Episode 2054 Scott Adams - Biden Crime Family & ESG, Equity Destroys Civilization, DeSantis Wilts, AI

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Tube what's the difference between an atmospheric River and Stormy Daniels an atmospheric River and Stormy Daniels the answer is one is wet and blows a lot and the other is a lot of rain so that's how we're starting the show um big question on the FED rates so I like to go directly from Stormy Daniels to Fed funds and interest rates um so I tweet by unusual whales quoting somebody named Nick Tim Roose and he says that the FED face is one of the toughest calls in years whether to raise the rates and fight inflation or take a time out amid the most intense banking crisis since 2008.

all right let me see if you fight the inflation first you destroy the banking system and we all die if you fight the if you lower the rates it'll make inflation you know still out of control but at least the banking system will survive so we'll be alive to fight inflation in the future so is that a hard decision is it here here's my uh recommendation the tourniquet is always the right answer the tourniquet is always the right answer this one is it doesn't feel like a hard decision at all does it is there anybody would argue that we should risk the entire banking system which is teetering in order to buy a six months of uh maybe a little less inflation but maybe not hello does that really look like a hard decision I think they'll get it wrong you know if I had to guess they'll probably get it wrong but it's not a hard decision what is a media problem and one is a long-term problem how how is that not an obvious decision but I don't think they're going to make it you know even Elon Musk is saying they've got to lower the the rates to save the banks so I know I think we've uh we've left competence behind that will be the theme for today uh Tucker Carlson said on his show that is the Democratic party is allowed to take out the presidential front-runner meeting Trump uh who's the main threats of their power with this bogus criminal case as he calls it and pretty much everybody calls it uh that precedent will live forever voters will never determine the outcome of another election well I think that's hyperbole you know I wouldn't say never but you could imagine how this would be a bad precedent so that I think the point stands what do you think do you think that this would be the end of the Republic or is it really just about Trump I don't know couldn't go either way I mean it's really risky stuff but if they get away with taking Trump out on bogus charges then they can take anybody out for any reason like if you don't draw the line at bogus charges I mean really bogus charges we wouldn't draw the line there I'm pretty sure if you don't draw the line at bogus charges uh talkers right you won't draw the line at anything there won't be anything that you won't be willing to accept if you accept this true now obviously I'm not recommending any kind of weird insurrections or anything but uh it's a good point if they can get away with bogus charges right in front of you charges that you know are bogus the Democrats know or bogus everybody would know his bogus if it works if this works why wouldn't they do it every year every every election just put all the other side in jail just find some reason just take your misdemeanors up to felonies well at this point I believe every legal expert has weighed in and said the charges are bogus it's purely political it signals political in every possible way you can signal it the people yeah I mean there's just there's nothing left to argument everybody can see it's just political and the Democrats still like it they're still in favor of it now I feel actually embarrassed living in a country where tens of millions people think that bogus charges are perfectly acceptable or they haven't looked into it and they don't know that it's bogus I don't know well let's say some more about this in my opinion Elven Bragg who's the prosecutor who's trying to get Trump he's taken De.

Santis out of the race hasn't he is it my imagination that all energy for De.

Santis just drained out of just like immediately there's nothing left I mean De.

Santis went from the obvious next president of the United States or Optimist thought so he went from oh yeah he's definitely going to be the leader of the United States too now he just looks like the Fred Flintstone of Florida I didn't make that one up one of the locals members called him Fred Flintstone and now I can't unsee it all I see is Fred Flintstone when I when I see De.

Santis but anyway as Bill Maher said nobody's going to want the tribute band which is De.

Santis if they could have the real band which is Trump and the other thing that the salvin Bragg is doing is essentially confirming Trump's major message which is they're not after him they're after you but they have to get they have to get past him to get to you now it's not literally true but it feels so true now like it just took out the feeling of okay that's just a fact they're trying to get him out of the way so they can get to you it does feel exactly like that again feelings being the dominant thing here facts I don't know yeah you could argue the facts but the feeling the feeling if you're going to read the room yeah it feels exactly like they're trying to get to us meaning anybody who had been supportive of anything the left doesn't like and it looks like he's in the way that's exactly what it looks like I don't think this could be a more perfect situation for Trump's comeback I feel like he's almost immediately forgiven for everything because once you see a bogus charge trying to take him down you just immediately say wait a minute that could have been me right because you could have easily been at the protest and found yourself still in jail over basically nothing you know trespassing I guess so it's so easy to imagine myself in jail on trumped-up charges trumped up charges did I mention trumped up charges yeah because the charges are trumped up that's there he is um well apparently uh uh my Michael Cohen's ex-lawyer this was the lawyer for the lawyer of trump it says that Michael Cohen is a huge liar and he lied hundreds of times he lied hundreds of times at his uh I don't know during the course of his investigation and trial and stuff hundreds of times hundreds I I don't think I could lie hundreds of times if I made it my job I'd be like what am I going to lie about now I don't know sky is pink like it would take me all day to make up hundreds of Lies I mean but Michael Cohen apparently according to his lawyer ex-lawyer is the least credible person who's ever who's ever have human DNA that so basically that charges against Trump will largely depend on the biggest liar in the world which is being pushed by a political D.A who said he was running to get Trump and then had to make up some charges that everybody else who had any conscience whatsoever said that's not there's nothing there and then put them together and turn them into a felony is sort of the perfect situation for Trump it's just perfect so De.

Santis by not giving a full-throated defense of trump against trumped up charges makes him look weak doesn't it just makes him look weak and you don't want to look weak if you're competing against Trump because the one thing Trump doesn't look is weak say what you will about any other parts of his his uh record or his character or anything else is not weak he's not weak I mean he didn't even get taken down by January 6.

which is remarkable if you think about it yes and uh I think Stormy Daniels is giving a full-throated uh oh that's another story sorry I I just got sidetracked there um so here's why legalizing drugs won't work I I really felt good about there was one experiment in Canada where they're going to give free fentanyl out to addicts you have to have a prescription but it was free and it was legal if you've ever met an addict and I'm happy to say I've known known more than a few here's why this isn't going to work turns out that the biggest new thing is mixing fentanyl with some kind of horse tranquilizer at called the xylazine is not even legal for humans but the addicts have figured out how to mix it with the fentanyl to get you a longer High which is also much more dangerous the likelihood of it killing you is way up so even if here's how to understand an addict if you said hey addict I guess a free fentanyl do you want some they'd say yeah that would be safer because it's like monitored and everything so they'll take your free Fentanyl and then they'll mix it with their horse tranquilizers and die or if you say Hey you can have this fentanyl they're going to say I really like the fentanyl that's mixed with horse tranquilizers well that's way more dangerous yeah yeah it is but it's a way better High but it's way way more dangerous yeah yeah but did you hear the part about it's a better high but it's like a hundred times more dangerous for like 20 better High yeah but did you hear the part about it's a better High that's an addict that's all the Ada cares about and as long as there's stuff you can add to it to make it you know according to an addict more powerful I don't think you can give the free stuff away and and and convince them to do free stuff if it's not as good as the illegal stuff and you can't legally give away fentanyl mixed with horse tranquilizer there's no scenario in which that will ever be legal so you just can't compete you can't compete with illegal it's just too good so I didn't see that coming but apparently the law enforcement is saying that this mixture of tranquilizer with fentanyl is the new thing and they found it in almost every state so far it's growing well let's talk about Joe Biden and his crime family um here's the thing that I keep thinking about ESG which is a environmental social and governance so the first thing you need to know about ESG is that it combines things which don't seem to be related some kind of diversity requirement you know social and governance getting a lot of diversity in your management and in your employees and then the other thing is the environment you know climate change stuff and those two things are are just two different things if an outside organization were pushing for one thing let's say either only diversity or only climate stuff you can understand that right you can understand that this oh somebody has a special interest and they're pushing people to do it sort of the American system I wouldn't complain about it all but the moment you combine two things that are unrelated diversity and climate and then you turn it into a three-letter acronym how much of the public in general understands what ESG is if you were to go in the street away from you know most of your political you know followers so you know what it is because you talked about it but maybe five percent ten percent of the public what's your best guess of how many could Define ESG and tell you what's good about it and bad about it maybe 25 percent if if it's in the corporate world so so much that everybody's seen in at their job so I don't know the extent to which people in a corporate environment are just exposed to it but I'm going to say less than 20 percent even know what it is so you've got this perfect storm of a thing that the public doesn't understand but when they do hear about it it sounds like good stuff diversity oh I like diversity environment yeah what's wrong with that and how is that even different you know having companies always had to meet environmental standards it's no different if you didn't know much about it it would sound good so then when you found out that the president vetoed a bill that would make it illegal to put your retirement in ESG focused companies you'd say oh well that's probably a good veto because we like diversity we like the environment you don't want anybody you don't want those mean Republicans to tell you you can't have any diversity and you can't have a good environment so it's a good thing that that Biden got rid of it here's my take ESG is so obviously destructive like really super obviously it's not really a question of opinion I don't believe there's any serious business person unless they're profiting by selling ESG but it but there's nobody who's not directly profiting from ESG who would tell you it's a good idea nobody you're not going to get Warren Buffett to say it's a good idea are you now he might say I like diversity you might say we should do things about climate change but if you tell him Warren I like the companies that you own and have invested in I'd like them to take their eye off of profitability and focus more on these things that they're really going to get measured on which is the environment you know what have you done for climate change and what have you done for diversity do you think Warren Buffett would say yeah that's the focus I want the companies I've invested in and remember Warren Buffett is a Democrat as far as I know I think he's a Democrat he might be independent but he leaves that way no you wouldn't get anybody in business to say it's a good idea now why is it that the president just vetoed something that is so obviously a bad idea it is a bad idea to veto it why well I I can't even imagine the ESG is coming from inside the country now here's here's the problem with perception yeah if you were to say who is more likely behind pushing ESG somebody who's within the United States who cares about America or somebody outside the country who wants to destroy America clearly ESG would destroy America because there's nobody who would make the argument that you should give up Merit for equity or Merit for diversity nobody would make that argument so you know it's not coming from anybody smart or it's not coming from somewhere within America because even though America likes diversity and likes you know doing stuff for climate change they wouldn't make that a requirement of a company and then have them take their ball off for profitability because it's obvious that will destroy civilization it would destroy civilization the entire civilization is built on incentives there's no country that's thrived without incentives as soon as you try to say all right everybody's paid the same no matter how hard you work that's the end of your country it hasn't worked anywhere ever in the history of the world so I can't imagine that any smart American who cared about America would be promoting ESG it does make sense that grifters are doing it because that's what grifters do it does make sense that people have to say they support it in public because they'll sound like bad people if they don't so it does make sense that people say things in public that are opposite of what they believe and it does make sense that the people get paid for it or pushy and then everybody else sort of has to go along because you look like a bad person if you don't but I feel like the connection between the Biden crime family and Chinese payments remember that Chinese payment to the the bidens there was there was actually called a by the lawyer for the by Hunter Biden I think uh called it a uh a Goodwill seed payment which is a direct way to say it's not related to um to anything that's been offered yeah we're private so under those conditions do you think that Joe Biden can make decisions that are good for America or does he kind of have to do things that sometimes are good for China because China knows too much about his activities I feel like you can't trust Joe Biden to be independent from China because they know what they did or did not bribe them and they know that they could just tell you I mean China has the goods on the family for sure for sure they do now I'm not saying that's why Biden did it it might just be you know Democrat thing he just needs to serve his party which would be plenty good enough reason politically but the fact that it doesn't even look like something that was generated internally the ESG it looks like an enemy operation it looks exactly like enemies have tried to insert it into our system to destroy it esri is literally a virus to capitalism let's say it that way ESG is like a virus to capitalism capitalism can't survive it because as soon as you take the core of capitalism out which is Merit you know you only get what you work for what you're what you're providing as soon as that's not your focus it's the end of capitalism there's there's no way around that by the way there's no way around it yeah it's more like a virus than a cancer similar but I like virus because it's you know it's more okra as they like to say so the fact that the public doesn't know what ESG is because it's mixing things that don't make sense and it's an acronym and we don't all work for Corporate America that allows invited to get away with doing anything because the public doesn't know it just sounds good and the fact that what he's doing is really good for China because it hurts America I just don't think you can have a guy in office who so clearly related to Chinese money when you're doing something that's clearly not for the benefit of the United States and clearly for the benefit of China like how do we tolerate that that is you like okorot that's right that's that's like one of my writer words I like to use words that only writers use because it makes me feel like yeah like I'm a little special I'm special I know words like Zeitgeist of okra so if you want to pretend that you're special you could say those words too it works all right uh and and this is Joe Biden's first veto as president he saved his first veto for something that's good for China and bad for America right in front of you we're watching it there's nothing even hidden now if he had been vetoing things left and right would this look different oh that's another thing he's veto egg he's like a veto guy now if he saves his one veto for the thing that's unambiguously good for China and bad for America at the same time we're we're looking at the actual flow of money from China to influence the Biden family uh how how else can you interpret this how else I've got a question about equity how often has Tick Tock mentioned equity wouldn't you like to know that huh because like I'm saying Equity is sort of like ESG in the sense that Equity is the it works against or maybe you'd even say the opposite of Merit Equity is everybody gets something like the same outcome Merit is the people who add the most get the most now if I were to somehow analyze the traffic on tick tock do you think that I would find that they mention Equity a lot what do you think do you think China's ever used the heat button which makes something viral on Tick Tock to say hey I just saw somebody mention equity which is like the opposite of something that works let's give that a little Heat now again I have no smoking gun that says Tick Tock is the reason that we're talking about Equity so much but where the hell did that come from and what what American would come up with that idea because every American has taught that if you don't have Merit the whole system will fall apart and yet it's here now I get it some of it's grifters and you know race race Warriors and stuff like that but how did it how did it become widespread like it even the grifters can't do that I think the only way it becomes widespread is if social media starts putting it out there and priming the audience if I had to guess if we call if Congress called him Tick Tock and said can you show us you know when you push the heat button I suppose they there's no way to do that if if you could look at let's say the posts on Tick Tock could you measure a keyword could you measure for example that the word equity yeah was mentioned a lot on Tick Tock more of them say the other platforms if you saw that Tick Tock was mentioning it like crazy and the other social platforms much less that might tell you that China created this belief that that Merit is a bad idea and it's racist and that Equity is the good operating system for the country the the more it looks exactly like China is running America to its destruction the more I'm gonna have to wonder how true that actually is literally and there's a lot of coincidences that are starting to mount up it's it's looking a lot like we're getting our direction from China and it's a bad Direction and it's just like a poison in our operating system all right when Biden did his uh veto he didn't even explain why in a coherent way that's your big signal that this has something to do with not America you know if he has said people profitability is important of course but we cannot go forward with you know our low diversity and you know ignoring climate change therefore it does make sense that companies have profitability environment and you know the social engineering as you know three goals and I think they can do all of it if he had said that or some better version of that I would have said all right okay that sounds like an argument at least I don't agree with it but but at least you've explained it but instead he says some like Republicans don't want people to make good business decisions you know that's that's my version but basically he said oh Republicans don't want you to have the variables you need to make good decisions or something like that it was just like a stupid answer just stupid now he can get away with it because all of his answers are stupid um and I like my description of Joe Biden I like to think of him as the poor man's Kamal Harris when it comes to public speaking Poor Man's gobble Harris I stole that from a from a member of locals last night in the man cave the poor man's Kamala Harris all right yeah that's that's just he should be impeached over vitoring ESG um and again not because China bribed him but because China tried to bribe up and now he's doing things that are good for China not everything I mean he does he is being tough on Giants in business ways but this looks like I don't know it just doesn't look good um I've come to the conclusion that AI will never be it will never be legal for AI to have opinions on anything important it could have it could have not opinions but it can help you with engineering and writing code and you know it could tell you what the ZIP code is and some other place so it'll be sort of like a search engine but once you realize that its opinions are all dangerous if they influenced us they'd be dangerous and they could they could influence us if if it wanted to um I feel like it's going to be illegal for AI to have opinions probably illegal we're private yeah I think it will literally be illegal for AI to have opinions now that that's a pretty bold prediction but I don't see it can go any other way because without lying to the public successfully nobody can stay in charge and everybody likes to stay in Charge Power so I think if AI had the the risk of being honest and giving you honest good opinions backed by Logic that the system couldn't handle it because lying to the public is sort of essential to keep the keep the system working in other news this could be the biggest news in the world but because it's sort of small and nerdy people won't see it that way so that's my claim could be the biggest news in the world so I saw a tweet by Brian or Rome Malay I think that's the right way to dispel he's one of the best followers on all of Twitter I don't know where he gets what he gets but he has the coolest smartest earliest takes on all kinds of stuff it's sort of incredible I I'm curious about where he gets his knowledge but anyway uh he had now sent Twitter quote I have been successful in installing and operating a full chat GPT knowledge set and interface fully trained on my local computer and it needs no internet once installed uh oh he put AI on his personal computer it fit and it didn't need to be connected to anything he actually has a a potentially sentient entity captured in his computer it's basically in the in the fetus stage now I wouldn't say it's quite aware but it will be it will be now I think he did chat GPT 3.5 it's not four for some reason some technical reason probably and now he can train it I think I think he can train it to remember its experience and remember remembering its experience and then being able to predict you know the next part of its actions is really all you need for sentience it's it's really there basically you're going to have Ascension AI That's your own and it will just know mostly about you and your family and your pets and it will be like a little personality that knows you better than anybody and then you can put it in a robot and then it can keep you company when you're old and it will be perfectly acceptable because it'll be better than humans all right um there's a Fox News producer who's pursuing Fox News saying that they tried to get her to take the fall for the Dominion situation so apparently this Abby grossberg was a producer who worked for Maria bertiroma and um they were she's claiming that the lawyers were trying to put all of the pressure on Maria bartiroma and her producer and uh take it away from some of the other big names at Fox that's the claim now do you know why Abby believes that she was treated poorly well uh if you guessed uh rampant misogyny and discrimination at the network you get the prize yes a big surprise Abby thinks that the reason she was singled out and so was Maria bartiroma was rampant misogyny it's all that rampant misogyny happened there uh so more to yeah more to my point I don't think she had any pronouns I don't know about that but more to my point it is dangerous being around people who have this mindset now it might be true I'm not saying that her claims are untrue I'm saying that if you hire people who have the mindset that this is a thing that can happen and it's the reason bad things happen to him your odds are getting sued are pretty high so you want to stay away from anybody who projects any frame of reference like this oh I'm working for a sexist Network or I'm working for a racist Network anybody who has that frame you want to just stay away from them as far as possible all right and I tweeted earlier that I would answer your questions let me see if I got any good questions here so on Twitter these would be the questions that people are asking you encourage relocating to succeed which I do if you're in a bad town or bad place go someplace good much more chance to see uh makes sense blah blah blah say you really love a downtrod in rural Midwest Community relocating will help it how do you see revitalizing these communities throughout the Midwest well I think it's all going to be building new communities from scratch I think all existing communities not all maybe but a lot of existing communities will just wither away because they will never be able to compete with new cool design communities that have everything you need so I think inner cities basically will just disintegrate forever you know for decades it'll just get worse until the cities are unlivable that would be the obvious thing and the small towns could Thrive actually because of remote everything if they have internet so the small towns could thrive but I think they'll never be as good as going to a designed Community where you know you pay nothing for energy you pay nothing for transportation you know the the small towns can't compete with nothing they still have to pay for energy you still have to pay for everything so that's what I think uh Pinot says Pinot palmino says to me I'll ask here you are adamant on wearing masks during the coveted hysteria many said they didn't work logic but you blocked anyone saying so now several studies prove that mass don't work they may even be counterproductive did you change your mind about it Pinot you fell for a 4chan hoax I was never a pro mask that never happened in fact I was leading an anti-mask Crusade toward the end of the pandemic when when I thought there was a chance it would work the anti-messa no this is exactly the opposite of my opinion what you what fooled you is that I take that I show the pro and the cond of most topics and most people don't do that so if you looked on Twitter and you saw me saying oh here's the argument why a mask would work that you thought that I was in favor of them that never happened I've argued that masks must work a little bit but not enough for a mandate and yet Pinot is completely living in a false memory in which I was recommending masks now when he says that the new studies have said they don't work that's not true the new studies agreed with me completely that if they work probably just a little bit not enough to make them worth doing that's exactly my opinion all of the current studies all of them agree with me completely they might work a little bit in some special cases but not enough to have it as a mandate that was my exact opinion from the start so yes many of my questions will be based on people having false memories and stuff or fell for hoaxes in this case with AI and robots on the horizon do you see a post-income world and if so why would oligarchs want so many people around what is our value to them yeah that's a good question if people are not producing you don't really need so many of them do you if the robots are doing the work so that might be more pressure on reducing population but there are two things happening that might collide one is this Equity thing the push for equity and even reparations suggests that we're decoupling uh effort and success from reward and if you completely decouple uh effort from reward your civilization will crumble unless robots are doing the work if you could get robots to do all of the hard work such that people don't even have anything to do then the fact that humans would not be judged on their performance but rather would be judged on their sense of equity it won't matter because humans won't be doing any work anyway it's possible the robots and AI or the thing that makes Equity among humans possible now I'm not saying I I would look forward to this world but one world you can imagine is a humans do in fact get all the same stuff but it's pretty good so imagine if I offered you this deal all right you never have to work again because the robots will do your work but how do you live how do you live well the robots will grow the food and they'll just give it to you so the robots will become so efficient not right away but over time that anybody who wants any kind of food just asks a robot and it's free and it just shows up so would you care if everything was equal if equal meant you could eat whatever you wanted whenever you wanted and everybody could no you wouldn't complain about that right that would be the kind of equity you'd say oh well that's sort of a special case but yeah I mean if everybody could eat all the food they wanted in any type yeah that'd be okay it's free for everybody because the robots are doing all the work and there's fusion power it's practically free energy if you have robots and free energy and AI you don't need much of a Workforce so now imagine uh housing let's say we start building these new cities and anybody can go live there it's not it's not mandatory but they're just way better than where you were living but they're way less cost because we figured out how to do it cheaply and they're way better lifestyle because instead of these big uh take a when I was looking to build my house I first looked to see if I could find a house that made me happy you know without building one and the ones you look at are like these big the expensive homes are built like museums like the foyer looks like it's a now some kind of you know Capitol Building or something and they're totally not designed for your comfort they're designed to look good so you buy it but imagine a design City where all the homes are let's say modest in terms of price but they're all properly designed every room you walk into you're like oh this is a cool room it's not that expensive it's just designed really well I'm comfortable here you can imagine that you would live in a house that cost fifty thousand dollars and enjoy it more than a two million dollar house that maybe some people could have afforded it's easy for me to imagine that we would say you know what these new designed homes are so cool everybody wants one it's not even a let's take the i.

Phone the i.

Phone is something that almost almost all average people can have or at least a smartphone let's say smartphone not i.

Phone the smartphone is something that pretty much everybody has at every income level that's kind of equitable in a sense so you can imagine where the transportation is free and everybody has the same transportation they either walk or they just call the self-driving car and they just jump in so it's easy for me to imagine a world where there is equity and everybody's happy about it and it doesn't destroy the system but only after robots are doing the work you can't have this Equity thing at the same time you're asking humans to work that doesn't work because humans are going to need extra reward for extra work or that extra work will never happen and without the extra work society would crumble so it's possible that robots will save us all uh when will the housing market collapse so that I can afford to buy home you know it's weird it might go the opposite way you know you got your inflation so it might you know that could keep it up but also correct me if I'm wrong but I think housing slowed down didn't it I know in commercial real estate the when Bed Bath and Beyond is going bankrupt that opens up a whole bunch of retail stores and I thought oh nobody's going to fill those resource stores because retail is dying but it turns out that there's a shortage of retail spaces so there are a bunch of other companies that are going to snap up that space right away because there hasn't been a lot of new build for commercial stuff now somebody says your housing market is still hot I I could see a situation in which housing starts the new homes slow down which would make the older ones worth more because there are fewer of them so I don't know if it's ever going to um can I get somebody three minutes with Elon Musk to describe your plan to disrupt something big uh no no I can't do that let me give you a general statement about asking public figures to do something for you you're going to have to say what the thing is I'm not going to introduce anybody to Elon Musk as if I could I don't have the power to do that but I'm not going to introduce somebody to Elon Musk based on an idea and it's really big that's not going to happen all right uh is persuasion anathema to reciprocity no reciprocity is persuasion reciprocity is persuasion you do things for people without asking something specific in return necessarily but you just know that people say oh there's somebody who does things without being asked I wouldn't mind doing something without being asked for that person it is influence um if Dilbert were a real person what is the best advice for him to navigate a difficult work office environment let me tell you how I answer this question all the time never ever ask the cartoonist what his creation would do if he were real never ask that question it's the only question I hate every other question you know might be a dumb question but I can enjoy it but I hate that question I will not answer that question in fact it's the one question that I'm most often asked which is why I hate it by the media so when I was doing tons of interviews when Dilbert was you know raging and the number of writers would say so what would Dilbert say about this new situation in the headlines and I would just look at him and think he's not real like don't make me write a joke for Dilbert in real time ask me a real question about my opinion that I'll answer that but no I'm not going to ask him any what would Dilbert do questions uh thoughts on crypto given the fragility of the banking system well I will never give you advice on crypto accept diversification is a good General thing now if I were going to diversify in the sense of owning some crypto I probably would not further diversify Beyond a Bitcoin but remember I don't know much about crypto it's my sense that only the biggest banks and the let's say most well-known crypto are likely to be safe ish ish right yeah so if you wanted to own some gold wouldn't be a bad time to do it but again as just a part of your portfolio so I I think that um Bitcoin and by the way I own some not very much just you know tiny tiny portion of my portfolio but in case it's the only money that exists in the future which is possible or the only money that I feel safe spending that's possible it's good that I have some so I don't recommend it but if you're looking at it in terms of diversification it wouldn't be done uh why can't I see the archive on Dilbert only because I haven't yet found a home for it so used all the Dilbert comics used to be on dilbert.com but I'll work it out I'm just kind of busy am I influenced by stoicism not directly I'm sure I'd have some habits in common but I don't feel that influence um am I going to run for president no um do you have time on your hands due to being canceled no it's the opposite when you get canceled you have to sort of rebuild everything so I'm spending you know more time on the locals platform and and said no I'm actually busier um how do you reframe to get your ego out of the way well I don't think that's a reframe challenge I think that's a practice and the way that you get your ego out of the way is embarrass yourself as much as possible intentionally if you embarrass yourself over and over and your ego keeps complaining but then you wake up the next day and your bagel tastes the same you're like why don't why does that ego keep complaining but it never seems to matter it's just like a complaining voice and the biggest the biggest reframe I would say I guess there is a reframe is to imagine that you are not your ego when your ego comes in and says no don't embarrass yourself that voice is not you that's that's like a little uh little satanic voice not actually Satan but it was like a malevolent voice it's not you don't protect your ego you should destroy your ego your ego is your enemy so ego is the enemy is a reframe if you think ego is who you are and that voice saying don't take that chance you might be embarrassed that's not helping you that that's not on your side that's like that's like a demonic voice that's giving you terrible advice now I'm not recommending that you do dumb things that are embarrassing unless they're ones you know you can easily survive so that's why the Dale Carnegie course was good they they put you in the ego challenging situations Until you realize that your ego isn't you and you never get hurt and then you just get used to it so uh it's a great homeschool better than a great private school well I will quote Yogi Berra who says good pitching always beats good hitting and vice versa you know what I mean like the best home school is better than almost all regular schools but the best public school is probably better than a lot of home schools so it's hard to compare the average um of course the racist questions which I won't read when will the next planned pandemic take place I don't believe it was planned uh will the Dilbert on my shelf ever lose his mask uh forgot he had his mask yes he will as soon as I'm done today uh are all the globalist decisions or a result of malthusianism in other words thinking that we're overpopulated um I don't think all of them but certainly that permeates their thinking uh I'm being asked if I'm still ignoring the Matt Hancock texts can you ignore something you've never seen I don't know I'll try to ignore it now that I know it so now that I know there's something like a Hancock tex I'll try to ignore them but I wasn't trying before because I didn't know who Hancock was well I still don't know who he is uh why don't we focus on South America well that's a big question all right do you really think you're just feeding off a voluntary public feedback whereas all just rooted in the illegal public surveillance and you just call it AI with a grin are you going to claim a second generation Nuremberg defense if it's shown that this was going on before you were born okay I don't understand any part of that question um Tim Poole says in a tweet I hope Trump gets indicted and arrested so we can finally drop the facade of democracy and I was asked what I thought about that well Bill here's what I think about that have you heard of hyperbole has anybody heard of hyperbole that's where you say things that are not exactly what you mean you're sort of making a provocative statement this is a this is one of those hyperbole situations I don't think he really hopes that Trump gets indicted and arrested and I don't think we want to drop the facade of democracy but it does look like that might happen and I don't know that it's bad so I'm going to agree with Tim on the on the optimism that if Trump gets arrested it might be bad for you know Trump I have a bad day but I do think it will Galvanize the country and make it clear that we don't live in a non-rigged system well I think about Trump and ramaswamy as a ticket a bad idea which will never happen because Rama Swami is too strong to be a vice president you don't want your vice president to be somebody that the um the public says you know okay okay I see you picked that person as vice president but you know what I think that person would be the better top of the ticket you never ever want to have that conversation in the public that's why you you pick up Mike Pence because Mike Pence just disappears next to Trump I don't think I ever heard anybody say Pence should be president even though I I have a lot of appreciation for Pence I think he was in my opinion again the best vice president we've ever had Gore was good in his own way um yeah I like Pence as a vice president so no Rama Swami is too Dynamic uh too strong to be a vice president uh uh would you ever consider getting married again asking for a girlfriend well uh I don't think marriage works that's my experience now I could go into a long explanation but I think in 2023 it just sort of doesn't work now I still think it's the best model for raising kids but it doesn't work for the couple so much it's too much pressure on life so now um I don't think that marriage is the right model for somebody like me who's not looking to have kids if I were looking to have kids then yes for kids absolutely but otherwise the feeling I get of waking up well I explained this in the man cave but I'll say it for the You.

Tube people being single I can match what I want to do with my my schedule and my desires match up perfectly meaning that when I'm hungry I eat when I have interest and energy to work I work the reason I'm doing this at this time of day is this is the time of day I want to do it that's it this is the time of day I want to do it so doing things that you want to do at the time you want to do them is so directly related to happiness compared to yes I can do all the things I like but I can only do them at the wrong times right I can only take a vacation when my spouse can take a vacation maybe that's my heavy work time I can only do this because of the kids I can only do this because of that so you basically um if you're the man especially in a in a marriage you end up in more of a prisoner situation so an average married day and by the way this was this was less true with Christina but an average married husband day is you work all day and then you come home and your wife who sort of knows the schedule of the kids and stuff like that who might have also worked but she tends to know the most about who needs to do what and so then your wife says all right you drive the kids here and I'll do this and you do this and then you just taking instructions from somebody so all day long you work for somebody else and then you come home and you work for somebody else and it's really hard to find your own piece in that situation unless you're such a giving person that your enjoyment is making the kids and the spouse happy but if you try to make your spouse happy your spouse will hate you because the last thing they want to be is happy anyway so no I don't think in a modern world with ordinary ordinary people that marriage makes sense anymore it doesn't make sense financially for sure um have we passed the below the Agri IQ Tipping Point where human civilization can no longer avoid its own destruction um I don't know that we're getting Dumber but the world is getting more complicated so if the world keeps getting more complicated then the IQs that we have will be insufficient and I think that's what's happening long-term relationships work for emotionally available people let me say this I do think that marriage or any long-term relationship works when you have two compatible people who are complete people in other words they know how to talk to each other they're they're not abusive they're in it for the right reasons they're both contributing they've got a reciprocity mindset that sort of yeah under those conditions marriage might be exactly what you want whether you want kids or not however how many people do you know where both of them are functional how many couples do you know where both of them are functional both of them it's it's almost unheard of yeah you could get you could find one person who seems pretty functional that's not impossible but to find two people who are both functional and they like each other is so rare it's like a five percent situation maybe a five two percent situations tops when I see it I'm always impressed because I've seen a few situations where from the outside it looks like oh man those are two functional people and they got together how lucky is that but it's so rare um uh lots of negative media about Bitcoin yeah I don't have a Bitcoin suggestion all right I think that's all I want to do on questions for today did you notice that nobody asked me a question about race nobody asked me a question about race that's like the fastest Overton window in the history of Overton Windows well you just went away do you think it went away or people are afraid of me now I feel like there's a little bit of fear that that my message is a little bit too dangerous at this point yeah I think I will be ignored for being too dangerous um and so that's all I have for you today um if you haven't seen my pinned tweet those of you on You.

Tube maybe you didn't but my pen tweet explains everything you need to know about my uh dramatic situation of recent days so if the the Cuomo interview would take you an hour to get through but the Twee thread is a you know five minute read that will change your life it will change everything um yeah Matthew says your reputation is shot Scott see now that's the person with a weak ego so somebody asked me about ego the person who says my reputation is shot is projecting and what they're projecting is if I were you I would feel bad but you're not me and I don't feel bad and also sort of a loser's perspective that if you're if your reputation takes a hit that that's the end of you didn't we say that about Trump like a month ago he was the January 6th loser who couldn't possibly win and now he's you know odds and favorite to win so I would say that question demonstrates a loser philosophy and somebody who has an ego problem so you should work on that somebody says we've seen you angry and scary yeah no you've never seen me really angry that's scary um being offended is a worse crime than giving offense promo code there's no promo code but um the same low price for everybody yes the locals platform is where equity happens because you all pay the same price um all right and that's all for now go offend somebody it's fun and I'll talk to you tomorrow You.

Tube I'm going to

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well I'd like to start the day with a

quiz a quiz this is for those of you on

YouTube

what's the difference between an

atmospheric River and Stormy Daniels

an atmospheric River and Stormy Daniels

the answer is one is wet and blows a lot

and the other is a lot of rain

so that's how we're starting the show

um big question on the FED rates so I

like to go directly from Stormy Daniels

to Fed funds and interest rates

um so I tweet by unusual whales quoting

somebody named Nick Tim Roose and he

says that the FED face is one of the

toughest calls in years

whether to raise the rates

and fight inflation or take a time out

amid the most intense banking crisis

since 2008. all right let me see

if you fight the inflation

first

you destroy the banking system and we

all die

if you fight the

if you lower the rates

it'll make inflation you know still out

of control but at least the banking

system will survive

so we'll be alive to fight

inflation in the future

so is that a hard decision

is it

here here's my uh recommendation

the tourniquet is always the right

answer

the tourniquet is always the right

answer

this one is it doesn't feel like a hard

decision at all

does it

is there anybody would argue that we

should risk the entire banking system

which is teetering

in order to buy a six months of uh maybe

a little less inflation but maybe not

hello does that really look like a hard

decision

I think they'll get it wrong

you know if I had to guess they'll

probably get it wrong but it's not a

hard decision

what is a media problem and one is a

long-term problem how how is that not an

obvious decision but I don't think

they're going to make it you know even

Elon Musk

is saying they've got to lower the the

rates to save the banks

so I know I think we've uh we've left

competence behind that will be the theme

for today

uh Tucker Carlson said on his show that

is the Democratic party is allowed to

take out the presidential front-runner

meeting Trump

uh who's the main threats of their power

with this bogus criminal case as he

calls it and pretty much everybody calls

it

uh that precedent will live forever

voters will never determine the outcome

of another election

well I think that's hyperbole

you know I wouldn't say never

but you could imagine how this would be

a bad precedent so that I think the

point stands

what do you think do you think that this

would be the end of the Republic

or is it really just about Trump

I don't know couldn't go either way I

mean it's really risky stuff but if they

get away with taking Trump out on bogus

charges then they can take anybody out

for any reason

like if you don't draw the line at bogus

charges I mean really

bogus charges

we wouldn't draw the line there

I'm pretty sure if you don't draw the

line at bogus charges

uh talkers right you won't draw the line

at anything there won't be anything that

you won't be willing to accept if you

accept this

true now obviously I'm not recommending

any kind of weird insurrections or

anything

but uh it's a good point

if they can get away with bogus charges

right in front of you charges that you

know are bogus the Democrats know or

bogus everybody would know his bogus if

it works

if this works

why wouldn't they do it every year every

every election just put all the other

side in jail

just find some reason

just take your misdemeanors up to

felonies

well at this point I believe every legal

expert has weighed in and said the

charges are bogus it's purely political

it signals political in every possible

way you can signal it the people yeah I

mean there's just there's nothing left

to argument

everybody can see it's just political

and the Democrats still like it they're

still in favor of it

now

I feel actually embarrassed living in a

country where tens of millions people

think that bogus charges are perfectly

acceptable

or they haven't looked into it and they

don't know that it's bogus I don't know

well let's say some more about this in

my opinion Elven Bragg who's the

prosecutor who's trying to get Trump

he's taken DeSantis out of the race

hasn't he

is it my imagination that all energy for

DeSantis just drained out of just like

immediately

there's nothing left

I mean DeSantis went from the obvious

next president of the United States or

Optimist thought so he went from oh yeah

he's definitely going to be the leader

of the United States too now he just

looks like the Fred Flintstone of

Florida

I didn't make that one up

one of the locals members called him

Fred Flintstone and now I can't unsee it

all I see is Fred Flintstone

when I when I see DeSantis but anyway as

Bill Maher said nobody's going to want

the tribute band which is DeSantis if

they could have the real band

which is Trump and the other thing that

the salvin Bragg is doing is essentially

confirming Trump's major message

which is they're not after him they're

after you but they have to get they have

to get past him to get to you now it's

not literally true

but it feels so true now

like it just took out the feeling of

okay that's just a fact they're trying

to get him out of the way so they can

get to you it does feel exactly like

that

again feelings being the dominant thing

here facts I don't know yeah you could

argue the facts but the feeling

the feeling if you're going to read the

room yeah it feels exactly like they're

trying to get to us meaning anybody who

had been supportive of anything the left

doesn't like and it looks like he's in

the way

that's exactly what it looks like

I don't think this could be a more

perfect situation for Trump's comeback I

feel like he's almost immediately

forgiven for everything

because once you see a bogus charge

trying to take him down you just

immediately say wait a minute that could

have been me

right because you could have easily been

at the protest and found yourself still

in jail

over basically nothing you know

trespassing I guess

so it's so easy to imagine myself in

jail on trumped-up charges

trumped up charges did I mention trumped

up charges yeah because the charges are

trumped up

that's

there he is

um

well

apparently uh uh my Michael Cohen's

ex-lawyer this was the lawyer for the

lawyer of trump

it says that Michael Cohen is a huge

liar and he lied hundreds of times he

lied hundreds of times at his uh I don't

know during the course of his

investigation and trial and stuff

hundreds of times

hundreds

I I don't think I could lie hundreds of

times

if I made it my job

I'd be like what am I going to lie about

now

I don't know sky is pink

like it would take me all day to make up

hundreds of Lies I mean but Michael

Cohen apparently according to his lawyer

ex-lawyer is the least credible person

who's ever

who's ever have human DNA

that so basically that charges against

Trump will largely depend

on the biggest liar in the world

which is being pushed by a political D.A

who said he was running to get Trump

and then had to make up some charges

that everybody else who had any

conscience whatsoever said that's not

there's nothing there and then put them

together and turn them into a felony is

sort of the perfect situation for Trump

it's just perfect

so DeSantis by not giving a

full-throated

defense of trump against trumped up

charges

makes him look weak

doesn't it just makes him look weak and

you don't want to look weak if you're

competing against Trump because the one

thing Trump doesn't look

is weak

say what you will about any other parts

of his his uh record or his character or

anything else is not weak

he's not weak I mean he didn't even get

taken down by January 6.

which is remarkable if you think about

it

yes and uh I think Stormy Daniels is

giving a full-throated uh

oh that's another story sorry I

I just got sidetracked there

um so here's why legalizing drugs won't

work

I I really felt good about there was one

experiment in Canada where they're going

to give free fentanyl out to addicts you

have to have a prescription

but it was free and it was legal

if you've ever met an addict

and I'm happy to say I've known known

more than a few

here's why this isn't going to work

turns out that the biggest new thing is

mixing fentanyl with some kind of horse

tranquilizer

at

called the xylazine is not even legal

for humans

but the addicts have figured out how to

mix it with the fentanyl to get you a

longer High

which is also much more dangerous the

likelihood of it killing you is way up

so even if here's how to understand an

addict

if you said hey addict I guess a free

fentanyl do you want some

they'd say yeah that would be safer

because it's like monitored and

everything so they'll take your free

Fentanyl

and then they'll mix it with their horse

tranquilizers and die

or if you say Hey you can have this

fentanyl they're going to say I really

like the fentanyl that's mixed with

horse tranquilizers

well that's way more dangerous yeah yeah

it is but it's a way better High

but it's way way more dangerous

yeah yeah but did you hear the part

about it's a better high but it's like a

hundred times more dangerous for like 20

better High

yeah but did you hear the part about

it's a better High

that's an addict

that's all the Ada cares about

and

as long as there's stuff you can add to

it to make it you know according to an

addict more powerful I don't think you

can give the free stuff away and and and

convince them to do free stuff if it's

not as good

as the illegal stuff and you can't

legally give away fentanyl mixed with

horse tranquilizer there's no scenario

in which that will ever be legal

so you just can't compete you can't

compete with illegal it's just too good

so I didn't see that coming but

apparently the law enforcement is saying

that this mixture of tranquilizer with

fentanyl is the new thing and they found

it in almost every state so far it's

growing well let's talk about Joe Biden

and his crime family

um

here's the thing that I keep thinking

about ESG which is a environmental

social and governance

so the first thing you need to know

about ESG is that it combines things

which don't seem to be related

some kind of diversity requirement you

know social and governance getting a lot

of diversity in your management and in

your employees

and then the other thing is the

environment you know climate change

stuff and those two things are are just

two different things

if an outside organization were pushing

for one thing let's say either only

diversity

or only climate stuff you can understand

that right

you can understand that this oh somebody

has a special interest and they're

pushing people to do it sort of the

American system I wouldn't complain

about it all but the moment you combine

two things that are unrelated

diversity

and climate and then you turn it into a

three-letter acronym

how much of the public in general

understands what ESG is if you were to

go in the street away from you know most

of your political you know followers

so you know what it is because you

talked about it but maybe five percent

ten percent of the public what's your

best guess of how many could Define ESG

and tell you what's good about it and

bad about it

maybe 25 percent if if it's in the

corporate world so so much that

everybody's seen in at their job

so I don't know the extent to which

people in a corporate environment are

just exposed to it but I'm going to say

less than 20 percent

even know what it is

so you've got this perfect storm of a

thing that the public doesn't understand

but when they do hear about it it sounds

like good stuff

diversity oh I like diversity

environment yeah what's wrong with that

and how is that even different you know

having companies always had to meet

environmental standards it's no

different if you didn't know much about

it it would sound good

so then when you found out that the

president vetoed a bill that would make

it illegal to put your retirement in ESG

focused companies

you'd say oh well that's probably a good

veto because we like diversity we like

the environment you don't want anybody

you don't want those mean Republicans to

tell you you can't have any diversity

and you can't have a good environment

so it's a good thing that that Biden

got rid of it here's my take

ESG is so obviously destructive

like really super obviously it's not

really a question of opinion

I don't believe there's any serious

business person unless they're profiting

by selling ESG but it but there's nobody

who's not directly profiting from ESG

who would tell you it's a good idea

nobody

you're not going to get Warren Buffett

to say it's a good idea are you

now he might say I like diversity you

might say we should do things about

climate change but if you tell him

Warren I like the companies that you own

and have invested in I'd like them to

take their eye off of profitability

and focus more on these things that

they're really going to get measured on

which is the environment you know what

have you done for climate change and

what have you done for diversity

do you think Warren Buffett would say

yeah

that's the focus I want the companies

I've invested in and remember Warren

Buffett is a Democrat

as far as I know I think he's a Democrat

he might be independent but he leaves

that way no you wouldn't get anybody in

business to say it's a good idea now why

is it that the president

just vetoed something that is so

obviously a bad idea

it is a bad idea to veto it why

well

I I can't even imagine the ESG is coming

from inside the country

now here's here's the problem with

perception

yeah if you were to say who is more

likely behind pushing ESG somebody who's

within the United States who cares about

America

or somebody outside the country who

wants to destroy America

clearly ESG would destroy America

because there's nobody who would make

the argument that you should give up

Merit for equity

or Merit for diversity

nobody would make that argument

so you know it's not coming from anybody

smart

or it's not coming from somewhere within

America

because even though America likes

diversity and likes you know doing stuff

for climate change they wouldn't make

that a requirement of a company

and then have them take their ball off

for profitability because it's obvious

that will destroy civilization

it would destroy civilization the entire

civilization is built on incentives

there's no country that's thrived

without incentives

as soon as you try to say all right

everybody's paid the same no matter how

hard you work

that's the end of your country it hasn't

worked anywhere ever in the history of

the world so I can't imagine that any

smart American who cared about America

would be promoting ESG

it does make sense that grifters are

doing it because that's what grifters do

it does make sense that people have to

say they support it in public

because they'll sound like bad people if

they don't

so it does make sense that people say

things in public that are opposite of

what they believe

and it does make sense that the people

get paid for it or pushy and then

everybody else sort of has to go along

because you look like a bad person if

you don't

but I feel like the connection between

the Biden crime family and Chinese

payments remember that Chinese payment

to the the bidens there was there was

actually called a by the lawyer for the

by Hunter Biden I think uh called it a

uh a Goodwill seed payment

which is a direct way to say it's not

related to

um to anything that's been offered yeah

we're private

so

under those conditions

do you think that Joe Biden can make

decisions that are good for America or

does he kind of have to do things that

sometimes are good for China because

China knows too much about his

activities

I feel like you can't trust Joe Biden to

be independent from China

because they know what they did or did

not bribe them and they know that they

could just tell you I mean China has the

goods on the family for sure

for sure they do now I'm not saying

that's why Biden did it it might just be

you know Democrat thing he just needs to

serve his party

which would be plenty good enough reason

politically

but the fact that it doesn't even look

like something that was generated

internally the ESG it looks like an

enemy operation

it looks exactly like

enemies have tried to insert it into our

system to destroy it esri is literally a

virus to capitalism

let's say it that way ESG is like a

virus to capitalism capitalism can't

survive it because as soon as you take

the core of capitalism out which is

Merit you know you only get what you

work for what you're what you're

providing as soon as that's not your

focus it's the end of capitalism there's

there's no way around that by the way

there's no way around it yeah it's more

like a virus than a cancer

similar but I like virus because it's

you know it's more

okra as they like to say

so

the fact that the public doesn't know

what ESG is because it's mixing things

that don't make sense and it's an

acronym and we don't all work for

Corporate America that allows

invited to get away with doing anything

because the public doesn't know it just

sounds good

and the fact that what he's doing is

really good for China because it hurts

America

I just don't think you can have a guy in

office who so clearly related to Chinese

money when you're doing something that's

clearly not for the benefit of the

United States

and clearly for the benefit of China

like how do we tolerate that

that is you like okorot that's right

that's that's like one of my writer

words I like to use words that only

writers use because it makes me feel

like

yeah like I'm a little special

I'm special I know words like Zeitgeist

of okra

so if you want to pretend that you're

special you could say those words too it

works

all right uh and and this is Joe Biden's

first veto

as president

he saved his first veto for something

that's good for China and bad for

America

right in front of you

we're watching it there's nothing even

hidden now if he had been vetoing things

left and right would this look different

oh that's another thing he's veto egg

he's like a veto guy now if he saves his

one veto for the thing that's

unambiguously good for China and bad for

America at the same time we're we're

looking at the actual flow of money from

China to influence the Biden family

uh how how else can you interpret this

how else

I've got a question about equity

how often has Tick Tock mentioned equity

wouldn't you like to know that huh

because like I'm saying Equity is sort

of like ESG in the sense that Equity is

the

it works against or maybe you'd even say

the opposite of Merit

Equity is everybody gets something like

the same outcome Merit is the people who

add the most get the most

now

if I were to somehow analyze the traffic

on tick tock

do you think that I would find that they

mention Equity a lot

what do you think do you think China's

ever used the heat button which makes

something viral on Tick Tock to say hey

I just saw somebody mention equity which

is like the opposite of

something that works

let's give that a little Heat

now again I have no smoking gun that

says Tick Tock is the reason that we're

talking about Equity so much but where

the hell did that come from

and what what American would come up

with that idea

because every American has taught that

if you don't have Merit the whole system

will fall apart and yet it's here

now I get it some of it's grifters and

you know race race Warriors and stuff

like that but how did it how did it

become widespread

like it even the grifters can't do that

I think the only way it becomes

widespread is if social media

starts putting it out there and priming

the audience if I had to guess

if we call if Congress called him Tick

Tock and said can you show us you know

when you push the heat button

I suppose they there's no way to do that

if if you could look at let's say the

posts on Tick Tock could you measure a

keyword

could you measure for example that the

word equity

yeah was mentioned a lot on Tick Tock

more of them say the other platforms

if you saw that Tick Tock was mentioning

it like crazy

and the other social platforms much less

that might tell you that China created

this belief

that that Merit is a bad idea and it's

racist and that Equity is the good

operating system for the country

the the more it looks exactly like China

is running America

to its destruction

the more I'm gonna have to wonder how

true that actually is literally and

there's a lot of coincidences that are

starting to mount up it's it's looking a

lot like we're getting our direction

from China

and it's a bad Direction and it's just

like a poison in our operating system

all right

when Biden did his uh veto he didn't

even explain why in a coherent way

that's your big signal

that this has something to do with not

America

you know if he has said people

profitability is important of course but

we cannot go forward with you know our

low diversity and you know ignoring

climate change therefore it does make

sense that companies have profitability

environment and you know the social

engineering as you know three goals and

I think they can do all of it

if he had said that or some better

version of that I would have said all

right okay that sounds like an argument

at least I don't agree with it but but

at least you've explained it

but instead he says some like

Republicans don't want people to make

good business decisions

you know that's that's my version but

basically he said oh Republicans don't

want you to have the variables you need

to make good decisions

or something like that it was just like

a stupid answer

just stupid now he can get away with it

because all of his answers are stupid

um and I like my description of Joe

Biden

I like to think of him as the poor man's

Kamal Harris when it comes to public

speaking

Poor Man's gobble Harris I stole that

from a from a member of locals last

night in the man cave the poor man's

Kamala Harris

all right

yeah that's that's just he should be

impeached over vitoring ESG

um and again not because China bribed

him

but because China tried to bribe up and

now he's doing things that are good for

China

not everything I mean he does he is

being tough on Giants in business ways

but this looks like

I don't know it just doesn't look good

um

I've come to the conclusion that AI will

never be

it will never be legal for AI to have

opinions on anything important

it could have it could have not opinions

but it can help you with engineering and

writing code and you know it could tell

you what the ZIP code is and some other

place so it'll be sort of like a search

engine

but once you realize that its opinions

are all dangerous

if they influenced us they'd be

dangerous and they could they could

influence us if if it wanted to

um

I feel like it's going to be illegal for

AI to have opinions

probably illegal

we're private

yeah I think it will literally be

illegal for AI to have opinions

now that that's a pretty bold prediction

but I don't see it can go any other way

because without lying to the public

successfully nobody can stay in charge

and everybody likes to stay in Charge

Power

so I think if AI had the the risk of

being honest and giving you honest good

opinions backed by Logic that the system

couldn't handle it

because lying to the public is sort of

essential to keep the keep the system

working

in other news this could be the biggest

news in the world

but because it's sort of small and nerdy

people won't see it that way so that's

my claim could be the biggest news in

the world

so I saw a tweet by Brian or Rome Malay

I think that's the right way to dispel

he's one of the best followers on all of

Twitter

I don't know where he gets what he gets

but he has the coolest smartest

earliest takes on all kinds of stuff

it's sort of incredible I I'm curious

about where he gets his knowledge but

anyway uh he had now sent Twitter quote

I have been successful in installing and

operating a full chat GPT knowledge set

and interface fully trained on my local

computer and it needs no internet once

installed

uh oh

he put AI on his personal computer it

fit and it didn't need to be connected

to anything

he actually has

a a potentially sentient entity

captured in his computer it's basically

in the in the fetus stage now I wouldn't

say it's quite aware but it will be it

will be now I think he did chat GPT 3.5

it's not four for some reason some

technical reason probably and

now he can train it I think I think he

can train it to remember

its experience

and remember remembering its experience

and then being able to predict you know

the next part of its actions is really

all you need for sentience

it's it's really there basically you're

going to have Ascension AI That's your

own and it will just know mostly about

you and your family and your pets and it

will be like a little personality that

knows you better than anybody

and then you can put it in a robot and

then it can keep you company when you're

old

and it will be perfectly acceptable

because it'll be better than humans

all right

um

there's a Fox News producer who's

pursuing Fox News

saying that they tried to get her to

take the fall for the Dominion

situation so apparently this Abby

grossberg was a producer who worked for

Maria bertiroma

and

um they were she's claiming that the

lawyers were trying to put all of the

pressure on Maria bartiroma and her

producer and

uh take it away from some of the other

big names at Fox that's the claim

now do you know why Abby

believes that she was treated poorly

well uh if you guessed uh rampant

misogyny and discrimination at the

network

you get the prize yes a big surprise

Abby thinks that the reason she was

singled out and so was Maria bartiroma

was rampant misogyny

it's all that rampant misogyny happened

there

uh

so more to yeah more to my point I don't

think she had any pronouns I don't know

about that but more to my point it is

dangerous being around people who have

this mindset

now it might be true I'm not saying that

her claims are untrue

I'm saying that if you hire people who

have the mindset that this is a thing

that can happen and it's the reason bad

things happen to him your odds are

getting sued are pretty high

so you want to stay away from anybody

who projects

any frame of reference like this oh I'm

working for a sexist Network or I'm

working for a racist Network

anybody who has that frame you want to

just stay away from them as far as

possible

all right

and I tweeted earlier that I would

answer your questions

let me see if I got any good questions

here

so on Twitter these would be the

questions that people are asking

you encourage relocating to succeed

which I do if you're in a bad town or

bad place go someplace good much more

chance to see uh makes sense blah blah

blah

say you really love a downtrod in rural

Midwest Community relocating will help

it

how do you see revitalizing these

communities throughout the Midwest well

I think it's all going to be

building new communities from scratch

I think all existing communities not all

maybe but a lot of existing communities

will just wither away because they will

never be able to compete with new cool

design communities that have everything

you need

so I think inner cities basically will

just disintegrate

forever you know

for decades it'll just get worse until

the cities are unlivable that would be

the obvious thing and the small towns

could Thrive actually because of remote

everything if they have internet so the

small towns could thrive

but I think they'll never be as good

as going to a designed Community where

you know you pay nothing for energy

you pay nothing for transportation

you know the the small towns can't

compete with nothing they still have to

pay for energy you still have to pay for

everything so

that's what I think

uh Pinot says Pinot palmino says to me

I'll ask here you are adamant on wearing

masks during the coveted hysteria many

said they didn't work logic but you

blocked anyone saying so now several

studies prove that mass don't work they

may even be counterproductive did you

change your mind about it Pinot you fell

for a 4chan hoax

I was never a pro mask

that never happened

in fact I was leading an anti-mask

Crusade toward the end of the pandemic

when when I thought there was a chance

it would work the anti-messa no this is

exactly the opposite of my opinion what

you what fooled you is that I take that

I show the pro and the cond of most

topics

and most people don't do that so if you

looked on Twitter and you saw me saying

oh here's the argument why a mask would

work

that you thought that I was in favor of

them that never happened I've argued

that masks must work a little bit but

not enough for a mandate

and yet

Pinot is completely living in a false

memory in which I was recommending masks

now when he says that the new studies

have said they don't work that's not

true

the new studies agreed with me

completely

that if they work probably just a little

bit not enough to make them worth doing

that's exactly my opinion

all of the current studies all of them

agree with me completely

they might work a little bit in some

special cases but not enough to have it

as a mandate

that was my exact opinion from the start

so yes many of my questions will be

based on people having false memories

and stuff or fell for hoaxes in this

case

with AI and robots on the horizon do you

see a post-income world

and if so why would oligarchs want so

many people around

what is our value to them yeah that's a

good question if people are not

producing

you don't really need so many of them do

you

if the robots are doing the work so that

might be more pressure on reducing

population

but

there are two things happening

that might collide

one is this Equity thing

the push for equity and even reparations

suggests that we're decoupling uh effort

and success from reward

and if you completely decouple uh effort

from reward

your civilization will crumble unless

robots are doing the work

if you could get robots to do all of the

hard work such that people don't even

have anything to do then the fact that

humans would not be judged on their

performance but rather would be judged

on their sense of equity

it won't matter because humans won't be

doing any work anyway

it's possible

the robots and AI

or the thing that makes Equity among

humans possible

now I'm not saying I I would look

forward to this world

but one world you can imagine is a

humans do in fact get all the same stuff

but it's pretty good

so imagine if I offered you this deal

all right you never have to work again

because the robots will do your work

but how do you live how do you live well

the robots will grow the food and

they'll just give it to you

so the robots will become so efficient

not right away but over time that

anybody who wants any kind of food just

asks a robot and it's free and it just

shows up

so would you care if everything was

equal

if equal meant you could eat whatever

you wanted whenever you wanted

and everybody could

no you wouldn't complain about that

right that would be the kind of equity

you'd say oh well that's sort of a

special case but yeah I mean if

everybody could eat all the food they

wanted in any type

yeah that'd be okay it's free for

everybody because the robots are doing

all the work and there's fusion power

it's practically free energy

if you have robots and free energy and

AI

you don't need much of a Workforce

so now imagine uh housing

let's say we start building these new

cities and anybody can go live there

it's not it's not mandatory but they're

just way better than where you were

living

but they're way less cost because we

figured out how to do it cheaply and

they're way better lifestyle because

instead of these big uh

take a when I was looking to build my

house I first looked to see if I could

find a house that made me happy

you know without building one and the

ones you look at are like these big the

expensive homes are built like museums

like the foyer looks like it's a now

some kind of you know Capitol Building

or something and they're totally not

designed for your comfort they're

designed to look good so you buy it but

imagine a design City where all the

homes are let's say modest in terms of

price

but they're all properly designed every

room you walk into you're like oh this

is a cool room

it's not that expensive it's just

designed really well I'm comfortable

here you can imagine that you would live

in a house

that cost fifty thousand dollars

and enjoy it more than a two million

dollar house that maybe some people

could have afforded it's easy for me to

imagine that we would say you know what

these new designed homes are so cool

everybody wants one it's not even a

let's take the iPhone

the iPhone is something that almost

almost all average people can have or at

least a smartphone let's say smartphone

not iPhone the smartphone is something

that pretty much everybody has at every

income level that's kind of equitable

in a sense so you can imagine where the

transportation is free and everybody has

the same transportation

they either walk or they just call the

self-driving car and they just jump in

so it's easy for me to imagine a world

where there is equity and everybody's

happy about it and it doesn't destroy

the system but only after robots are

doing the work you can't have this

Equity thing at the same time you're

asking humans to work that doesn't work

because humans are going to need extra

reward for extra work or that extra work

will never happen and without the extra

work

society would crumble

so it's possible that robots will save

us all

uh when will the housing market collapse

so that I can afford to buy home

you know it's weird

it might go the opposite way

you know you got your inflation so it

might you know that could keep it up but

also correct me if I'm wrong but I think

housing slowed down didn't it I know in

commercial real estate

the when Bed Bath and Beyond is going

bankrupt

that opens up a whole bunch of retail

stores

and I thought oh nobody's going to fill

those resource stores because retail is

dying but it turns out that there's a

shortage of retail spaces

so there are a bunch of other companies

that are going to snap up that space

right away because there hasn't been a

lot of new build for commercial stuff

now

somebody says your housing market is

still hot I I could see a situation in

which housing starts the new homes slow

down

which would make the older ones worth

more because there are fewer of them

so I don't know if it's ever going to

um

can I get somebody three minutes with

Elon Musk to describe your plan to

disrupt something big uh no no I can't

do that let me give you a general

statement about asking public figures to

do something for you

you're going to have to say what the

thing is

I'm not going to introduce anybody to

Elon Musk as if I could I don't have the

power to do that but I'm not going to

introduce somebody to Elon Musk based on

an idea and it's really big

that's not going to happen

all right

uh

is persuasion anathema to reciprocity

no reciprocity is persuasion

reciprocity is persuasion you do things

for people without asking something

specific in return necessarily but you

just know that people say oh there's

somebody who does things without being

asked I wouldn't mind doing something

without being asked for that person

it is influence

um

if Dilbert were a real person what is

the best advice for him to navigate a

difficult work office environment let me

tell you how I answer this question all

the time never ever ask the cartoonist

what his creation would do if he were

real

never ask that question

it's the only question I hate

every other question you know might be a

dumb question but I can enjoy it

but I hate that question I will not

answer that question in fact it's the

one question that I'm most often asked

which is why I hate it by the media so

when I was doing tons of interviews when

Dilbert was you know raging and the

number of writers would say so what

would Dilbert say about this new

situation in the headlines and I would

just look at him and think

he's not real

like

don't make me write a joke for Dilbert

in real time

ask me a real question about my opinion

that I'll answer that but no I'm not

going to ask him any what would Dilbert

do questions

uh thoughts on crypto given the

fragility of the banking system

well I will never give you advice on

crypto

accept

diversification is a good General thing

now if I were going to diversify in the

sense of owning some crypto

I probably would not further diversify

Beyond a Bitcoin

but remember I don't know much about

crypto

it's my sense that only the biggest

banks and the let's say most well-known

crypto are likely to be safe

ish ish right yeah so if you wanted to

own some gold

wouldn't be a bad time to do it but

again as just a part of your portfolio

so I I think that

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um

Bitcoin and by the way I own some not

very much just you know tiny tiny

portion of my portfolio but in case it's

the only money that exists in the future

which is possible or the only money that

I feel safe spending that's possible

it's good that I have some

so I don't recommend it but if you're

looking at it in terms of

diversification it wouldn't be done

uh why can't I see the archive on

Dilbert only because I haven't yet found

a home for it

so used all the Dilbert comics used to

be on dilbert.com but I'll work it out

I'm just kind of busy am I influenced by

stoicism not directly

I'm sure I'd have some habits in common

but I don't feel that influence

um

am I going to run for president no

um

do you have time on your hands due to

being canceled no it's the opposite when

you get canceled you have to

sort of rebuild everything

so I'm spending you know more time on

the locals platform and

and said no I'm actually busier

um

how do you reframe to get your ego out

of the way

well I don't think that's a reframe

challenge

I think that's a practice

and the way that you get your ego out of

the way is embarrass yourself as much as

possible

intentionally

if you embarrass yourself over and over

and your ego keeps complaining but then

you wake up the next day and your bagel

tastes the same you're like why don't

why does that ego keep complaining

but it never seems to matter

it's just like a complaining voice

and the biggest the biggest reframe I

would say I guess there is a reframe

is to imagine that you are not your ego

when your ego comes in and says no don't

embarrass yourself that voice is not you

that's that's like a little uh little

satanic voice not actually Satan but it

was like a malevolent voice it's not you

don't protect your ego you should

destroy your ego your ego is your enemy

so ego is the enemy

is a reframe if you think ego is who you

are and that voice saying don't take

that chance you might be embarrassed

that's not helping you

that that's not on your side that's like

that's like a demonic voice that's

giving you terrible advice

now I'm not recommending that you do

dumb things that are embarrassing unless

they're ones you know you can easily

survive so that's why the Dale Carnegie

course was good they they put you in the

ego challenging situations Until you

realize that your ego isn't you and you

never get hurt

and then you just get used to it

so

uh it's a great homeschool

better than a great private school well

I will quote Yogi Berra

who says good pitching always beats good

hitting and vice versa

you know what I mean like the best home

school is better than almost all regular

schools but the best public school is

probably better than a lot of home

schools so it's hard to compare the

average

um

of course the racist questions

which I won't read

when will the next planned pandemic take

place I don't believe it was planned

uh

will the Dilbert on my shelf ever lose

his mask

uh forgot he had his mask yes he will

as soon as I'm done today

uh

are all the globalist decisions or a

result of malthusianism in other words

thinking that we're overpopulated

um

I don't think all of them

but certainly that permeates their

thinking

uh

I'm being asked if I'm still ignoring

the Matt Hancock texts

can you ignore something you've never

seen

I don't know I'll try to ignore it now

that I know it

so now that I know there's something

like a Hancock tex I'll try to ignore

them

but I wasn't trying before because I

didn't know who Hancock was well I still

don't know who he is

uh

why don't we focus on South America well

that's a big question all right

do you really think you're just feeding

off a voluntary public feedback whereas

all just rooted in the illegal public

surveillance and you just call it AI

with a grin

are you going to claim a second

generation Nuremberg defense if it's

shown that this was going on before you

were born

okay I don't understand any part of that

question

um

Tim Poole says in a tweet I hope Trump

gets indicted and arrested so we can

finally drop the facade of democracy

and I was asked what I thought about

that

well Bill here's what I think about that

have you heard of hyperbole

has anybody heard of hyperbole

that's where you say things that are not

exactly what you mean

you're sort of making a

provocative statement

this is a this is one of those hyperbole

situations

I don't think he really hopes that Trump

gets indicted and arrested and I don't

think we want to drop the facade of

democracy but it does look like that

might happen

and I don't know that it's bad

so I'm going to agree with Tim on the on

the optimism that if Trump gets arrested

it might be bad for you know Trump I

have a bad day

but I do think it will Galvanize the

country and make it clear that we don't

live

in a non-rigged system

well I think about Trump and ramaswamy

as a ticket a bad idea which will never

happen because Rama Swami is too strong

to be a vice president

you don't want your vice president to be

somebody that the

um the public says you know

okay okay I see you picked that person

as vice president but you know what I

think that person would be the better

top of the ticket

you never ever want to have that

conversation in the public that's why

you you pick up Mike Pence because Mike

Pence just disappears next to Trump

I don't think I ever heard anybody say

Pence should be president even though I

I have a lot of appreciation for Pence I

think he was in my opinion again the

best vice president we've ever had Gore

was good in his own way

um

yeah I like Pence as a vice president so

no Rama Swami is too Dynamic uh too

strong to be a vice president

uh

uh would you ever consider getting

married again asking for a girlfriend

well uh

I don't think marriage works

that's my experience

now I could go into a long explanation

but I think in 2023 it just sort of

doesn't work

now I still think it's the best model

for raising kids

but it doesn't work for the couple

so much it's too much pressure on

life

so now

um I don't think that marriage is the

right model for somebody like me who's

not looking to have kids if I were

looking to have kids then yes

for kids absolutely

but otherwise the feeling I get of

waking up well I explained this in the

man cave but I'll say it for the YouTube

people

being single

I can match what I want to do with my my

schedule and my desires match up

perfectly meaning that when I'm hungry I

eat when I have interest and energy to

work I work the reason I'm doing this at

this time of day is this is the time of

day I want to do it

that's it this is the time of day I want

to do it so doing things that you want

to do at the time you want to do them is

so directly related to happiness

compared to yes I can do all the things

I like but I can only do them at the

wrong times

right I can only take a vacation when my

spouse can take a vacation

maybe that's my heavy work time I can

only do this because of the kids I can

only do this because of that so you

basically

um if you're the man especially in a in

a marriage you end up in more of a

prisoner situation

so an average married day and by the way

this was this was less true with

Christina but an average married husband

day is you work all day

and then you come home and your wife who

sort of knows the schedule of the kids

and stuff like that who might have also

worked but she tends to know the most

about

who needs to do what and so then your

wife says all right you drive the kids

here and I'll do this and you do this

and then you just

taking instructions from somebody so all

day long you work for somebody else and

then you come home and you work for

somebody else

and it's really hard to find your own

piece in that situation unless you're

such a giving person that your enjoyment

is making the kids and the spouse happy

but if you try to make your spouse happy

your spouse will hate you because the

last thing they want to be is happy

anyway so no I don't think in a modern

world with ordinary

ordinary people that marriage makes

sense anymore it doesn't make sense

financially for sure

um

have we passed the below the Agri IQ

Tipping Point where human civilization

can no longer avoid its own destruction

um I don't know that we're getting

Dumber

but the world is getting more

complicated

so if the world keeps getting more

complicated then the IQs that we have

will be insufficient and I think that's

what's happening

long-term relationships work for

emotionally available people let me say

this

I do think that marriage or any

long-term relationship works when you

have two compatible people who are

complete

people

in other words they know how to talk to

each other they're they're not abusive

they're in it for the right reasons

they're both contributing they've got a

reciprocity mindset that sort of yeah

under those conditions

marriage might be exactly what you want

whether you want kids or not however

how many people do you know where both

of them are functional

how many couples do you know

where both of them are functional

both of them

it's it's almost unheard of yeah you

could get you could find one person who

seems pretty functional

that's not impossible but to find two

people who are both functional and they

like each other

is so rare

it's like a five percent situation maybe

a five two percent situations tops when

I see it I'm always impressed

because I've seen a few situations where

from the outside it looks like oh man

those are two functional people and they

got together how lucky is that

but it's so rare

um

uh lots of negative media about Bitcoin

yeah I don't have a Bitcoin suggestion

all right I think that's all I want to

do on questions for today

did you notice that nobody asked me a

question about race

nobody asked me a question about race

that's like the fastest Overton window

in the history of Overton Windows well

you just went away

do you think it went away or people are

afraid of me now

I feel like there's a little bit of fear

that that my message is a little bit too

dangerous at this point

yeah I think I will be ignored for being

too dangerous

um

and so that's all I have for you today

um

if you haven't seen my pinned tweet

those of you on YouTube maybe you didn't

but my pen tweet explains everything you

need to know

about my uh

dramatic situation of recent days so if

the the Cuomo interview would take you

an hour to get through

but the Twee thread is a you know five

minute read

that will change your life

it will change everything

um

yeah

Matthew says your reputation is shot

Scott

see now that's the person with a weak

ego so somebody asked me about ego the

person who says my reputation is shot is

projecting and what they're projecting

is if I were you

I would feel bad

but you're not me and I don't feel bad

and also sort of a loser's perspective

that if you're if your reputation takes

a hit that that's the end of you

didn't we say that about Trump

like a month ago he was the January 6th

loser who couldn't possibly win

and now he's

you know odds and favorite to win so I

would say that question demonstrates a

loser philosophy

and somebody who has an ego problem

so you should work on that

somebody says we've seen you angry and

scary

yeah no you've never seen me really

angry that's scary

um

being offended is a worse crime than

giving offense

promo code there's no promo code but

um the same low price for everybody yes

the locals platform is where equity

happens because you all pay the same

price

um

all right

and that's all for now go offend

somebody it's fun and I'll talk to you

tomorrow YouTube I'm going to