouldn't do

it

what the hell is wrong with you

are you a coward or are you

not a patriot

because i would

let me say it as clearly as possible

if there was somebody running for

president who was a confirmed known

racist

or i believed it to be true

i mean i could be wrong but let's say i

believed it to be true because i'd

accepted what the news told me

if i believed it to be true and i was in

a position

to stop that person from coming to

office

pretty sure i'd do it

especially if i thought i had a chance

of getting away with it right now

you know we all like to think that we

would have shot hitler if we had a

chance but you know people aren't that

brave really i feel like if i could get

away with it

and i could stop a racist from coming to

office

i feel like that would be the patriotic

thing to do

i remind you

that we are a nation of laws

created by the biggest law breakers the

world has ever known

so do you do what they say or what they

did because the founders were the

biggest law breakers

a

revolution a revolution's about as hard

as you can break the law

you can't break the law any harder than

that

we were created by law breakers

that's our dna

and our dna says completely clearly

correct me if i'm wrong

if you're an american

re read your own dna

doesn't your dna say

follow the law totally follow the law

unless

things go too far

and then break the law

right

nobody says that directly

but it's in your dna

everybody follow the law unless there's

some like weird situation that just has

gone too far and then

you pick up your rifle if you need to

you break the law you cheat

you do what you need to do

like you're not you're not protected

from the obligation to protect your

country

because there's some legal

legal way that the other team is doing

it

your obligation to your

family your country

doesn't go away

in a real emergency that doesn't go away

because there's some law in the way

no the law is the least important thing

if you have a genuine emergency the

genuine emergency says do what makes

sense

it doesn't

a genuine emergency doesn't say

do what is legal

it's the opposite a genuine emergency

says always do what makes sense

period

no

you never get out of that side of that

double or you're in trouble

so

i feel like that's a fair question to

democrats

if they didn't cheat in 2022 under the

their belief

that trump was you know literally some

kind of a racist white supremacist

dictator monster if they didn't cheat

they need to explain that

and if they're not willing to cheat in

2024 they need to explain that why

they're not on the side of the country

right now they might be

mistaken in their beliefs i believe they

are

but they're not acting on their beliefs

in a way that you would even imagine

could be slightly patriotic

slightly positive even slightly

worthy of praise

there's a real character problem if

they're not willing to act on their

beliefs

or maybe it's telling us those are not

real beliefs right

i've said this before

if you're standing in the middle of the

street and you see a truck coming at you

and it doesn't look like it's going to

stop

and you don't get out of the way

that's somebody who doesn't believe

there's a truck because they didn't get

out of the way

but if you get out of the way

well

that means you believe the truck was

there

right so if you're not acting on the

thing you you believe on there's

something going on

so if they said

trump was a big old racist dictator who

was going to destroy the world

they say that very clearly and often

if they were not willing to act on it

what's wrong with their character and i

think you could be asking that directly

isn't your character

defective like why don't you do

something about that

so the the analogy

um let me teach you how to use analogies

an analogy

should tell you exactly one point

is not trying to be the same as the

subject you're talking about

the one point from my analogy is that

people will act on what they think is

true

will you accept that somebody standing

in front of a moving truck

will act based on what they believe is

true is that really a truck coming at me

don't tell me the analogy is

wrong if you don't know how to

understand an analogy there's just one

minor

thin little thing that an analogy tries

to do

and if you go beyond that and say

well

those are not exactly the same thing

well then

you should not be in this conversation

at all

now

if i may criticize myself

why am i using an analogy when i know

they don't work because there are too

many people too dumb to

to process them

case in point somebody who's too dumb to

process an analogy i keep making the

i keep making the

assumption

that my

yeah my audience is smarter you can

handle that

but some people sneak in on youtube who

don't understand how analogies work oh

your analogy is not exactly the same

thing as the thing you're at uh you're

comparing it to

um

if it were the same thing

then there wouldn't be any point

let me give you an analogy the way this

gentleman would like you to see

them i'd like to

talk about this

this little power pack is a little bit

extra battery i'd like to make an

analogy

by comparing this to it this identical

one

because that's a good analogy so we'll

compare this to this identical one and

everything i say about this one will be

true of this one

what is the point

right no

the analogies are supposed to be

different

all right if you don't get that part

you should find a less challenging

podcast

all right

rasmussen tells us that the midterms are

narrowing just like everybody told you

would happen

did i tell you that the

by the time election day comes along

that the polling that said at one point

republicans had a

nine point

advantage of a generic republican

against a generic democrat in the

midterms

nine points

and then for a while it hung around

eight

and dropped a five but five is still

pretty big

and now it's down to three

so we went from nine to three

um

uh

i'll get rid of you for just being a

jerk

goodbye

all right

so

why is it

that

it's narrowing

why is it that i knew it would narrow

that the lead would narrow and then it

did

why is that

that's an honest question

why

why was it such a big gap and now it's

narrowing

is it the media

because it seems to me the uh the

january 6th thing fell apart

the january 6 thing showed apparently no

crime for trump and no insurrection

uh planning so

so he has a free path to the white house

you would think that all of these things

would make

biden less popular

here's what i think it is there was a

rob reiner tweet that said

provocatively

that

biden has accomplished more in his term

so far

than any president in 60 years

and i read that and i thought

actually you know i think it's a little

hyperbolic

but it's directionally probably true

if you look at the legislation

that biden has done if you look at the

impact he's had on things and

um i would say he's accomplished a lot

for his base or he's on he's on the cusp

of doing so assuming his latest

legislation gets through if you were to

just look at his legislation

it looks like

he will have his name on some pretty big

pieces of legislation

right

now don't don't confuse accomplishment

for things you want

i'm saying things his base wants

i i feel like he has

moved the bar

on some things that his base wants

so we've got gas prices coming down at

the moment

that should make a difference in the

vote

we've got

inflation is bad

and

but we also might get used to it

it's weird but you can get used to

something that just sort of lays there

in the baseline and i worry that

although inflation may stay high

if it starts drifting down all before

the midterms

that will be enough

if inflation will say inflation is you

know 9.5

um today whatever it is it's in that

range

now let's say that drifts down to six

percent

still way too much right but let's say

it drifts down to six percent before

election day it's going to take all the

energy out of it

because you're going to think to

yourself well it looks like it's under

control

and it could easily drift down a little

bit it wouldn't take much it just has to

directionally look like it's going down

so i think that

biden's got legislative successes at

least the news will report it that way

ukraine seems to be a stalemate so we

just stopped thinking about it

his disastrous withdrawal from

afghanistan

happened so early in the term that we're

already forgetting about it

employment looks pretty good

employment looks pretty good

and he's starting to do some trump-like

things like build a little bit of the

wall

and maybe promoting the abrahamic chords

that he had been a little negative on

so if you take the fact that he's first

of all triangulating

in other words he's he's quite

consciously it seems

accepting some

points of view that are a little bit

republican that i just mentioned

so

um

i would say that it's all of those

things i would say that basically he's

just sort of

getting

everything trending in the right

direction

probably by luck

probably by luck but i feel it too i was

saying it the other day in my opinion

our country's moving in the right

direction we're decoupling from china

that seems real

i think nuclear is now getting the

attention it deserves i think that we're

starting to look at all of our energy

sources a little bit closer to you know

not crippling

one to benefit the other that looks good

we have more people being covered by

health care

if you don't mind the expense of that

that looks good

i don't know i see a lot of things

moving in the right direction

and i feel like that's probably the

reason

that the reason that his poll numbers

are improving

is that i feel like other people feel

too

now you might say but what about nancy

pelosi and

in taiwan i feel like that's popular

right it might in fact

you know increase our risk with china

but i feel like it's popular in the

united states is it not is it not

popular

so

stop watching cnn

i watch both i watch the left and the

right if you're not watching the left

and the right

um

all right

so we're all getting used to being

screwed no

no i'm not saying it at all

you know the

inflation's a real problem and i don't

have a solution for that nor does

anybody else

um

stop watching msnbc you know everybody

who's telling me to stop looking at the

news on the other side

does that feel like good advice

it's literally the basis of the show as

i'm looking at the news on both sides

and trying to tell you when being on a

team is less smart than looking at the

issue

like it's exactly what i'm trying to do

is look at both sides no i'm not going

to stop doing that

if i didn't look who would

so you think it's pollster corruption i

disagree

because

there are too many polls

that are looking to

watch this if you see rasmussen and also

a lot of polls that are clearly

left-leaning

start to agree that the

gap is narrowing i wouldn't worry about

pollster corruption in that situation

but if you saw rasmussen saying there

was a a nine point gap

when the the sketchier pollsters started

saying there was no gap

well i'd worry about that

but i think you're going to see all of

them moving you know a few points above

apart

but moving toward the the same answer i

think

um yeah let's talk about

brittany griner so

we've got this mass american basketball

player

who had some weed and in russia that's a

pretty bad bad defense she got nine

years

for some weed

and she wasn't selling it she was using

it for her own purposes

now obviously

i say obviously

i can't confirm it but to me it's

obvious that putin is using this as a

negotiating

uh thing

and

if it looks like that's what's happening

given that we've offered some i think

we've offered an arms dealer or

something in return

i feel like we should just you know

grab some russian that they care about

and just trade them back i mean if it's

literally going to be a hostage

situation

well let's just take a hostage

you know they did

yeah if russia takes a hostage we can

take hostage i mean we would need some

you know reason for why we're

doing it

you know lavrov would be top of my list

i know you can't arrest a diplomat

or can you

um scott do you like golf

i hope that's a joke

but how how hard do you think we should

go on russia to release brittany griner

now she she knew what was illegal

she probably didn't know it was a

nine-year thing

uh i wouldn't have done that i mean i

wouldn't have imagined it would really

happen it's hard to imagine it like your

head has a hard time holding that as a

possibility but

it was real

how hard should we go

so some are saying no that's her own

problem right

no

while i would agree with you that she

made her own bed

and when people create their own

problems they have to

they have to answer for it

however that's not really the context

here

the context here is that putin just took

an american hostage

that's not good

if putin takes an american hostage we

have to respond in kind

i don't know what that looks like but

we're going to need to take somebody

hostage that we don't already have to

trade them back

so

um

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i'd say take a hostage

they did

all right um

so jobs looks good

employee employment is up added half a

million jobs we you know we thought it

would be half as many as that

um

unemployment still looks not bad

um

who thinks is a good idea to take drugs

into a foreign country well i'm not

going to excuse brittany greiner's

mistake

i'll just point out that she is

a young person and she is american

and

she didn't get arrested because of her

drugs

right i mean maybe that was the reason

she got arrested i guess but i don't

think the nine the nine year

thing is political

and i think we have to treat it that way

i think it's just an act of war

i realize is compatible with their laws

but it's obvious in this this context

it's obvious it's just an act of war

what would trump do in this situation

because i feel like biden is just being

kind of quiet about it maybe quiet

diplomacy

what would he do

you think trump would do nothing

i don't know

i think trump likes saving celebrities

i think for trump saving a

saving a black woman

would be too irresistible

i think trump would be he would throw

everything on it

am i wrong

do it do i not know trump or something

you you don't think

you don't think trump would throw

everything at this

because it would look so good

yeah it would be counter to his

narrative it would be

pro-american it would be right on right

on message

in fact if you want her to be released i

think trump's your best shot

yeah

i i think he i think all it takes is

making it a priority

i'm not sure there's much more nuance to

it than that

i i think if trump just said hold on

stop everything

just stop everything

if you don't give her back

yeah we're going to send you know

ukraine

you'd never want them to have or

something like that

something like that

all right

uh he's already working on it you think

maybe he is

maybe trump is already working on it but

i don't think china wants trump to

succeed so

uh they're not going to do it when he's

out of office that's for sure

i don't think so

why didn't trump legalize marijuana

i don't know

but my only assumption is that he's just

so anti-drug that

he just can't get there

that's my guess

but i don't know i don't it's just pure

speculation because i can't read his

mind but there's no um i don't believe

there's any argument he's ever made

i'm not i've never heard him make an

argument one way or the other about

legalizing marijuana

yeah i think he just doesn't like any of

that business period

and

you know while i disagree with him on

that point

uh it's not a it's not a terrible

position to take but i think it would be

consistent with republicans to at least

get the federal government out of that

business

so why he didn't do that

i think would just be a mistake

how about that

it can can i just say that's just a

clean mistake

on trump's part to not at least make

some motion to legalize it because he

always had the cover that it's up to the

states and that would be the most

consistent thing any republican ever

said

so

uh there are several topics which i

would say

trump failed completely at

he failed completely of fentanyl

completely

right there's no i can't give him any

i thought he took a run at it but he

failed right i'll give him credit for

taking a run at it

uh

i think he failed on health care

i think he failed on prescription drugs

um

i think he

he didn't get the wall built

you know you could say that was his

failure that was congress maybe

um

yeah

i i would say there's all kinds of

things that he just unambiguously failed

at

but

compared to the alternative yeah what

was the other candidate going to succeed

at all that

i don't know

maybe

um

scott is messing with your hesitant well

i'm not trying to do that right now

uh completely disagree with marijuana

well it's up to congress to change the

laws correct

but the leader of the united states

should be weighing in

and if trump had said

i will sign it if you send it to me

i would have loved to hear that

but it didn't happen

all right

uh i have standards when it comes to

trump but none for

joe

what the are you talking about

how did you watch this podcast and say

that i have standards for trump and not

for biden

because i've never criticized biden

biden hasn't fixed the border he messed

up energy

have you missed me criticizing biden

are you kidding

really

you're what you're a member of the

locals

subscription service which means you

have enough interest in my content

that you subscribe to it

and you've never heard me criticize

biden

i just gave biden a long list of kudos

did i i just said he did things for his

side

are you disagreeing with the factual

statement

because the people on his side are

saying thank you for that we like this

bill we're going to vote for it

right

oh man you guys got to grow up

you got to grow up so somebody on

youtube is saying i'm sounding

pro-binding you know you're too

dumb to be on this podcast

uh you're sounding pro-biden today all

right i'm gonna delete you

honestly if you think this is pro-biden

you're too dumb to be with us

let's just increase the iq get rid of

those people

anybody else does anybody else think

they're saying the good and the bad of

both people is taking sides

is anybody so stupid

that they think showing the pros and

cons of something is taking aside

anybody

because i'd like to get rid of some more

idiots

i really don't want to be talking to

people who are too dumb to understand

that

right if you can't understand that

you are too dumb to be here

just go watch

i won't name names

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i was just going to name names but i

don't think i will

because i'm at it i'm adding

some of you i'm not mad at them right

now

yes in all capitals i

so 2 wall street says in all capitals

you did say things are going in the

right direction

yes

because that's what the data says

all right so i'm gonna

hide you from this channel

all right anybody else

do

if you'd like to prove

all right here's another all the i'm

looking at all the ones in all caps the

ones that all caps are the good ones

dwayne kate says when scott i have to i

have to yell yell talk it because this

is not all caps when scott talks ukraine

it makes me enraged but i'm respectable

of alternative opinions why did you put

that in caps

okay that one's that one's acceptable

all right so so that's acceptable

even with the capital letters i'm gonna

let that go

because he's angry at what i'm saying

but he's at least

accepting that an alternative opinion

might have some value okay very good

for a moment there i was going to go off

on you but that was

you pulled me back from the edge

carl

carl writes in all caps

here's a sentence in all caps

carl

carl

um i don't care about the brianna taylor

cops isn't there a story about the

brianna taylor

the cops who were

killed her

falsified some

paperwork

if they did then they need to pay for

that

i mean i i don't generally like to spend

too much time on the individual crime

stories

i feel like there's not enough there and

the news handles that

all right

um

put a cap in it

butter your bacon i'm being told all

right

um

what about loud noises

all right some of you some of you i

think come just for the blocking

is it my imagination or the top three

spokespeople for the biden

administration incapable of speaking

at least coherently

their current spokesperson uh

karine jean pierre

is she one of the worst that we've seen

i think she's one of the worst just in

terms of communication skills i think

she's one of the worst biden is terrible

and then kamal harris is a nightmare but

have we ever seen

the three top

speakers for the

administration having no communication

skills whatsoever let me just be

terrible at it

uh christopher ray and cruz is tom

cruise going after the fbi

all right is there any stories i missed

here

um

who's really running things yes we do

wonder

do i let trolls troll me

sometimes the trolls are just energy

sometimes i feed on them

my mascots i call them

stocks are down

yeah

oh yeah kerry care lake was a confirmed

winner in arizona can somebody

explain to me why they thought that the

kerry lake primary might be rigged

why would they think that one was rigged

the the thinking was that the democrats

would cleverly try to get the less

qualified

republican elected

i don't know

do they bother rigging that when they

could just rig the ultimate thing

if they were going to rig which i'm not

alleging

um tesla's gonna split three to one yeah

all right

um

yes blake masters looks like he has a

good shot for the senate

do you think democracy has been

redefined to me in bureaucracy

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yeah i don't think so

although i can see your point though

yeah it's a little too conceptual i

think

all right

um

well that's all that's all i got

so i think we're gonna make sure today

and go do some work

and uh

i will talk to all of you

later bye for now youtube