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Episode 2006 Scott Adams - Lots Of Conspiracy Theories Confirmed This Year. Big Things Coming

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ment. Would you like to take it up a level? Yeah, upper level. And all you need for that is a copper mug or a glass or a tankard, a stainless steel, an iron, an antique, a joker flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. Join me now for the unparalleled pleasure t…

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NewsReaction Media & Fake News

ed the simultaneous sip. 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…

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MainContent Media & Fake News

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 w…

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MainContent Politics as Persuasion

t 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 peop…

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Whiteboard Politics as Persuasion

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 dow…

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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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MainContent Politics as Persuasion

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…

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. 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.…

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ooms? 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 he…

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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 b…

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nd control you. Let's accept it all. All right, 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 actually. I'm going to sign off on YouTube and then I'm…

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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

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

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