Episode 2006 Scott Adams - Lots Of Conspiracy Theories Confirmed This Year. Big Things Coming
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View segment →going after them. Likewise there are a number of other people you can say have definitely not been bought off, right? Trump has definitely not been bought off. You can criticize Crenshaw whatever you want. I'm not in that conversation. I'm just saying there are some people at least on the Republican…
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The Fed. I'm seeing somebody say "End the Fed." Well, I'd be in favor of that if I knew what it was. Anybody know what the Federal Reserve does? I managed to get a degree in economics and walk away thinking I'm not entirely sure what they do. Well, anyway, let's talk about some of the things in the news.
I was seeing a tweet from Adam Townsend. He was sending people to his blog. Now Adam Townsend is another strong follow on Twitter. If you're not following him, you're missing a lot of different stuff. There are some people on Twitter who tend to be boosters of things you've already seen, and they're good too. But Adam tends to have completely different takes on stuff. But in this case I think this is something some of us saw but forgot.
In 2020 there was a hack on Twitter. I kind of vaguely remember that. But here's a detail I did not know until I read Adam Townsend's blog that he tweeted at today. So apparently Twitter was hacked by a 17-year-old and some friends. The 17-year-old. And if you wondered how did he crack the security for Twitter, because you know Twitter's a major social platform, obviously they've got some pretty strong security going on there. So here's how the 17-year-old did it. He called some Twitter employees and said he was Twitter IT support, and they asked him for their passwords.
That's not even the best part. That's not even the best part. Some of them actually gave their passwords over the phone. For real, that's not the best part. That's not the best part either. The best part is that average employees, you know, just I think they're just average employees, gave their passwords, and that was enough to acquire god mode over the entire network. Apparently if you had anybody's password if they were in engineering, they gave you god mode over the entire network.
Now if you don't believe that's true, apparently there is testimony from somebody who was hired to look into the security. He testified to Congress. This guy named Mudge was his nickname. And apparently anybody who worked in engineering had full access to Twitter's guts. All of the engineers could change Twitter. Do you remember long ago when I was speculating that Jack Dorsey probably didn't know who was doing what with Twitter? Do you remember everybody laughed at me? Do you remember how you laughed? Oh, how you laughed. Come on, Dorsey knows exactly what's going on there. No. Nope. It turns out that every engineer could have changed the guts of Twitter, had full access, and there was no log of changes. Did you hear that? All of the engineers could change the guts of Twitter, and there was no log of the changes. Those are confirmed facts from somebody whose job it was to look into that stuff.
Now did you know any of that? Did you know any of that? Somehow I missed all of that, but it's in the public record. It's not subject to speculation. And apparently Twitter is built in such a way that it's really hard to catch up and fix all the security problems. So Elon Musk has a big challenge, a technical challenge that's almost unimaginable in its complexity. But if anybody could sort it out, at least the right people are working on it. So that's good.
Texas Governor Abbott is making a clear call for universal school choice in Texas, and he wants something with education savings accounts, etc. The big story here is I don't think anything's going to stop it at this point. I believe that education will just enter the private sphere and the free market will make it work again. Now there will definitely always be people in public schools, I think, but the public schools are going to have to do something different to show that they can compete with private schools. But it's happening. It's happening. So it takes a while, but this is a positive trend.
All right, here's a macro theme. Every time I read a news story that's really good, like it gives me stuff I didn't know and it's pointing to actually source material and it tells a story that really gives me the full rich context and I finally understand a thing, where did I see it? You tell me. I saw something with great context and really good sources. Where did I see it? Twitter threads by individuals who are really good at it. Why do we know about the Twitter files? Because of people like Matt Taibbi, individual citizens who look into stuff and find out. Why do we know as much as we do about the real situation with energy and homelessness and stuff like that? Michael Shellenberger. Michael Shellenberger is unambiguously the best, I guess you'd call him an individual who's doing journalism for the most breadth of different important topics and the greatest depth of research. And there's another, and I'll talk about that in a minute. Kyle Becker. Do you follow Kyle Becker? Any of Kyle Becker's threads are better than the news that night. And it's not just that he's good. He's very good, by the way. You should follow him. But he's one of now I would say close to a dozen. There may be a dozen individuals who will do fairly frequent Twitter threads. They're just far better than anything in the news.
Now let me read you some of these things which we're finding. All right, this is from Kyle Becker's Twitter thread, and I've seen this before but Kyle does a good job of putting it in a real clean package here. So you all know Bob Woodward, right? So Woodward and Bernstein were the two reporters for the Washington Post who broke the Watergate story. It was a story that brought down Nixon. And it was Nixon got some burglars to burglarize a Democrat office in the Watergate Tower and got caught, and then that brought down Nixon.
So here's an interesting thing we find out about Bob Woodward. Right after leaving the Navy, Woodward was hired by the most powerful news outlet and given the biggest news story in the country. So he wasn't a seasoned reporter but he got a job at the most important news outlet, or one of the two, and immediately was given one of the biggest, most important stories in the country. How did he get his sources for that? Well, the source for the Watergate stuff was the deputy director of the FBI, Mark Felt, who also was known to run the FBI COINTELPRO program, which was designed to discredit political actors and the federal agencies that they want to destroy, such as Richard Nixon.
And by the way, there was a lawyer who was working on the staff of the Judiciary Committee during the Nixon inquiry. Do you know who that was? There was an attorney working on that. It was Hillary Clinton. And then Kyle sums it up this way. So if you watch the deep state panic during the Trump years, the Russia hoax orchestrated by Hillary Clinton, two Trump impeachment hoaxes, January 6 charade, FBI Mar-a-Lago raid, and now the Biden classified document scandal, don't be surprised. They've been doing this for a very long time. It's all true. Watergate was just an FBI deep state project to take Nixon out. Now Nixon probably did in fact authorize it, so he committed a crime. But my current belief, subject to I suppose I could change my mind later, but I always believed until maybe a year or so ago that Watergate was just what it looked like. Two intrepid reporters dug into it, got this scoop, took down the president. Turns out it was actually a deep state operation. The whole thing was a deep state operation. And Hillary Clinton was right in the middle of it. And it's apparently just a pattern that they just do over and over again. They create hoaxes and they have enough power in the media to sell them.
Now do you remember all the time that Bernstein became just a joke because he would come on CNN and say that anything Trump did was worse than Watergate? And I thought to myself, how could this guy who seems so dumb and so biased have been one of the crack reporters that worked with Woodward? Because I thought, well it must have been Woodward who was the smart one, because the other guy is obviously an idiot. Like when you see him on TV he's just, it looks like he's just working for a treat or something. It doesn't even look like there's a functioning brain going on there. And now when you see that there's some interesting history to the other one, you can see that the two of them were just part of some deep state operation apparently.
Now it turns out that Trump is suing Woodward for 49 million dollars for using Trump's audio tapes out of context. Apparently Trump says he'd only authorized the audio tapes for the purpose of writing the book, but when the audio tapes are shown on their own and out of context, because they always would be having context, they're misleading and make him look bad. Now I don't think he can win that case, probably not. But it does show you that Woodward is sketchy, because I do believe without even hearing the audio tapes, I feel a high level of confidence with no knowledge that they're misleading and that they're designed to make Trump look bad. Do you have any doubt about that? Do you have any doubt about that? I don't think so.
All right, here's my take on the cartels and what's happening with fentanyl and all that stuff. Go into the whiteboard. So we're sort of in an interesting race here. So I would say if you look at the odds of going to war with the cartels, well the more people who die of fentanyl and the fact that politicians on both sides, bipartisan, are both talking about it, the odds of war are going to go to 100 percent unless something intervenes. Would you agree that if there's no other outside forces, the odds of war and direct attack of the cartels is a hundred percent? Now we're not there. We're probably down here, probably down and around I don't know 25 percent. But that will grow the more people who die from fentanyl and the more militaristic the cartels look.
But the trouble is one assumes that the cartels with their tens of billions of dollars are already buying up our politicians, because why wouldn't they? What would stop them? Seriously, what would stop them? They know that the United States is going to come for them. The only way they can stop it, because they can't beat us militarily, is to stop us politically. So you don't think that they're already building an entire base of bought-off politicians? Now they may be starting at the state, the city level, you know like council people and stuff, and trying to get control of them and then later they become higher up in politics. So it could be what China's doing. You know China would find an Eric Swalwell and then they would say, you know I think this person might get elected to higher office, so they make friends when he's still at the city level, right? You don't think the cartels are doing that with tens of billions of dollars? Their biggest mortal risk is not Mexico because they already control Mexico. Their biggest risk is the United States. Do you think they're just waiting? Do you think the cartels are just waiting? Oh we'll just keep making money, nothing will happen to us. No, they know we're coming for them. They know we're coming. So they've got to buy our politicians as quickly as possible.
My estimate is we have three to five years. In three to five years the cartels will effectively control our government because that's their only play. And there's no level of risk they wouldn't be willing to take to get that done. Am I right? There's no level of risk that they would walk away from. This is a mortal risk. This ends them completely. They have to buy their way to control the government. They have to. You don't think they know that? Of course they do. The mafia knows it. They already bought the government of Mexico. Do you think that they bought the entire government in Mexico and it never occurred to them maybe buy a little bit of the government of the United States with their billions of dollars? They never thought of it? Of course they did. And of course they're doing it. And they're doing it as fast as they can.
If we don't beat this window and take them out before they have too much control of the government, we'll never be able to do it. So when you see Dan Crenshaw say we should go in militarily, the one thing I can know for sure, no matter what else you want to criticize Crenshaw for, he's not been bought off. Would you agree? He clearly hasn't been bought off because he's going after them. Likewise there are a number of other people you can say have definitely not been bought off, right? Trump has definitely not been bought off. You can criticize Crenshaw whatever you want. I'm not in that conversation. I'm just saying there are some people at least on the Republican side and at least one Democrat who have definitely not been bought off. Definitely not. But that's not going to last. You know I don't believe that Biden, I mean do you think Biden hasn't been bought off? Look at what Hunter's been doing collecting money from other countries. You don't think that Hunter found a way to make some cartel money? Man, I don't have any evidence to suggest he did, but wouldn't that be the most obvious place to get your money? And wouldn't it be the only thing to explain why Biden seems to be doing whatever the cartels want? Because he's not really taking the border seriously and he's not taking the cartel seriously. He's not taking them even a little bit seriously. The evidence would strongly suggest that Biden's been compromised via Hunter.
Now here's the world we live in. I just gave you this whole long list of all the hoaxes. If you've seen my list of over 20 hoaxes and we know the pattern and how things are done, shouldn't you assume with no evidence whatsoever, just based on what you can see, this is not in question. It's not in question that Biden is doing a poor job of border security. There's no question about that. Some people think it's a preference but there's no question that a lot of people are coming across the border. You have to assume at this point that the cartels have some kind of leverage on Biden. Is that fair or unfair?
Now again when you talk about a government, the government is guilty until they can prove through some kind of transparency that they're not guilty. They're not people. If it were people they're innocent until proven guilty. If it's a government and they have a multi-decade pattern of being corrupt, which is well demonstrated from Watergate all the way through Google and Twitter rigging the last election, so there's no question about whether this is a group of people who do corrupt things on a regular basis. Democrats. Now I'm not going to say that no Republicans have done anything corrupt, right? But I'm just looking at this particular pattern. The Democrats have been running hoaxes and plans and ops against the American public for decades and we know it. We're not guessing. We know it.
So you have to assume that the only reason that Mexico is not being handled is that it's got to be. And I'm open to being proven wrong, but my assumption is since it's obvious, assume the obvious. Assume the obvious. And by the way that would be an amazing thing for Trump to say. Imagine this. You know the cartels are trying to bribe American politicians. Would everybody say that's true? They would, right? You know they are at least at the local level. So here's something Trump could say. You know the cartels are trying to bribe people. You know that there's no explanation for why Biden is doing so poorly on the border and against fentanyl. Assume the obvious. Just imagine Trump saying that. Assume it's exactly what it looks like. That's all he has to say. Just say assume it's exactly what it looks like and he's done. And walk away. Just say here's the setup. Just assume it's exactly what you see and vote accordingly. You know I'll take on the cartels. He isn't. And there's only one reason. There's only one reason and his name is Hunter. Now I don't have proof of it but you don't need it. They've demonstrated that this is how they act. Just assume it's true. You don't even need evidence. This is so obviously the pattern that they follow. It's up to them to prove it's not true, right? You can't take on the cartel money.
All right, next story. British Columbia, they're going to change the law so that they're not arresting anybody for heroin, cocaine, meth, fentanyl or ecstasy. Now Elon Musk actually responded to that and he said all things considered this is the better approach in my opinion. Do you think it's a better approach to decriminalize all of those hard drugs and the possession? So I think dealing is probably still illegal but ordinary possession would not be. In fact they won't even take it off you. They won't even confiscate it.
So here's the problem with this issue. The problem with this issue is that we have a binary brain. We all have binary brains. And the things we understand are it's illegal or it's not illegal, and then our brain stops. So since you've seen examples where legalizing things totally didn't work and you only have two buckets, don't give me any nuance. There are only two buckets. So if you know that there definitely are examples where legalization totally failed, well that's all you need to know. Only two buckets.
But of course in the real world, how many different ways would there be to change the drug laws without screwing the pooch? Probably lots of ways. Who knows if this is a small part of something bigger or it's just one thing they're doing. Now I do agree that putting these people in jail doesn't make any difference. I don't think that they go to jail, clean up, and then go on to live good lives. But if that is true that'd be interesting. You know I could be convinced. I don't believe that's true. But I also don't believe any data on anything anymore. So if you had data I wouldn't believe it anyway.
But it seems to me that if you put somebody in jail who had not otherwise been in jail, now they have a jail record on top of they're addicts. Even if they stopped, they're still, you know that, right? Just because you stop using that doesn't make you not an addict. You always have that problem forever. So it seems like you're taking one problem and turning it into two problems. One is you're a drug addict and now you've got a criminal record. So good luck.
Do you know what I would do if I were a drug addict and I'd cleaned up and then I tried to get a job with my criminal record and I couldn't? You know what I'd do? I would deal drugs. That's what I'd do. No I'm not joking. Absolutely I would go to the criminal side. I would sell drugs because that would be my best career move. And I'm already living this risky life and I take drugs to make me feel good so now I've got money. I don't care about the ethics of it. I just go sell drugs. And to me that's what I would do. Literally that's what I would do. Literally. There's no hyperbole here. If I had a criminal record because of drugs I would become a drug dealer. I would. Wouldn't you? It's just the rational choice.
So I can see Elon Musk's point. They're taking somebody who's got one crushing problem in life and adding a second crushing problem. Logically that doesn't seem to be the right approach. Now suppose you legalized it so you'd at least remove the one crushing problem but you did more about helping people have treatment or even living, maybe helping them live somewhere where they're away from the rest of the public. So you don't want to do what San Francisco did, to create an actual physical zone where you can all go in and shoot drugs. Maybe the worst idea ever. Possibly the worst idea of all time. And let's put it right in the middle of our beautiful city that depends on tourism. Worst idea.
Best idea might be we're going to legalize it but we're also going to legalize ketamine and mushrooms and other treatments. You want to hear something about rehab that I heard the other day? I heard this from a reliable source. Apparently the government will pay for your rehab. Did you know that if you're poor? I'm not sure if it's Medicaid or whatever it is but you know the government will pay to put you in it if you don't have money, right? Now I didn't know that either but apparently, and I don't know if it's just California. I don't know the details. Might be just California. But it's a real medical problem and we do give medical treatment to people in medical problems even if they don't have insurance.
So here's what's happening and I'm told this is widespread. A rehab will of course want people to go there and the government will pay. So there are body people, people who go out and find addicts and they talk them into going to rehab. So far so good, right? No problem with that. Go talk the addicts into rehab. They go into rehab and then the government pays the bill and the rehab is happy, right? And then the person who went in there, presumably they would be happy, wouldn't you say? Because they got free rehab. Pretty good deal. Except the people that are gathered up are people who do not want to be straight. They're paid to go to rehab. Yep, they pay them to go to rehab with no expectation that anybody will try to fix them. As soon as they're out, if they do their two weeks or whatever it is, do you know what the body person does? Scores them some drugs right away so they can be the person you bring back in again. You get them high as soon as they're out. You already have their contact information. You know who they are. You know that they've said yes once to taking a check to pretending to be in rehab. So they go and they pretend to be in rehab again.
It turns out there's some large part, I don't know the percentage. Yeah I'm sure there are also plenty of completely ethical rehab places but the whole industry has got a problem that it looks like the way the money works they don't have an incentive to fix anybody. They have an incentive to pump the same addicts through their system as often as possible. Now I'm also not aware of any rehab that works. I'm just, I realize that's controversial. I'm not aware of any that work. And in California anyway there's a lot of belief that there's some kind of support services for addicts. There really isn't. You can look as hard as you want. There won't be any. There's nothing. You're pretty much on your own.
So imagine if British Columbia did the following things, and I'm not saying they will. I'm just making a larger case that there's a right way and a wrong way to do stuff. The wrong way was I think some European countries did free needles and stuff. Didn't work out as well as they wanted. San Francisco did the free needle zone. Total disaster, right? So there are lots of bad ways to legalize drugs. But imagine a good way. Just imagine that they said we're not going to arrest you and in addition for free we could put you through one of these psychedelic facilities that will give you different drugs and make you not care about taking hard drugs later.
So compare these two things. Hey I'm going to take you to rehab. Let's put yourself in the mind of an addict for a moment. And I come to you say hey addict I got a deal for you. We're going to take away the thing that you care about the most, your drugs, but we're going to replace that with a sterile environment in which we take away all of your other forms of entertainment and it's really going to hurt. But on the plus side we'll talk to you. We'll do some talking and that talking might help but probably not. So you're going to go to the worst place in the world where you'll feel worse than you've ever felt before. How about that? Huh? Sign up everybody. Good. Come on. Come on. It's going to be terrible. It's going to be hell on Earth. Come on in.
All right, now compare that to I got another option. Instead of taking the fentanyl and the cocaine how would you like to try this thing called ketamine or this thing called mushrooms? Oh you've done mushrooms? Okay so you're already comfortable with that. I'll tell you what we'll do. We'll take you from the drugs you're on which are awesome but we're going to put you on some other awesome drugs. Pretty awesome. These might be so awesome that you won't even need those other ones anymore. Yeah I've heard about this thing called ibogaine but I don't know what that is. I don't know anything about that but I've heard it a few times now. Which one do you take? You're an addict. Does the addict take hell on Earth or I guess some other good drugs you're going to like them a lot? Seriously. Have I made my point?
We know that the drug intervention using psychedelics is very strong in terms of cure rates and fixing people. And this sounds like fun frankly. If I'm an addict and you tell me I can do these other drugs and it might make me not even care about the ones I was doing, I'm all about that. I'd be all over that. Wouldn't you? Remember you're already a drug addict. If you're already a drug addict you're not saying no to ketamine or mushrooms or ayahuasca or whatever they're going to use. DMT, I don't know.
So all I want to make, I'm just going to make one point. If you're still living in the world of two buckets, you know this is the Greg Gutfeld point, the prison of two ideas. If you're in the prison of two ideas then legalizing looks like the worst thing anybody ever thought of because it never works. But the very moment you say well what would work and why don't we add that to the legalizing part, it starts getting easy. Am I wrong that the solution is sort of easy? You just have to make it voluntary and offer a drug-related course that we know works. So I think we might be closer to something. But I'm not in favor of turning drug addicts into criminals for some purposes of our own I guess. I don't know why we do that.
All right, here's another great thread about Google. This is from Kanekoa and then from his Substack. Now I've mentioned him before. If you want to look for him on Twitter. So he would be one of the long Twitter threads. This is useful, you know, like an Adam Townsend or Michael Shellenberger or Matt Taibbi. So you know it's that level of high quality journalism I guess but Twitter journalism. And I won't read it all but basically we know for sure that Google manipulated search results and manipulated things to hurt jobs. So there's a long body of evidence that's incontrovertible at this point. So we know for sure that the 2020 election and presumably the others maybe were subject to huge manipulation by both Twitter and Google.
Now does anybody have any doubt that manipulating those two platforms changes an election? Does anybody think oh that won't change anything? There's nobody who believes that, right? Then there is a professor, I can't remember his name, but we figured out the ratio of how much a biased search platform would change your outcomes. It would be a lot. You know there are things that have just disappeared. You know they just can't find them if you look for them.
So here's what I think Trump should do. If you're talking about the platforms Twitter and Google and you could extend that to some others, is there any question that the elections recently have been rigged? If you take out of the mix the ballot counting questions and just say you could just even forget that. Do you know why I think there's a good chance that the elections were not rigged in terms of the vote counting in the ballots? Do you know the best argument for why the election probably wasn't rigged? Here it comes. The best argument for why the actual vote counting was straight is they didn't need to because they had already rigged the lawfare, right? They changed the rules. They had already rigged Google. They had already rigged Twitter and they rigged the entire media. They probably didn't need to because all of those things are apparently legal. Am I wrong? Everything we found out about Google, everything we found about Twitter, nobody's going to jail. Those are just things we wish hadn't happened.
So I think Trump's strongest play would be, you know we should always be working hard toward more transparency in the elections but you know what, the question of whether they counted the votes right probably doesn't even matter because Twitter and Google and the media, they largely moved the needle more than some cheating would have. Because I don't think you can cheat enough in an election to move the needle that much. I mean you'd have to perfectly cheat in just the key areas where everybody's looking for the cheating. It's kind of hard. It's kind of hard. But the stuff they did with the social media platforms was easy and legal. And the stuff that the news lies about every day is easy. Lying is easy and legal. The news can lie to you all day long but it's not even illegal, right?
So I think Trump should say that the elections have been rigged by the social media and the media and then say you know we're still looking into whether the election itself was rigged but we need more transparency there. All he'd have to do is tone it down and emphasize the part that everybody can see with their own eyes is definitely in evidence that it was rigged. If rigging doesn't mean miscounting the votes and it only means rigging the brainwashing. So I think you can use the word rigging without any explanation beyond that. What do you think? Yeah, and we expect more rigging in the future.
So Google actually had a list of things that they were suppressing at the same time that their CEO was saying oh we don't do that. They actually had a list of websites and individuals that they suppressed. Absolutely did the thing they said we absolutely don't do. And they were doing it really hard. Well I'll say they don't do it.
All right, Rasmussen says that a majority of people want to see a lab leak investigation about the virus. So two-thirds of likely US voters want to see some kind of investigation. And let's say 49 say it's very likely that the virus came from a lab leak. 49 percent. What do you think would be roughly the percentage who don't think it's likely the virus came from the Chinese lab? Anybody want to take a guess at that before I tell you? I'll bet you could get it within five percent. Let's see if you can do it. I'll see if you can get it within five percent. That'll be your test.
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All right, I did a deep dive into long COVID to see what the latest is and here's what I determined. Because you know some people say long COVID isn't real. Some people say it's not only real it's huge. But I did a deep dive and here's what I found. In one movie, long COVID is totally real and ruining lots of lives and many studies support that view. So that's in one movie. So if you do a Google search you'll find that long COVID is real. It's affecting a lot of people and it's ruining their lives. You can also find studies that say long COVID is imaginary and that when you test people's vitals they say they have long COVID it kind of looks like the average person so it's probably all in their minds.
So these two movies will never be reconciled. Do you know why? Do you know why we'll never know if long COVID was devastating a generation of people or absolutely imaginary? Why will we never know that? Because we don't have to. Those two movies can live forever because they're both consistent and you can live within them without any problems. So if you get sick and you believe it's long COVID it doesn't matter if it is or not. You'll just go along with your life. You'll tell your friend it was long COVID but you'll treat it based on the symptoms whether it was long COVID or not. Long COVID, you'd probably treat it the same way based on the specific symptoms. So the people who will believe they have long COVID will go through life. They can interact with you. There's no penalty if they were wrong. And likewise the people who say there's no long COVID, they get sick, they go to the doctor, the doctor says I think you have long COVID and the other person says or just a headache, and then they treat you for the headache or whatever it is and then you never need to know if it was long COVID. Long COVID never needs to be solved because everybody can live in a complete movie where it's devastating or it's a nothing. And somehow we still can procreate and have babies which is all evolution ever cared about anyway.
And this dovetails with one of my critics who was right about everything, Mike Hart. And he told me that when he looked into the situation of getting vaccinated or not he said quote it was simple. It was a simple decision. It was simple because he looked at the government not testing the thing as well as they could and then the coercion. If you take those two things, not tested, you know it's a novel thing, hasn't been tested enough, and they coerce you to take it, it's a simple decision. What do you think? Agree it's simple? I mean those two things tell you everything you need. And I would agree because long COVID seemed complicated to me because it was either the biggest factor or no factor at all. But Mike Hart handled that by simply ignoring it and that turned out to be the right answer.
So if you simply ignored the biggest variable that mattered to the decision, because I don't think any of us were too worried about dying, you know the odds of dying were actually pretty low for most of us, so I wasn't worried about dying. But the biggest variable was long COVID. If you just act like it's not even there it simplifies everything. Doesn't it? Wouldn't you agree? And that's as simple as you can get. You know just ignore the biggest variable and if you did that for every decision imagine how easy it would be. Just ignore the biggest factor in every decision and that would simplify everything. It's a good recommendation.
And importantly people like Mike Hart need to simplify the following, which is you look at the VAERS report and you'd see there's just way tons of people complaining about theirs which would suggest that the vaccination itself is causing damage that's higher than usual. So it's really simple. You just look at the VAERS report but you can simplify it even more by not looking at all the studies about long COVID and that simplifies it. So if you look at the VAERS report and you don't look at the counterbalancing risk of long COVID, just ignore it, everything's simpler. And that gets you the right answer. So that's not the way I would have necessarily known to go. I would have looked at all the variables especially the biggest one. But ignoring the biggest variable did get you the best answer and the right answer. Very non-obvious. And that's why I got it all wrong.
Herd immunity. Now this is something I'm hearing for the first time. Wait are you saying that a previous infection to a virus could give you some kind of natural immunity? I'm hearing this for the first time. Is that true? Because I need somebody to tell me that every five minutes for the rest of my life because I just can't remember it for five minutes. Wait I'm forgetting it again. Somebody needs to remind me. Is natural immunity real?
All right, yeah. So my bottom line on all this is it does appear that the worst conspiracy theories about big pharma were probably true. Would you agree with that? Would you agree that your conspiracy theories about big pharma they look like they were completely true? That there wasn't enough safety and maybe too much about money. Totally true. So pretty much all of our everything you suspected except maybe chemtrails. I'm not so sure about chemtrails. But it feels like everything you suspected was true. Yeah it's not literally true that everything you suspected but it feels like it, doesn't it? Actually feels the depopulation for it. Sure. Sure. And the WEF is trying to track you and control you. Let's accept it all.
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are some people on Twitter who tend to be boosters of things you've already seen and they're good too but Adam tends to have completely different takes on stuff but in this case I think this is something some of us saw but forgot in 2020 there was a hack on Twitter I kind of vaguely remember that but here here's a detail I did not know until I read Adam Townsend's uh blog that he tweeted at today so apparently that the Twitter was hacked by a 17 year old and some friends the 17 year old and if you wondered how did he crack the uh the security for Twitter because you know Twitter's major social platform obviously obviously they've got some pretty strong security going on there so here's how the 17 year old did it he called some Twitter employees and said he was Twitter I.T support and they asked them for their passwords that's not even the best part that's not even the best part some of them actually gave gave their passwords over the phone foreign that's not the best part that's not the best part either the best part is the best part is that average employees you know just I think they're just average employees gave their passwords and that was enough to acquire god mode over the entire network apparently you could have anybody's password if they were in engineering and they gave you God mode over the entire network now if you don't believe that's true uh apparently there is testimony from somebody who was hired to look into the security he testified to Congress this guy named Mudge was his nickname and apparently anybody who worked in engineering had full access to Twitter's guts all of the engineers could change Twitter do you remember long ago when I was speculating that the that uh The Dorsey probably didn't know that Jack Dorsey probably didn't know who was doing what with Twitter do you remember everybody laughed at me do you remember how you laughed oh how you laughed come on Dorsey knows exactly what's going on there no nope it turns out that every engineer could have changed the guts of Twitter had full access and there's no log of changes did you hear that all of the engineers could change the guts of Twitter and there was no log of the changes those are confirmed facts from somebody whose job it was to look into that stuff now did you know any of that did you know any of that somehow I missed all of that but it's in the public record it's not it's not subject to speculation and apparently you know Twitter is um built in such a way that it's really hard to catch up and fix all the security problems so Elon Musk has has a big challenge a technical challenge that's almost unimaginable in its complexity but if anybody could could sort it out at least the right people are working on it so that's good Texas Governor Abbott is making a clear call for Universal school choice in Texas and he wants uh something with education savings accounts Etc the the big story here is I don't think anything's going to stop it at this point I I believe that education will just enter the private sphere and the free market will make it work again now there will definitely always be people in public schools I think but the public schools are going to have to do something different to you know to show that they can compete with private schools but it's happening it's happening so it takes a while but this is a positive trend all right here's a macro theme every time I read a news story that's really good like it gives me stuff I didn't know and it's pointing to actually Source material and it tells a story that really gives me the full Rich context and I finally understand a thing where did I see it you tell me I I saw something with great context and really good sources where did I see it Twitter threads by individuals who are really good at it why do we know that the Twitter files because of people like mad type right individual citizens who look into stuff and find out why do we know as much as we do about you know the real situation with energy and homelessness and stuff like that Michael schellenberger Michael schellenberger is unambiguously unambiguously the best I guess you'd call him an individual who's doing uh journalism uh for the most breadth of you know different important topics and the greatest greatest depth of research and there's another and I'll talk about that in a minute Kyle Becker do you follow follow Kyle Becker Eddie of Kyle Becker's threads are better than the news that night and and it's not just that he's good he's very good by the way you should follow him but he's one of now I would say close to a dozen there may be a dozen individuals who will do fairly frequent Twitter threads they're just far better than anything in the news now some of it um yeah anyway um got distracted there by comment so let me read you some of these the things which we're finding all right this is from Kyle Becker's Twitter thread and I've seen this before but Kyle does a good job of putting it in a real clean package here so you all know Bob Woodward right so Woodward and Bernstein were the two reporters for the Washington Post who broke the Watergate story it was a story that brought down Nixon and it was Nixon got some burglars to burglarize a Democrat office in the Watergate Tower and got caught and then that brought down Nixon so here's an interesting thing we find out about Bob Woodward right so Bob Woodward one of the two important people in this story interesting uh this is from Kyle Becker's tweet Tweeter Twitter thread soon after leaving the Navy Woodward was hired by the most powerful news outlet and given the biggest news story in the country so he wasn't a seasoned reporter but he got a job at the most important news Outlet or one of the two and immediately was given one of the biggest most important uh stories in the country how did he get his sources for for that well the source for the Watergate um stuff was the deputy directory of the FBI Mark felt who also was known to run the FBI co-intel Pro program which was designed to discredit political actors and the federal agencies that they want to destroy such as Richard Nixon um and by the way there was a lawyer who was working on the staff of the Judiciary Committee during the Nixon inquiry do you know who that was there was an attorney working on that it was a Hillary Clinton it was Hillary Clinton um and then Kyle sums it up this way so he goes so if you watch the Deep State Panic during the Trump years the Russia hoax orchestrated by Hillary Clinton two Trump impeachment hoaxes January 6 charade fbra mar-a-laga raid and now the Biden classified document scandal don't be surprised they've been doing this for a very long time it's all true the Watergate was Watergate was just an FBI deep state project to take Nixon out now Nixon probably you know did it in fact authorize it so he committed a crime but my current belief subject to you know I suppose I could change my mind later but I always believed until maybe a year or so ago that Watergate was just what it looked like two and two Intrepid reporters you know dug into it got this scoop took down the president turns out it was actually a deep State operation the whole thing was it was a deep State operation and Hillary Clinton was right in the middle of it and it's apparently what there's just a pattern that they just do over and over again they create hoaxes and they have enough power in the media to sell them now do you remember all the time that Bernstein became just a joke because he would come on CNN and say that anything Trump did was worse than Watergate and I thought to myself how could this guy who seems so dumb and so biased have been one of the crack reporters that worked with Woodward because I thought well it must have been Woodward who was the smart one because the other guy is obviously an idiot like when you see him on TV he's just it looks like he's just working for a treat or something it doesn't even look like you there's a functioning brain going on there and and when and now when you see that there's uh let's say some interesting history to the other one you can see that the two of them we're just part of some deep State operation apparently apparently now it turns out that Trump is suing Woodward for 49 million dollars for using Trump's audio tapes out of context apparently Trump says he'd only authorized the audio tapes for the purpose of writing the book but when the audio tapes are shown on their own and out of context because they always would be having context they're misleading and make them look bad now I don't think he can win that case probably not but it does show you that Woodward is sketchy because I do believe without even hearing the audio tapes I I feel a high level of confidence with no knowledge that they're misleading and that they're designed to make Trump look bad do you have any doubt about that do you have any doubt about that I don't think so all right um here's uh here's my take on the cartels and what's happening with fentanyl and all that stuff go into the Whiteboard so we're sort of in an interesting race here so I would say if you look at you know uh the odds of going to war with the cartels well the more people who die of Fentanyl and the fact that politicians on both sides bipartisan are both talking about it the odds of War are going to go to 100 percent unless something intervenes would you agree that if there's no other outside forces the odds of war and direct attack of the cartels is a hundred percent now we're not there we're probably down here probably down and around I don't know 25 percent but that will grow the more people who die from Fentanyl and the more military militaristic the cartels look but the trouble is one assumes that the cartels with their tens of billions of dollars are already buying up our politicians because why wouldn't they what would stop them seriously what would stop them they know that the United States is going to come for them the only way they can stop it because they can't beat us militarily is to stop us politically so you don't think that they're already building an entire base of bought off politicians now they may be starting at the state the city level you know like Council people and stuff and trying to like get control of them and then later they become you know higher up in politics so it could be what China's doing you know China would find a Eric swalwell and then they would say you know I think this person might get elected to higher office so they make friends when he's he's still at the city level right you don't think the cartels are doing that with tens of billions of dollars their biggest mortal risk is not Mexico because they already control Mexico their biggest risk is the United States do you think they're just waiting do you think the cartels are just waiting oh we'll just keep making money nothing will happen to us no they know we're coming for them they know we're coming so they've got to buy our politicians as quickly as possible my estimate is we have three to five years in three to five years the cartels will effectively control our government because that's their only play and there there's no level of risk they wouldn't be willing to take to get that done am I right there's no level of risk that they would they would walk away from this is a mortal risk this ends them completely they have to buy their way to control the government they have to you don't think they know that of course they do the mafia knows it they but they already bought the government of of uh Mexico do you think that they bought the entire government in Mexico and it never occurred to them maybe by a little bit of the government of the United States with their billions of dollars they never thought of it of course I did and of course they're doing it and they're doing it as fast as they can if we don't beat this window and take him out before they have too much control of the government we'll never be able to do it so when you see when you see Dan Crenshaw say we should go in militarily the one thing I can know for sure no matter what else you want to criticize Crenshaw for he's not been bought off would you agree he clearly he hasn't been bought off because he's he's going after him likewise there are a number of other people you can say have definitely not been bought off right Trump has definitely not been bought off yeah you can call it Crenshaw whatever you want I'm not I'm not in that conversation I'm just saying there are some people at least on the Democrat side for sure I'm sorry on the Republican side and at least one Democrat who have definitely not been bought off definitely not but that's not going to last you know I I don't believe that Biden I mean do you think Biden hasn't been bought off look look at what Hunter's been doing collecting money from other countries you don't think that Hunter found a way to make some cartel money man I don't have any evidence to suggest he did but wouldn't that be the most obvious place to get your money and wouldn't it be the only thing to explain why um why Biden seems to be doing whatever the cartels want because he's not really taking the Border seriously and he's not taking the cartel seriously he's not taking him even a little bit seriously the the evidence would strongly suggest that Biden's been compromised via Hunter now here's the here's the world we live in I just gave her this whole long list of all the hoaxes if you've seen my list of you know over 20 hoaxes and we know the pattern and how things are done shouldn't you assume with no evidence whatsoever just based on what you can see this not in question it's not in question that Biden is doing a poor job of border security there's no question about that some people think it's a preference but there's no question about you know that a lot of people are coming across the border you have to assume at this point that that the cartels have some kind of Leverage on Biden is that is that fair or unfair now again when you talk about a government the government is guilty until they can prove through some kind of transparency that they're not guilty they're not people if it were if we're people they're innocent until proven guilty if it's a government and they have a a multi-decade pattern of being corrupt which is well demonstrated from Watergate all the way to through you know Google and Twitter ringing the last election so there's no question about whether this is a group of people who do corrupt things on a regular basis Democrats now I'm not I'm not going to say that no Republicans done anything corrupt right but but I'm just looking at this particular pattern the Democrats have been running hoaxes and and plans and Ops against the American appeal public for decades and we know it we're not guessing we know it so you have to assume that the only reason that Mexico is not being handled is that it's got to be and I'm open to be proven wrong but my assumption is since it's obvious assume the obvious assume the obvious and by the way that would be an amazing thing for Trump to say Imagine This you know the cartels are trying to bribe American politicians would everybody say that's true they would right you know they are at least at the local level so here's something Trump could say you know the cartels are trying to bribe people you know that there's no explanation for why Biden is doing so poorly on the border and against Fentanyl assume the obvious just imagine Trump saying that assume it's exactly what it looks like that's all he has to say just say assume it's exactly what it looks like and he's done and walk away just say here's the setup just assume it's exactly what you see and vote accordingly you know I'll take on the cartels he isn't and there's only one reason there's only one reason and his name is Hunter now I don't have proof of it but you don't need it he's demonstrated that this is how they that they've demonstrated that this is how they act just assume is true you don't even need evidence this is so obviously you know the pattern that they follow it's up to them to prove it's not true right you can't take on the cartel money all right uh next story uh British Columbia they're they're going to change the law so that they're not arresting anybody for heroin cocaine meth fentanyl or ecstasy now Elon Musk actually responded to that and he said all things considered this is uh the better approach in my opinion do you think it's a better approach to decriminalize all of those hard drugs and and The Possession so I think dealing is probably still illegal about ordinary possession would not be in fact they won't even take it off you they won't even confiscate it so here's the problem with this issue the problem with this issue is that we we have a binary brain we all have binary brains and the things we understand are it's illegal it's illegal or it's not it's not illegal and then our brain stops so since you've seen examples where legalizing things totally didn't work and you only have two buckets you'll uh don't give me any Nuance there are only two buckets so if you know that there are there definitely are examples where legalization totally failed well that's all you need to know only two buckets but of course in the real world how many different ways would there be to change the drug laws without screwing the pooch probably lots of ways who knows if this is a small part of something bigger or it's just one thing they're doing now I do agree that putting these people in jail doesn't make any difference I don't think that that they go to jail clean up and then go to go on to live good lives but if that is true that'd be interesting you know I could be convinced I don't believe that's true but I also don't believe any data on anything anymore so if you had data I wouldn't believe it anyway but it seems to me that if you put somebody in jail who had not otherwise been in jail now they have a jail record on top of their addicts even if they stopped they're still you know that right just because you stop using that doesn't make you not an addict you always have that problem forever so it seems like you're taking one problem and turning it into two problems one is you're a drug addict and now you've got a criminal record so good luck do you know what I would do if I were a drug addict and I'd cleaned up and then I tried to get a job with my criminal record and I couldn't you know what I'd do I would deal drugs that's what I do no I'm not joking absolutely I would go to the criminal side I would sell drugs because that would be my best career move and I'm already living this risky life and I take drugs to make me feel good so now I've got money I don't care about the ethics of it I just go sell drugs and to me that's what I would do literally that's what I would do literally that there's no hyperbole here if I had a criminal record because of drugs I would become a drug dealer I would wouldn't you it's just the rational choice so I can see Elon musk's point they're taking somebody who's got one crushing problem in life and adding a second crushing problem logically that that doesn't seem to read the right approach now suppose suppose you legalized it so you'd at least remove the one crushing problem but you did more about helping people have treatment or even living maybe helping them live somewhere where they're away from the rest of the public so you don't want to do what San Francisco did to create an actual physical Zone where you can all go in and shoot drugs maybe the worst idea ever possibly the worst idea of all time and let's put it right in the middle of our beautiful city that depends on you know tourism worst idea best idea might be we're going to legalize it but we're also going to legalize ketamine and mushrooms and other treatments you go to a H you want to hear something about rehab that I heard the other day I heard this from a reliable source uh apparently the government will pay for your rehab did you know that if you're poor I'm not sure if it's Medicaid or whatever it is but you know the government will pay to put you in Medicare if you don't have money right now I didn't know that either but apparently and I don't know if it's just California I don't know the details might be just California but is it Medicare or Medicaid is one of them but it's but it's a real medical problem and we do give medical treatment to people in medical problems right even if they don't have insurance so here's what's happening and I'm told this is widespread a rehab will of course want people to go there and the government will pay so there are there are body people people who go out and find addicts and they talk them into going to rehab so far so good right no problem with that go get some go go talk the the addicts into rehab they go into rehab and then the government pays the bill and the rehab is happy right and then the person who went in there presumably they would be happy wouldn't you say because they got free rehab pretty good deal except the people that are gathered up are people who do not want to be straight they're paid to go to rehab yep they pay them to go to rehab with no expectation that anybody will try to fix them as soon as they're out if they do their two weeks or whatever it is do you know what the body person does scores them some drugs right away so they can be the person you bring back in again you if you get them high as soon as they're out you already have their contact information you know who they are you know that they've said yes once to taking a check to pretending to be in rehab so they go and they pretend to be in rehab again it turns out there's some large part I don't know the percentage Yeah I'm sure there are also plenty of completely ethical rehab places but the whole industry has got a problem that it looks like the way the money Works they don't have an incentive to fix anybody they have an incentive to pump the same addicts through their system as often as possible now I'm also not aware of any rehab that works I'm just I realize that's controversial I'm not aware of any of the work and in California anyway there's a lot of belief that there's some kind of support services for addicts there really isn't you can look as hard as you want there won't be any there's nothing you're pretty much on your own so imaginative British Columbia did the following things and I'm not saying they will I'm just making a larger case that there's a right way and a wrong way to do stuff the wrong way was um I think some European countries did free needles and stuff didn't work out as well as they wanted San Francisco did the free needle Zone totally disaster right so there are lots of bad ways to legalize drugs but imagine a good way just imagine that they said we're not going to arrest you and in addition for free we could put you through one of these uh psychedelic facilities that will give you different drugs and make you not care about taking drug hard drugs later so compare these two things hey I'm going to take you to rehab let's let's see put your self in the mind of an addict for a moment and I come to you say hey addict I got a deal for you we're going to take away the thing that you care about the most your drugs but we're going to replace that with a sterile environment in which we take away all of your other forms of entertainment and it's really going to hurt but on the plus side we'll talk to you we'll do some talking and that talking might help but probably not so you're going to go to the worst place in the world while you'll feel worse than you've ever felt before how about that huh huh sign up everybody good come on come on it's going to be terrible it's going to be hell on Earth come on in all right now compare that compare that to I got another option instead of taking the Fentanyl and the cocaine how would you like to try this thing called ketamine or this thing called mushrooms oh you've done mushrooms okay so so you're already comfortable with that I'll tell you what we'll do we'll take you from the drugs you're on which are awesome but we're going to put you on some other awesome drugs pretty awesome these might be so awesome that you won't even need those other ones anymore yeah I've been here about this thing called ibogaine but I don't know what that is I don't know anything about that but I've heard it a few times now which one do you take you're an addict does the addict take hell on Earth or I guess some other good drugs you're going to like them a lot seriously have I made my point we know that we know the drug intervention is very strong we we know the drug intervention you know using psychedelics very strong in terms of cure rates and fixing people and this sounds like fun frankly if I'm an addict and you tell me I can do these other drugs and it might make me not even care about the ones I was doing I'm all about that I'd be all over that wouldn't you remember you're already a drug addict if you're already a drug addict you're not saying no to ketamine or or mushrooms or Ayahuasca or whatever they're going to use DMT I don't know so all I want to make I'm just going to make one point if you're still living in the world of two buckets you know this is the Greg gotfeld point the the was the prison of two ideas if you're in the prison of two ideas then legalizing looks like the worst thing anybody ever thought of because it never works but the very moment you say well what would work and why don't we add that to the legalizing part it starts getting easy am I wrong that the solution is sort of easy you just have to make it voluntary and offer a drug related course that we know works so I think we might be closer to something but I'm not in favor of turning drug addicts into criminals for some purposes of our own I guess I don't know why we do that all right here's another great Thread about Google this is from kanakawa and then from his sub stack now I've I've mentioned him before if you want to look for him in Twitter so he would be one of the long Twitter threads this is useful you know as a like a Adam Townsend or Michael schellenberger Matt taibi so you know it's that level of high quality uh journalism I guess but Twitter journalism and I won't read it all but basically um we know for sure that Google manipulated search results and manipulated things to her job so there's a long body of evidence that's you know incontrovertible at this point so we know for sure that the 2020 election and presumably the others maybe were subject to huge manipulation by both Twitter and Google now does anybody anybody have any doubt that manipulating those two platforms changes an election does anybody think oh that won't change anything there's nobody believes that right then there is a professor I can't remember his name but uh we figured out you know the ratio of how much a biased search platform would change your outcomes it would be a lot you know there are things that have just disappeared you know they just they just can't find them if you look for them so here's what I think Trump should do if you're talking about the platforms Twitter and Google and you could extend that to some others is there any question that the that the elections recently have been rigged uh if he if you take out of the mix the ballot counting questions and just say you could just even forget that do you know why I think there's a good chance that the elections were not rigged in terms of the vote counting in the ballots do you know the best argument for why the election probably wasn't rigged here it comes the best argument for why the actual vote counting was straight is they didn't need to because they had already rigged the the law fair right they changed the rules they had already rigged Google they had already rigged Twitter and they rigged the entire media they probably didn't need to because all of those ratings are apparently legal Am I Wrong everything we found out about Google everything we found about Twitter nobody's going to jail those are just things we wish hadn't happened so I think I think Trump his strongest play would be you know we should always we should be working hard toward more transparency in the elections but you know what the question of whether they counted the votes right probably doesn't even matter because Twitter and Google and the the media they largely moved the needle more than some cheating would have because you I don't think you can cheat enough in an election to you know move the needle that much I mean you'd have to perfectly cheat in just the key areas where everybody's looking for the cheating it's kind of hard it's kind of hard but the stuff they did with the social media platforms was easy and legal and the stuff that the the News lies about every day is easy lying is easy and and legal the news can lie to you all day long but it's not even illegal right so I cope so I think I think Trump should say that the elections have been rigged by the social media and and the media and then say you know we're still looking into whether the election itself was rigged but we need more transparency there all he'd have to do is tone it down and and emphasize the part that everybody can see with their own eyes is is definitely in evidence that it was rigged if rigging doesn't mean miscounting the votes and it only means rigging the brainwashing so I think you can use the word rigging without any um explanation beyond that what do you think yeah and we we expect more rigging in the future so Google actually have a list of things that they were suppressing at the same time that their CEO was saying oh we don't do that they actually had a list of websites and individuals that they suppressed absolutely did the thing they said we absolutely don't do and they were doing it really hard well I'll say they don't do it all right um so uh Rasmussen says that a majority of people want to see a lab leak investigation about the about the virus so two-thirds of likely us voters want to want to see some kind of a investigation um and let's say 49 say it's very likely that the virus came from a lab leak 49 percent um what do you think would be uh roughly the percentage who don't think it's likely the virus came from the Chinese land anybody want to take a guess at that before I tell you I'll bet you could get it within five percent let's see if you can do it I'll see if you can get it within five percent that'll be your test looks like we lost comments here on the locals platform we got a little bug which will now be corrected I think nope apparently not so it looks like locals is not working at the moment comments all right sorry locals the locals app has crapped out so the videos here but I can't see your comments for some reason God damn it all right um they're so annoying that yeah it's funny that there's so much live streaming and podcasting and there's still no platform that can just live stream and just work it just doesn't exist yet it's amazing all right um I did a deep dive into long covet to see what the latest is and here's what I determined because you know some people say long covet isn't real some people say it's not only real it's huge but I did a deep dive and here's what I found um in one movie uh long covet is totally real and ruining lots of lives and many and many studies support that view so that's in one movie so if you do a Google search you'll find that that long covet is real it's it's affecting a lot of people and it's ruined in their lives you can also find studies that say long covet is imaginary and that when you test people's vitals they say they have long covered it kind of looks like the average person so it's probably all in their minds so um these two movies will never be reconciled do you know why do you know why we'll never know if long covid was devastating a generation of people or absolutely imaginary why will we never know that because we don't have to those two those two movies can live forever because they're both consistent and you can live within them without any problems so if you get sick and you believe it's long covered it doesn't matter if it is or not you'll just go along with your life you'll tell your friend it was long covered but you'll treat it based on the symptoms whether was long covered or not long covered you'd probably treat it the same way based on the specific symptoms so the people who will believe they have long coveted will go through life they can interact with you there's no penalty if they were wrong and likewise the people who say there's no long covet they get sick they go to the doctor the doctor says I think you have long covet and the other person says or just a headache and then they treat you for the headache or whatever it is and then you never need to know if it was long covered long covet never needs to be solved because everybody can live in a in a complete movie where it's devastating or it's a nothing and and somehow we still can procreate and have babies which is all Evolution ever cared about anyway so um and this dovetails with uh one of my critics who was right about everything Mike Hart and he he told me that when he looked into the situation of getting vaccinated or not he said quote it was Sybil it was a simple decision it was simple because he looked at the government not testing the thing as well as they could and then the coercion if you take those two things not tested you know it's a novel thing hasn't been tested enough and they coerce you to take it it's a simple decision what do you think agree it's simple I mean those two things tell you everything you need and I would agree because uh long covet seemed complicated to me because it was either the biggest factor or no Factor at all but my car handled that by simply ignoring it and that turned out to be the right answer so if you simply ignored the biggest variable that mattered to the decision because I don't think any of us were too worried about dying you know the odds of dying were actually pretty low for most of us so I wasn't worried about dying but the biggest variable this long covet if you just act like it's not even there it simplifies everything does it wouldn't you agree and that's as simple as you can get you know just ignore the biggest variable and if you did that for every decision imagine how easy it would be just ignore the biggest factor in every decision and that would simplify everything it's a good recommendation and importantly people like Mike Hart need to simplify the following which is you look at the vares report and you'd see there's just way tons of people complaining about theirs which would suggest that the the vaccination itself is causing damage that's higher than usual so it's really simple you just look at the Vera's report but you can simplify it even more by not looking at all the studies about long covet and that simplifies it so if you look at the various report and you don't look at the counterbalancing risk of long covet just ignore it everything's simpler and that gets you the right answer so that's not the way I would have necessarily known to go I would have looked at all the variables especially the biggest one but ignoring the biggest variable did get you the the best answer and the right the right answer very non non-obvious and that's why I got it all wrong herd immunity now this is something I'm hearing for the first time wait are you saying that a previous infection to a virus could give you some kind of natural immunity I'm hearing this for the first time is that is that true because I need somebody to tell me that every five minutes for the rest of my life because I just can't remember it for five minutes wait I'm forgetting it again somebody needs to remind me is natural immunity real all right yeah I I so my bottom line on all this is it does appear that the worst conspiracy theories about big Pharma were probably true would you agree with that would you agree that your conspiracy theories about big Pharma they look like they were completely true that there wasn't enough not enough safety and maybe too much about money totally true so pretty much all of our everything you suspected except maybe Chemtrails I'm not so sure about Chemtrails but it feels like everything you suspected was true yeah it's not literally true that everything you suspected but it feels like it doesn't it actually feels the depopulation for it sure sure and the wef is trying to track you and control you let's accept it all right um that is all for now and unfortunately I can't spend time with the locals people because the comments are broken I haven't seen any of your comments in a while I don't know if you can see them 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and the fed I'm seeing somebody say End
the Fed
well I'd be in favor of that if I knew
what it was
anybody know what the Federal Reserve
does and
[Laughter]
I managed to get a degree in economics
and walk away thinking I'm not entirely
sure what they do
well anyway
let's talk about some of the things in
the news
I was seeing a tweet from Adam Townsend
he was sending people to his blog
now Adam Townsend is another strong
follow on Twitter if you're not
following him you're missing a lot of
different stuff
there are some people on Twitter
who tend to be boosters of things you've
already seen and they're good too
but Adam tends to have completely
different takes on stuff
but in this case I think this is
something some of us saw but forgot in
2020 there was a hack on Twitter
I kind of vaguely remember that
but here here's a detail I did not know
until I read Adam Townsend's uh blog
that he tweeted at today
so apparently that the Twitter was
hacked by a 17 year old and some friends
the 17 year old
and if you wondered how did he crack the
uh the security for Twitter
because you know Twitter's major social
platform obviously obviously they've got
some pretty strong security going on
there
so here's how the 17 year old did it he
called some Twitter employees and said
he was Twitter I.T support and they
asked them for their passwords
[Laughter]
that's not even the best part
that's not even the best part
some of them actually gave gave their
passwords over the phone
foreign
that's not the best part that's not the
best part either the best part is the
best part is
that average employees you know just I
think they're just average employees
gave their passwords
and that was enough to acquire god mode
over the entire network
apparently you could have anybody's
password if they were in engineering and
they gave you God mode over the entire
network
now if you don't believe that's true
uh apparently there is testimony from
somebody who was hired to look into the
security
he testified to Congress this guy named
Mudge was his nickname
and apparently anybody who worked in
engineering had full access to Twitter's
guts
all of the engineers could change
do you remember long ago
when I was speculating that the that uh
The Dorsey probably didn't know that
Jack Dorsey probably didn't know
who was doing what with Twitter
do you remember everybody laughed at me
do you remember how you laughed oh how
you laughed come on
Dorsey knows exactly what's going on
there no nope it turns out that every
engineer could have changed the guts of
Twitter had full access
and there's no log of changes
did you hear that
all of the engineers could change the
guts of Twitter
and there was no log of the changes
those are confirmed facts from somebody
whose job it was to look into that stuff
now did you know any of that
did you know any of that somehow I
missed all of that
but it's in the public record it's not
it's not subject to speculation
and apparently you know Twitter is
um built in such a way that it's really
hard to catch up and fix all the
security problems so Elon Musk has has a
big challenge a technical challenge
that's
almost unimaginable in its complexity
but
if anybody could could sort it out at
least the right people are working on it
so that's good
Texas
Governor Abbott is making a clear call
for Universal school choice in Texas
and he wants uh something with education
savings accounts Etc the the big story
here
is I don't think anything's going to
stop it at this point
I I believe that education will just
enter the
private sphere
and the free market will make it work
again
now there will definitely always be
people in public schools I think
but the public schools are going to have
to do something different
to you know to show that they can
compete with private schools but it's
happening
it's happening so it takes a while but
this is a positive trend
all right here's a
macro theme
every time I read a news story
that's really good
like it gives me stuff I didn't know and
it's pointing to actually Source
material and it tells a story that
really gives me the full Rich context
and I finally understand a thing where
did I see it
you tell me
I I saw something with great context and
really good sources where did I see it
Twitter threads by individuals
who are really good at it
why do we know that the Twitter files
because of people like mad type right
individual citizens who look into stuff
and find out why do we know as much as
we do about
you know the real situation with energy
and homelessness and stuff like that
Michael schellenberger Michael
schellenberger is unambiguously
unambiguously the best
I guess you'd call him an individual
who's doing uh journalism
uh for the most breadth of you know
different important topics and the
greatest greatest depth of research
and there's another and I'll talk about
that in a minute Kyle Becker
do you follow follow Kyle Becker
Eddie of Kyle Becker's threads are
better than the news that night
and and it's not just that he's good
he's very good by the way you should
follow him but he's one of now
I would say
close to a dozen
there may be a dozen individuals who
will do
fairly frequent Twitter threads they're
just far better than anything in the
news now some of it
um
yeah anyway
um got distracted there by comment
so let me read you some of these the
things which we're finding all right
this is from Kyle Becker's Twitter
thread
and I've seen this before but Kyle does
a good job of putting it in a real clean
package here
so you all know Bob Woodward right
so Woodward and Bernstein were the two
reporters for the Washington Post who
broke the Watergate story it was a story
that brought down Nixon
and it was Nixon got some burglars to
burglarize a Democrat office in the
Watergate Tower
and got caught and then that brought
down Nixon so
here's an interesting thing we find out
about Bob Woodward right so Bob Woodward
one of the two important people in this
story
interesting
uh this is from Kyle Becker's tweet
Tweeter Twitter thread soon after
leaving the Navy
Woodward was hired by the most powerful
news outlet and given the biggest news
story in the country
so he wasn't a seasoned reporter
but he got a job at the most important
news Outlet or one of the two
and immediately was given one of the
biggest most important uh stories in the
country
how did he get his sources for for that
well the source for the Watergate
um stuff was the deputy directory of the
FBI Mark felt
who also was known to run the FBI
co-intel Pro program
which was designed to discredit
political actors and the federal
agencies that they want to destroy
such as Richard Nixon
um
and by the way there was a lawyer who
was working on the staff of the
Judiciary Committee during the Nixon
inquiry do you know who that was there
was an attorney working on that
it was a Hillary Clinton
it was Hillary Clinton
um
and then Kyle sums it up this way so he
goes so if you watch the Deep State
Panic during the Trump years the Russia
hoax orchestrated by Hillary Clinton
two Trump impeachment hoaxes January 6
charade fbra mar-a-laga raid and now the
Biden classified document scandal don't
be surprised
they've been doing this for a very long
time
it's all true the Watergate was
Watergate was just an FBI deep state
project to take Nixon out now Nixon
probably you know did it in fact
authorize it so he committed a crime but
my current belief
subject to you know I suppose I could
change my mind later but I always
believed until maybe a year or so ago
that Watergate was just what it looked
like
two and two Intrepid reporters
you know dug into it got this scoop took
down the president
turns out it was actually a deep State
operation
the whole thing was
it was a deep State operation and
Hillary Clinton was right in the middle
of it and it's apparently what there's
just a pattern that they just do over
and over again they create hoaxes and
they have enough power in the media to
sell them now do you remember all the
time that Bernstein became just a joke
because he would come on CNN and say
that anything Trump did was worse than
Watergate
and I thought to myself
how could this guy who seems so dumb and
so biased have been one of the crack
reporters that worked with Woodward
because I thought well it must have been
Woodward who was the smart one
because the other guy is obviously an
idiot like when you see him on TV he's
just
it looks like he's just working for a
treat or something it doesn't even look
like you there's a functioning brain
going on there
and
and when and now when you see that
there's uh let's say some interesting
history to the other one you can see
that the two of them
we're just part of some deep State
operation apparently apparently now it
turns out that Trump is suing Woodward
for 49 million dollars
for using Trump's audio tapes out of
context apparently Trump says he'd only
authorized the audio tapes for the
purpose of writing the book but when the
audio tapes are shown on their own
and out of context because they always
would be having context they're
misleading and make them look bad now I
don't think he can win that case
probably not but it does show you that
Woodward is
sketchy
because I do believe without even
hearing the audio tapes
I I feel a high level of confidence with
no knowledge
that they're misleading and that they're
designed to make Trump look bad do you
have any doubt about that
do you have any doubt about that
I don't think so
all right um
here's uh
here's my take on the cartels and what's
happening with fentanyl and all that
stuff
go into the Whiteboard
so we're sort of in an interesting race
here
so I would say if you look at you know
uh the odds of going to war with the
cartels well the more people who die of
Fentanyl
and the fact that politicians on both
sides bipartisan are both talking about
it
the odds of War are going to go to 100
percent unless something intervenes
would you agree
that if there's no other outside forces
the odds of war and direct attack of the
cartels is a hundred percent now we're
not there
we're probably down here
probably down and around I don't know 25
percent
but that will grow the more people who
die from Fentanyl and the more military
militaristic the cartels look but the
trouble is one assumes that the cartels
with their tens of billions of dollars
are already buying up our politicians
because why wouldn't they
what would stop them
seriously what would stop them
they know that the United States is
going to come for them the only way they
can stop it because they can't beat us
militarily is to stop us politically
so you don't think that they're already
building an entire base of bought off
politicians now they may be starting at
the state the city level you know like
Council people and stuff and trying to
like get control of them and then later
they become you know higher up in
politics
so it could be what China's doing
you know China would find a Eric
swalwell
and then they would say you know I think
this person might get elected to higher
office so they make friends when he's
he's still at the city level right you
don't think the cartels are doing that
with tens of billions of dollars their
biggest mortal risk is not Mexico
because they already control Mexico
their biggest risk is the United States
do you think they're just waiting
do you think the cartels are just
waiting oh we'll just keep making money
nothing will happen to us no they know
we're coming for them
they know we're coming
so they've got to buy our politicians as
quickly as possible my estimate is we
have three to five years
in three to five years the cartels will
effectively control our government
because that's their only play
and there there's no level of risk they
wouldn't be willing to take to get that
done
am I right
there's no level of risk that they would
they would walk away from this is a
mortal risk this ends them completely
they have to buy their way to control
the government they have to
you don't think they know that
of course they do
the mafia knows it they but they already
bought the government of of uh Mexico
do you think that they bought the entire
government in Mexico and it never
occurred to them maybe by a little bit
of the government of the United States
with their billions of dollars they
never thought of it
of course I did and of course they're
doing it and they're doing it as fast as
they can if we don't beat this window
and take him out before they have too
much control of the government we'll
never be able to do it
so
when you see when you see Dan Crenshaw
say we should go in militarily the one
thing I can know for sure
no matter what else you want to
criticize Crenshaw for he's not been
bought off
would you agree
he clearly he hasn't been bought off
because he's he's going after him
likewise there are a number of other
people you can say have definitely not
been bought off right Trump has
definitely not been bought off yeah you
can call it Crenshaw whatever you want
I'm not I'm not in that conversation I'm
just saying there are some people
at least on the Democrat side for sure
I'm sorry on the Republican side and at
least one Democrat who have definitely
not been bought off
definitely not
but that's not going to last
you know I I don't believe that Biden
I mean do you think Biden hasn't been
bought off
look look at what Hunter's been doing
collecting money from other countries
you don't think that Hunter found a way
to make some cartel money
man I don't have any evidence to suggest
he did but wouldn't that be the most
obvious place to get your money and
wouldn't it be the only thing to explain
why
um
why Biden seems to be doing whatever the
cartels want because he's not really
taking the Border seriously and he's not
taking the cartel seriously he's not
taking him even a little bit seriously
the the evidence would strongly suggest
that Biden's been compromised
via Hunter
now here's the here's the world we live
in
I just gave her this whole long list of
all the hoaxes if you've seen my list of
you know over 20 hoaxes
and we know the pattern and how things
are done
shouldn't you assume
with no evidence whatsoever
just based on what you can see this not
in question it's not in question that
Biden is doing a poor job of border
security there's no question about that
some people think it's a preference but
there's no question about you know that
a lot of people are coming across the
border
you have to assume at this point that
that the cartels have some kind of
Leverage on Biden
is that is that fair or unfair now again
when you talk about a government the
government is guilty until they can
prove through
some kind of transparency that they're
not guilty they're not people
if it were if we're people they're
innocent until proven guilty
if it's a government and they have a a
multi-decade pattern
of being corrupt
which is well demonstrated
from Watergate all the way to through
you know Google and Twitter ringing the
last election
so there's no question about whether
this is a group of people who do corrupt
things on a regular basis Democrats
now I'm not I'm not going to say that no
Republicans done anything corrupt right
but but I'm just looking at this
particular pattern the Democrats have
been running hoaxes and
and plans and Ops against the American
appeal public for decades
and we know it we're not guessing we
know it
so you have to assume that the only
reason that Mexico is not being handled
is that it's got to be
and I'm open to be proven wrong
but my assumption is
since it's obvious
assume the obvious
assume the obvious
and by the way that would be an amazing
thing for Trump to say
Imagine This
you know the cartels are trying to bribe
American politicians
would everybody say that's true
they would right you know they are at
least at the local level
so here's something Trump could say you
know the cartels are trying to bribe
people
you know that there's no explanation for
why Biden is doing so poorly on the
border and against Fentanyl
assume the obvious
just imagine Trump saying that
assume it's exactly what it looks like
that's all he has to say
just say assume it's exactly what it
looks like
and he's done and walk away
just say here's the setup
just assume it's exactly what you see
and vote accordingly
you know I'll take on the cartels he
isn't
and there's only one reason
there's only one reason
and his name is Hunter
now I don't have proof of it but you
don't need it he's demonstrated that
this is how they that they've
demonstrated that this is how they act
just assume is true you don't even need
evidence this is so obviously
you know the pattern that they follow
it's up to them to prove it's not true
right
you can't take on the cartel money
all right uh next story uh British
Columbia
they're they're going to change the law
so that they're not arresting anybody
for heroin cocaine meth fentanyl or
ecstasy
now Elon Musk actually responded to that
and he said all things considered this
is uh the better approach in my opinion
do you think it's a better approach to
decriminalize
all of those hard drugs and and The
Possession so I think dealing is
probably still illegal about ordinary
possession would not be in fact they
won't even take it off you they won't
even confiscate it
so here's the problem with this issue
the problem with this issue is that we
we have a binary brain
we all have binary brains and the things
we understand are it's illegal it's
illegal or
it's not it's not illegal
and then our brain stops
so since you've seen examples where
legalizing things totally didn't work
and you only have two buckets you'll uh
don't give me any Nuance there are only
two buckets
so if you know that there are there
definitely are examples where
legalization totally failed well that's
all you need to know
only two buckets
but of course in the real world how many
different ways would there be to
change the drug laws
without screwing the pooch
probably lots of ways
who knows if this is a small part of
something bigger or it's just one thing
they're doing
now I do agree that putting these people
in jail doesn't make any difference
I don't think that that they go to jail
clean up and then go to go on to live
good lives
but if that is true that'd be
interesting
you know I could be convinced I don't
believe that's true
but I also don't believe any data on
anything anymore so if you had data I
wouldn't believe it anyway but it seems
to me that if you put somebody in jail
who had not otherwise been in jail
now they have a jail record
on top of their addicts even if they
stopped they're still you know that
right just because you stop using
that doesn't make you not an addict you
always have that problem forever
so it seems like you're taking one
problem and turning it into two problems
one is you're a drug addict and now
you've got a criminal record so good
luck do you know what I would do if I
were a drug addict and I'd cleaned up
and then I tried to get a job with my
criminal record and I couldn't you know
what I'd do I would deal drugs
that's what I do
no I'm not joking
absolutely I would go to the criminal
side I would sell drugs because that
would be my best career move
and I'm already living this risky life
and I take drugs to make me feel good so
now I've got money
I don't care about the ethics of it I
just go sell drugs and to me that's what
I would do
literally that's what I would do
literally that there's no hyperbole here
if I had a criminal record because of
drugs I would become a drug dealer
I would wouldn't you
it's just the rational choice so
I can see Elon musk's point
they're taking somebody who's got one
crushing problem in life and adding a
second crushing problem
logically that
that doesn't seem to read the right
approach now suppose
suppose you legalized it so you'd at
least remove the one crushing problem
but you did more about helping people
have treatment or even living maybe
helping them live somewhere where
they're away from the rest of the public
so you don't want to do what San
Francisco did to create an actual
physical Zone where you can all go in
and shoot drugs maybe the worst idea
ever
possibly the worst idea of all time and
let's put it right in the middle of our
beautiful city
that depends on you know tourism
worst idea
best idea
might be
we're going to legalize it but we're
also going to legalize ketamine and
mushrooms and other treatments
you go to a
H you want to hear something about rehab
that I heard the other day
I heard this from a reliable source
uh apparently the government will pay
for your rehab did you know that if
you're poor I'm not sure if it's
Medicaid or
whatever it is but you know the
government will pay to put you in
Medicare if you don't have money right
now I didn't know that either but
apparently and I don't know if it's just
California I don't know the details
might be just California
but
is it Medicare or Medicaid
is one of them but it's but it's a real
medical problem
and we do give medical treatment to
people in medical problems
right even if they don't have insurance
so
here's what's happening and I'm told
this is widespread
a rehab will of course want people to go
there and the government will pay
so there are there are body people
people who go out and find addicts and
they talk them into going to rehab
so far so good right
no problem with that go get some go go
talk the the addicts into rehab they go
into rehab and then the government pays
the bill and the rehab is happy
right and then the person who went in
there presumably they would be happy
wouldn't you say because they got free
rehab pretty good deal
except
the people that are gathered up are
people who do not want to be straight
they're paid
to go to rehab
yep they pay them to go to rehab
with no expectation that anybody will
try to fix them as soon as they're out
if they do their two weeks or whatever
it is
do you know what the body person does
scores them some drugs right away
so they can be the person you bring back
in again
you if you get them high as soon as
they're out
you already have their contact
information you know who they are you
know that they've said yes once to
taking a check to pretending to be in
rehab so they go and they pretend to be
in rehab again
it turns out there's some large part I
don't know the percentage Yeah I'm sure
there are also plenty of completely
ethical rehab places but the whole
industry has got a problem
that it looks like the way the money
Works they don't have an incentive to
fix anybody they have an incentive to
pump the same addicts through their
system as often as possible
now I'm also not aware of any rehab that
works
I'm just I realize that's controversial
I'm not aware of any of the work
and in California anyway there's a lot
of belief that there's some kind of
support services for addicts there
really isn't
you can look as hard as you want there
won't be any there's nothing you're
pretty much on your own
so
imaginative British Columbia did the
following things and I'm not saying they
will I'm just making a larger case that
there's a right way and a wrong way to
do stuff
the wrong way was
um I think some European countries did
free needles and stuff didn't work out
as well as they wanted San Francisco did
the free needle Zone totally disaster
right so there are lots of bad ways to
legalize drugs
but imagine a good way
just imagine
that they said we're not going to arrest
you and in addition
for free we could put you through one of
these uh
psychedelic
facilities that will give you different
drugs
and make you not care about
taking drug hard drugs later
so compare these two things
hey I'm going to take you to rehab let's
let's see put your self in the mind of
an addict for a moment and I come to you
say hey addict I got a deal for you
we're going to take away the thing that
you care about the most your drugs
but we're going to replace that with a
sterile environment in which we take
away all of your other forms of
entertainment
and it's really going to hurt
but on the plus side we'll talk to you
we'll do some talking
and that talking might help but probably
not
so you're going to go to the worst place
in the world while you'll feel worse
than you've ever felt before how about
that huh huh sign up everybody good come
on come on it's going to be terrible
it's going to be hell on Earth come on
in
all right now compare that
compare that
to I got another option
instead of taking the Fentanyl and the
cocaine
how would you like to try this thing
called ketamine
or this thing called mushrooms oh you've
done mushrooms okay so so you're already
comfortable with that I'll tell you what
we'll do
we'll take you from the drugs you're on
which are awesome
but we're going to put you on some other
awesome drugs pretty awesome
these might be so awesome that you won't
even need those other ones anymore yeah
I've been here about this thing called
ibogaine but I don't know what that is I
don't know anything about that but I've
heard it a few times
now which one do you take you're an
addict
does the addict take hell on Earth
or I guess some other good drugs you're
going to like them a lot
seriously
have I made my point
we know that we know the drug
intervention is very strong
we we know the drug intervention you
know using psychedelics very strong in
terms of cure rates and fixing people
and this sounds like fun frankly
if I'm an addict and you tell me I can
do these other drugs and it might make
me not even care about the ones I was
doing
I'm all about that I'd be all over that
wouldn't you
remember you're already a drug addict if
you're already a drug addict you're not
saying no to ketamine or or mushrooms or
Ayahuasca or whatever they're going to
use DMT I don't know
so
all I want to make I'm just going to
make one point if you're still living in
the world of two buckets you know this
is the Greg gotfeld point the the was
the prison of two ideas if you're in the
prison of two ideas then legalizing
looks like the worst thing anybody ever
thought of because it never works
but the very moment you say well what
would work
and why don't we add that to the
legalizing part
it starts getting easy
am I wrong
that the solution is sort of easy
you just have to make it voluntary and
offer a drug related
course
that we know works
so I think we might be closer to
something but I'm not in favor of
turning drug addicts into criminals
for some purposes of our own I guess I
don't know why we do that
all right here's another great Thread
about Google
this is from kanakawa and then from his
sub stack now I've I've mentioned him
before if you want to look for him in
Twitter so he would be one of the long
Twitter threads this is useful you know
as a like a Adam Townsend or Michael
schellenberger Matt taibi so you know
it's that level of high quality
uh journalism I guess but Twitter
journalism
and I won't read it all but basically
um we know for sure that Google
manipulated search results and
manipulated things to her job
so there's a long body of evidence
that's you know incontrovertible at this
point so we know for sure
that the 2020 election and presumably
the others maybe were subject to huge
manipulation by both Twitter and Google
now does anybody anybody have any doubt
that manipulating those two platforms
changes an election
does anybody think oh that won't change
anything
there's nobody believes that right then
there is a professor I can't remember
his name
but uh
we figured out you know the ratio of how
much
a biased search platform would change
your outcomes it would be a lot you know
there are things that have just
disappeared
you know they just they just can't find
them if you look for them
so here's what I think Trump should do
if you're talking about the platforms
Twitter and Google and you could extend
that to some others is there any
question that the that the elections
recently have been rigged
uh if he if you take out of the mix the
ballot counting questions
and just say
you could just even forget that do you
know why I think there's a good chance
that the elections were not rigged in
terms of the vote counting in the
ballots do you know the best argument
for why the election probably wasn't
rigged
here it comes
the best argument for why the actual
vote counting was straight
is they didn't need to
because they had already rigged the the
law fair
right they changed the rules
they had already rigged Google they had
already rigged Twitter and they rigged
the entire media
they probably didn't need to
because all of those ratings are
apparently legal
Am I Wrong everything we found out about
Google everything we found about Twitter
nobody's going to jail
those are just things we wish hadn't
happened so I think I think Trump his
strongest play would be you know we
should always we should be working hard
toward more transparency in the
elections but you know what the question
of whether they counted the votes right
probably doesn't even matter
because
Twitter and Google and the the media
they largely moved the needle more than
some cheating would have because you I
don't think you can cheat enough
in an election
to you know move the needle that much I
mean you'd have to perfectly cheat in
just the key areas where everybody's
looking for the cheating it's kind of
hard
it's kind of hard
but the stuff they did with the social
media platforms was easy
and legal
and the stuff that the the News lies
about every day is easy lying is easy
and and legal the news can lie to you
all day long but it's not even illegal
right so
I cope
so I think
I think Trump should say that the
elections have been rigged by the social
media and and the media
and then say you know we're still
looking into whether the election itself
was rigged but we need more transparency
there all he'd have to do is tone it
down
and and emphasize the part that
everybody can see with their own eyes is
is definitely in evidence
that it was rigged if rigging doesn't
mean miscounting the votes and it only
means rigging the brainwashing
so I think you can use the word rigging
without any
um explanation beyond that
what do you think
yeah and we we expect more rigging in
the future
so Google actually have a list of things
that they were suppressing at the same
time that their CEO was saying oh we
don't do that they actually had a list
of websites and individuals that they
suppressed
absolutely did the thing they said we
absolutely don't do and they were doing
it really hard
well I'll say they don't do it
all right
um
so
uh Rasmussen says that a majority of
people want to see a lab leak
investigation about the
about the virus so two-thirds of likely
us voters want to want to see some kind
of a investigation
um and let's say 49 say it's very likely
that the virus came from a lab leak 49
percent
um
what do you think would be uh
roughly the percentage who don't think
it's likely the virus came from the
Chinese land
anybody want to take a guess at that
before I tell you
I'll bet you could get it within five
percent
let's see if you can do it I'll see if
you can get it within five percent
that'll be your
test
looks like we lost comments here on the
locals platform we got a little bug
which will now be corrected
I think
nope
apparently not
so it looks like locals is not working
at the moment comments
all right
sorry locals the locals app has
crapped out so the videos here but I
can't see your comments for some
reason
God damn it
all right
um
they're so annoying
that yeah it's funny that there's so
much live streaming and podcasting and
there's still no platform
that can just
live stream and just work
it just doesn't exist yet it's amazing
all right
um I did a deep dive into long covet to
see what the latest is and here's what I
determined because you know some people
say long covet isn't real some people
say it's not only real it's huge
but I did a deep dive and here's what I
found
um
in one movie uh long covet is totally
real and ruining lots of lives
and many and many studies support that
view
so that's in one movie so if you do a
Google search you'll find that
that
long covet is real it's it's affecting a
lot of people and it's ruined in their
lives you can also find
studies that say long covet is imaginary
and that when you test people's vitals
they say they have long covered it kind
of looks like the average person
so it's probably all in their minds
so
um
these two movies will never be
reconciled do you know why
do you know why we'll never know if long
covid was devastating a generation of
people
or absolutely imaginary why will we
never know that
because we don't have to
those two those two movies can live
forever
because they're both consistent and you
can live within them without any
problems
so if you get sick and you believe it's
long covered
it doesn't matter if it is or not
you'll just go along with your life
you'll tell your friend it was long
covered but you'll treat it
based on the symptoms
whether was long covered or not long
covered you'd probably treat it the same
way based on the specific symptoms
so the people who will believe they have
long coveted
will go through life
they can interact with you there's no
penalty
if they were wrong and likewise the
people who say there's no long covet
they get sick they go to the doctor
the doctor says I think you have long
covet
and the other person says or just a
headache
and then they treat you for the headache
or whatever it is
and then you never need to know if it
was long covered
long covet never needs to be solved
because everybody can live in a in a
complete movie
where it's devastating or it's a nothing
and
and somehow we still can procreate and
have babies which is all Evolution ever
cared about
anyway so
um and this dovetails with uh one of my
critics who was right about everything
Mike Hart and he he told me that when he
looked into the
situation of getting vaccinated or not
he said quote
it was Sybil it was a simple decision
it was simple because he looked at the
government not testing the thing as well
as they could
and then the coercion
if you take those two things not tested
you know it's a novel thing hasn't been
tested enough and they coerce you to
take it
it's a simple decision
what do you think
agree
it's simple I mean those two things tell
you everything you need and I would
agree
because uh long covet seemed complicated
to me because it was either the biggest
factor or no Factor at all
but my car handled that by simply
ignoring it
and that turned out to be the right
answer
so if you simply ignored the biggest
variable that mattered to the decision
because I don't think any of us were too
worried about dying you know the odds of
dying were actually pretty low for most
of us so I wasn't worried about dying
but the biggest variable this long covet
if you just act like it's not even there
it simplifies everything
does it
wouldn't you agree
and that's as simple as you can get
you know just ignore the biggest
variable and if you did that for every
decision
imagine how easy it would be
just ignore the biggest factor in every
decision
and that would simplify everything
it's a good recommendation and
importantly people like Mike Hart need
to simplify the following which is you
look at the vares report
and you'd see there's just way tons of
people complaining about theirs which
would suggest that the the vaccination
itself
is causing damage that's higher than
usual
so it's really simple you just look at
the Vera's report
but you can simplify it even more by not
looking at all the studies about long
covet
and that simplifies it so if you look at
the various report and you don't look at
the
counterbalancing risk of long covet just
ignore it
everything's simpler and that gets you
the right answer so that's not the way I
would have necessarily known to go I
would have looked at all the variables
especially the biggest one
but ignoring the biggest variable did
get you the the best answer and the
right the right answer
very non non-obvious and that's why I
got it all wrong
herd immunity
now this is something I'm hearing for
the first time
wait are you saying that a previous
infection to a virus could give you some
kind of natural immunity
I'm hearing this for the first time is
that is that true
because I need somebody to tell me that
every five minutes for the rest of my
life
because I just can't remember it for
five minutes
wait I'm forgetting it again
somebody needs to remind me
is natural immunity real
all right
yeah I I so my bottom line on all this
is it does appear that the worst
conspiracy theories about big Pharma
were probably true
would you agree with that
would you agree that your conspiracy
theories about big Pharma they look like
they were completely true
that there wasn't enough not enough
safety and maybe too much about money
totally true so pretty much all of our
everything you suspected
except maybe Chemtrails I'm not so sure
about Chemtrails but it feels like
everything you suspected was true
yeah it's not literally true that
everything you suspected but it feels
like it doesn't it actually feels the
depopulation for it
sure sure and the wef is
trying to
track you and control you let's accept
it all
right
um
that is all for now and unfortunately I
can't spend time with the locals people
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