Episode 1874 Scott Adams - Lots Of News About Fentanyl, Trump, Elections, And Affirmative Action

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Gerald Burke b-e-r-k-e not you b-e-r-k so if you're looking for it there he is Rasmussen last uh Apollo a bunch of likely voters in the U.S How likely do you think there will be widespread cheating in the midterms that will affect the outcome right so remember the the words are widespread cheating and affect the outcome so has to be big enough that it could change who got elected what do you think the general public thought of that do you think that the Republicans maybe thought there would be trouble but the Democrats said things would be fine is that what you expected well eighty percent of the people who answered that answered that it was very or somewhat likely that there would be widespread cheating in the midterms that will affect the outcome eighty percent eighty percent of all the people I'm not talking about just just um Republicans that includes Democrats 80 of all the people and that does leave a about 20 percent who don't think that's likely now do you remember when people used to uh tell me that I was crazy for saying this non-politician who wanted to get into politics was persuasive somebody named Trump you've heard of him and I said oh you don't see what's coming he's not just persuasive he's crazy persuasive and people said no he's not he's not persuasive nobody's going to believe the stuff he's saying it's crazy eighty percent of the country thinks our elections are real that's all him that's all Trump now you can say other people are saying it too and that's true but only because he said it right if Trump hadn't kept this up it would have you know died out like every other election where somebody says it's rigged and then they forget about it so uh that's amazing now I believe that the way the question was asked has the most to do with how we got this big number I don't believe the country is actually this skeptical about the elections here's what I think people were thinking when they answered the question I think what they were thinking is they don't trust the other side don't you think if you said what are the odds that the other team will cheat what would be the answer 80 right what do you think of the odds that the other team the team you're not on what do you think of the odds that they would cheat oh 80 percent whichever team you ask right so I think that's all that happened I'm not sure this is actually a you know a snapshot of some gigantic persuasive change I think it might be just a team play situation could be in the way that the question was constructed that's one of the pitfalls with polls is that the exact way the question is constructed will get you very different answers you think it's the same question but it's not interpreted that way people will throw in their own assumptions there whether you like it or not so I'd keep an eye on that but I do think there's more skepticism than before how many of you saw Trump's interview with Hannity last night I guess the first major interview since uh the boxes at Mar-A-Lago were an issue and if you saw how do you think you did because I haven't seen him in that specific context in a while where he had to answer some questions I mean they were friendly questions but they were important questions you know I don't think Hannity avoided the big questions you know you could argue whether he you know hammered down on the follow-up as hard as he should have I don't think he did but but I thought he did a solid job right I think somebody less friendly to the president because they're famously friends right everybody knows that they're actually personal friends so you don't really expect to Hardball interview and as long as that's fully disclosed you know the president's my personal friend you know that's not the biggest problem right I also didn't mind watching the Cuomo Brothers on TV I'm the only person in the world who said that's fine it's fully disclosed if you know it's his brother you can handle that can't you I mean you might not find it entertaining but if you know he's talking to his own brother at least you can modify that in your mind to say okay don't believe that this is a real interview so the Hannity and Trump thing I think is more of an event than an interview would you agree it's more of a an event than any kind of hard-hitting interview and that's fine I don't that's not a criticism it's completely fine because there can be hard-hitting interviews Trump does those too right but as long as you know that Hannity and Trump are friends you know what you're getting all right um here's my take so Trump's explanation I'm going to paraphrase here because it was a long interview but I'm going to paraphrase Trump's explanation of what was going on with those documents and those boxes at Mar-A-Lago and here's here's the funny part when you hear Trump explain it now again I don't know it's true I'm not saying I automatically believe anything about this story or any person all right I'm not saying that I'm just reporting what happened that Trump's explanation is the most obvious explanation what will be the most obvious explanation of all this he didn't have anything to do with what went in the boxes and he didn't know what was in there that's the most obvious explanation and that's the one he gave the one I gave is the most obvious one yeah that wasn't my business to know what's in a box I mean I'm paraphrasing he didn't say that but the way the way he told that it looked like he genuinely didn't know what kind of documents were even a problem so I don't think even Trump knows what documents are controversial in that group doesn't that sound like the most reasonably true thing now I'm not saying is true I'm saying that if before you'd heard it you said what's the most likely thing well most likely somebody who operates at Trump's level never got near a box and and some tape or whatever they close them up with then the second thing he said which he did not do a good job at he did not do a good job at this because he didn't word it right but he could have he indicated that those documents were unclassified by the actions he took so he says directly there's no process there's no required process that he has to follow as president when he was president to declassify anything and since there's no formal process it cannot be said that you did the process wrong you simply had to have done something that Declassified him and his argument is that moving them in a very obvious direct way from the secured location to his home was a clear signal to everybody that he Declassified it now here's my question can you declassify a box whose contents you don't know does that even make sense what would it mean if he said okay obviously all of these boxes I'm shipping right in front of everybody you all see it like we're not hiding it look at look at all these boxes they're being loaded on the truck no secrets here so I would agree with him so far so here's where I agree I do agree that if there's no formal process that his actions are clear if you take it out of a secure place and everybody and everybody's watching it and then you move it to an unsecured place that's de facto declassification I think that argument actually works what I don't know is can you declassify something that you don't know you Declassified that's more of a problem isn't it if he just said well if it's in those boxes consider it Declassified now if he has complete power which I believe the Constitution loves him right complete is it the Constitution but he has a complete power of declassifying so with that complete power include saying I don't know what's in that box but it's all Declassified I think I would argue that he does have that power wouldn't you I mean it'd be weird but probably true I don't know it feels like a dershowitz argument to this I haven't heard Joshua's weigh in on this but I feel like Trump's take on this is probably a dershowitz argument would be that if your actions have caused an obvious an obvious declassification then you should consider them Declassified and here's the thing what if it's a gray area suppose it's a gray area you know I just described it maybe some of you said yeah that sounds I'll buy that then others if you said no no I'm not going to buy that then Trump wins right because there's no process if a reasonable person me I'm a reasonable person some of you are reasonable if reasonable people not all of them but if some reasonable people would say yeah that argument works if it was obvious you was taking them that's declassified then I think that's all he needs because there was no process all right um I thought Trump was again um lacking a forward division it's a weird situation because the forward vision is explicitly to go back to where we were so maybe he doesn't need to say it because he's saying you know it's pretty obviously he would well you know what Trump would do right it's a strange situation isn't it because if it were anybody else I would say you better be telling us what you're going to do don't just tell us what's bad about the current situation but in his specific case you do know exactly what he would do you kind of do now he claims that the Ukraine situation would never have happened uh if he were in charge now the first time I heard that I said to myself well I know you never know that right that would be hard to know and he says that he you know directly threatened Putin to not do military action when he was in in office but here's the part you can't argue with with Trump in charge America would be producing more energy true right if America were producing lots more energy would Europe be as threatened by the gas turnoffs I think not right now I don't know exactly know how fungible gas is do you have enough tankers could you move our excess over there or would there be Logistics problems you couldn't do it but I think there's an argument I'm saying some no's okay I don't know if they know what the note refers to but I think the argument holds that Trump would have kept Energy prices um modest and fuel more available and that therefore Russia's biggest weapon wouldn't have been available to them what do you think I think that's actually a pretty good opinion I I think that Trump's view that it wouldn't have happened if he had been president is supportable it's not guaranteed you know you can't really do a what if what if nobody knows it's impossible to know but his argument does hold water it does yeah so we'll never know Russia has called up its reservists those 300 000 people who probably are poorly trained and too old and don't want to go back to war or at least don't to the military and all of the coverage can you give me a fact check on this the news of all type in the United States is reporting that Trump that Russia is losing and doesn't look like that's going to change now I'm not that's not my opinion I'm saying that the reporting is now consistently across all media saying that Russia is losing it doesn't look like there's a way to change that because their their Manpower thing looks pretty dire and the Ukraine looks like nothing's going to stop them because they've got support they've got morale and everything else now will you please acknowledge that I had the best military protection about Ukraine and the entire United States anybody are you ready to do that yet anybody no I see some no's you're going to hold tight aren't you you're gonna hold tight all right remember my prediction was my prediction was that Ukraine would outperform the military experts predictions will you give me that would you give me that Ukraine has outperformed the the experts predictions but they did not outperform my prediction would you give me that and would you give me that the reasons given have mostly to do with Advanced Weaponry provided to Ukraine which was specifically what I said would be the key would you give me that now here's here's the thing that might drive you crazy about me this sort of thing drives a lot of you crazy because I do insist that you recognize that that was that was correct I do insist and the reason is is not because I made one one prediction I make predictions regularly and if you don't track them to see when I'm right and when I'm wrong you lose half the value of watching me right you should have some sense of how often I'm right now I want to give you some examples of where the experts were wrong and I was right when the expert said uh Mass we're telling you don't use masks and I said no the experts are lying I was the only person in the country the only person and you could check that there was not one person in the world who said on day one you're obviously lying about the masks now I don't want to get him to do masks work that's a separate question for now and boring we don't want to talk about that but we can all agree that faucially lied about his opinion of masks right we all agree he lied because he says he lied I'm the only person who called that out I'm the only one there was nobody else in the country who saw it from the jump I was like that's obviously a lie right somebody says Bannon I don't think so now I also predicted that the vaccinations would not work as vaccinations am I an expert on vaccinations no but did I get that right and I said Therapeutics would be the the main thing that makes a difference that's about as right as you can be I don't think you could be more right than that somebody says I'm wrong 25 of the time that's probably right that feels about right I I would accept that actually I think my prediction is wrong at least 25 percent of the time because nobody can do this all the time right nobody's right all the time and 25 it sounds about right yeah so with the so with my predictions here I guess it was a point I was gonna make my my prediction is not that I'm smarter than experts is never that my prediction is that a non-expert can identify lying that's all I say a non-expert can identify when an expert is lying if you are an expert at identifying lying so I I claim some expertise in identifying Liars so when you see me disagree with experts sometimes I'm just disagreeing with Liars I didn't need their expertise I just needed my expertise right so that's where it's a trick it looks like it looks like I'm pretending I'm smarter than experts and I've never done that I've never pretended I knew more than an expert I've only pretended that my expertise is spotting experts lying do you remember when it was common that everybody believed passion was the key to success because because the billionaires were telling you it was true and I told you well it's obviously not true but that doesn't give me the skills of a Mark Zuckerberg it doesn't give me the skills of a Warren Buffett it doesn't give me the skills of the people I was calling on I only needed my own skill identify right that's my own skill all right there's a so Putin did his little uh he did a uh video I don't know what it was a statement or a press conference or something but did you see his awkward um posture his right hand the one that people have suggested has some Parkinson's or something was very awkwardly on top of a table in a way that nobody sets especially if you're going to be doing an extended leader interview right his left arm seemed to have a little action going on but his right arm was flat on the table and then if you watch his thumb is Islam kept doing this so it looked like he was trying to stop a motion problem now you could have argued that his right thumb was sort of mirroring his left hand so that when he was gesturing you know it was just sort of an automatic little thing that happened with the other hand but if you're gesturing with one hand you're going to gesture it too he gestured only with one in my opinion is obviously he has some kind of physical problem with that arm would anybody agree it looks like Parkinson's but you know I'm not a medical expert I can say if something looks wrong I'm not qualified to diagnose it would that stop me probably not you wouldn't want to be yeah do you think he just uh overused his masturbation arm think that's possibility now um so that's my first thing second is uh he does look like a leader who's in trouble and doesn't have an exit strategy because his internal pressure must be really high right now and what's he going to do is he going to have to use a nuke because he can't lose we do have a problem giving Putin an exit ramp and until he has an exit ramp why would he ever change what he's doing I mean he's going to go he's going to kill every last Russian soldier uh if he doesn't have any option so we better figure out how to give him an option I don't think the Biden Administration wants them to have an option I think they want him to be taken out now have you heard about all the Russian Associates of Putin who seem to be dying by falling down stairs and falling out of Windows have you heard about all that and they all seem to be prior people who are close to Putin uh and everybody says well obviously Putin is killing all these people who were maybe saying bad things about him but I have another hypothesis they stopped saying that they were critics of Putin have you noticed that it used to be a Critic of Putin was murdered and you're like well obviously Putin but then it turned out Associates of Putin are being murdered is that Putin why isn't it Ukraine are you telling me Ukraine has now sent out death squads to kill all of his friends who live overseas and if they haven't why not yeah and I also wonder if the uh the billionaire friends who lived overseas maybe have some function for Putin that we don't know about meaning money laundering Maybe I mean I don't know is there something that Putin gains by having billionaire friends that he can control that live in other countries yeah I'll get to that what if it's the CIA now I don't know if the CIA can assassinate civilians who don't have a you know obvious terrorist connection I'm not sure what the law is there but could the CIA simply start taking out all of uh Putin's Associates who live anywhere in the world and if they're not why wouldn't zelinski do it because most of the people who are being killed are people who are high enough profile that you know exactly where they live if you know where somebody lives and you're a Ukrainian and you think they're on Putin's side why wouldn't you kill them if if this were World War II and Hitler had known associates who were billionaires living in other countries I'd kill one myself I wouldn't even hesitate if I were a Ukrainian and I knew where one of these um Putin Associates lived and I had access to kill him I'd kill him just for being a known associate of Putin during a war is that too far I mean even as a civilian if I could get away with it I'd probably kill him yeah and I would probably kill him so I think that if you understand in the context of War it could have been anybody could have been Ukraine could have been U.S could have been NATO could have been anybody but I don't think it's Putin if I had to guess I think Putin killed a few and then it made it easy for easier for other people to hang every murder on Putin I feel like I feel like the US is killing people or Ukraine or somebody we don't know just guessing um there were some fake news that Russians are trying to leave the country through finland's border but apparently that was based on photographs of just normal lines at the border so Finland has said no please there's no Escape From Russia going on that's not happening um and maybe it's not so and then there was a report that the ukrainians captured you know dozens or maybe up to 200 tanks that were abandoned by the Soviets and the Soviets abandoned by the Russians because they were retreating so quickly do you believe that it comes from a Ukrainian source and a fog of War so it's totally believable isn't it no uh yeah no all right um let's talk about fentanyl so here's what I've learned by reading up on this lately so China apparently did try to crack down on their internal sources of fentanyl they were going to the cartels that were going to the United States under Trump now the story is and I'm not sure I believe it the story is that they did actually try to crack down on it and that they did succeed and that China's flow of fentanyl actually was vastly reduced for a little while but then the so-called Chinese cartel drug cartels found out ways around it and they they sent precursors instead of the actual fentanyl so they found clever ways to thwart the law does that sound even a little bit true that doesn't sound even a little bit true because if China wanted to stop it for international reasons it wouldn't matter that they found a clever way to skirt the law China would have just dragged him in and said stop skirting the law I know where you live you're going to be dead and by Tuesday if you keep skirting this law and then they would stop skirting the law so obviously it had to come from the top right so I don't believe that China ever was serious in any way about stopping Fentanyl but apparently because of Pelosi and Taiwan Pelosi going to Taiwan China has stopped even pretending to enforce it so that's part of their pushback they're not going to force Fentanyl okay so what do you do well here's some things that the Republicans doing um Governor Abbott in Texas signed an executive order declaring the cartels a terrorist organization which I understand allows them to treat every fentanyl overdose as murder now the Practical implications of that are not much right I don't because just because the cartels are accused of murder and maybe some maybe the the dealer locally is accused of murder it might help and my help is way better than nothing and it signals some some maybe a change in thinking and and I think he's also encouraging the federal government to do the same but they won't because it's Biden at the same time I heard but I'll need a confirmation on this that there were 18 attorney generals in different states that want to classify fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction that one in particular is it Wyoming Montana I forget which country is Iowa there's there's one state that's serious about it all right so now we've got uh the cartels being designated terrorist organizations and we've got attorney generals wanting to classify fentanyl As Weapons of Mass Destruction where did those ideas come from anybody recognize any of those ideas it was Missouri yeah I have my stay strong there so just ignore my States right so then Matt Gates uh came out and said directly uh He suggests bombing the cartels and they said seriously seriously bombing the cartel now so now it's actually uh it's out in the open so I've told you before what it is that I can do that makes a difference here's one thing I can do that makes a difference if there's an idea that's too far I can float it and see what happens when I first said we need to bomb the cartels that sounded pretty extreme didn't it first time you ever heard it's like whoa a crazy guy we're not going there that'd be crazy right first time you heard it and then I keep saying it and then you start thinking well people are not pushing back as hard as I would think and then a politician can say it and they don't get pushed back either so I think it widened the um widened what we can talk about and that was an important first step widened what we can talk about now how do we actually make a difference with the cartels here's what I would do number one I would give the cartels a date certain to get out of the fentanyl business only if you said on a certain date you have to stop doing everything illegal of course they wouldn't do anything differently right the cartels aren't going to make any change just because we complained but suppose you said okay cartels the drugs you're sending are a big problem but the fentanyl you're sending is a weapon of mass destruction and we're gonna we're gonna just pave your um entire operation we're going to turn it into dust and you've got until this date to get out of just that business just the Fentanyl if you're still selling cocaine and heroin we're still going to try to kill you for it but we're not going to do it militarily we'll do it you know the old-fashioned way but so there's the there's a line in the sand if on this date you're selling one pill of fentanyl we're just going to pave your whole operation you're all dead and nothing's going to stop us and just see if that creates a situation where they would be willing to negotiate part two direct negotiations with the head of the cartels I don't know if we've ever tried that before do you direct negotiation and the direct negotiation should say this if you don't stop fentanyl today we're killing you and it doesn't matter what it costs or how long it takes we're going to kill you you're gone your whole operation and all your children all dead that's the negotiation now here's the thing with the cartels they have the Putin problem they don't have that retirement plan the cartel can't just retire now it could stop selling fentanyl and still make plenty of money and still be a cartel so they do have a way to go if they don't want to escalate it to full Warfare I don't think they do but you should also offer them a retirement plan that looks like this roughly speaking right this is just an example and it would go like this will give you stock in uh in Pharma manufacturing startups in Mexico so we'll move our Pharma manufacturing to Mexico because the U.S is just too hard regulation wise and we'll build some manufacturing there but it will only be the manufacturing part it's not the r d and the high-end stuff it's just manufacturing and we'll give the cartel heads I don't know two percent of the stock they won't have any control they won't have any management they just get some stock just like anybody who buys stock and you say here's the deal if you shut down everything illegal we'll let you stay Rich you can even own this stock and your family will be safe forever you'll have full pardons and your family can just live and you'll have your you'll have your Rich Legacy forever but if you sell one more piece of fentanyl you're all dead hello I know that what we're doing now doesn't work but let me ask you this do you think that Trump could not negotiate with the head of a cartel and let me ask you the second question is there anyone else in the whole world who could do that I don't know of anybody I mean maybe I could but it'd be pretty hard Trump could because Trump is used to negotiating with gangsters you need somebody who's used to negotiating with actual murderers Trump does that Trump has experience negotiated with actual murderers because if you're in construction in New York you've had to there's no way he avoided those guys he had to so he must have figured out some kind of way to live with the mafia through negotiation so apparently he knows how to do this so I would say that a a trump presidency gives you the only chance you have of negotiating with the cartels to do something about fentanyl it's the only one now I told you that I'm gonna I'm gonna push for a single issue vote for the presidency and the single issue I suggest would be the fentanyl overdoses so that whichever party has the better plan for that just gets your vote now you're not committed I mean you're a free citizen in the United States you can vote any way you want but if you want anything to happen on fentanyl you have to at least put out there the idea that you could move you know a million votes one way or the other based on who has the better fentanyl plan I'd like to see them compete so as of today the Republicans have the better fentanyl plan declare that their terrorist organizations declare that it's a weapon of mass destruction those are good plans and then you know uh the at least have the conversation about bombing them Matt Gates right so if you voted today and you wanted to make the the one issue fentanyl your primary reason for your vote you would vote Republican but let me be clear they're not doing enough they're just talking and changing the definition of words isn't really doing anything right so Republicans still round to zero of actual impact right but the way they're talking and the way they're sort of Leaning is very Superior very I mean it's not even close compared to what the Democrats are offering which is essentially nothing so I'm gonna I'm Gonna Keep hammering on this and I'll try to convince as many people as possible to at least commit to making it a one-issue vote what you do when you get into the voting booth that's up to you you can use any criteria you want but if you could publicly commit that you would vote for whoever could figure out a plan to solve the fentanyl maybe you get them to compete because Republicans are not going to do more than they just did because now they're ahead right they have the advantage on fentanyl persuasion so they don't need to do anything at all except talk because they have the advantage and talk so as long as they're ahead they don't need to push but what if the Democrats say oh shut their head I'd like to get those million swing votes that will vote for one topic maybe they can come up with something that's wrong and maybe I'd even like it and if I do I'm going to push for a Democrat if that let me say it directly so you're not surprised if the Democrats come back come up with a better plan for fentanyl I'm going to push the out of it don't give me a hard time about it I'm just warning you in advance so you don't get too shocked all right um so I was hoping that when I tweeted about making fentanyl a single issue topic for voting that enough people would retweet it that it would look serious I did get the thousands and thousands of retweets which is very high for a retweet for me but I think we need at least a million I think we need to credibly say we could move a million votes to whichever whichever side had the better fentanyl policy why because there are a million people in the United States who have been directly affected by the fentanyl overdose do you see that there are at least a million people just like me who have somebody they know and was close to them who died from Fentanyl and see that there's nothing being done to stop it and it's growing I want all of those million people who have ever experienced any fentanyl death to say you can do something about this all you have to do is commit in public on social media that you're going to vote for the side that has the best fentanyl plan and you'll worry about the other stuff next time right you'll worry about the other stuff next time and you know what the Republicans are still up big time I mean their messaging is just it's just so bad so bad so you've got the Republicans who are looking to get tough on fentanyl which kills young people mostly and they have not rolled it into their protecting the Young right the message that the that the Republicans have it's just right in front of them all you have to do is just sink your teeth into it like you've got this big plate of perfect persuasion just served right up you are the party you Republicans are the party who absolutely in every case is looking out for the kids now I'm not arguing that all of the ways you want to do that or the way the best ways to do it those are separate questions but there's no doubt about who is who's in it and serious about protecting kids everything from abortion again we're not arguing who's right or wrong about that but there's only one side that is clearly about protecting the Young and the other side is about protecting the adults that's a very clear distinction Al if the Democrats are not trying to crack down the fentanyl they're not protecting the Young not even close and then you look at school Republicans have the advantage there too you look at economics don't young people want to you know get into a world that has good economics I mean basically on every level from energy economic School abortion no matter what you think of abortion right so I'm not giving you my abortion I I don't have a an opinion on abortion because I have a that's my view but the Republicans have this slam dunk absolutely killer persuasion opportunity to just say in every single case Democrats will will put their own selfish needs above children and we'll do the opposite it will take care of the future and they're just taking care of their their weird orange hair all right um we've gone from sentient husky dogs all the way to that all right so how many notice that I got a little attention on Twitter yesterday uh because I mentioned in a comment to somebody it was just a comment that I had uh lost two careers in the corporate world for being a white male I've said that quite a few times in public but this time it attracted uh Ida Bae Wells who called me a liar and she said in the Tweet she said you've been propagating the same lie for years it would be illegal for your bosses to have said that meaning that I couldn't get promoted because I'm white male it would have been illegal for your bosses to have said that and no one believed you you've been propagating the same lie for years which means she's been aware of me for years so this isn't the first time that she knows I made this claim and she says it would be illegal for your bosses to have said that and No One Believes you so uh now her real name is yeah Nicole Hannah Jones and she goes by this historical name I'm not sure exactly when she uses which name but it's the same person and she's the author of The 1619 project if you haven't heard of that all right so um what did I do when she called me a liar well she also asked for evidence and some other uh prominent black folks came into my tweet feed and they said you keep making these claims that we all know our lies so black adults who are well educated at least the ones in this conversation these are well-educated black adults do not believe that white men have been discriminated in any widespread way in hiring in America over the last 25 years is that mind-blowing or what because it's the most well-known phenomenon I can imagine but uh reading a number of their comments there are a number of educated black adults who believe that that's a conspiracy theory and that I'm one of the conspiracy theories um I guess spreading it because I'm making a claim that they say is complete lie and that I never was told that I can't be promoted because I'm white and male because it would be illegal to do so now is that not obvious cognitive dissonance here here's how you'd tell what cognitive distances cognitive dissonance is where you say something that's absurd and everybody can see it who in the world could be a black adult advocate for you know black concerns like Ada Bay walls or Nicole whatever she's going by how can you be somebody working in that space and believe that corporations don't break the law because they will they would be afraid of getting caught how can you possibly think that's a thing there's nobody who's worked at a major corporation who's unaware that they break laws routinely and are completely aware of it so let me tell you in case anybody's wondering How could somebody tell me this directly in a corporate world without worrying about legal ramifications and I'll explain that to you if you weren't there it's very easy to explain and they also they also asked Scott if this is true you would have sued do you think that's true that if my claim had been true I would have sued that's the obvious thing I would have done do you know why do you know why that never really occurred to me in any serious way because I don't see myself as a victim and what I describe these uh described the events as they happen to me I don't put them in a victim frame I simply describe them because it's important to know it's part of the context of the whole conversation and the the black people who are criticizing me on this they were blaming me for acting like I was a victim but that never happened that's a complete imaginary take there's no point where I I complained I simply described and do you know why I don't complain the reason I don't complain is for exactly their point the the black critics who said you know I I wasn't a victim were completely correct I agree with my critics I never felt like a victim and do you know what I do do I did when the first employer told me I couldn't get promoted do you know what I did I just put out my resume and got a much higher paying job than another company so did I did I feel like I was a victim and do you know what happened to everybody in the company I left right after I left they were all fired right after I left because Wells Fargo bought that bank and then eliminated by Department they were all fired I was the winner right so the reason I don't think of myself as a victim is I'm the only one in one I got a big raise so I go to my new job and I get you know put on the management track and it looks like things are good I'm finishing up my MBA at night I'm a superstar I'm going to be a corporate Superstar and then they brought me in and told me directly directly we can't promote you because you're a white male just I think it's a courtesy to let you know now why didn't I sue my boss because he was a friend and what he was doing was illegal you know why your friend to go to jail do you and my and my friend my boss and my last job the one who also told me I couldn't be promoted was also my friend right I mean a boss friend co-worker friend right but a friend how many of you would put your friend in jail because they were just doing what their boss told them in each case the bosses were not making their own decisions they were actually apologizing for them to me they're saying I apologize but the order has come down and I'm just enforcing it right right I was told I was told in private I think it was probably my direct boss or somebody else was in the room it might have been somebody else in the room I can't recall foreign no one was going to go to jail for that well it would have been a legal problem I mean they would have had to testify and blah blah blah blah but when the second company told me I couldn't be promoted did I feel the victim well in a minor way but then I just uh quiet quit I immediately quiet quit do you know why I quiet quit that's that means you just go to work but you don't do much work because I could I had the option and then as I quiet quit it opened up time for me to work on other projects that had a bigger upside and one of those projects was the Dilbert comic and it worked out so do I feel like I was a victim hell no I was a white man in America who could get a job at any Corporation I basically could work anywhere white man in America is a pretty good deal have I ever said it wasn't no it's not a victim problem white man in America in the 80s and 90s pretty good deal pretty good deal you know it was a better deal in one way just one way black person in the 80s or 90s because if you had any qualifications you could get a job anywhere anywhere it was the easiest thing in the world now let me bring this all together may I and by the way I offered Ido uh Ida Bae Wells I offered her on public on Twitter I said that I would work with her if she wanted to write a feature article to debunk me and I'll help her research it and I said it's not about me this was the widespread you know effect at the time I was just one person but I told her I'd work with her and help her research it and then whatever the result was even if the result is that it was a conspiracy theory you know what if my one situation was schooled me into thinking it was widespread and it never was wouldn't that be interesting which would be also moving the ball forward I'd be okay with that too it would be embarrassing for me but you know that doesn't bother me I don't mind being embarrassed so I'm in if so if Ida Bae Wells wants to work with me I will not only be an honest participant I won't try to sabotage it or do anything clever I'll actually try to get to the truth what really happened no matter what the truth is I'll just try to get to it because I would be fascinating I'd love that um but I'm going to offer this that's even better I'm going to tell you how to bring everybody together right the first way to bring everybody together is to admit that this phenomenon I described as true and we could do that by researching it and find that as true but then you have to interpret it and that's the hard part the the proving is true would be trivial that'd be easy the second part is reparations yeah because do I not am I not owed reparations for being discriminated against and all the white people who didn't get jobs because they're discriminating no I'm not serious I'm just putting that that out there to be a jerk if if I felt like a victim sure but I don't here's where we can all come together strategy and education there is one place that every person in the country agrees and only one place that I think and that's children's education needs to be better and also adult education for job training doesn't everybody agree on that that's the one place we could all come together right the black population the Republican population absolutely same page now what to do about it there would be differences but why can't we come together on the fact and I think it'd be an easy sale to say that choice you know and free markets make things better um but this is where I would come together I would forget everything else for the while because if you if you talk about everything all the time then it's just reasons for fighting but we can find the one place where we all agree in my opinion systemic racism is real and a big problem and its main source is that you can't we can't educate our children properly so if you're already behind you have to stay behind because our system doesn't allow you to easily catch up unless you're lucky you know I was lucky I guess so that's what I suggest that we if we're going to find any kind of unity we do it over our children's education that's where we can do it all right interestingly the black people who criticize me did not think I should put any weight on my lived experience now it seemed to me that when we were arguing about the police brutality against uh blacks that even when the statistics didn't maybe support a narrative that the argument was well you know forget your statistics this is our lived life our actual experience is this fear this this problems we see it everywhere this is our existence you can't deny our everyday existence with your data it's not a bad argument I'm using the same one what if my data is wrong it doesn't change the fact this is what I lived and why would you why would you diminish my lived experience all right um it's funny how how many uh my critics were overtly racist in their comments to me and overtly racist I mean the reason that they thought I was lying was that I'm white they didn't say that but it's obvious that's pretty obvious that they thought I was lying because I'm white how am I supposed to take that and do you think they even knew it that it was obvious that there were it was a racial a racial comment all right um and here's a Twitter user named Mecca m-e-k-a who also accused me of lying asked me to name the corporations which I did Crocker National Bank and Pacific Bell so he doubted I could name the corporations and I'm trying to track down my actual bosses so I remember one of the names of one of the bosses but I don't know how to find her the other one I have a first name and I'm almost can remember the second name but both of them would be in their 70s I don't know if they're even live but I'll try to I'll try to hunt them down but my case is not really the situation the real situation is whether it was widespread and at the same time that I was talking about this uh people were commenting I was just tweeting their experiences and one of them was a job posting from the University of Florida I think and the job posting says explicitly that is part of a a cluster higher strategy for improving their diversity which means that if you're a white male they don't really want you this says that and that's today and what happens when black people read that do they say oh that looks perfectly illegal and honest it's completely illegal it's illegal and they're publishing it in public not only do you come not only are companies not worried about discriminating against white males they're so not worried they can do it publicly and have been for 25 years and somehow the black critics who were giving me a hard time yesterday somehow they've never noticed that this discrimination is public and always has been it's right in front of you you can just go look at it all right uh the other thing that I I think made it hard for people to understand my point that I was discriminated against is I got this argument oh Scott are you telling me that if I were to check those two companies I would wouldn't find any white men in charge are you telling me that there were no white men getting promoted if those two companies Scott really really so in the 80s and 90s you're telling me that these two big corporations they didn't have any white men in management right that's what you're telling me no I'm not telling you that I'm telling you that they were all white men that's the whole point who do you think was screwing me it wasn't black people did you hear me did you did he hear me blaming any black people for what happened no every bit of it was a sucking white guy every bit of it now in the case of my direct boss it was a woman and I was told by a woman but it wasn't her decision the decision came from a sucking racist white guy if you think you can out hate racist white guys you think you could hate them more than I do good luck good luck we're on the same side which is the weird thing right if if Ida Bae well is new you know anything about me you know I'm on the same side we have the same enemy racist ass covering weak sucking idiot white man they are my enemies because they're the ones who discriminated against me it wasn't women not once I don't believe I've ever been discriminated against I can remember by a woman I can't think of one time I've ever been discriminated against by anybody black anybody brown I can't think of one time but white men oh why Ben are the worst have you met any white men they're awful discrimination wise and the reason they do it is it makes them look like Heroes I just saw some CEO you know valiantly white knighting how hard he was going to work for whatever ESG goals and I thought to myself that he can do that because he's already the CEO right once you're the CEO yeah you can be really woke about the people who don't get to be CEO because you already got that job and the next one's going to have to be black because well you got that job so you ruined everything you ruined everything by being the CEO if the CEO who is saying he wants to fix anything cared about any of that he'd quit his job and give it to a black man or uh lgbtq or something by the way how much trouble do you think I'm getting in for even wading into this topic because at this point all the controls are off me you know that I'm a free man I am a free man because whatever is going to happen to my comic career is going to happen anyway you know newspaper is going to fall apart but but once you've reached a point where it can't get worse can't get worse um you know I have enough to retire so you know doesn't matter I get to say what you can't say yeah so it's not it's not just even the fu money that's a big part of it of course but it has to do with also just being done there there's a there's a very big power to being done have you ever noticed that in your life there are times when you're like I really should do this I want to do this but now I'm actually done I'm done pretending that I have a different opinion that I really do because I've pretended for 25 years I don't need to anymore yeah I just decided exactly I've decided that I'm going to go down if I go down it's going to be in flames it's the only way I want to go I don't want to I don't want to Scurry away whimpering all right if if this career is winding down as it is right I'm at that age where careers wind down I'm just going to light up everything that needs to be burned I'm just going to put a match to every piece of gasoline I can get to but only productively right so here's my promise I'm not going to do it just for fun I'm going to do it productively I'm going to only put a match to the gasoline that needs to be torched in my opinion yeah productive gasoline is this you getting bored um yes yes yeah so that's actually a good question somebody asked is my seeming change of attitude about me being bored and the answer is yes yes but but I'd add something to that it's not having a family so if I had a you know if I were living with a little family unit I would put 100 of my effort into you know protecting that and whatever I had left might you know go into the world but at the moment you own me all right I I have donated myself to the public and that means I can do what is for the public good and I don't have to worry about anything else so I'm going to try to do the following things for you I'm going to try to make fentanyl a lesser problem I'm going to try to um find a way to come together in terms of the division mostly racially I don't think we need to come together in political parties but racially yes yeah and the lgbtq yes and you know men and women yes right so all the like personal ways we need to come together we need to do that but having political parties that are you know opposed that's probably a useful conflict all right uh what do you think of this uh Leticia James coming after Trump and he Trump talked about this on Hannity last night and I don't know all the details but it's sounding like uh there were two different valuations for different Trump properties one is what they tell the bank and then um I'm sorry I'm so I may have a detail wrong so let me back up so Trump trump said that the management estimates the estimates that management themselves put on the properties came with gigantic disclosures that say these are just for management don't depend on do your own research if you wanted to know what we're worth which is what you'd say to a bank now Hannity said something that I I'm so angry at myself for not having thought of the same thing just the most obvious thing Hannity says he says since when does a bank take your word for what your your building is worth that's never happened in the history of banks and as soon as I heard that I was like wait a minute how could there possibly be fraud because the process requires the bank to look at and look into it on their own it requires it it's not even optional there's no Bank who doesn't do their own independent look at the value of property that's not a thing have you ever tried to get a loan on your house do you think they're not going to look at the house of course they look at the house that's the most basic thing that any lender would do and why I never thought of that like why that never occurred to me as the most important fact in all of the story I don't know it just escaped me but thank you to Hannity because it took Hannity to surface that fact and as soon as I heard it I was like oh this is obviously if you put those two things together that the management disclaimers had more than a page of don't trust this this is Management's estimate if you know that every management values their assets higher than every Bank what does that tell you about this case every management there's probably never been an exception every management values their own properties higher than a bank does why would that be because they do it for different reasons the bank is picking generally there's an argument for a range of value right if you if you're subjectively looking at buildings and saying what are these valued there's usually a range from the lowest this could be worth to the highest it might be worth and that could change over time so you're estimating right it's not even so much what it's worth today you also have to estimate will it still be worth that during the course of the loan because that's your collateral now which of those two things the top of the range or the bottom of the range would management naturally and quite reasonably take as their estimate management would take the top of the range because they want to tell you they're doing well and it's within the argument that's not crazy it's like there's a range that reasonable people could put on this so management will always take the top of the range every time not just Trump every Mansion everywhere all the time they're going to take the top of the range now what's the bank do the bank has to protect their their loans and the most the most devastating thing is if you don't get paid back that's the worst so when the bank looks at your assets do they take the top of the range or do they take the bottom of the range of course they take the bottom and they determine the bottom on their own they don't take your they don't take your word for it they don't take Management's word for what the bottom is they calculate that on their own so in every case where you see a major company like trumps getting a bank loan in every case what you should you should expect is that completely legally management is saying we accept the top of the estimate for our value and the bank is saying you know we play a cautious so we're all guessing so we're going to take the bottom of the estimate to make sure this is a good loan now here's the next thing apparently Leticia James said long before she had the job when she was campaigning for it that she was going to sue Trump every way she could and she said it repeatedly and she said that before she had any evidence of any crime that she would sue him repeatedly with no evidence of any crimes and then she got the job and then she brought this case which as we look at it if you know anything about Banking and anything about management I don't even see an allegation here it's supposed to look like the bank had a lower valuation than the management that's the only way it's supposed to look it should never look any other way that's the only way I should look and she's decided that's evidence of a crime apparently now I don't know the whole details but that's what we're told that it's based on that now as dershowitz says that the Trump team should be motioning to ever removed at least from the prosecution how in the world could you have a legitimate prosecution when the person doing is said in advance they would prosecute him no matter what the evidence was that's the end of the prosecution so yeah it's a civil case I'm a little I'm a little uh confused about the criminal versus the Civil element of that so yeah there I have some murkiness on that question all right so I take dershowitz's opinion as I always do as the the better one in every situation it seems like and I agree that Trump is doesn't have any real um risk here but the Democrats need to have at least one Trump is in trouble story going at all times right so once this one collapses it probably will they're just going to queue up the next one and it won't have any more legitimacy than this one they just have to one the sort of running at all times there always has to be one yeah and if it's not him then they'll use his his friends well Mike Lindell is yeah whatever um all right yeah Joshua says it doesn't pass the test to being even legitimate and I agree it is not legitimate looking are they stories I forgot that there are a few major stories that I haven't touched on and when I watched the five they'll they'll mention them sometimes and they'll say oh I should have talked about that all right any major story uh yes I did see that I made the news yesterday in a number of Publications for being the voice of anti-esg and and I'll say it again if you're trying to explain to somebody what's wrong with ESG the way you do it is you say they have very good goals but they don't understand systems and it's a terrible system to put society's goals in between the management and the customer it's good to have those goals but you don't want to enforce them from a third party outside it just breaks the system so that the free market wouldn't be able to handle that much friction all right um yeah we already talked about then we talked about the 18 year old there was run over for political reasons because it was a Republican and a Democrat murdered with this car and I think we talked about that right that's another example of that I I'll tell you some of my most um my weirdest provocative predictions about Republicans being haunted uh why do they always use old photos in the Articles the reason is there are not any new ones so when I did a lot of publicity early in my career there were tons of photos that were taken and sometimes the photographers will retain the rights and they'll put some of those photos on a public stock photo services so then the news people will go to a stock photo service because they have owned the rights to use any of that stuff and they'll use whatever photo they have rights to now if if I were like a presidential candidate they would send a photographer out every time there's a story and you know maybe get a new picture or something but since the most of the pictures ever taken of of me that would be copyright available our older ones uh uh right right companies get appraisals to support their financing and then Banks to their own appraisal and there's naturally a difference between those two foreign what do you think about NLP overrated oh yeah uh JB Diamond's response to Rashida about so Rashida what's her last name Rashida Talib um so she was grilling some CEOs I guess in Congress and asked them you know what they would do about getting greener or I guess a specific question was would the banks be willing to make loans to people who were in the energy business you know that old dirty energy business and Jamie dimon said yes and to do otherwise would be the road to hell you know I don't always agree with everything that JB Diamond says but you have to admit he is a straight talker and he could not have said that anymore clearly and Rashida Talib and I have to wonder if she's actually on the side of America don't you like actually legitimately now usually when we when we talk about our political opponents you know we like to talk about them being traitors and they're not on the side of America and you know that's just hyperbole because of course they are like I don't believe that AOC is not on the side of America do you maybe some of you do well well but if you say she's she doesn't have good policies for America that's different from saying she's not on her side but what Rashida Talib is pushing is so destructive to Commerce in the United States that you have to wonder if that's even serious in terms of helping America because I don't see how it could it looks like she was working for another entity it looks like she's working for a foreign power it doesn't look like just disagreement on politics it looks like trying to destroy the United States that's what it looks like but you can't read her mind could be some other reason um I have the great reset I haven't read it so this is a season where people are sending me books and I'm getting a little behind um there's somebody who wishes they hadn't transitioned yeah I don't know how much attention to give the people who transitioned their gender uh or is it there's how do you say that do they transition a gender and I guess that's a definitional thing but there will always be people who regret every decision there are people who regret going to college so the fact that some people regret uh gender or sex change whatever it is oh it's gender affirming surgery okay that would be the polite way to say it these days right so there's always going to be somebody who who wishes they hadn't done it there are people who join the military and wish they hadn't I mean there are tons of people there are people who had a baby which they have people who got married wish that I don't know if that's the standard that we should use the standard we usually use is that we allow free citizens to do dumbass things because to do otherwise would take their freedom away and I don't think that it matters that there are higher suicide rates if that's true I don't even know if that's true I don't think that matters because we do let people make mistakes and we do let people make choices that we wouldn't make you know maybe you think it's a mistake maybe they don't yeah 40 That's not 40 I don't believe that too much talking today you know that's what I do this is pretty much just talking all right uh that's all for now I'm gonna go do some other things I hope my day is as weird and awesome as yesterday how many of you thought I had a bad day yesterday if you were watching the you know any of the the action I didn't have a bad day yesterday in fact if you were to score the quality of my whole day yesterday a plus a plus it was an awesome day yeah yeah when they feed the energy monster the energy monster is not unhappy what uh Ida Bay Wells did is gave me the opportunity to have a much bigger platform thank you am I am I uh concerned that a bunch of people think I'm a horrible person because they misunderstood some stuff I said that's every day I'm so used to that energy sponge energy vampire yeah maybe more of an energy vampire if you know that reference all right You.

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and all of the land

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somewhere around the world at any moment

there's somebody doing the simultaneous

it yeah it's true

well I have an alert

um

this is sort of an early warning

I like to catch problems when they're

just developing

some people wait till it's too late not

me I like to catch them early

you've all seen Planet of the Apes

the the Apes become sentient and

intelligent and I guess they were

sentient but they become intelligent and

they take over the world

well I'm seeing the same thing starting

to develop not with monkeys not with

Apes

but with dogs

I've been watching a lot of reels on

Instagram

and I've determined the following

there are two kinds of dogs

one

dumb dogs

that's the kind I have

a dumb dog

eats and poops and likes to take walks

and

basically it's a dog

but have you noticed that that the reels

that involve specifically Husky dogs

have you uh

have you seen any of those reels there's

something about that specific kind of

dog

that's starting to worry me

because if you watch enough of these you

know animal related funny videos you

start to notice a pattern

the Husky dogs

are very close to fully intelligent it's

really weird and I you know if it had

been one dog

I would have said to myself well that's

one clever dog but it does look to me

like the Huskies are have evolved to

something that doesn't look like dog

intelligence

it's scary I mean some of them seem to

just have full language skills they

can't talk but they can hear I don't

know what's going on but keep an eye on

those Huskies we can take over the world

just before I got on I heard uh about

another medical cure

that I can take credit for

the weirdest thing about my career Arc

is how many medical problems I've solved

for other people

like a lot thousands thousands and

thousands of people in a variety of

different ways it's a whole bunch of

different special cases that if you put

them together would be a weird story by

itself one of those special cases was I

had an exotic rare voice condition years

ago which made it impossible to

communicate I couldn't speak without my

vocal cords clenching shot

so for three and a half years I sought a

treatment for that and I found the only

surgeon in the world

who had a you know experimental

semi-experimental he'd worked on it a

while

voice surgery

so I ended up researching that and

getting the surgery and now you can hear

I can speak

and what I did was I said wait if I'm

the only one who knows this is curable

and there are thirty thousand people in

the United States who have the same

problem

I need to tell them

so I did promotional stuff for People

magazine and I mentioned it often and if

you Google your voice problem my name

probably comes up and then you can find

my story and then you can find your own

solution well I just heard from another

one that the the surgeon who did my

surgery that worked

that surgery didn't work every time

so something like 15 percent one five

ended up with a worse result

at least when I got the surgery but

apparently that same surgeon has

developed a newer one in which they

don't have to rewire some nerves they

just cut out a little piece of muscle

that's causing a problem

and this gentleman who heard about it

from me

uh is cured

this is somebody whose entire life is

completely different

because he heard about a doctor and the

surgery and then he went and got it and

now he's cured

do you know how good that makes me feel

like like I actually get to be part of

the success story of thousands of people

thousands it was just been cured of the

biggest

one of the biggest problems I've ever

had

it's called spasmodic dysphonia is the

name of the voice problem and then the

surgery is from a doctor Burke in Los

Angeles

Dr Burke Dr Gerald Burke

b-e-r-k-e not you

b-e-r-k so if you're looking for it

there he is

Rasmussen last uh

Apollo a bunch of likely voters in the

U.S How likely

do you think there will be widespread

cheating in the midterms that will

affect the outcome right so remember the

the words are widespread

cheating and affect the outcome so has

to be big enough that it could change

who got elected

what do you think the general public

thought of that do you think that the

Republicans maybe thought there would be

trouble but the Democrats said things

would be fine

is that what you expected

well eighty percent of the people who

answered that answered that it was very

or somewhat likely that there would be

widespread cheating in the midterms that

will affect the outcome

eighty percent

eighty percent of all the people

I'm not talking about just just

um Republicans that includes Democrats

80 of all the people

[Laughter]

and that does leave a about 20 percent

who don't think that's likely

now do you remember when people used to

uh tell me that I was crazy

for saying this non-politician who

wanted to get into politics was

persuasive

somebody named Trump you've heard of him

and I said oh you don't see what's

coming he's not just persuasive he's

crazy persuasive

and people said no he's not he's not

persuasive

nobody's going to believe the stuff he's

saying

it's crazy

eighty percent of the country thinks our

elections are real

that's all him

that's all Trump now you can say other

people are saying it too and that's true

but only because he said it right if

Trump hadn't kept this up it would have

you know died out like every other

election where somebody says it's rigged

and then they forget about it

so

uh that's amazing now I believe that the

way the question was asked

has the most to do with how we got this

big number I don't believe the country

is actually this skeptical about the

elections here's what I think people

were thinking when they answered the

question

I think what they were thinking is they

don't trust the other side

don't you think if you said what are the

odds that the other team will cheat what

would be the answer 80 right what do you

think of the odds that the other team

the team you're not on what do you think

of the odds that they would cheat oh 80

percent

whichever team you ask right so I think

that's all that happened

I'm not sure this is actually a you know

a snapshot of some gigantic persuasive

change I think it might be just a team

play situation could be in the way that

the question was constructed

that's one of the pitfalls with polls

is that the exact way the question is

constructed will get you very different

answers you think it's the same question

but it's not interpreted that way people

will throw in their own assumptions

there whether you like it or not

so I'd keep an eye on that but I do

think there's more skepticism than

before

how many of you saw Trump's interview

with Hannity last night I guess the

first

major interview since uh the boxes at

Mar-A-Lago were an issue

and if you saw how do you think you did

because I haven't seen him in that

specific context in a while where he had

to answer some questions I mean they

were friendly questions but they were

important questions you know I don't

think Hannity

avoided the big questions

you know you could argue whether he you

know hammered down on the follow-up as

hard as he should have I don't think he

did but but I thought he did a solid job

right I think somebody less friendly to

the president because they're famously

friends right everybody knows that

they're actually personal friends so you

don't really expect to Hardball

interview and as long as that's fully

disclosed you know the president's my

personal friend

you know that's not the biggest problem

right I also didn't mind

watching the Cuomo Brothers on TV I'm

the only person in the world who said

that's fine it's fully disclosed if you

know it's his brother

you can handle that can't you I mean you

might not find it entertaining but if

you know he's talking to his own brother

at least you can modify that in your

mind to say okay don't believe that this

is a real interview

so the Hannity and Trump thing I think

is more of an event than an interview

would you agree it's more of a an event

than any kind of hard-hitting interview

and that's fine I don't that's not a

criticism it's completely fine because

there can be hard-hitting interviews

Trump does those too right but as long

as you know that Hannity and Trump are

friends

you know what you're getting

all right

um

here's my take so Trump's explanation

I'm going to paraphrase here because it

was a long interview but I'm going to

paraphrase Trump's explanation of what

was going on with those documents and

those boxes at Mar-A-Lago

and here's here's the funny part when

you hear Trump explain it

now again I don't know it's true I'm not

saying I automatically believe anything

about this story or any person all right

I'm not saying that I'm just reporting

what happened

that Trump's explanation is the most

obvious explanation

what will be the most obvious

explanation of all this

he didn't have anything to do with what

went in the boxes and he didn't know

what was in there

that's the most obvious explanation and

that's the one he gave

the one I gave is the most obvious one

yeah that wasn't my business to know

what's in a box

I mean I'm paraphrasing he didn't say

that

but the way the way he told that

it looked like he genuinely didn't know

what kind of documents were even a

problem

so I don't think even Trump knows

what documents are controversial

in that group doesn't that sound like

the most reasonably true thing

now I'm not saying is true I'm saying

that if before you'd heard it you said

what's the most likely thing well most

likely somebody who operates at Trump's

level never got near a box

and and some tape or whatever they close

them up with

then the second thing he said which he

did not do a good job at

he did not do a good job at this because

he didn't word it right

but he could have he indicated that

those documents were unclassified

by the actions he took

so he says directly there's no process

there's no required process that he has

to follow as president when he was

president to declassify anything

and since there's no formal process it

cannot be said that you did the process

wrong

you simply had to have done something

that Declassified him and his argument

is that moving them

in a very obvious direct way from the

secured location to his home

was a clear signal to everybody that he

Declassified it

now here's my question

can you declassify a box whose contents

you don't know

does that even make sense

what would it mean if he said okay

obviously all of these boxes I'm

shipping right in front of everybody

you all see it like we're not hiding it

look at look at all these boxes they're

being loaded on the truck

no secrets here

so I would agree with him so far so

here's where I agree I do agree that if

there's no formal process

that his actions are clear

if you take it out of a secure place and

everybody and everybody's watching it

and then you move it to an unsecured

place

that's de facto declassification I think

that argument actually works

what I don't know is can you declassify

something that you don't know you

Declassified

that's more of a problem isn't it

if he just said well if it's in those

boxes consider it Declassified

now if he has complete power which I

believe the Constitution loves him right

complete is it the Constitution but he

has a complete power of declassifying

so with that complete power include

saying I don't know what's in that box

but it's all Declassified

I think I would argue that he does have

that power wouldn't you I mean it'd be

weird but probably true

I don't know it feels like a dershowitz

argument to this I haven't heard

Joshua's weigh in on this but I feel

like Trump's take on this is probably a

dershowitz argument would be that if

your actions have caused an obvious

an obvious declassification

then you should consider them

Declassified

and here's the thing what if it's a gray

area

suppose it's a gray area you know I just

described it maybe some of you said yeah

that sounds I'll buy that then others if

you said no no I'm not going to buy that

then Trump wins right

because there's no process

if a reasonable person me I'm a

reasonable person some of you are

reasonable if reasonable people not all

of them

but if some reasonable people would say

yeah that argument works

if it was obvious you was taking them

that's declassified

then I think that's all he needs

because there was no process

all right

um

I thought Trump was again

um

lacking a forward division

it's a weird situation because the

forward vision is explicitly to go back

to where we were

so maybe he doesn't need to say it

because he's saying you know it's pretty

obviously he would well you know what

Trump would do right it's a strange

situation isn't it because if it were

anybody else I would say you better be

telling us what you're going to do don't

just tell us what's bad about the

current situation

but in his specific case you do know

exactly what he would do

you kind of do

now he claims that the Ukraine situation

would never have happened

uh if he were in charge

now the first time I heard that I said

to myself

well I know you never know that right

that would be hard to know and he says

that he you know directly threatened

Putin to not do military action when he

was in in office but here's the part you

can't argue with

with Trump in charge America would be

producing more energy

true

right if America were producing lots

more energy

would Europe be as threatened by the gas

turnoffs

I think not right now I don't know

exactly know how fungible gas is do you

have enough tankers could you move our

excess over there or would there be

Logistics problems you couldn't do it

but I think there's an argument I'm

saying some no's

okay I don't know if they know what the

note refers to but I think the argument

holds that Trump would have kept Energy

prices

um modest and fuel more available and

that therefore

Russia's biggest weapon

wouldn't have been available to them

what do you think I think that's

actually a pretty good opinion I I think

that Trump's view that it wouldn't have

happened if he had been president

is supportable it's not guaranteed

you know you can't really do a what if

what if nobody knows it's impossible to

know but his argument does hold water it

does yeah so we'll never know

Russia has called up its reservists

those 300 000 people who probably are

poorly trained and too old and don't

want to go back to war

or at least don't to the military

and all of the coverage

can you give me a fact check on this

the news of all type in the United

States

is reporting that Trump that Russia is

losing

and doesn't look like that's going to

change

now I'm not that's not my opinion I'm

saying that the reporting

is now consistently across all media

saying that Russia is losing it doesn't

look like there's a way to change that

because their their Manpower thing looks

pretty dire

and the Ukraine looks like nothing's

going to stop them because they've got

support they've got morale and

everything else now

will you please

acknowledge

that I had the best military protection

about Ukraine and the entire United

States

anybody

are you ready to do that yet

anybody

no I see some no's you're going to hold

tight aren't you you're gonna hold tight

all right remember my prediction was

my prediction was that Ukraine would

outperform

the military experts predictions will

you give me that

would you give me that Ukraine has

outperformed

the the experts predictions

but they did not outperform my

prediction would you give me that

and would you give me that the reasons

given

have mostly to do with Advanced Weaponry

provided to Ukraine which was

specifically what I said would be the

key would you give me that

now here's here's the thing that might

drive you crazy about me

this sort of thing drives a lot of you

crazy because I do insist

that you recognize that that was that

was correct I do insist

and the reason is is not because I made

one one prediction

I make predictions regularly and if you

don't track them to see when I'm right

and when I'm wrong you lose half the

value of watching me right you should

have some sense of how often I'm right

now I want to give you some examples

of where the experts were wrong and I

was right

when the expert said

uh Mass we're telling you don't use

masks and I said no the experts are

lying I was the only person in the

country the only person

and you could check that there was not

one person in the world who said on day

one you're obviously lying about the

masks now I don't want to get him to do

masks work that's a separate question

for now and boring we don't want to talk

about that but we can all agree that

faucially lied about his opinion of

masks right we all agree he lied because

he says he lied

I'm the only person who called that out

I'm the only one there was nobody else

in the country who saw it from the jump

I was like that's obviously a lie

right

somebody says Bannon I don't think so

now

I also predicted that the vaccinations

would not work as vaccinations

am I an expert on vaccinations

no

but did I get that right

and I said Therapeutics would be the the

main thing that makes a difference

that's about as right as you can be I

don't think you could be more right than

that

somebody says I'm wrong 25 of the time

that's probably right

that feels about right

I I would accept that actually I think

my prediction is wrong at least 25

percent of the time because nobody can

do this all the time right nobody's

right all the time and 25 it sounds

about right

yeah so with the so with my predictions

here I guess it was a point I was gonna

make my my prediction is not that I'm

smarter than experts

is never that

my prediction is that a non-expert can

identify lying

that's all

I say a non-expert can identify when an

expert is lying if you are an expert at

identifying lying

so I I claim some expertise in

identifying Liars

so when you see me disagree with experts

sometimes I'm just disagreeing with

Liars I didn't need their expertise I

just needed my expertise

right so that's where it's a trick it

looks like it looks like I'm pretending

I'm smarter than experts and I've never

done that

I've never pretended I knew more than an

expert

I've only pretended that my expertise is

spotting experts lying

do you remember when it was common that

everybody believed passion was the key

to success because because the

billionaires were telling you it was

true

and I told you well it's obviously not

true

but that doesn't give me the skills of a

Mark Zuckerberg it doesn't give me the

skills of a Warren Buffett it doesn't

give me the skills of the people I was

calling on I only needed my own

skill

identify

right that's my own skill

all right

there's a

so Putin did his little uh

he did a uh video I don't know what it

was a statement or a press conference or

something but did you see his awkward

um

posture

his right hand the one that people have

suggested has some Parkinson's or

something

was very awkwardly on top of a table

in a way that nobody sets

especially if you're going to be doing

an extended leader interview right his

left arm seemed to have a little action

going on but his right arm was flat on

the table and then if you watch his

thumb is Islam kept doing this

so it looked like he was trying to stop

a motion problem

now you could have argued that his right

thumb was sort of mirroring his left

hand

so that when he was gesturing

you know it was just sort of an

automatic little thing that happened

with the other hand

but if you're gesturing with one hand

you're going to gesture it too

he gestured only with one

in my opinion

is obviously he has some kind of

physical problem with that arm

would anybody agree

it looks like Parkinson's but

you know I'm not a medical expert I can

say if something looks wrong I'm not

qualified to diagnose it

would that stop me probably not

you wouldn't want to be

yeah do you think he just uh overused

his masturbation arm

think that's possibility

now

um so that's my first thing

second is uh he does look like a leader

who's in trouble and doesn't have an

exit strategy

because his internal pressure must be

really high right now

and

what's he going to do

is he going to have to use a nuke

because he can't lose

we do have a problem giving Putin an

exit ramp and until he has an exit ramp

why would he ever change what he's doing

I mean he's going to go he's going to

kill every last Russian soldier

uh if he doesn't have any option

so we better figure out how to give him

an option

I don't think the Biden Administration

wants them to have an option I think

they want him to be taken out

now have you heard about all the Russian

Associates of Putin who seem to be dying

by falling down stairs and

falling out of Windows have you heard

about all that

and they all seem to be prior people who

are close to Putin

uh and everybody says well obviously

Putin is killing all these people who

were maybe saying bad things about him

but I have another hypothesis

they stopped saying that they were

critics of Putin have you noticed that

it used to be a Critic of Putin was

murdered and you're like well obviously

Putin

but then it turned out Associates of

Putin are being murdered

is that Putin

why isn't it Ukraine

are you telling me Ukraine has now sent

out death squads to kill all of his

friends who live overseas

and if they haven't why not

yeah

and I also wonder if the uh the

billionaire friends who lived overseas

maybe have some function for Putin that

we don't know about

meaning money laundering Maybe

I mean I don't know is there something

that Putin gains by having billionaire

friends that he can control that live in

other countries

yeah I'll get to that what if it's the

CIA

now I don't know if the CIA can

assassinate civilians who don't have a

you know obvious terrorist

connection I'm not sure what the law is

there but could the CIA simply start

taking out all of uh Putin's Associates

who live anywhere in the world

and if they're not why wouldn't zelinski

do it

because most of the people who are being

killed are people who are high enough

profile that you know exactly where they

live

if you know where somebody lives and

you're a Ukrainian and you think they're

on Putin's side why wouldn't you kill

them

if if this were World War II and Hitler

had known associates who were

billionaires living in other countries

I'd kill one myself

I wouldn't even hesitate if I were a

Ukrainian and I knew where one of these

um Putin Associates lived

and I had access to kill him I'd kill

him just for being a known associate of

Putin during a war

is that too far

I mean even as a civilian if I could get

away with it I'd probably kill him yeah

and I would probably kill him

so I think that if you understand in the

context of War it could have been

anybody

could have been Ukraine could have been

U.S could have been NATO

could have been anybody

but

I don't think it's Putin

if I had to guess I think Putin killed a

few and then it made it easy for easier

for other people to hang every murder on

Putin I feel like

I feel like the US is killing people or

Ukraine or somebody

we don't know just guessing

um there were some fake news that

Russians are trying to leave the country

through finland's border but apparently

that was based on photographs of just

normal lines at the border

so Finland has said no please there's no

Escape From Russia going on that's not

happening

um and maybe it's not

so

and then there was a report that the

ukrainians captured you know dozens or

maybe up to 200 tanks that were

abandoned by the Soviets and the Soviets

abandoned by the Russians because they

were retreating so quickly

do you believe that

it comes from a Ukrainian source and a

fog of War so it's totally believable

isn't it no

uh

yeah

no

all right

um

let's talk about fentanyl

so here's what I've learned by reading

up on this lately

so China apparently did try to crack

down on their internal sources of

fentanyl they were going to the cartels

that were going to the United States

under Trump

now the story is and I'm not sure I

believe it the story is that they did

actually try to crack down on it and

that they did succeed

and that China's flow of fentanyl

actually was vastly reduced for a little

while

but then the so-called Chinese cartel

drug cartels found out ways around it

and they they sent precursors instead of

the actual fentanyl so they found clever

ways to thwart the law

does that sound even a little bit true

that doesn't sound even a little bit

true

because if China wanted to stop it for

international reasons it wouldn't matter

that they found a clever way to skirt

the law China would have just dragged

him in and said stop skirting the law

I know where you live you're going to be

dead and by Tuesday if you keep skirting

this law

and then they would stop skirting the

law so obviously it had to come from the

top right so I don't believe that China

ever was serious in any way about

stopping Fentanyl

but apparently because of Pelosi and

Taiwan Pelosi going to Taiwan China has

stopped even pretending

to enforce it so that's part of their

pushback they're not going to force

Fentanyl

okay

so what do you do

well here's some things that the

Republicans doing

um Governor Abbott in Texas signed an

executive order declaring the cartels a

terrorist organization

which I understand allows them to treat

every fentanyl overdose as murder

now the Practical implications of that

are not much right I don't because just

because the cartels are accused of

murder and maybe some maybe the the

dealer locally is accused of murder

it might help and my help is way better

than nothing and it signals some some

maybe a change in thinking and and I

think he's also encouraging the federal

government to do the same but they won't

because it's Biden

at the same time I heard but I'll need a

confirmation on this that there were 18

attorney generals in different states

that want to classify fentanyl as a

weapon of mass destruction

that one in particular is it Wyoming

Montana I forget which country is Iowa

there's there's one state that's serious

about it all right so now we've got uh

the cartels being designated terrorist

organizations and we've got attorney

generals wanting to classify fentanyl As

Weapons of Mass Destruction

where did those ideas come from

anybody recognize any of those ideas

it was Missouri

yeah I have my stay strong there so just

ignore my States

right

so then Matt Gates uh came out and said

directly uh He suggests bombing the

cartels

and they said seriously

seriously bombing the cartel

now so now it's actually

uh

it's out in the open

so I've told you before what it is that

I can do that makes a difference

here's one thing I can do that makes a

difference if there's an idea that's too

far

I can float it and see what happens

when I first said we need to bomb the

cartels

that sounded pretty extreme didn't it

first time you ever heard it's like whoa

a crazy guy

we're not going there that'd be crazy

right first time you heard it

and then I keep saying it

and then you start thinking well

people are not pushing back as hard as I

would think

and then a politician can say it

and they don't get pushed back either

so I think it widened the

um widened what we can talk about and

that was an important first step

widened what we can talk about

now

how do we actually make a difference

with the cartels here's what I would do

number one

I would give the cartels a date certain

to get out of the fentanyl business only

if you said on a certain date you have

to stop doing everything illegal of

course they wouldn't do anything

differently right the cartels aren't

going to make any change just because we

complained

but suppose you said okay cartels

the drugs you're sending are a big

problem

but the fentanyl you're sending is a

weapon of mass destruction

and we're gonna we're gonna just pave

your

um entire operation we're going to turn

it into dust and you've got until this

date to get out of just that business

just the Fentanyl

if you're still selling cocaine and

heroin we're still going to try to kill

you for it but we're not going to do it

militarily we'll do it you know the

old-fashioned way

but so there's the there's a line in the

sand

if on this date you're selling one pill

of fentanyl we're just going to pave

your whole operation you're all

dead and nothing's going to stop us

and just see if that creates a situation

where they would be willing to negotiate

part two

direct negotiations with the head of the

cartels

I don't know if we've ever tried that

before do you direct negotiation and the

direct negotiation should say this

if you don't stop fentanyl today

we're killing you

and it doesn't matter what it costs or

how long it takes we're going to

kill you

you're gone

your whole operation and all your

children all dead that's the negotiation

now

here's the thing

with the cartels they have the Putin

problem they don't have that retirement

plan

the cartel can't just retire

now it could stop selling fentanyl and

still make plenty of money and still be

a cartel so they do have a way to go if

they don't want to escalate it to full

Warfare

I don't think they do

but you should also offer them a

retirement plan that looks like this

roughly speaking right this is just an

example and it would go like this will

give you stock

in uh in Pharma manufacturing startups

in Mexico

so we'll move our Pharma manufacturing

to Mexico because the U.S is just too

hard regulation wise

and we'll build some manufacturing there

but it will only be the manufacturing

part it's not the r d and the high-end

stuff it's just manufacturing and we'll

give the cartel heads I don't know

two percent of the stock they won't have

any control they won't have any

management they just get some stock just

like anybody who buys stock

and you say here's the deal

if you shut down everything illegal

we'll let you stay Rich you can even own

this stock

and

your family will be safe forever you'll

have full

pardons

and your family can just live and you'll

have your you'll have your Rich Legacy

forever

but if you sell one more piece of

fentanyl you're all dead

hello

I know that what we're doing now doesn't

work

but let me ask you this

do you think that Trump could not

negotiate with the head of a cartel

and let me ask you the second question

is there anyone else in the whole world

who could do that

I don't know of anybody I mean maybe I

could

but

it'd be pretty hard

Trump could because Trump is used to

negotiating with gangsters

you need somebody who's used to

negotiating with actual murderers

Trump does that Trump has experience

negotiated with actual murderers

because if you're in construction in New

York you've had to there's no way he

avoided those guys he had to so he must

have figured out some kind of way to

live with the mafia

through negotiation

so apparently he knows how to do this

so I would say that a a trump presidency

gives you the only chance you have of

negotiating with the cartels to do

something about fentanyl it's the only

one now I told you that I'm gonna I'm

gonna push for a single issue vote for

the presidency

and the single issue

I suggest would be the fentanyl

overdoses so that whichever party has

the better plan for that just gets your

vote

now you're not committed I mean you're a

free citizen in the United States you

can vote any way you want but if you

want anything to happen on fentanyl you

have to at least put out there the idea

that you could move you know a million

votes one way or the other based on who

has the better fentanyl plan

I'd like to see them compete so as of

today the Republicans have the better

fentanyl plan

declare that their terrorist

organizations

declare that it's a weapon of mass

destruction

those are good plans and then you know

uh the at least have the conversation

about bombing them

Matt Gates

right so if you voted today and you

wanted to make the the one issue

fentanyl your primary reason for your

vote you would vote Republican

but let me be clear they're not doing

enough they're just talking

and changing the definition of words

isn't really doing anything right so

Republicans still round to zero

of actual impact right

but the way they're talking and the way

they're sort of Leaning is very Superior

very I mean it's not even close

compared to what the Democrats are

offering which is essentially nothing

so I'm gonna I'm Gonna Keep hammering on

this and I'll try to convince as many

people as possible to at least commit

to making it a one-issue vote what you

do when you get into the voting booth

that's up to you you can use any

criteria you want but if you could

publicly commit

that you would vote for whoever could

figure out a plan to solve the fentanyl

maybe you get them to compete

because Republicans are not going to do

more than they just did

because now they're ahead right they

have the advantage on fentanyl

persuasion

so they don't need to do anything at all

except talk because they have the

advantage and talk

so as long as they're ahead they don't

need to push but what if the Democrats

say oh shut their head I'd like to get

those million swing votes that will vote

for one topic

maybe they can come up with something

that's wrong and maybe I'd even like it

and if I do I'm going to push for a

Democrat

if that let me say it directly so you're

not surprised if the Democrats come back

come up with a better plan for fentanyl

I'm going to push the out of it

don't give me a hard time about it I'm

just warning you in advance

so you don't get too shocked

all right um

so I was hoping that when I tweeted

about making fentanyl a single issue

topic for voting that enough people

would retweet it that it would look

serious I did get the thousands and

thousands of retweets which is very high

for a retweet for me

but I think we need at least a million

I think we need to credibly say we could

move a million votes

to whichever whichever side had the

better fentanyl policy why because there

are a million people in the United

States who have been directly affected

by the fentanyl overdose

do you see that there are at least a

million people just like me

who have somebody they know and was

close to them who died from Fentanyl and

see that there's nothing being done to

stop it and it's growing

I want all of those million people who

have ever experienced any fentanyl death

to say you can do something about this

all you have to do is commit in public

on social media that you're going to

vote for the side that has the best

fentanyl plan and you'll worry about the

other stuff next time

right you'll worry about the other stuff

next time

and you know what the Republicans are

still up big time I mean their

messaging is just it's just so bad so

bad

so you've got the Republicans who are

looking to get tough on fentanyl which

kills young people mostly

and they have not rolled it into their

protecting the Young

right the message that the that the

Republicans have it's just right in

front of them

all you have to do is just sink your

teeth into it like you've got this big

plate of perfect persuasion just served

right up you are the party you

Republicans are the party who absolutely

in every case is looking out for the

kids

now I'm not arguing that all of the ways

you want to do that or the way the best

ways to do it those are separate

questions but there's no doubt about who

is who's in it and serious about

protecting kids everything from abortion

again we're not arguing who's right or

wrong about that but there's only one

side that is clearly about protecting

the Young

and the other side is about protecting

the adults that's a very clear

distinction

Al if the Democrats are not trying to

crack down the fentanyl they're not

protecting the Young

not even close

and then you look at school

Republicans have the advantage there too

you look at economics

don't young people want to you know get

into a world that has good economics I

mean basically on every level from

energy economic School

abortion no matter what you think of

abortion right so I'm not giving you my

abortion I I don't have a an opinion on

abortion because I have a that's my

view

but the Republicans have this slam dunk

absolutely killer

persuasion opportunity to just say in

every single case Democrats will

will put their own selfish needs above

children and we'll do the opposite it

will take care of the future

and they're just taking care of their

their weird orange hair

all right

um

we've gone from sentient husky dogs all

the way to that all right so how many

notice that I got a little attention on

Twitter yesterday

uh because I mentioned in a comment to

somebody it was just a comment that I

had uh lost two careers in the corporate

world for being a white male

I've said that quite a few times in

public

but this time it attracted uh Ida Bae

Wells

who called me a liar

and she said in the Tweet she said

you've been propagating the same lie for

years it would be illegal for your

bosses to have said that meaning that I

couldn't get promoted because I'm white

male it would have been illegal for your

bosses to have said that and no one

believed you

you've been propagating the same lie for

years which means she's been aware of me

for years

so this isn't the first time that she

knows I made this claim and she says it

would be illegal for your bosses to have

said that and No One Believes you

so uh now her real name is yeah Nicole

Hannah Jones and she goes by this

historical name I'm not sure exactly

when she uses which name but it's the

same person and she's the author of The

1619 project if you haven't heard of

that

all right so

um

what did I do when she called me a liar

well she also asked for evidence and

some other uh prominent black folks came

into my tweet feed and they said you

keep making these claims that we all

know our lies

so black adults who are well educated at

least the ones in this conversation

these are well-educated black adults do

not believe that white men have been

discriminated in any widespread way in

hiring in America over the last 25 years

is that mind-blowing or what

because it's the most well-known

phenomenon I can imagine but uh reading

a number of their comments there are a

number of educated

black adults

who believe that that's a conspiracy

theory and that I'm one of the

conspiracy theories

um

I guess spreading it

because I'm making a claim that they say

is complete lie

and that I never was told that I can't

be promoted because I'm white and male

because it would be illegal to do so

now

is that not obvious cognitive dissonance

here here's how you'd tell what

cognitive distances

cognitive dissonance is where you say

something that's absurd and everybody

can see it

who in the world could be a black adult

advocate for you know black concerns

like Ada Bay walls or Nicole whatever

she's going by

how can you be somebody working in that

space and believe that corporations

don't break the law because they will

they would be afraid of getting caught

how can you possibly think that's a

thing

there's nobody who's worked at a major

corporation who's unaware that they

break laws routinely

and are completely aware of it

so let me tell you in case anybody's

wondering

How could somebody tell me this directly

in a corporate world without worrying

about legal ramifications

and I'll explain that to you if you

weren't there it's very easy to explain

and they also they also asked Scott if

this is true you would have sued

do you think that's true that if my

claim had been true I would have sued

that's the obvious thing I would have

done

do you know why do you know why that

never really occurred to me in any

serious way

because I don't see myself as a victim

and what I describe these uh described

the events as they happen to me I don't

put them in a victim frame

I simply describe them because it's

important to know it's part of the

context of the whole conversation and

the the black people who are criticizing

me on this they were blaming me for

acting like I was a victim

but that never happened

that's a complete imaginary take there's

no point where I I complained I simply

described and do you know why I don't

complain

the reason I don't complain is for

exactly their point

the the black critics who said

you know I I wasn't a victim were

completely correct

I agree with my critics I never felt

like a victim

and do you know what I do do I did when

the first employer told me I couldn't

get promoted

do you know what I did

I just put out my resume and got a much

higher paying job than another company

so did I did I feel like I was a victim

and do you know what happened to

everybody in the company I left right

after I left they were all fired right

after I left because Wells Fargo bought

that bank and then eliminated by

Department

they were all fired I was the winner

right so the reason I don't think of

myself as a victim is I'm the only one

in one

I got a big raise so I go to my new job

and I get you know put on the management

track and it looks like things are good

I'm finishing up my MBA at night I'm a

superstar I'm going to be a corporate

Superstar and then they brought me in

and told me directly

directly we can't promote you because

you're a white male just I think it's a

courtesy to let you know

now

why didn't I sue my boss

because he was a friend

and what he was doing was illegal

you know why your friend to go to jail

do you

and my and my friend my boss and my last

job the one who also told me I couldn't

be promoted was also my friend

right I mean a boss friend co-worker

friend right but a friend

how many of you would put your friend in

jail

because they were just doing what their

boss told them in each case the bosses

were not making their own decisions they

were actually apologizing for them to me

they're saying I apologize

but the order has come down and I'm just

enforcing it

right

right I was told I was told in private I

think it was probably my direct boss or

somebody else was in the room it might

have been somebody else in the room I

can't recall

foreign

no one was going to go to jail for that

well it would have been a legal problem

I mean they would have had to testify

and blah blah blah blah but when the

second company told me I couldn't be

promoted did I feel the victim

well in a minor way

but then I just uh quiet quit I

immediately quiet quit do you know why I

quiet quit that's that means you just go

to work but you don't do much work

because I could I had the option

and then as I quiet quit it opened up

time for me to work on other projects

that had a bigger upside and one of

those projects was the Dilbert comic and

it worked out

so do I feel like I was a victim

hell no I was a white man in America who

could get a job at any Corporation

I basically could work anywhere

white man in America is a pretty good

deal

have I ever said it wasn't

no it's not a victim problem white man

in America in the 80s and 90s pretty

good deal pretty good deal you know it

was a better deal

in one way just one way

black person in the 80s or 90s because

if you had any qualifications you could

get a job anywhere anywhere it was the

easiest thing in the world

now

let me bring this all together

may I and by the way I offered Ido uh

Ida Bae Wells I offered her on public on

Twitter

I said that I would work with her if she

wanted to write a feature article to

debunk me and I'll help her research it

and I said it's not about me this was

the widespread you know effect at the

time I was just one person but I told

her I'd work with her and help her

research it

and then whatever the result was even if

the result is that it was a conspiracy

theory you know what if my one situation

was

schooled me into thinking it was

widespread and it never was wouldn't

that be interesting

which would be also moving the ball

forward I'd be okay with that too it

would be embarrassing for me but you

know that doesn't bother me

I don't mind being embarrassed

so

I'm in if so if Ida Bae Wells wants to

work with me I will not only

be an honest participant I won't try to

sabotage it or do anything clever I'll

actually try to get to the truth what

really happened no matter what the truth

is I'll just try to get to it because I

would be fascinating I'd love that

um

but I'm going to offer this

that's even better

I'm going to tell you how to bring

everybody together

right the first way to bring everybody

together is to admit

that this phenomenon I described as true

and we could do that by researching it

and find that as true but then you have

to interpret it and that's the hard part

the the proving is true would be trivial

that'd be easy

the second part is reparations yeah

because do I not am I not owed

reparations for being discriminated

against

and all the white people who didn't get

jobs because they're discriminating

no I'm not serious I'm just putting that

that out there to be a jerk if if I felt

like a victim sure

but I don't

here's where we can all come together

strategy

and education

there is one place that every person in

the country agrees and only one place

that I think

and that's children's education needs to

be better and also adult education for

job training

doesn't everybody agree on that

that's the one place we could all come

together

right

the black population the Republican

population absolutely same page now what

to do about it there would be

differences

but why can't we come together on the

fact and I think it'd be an easy sale to

say that choice you know and free

markets make things better

um

but this is where I would come together

I would forget everything else for the

while

because if you if you talk about

everything all the time then it's just

reasons for fighting but we can find the

one place where we all agree

in my opinion systemic racism is real

and a big problem

and its main source is that you can't we

can't educate our children properly so

if you're already behind you have to

stay behind

because our system doesn't allow you to

easily catch up unless you're lucky you

know I was lucky I guess

so

that's what I suggest that we if we're

going to find any kind of unity we do it

over our children's education

that's where we can do it all right

interestingly the black people who

criticize me did not think I should put

any weight on my lived experience

now it seemed to me that when we were

arguing about the police brutality

against uh blacks

that even when the statistics didn't

maybe support a narrative that the

argument was well you know forget your

statistics this is our lived life our

actual experience is this fear this this

problems we see it everywhere this is

our existence you can't deny

our everyday existence with your data

it's not a bad argument I'm using the

same one

what if my data is wrong it doesn't

change the fact this is what I lived and

why would you why would you diminish my

lived experience

all right

um

it's funny how how many uh my critics

were overtly racist in their comments to

me

and overtly racist I mean the reason

that they thought I was lying was that

I'm white

they didn't say that but it's obvious

that's pretty obvious

that they thought I was lying because

I'm white

how am I supposed to take that and do

you think they even knew it

that it was obvious that there were it

was a racial

a racial comment

all right

um and here's a Twitter user named Mecca

m-e-k-a who also accused me of lying

asked me to name the corporations which

I did Crocker National Bank and Pacific

Bell

so he doubted I could name the

corporations

and I'm trying to track down my actual

bosses

so I remember one of the names of one of

the bosses but I don't know how to find

her

the other one I have a first name and

I'm almost can remember the second name

but both of them would be

in their 70s

I don't know if they're even live but

I'll try to I'll try to hunt them down

but my case is not really the situation

the real situation is whether it was

widespread and at the same time that I

was talking about this uh people were

commenting I was just tweeting their

experiences

and one of them was a job posting from

the University of Florida I think

and the job posting says explicitly

that is part of a a cluster higher

strategy for improving their diversity

which means that if you're a white male

they don't really want you

this says that and that's today

and what happens when black people read

that

do they say oh that looks perfectly

illegal and honest it's completely

illegal it's illegal and they're

publishing it in public

not only do you come not only are

companies not worried about

discriminating against white males

they're so not worried they can do it

publicly and have been for 25 years and

somehow

the black critics who were giving me a

hard time yesterday somehow they've

never noticed

that this discrimination is

public

and always has been

it's right in front of you you can just

go look at it

all right

uh the other thing that I I think made

it hard for people to understand my

point that I was discriminated against

is I got this argument oh Scott are you

telling me that if I were to check those

two companies I would wouldn't find any

white men in charge

are you telling me that there were no

white men getting promoted if those two

companies Scott really really so in the

80s and 90s you're telling me that these

two big corporations they didn't have

any white men in management right that's

what you're telling me

no I'm not telling you that

I'm telling you that they were all white

men that's the whole point

who do you think was screwing me

it wasn't black people

did you hear me did you did he hear me

blaming any black people for what

happened no every bit of it was a

sucking white guy

every bit of it now in the case of my

direct boss it was a woman

and I was told by a woman but it wasn't

her decision the decision came from a

sucking racist

white guy

if you think you can out hate

racist white guys

you think you could hate them more than

I do

good luck

good luck

we're on the same side

which is the weird thing right if if Ida

Bae well is new

you know anything about me you know I'm

on the same side we have the same enemy

racist ass

covering weak sucking

idiot white man they are my enemies

because they're the ones who

discriminated against me it wasn't women

not once I don't believe I've ever been

discriminated against I can remember by

a woman I can't think of one time I've

ever been discriminated against by

anybody black anybody brown

I can't think of one time

but white men oh why Ben are the

worst

have you met any white men

they're awful discrimination

wise and the reason they do it is it

makes them look like Heroes

I just saw some CEO

you know valiantly white knighting how

hard he was going to work for whatever

ESG goals and I thought to myself that

he can do that because he's already the

CEO right

once you're the CEO yeah you can be

really woke about the people who don't

get to be CEO because you already got

that job and the next one's going to

have to be black because well you got

that job so you ruined everything

you ruined everything by being the CEO

if the CEO who is saying he wants to fix

anything cared about any of that

he'd quit his job and give it to a black

man

or uh lgbtq or something

by the way how much trouble do you think

I'm getting in for even wading into this

topic

because at this point all the controls

are off me you know that I'm a free man

I am a free man

because whatever is going to happen to

my comic career is going to happen

anyway you know newspaper is going to

fall apart

but

but once you've reached a point where it

can't get worse

can't get worse

um you know I have enough to retire so

you know doesn't matter

I get to say what you can't say

yeah so it's not it's not just even the

fu money that's a big part of it of

course but it has to do with also just

being done

there there's a there's a very big power

to being done have you ever noticed that

in your life there are times when you're

like I really should do this I want to

do this

but now I'm actually done

I'm done pretending

that I have a different opinion that I

really do

because I've pretended for 25 years

I don't need to anymore yeah I just

decided exactly

I've decided that I'm going to go down

if I go down it's going to be in flames

it's the only way I want to go

I don't want to I don't want to

Scurry away whimpering

all right if if this career is winding

down as it is right I'm at that age

where careers wind down

I'm just going to light up everything

that needs to be burned

I'm just going to put a match to every

piece of gasoline I can get to but only

productively right so here's my promise

I'm not going to do it just for fun

I'm going to do it productively I'm

going to only put a match to the

gasoline that needs to be torched

in my opinion

yeah productive gasoline

is this you getting bored

um

yes yes yeah so that's actually a good

question somebody asked is my seeming

change of attitude about me being bored

and the answer is yes yes

but but I'd add something to that it's

not having a family

so if I had a you know if I were living

with a little family unit I would put

100 of my effort into you know

protecting that and whatever I had left

might you know go into the world

but at the moment you own me

all right I I have donated myself to the

public

and that means I can do what is for the

public good

and I don't have to worry about anything

else

so I'm going to try to do the following

things for you

I'm going to try to make fentanyl a

lesser problem

I'm going to try to

um

find a way to come together

in terms of the division mostly racially

I don't think we need to come together

in political parties

but racially yes

yeah and the lgbtq yes and you know men

and women yes right so all the like

personal ways we need to come together

we need to do that

but having political parties that are

you know opposed that's probably a

useful conflict

all right

uh

what do you think of this uh Leticia

James coming after Trump and he Trump

talked about this on Hannity last night

and I don't know all the details but

it's sounding like

uh there were two different valuations

for different Trump properties

one is what they tell the bank

and then

um I'm sorry

I'm so I may have a detail wrong so let

me back up

so Trump trump said that the management

estimates the estimates that management

themselves put on the properties

came with gigantic disclosures that say

these are just for management don't

depend on do your own research if you

wanted to know what we're worth which is

what you'd say to a bank

now Hannity said something that I I'm so

angry at myself for not having thought

of the same thing

just the most obvious

thing Hannity says he says since when

does a bank

take your word for what your your

building is worth

that's never happened in the history of

banks

and as soon as I heard that I was like

wait a minute how could there possibly

be fraud

because the process requires

the bank to look at and look into it on

their own it requires it it's not even

optional there's no Bank who doesn't do

their own independent look at the value

of property

that's not a thing have you ever tried

to get a loan on your house

do you think they're not going to look

at the house

of course they look at the house that's

the most basic thing that any lender

would do and why I never thought of that

like why that never occurred to me as

the most important fact in all of the

story I don't know it just escaped me

but thank you to Hannity

because it took Hannity to surface that

fact and as soon as I heard it I was

like oh this is obviously

if you put those two things together

that the management disclaimers had more

than a page of don't trust this this is

Management's estimate

if you know that every management values

their assets higher than every Bank

what does that tell you about this case

every management there's probably never

been an exception every management

values their own properties higher than

a bank does why would that be

because they do it for different reasons

the bank is picking generally there's an

argument for a range of value right if

you if you're subjectively looking at

buildings and saying what are these

valued there's usually a range from the

lowest this could be worth to the

highest it might be worth and that could

change over time

so you're estimating right it's not even

so much what it's worth today

you also have to estimate will it still

be worth that during the course of the

loan because that's your collateral now

which of those two things the top of the

range or the bottom of the range would

management naturally

and quite reasonably

take as their estimate

management would take the top of the

range because they want to tell you

they're doing well

and it's within the argument that's not

crazy it's like there's a range that

reasonable people could put on this so

management will always take the top of

the range every time not just Trump

every Mansion everywhere all the time

they're going to take the top of the

range

now what's the bank do the bank has to

protect their their loans and the most

the most

devastating thing is if you don't get

paid back

that's the worst

so when the bank looks at your assets do

they take the top of the range or do

they take the bottom of the range of

course they take the bottom and they

determine the bottom on their own

they don't take your they don't take

your word for it they don't take

Management's word for what the bottom is

they calculate that on their own so in

every case where you see a major company

like trumps

getting a bank loan in every case what

you should you should expect is that

completely legally

management is saying we accept the top

of the estimate for our value and the

bank is saying you know we play a

cautious

so we're all guessing so we're going to

take the bottom of the estimate to make

sure this is a good loan

now here's the next thing apparently

Leticia James said long before she had

the job when she was campaigning for it

that she was going to sue Trump every

way she could

and she said it repeatedly and she said

that before she had any evidence of any

crime that she would sue him repeatedly

with no evidence of any crimes and then

she got the job

and then she brought this case which as

we look at it if you know anything about

Banking and anything about management I

don't even see an allegation here

it's supposed to look like the bank had

a lower valuation than the management

that's the only way it's supposed to

look it should never look any other way

that's the only way I should look and

she's decided that's evidence of a crime

apparently now I don't know the whole

details but that's what we're told that

it's based on that now as dershowitz

says that the Trump team should be

motioning to ever removed at least from

the prosecution

how in the world could you have a

legitimate prosecution when the person

doing is said in advance they would

prosecute him no matter what the

evidence was

that's the end of the prosecution

so

yeah it's a civil case I'm a little I'm

a little

uh confused about

the criminal versus the Civil element of

that so yeah there I have some murkiness

on that question

all right

so I take dershowitz's opinion as I

always do as the the better one in every

situation it seems like and I agree that

Trump is doesn't have any real

um risk here

but the Democrats need to have at least

one Trump is in trouble story going at

all times right so once this one

collapses it probably will

they're just going to queue up the next

one

and it won't have any more legitimacy

than this one they just have to one the

sort of running at all times there

always has to be one yeah and if it's

not him then they'll use his his friends

well Mike Lindell is yeah whatever

um

all right

yeah Joshua says it doesn't pass the

test to being even legitimate and I

agree it is not legitimate looking

are they stories I forgot that there are

a few major stories that I haven't

touched on

and when I watched the five they'll

they'll mention them sometimes and

they'll say oh I should have talked

about that

all right any major story

uh yes I did see that I made the news

yesterday in a number of Publications

for being the voice of anti-esg

and and I'll say it again if you're

trying to explain to somebody what's

wrong with ESG

the way you do it is you say they have

very good goals

but they don't understand systems

and it's a terrible system to put

society's goals in between the

management and the customer

it's good to have those goals but you

don't want to enforce them from a third

party outside it just breaks the system

so that the free market wouldn't be able

to handle that much friction

all right

um

yeah we already talked about then we

talked about the 18 year old there was

run over for political reasons because

it was a Republican and a Democrat

murdered with this car

and I think we talked about that right

that's another example of that

I I'll tell you some of my most um

my weirdest provocative predictions

about Republicans being haunted

uh

why do they always use old photos in the

Articles the reason is there are not any

new ones

so when I did a lot of publicity early

in my career

there were tons of photos that were

taken and sometimes the photographers

will retain the rights and they'll put

some of those photos

on a public stock photo services so then

the news people will go to a stock photo

service because they have owned the

rights to use any of that stuff and

they'll use whatever photo they have

rights to

now if if I were

like a presidential candidate they would

send a photographer out every time

there's a story and you know maybe get a

new picture or something but since the

most of the pictures ever taken of of me

that would be copyright available our

older ones

uh

uh right right

companies get appraisals to support

their financing and then Banks to their

own appraisal and there's naturally a

difference between those two

foreign

what do you think about NLP overrated

oh yeah uh JB Diamond's response to

Rashida about

so Rashida what's her last name

Rashida Talib

um so she was grilling some CEOs I guess

in Congress and asked them you know what

they would do about getting greener or I

guess a specific question was

would the banks be willing to make loans

to people who were in the energy

business you know that old dirty energy

business and Jamie dimon said yes and to

do otherwise

would be the road to hell

you know I don't always agree with

everything that JB Diamond says but you

have to admit he is a straight talker

and he could not have said that anymore

clearly

and Rashida Talib and I have to wonder

if she's actually on the side of America

don't you

like actually legitimately now usually

when we when we talk about our political

opponents you know we like to talk about

them being traitors and they're not on

the side of America and you know that's

just hyperbole because of course they

are

like I don't believe that AOC is not on

the side of America

do you

maybe some of you do

well well but if you say she's she

doesn't have good policies for America

that's different from saying she's not

on her side but what Rashida Talib is

pushing

is so destructive to Commerce in the

United States that you have to wonder if

that's even serious

in terms of helping America

because I don't see how it could

it looks like she was working for

another entity it looks like she's

working for a foreign power it doesn't

look like just disagreement on politics

it looks like trying to destroy the

United States that's what it looks like

but you can't read her mind

could be some other reason

um I have the great reset I haven't read

it so this is a season where people are

sending me books and I'm getting a

little behind

um

there's somebody who wishes they hadn't

transitioned yeah I don't know how much

attention to give the people who

transitioned their gender

uh or is it there's

how do you say that do they transition a

gender

and I guess that's a definitional thing

but there will always be people who

regret every decision

there are people who regret going to

college

so the fact that some people regret uh

gender or sex change whatever it is

oh it's gender affirming surgery okay

that would be the polite way to say it

these days right

so there's always going to be somebody

who who wishes they hadn't done it

there are people who join the military

and wish they hadn't I mean there are

tons of people there are people who had

a baby which they have people who got

married wish that I don't know if that's

the standard that we should use

the standard we usually use is that we

allow free citizens to do dumbass things

because to do otherwise would take their

freedom away

and I don't think that it matters that

there are higher suicide rates if that's

true I don't even know if that's true I

don't think that matters

because we do let people make mistakes

and we do let people make choices that

we wouldn't make you know maybe you

think it's a mistake maybe they don't

yeah 40 That's not 40 I don't believe

that

too much talking today you know that's

what I do

this is pretty much just talking

all right uh that's all for now I'm

gonna go do some other things

I hope my day is as weird and awesome as

yesterday

how many of you thought I had a bad day

yesterday

if you were watching the you know any of

the the action I didn't have a bad day

yesterday in fact if you were to score

the quality of my whole day yesterday

a plus

a plus it was an awesome day yeah yeah

when they feed the energy monster the

energy monster is not unhappy

what uh Ida Bay Wells did is gave me the

opportunity to have a much bigger

platform

thank you

am I am I uh concerned that a bunch of

people think I'm a horrible person

because they misunderstood some stuff I

said that's every day

I'm so used to that

energy sponge energy vampire yeah maybe

more of an energy vampire if you know

that reference all right YouTube I'll

talk to you tomorrow

bye for