Episode 1837 Scott Adams - Is E.S.G. A Form Of Fascism, And Is The Mar-a-Lago Affidavit Legitimate?

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saying me no no because you know where i get my information i get my information from the person i'm going to talk about yeah the answer is warren buffett warren buffett is still investing substantially in united states stocks just bought a bunch of apple bought some other big investments yes coca-cola bank of america some other stuff and here's what you need to know if warren buffett is still investing big in america he hasn't been wrong yet was it something like 70 years of investing and for 70 years he's been saying the same thing don't bet against america and then he puts all of his money in america and it works pretty much every time so if warren buffett thinks the economy is at least strong enough for him to invest in america well maybe you should too that's pretty good news no i'm not telling you you should invest that would be investment advice which i don't give i don't give but it's worth noting that the person who can give such advice is investing in america well here's a little quiz for you to see how many of you get this right rasmussen had a poll in which they were asking about the popularity of attorney general garland and i want to see if you could guess what percentage of likely voters think that attorney general guard garland is doing a better job than most previous attorney generals anybody want to take well how are you doing this what how could it be that all of you are so close to the exact right answer it's 26 how do you do that how do you do that wow okay um look out for the fake laura ingraham quotes are you seeing them all over the internet so it's is something taken out of context so what laura and graham did say on i guess a podcast somebody else's that uh we'd see if we'd wait we'd have to wait and see if voters are tired of the you know the drama of trump and are ready for something else so she was speculating about maybe the voters would have a certain attitude at this point that got turned into laura laura ingram's turning on the president or turning on trump now is that why you heard if somebody says the public might be you know they might be ready to turn the page but i don't know does that sound like she's turned on the president no it sounds like she's making an observation that literally every person in america has made is there even one person in america who has not made the following speculation i wonder if america's had enough of this it literally is closer to saying absolutely nothing than it is to saying something surprising and newsworthy because there's literally no one in america who hasn't at least asked the question not talking about themselves but at least ask the question are other people maybe over it you know and want something different and that turned into you know now it's like a big story literally nothing so here's the biggest story that i don't know anything about and i'm excited anyway do you think i would be stopped by a complete lack of useful information about a story no have you met me no i'm not going to be slowed down by a complete lack of information i'm going to take the most positive spin i can take and i'm going to give you my my hot take on it are you ready for it so you remember there was a company or still is called wework and it got really big and then there was a scandal and um it was liz cheney was defeated by a melted popsicle we have carpe carpidunctum is letting us know good to know anyway this we work company at one point it was worth 46 billion dollars but now it's only worth 4 billion and it was some some scandal but none of that matters here's what matters the founder has a new startup that's already valued at a billion dollars and here's what excites me about the startup it's being funded at least i don't know if entirely or in part by andreessen horowitz now what's that tell you do you know enough about investing to know if andreessen horowitz is in big that that means something right it probably means something right that that's not a company that invests big in something that's not pretty darn good idea with somebody who knows how to operate good operator all right yeah marco andreessen invented netscape went on to create maybe the most substantial or at least the most storied uh venture capital firm around um so they're in but let me tell you what the service is so this is extremely vague but i'm going to tell you why i'm excited about it so he's creating some kind of community driven experience centric service that would change the nature of residential real estate does that sound good to you would you put a billion dollars into that so it's it's meant to deal with the housing crisis and some kind of community driven experience centric service to deal with the fact that there's a housing crisis how do you interpret that well i'm going to over interpret it here's my interpretation how long have you heard me say that the problem with home ownership and renting really all of our housing is that it's just poorly designed it's not designed it's not designed from the ground up to meet our lifestyle and our needs i think what he's doing is is designing a place you can live that's right from the ground up now when i hear i hear if you gave me here's the example i use all the time the best lifestyle i ever had was in a cinder block room with one other person my roommate in college a college dormitory with a shared bathroom down the hall was the best living experience i've ever had the second best is a 19 000 square foot mansion that requires a an army of people to maintain it and takes all of my time and every day i wish i didn't have to do it even the best kind of home ownership kind of sucks it does i mean there are tons of benefits right you know that's why you do it but every day i wish i didn't own a home i wish there was some other way to just lead my life without the burden of owning a home and i could afford a different kind of home the reason i built my own home which cost approximately twice as much as buying if you've ever tried to build a house you know it's pretty expensive the only way you can get something to see if i'm modestly acceptable is to build it yourself because there's no home builder who's building homes for our modern lifestyle this fits our economics and our our health needs and our social needs and all that i've got a feeling that this we work thing and largely because andreessen horowitz is behind it i've got a feeling that they're going directly at the lifestyle part of living because homes are built as little uh let's say little containers they're built as containers for people oh we built a good container we'll put you in the container but if you started from how do you make an awesome life how do you create a situation where you're you're naturally interacting with people in in a way that's positive you're not you're not secluded in your little cell you have some kind of reason to deal with other people and it might be something like for example one of the best things about college was the cafeteria so the cafeteria was everything you wanted was free once you'd paid a monthly you know fee so you could eat as much as you wanted of anything you wanted and it was a really good cafeteria the choices were awesome and they changed all the time and i never had to cook i never had to clean you know dishes i never had to shop i never had to follow a recipe and i ate great food every single day it turned out that our cafeteria in my college was a model cafeteria for the company that managed cafeterias for colleges so whatever was the best stuff they wanted to use to showcase their other stuff they're doing it my little college so we had just a great situation now now if you said to me scott i will take away your gigantic house that you designed yourself and i will give you a space that's got you know nice view and the cafeteria and you'll have a reason to interact with other people it'll be healthy i feel like i might go for it right if it meant my basic needs had enough rooms and you know had an office for example i feel like it would be better yeah yeah it's like assisted living but maybe yeah actually it is like assisted living except maybe the turbo version of that for younger people so i like i've said i think residential housing is the biggest market in the next 50 years it will dwarf everything else and the reason is we'll have to we're going to have to tear down and rebuild everything because there are there are no homes in existence that meet our lifestyles not even close like housing is completely broken and it's going to be disrupted so are you following the uh the berenson case where berenson got kicked off of twitter for what's his first name why am i forgetting his first name berenson his first name alex right alex berenson um so he was saying lots of things that let's say the experts did not think were true about the pandemic so he got booted off of twitter but now now apparently they're going to let him back and there's some documentation showing that the biden administration may have been encouraging twitter to kick him off for misinformation according to them now i'm going to test you here the probably most of you are familiar with alex berenson a famous let's say uh skeptic of the government's handling of the pandemic in lots of different areas he was a skeptic now was he proven right in the end go was alex berenson proven to be right after all go comments i'm seeing a wall of yeses over here some not reallys don't know yes 25 yes yes yes some knows some knows but mostly yeses and some people don't know so my audience thinks mostly he's been proven right i didn't see any of that are you are you sure you're not hallucinating because i literally didn't see you get anything right that i'm aware of so maybe has anybody done like a report card for his for his predictions here's what i think happened i believe alice berenson got famous for being really bad at analyzing data but every time he was really bad at analyzing data he would come to the same conclusion that the government was lying and wrong about whatever it was telling you about everything now what would happen if instead of being bad at analyzing data you were just somebody who didn't analyze any data at all and you just said i'm going to go out there and make a prediction that the government is lying to you and what they're saying is not quite correct how well would you do so it's the fog of war it's a pandemic nobody really knows anything so you go out there and you make yourself famous by saying the government's wrong about everything how would you do as a public figure really well really well in fact people would come to believe that you were sort of magic because you kept being right about stuff except that the way he got there is by by being amazingly wrong at analyzing anything that's how it happened he analyzed incorrectly just study after study that's what it seemed like to me right so this is my subjective impression of what was going on so it looked to me like he got everything wrong but he got the right outcome or something close to it so it drives me crazy because you knew that there would be people guessing on both sides and whoever guessed right would say that they were wrong they're right all along it was obvious that you shouldn't believe them but it's sort of a trick because either either the government was going to be mostly right and it would have been good to follow their lead or it would turn out that maybe they were more wrong than right it was going to be one of those things and there were people on both sides so one of the people let me ask you this the people who were completely opposite of berenson how close were they to being correct the people who were completely opposite of him how close were they to being correct at the end of it now that we can see things a little bit clearly you're saying not close yeah of course i'm priming you for this answer well the opposite would be i guess the opposite would be that masks do work the vaccinations do stop the spread uh that they are safer than not getting them that that is good for children that sort of thing i would say they're mostly at best the half right at best right so the people on the other side from berenson didn't come out too well but what did i tell you in the beginning of the pandemic my clearest most often repeated warning everybody's guessing somebody's going to guess right when it's done whoever guessed right is going to claim genius that's what happened that's what happened i called that exactly however we have the two movies on one screen phenomenon so we have both sides with opposite opinions claiming victory after it's all done the people with the vaccine who are pro vaccination will tell you well sure you know it didn't stop the transmission so much but as sorta did in the first variant a little bit uh but mostly it kept people from dying so that's a big win right that's what they're saying they're saying yeah you know wasn't as good as we hoped but it saved millions of people so darn good thing we did it we better give it to those children and by the way as far as i know do a fact check on this 100 of all civil uh let's say industrialized countries if that's even the term anymore i would say 100 of all industrialized countries believe that the vaccinations are and were a good idea fact-check me there are no civilized countries who think the vaccinations were a bad idea can you fact-check that now i'm not saying that they're right right i know i know i know most of you are anti-vaccination and i'm not disagreeing with you i'm just asking you what the facts are and if we're all aware of the same facts see if we're on the same page in my opinion i think 100 of the industrialized countries are on the same page which most of you think is wrong still right that was kind of hard to explain isn't it kind of hard to explain now remember if somebody stopped vaccinations during omicron you know that's that's where opinions start to diverge legitimately because omicron's a different level of risk uh problem was a lack of conversation wef explains it so you think it's the wef that explains everything so one one view would be that all of the industrialized medical communities are slaves to what the wef or slaves to possibly uh fouchy because i wonder if if the american medical community if you got covered after getting a vaccine you have a trigger that others don't okay maybe could be could be all right so we're not talking about whether any of this is true or not true those conversations are no longer interesting but i do think it's fascinating watching the the berenson phenomenon so one view is that uh and by the way i think that uh he's valuable although mostly wrong valuable but mostly wrong that's my opinion you need somebody on the other side of a big issue like this and he was he did a good job as a you know making attention on the you know hey maybe we should you know tap the brakes on this so i think he did i think he was a solid in my opinion i think he added but it's a controversial opinion i think he added to the process all right um would you like an update on the 13th hoax everybody knows what the 13th hoax is right so the 13th hoax is that trump had uh any kind of important nuclear secrets at mar-a-lago to me to me that's ridiculous or at least they he knew about it you know the the suggestion that he knew about it and there were sensitive nuclear secrets and he didn't want to give them back no no there's no chance that's true really people there's no chance that's true just just thinking through trump had sensitive nuclear secrets put him in a warehouse in mar-a-lago had some reason to keep nuclear secrets i don't know what that would be and and when asked to return them refused that's sort of the story we're being told there's no chance that's true none i mean really there's no chance that's true anyway so here's my summary of the 13th hoax and i have to do it in this accent fool me 12 times not gonna fool me again so that that's the tag line for the 13th hoax fool me 12 times not gonna fool me again but i guess they are so i saw a greg guffeld mentioned this and i was just sort of catching up a few days ago historian michael bechlos uh asked this question on twitter he said any possibility that certain foreign governments trump loves wanted american nuclear secrets from him now michael bachelos and this is what greg pointed out i thought he was like a serious historian like he he's somebody with some weight right he's somebody we've been seeing for years talking about presidential history etc what i didn't know is that he apparently is associated with nbc news what's that mean yeah so um i don't think uh trump is selling nuclear secrets to foreign countries uh by storing those documents in mar-a-lago so here's the question is that even serious where when beishala says is there a possibility trump might want to sell nuclear secrets to some foreign country am i supposed to take that comment seriously like actually and what i mean is is he saying something that's purely political and we should recognize it as such which would be fine right you know on twitter people make like uh you know incredible hyperbolic leaps to the the absurd but if you know what it is then you put it in context oh that's one of those hyperbolic absurd statements it's just sort of a political gotcha but is that what he's doing is this just a political gotcha ah you know sort of exaggerating something or does he actually think we should believe this that this is on the table there's a possibility of this but then i i was informed that he worked for nbc nbc the entity most closely associated with allegedly the cia is the cia wanting us to believe that trump is selling nuclear seekers to a foreign country i think so i don't know but it would be consistent with what we've seen from the cia in terms of trying to affect internal politics before right it would be consistent with what we've seen ridiculous but consistent and you know i like this what if thing that the democrats are doing what if trump sold he tried to sell secrets what if and i thought i like that so i added my own what if i tweeted earlier what if i'm not saying it's happening i'm not saying it's happening but what if what if what if democrats are intentionally creating more right-wing extremists to justify their tactics against regular republicans now i'm not saying that's happening all i'm saying is that all of their actions are consistent with them needing to create extremists because they're not enough of them so they seem to be doing things that when you look at them they seem only designed to create extremists and i think to myself shouldn't you be trying to reduce the number of extremists that being actually the job of our fbi i thought it doesn't look like they're trying to decrease it it actually looks like they're trying to increase it um yeah all right so i'm not saying it's happening i'm just saying they're acting like they're trying to create more extremists um here's a little story for you that should make you feel good so twitter i guess the department of justice has found guilty an employee of twitter who formerly was of walnut creek california do you know where walnut creek california is compared to me it's like right over there it's like where i shop that's where i go to dinner the walnut creek so it's like right here so this guy from walnut creek but he wasn't working in walnut creek at the time he was residing in seattle and he was accused of and apparently they have evidence of that he was giving private twitter information to saudi arabia and the saudi royal family specifically about critics of saudi arabia i assume so what do you think of that so there was an insider but here was his job he was he was the media partnership manager for the mena region so he was a media partnership management manager do you think that somebody with the title media partnership manager should have access to private twitter information what kind of job has access to the private twitter information could could the could the manager of uh media partnerships look at my direct messages can my private direct messages be seen by the the media partnership manager really maybe i don't know but apparently i mean according to the legal system yes now how many other twitter employees can look at personal information of people don't know how many twitter employees can tweak the algorithm to change the results one lots of them are there lots of people who could make a change in their little area but as long as it compiles right nobody really knows i don't know if you told me that an employee who is the manager of media partnerships could access private twitter data i would have said that's not a thing nobody's going to do that no company would allow that but apparently it happened so if you think this is bad news i think you're just a pessimist because here's what you should think is the good news despite the fact that twitter had this fairly massive hole in their security don't you feel good to know that all 50 of our election systems in the united states don't have this kind of problem they don't have an insider who has access to anything or it could change anything and i feel as if we we don't give enough credit to the programmers for for our 50 i guess they're 51 different election systems because they use different different digital technology it's not all about paper right because even the paper stuff has to be reported digitally so all the systems have some digital connection and unlike twitter and i i think some of these uh state election people maybe twitter should hire them to find out how they do it because twitter you know you probably thought twitter is like a big billion multi-billion dollar company and you're thinking well they hire the best security people but obviously they're not operating at the level of each of these state election systems so the state election systems that have operated flawlessly without any insider problems whatsoever seem to be able to do this and not only do they do it they do it every election time after time so they're doing it for congressional local elections you know state elections they're doing it for national elections the this the internal digital security for all 51 of these elections is tied as a as a nat's ass as my dad used to say tighter than a nat's ass and uh isn't the obvious thing is that twitter should just hire some of these people to teach them how not to have any insiders working for your company who could take a bribe or something like that so it's pretty amazing so a lot of you are looking at the negative side of this and you should really look at the positive the positive is that our election systems have figured out how to do something that twitter can't do for data security you know what's interesting is that not only can twitter not do it but none of the none of the large companies can um so google can't google hasn't figured out how to never have an insider do something bad but all 51 election systems have nailed that and standing ovation for our election systems please give it up everybody give it up 51 election systems with no security problems uh no problems with insiders doing things that we don't know about uh that's the kind of accomplishment that does not get heralded as much as they should not as much as it should so let's all take uh take a moment to thank the excellent men and women who are working on our election systems the digital parts the digital parts because those are flawless all right so the doj says it's not going to release the affidavit the part that tells us anything interesting about the mar-a-lago situation but maybe we'll get to see it because justice watch and i think tom tom feden uh who by the way is not an attorney i don't know if i've ever mentioned that before has anybody ever brought up that point to me yeah actually tom fenton told me himself he was not an attorney because i mentioned he was once um i just figured he should be because he actually he seems like he seems like you should be i don't know i just assume everybody's an attorney he does have too many muscles to be an attorney i don't know are you allowed to have that many muscles if you have a law degree and i don't think i've seen anybody with arms that big who also has a law degree so i i think there's some kind of prohibition against that anyway um so the trump legal team instead of saying yes release the affidavit they're saying we're just gonna wait and we're gonna wait and see how this lawsuit turns out which is an interesting weak way to say it isn't it and i think trump came out a little bit stronger in favor of it but not until he found out it wouldn't be released i think i think trump is confident that it won't be released because remember he doesn't know what's in there trump would just be guessing that if it got released it would be somehow positive for him but he doesn't know what's in there do you i do i know what's in there do you know how i know what's in there because the hoax pattern is always the same so jack bosobic has some reporting he has some kind of sources and if you don't follow jackpossabic on twitter you need to like that he's one of the must follows because he just hears stuff before other people do he's going to give it to you in a way that you haven't seen in other places right so that's a must follow so uh his take is that the affidavit is probably full of stuff such as a maggie haberman uh report in in a newspaper followed by some innuendo and maybe some rumors it's a little bit of hearsay uh wrapped up in the little media smear thing where where somebody reports on it and then somebody talks about the report and then you can talk about everybody talking about it and pretty soon there's lots of innuendo but really it's all just manufactured so the most likely the most likely contents of the affidavit are you know that right most likely the affidavit is complete because we've seen it it's their play yeah it's the wrap-up smear you know the the shift in this gift play the the anonymous sources the the what-ifing what if it's worse what if it's worse than watergate until in your mind it's true but it's not true at all it's the same play if if it turned out that this was the one time that the affidavit was actually valid and legitimate that would be a break with pattern you get that right i ca i can't tell you what's in the affidavit i don't know but if what if if it turns out that the affidavit had actual solid evidence of some kind of a criminality let's say intentional criminality if that were true that would be a break with pattern for trump-related stuff so the the most likely is that it's a all right um you know i'll tell you what so kyle becker tweeted he's sort of on the same page with all this stuff he said it would be the ultimate irony if the search warrant affidavit that is so sensitive that it has to remain a stay secret there's actually a few new york times washington post reports stitched together with some speculation thrown in about nuclear weapons codes being in melania's walk-in closet and jack basaba who has some must have some insider information about what's to come uh tweeted uh this is very close to the truth that's just complete we'll see so um uh i guess the fbi is raising the alert about you know white supremacists and extremists and there even some chatter about dirty bomb attacking the headquarters of the fbi and that's pretty alarming but here's the question that i could ask that the rest of you can't because you have jobs and you need money stuff like that say this is why this is why you need me there are just some things i can say that other people just can't say in public here comes another one i tweeted this too if your actions cause american citizens the people who are on your side to openly discuss bombing your headquarters self-reflection is an order and i recommend this sample question was it something we did now you know why you can't say that tell me why you can't say that but i can because it will obviously be misinterpreted as i'm encouraging violence against the fbi of course i'm not when if i encourage violence against u.s citizens i don't do that right yeah so uh so i can say it because i can take the heat but you can't so freedom of speech is really sort of spotty isn't it in this case i have it sort of you know i'm gonna pay for it but i didn't mind the price so i get to say it but you can't say that you can't say that if somebody's talking about bombing your headquarters you should first of all try to stop them and treat it as a crime right you should treat it as a crime if anybody has a legitimate threat against anybody in the united states so first of all it's a crime but if you don't ask the question was it something we did that caused somebody on my team remember is somebody on your own team if somebody on your own team wants to kill you you should at least ask the question is this something i did am i wrong i'm not saying that the that they should have done anything differently but you should at least ask the question could i have done something differently such as handled the mar-a-lago raid in a different way maybe well here's something uh that we're all waiting for a judge has ruled on the twitter versus elon musk situation that twitter must turn over uh it's a hidden documents that have something to do with how many bots there are or how they calculate it so i don't know exactly exactly what they're going to get or what musk's team is going to get i don't know exactly what they're hiding but they got to give it up now so it could be that musk is going to get information that would tell us something that we have not heard about twitter's bot activity in other news the trump company uh long time cio i think right he was the chief financial guy or cfo cfo um mr uh weisselberg he's gonna give five months in prison with no cooperation because he received benefits while working pretty big benefits 1.7 million over years without paying taxes though now if an employee gets lots of employee benefits such as a free car or any kind of perks those are in theory taxable but here's and then then the trump organization would be separately in trouble for paying him in a way that was untaxable right so both of them are in trouble but not trump himself so there's there's no legal jeopardy for trump himself just the company and uh the cfo but here's here's the question i ask in a normal situation where you've got a tax paying person and a taxpaying corporation if the tax bank corporation decides to give you something and not write it off on their taxes i think it's it's roughly tax you know equal right so in other words even though the cfo who received these benefits didn't pay taxes the trump organization presumably couldn't have written them off but if they did write them off then that's a crime yeah it's a crime somewhere i don't know whose crime but it would be a crime if you actually were avoiding taxes with that method uh the only question i have is were any taxes actually avoided in other words did somebody lose a write-off that was roughly equal to how much wasn't paid or what yeah so so i'm just wondering if it was neutral all right probably not or they want to they wouldn't be so up in arms about it so remember i told you that i was going to destroy esg before the end of the year my comics on that theme have not even come out yet you know it's going to be a while before they come out but uh already 39 no how many uh 18.

uh so arizona plus 18 others that's 19 in total state attorney generals are seeking answers from blackrock who's sort of the big entity that's trying to force companies into doing this esg stuff and these companies are basically demanding to know why blackrock is causing their causing the companies that they influence to invest unwisely when the states are putting their pension money into these investments so they're basically saying esg might be a good idea it might not be a good idea but it definitely is going to lower the returns of the investments or has that has that risk anyway and so the attorney generals are saying uh we're investing our money in these companies and we need these for retirement accounts and such can you please stop telling them to stop making money and maybe focus on the profits and a little bit less on the social good so we'll watch this and here's the question i asked is esg fascism now fascism would be defined as the government controls not only the corporations but also the labor unions so if the government controls business and labor that's fascism because it's one entity controlling all the important stuff all the money but esg by its nature is sort of like a shadow government by design it's meant to look like a shadow government in the sense that it's creating a bunch of standards and then putting pressure on companies a variety of pressures to make them conform to what this one entity is telling them to do now it's not technically fascism because they're not technically the government but they are designed to operate like one in the sense that they're trying to impose standards on on people without them electing them so to me it looks like a pseudo-fascism it's not really fascism because they're not technically the government but if you set up an entity that acts like a government and it controls not only business but labor you know directly and indirectly through influence it's fascism-like it's exactly what you don't want one entity telling your companies and labor what to do you want them to compete you do not want them controlled by one entity in that way so i would say that esg is a form of fascism it's like a pseudo-fascism that's what it is this is pseudo-fascism all right well it seems to me that we've covered all of the important points of the day and it's 7 47 well 10 47 where you are perhaps all right do you think many want to believe the fake news yeah i mean the reason fake news works is that some portion of the public wants to believe it so if the fake news said you know trump murdered somebody on fifth avenue really people want to believe that this would be a good story so yeah the fake news is based on people wanting to believe it antifa is against esg are they oh yeah minneapolis teachers union agreed to a contract which gives priority to non-non-white teachers so there's a union contract for teachers that says if there are layoffs the white the white teachers go first if there are layoffs the white teachers go first it's in the union contract so yeah there's some stories where you don't need any commentary do you is there anything i need to add to that like your mind just filled in everything that needs to be said about that story they have an actual signed contract that says that white people will be fired first do you know where that happened before where i worked yeah where i worked so that was you know many years ago now over 30 years ago and you all know my story i tell it too often i was told directly by senior management that i couldn't be promoted because i'm white and male directly in those words i was told that i would no longer have a chance of promotion until something changed and they couldn't tell me when that would ever happen because it would take years presumably but think about that 30 years ago i was told that directly and here we are 30 years later and these these teachers and the school district are being told in writing and writing that they'll be discriminated against now let me ask you this if i would if i were to give advice to black lives matter it would go like this black lives matter should go shut that down do you know why because they're a joke if they don't and they're already you know they already got some criticisms that are valid i think but if black america doesn't shut that down immediately every one of you let me be as clear as i can be if black america isn't against that every one of you every one of you right i'm not giving you anything you need to be against that because if i saw that if i saw a contract that said black people are fired first i wouldn't stand for that i wouldn't stand for that for you you think i would let that stand not a chance no no way nope nope nope nope nope no if that happens to you i'm activated if you're going to let it's not happening to me specifically but if you're going to let this happen so directly to a bunch of white teachers if you're okay with that and you you even justify it well you you get nothing for me you you need to fix that that's not for white people to fix if you want any credibility going forward you got to fix that now you know i know you got bigger problems right you have your own problems i get that but at least in words give me a tweet give me an opinion just just tell me that you're against it you don't even have to fix it right that's asking a lot but i would do it for you i would do it for you and i do it in a heartbeat and if you try to give me any argument about well systemic red you you too far right you have to read the room read the room the room wants to help i i've put substantial reputation money and time into helping the black community you've seen it here i do it publicly in a variety of ways and you see that i take a hit for it it's not cheap it is not is not cheap to help some other group right because you get attacked for it and this is too far this this contract that explicitly discriminates against white people that's too far you you need to you know hold your credibility by drawing a line there right so this is advice that's a benefit to the black community i mean this to be productive by the way it sounds like i'm just being a critic but i mean this could be productive if you want to get help from the white community and i think you do why wouldn't you right the most obvious thing is get everybody on board to recognize your situation and help when they can and we'd love to do it love to help uh in fact you know i'm i'm investing right now in turning one of my books into a study guide and i've always imagined it would have more value in the black community than the white because i think strategy is the thing that's most missing and i think it's one of the advantages of growing up in a uh let's say a more prosperous family is that you get the benefit of some of the advice and you know seeing how things are done the right way just being around it and so that's the benefit i'd like to bring to you know lower income people who don't have that and that's going to be skewing you know more more non-white than white if people take it seriously so it's it's good persuasion advice you can't maintain your credibility if you just believe everything that's bad for white people is good for you that's just not the world you live in you got to read the room read the room a little bit better so all right i think i made my point um it's a bit woke to assume they want help from the white community what is that really in question is there anybody who wouldn't want free help from the largest population that has the most money of course everybody would want that i'd want it myself all right um all right i'm seeing if you have any comments that are worth jumping on yes who is they exactly uh do you think wokeness is going to go away as a term i see comments go by that i don't i never know how true they are somebody on youtube says the first was it monkey to dog monkey box i don't know i'm not going to believe that all right and the labels now davos yeah i don't have much to say about that do i believe in fate or destiny um well you know i used to believe in a clockwork universe where everything that's going to happen has to happen because that's just the way the cause and effect goes but since i started to appreciate the simulation theory there's something else going on there that suggests that your intentions can control your reality now ten years ago if i said maybe your intentions can control your reality all of the science people will say oh that's crazy but if you imagine that we're a simulation created by another entity there's no reason to believe that we don't have some powers within the simulation because they could just be programmed in there's nothing that would stop you from having powers if they had been programmed into the simulation so one of the powers might be that when we focus and imagine something clearly it's more likely to materialize in what we understand to be our reality and i think there's nothing that rules that out and there's at least anecdotally it looks like it's true the people who seem to think they can control their environment do seem to have outcomes that look unusually good i'm one of those people i believe i can control what i perceive as my reality anyway maybe not a real reality but what i perceive as my reality i feel i can control in ways that don't make sense by any cause and effect traditional classic way of looking at the world now i'm still skeptical enough that i'm open to the fact this is just a psychological artifact it has nothing to do with reality but it's where my head is at at the moment so at the moment i do not believe in fate i believe that we're authoring our reality or says some of us can i don't know if everybody can all right uh yeah right a a model of reality doesn't need to be true it just needs to work and what that usually means is that it's predictive right if you're if your model of reality predicts it's probably pretty good it's the best you can do how do you practice these intentions well that's what affirmations are so if you just visualize what you intend you act and you act on your intentions your body your brain your focus the amount of time you think about it the clarity especially the in vague intentions don't have any power a clear intention does so when bill gates said we're going to put a computer on every desk or something like that that's as clear as you can get microsoft did okay right and i think also that steve jobs was a master of clarity and i don't know how he did it maybe it's by being a bigger bastard or something but i feel in my life if i say all right i'll give you i'll give you a concrete example when i was designing my house and it was time to do the landscape i had a landscape architect and i said i have one primary number one rule for designing what plants and bushes are on my lawn they can't be the kind that lose their leaves in the winter because this is california why in the world would i have any kind of a plant life that loses its leaves just because it's winter there are plenty of them that don't so i said that's the rule it's the only rule i'm not going to over design i have one rule they can't lose their leaves so a few weeks later i get the design it's very complete and there's a drawing of every bush with a name of every bush and i don't understand the latin names of the bushes so i can't really even tell what they are by looking at the picture so i asked okay since i only had one requirement do any of these plants lose their leaves he goes well you know i go all right let me point to one does this one lose its leaves well yes it does and i said what what what part of there's only one thing i care about did you not understand and then he explained it to me this way the plant that i put in there for a month or two a year will have these wonderful little flowers you're gonna love them and i said yeah i get that i get that it doesn't change the fact that i don't want 10 months of the year or six months a year to look at a bunch of branches i'm not i'm not going to trade a few flowers for a month for empty branches for six months just don't do that i said okay what about this one he was like well yeah they sort of lose their leaves but the flowers for that one month are awesome and i went through this discussion with plant after plant you know most of them were evergreens but there were just a whole bunch of them you put in there now that's a normal experience right i'm talking about my very specific experience but don't you recognize that you say i only want one thing and they and then they give you something else like what is hard to understand about one thing that's the real world so somehow steve jobs managed to avoid that and it's got to be with how big of an he was because i can't think of another way to do it because i wasn't a big enough that when my when my landscape designer presented me exactly what i didn't ask for that he didn't well he did get fired basically he did get fired so i don't think he expected that i do not think he expected to get fired but if you only ask for one thing and you don't get it it's game over so one of my problems in management is that my personality fools people into thinking i'm flexible if if i were your boss wouldn't you think i'm i'm pretty easy going well he's not going to give me any trouble he'll be flexible i can work from home come in late whatever i want and the problem is that i'm flexible until i'm knobbed and then there's no warning there's no warning you you can do anything you want you know within the zone of stuff i don't care too much about but the moment you get into the zone i do care about well i don't have any problem firing your ass within 10 seconds i i've fired enough people that it's pretty easy all right same right so i'm a terrible manager uh if i can confess i think a good manager would either be you know give you lots of warning you know try to try to manage you back into line the whole time i i don't have that kind of personality i wish i did and i'm not bragging it's like it's a personality flaw that i'm talking about i just don't have that that warning thing if somebody goes too far i'm just kind of done with them all right that's all for now that's right i'm not a manager i'm a leader but i think i can't be a good leader either because steve jobs has had that i will i will destroy you if you don't give me what i want personality and you kind of need that to be a leader i don't have that all right that's enough for now talk to you later youtube

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shall we start with the good news

does anybody want the optimistic take on

today

i got it

if you were to pick one person that you

would trust

to tell you what is going to happen with

the stock market in the united states

in the long term

who would it be

no fair saying me no no

because you know where i get my

information

i get my information from the person i'm

going to talk about

yeah the answer is warren buffett

warren buffett is still investing

substantially in united states stocks

just bought a bunch of apple

bought some other big investments yes

coca-cola bank of america some other

stuff

and

here's what you need to know

if warren buffett is still investing big

in america

he hasn't been wrong yet

was it something like 70 years of

investing

and for 70 years he's been saying the

same thing

don't bet against america

and then he puts all of his money in

america and it works pretty much every

time

so if warren buffett thinks the

economy is at least strong enough for

him to invest in america

well maybe you should too

that's pretty good news

no i'm not telling you you should invest

that would be investment advice which i

don't give

i don't give

but it's worth noting that the person

who can give such advice

is

investing in america

well here's a little quiz for you to see

how many of you get this right

rasmussen had a poll in which

they were asking about the popularity of

attorney general garland

and i want to see if you could guess

what percentage of likely voters

think that attorney general guard

garland is doing

a better job than most previous attorney

generals

anybody want to take

well

how are you doing this

what

how could it be that all of you are so

close to the exact right answer it's 26

how do you do that

how do you do that

wow

okay

um

look out for the

fake laura ingraham

quotes are you seeing them all over the

internet

so

it's is something taken out of context

so

what laura

and graham did say

on i guess a podcast somebody else's

that uh we'd see if

we'd wait we'd have to wait and see

if voters

are tired of the you know the drama of

trump and are ready for something else

so she was speculating

about maybe

the voters would have a certain attitude

at this point

that got turned into

laura laura ingram's turning on the

president

or turning on trump

now is that why you heard

if somebody says the public might be

you know they might be ready to turn the

page but i don't know

does that sound like she's turned on the

president

no

it sounds like she's making an

observation

that literally every person in america

has made

is there even one person in america who

has not made the following

speculation

i wonder if america's had enough of this

it literally

is closer to saying absolutely nothing

than it is to saying something

surprising and newsworthy

because there's literally no one in

america who hasn't at least asked the

question

not talking about themselves

but at least ask the question

are other people

maybe over it you know and want

something different

and that turned into you know now it's

like a big story

literally nothing

so here's the biggest story that i don't

know anything about

and i'm excited anyway

do you think i would be stopped by a

complete lack of useful information

about a story no

have you met me

no i'm not going to be slowed down by a

complete lack of information

i'm going to take the most positive spin

i can take and i'm going to give you my

my hot take on it are you ready for it

so you remember there was a company or

still is called wework

and it got really big and then there was

a scandal and

um

it was

liz cheney was defeated by a melted

popsicle

we have carpe carpidunctum is letting us

know

good to know

anyway this we work company

at one point it was worth 46 billion

dollars but now it's only worth 4

billion and it was some

some scandal but none of that matters

here's what matters

the founder

has a new startup that's already valued

at a billion dollars

and

here's what excites me about the startup

it's being funded at least i don't know

if entirely or in part by

andreessen horowitz

now what's that tell you

do you know enough about investing

to know if andreessen horowitz is in big

that that means something

right it probably means something right

that that's not a company that invests

big

in something that's not pretty darn good

idea

with somebody who knows how to operate

good operator all right

yeah marco andreessen

invented netscape went on to create

maybe the most substantial

or at least the most storied

uh

venture capital firm around

um

so they're in but let me tell you what

the service is

so this is

extremely

vague

but i'm going to tell you why i'm

excited about it

so he's creating

some kind of community driven experience

centric service

that would change the nature of

residential real estate

does that sound good to you

would you put a billion dollars into

that

so it's it's meant to deal with the

housing crisis

and some kind of community driven

experience centric service

to deal with the fact that there's a

housing crisis

how do you interpret that

well i'm going to over interpret it

here's my interpretation

how long have you heard me say

that the problem with home ownership and

renting really all of our housing is

that it's just poorly designed

it's not designed it's not designed from

the ground up

to meet our lifestyle and our needs

i think what he's doing is is

designing

a place you can live

that's right from the ground up now when

i hear i hear if you gave me

here's the example i use all the time

the best

lifestyle i ever had

was in a cinder block room with one

other person my roommate

in college a college dormitory with a

shared bathroom down the hall

was the best living

experience i've ever had

the second best is a 19 000 square foot

mansion

that requires a an army of people to

maintain it and takes all of my time and

every day i wish i didn't have to do it

[Laughter]

even the best kind of home ownership

kind of sucks

it does i mean there are tons of

benefits right you know that's why you

do it but

every day

i wish i didn't own a home

i wish there was some other way

to just lead my life without the burden

of owning a home

and i could afford a different kind of

home

the reason i built my own home

which cost approximately twice as much

as buying

if you've ever tried to build a house

you know it's pretty expensive the only

way you can get something to see if i'm

modestly acceptable is to build it

yourself because there's no home builder

who's building homes for

our modern lifestyle

this fits our economics and our our

health needs and our social needs and

all that i've got a feeling that this we

work thing

and largely because andreessen horowitz

is behind it

i've got a feeling that they're going

directly at the lifestyle part of living

because homes are built as little uh

let's say little containers

they're built as containers for people

oh we built a good container

we'll put you in the container

but if you started from how do you make

an awesome life

how do you create a situation where

you're you're naturally interacting with

people

in in a way that's positive

you're not you're not secluded in your

little cell

you have some kind of reason to deal

with other people and it might be

something like

for example

one of the best things about college was

the cafeteria

so the cafeteria was everything you

wanted was

free once you'd paid a

monthly you know fee

so you could eat as much as you wanted

of anything you wanted

and it was a really good cafeteria the

choices were awesome and they changed

all the time

and

i never had to cook i never had to clean

you know dishes i never had to shop

i never had to follow a recipe

and i ate great food every single day it

turned out that our cafeteria in my

college was a model cafeteria

for the company that managed cafeterias

for colleges

so whatever was the best stuff they

wanted to use to showcase

their other stuff they're doing it my

little college so we had just a great

situation

now now if you said to me scott i will

take away your

gigantic house that you designed

yourself and i will give you a space

that's got you know nice view

and the cafeteria and you'll have a

reason to interact with other people

it'll be healthy

i feel like i might go for it

right if it meant my basic needs had

enough rooms and you know had an office

for example

i feel like

it would be better

yeah

yeah it's like assisted living but maybe

yeah actually it is like assisted living

except maybe the turbo version of that

for younger people

so i like i've said i think residential

housing is the biggest market in the

next

50 years

it will dwarf everything else and the

reason is we'll have to we're going to

have to tear down and rebuild everything

because there are there are no homes in

existence that meet our lifestyles not

even close

like

housing is completely broken and it's

going to be disrupted

so are you following the uh

the berenson case

where

berenson got kicked off of twitter for

what's his first name why am i

forgetting his first name

berenson

his first name alex right alex berenson

um

so he was saying lots of things that

let's say the experts did not think were

true about the pandemic

so he got booted off of twitter but now

now apparently they're going to let him

back and there's some documentation

showing that the biden administration

may have been encouraging twitter to

kick him off

for misinformation

according to them

now

i'm going to test you here the

probably most of you are familiar with

alex berenson

a famous

let's say

uh skeptic of the government's handling

of the pandemic in lots of different

areas he was a skeptic

now

was he proven right in the end go

was alex berenson proven to be right

after all

go

comments

i'm seeing a wall of yeses over here

some not reallys don't know

yes 25

yes yes yes some knows

some knows but mostly yeses and some

people don't know

so my audience thinks mostly he's been

proven right

i didn't see any of that

are you are you sure you're not

hallucinating

because i literally didn't see you get

anything right

that i'm aware of

so maybe

has anybody done like a report card for

his for his predictions

here's what i think happened

i believe alice berenson got famous for

being really bad at analyzing data

but every time he was really bad at

analyzing data he would come to the same

conclusion

that the government was lying and wrong

about whatever it was telling you about

everything

now what would happen if instead of

being bad at analyzing data you were

just somebody who didn't analyze any

data at all

and you just said i'm going to go out

there and make a prediction that the

government is lying to you

and what they're saying is not quite

correct

how well would you do

so it's the fog of war it's a pandemic

nobody really knows anything

so you go out there and you make

yourself famous by saying the

government's wrong about everything

how would you do as a public figure

really well really well in fact people

would come to believe that you were

sort of magic

because you kept being right about stuff

except that

the way he got there is by by being

amazingly wrong at analyzing anything

that's how it happened

he analyzed incorrectly

just

study after study that's what it seemed

like to me

right so this is my subjective

impression of what was going on

so it looked to me like he got

everything wrong

but he got the right outcome

or something close to it

so it drives me crazy because you knew

that there would be people guessing on

both sides and whoever guessed right

would say that they were wrong they're

right all along it was obvious that you

shouldn't believe them

but it's sort of a trick

because either either the government was

going to be mostly right and it would

have been good to follow their lead or

it would turn out that maybe they were

more wrong than right it was going to be

one of those things

and there were people on both sides

so

one of the people let me ask you this

the people who were completely opposite

of berenson

how close were they to being correct

the people who were completely opposite

of him how close were they to being

correct at the end of it now that we can

see things a little bit clearly

you're saying not close yeah of course

i'm priming you for this answer

well the opposite would be i guess the

opposite would be that masks do work

the vaccinations do stop the spread

uh that they are safer than not getting

them

that that is good for children

that sort of thing

i would say they're mostly

at best the half right at best

right so the people on the other side

from berenson didn't come out too well

but

what did i tell you in the beginning of

the pandemic

my clearest

most often repeated

warning

everybody's guessing

somebody's going to guess right

when it's done whoever guessed right is

going to claim

genius that's what happened

that's what happened

i called that exactly

however we have the two movies on one

screen phenomenon

so we have both sides with opposite

opinions claiming victory after it's all

done

the people with the vaccine who are pro

vaccination

will tell you

well sure

you know it didn't stop the transmission

so much

but as sorta did in the first variant a

little bit

uh but mostly it kept people from dying

so that's a big win

right that's what they're saying

they're saying yeah

you know wasn't as good as we hoped but

it saved millions of people so darn good

thing we did it we better give it to

those children

and by the way

as far as i know

do a fact check on this 100 of all civil

uh let's

say industrialized countries if that's

even the term anymore

i would say 100 of all industrialized

countries

believe that the vaccinations are and

were a good idea

fact-check me

there are no civilized

countries who think the vaccinations

were a bad idea

can you fact-check that

now i'm not saying that they're right

right i know i know

i know most of you are anti-vaccination

and i'm not disagreeing with you

i'm just asking you what the facts are

and if we're all aware of the same facts

see if we're on the same page

in my opinion

i think 100 of the industrialized

countries are on the same page

which most of you think is wrong still

right

that was kind of hard to explain isn't

it

kind of hard to explain

now remember if somebody stopped

vaccinations during omicron

you know that's that's where opinions

start to diverge

legitimately because omicron's a

different level of risk

uh problem was a lack of conversation

wef explains it so you think it's the

wef that explains everything

so one one view would be that

all of the industrialized medical

communities are slaves to

what the wef or slaves to possibly

uh fouchy

because i wonder if if the american

medical community

if you got covered after getting a

vaccine you have a trigger that others

don't okay maybe

could be

could be

all right so we're not talking about

whether

any of this is true or not true those

conversations are

no longer interesting

but i do think it's fascinating watching

the the berenson

phenomenon

so

one view is that uh and by the way i

think that

uh he's valuable

although mostly wrong

valuable

but mostly wrong

that's my opinion you need somebody on

the other side of a big issue like this

and he was he did a good job as a

you know making attention on the

you know hey maybe we should you know

tap the brakes on this so i think he did

i think he was a solid

in my opinion i think he added but it's

a controversial opinion i think he added

to the process

all right um

would you like an update on the 13th

hoax

everybody knows what the 13th hoax is

right

so the 13th hoax is that

trump had

uh

any kind of important nuclear secrets at

mar-a-lago

to me

to me that's ridiculous

or at least they he knew about it

you know the the suggestion that he knew

about it

and there were sensitive nuclear secrets

and he didn't want to give them back

no

[Laughter]

no there's no chance that's true

really

people

there's no chance that's true

just just thinking through

trump had

sensitive nuclear secrets

put him in a warehouse

in

mar-a-lago had some reason to keep

nuclear secrets i don't know what that

would be

and and when asked to return them

refused

that's sort of the story we're being

told there's no chance that's true

none i mean really there's no chance

that's true

anyway

so here's my summary of the 13th hoax

and i have to do it in this accent

fool me 12 times

not gonna

fool me again

so that that's the

tag line for the 13th hoax fool me 12

times not gonna

fool me again

but i guess they are

so i saw a greg guffeld mentioned this

and i was just sort of catching up a few

days ago

historian michael bechlos

uh asked this question

on twitter

he said any possibility that certain

foreign governments trump loves

wanted american nuclear secrets from him

now

michael bachelos and this is what greg

pointed out

i thought he was like a serious

historian

like he he's somebody with some weight

right he's somebody we've been seeing

for years

talking about presidential

history etc

what i didn't know is that he

apparently is associated with nbc news

what's that mean

yeah

so

um

i don't think uh trump is selling

nuclear secrets to foreign countries

uh by storing those documents in

mar-a-lago

so here's the question

is that even serious

where when beishala says is there a

possibility trump might want to sell

nuclear secrets to some foreign country

am i supposed to take that comment

seriously

like actually

and what i mean is

is he saying something that's purely

political and we should recognize it as

such which would be fine

right you know on twitter people make

like uh

you know incredible hyperbolic leaps to

the the absurd

but if you know what it is

then you put it in context oh that's one

of those hyperbolic absurd statements

it's just sort of a political

gotcha

but is that what he's doing is this just

a political gotcha ah

you know sort of exaggerating something

or does he actually think we should

believe this

that this is on the table there's a

possibility of this

but then

i i was informed that he worked for nbc

nbc the entity most closely associated

with allegedly

the cia

is the cia wanting us to believe that

trump is selling nuclear seekers to a

foreign country

i think so

i don't know

but it would be consistent with what

we've seen from the cia

in terms of trying to affect internal

politics before

right it would be consistent with what

we've seen

ridiculous

but consistent

and you know i like this what if thing

that the democrats are doing

what if trump sold he tried to sell

secrets

what if and i thought

i like that

so

i added my own

what if i tweeted earlier what if

i'm not saying it's happening

i'm not saying it's happening

but what if what if

what if democrats are intentionally

creating more right-wing extremists to

justify their tactics against regular

republicans

now i'm not saying that's happening

all i'm saying is that all of their

actions are consistent

with them needing to create extremists

because they're not enough of them

so they seem to be doing things that

when you look at them they seem only

designed to create extremists

and i think to myself

shouldn't you be trying to reduce the

number of extremists

that being actually the job of our fbi

i thought

it doesn't look like they're trying to

decrease it

it actually looks like they're trying to

increase it

um

yeah

all right

so

i'm not saying it's happening i'm just

saying they're acting like they're

trying to create more extremists

um

here's a little story for you that

should make you feel good

so twitter

i guess the department of justice

has found guilty

an employee of twitter

who

formerly was of walnut creek california

do you know where walnut creek

california is compared to me

it's like right over there

it's like where i shop

that's where i go to dinner the walnut

creek so it's like right here

so

this guy from walnut creek but he wasn't

working in walnut creek at the time

he was residing in seattle and he was

accused of

and apparently they have evidence of

that he was giving

private twitter information to saudi

arabia and the saudi royal family

specifically about critics of saudi

arabia i assume

so what do you think of that so there

was an insider

but here was his job he was he was the

media partnership manager

for the mena region

so he was a media partnership management

manager

do you think that somebody with the

title media partnership manager

should have access to private twitter

information

what kind of job has access to the

private twitter information

could

could the

could the manager of uh

media partnerships

look at my direct messages

can my private direct messages be seen

by the

the media partnership manager

really

maybe i don't know but apparently i mean

according to the

legal system yes

now how many other twitter employees can

look at personal information of people

don't know

how many twitter employees can tweak the

algorithm to change the results

one lots of them

are there lots of people who could make

a change in their little area but as

long as it compiles right nobody really

knows

i don't know

if you told me that an employee who is

the manager of media partnerships could

access

private twitter data

i would have said that's not a thing

nobody's going to do that no company

would allow that

but apparently it

happened so

if you think this is bad news

i think you're just a pessimist

because here's what you should think is

the good news

despite the fact that twitter had this

fairly massive hole in their security

don't you feel good

to know that all 50 of our election

systems in the united states

don't have this kind of problem

they don't have an insider who has

access to anything or it could change

anything

and

i feel as if we

we don't give enough credit to the

programmers for for our 50 i guess

they're 51

different

election systems because they use

different different digital technology

it's not all about paper right

because even the paper stuff has to be

reported digitally

so all the systems have some digital

connection

and

unlike twitter and i i think some of

these uh state election people

maybe twitter should hire them to find

out how they do it

because twitter

you know you probably thought twitter is

like a big billion multi-billion dollar

company and you're thinking well they

hire the best

security people

but obviously they're not operating at

the level

of each of these state election systems

so the state election systems that have

operated flawlessly without any insider

problems whatsoever

seem to be able to do this

and not only do they do it they do it

every election

time after time so they're doing it for

congressional local elections

you know state elections they're doing

it for national elections

the

this the internal digital security

for all 51 of these elections

is tied as a

as a nat's ass as my dad used to say

tighter than a nat's ass

and

uh isn't the obvious thing is that

twitter should just hire some of these

people to teach them

how not to have any insiders working for

your company who could take a bribe or

something like that

so

it's pretty amazing so a lot of you are

looking at the negative side of this and

you should really look at the positive

the positive is that our election

systems have figured out how to do

something that twitter can't do for data

security you know what's interesting is

that

not only can twitter not do it

but none of the none of the large

companies can

um so

google can't

google hasn't figured out how to never

have an insider do something bad

but all 51 election systems have nailed

that

and standing ovation

for our election systems please

give it up everybody give it up

51 election systems with no security

problems uh no problems with insiders

doing things that we don't know about

uh that's the kind of accomplishment

that does not get heralded as much as

they should

not as much as it should

so let's all take uh

take a moment to thank

the excellent men and women

who are

working on our election systems the

digital parts the digital parts because

those are flawless

all right so the doj says it's not going

to release the affidavit the part that

tells us anything interesting about the

mar-a-lago situation

but maybe we'll get to see it because

justice watch and i think tom tom feden

uh who by the way is not an attorney

i don't know if i've ever mentioned that

before

has anybody ever brought up that point

to me

yeah actually tom fenton told me himself

he was not an attorney because i

mentioned he was once

um i just figured he should be because

he actually he seems like he seems like

you should be i don't know i just assume

everybody's an attorney

he does have too many muscles to be an

attorney

i don't know are you allowed to have

that many muscles if you have a law

degree

and i don't think i've seen anybody with

arms that big who also has a law degree

so i i think there's some kind of

prohibition against that anyway

um

so the trump legal team instead of

saying yes release the affidavit they're

saying we're just gonna wait and we're

gonna wait and see how this

lawsuit turns out

which is an interesting weak way to say

it isn't it

and i think trump came out a little bit

stronger in favor of it but not until he

found out it wouldn't be released

i think i think trump is confident that

it won't be released because remember he

doesn't know what's in there

trump would just be guessing

that if it got released it would be

somehow positive for him but he doesn't

know what's in there

do you

i do

i know what's in there

do you know how i know what's in there

because the hoax pattern is always the

same

so jack bosobic has some reporting he

has some kind of sources and if you

don't follow jackpossabic on twitter

you need to

like that he's one of the must follows

because he just hears stuff before other

people do

he's going to give it to you in a way

that you haven't seen in other places

right so that's a must follow

so

uh his take is that the affidavit is

probably full of

stuff such as

a maggie haberman uh report

in

in a newspaper

followed by some innuendo and

maybe some rumors

it's a little bit of hearsay

uh

wrapped up in

the little media smear thing where

where somebody reports on it and then

somebody talks about the report and then

you can talk about everybody talking

about it and pretty soon there's lots of

innuendo but really it's all just

manufactured

so the most likely the most likely

contents of the affidavit are

you know that right

most likely the affidavit is complete

because we've seen it it's their play

yeah it's the wrap-up smear you know the

the shift in this gift play

the the anonymous sources

the the what-ifing what if it's worse

what if it's worse than watergate

until in your mind it's true but it's

not true at all it's the same play

if

if it turned out that this was the one

time

that the affidavit was actually valid

and legitimate

that would be a break with pattern

you get that right

i ca i can't tell you what's in the

affidavit i don't know

but if

what if

if it turns out that the affidavit had

actual

solid

evidence of some kind of a criminality

let's say intentional criminality

if that were true

that would be a break with pattern

for trump-related stuff

so the the most likely is that it's a

all right um

you know i'll tell you what so kyle

becker

tweeted he's sort of on the same page

with all this stuff

he said it would be the ultimate irony

if the search warrant affidavit that is

so sensitive that it has to remain a

stay secret there's actually a few new

york times washington post reports

stitched together with some speculation

thrown in about nuclear weapons codes

being in melania's walk-in closet

and jack

basaba who has some must have some

insider information about what's to come

uh tweeted uh this is very close to the

truth

[Laughter]

that's just complete

we'll see

so um uh i guess the

fbi is raising the alert about you know

white supremacists and extremists

and there even some chatter about

dirty bomb attacking the headquarters of

the fbi and that's pretty alarming

but here's the question that i could ask

that the rest of you can't

because you have jobs and

you need money stuff like that

say this is why this is why you need me

there are just some things i can say

that other people just can't say in

public

here comes another one

i tweeted this too if your actions cause

american citizens the people who are on

your side

to openly discuss bombing your

headquarters

self-reflection is an order

and i recommend this sample question

was it something we did

now you know why you can't say that

tell me why you can't say that but i can

because it will obviously be

misinterpreted as i'm encouraging

violence against the fbi

of course i'm not

when if i encourage violence against

u.s citizens i don't do that right

yeah

so uh

so i can say it because i can take the

heat

but you can't

so

freedom of speech is really

sort of spotty isn't it

in this case i have it sort of you know

i'm gonna pay for it

but i didn't mind the price

so i get to say it

but you can't say that you can't say

that if somebody's talking about bombing

your headquarters you should first of

all try to stop them

and treat it as a crime right you should

treat it as a crime if anybody has a

legitimate threat against anybody in the

united states so first of all it's a

crime

but if you don't ask the question

was it something we did

that caused somebody on my team remember

is somebody on your own team if somebody

on your own team wants to kill you

you should at least ask the question is

this something i did

am i wrong

i'm not saying that the that they should

have done anything differently

but you should at least

ask the question could i have done

something differently

such as handled the mar-a-lago raid

in a different way

maybe

well here's something uh

that we're all waiting for a judge has

ruled on the twitter versus elon musk

situation that twitter must turn over uh

it's a hidden documents

that have something to do with how many

bots there are or how they calculate it

so i don't know exactly

exactly what they're going to get

or what musk's team is going to get i

don't know exactly what they're hiding

but they got to give it up now so it

could be that musk is going to get

information that would tell us something

that we have not heard about

twitter's bot activity

in other news

the trump company

uh long time

cio i think right he was the chief

financial guy or cfo cfo

um

mr uh weisselberg

he's gonna give five months in prison

with no cooperation because he received

benefits while working

pretty big benefits 1.7 million over

years

without paying taxes though

now if an employee gets lots of employee

benefits such as a free car

or any kind of perks those are

in theory taxable

but here's and then then the trump

organization would be separately in

trouble

for

paying him in a way that was untaxable

right so both of them are in trouble but

not trump himself so there's there's no

legal jeopardy for trump himself

just the company

and uh the cfo

but here's here's the question i ask

in a normal situation where you've got

a tax paying person and a taxpaying

corporation

if the tax bank corporation decides to

give you something

and not write it off on their taxes

i think it's it's roughly

tax

you know equal right so in other words

even though the cfo who received these

benefits didn't pay taxes

the trump organization presumably

couldn't have written them off

but if they did write them off

then that's a crime yeah it's a crime

somewhere i don't know whose crime but

it would be a crime if you actually

were avoiding taxes with that method

uh the only question i have is were any

taxes actually avoided

in other words

did somebody lose a write-off that was

roughly equal to how much wasn't paid

or what yeah

so so i'm just wondering if it was

neutral

all right probably not or they want to

they wouldn't be so

up in arms about it so remember i told

you that i was going to destroy esg

before the end of the year

my comics on that theme have not even

come out yet

you know it's going to be a while before

they come out

but uh already 39 no how many

uh 18.

uh

so arizona plus 18 others that's 19 in

total state attorney generals are

seeking answers

from blackrock

who's sort of the big entity that's

trying to force companies

into doing this esg stuff

and these companies are

basically demanding to know

why blackrock is causing their

causing the companies that they

influence

to invest unwisely when the states are

putting their pension money into these

investments

so they're basically saying esg might be

a good idea it might not be a good idea

but it definitely is going to lower the

returns of the investments

or has that has that risk anyway and so

the attorney generals are saying uh

we're investing our money in these

companies and we need these for

retirement accounts and such

can you please stop telling them to stop

making money

and maybe focus on the profits and a

little bit less on the

social good

so we'll watch this and here's the

question i asked is

esg

fascism

now fascism would be defined as the

government

controls not only the corporations but

also the labor unions

so if the government controls business

and labor

that's fascism because it's one entity

controlling all the important stuff all

the money

but esg by its nature is sort of like a

shadow government

by design

it's meant to look like a shadow

government in the sense that it's

creating a bunch of standards and then

putting pressure on companies a variety

of pressures

to make them conform to what this one

entity

is telling them to do

now it's not technically fascism because

they're not technically the government

but they are designed to operate like

one in the sense that they're trying to

impose standards

on

on people without them electing them

so

to me it looks like a pseudo-fascism

it's not really fascism because they're

not technically the government but if

you set up an entity that acts like a

government

and it controls not only business but

labor

you know directly and indirectly through

influence

it's fascism-like

it's exactly what you don't want one

entity telling your companies and labor

what to do

you want them to compete you do not want

them controlled by one entity in that

way

so i would say that esg is a form of

fascism it's like a pseudo-fascism

that's what it is this is pseudo-fascism

all right well it seems to me

that

we've covered all of the important

points of the day

and it's 7 47

well 10 47 where you are perhaps

all right

do you think many want to believe the

fake news yeah i mean the reason fake

news works is that some portion of the

public wants to believe it

so if the fake news said you know trump

murdered somebody on fifth avenue really

people want to believe that this would

be a good story

so yeah the fake news is based on people

wanting to believe it

antifa is against esg are they

oh yeah minneapolis teachers union

agreed to a contract which gives

priority to

non-non-white teachers so there's a

union contract for teachers

that says if there are layoffs the white

the white teachers go first

if there are layoffs

the white teachers go first

it's in the union

contract so

yeah there's some stories where you

don't need any commentary do you

is there anything i need to add to that

like your mind just filled in everything

that needs to be said about that story

they have an actual signed contract

that says that white people will be

fired first

do you know where that happened before

where i worked yeah where i worked so

that was you know many years ago now

over 30 years ago

and you all know my story i tell it too

often

i was told directly by senior management

that i couldn't be promoted

because i'm white and male

directly

in those words i was told that i would

no longer have a chance of promotion

until something changed and they

couldn't tell me when that would ever

happen because it would take years

presumably

but think about that 30 years ago i was

told that directly

and here we are 30 years later and these

these teachers and

the school district

are being told in writing

and writing that they'll be

discriminated against

now let me ask you this

if i would if i were to give

advice to black lives

matter it would go like this

black lives matter should go shut that

down

do you know why

because they're a joke if they don't

and they're already you know they

already got some criticisms that are

valid i think but if black america

doesn't shut that down immediately

every one of you

let me be as clear as i can be

if black america

isn't against that

every one of you

every one of you

right i'm not giving you anything

you need to be against that

because if i saw that

if i saw a contract

that said black people are fired first

i wouldn't stand for that

i wouldn't stand for that for you

you think i would let that stand not a

chance no no way

nope nope nope nope nope

no if that happens to you

i'm activated

if you're going to let

it's not happening to me specifically

but if you're going to let this happen

so directly to a bunch of white teachers

if you're okay with that

and you you even justify it well

you you get nothing for me

you you need to fix that

that's not for white people to fix

if you want any credibility going

forward

you got to fix that now you know i know

you got bigger problems right you have

your own problems i get that

but at least in words

give me a tweet

give me an opinion

just just tell me that you're against it

you don't even have to fix it right

that's asking a lot

but i would do it for you

i would do it for you and i do it in a

heartbeat and if you try to give me any

argument about well

systemic red you

you too far right you have to read

the room

read the room

the room wants to help

i i've put substantial

reputation money and time into helping

the black community you've seen it here

i do it publicly in a variety of ways

and you see that i take a hit for it

it's not cheap

it is not is not cheap to help some

other group

right because you get attacked for it

and

this is too far

this

this contract

that explicitly discriminates against

white people

that's too far

you you need to

you know

hold your credibility

by drawing a line there right so this is

advice that's a benefit to the black

community

i mean this to be productive by the way

it sounds like i'm just being a critic

but i mean this could be productive

if you want to get help from the white

community and i think you do

why wouldn't you

right

the most obvious thing is get everybody

on board

to recognize your situation and help

when they can

and we'd love to do it love to help

uh in fact you know i'm i'm investing

right now in

turning one of my books into a study

guide

and i've always imagined it would have

more value in the black community than

the white

because i think strategy is the thing

that's most missing

and i think it's one of the advantages

of growing up in a

uh let's say a more prosperous family

is that you get the benefit of some of

the advice and

you know seeing how things are done the

right way just being around it

and so that's the benefit i'd like to

bring to

you know lower income people who don't

have that and that's going to be skewing

you know more more non-white than white

if people take it seriously

so

it's

it's good persuasion advice

you can't maintain your credibility

if you just believe everything that's

bad for white people is good for you

that's just not the world you live in

you got to read the room read the room a

little bit better

so all right

i think i made my point

um

it's a bit woke to assume they want help

from the white community

what

is that really in question

is there anybody who wouldn't want

free help from the largest population

that has the most money

of course everybody would want that i'd

want it myself

all right

um

all right i'm seeing if you have any

comments that are worth jumping on

yes who is they

exactly

uh do you think wokeness is going to go

away as a term

i see comments go by that i don't i

never know how true they are somebody on

youtube says the first

was it

monkey to dog monkey box i don't know

i'm not going to believe that

all right and the labels now

davos

yeah i don't have much to say about that

do i believe in fate or destiny

um

well

you know i used to believe in a

clockwork

universe

where everything that's going to happen

has to happen because that's just the

way the cause and effect goes

but since i

started to appreciate the simulation

theory

there's something else going on there

that suggests that your intentions can

control your reality

now

ten years ago if i said maybe your

intentions can control your reality

all of the science people will say oh

that's crazy

but if you imagine that we're a

simulation created by another entity

there's no reason to believe that we

don't have some powers within the

simulation because they could just be

programmed in there's nothing that would

stop you from having powers if they had

been programmed into the simulation

so one of the powers might be that when

we focus and imagine something clearly

it's more likely to materialize in what

we understand to be our reality

and i think there's nothing that rules

that out and there's

at least anecdotally it looks like it's

true the people who seem to think they

can control their environment

do seem to have

outcomes that look unusually good i'm

one of those people i believe i can

control

what i perceive as my reality anyway

maybe not a real reality but what i

perceive as my reality i feel i can

control

in ways that don't make sense

by any cause and effect

traditional classic way of looking at

the world

now

i'm still skeptical enough

that i'm open to the fact this is just a

psychological artifact

it has nothing to do with reality

but it's where my head is at at the

moment

so at the moment i do not believe in

fate

i believe that we're authoring our

reality or says some of us can

i don't know if everybody can

all right uh

yeah

right a a model of reality doesn't need

to be true

it just needs to work

and what that usually means is that it's

predictive

right if you're if your model of reality

predicts it's probably pretty good

it's the best you can do

how do you practice these intentions

well that's what

affirmations are

so if you just visualize what you intend

you act and you act on your intentions

your body your brain your focus the

amount of time you think about it the

clarity especially the

in vague intentions don't have any power

a clear intention does

so when bill gates said we're going to

put a computer on every desk or

something like that

that's as clear as you can get

microsoft did okay

right and i think also that steve jobs

was a master of clarity

and i don't know how he did it maybe

it's by being a bigger bastard or

something

but

i feel in my life if i say all right

i'll give you i'll give you a concrete

example when i was designing my house

and it was time to do the landscape i

had a landscape architect

and i said i have one primary number one

rule for designing what plants and

bushes are on my lawn

they can't be the kind that lose their

leaves in the winter because this is

california

why in the world would i have any kind

of a plant life that loses its leaves

just because it's winter there are

plenty of them that don't

so i said that's the rule it's the only

rule i'm not going to over design i have

one rule they can't lose their leaves

so

a few weeks later i get the design it's

very complete and there's a drawing of

every bush with a name of every bush and

i don't understand the

latin names of the bushes

so

i can't really even tell what they are

by looking at the picture

so i asked okay

since i only had one requirement

do any of these plants lose their leaves

he goes well you know

i go all right let me point to one

does this one lose its leaves

well yes it does

and i said

what

what

what part of there's only one

thing i care about

did you not understand

and then he explained it to me this way

the plant that i put in there

for a month or two a year will have

these wonderful little flowers

you're gonna love them

and i said

yeah i get that

i get that

it doesn't change the fact

that i don't want 10 months of the year

or six months a year to look at a bunch

of branches

i'm not i'm not going to trade a few

flowers for a month

for empty branches for six months

just don't do that i said okay what

about this one

he was like

well yeah they sort of lose their leaves

but

the flowers for that one month are

awesome

and i went through this discussion with

plant after plant you know most of them

were evergreens but there were just a

whole bunch of them you put in there

now that's a normal experience

right

i'm talking about my very specific

experience but don't you recognize that

you say i only want one thing and they

and then they give you something else

like what is hard to understand about

one thing

that's the real world so somehow steve

jobs managed to

avoid that

and it's got to be with how big of an

he was

because i can't think of another way to

do it

because i wasn't a big enough

that when my

when my landscape designer presented me

exactly what i didn't ask for

that he didn't

well he did get fired

[Laughter]

basically

he did get fired

so i don't think he expected that

i do not think he expected to get fired

but if you only ask for one thing and

you don't get it

it's game over

so

one of my problems in management is that

my personality fools people into

thinking i'm flexible

if if i were your boss

wouldn't you think i'm i'm pretty easy

going

well he's not going to give me any

trouble he'll be flexible i can work

from home

come in late

whatever i want

and the problem is that i'm flexible

until i'm knobbed

and then there's no warning

there's no warning

you you can do anything you want

you know within the zone of stuff i

don't care too much about

but the moment you get into the zone i

do care about well

i don't have any problem firing your ass

within 10 seconds

i i've fired enough people

that it's pretty easy

all right same right

so i'm a terrible manager uh if i can

confess i think a good manager

would either be you know give you lots

of warning

you know try to try to manage you back

into line the whole time i i don't have

that kind of personality i wish i did

and i'm not bragging it's like it's a

personality flaw that i'm talking about

i just don't have that

that

warning thing

if somebody goes too far i'm just kind

of done with them

all right

that's all for now

that's right i'm not a manager i'm a

leader

but i think i can't be a good leader

either because

steve jobs has

had that i will i will destroy you if

you don't give me what i want

personality

and

you kind of need that to be a leader

i don't have that

all right that's enough for now

talk to you later youtube