Episode 2160 Scott Adams - Let's Talk About All The Fake News, False Flags And Absurd Narratives

do good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of human civilization happy fifth in July I hope you all survived the fireworks maybe you've got a sore foot or a sore hand but I hope you've all survived with all your digits if you need any extra fingers or toes I recommend AI it has lots of extra fingers I don't know why but if you like this experience to go up a level that nobody could ever anticipate all you need is a copper and mug or a glass of tanker jealous of Stein a canteen jug or flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure the dopamine dinner the day the thing that makes everything better it's called the simultaneous Sip and happens now go delightful well Ben and Jerry's is uh as you know very activist kind of an organization and Ben and Jerry themselves are very active and they tweeted this Fourth of July it's high time we recognize that the U.S exists on Stolen indigenous land and commit to returning it learn more and take action now they give a link uh Ashley Sinclair saw that tweet and tweeted it herself with this comment you stole the milk from cows to make your ice cream checkmate you stole the milk from cows to make your ice cream checkmate that's as close as you can get to a perfect joke it's a perfect joke and what makes it perfect is it walks right up to the line of uh of reality because you know that they're probably vegetarians right I'm just guessing I mean I don't know but Ben and Jerry probably like to protect the edibles and here they've been taking the animal's milk selling it for profit hahaha that's just the best that's just the best joke of the day right I'm gonna I thank you if you feel what I feel now not in every way of course but uh this is a Zeitgeist Zeitgeist test all right the Zeitgeist is that thing that we all feel but we haven't talked about it it's the thing you you see forming there's an energy forming it's in a certain direction but you haven't nobody's quite talking about it yet but it's all in all of our minds the other day I tweeted uh just a little video of trump uh insulting Joe Biden in a speech just a little tweet 2.9 million views just just a tweet did you hear how many people are showing up at his rallies the rallies are just lit they're just insane apparently yep Can you feel it Can you feel it it's happening again that is doing it again he's just slowly climbing up the you know climbing up your mental I don't know your mental menu until he's the only thing on the menu does it exactly I mean but some of it some of it is the environment is just serving him up and that's going to be the theme for today the theme for today is the environment just by chance is serving you up a another president trump it looks like that's what it looks like it just feels like the entire energy of the country is starting to form around it and it's now becoming obvious I'll give you some examples as we go all right we'll just talk about the headlines but watch how this thesis comes together well here are some things that I think you would all agree that Trump looks better today than he ever did right immigration as France is burning do you think Trump is looking good on immigration never better never better he is at the all-time peak of looking right on immigration he'll he's never been this high on immigration before not even close in my opinion how about the uh January 6 what about that the staying of January 6th that was over him did that work out just the way the Democrats hoped it did not it did not because we live in a country where we don't trust that the people who are rounded up really did something that deserved it we saw Hunter Biden getting a sweetheart deal while January 6 people got the opposite everybody noticed everybody noticed do you think the Democrats didn't notice no they noticed even the Democrats well actually I have a uh I believe I have erasmussen poll on this uh 67 percent of Voters believe it is likely the hunter Biden received favorable treatment from the prosecutors because of his father two-thirds of Voters two-thirds of Voters said Hunter got a sweetheart deal at the same time the January 6 people probably some of them still rotten in jail for not much now of course some of them did Terrible Things nobody nobody ignores that um so let's see how many people do you think uh don't think Hunter got a favorable treatment and this time I'll see let's say let's say if you can get it within three three points three within three let's see if we can get it within three try again you have to get it within three uh 28 that is right 28.

hey how did how did you do that that's amazing so many of you got the right it's 28 percent good guess yeah 28 think it was a perfectly reasonable deal all right if you're new to the live stream there's a running joke that we've been doing for months that for any important question 25 percent of the respondents will have the dumbest answer you've ever seen in your life or roughly 25 for anything it doesn't even matter the topic it's not the same 25 percent it's not the same people I don't know why it's true I just don't know why it's just very consistent that 25 are just wrong about everything different 25.

all right uh let's see what else is going on um have you noticed that the climate is is not the climate is not cooperating with the CO2 which to me is one of the funniest things that's happening because even nature is with the Democrats now it's like they lost in nature you know it's bad enough that you lost 67 percent of the General Public they just lost nature remember when Nature was on their side and the Democrats would say hey it's getting warmer because of the CO2 and then you check the temperature and you'd be like damn these Democrats got something going on here this is warmer and then the next year they'd say it again you're like well you can't be right oh wow you're right again shoot it's getting warmer and then the last few years didn't didn't really serve up what people were expecting if you if you uh follow the hashtag climate scam on Twitter you're going to see a whole bunch of claims of people who purport to have data uh claiming that there's no such warming but at the same time and I say this so I don't get demonetized there are experts still claiming at the same time that the evidence shows uh warming exactly like they expect so there it is there there's your totally reliable news of the day that if you look at the data and you listen to the people who really have looked into it they'll have completely opposite opinions of what even the data says forget about forget about the hypothesis you put on top of it about warming forget about that the experts or at least the Twitter the Twitter talking experts uh can't even agree if it's getting warmer you think that'd be pretty basic is it getting warmer well we don't know well how about something easier are the glaciers melting staying the same or getting bigger well as of this morning the people who looked into it on the internet can't agree they can't even agree if the Glaciers are getting bigger or smaller or anything so um I still think that CO2 probably adds to warming I just don't think the projections about it are necessarily credible however this situation is very Trump friendly isn't it imagine if we go another year without anything that looks like significant warming by the way let me say carefully that would not disprove climate change you you could have you know five or even 10 years of not much warming or even a little Cooling and that would not I want to be very careful about that would not disprove climate change it would certainly make you scratch your head right it would make you look a little more closely at the other numbers it would certainly raise a red flag but it doesn't get quite to the level of disproving it because you would need a much longer time period to do that yeah because even the the pro CO2 people the people who are saying it's beyond the warming even they don't say it's the only Factor nobody says that so the other factors could bounce it around but the idea would be over time it's definitely going to Trend up even if a few years is down I don't know what's true but in the context we're talking about it today I will say that that situation is more friendly to Trump than at any time in the past would you agree that there's never been a moment in modern American let's say last 20 years there's never been a moment when the external facts were friendlier to skepticism is that true would you say that the data is supporting the Skeptics albeit temporarily and albeit not proof of anything not proof of anything but it just happens to be moving in their Direction at the moment so how about Ukraine about the situation in Ukraine we'll talk about the false flag but does that look like it's friendlier to Trump Administration yes yes it is because people actually do believe he could end it in a day do you think the Democrats believe that do you think the Democrats believe that Trump could end the Ukraine war in a day now I will um if you remove the hyperbole if you remove the hyperbole he doesn't literally mean a day right he doesn't need 24 hours but he could he could I I think he's actually possible it's within the realm of possibility that he could do it in one day because you just have to agree to a ceasefire and then work out the details but um I don't think so I mean if I had to bet on it I wouldn't bet anything happens in one day ever you know we don't live in the one day world but do you think that Democrats doubt do you think they doubt that Trump could end it I don't think they do I I think that they I think that they grudgingly and not all of them of course right some are so dug in that they would never say he could do anything but there's got to be a solid 25 percent of Democrats who are saying to themselves well Biden definitely is not getting us out of this war that seems clear to everybody Biden is not getting us out of any wars but would Trump you don't know he might he would try nobody's trying right now so you don't think that 25 percent of Democrats kind of prefer peace no matter how hypnotized or brainwashed they are about Ukraine you don't think 25 are solidly holding out with independent thought and they have an anti-war bias and they're thinking I hate Trump I freaking hate Trump but he might stop this war everything's going his way right now like in a very substantial way how about Hunter's laptop and the corruption that we all saw there it just proves everything about Trump was right right the hunter laptop story wildly helps Trump how about the cocaine that was just found in the White House all right we'll talk about that more does that help jump do you think Trump looks better now that they found cocaine in the White House yeah of course it's like one of these weird not really an important story it's probably the least important thing that's happening in the world is a bag of cocaine in the White House nothing's less important than that but in our minds it just makes the non-drinking non-drug taking Trump look like a superstar I mean really you let a bunch of degenerates in the white house with their cocaine that's what people are going to say not me all right Wall Street uh Wall Street Journal and then of course the abiding himself is decomposing right in front of our eyes so everything's looking friendly for Trump at the moment I think on the economy the economy might be a jump ball I think on the economy people will just Retreat to their parties because there is an argument for Biden being good on the economy that's not my opinion the data simply suggests that because we're coming you know even even inflation has slightly coming down but directionally directionally things look like they're improving now we do have a potentially insolvent insurance and banking industry but I think we'll work our way through it I think but anyway neither the situation I think is ambiguous enough you could argue that Trump could do better in x-waves and you could argue that Biden actually did pretty well given the situation you could argue that neither president has anything to do with anything we just have a strong free market and it handled it so it wasn't Biden just the free market did what it does so I think that economics is going to be a jump ball so that's not going to favor uh Trump substantially all right here's a story that feeds into this theme uh the Wall Street Journal is talking about how the there's a growing Republican consensus about using the military against the cartels here is a sentence from The Wall Street Journal reporting today quote there is a simple reason the idea of military intervention keeps cropping up it is popular and not just with the Republicans in an NBC poll taken in Lay June sending troops to the border to stop drugs was the single best light of 11 GOP proposals tested with Republican primary voters hold on hold on and it was the only one that gained support from a majority of all registered voters all registered voters I have two words to say about that two words you're welcome how do you like me now now of course it could turn into a could turn into a horrible debacle you know depending on how it gets executed if it does but um there you go so we'll see if it happens I mean it still requires a Republican president so that there by no means does it mean any of this is going to happen by no means but the public is on this side Publix on the side here's a true anecdote um recently A friend told me that another friend of theirs died from fentanyl overdose how many of you have heard that story recently somebody you know died of a fence a little overdose tell me just somebody you know personally I have yes yes yes you know some knows but a lot of yeses have we reached the point where most of the country knows somebody who died of fentanyl all right you want to have your uh your brain broken there's a second part to the story so I said how many people do you know who have died of Fentanyl overdose like for sure died of fentanyl overdose person said approximately 10.

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and I said 10 in what period of time two years two years ten ten people this person knows well 10.

10 people two years all right uh next topic um so I guess there's a U.S District Court just ruled that this might be a big deal the governments can't coerce social media to censor news now I don't know how this will actually play out in the real world because it's a little like affirmative action I'm not sure the government has to has to twist any arms am I right do they really need to twist on the arms They Don't Really they just need to whisper it hey uh Mark uh you know it'd really be nice if if you're a platform I don't know just had a little less of this or that and then Mark says oh that's what my side wants my side wants less of this or that is that the government coercing people or is that just somebody knowing what TV's on and then he finds out what the team wants is that coercion not really but yes but not really but it totally is but not really I'm not sure that this really makes any difference do you think the ruling will make any difference at all maybe in the form of the coercion but not in the coercion the coercion should be exactly the same we'll see we shall see you um so uh where's pagosian pregosian he's uh he's in Belarus Belarus is he uh partying it up in Belarus is anybody having good selfies as he published a lot of selfies lately how many of you have figured out that you need to listen to me to figure out what the news really is well you might be alive but he's definitely under Putin's control Putin would have been silly to kill him right away that would have been the wrong move that's not good dictatoring good dictatoring is you capture him you interrogate him you find out who's working with him and when you're completely sure that you've tortured him to the point where he's really given you everybody then you kill him and a mercy that would be good dictatoring so we assume that Putin is a high level operator in the dictatoring so his dictatoring probably included this very obvious move have you seen the news embarrassingly admit that they had been fooled into thinking he went to Belarus when obviously that never happened you've seen all those stories correction we said he went to Belarus but it turns out it was only his plane as far as We Know you see all the corrections right no no no Corrections how long do we have to wait without seeing a picture of them before we can admit he's not in Belarus how long all right well you're already here first all right you probably saw in the news that uh there's a Ukraine built um nuclear power plants that Russia has control of now so they control that territory and they control the plant and the ukrainians say that the Russians have planted explosives on the top of it and they're planning uh to blow it up or to missile it or drone it it's called The zaparizia Nuclear Power Plant oh you all believe that right do you do you all believe that Russia will attack a nuclear power plant on the territory it controls its own territory it's going to blow up a multi-billion dollar asset of Their Own one that they use on their own territory that they've captured here's the here's what's different in 2023 in 2023 we all know it's a false flag well literally all of us know that we've all been trained we finally learned what it looks like how they do it and how the news will cover it and the hilarious thing about this is that everybody spotted this at the first minute it was like zelenski's on TV it's like well the Russians they've put uh they seem to have put explosives on the top of the nuclear power plant no they didn't you troll you goddamn bastard they did not do that you did that we know you did that it's the Nord stream all over again we've seen this play don't lie to us you little troll you know they're not going to blow up their own nuclear power plant they didn't blow up their own pipeline they're not going to blow up their own nuclear power plant is it a coincidence that that would be the red line oh what a coincidence in order to give the ukrainians massive NATO support all it would require is for Putin to do something careless or stupid with a nuclear asset yes that's all it would take oh surprise surprise all right here let me let me just lay down some probabilities if if this thing goes the way it looks like it's going to go and there actually is a false flag attack that that we can all see like we just assume it's a false flag it's president Trump I give you president Trump just just put him in office tomorrow you don't need to wait for the election because first of all the war is over if Ukraine tries to do that to the United States give us this false flag thing or maybe our military you know maybe it's NATO I don't know whoever it is but whoever does this the war's over War's over right one way or another the the American support will disappear now you could say wait a minute that's exactly Putin's plan Putin's going to do this because they know that we'll think it's a false flag and then they'll reduce support so maybe it's a Putin plan chess player Putin you never know well I do think we will know that's what I think I think we'll know just like we know the pipeline you know maybe not on day one on day one we might not know but we'll know we're gonna figure it out and we're going to hold responsible anybody who was behind it you're not going to get away with this like maybe in the short run some way but no way let me just say if there's any if there's anybody that's allegedly on our side allegedly on our side who does that they have to die I mean that's got to be a death sentence you start a war on fake pretense I don't care if you're the president of the United States that's a death sentence you should be it should be I mean with the courts not not talking about a revolution I think the courts and the law they don't but they should support executing anybody who do a false flag to start a nuclear war I mean that seems basic all right um the reparations task force in California continues to abuse and they've added to their claims that they would like to drop the law they want to get rid of the law that makes it a crime to urinate in public so they would like millions of dollars per person and they would like to urinate in public now we're not quite there but you can see the logical endpoint here can't you The Logical endpoint we're almost there is that the reparations task force would like to recommend and I feel like they're just they're sort of crawling up to it you know cats on the roof they don't want to break it to us all at once but what they really want is for Californians to uh pay black Californians a massive amount of money and then let the black Californians piss on them so you want to combine those two things so it's not good enough that you just give money you want to give money and then have them piss on you in return and that's apparently what they're asking for so right now it's just they want to urinate on sidewalks I guess but you know obviously that's that's going to be you know scaling up to eventually they'll just be whipping it out and spraying all passers by thanks for the reparations hey everybody thanks for the reparations yeah come on by thanks for the reparations so it's gonna be like that I think that's the end point all right um I saw a video from uh Ryan Brian romelli he shows an example of AI making a Pixar Style movie just from a script now not from Pixar's script I don't think but just from some other script and the the animation looked Pixar quality now I don't think they're quite at the point where he could feed a script into it and a movie comes out the other end that you'd want to watch but we're very close to a Dilbert movie that requires me to do little or no work now I don't know if anybody would watch it but the the technology to make it just from a script is very high very high right now so maybe that'll happen if I had to guess that's a year away maybe less maybe less than one year AI will be able to make a full movie with you know hitting all the beats and you know having basically a fully edited movie maybe less of the year um I continue with my prediction that humans will not want to watch AI generated art of any kind is that a contrarian I don't know if anybody else to say that and the reason is that we enjoy art made by humans because of our knowledge it came from humans if you take away your knowledge that a human made it it'll lose all interests because when we're reading it we're not just reading it for entertainment there's some connection with the creators that's important to the process like a mental connection you know that somebody wrote in somebody acted in it as soon as you take away all the human elements you would just be watching a computer's daydream no interest whatsoever I I want to see that if I see a movie that's like ah this is the best movie I think about the director I think about the writers I think about the skill of the actors I even think about the like the the costume people so when I see a great movie I'm thinking about the talent of the humans who put it together and that's what Thrills me I'm thrilled by the human Talent even though I don't necessarily conceptualize it that way when I'm watching it I'm just sort of enjoying the jokes so I've been re-watching in my opinion the best television show of all time called Modern Family ran for many years so I'm starting from the beginning to to re-watch it and I'm having that experience as I'm watching Phil Dunphy say the funniest things you've ever seen on television I'm thinking about the writers the human writers I'm thinking how did they how did they come up with that and that's what makes me like really engaged if if an AI had written the same joke and had a and had a CGI that looked just like Phil Dunphy the character um I don't know that I would enjoy it I think it would just be flat in my mind even if it was just the same I think it would be flat so my and I think that'll be true with music humor movies and probably books and I don't know if that's going to change it might be that we just lose interest in all of those forms of entertainment because people stop doing it and computer-based stuff isn't interesting we just might just stop being entertained in the same way but we'll see you know the the most likely place this will end up is that the same creators that are creating now like me will just use the tools for example instead of replacing me to make Dilbert is far more likely that I will use an AI tool with my art director and we will slightly animate the comic so I should be able to very soon say Wally's at the table with Dilbert Wally's back to it back is to us and he says the following things and then watch it come alive and then Wally talks you hear it and then he turns around he gesticulates So within a year for sure I should be able to create comment comics with my art director but there's still going to be lots of trial and error try this try this adjust that adjust that so you can't take the humans out because the humans are the only thing telling you if you've done it right so far right the human can say try this try to destroy this but only the human can tell you if it's working because they can feel it computer can't do that all right um I saw that there is still an effort to pack the Supreme Court and I thought to myself all right but I didn't already have a task force on asking that question and Biden's own task force said no did you know that that Biden actually had a task force or some some time ago and the task force came back and said no don't do it don't pack the court so it's been asked and answered but that doesn't mean it's done so I wanted to see who who is dumb enough and worthless enough and terrible enough that they'd be working on trying to pack the court even today even after Biden's own people said don't do it who would actually do that in our government not in the government Jerry Nadler Jerry nadler's on that team trying to push I mean there's some others as well but I'm I'm genuinely curious about that guy is even does he wake up in the morning and try to do the job of the the people's work like I don't even know what's going on with him because he doesn't even seem slightly interested in the well-being of the country you know you could easily um you could defend him by saying well he's just being a good Democrat and he's doing what a lot of Democrats want him to do so he's just serving his base maybe but it doesn't look like that does it it looked like it looks like there's something else going on with him that's not like other people it's like he's intentionally picking the worst possible thing to support and I I can't believe that his brain is so dysfunctional he doesn't know he is intentionally picking the worst possible things he acts as though he's he's in the pocket of a foreign adversary am I wrong and I'm not saying that about AOC that's not something I just say about Democrats right I'm not just like insulting Democrats I don't think AOC works for China I think obviously you worked for herself and I think actually she tries to do things that her people want and you know she's at least semi believable even if you don't like her policies but Nadler he doesn't look like a real politician right he looks he looks like he's not trying AOC looks like she's trying you know and she can be get silly sometimes with her arguments but he doesn't look like he's trying he looks like he wakes up trying to hurt the country I mean it just looks like that I'm not I'm not reading his mind and I'm not even accusing him of anything I'm saying he acts like somebody who's not even trying to be on the side of the Democrats or anybody just anybody he looks like he's on China's side just trying to like screw everything over a little bit all right well it just looks like that anyway um I saw a tweet by uh uh uh oh Zion lights that's that's her name Zion lights um and she said oh hold on I pasted the wrong thing in there but I remember what it was so if you look at the UAE uh the country UAE yeah apparently they um they ramped up their nuclear energy program really fast just a few years and in just a few years their nuclear energy production has surpassed other European countries doing green energy for you know decades and decades and so the argument is that if the UAE can rapidly and apparently economically ramp up a nuclear power industry we should be able to do it too and I think the key is that we always look at how it was done in the past and that was done wrong but I think if you stick with a design that's proven and you know Ben and Ben used let's say pick a design that France has been using for 20 years right you don't have to wonder too much if it works it's the one that's been working for 20 years so it looks like that's the secret you have to you know it might help to have a dictator-ish you know leader so you can get rid of a lot of red tape so I think if you could get rid of our red tape standardize on some known designs that work um should be fairly quick I mean there's no reason that a strong president who really cared about nuclear energy there's no reason that that strong president couldn't just make this work you know just just sort of force it through but I don't I don't see that energy from Trump I never saw him being pro-nuclear except throwing it in a speech or two and certainly don't see it with Biden so I don't know what president it would take to push nuclear energy harder but we don't have we don't have the at least the top two candidates at the moment to polling wise don't seem to be the right ones neither them are the right ones for nuclear energy on the other hand I would say that both that the energy Department under Trump as well as under Biden seems to be very activist and doing the right things to Spur nuclear energy growth so I think the department of energy seems like it's been on point through different two different administrations but somehow without the support of the top I I don't know what that's all about all right let's talk about cocaine in the White House you saw the news cocaine was discovered in the white house and let me tell you the order of how the news broke it went like this cocaine has been found in the library of the White House step two uh social media reports that everybody knows there are security cameras in the library all right here's the two first part cocaine was found in the library security cameras should tell us for sure who is using it 0.3 oh it totally wasn't in the library it was in the working area a working area a working area I'm just going to go out on a limb and say I'll bet there are no security cameras in the working area just a guess I'll bet there are no cameras in the working or could that be where the cameras don't work oh oh and and would it be possible that whoever looks at the cameras if there is anybody doing it they fell asleep probably fell asleep does any of this sound familiar now um my own opinion is that the the cocaine did not belong to Hunter right had it been a laptop I'd say hunter but all evidence suggests the hunter hunter Biden has never left a house that still had cocaine in it anybody anybody never left the house that still had cocaine in it all right well that's all I got for you there yeah I'm sure it was doc Dr jilsman been dipping in um so let me ask you this question do you think that authorities don't know who it belongs to you think they don't know it was in a baggie do you think that whoever handled the bag he used to use the glove you know you don't think they're fingerprints all over that baggie you don't think every staffer in the white house has been fingerprinted how many people how many people would be able to use a workspace in the White House just have access to it who had not been fingerprinted anybody about zero I think the answer is zero so they got the bag they've got the fingerprints they know exactly who it belongs to have you heard the news yet oh interesting it's not in the news is it how long does it take to get a fingerprint weeks 10 minutes about 10 minutes right it's about 10 minutes and once you got your fingerprint you can tell us if that fingerprint belongs to Hunter Biden or not and if it's somebody else you could tell us that too do you think you're going to hear that do you think you're going to see the video uh videotape of the crime no no no no no no you're not do you think this story favors Trump yeah yep yes it does now let me be clear I assume that every every Administration has its you know a healthy share of regular drug doers is that fair to say don't you assume every Administration has some pretty cranked up people in it so I'm not I'm not going to tell you that a trump White House Would Be Drug Free and this Biden White House is full of these degenerate drug users I don't think that's the case it's just that this specific story massively favors one side massively it just makes you feel a certain way and if I've taught you anything the way you feel about it is going to determine your opinion you know the the facts are somewhat irrelevant and the way you feel about Hunter Biden having been cleared of all those other charges or at least has a plea deal that could get accepted if this happened well there are two things that are bad one would be we found out for sure it was Hunter Biden and he brought cocaine into the White House that would be really really bad but you know it would be almost as bad never getting an answer who of whose uh it was that would be that would be assuming it's Hunters you'd still make the Assumption and then you assume that the administration is corrupt there's no way they win this they're either gonna they're either gonna throw Hunter under the bus Which can't happen or they'll go through the administration under the bus and say it's corrupt so am I wrong that things are shaping up to just hand it to Trump does it look like that now remember I'm I'm endorsing Rama Swami but you can't deny what you see and what you feel and it looks to me like Trump is rising to me it looks like Trump is rising do any of you feel it do you feel the energy shift because I'm interested if I'm just hallucinating here had anybody noticed it before before I mentioned it because I might be influencing you so so some say they hadn't noticed it before yeah and Trump just needs to shut up yeah when Trump is doing uh nasty nicknames and stuff he's definitely the funniest candidate uh but let's see if he'll stay out of trouble we'll see I doubt it all right um this is how we read the news in 2023 ready so I'm looking at the headlines I'm like all right it looks like a false flag developing in Ukraine uh we've got the cocaine cover up that's going to happen in the you know any moment now uh we've got the climate scam that's falling apart it's like when I read the news now not only do I assume it's fake but I know it's very nature and I know the nature of the fakeness and even before it happens like the false flag we know the nature of the fakeness and we can also predict what's going to happen now I do imagine that everybody immediately seeing it as a false flag that could ruin the false flagness right like if you were if you were actually trying to do a false flag in Ukraine and everybody saw it before it happened everybody we all see it and then you go ahead and do it I'm not sure that's a good idea I mean the the fact that we all see it might actually stop it might actually stop it because I'm definitely not in favor of you know throwing nato in there if there's a nuclear event right I'm not no I mean not at all right um I would like to say something so provocative now that the odds of me being kicked off of You.

Tube are pretty good pretty good anybody up for that anybody want to anyone want to go on a dangerous Journey all right now this dangerous Journey um I believe is well I'm going to present to you with the hope that it's signaling something positive right so there's something positive happening that I also sort of feel in the zeitgeist but I did a confirmation it goes like this I feel like our our feelings about race are improving now you might not feel like that because the news is serving you up the news is serving you up the opposite right if you looked at the news it looks like everything's getting worse but here's what I'm seeing there's a willingness to joke about race there's a little bit more than I've seen before there's a little bit more willingness to joke and I think that until you can get to full joking you're not a family right you're not a team you're not a team until you can joke with each other you're not a family until you can you know criticize and joke with each other and it never leaves that frame it never leaves the frame that we're a family joking with each other right I'm going to give you two jokes that I saw on Twitter today one you could consider racist against white people yikes the other you could consider racists against black people yikes yikes I'm going to read you both jokes yeah I'm going to do that right in front of you but the context is this I think they're both funny and that's the end of the story now one of them is is pretty brutal you'll figure out which one pretty quickly one of them's got it brutal but it's still funny even though it's brutal is funny so I want to I want to test this with you could you accept these jokes as just funny because if you can we've really come somewhere like I would say that's progress right so the first one was and I'll just explain it to you so you don't see it there was a video of a white guy dancing poorly in I think Times Square or something that looked like that so this is dumpy little white guy he's he's dancing like a lane from Seinfeld sort of not too elegantly and there was a black influencer who retweeted that and added the note White History Month so the White History Month and this little nerdy white guy dancing like like a nerd and I thought to myself okay that was really funny yeah this is funny when I see a black influencer making fun of white people for dressing poorly or if we're dancing inelegantly to me that's just funny so I had I had no negative not a single negative feeling about that it was just funny all right here's the brutal one all right I saw maybe you've heard this before uh this one's pretty brutal right so I'm not telling you this because of the joke uh or because I'm agreeing with it right I want to see where we are I'm just testing the temperature all right so this one was on Twitter and wasn't banned on Twitter it said black you you've heard people say that the slaves and because and reparations is based on the fact that the slaves and black Americans Built America you've heard that no of course that's hyperbole but the is part of the argument for reparations is that black Americans specifically the slaves Built America well this joke sort of pushes back on that idea quite brutally and says blacks Built America like cows built Mc.

Donald's okay that's just funny it's brutal is racist just like the other joke you know White History Month is just racist but it's also funny are we at the point where we can laugh at that did anybody get hurt was anybody injured do you do you have a you know somehow lesser opinion of black people because of this joke I don't doesn't change anything about my real opinions in the real world it's just clever it's just funny so how do we get here like how do we do more of this and again certainly there would be racial jokes that are Beyond The Pale right but some of them are just silly and you know they're just clever could we not laugh about that we couldn't have a good time together like black and white and just still laugh at that I feel like we could and I feel like there's something that happened with the affirmative action ruling because the affirmative action ruling did something Beyond change the Precedence and the law what it did was it educated the country of what was happening to Asian Americans and I don't think people who don't follow Twitter and don't follow the news I don't think they do do you I mean I didn't know I mean I knew I knew there was a thing there I knew it was bad I had no idea how extreme it was no idea until I saw the data and then I said whoa things have gone too far that's just too far and the Supreme Court agreed they said that's too far but I feel like that somehow changed the way all of us are thinking about everything in terms of race it changed everything about how you're thinking about everything but not in such an obvious way that you're maybe conscious of it I think it just it was just like a wake-up call so it's just like a little slap in the face of the country it's like wake up wake up you can't possibly think is good to massively discriminate against Asian Americans wake up wake up hey hey wake up that can't be good wake up oh well and like suddenly the country woke up at the same time and and looked at that situation and said what well I don't want to live in a country where Asian Americans are just massively discriminated against for nothing except you know their ethnicity who wants to live in that country nobody literally nobody so I feel like I feel like that was like a wake-up call where people understood that good intentions can go too far that's the one that solidified it because we live on stories we don't live on Concepts the concept that things have gone too far didn't really solidify in your head but once it's a story you know it's the Asians getting into college story now it's a story so you'll remember that and it'll be influential forever so I think something changed I think something changed and I think that we're moving toward a understanding that black Americans need more than anything strategy because the Asian-American example if you're racist you're going to say oh because they're smart right if you're racist you say oh the Asians are smart that's why they do so well maybe they are but you don't need you don't need that assumption you could look at the strategy you don't say culture as soon as you say culture you get in trouble that's why I say strategy look at the strategy stay out of jail stay off drugs study hard try to get a job that you know will pay well start a family stay married raise the kids get them into college that's a strategy are you telling me that black Americans can't use that same strategy why because because they started behind the ball or you know systemic racism that might make it harder but unless you're doing those things nobody wants to hear from you I think that's the big I think that's a big takeaway from the affirmative action ruling unless you're doing what the Asian Americans are doing it the way they're doing it we don't want to hear from you didn't that feel like exactly what you were thinking if he can't do what the Asian Americans are doing I don't even want to have a conversation honestly I'm just not interested anymore if if black Americans were trying hard to do what the Asian Americans are doing this working and it wasn't working for black Americans then I'm completely engaged let's fix this what's wrong here let's fix it but if you're not doing the the strategy that everybody knows Works everybody knows it everybody knows it if you're not trying to do that strategy we don't want to hear from you don't make it my problem definitely not my problem so something has definitely changed and I think some of it is positive in other words we're sort of framing the things as more of a strategy deficit and once you approve that the Asian Americans basically all of them follow the same strategy and it worked you know I'm exaggerating it's not all of anybody but it's undeniable right we've gotten to the point where you can't make an argument that the people who do the right things get bad outcomes you just can't make that argument it would sound ridiculous in 2023.

but I think in the past people made that argument that even if you're black and you did everything right it still wouldn't work out for you does anybody believe that do any of you believe that if you're black American you do everything right you know the stay out of jail study hard build a skill unless you have terrible luck like you're the victim of a drive-by shooting or something unless you have terrible luck know every one of you expect that that would work it would probably work really well not even a little bit just a lot it works pretty much every time so there there does seem to be some willingness and I think the affirmative action thing caused it a willingness to say get your strategy right or we can't even tell how much systemic racism is mattering I take it as a given the systemic racism is a is a big variable but how big how big I have no idea because I'm you know not in that situation but if I looked at people whose strategy was solid they're doing the right strategy and they're still not getting it done then I would say whoa whoa that's then you gotta look pretty hard at the systemic racism but then you sized it right then you know the size of it could also be you know something else but unless you get the strategy the same we don't want to hear from you all right that ladies and gentlemen is my always risky but positive Take On The World and how much do you love that I have free free speech how much do you love it how many of you would like to hear me read the Dilbert Dilbert reborn comic today um and now some of you pay for it your subscribers so if you don't mind I'm gonna I'm gonna read this one all right so this will give you an idea what you're missing why can't I find it in my own fee there it is all right so it starts out with uh Dilbert and dogberg to watch the news and this is a crossover where the news that they're watching is robots read news my other comic so this is the first crossover of my my two comics so they started out watching the news and then the the robots talking from the news so the news says uh Roomba started offering what some are calling an Uber for cats and you see the robot he says the way it works um and then the robot looks down and sees that the Chiron says put your on it and then the robot says I knew it was a mistake to hire the Chiron guy from Fox News then the Chiron says robot anyway robot now there's something I couldn't do in newspapers yeah so this brings together the headlines and two separate comics you know I'll tell you I'm in I I could not be happier creatively and let me ask you this do you think AI could have made that comic do you think there's any time in the future AI can make that comic no because AI can't take the risks that I just took right AI would never do what I just did part of being a humorist is your is you're putting yourself at Mortal Danger uh in front of other people you know when you mock things you do open yourself up for Revenge and you know I get plenty of that but it's worth it I think it's worth it and Now ladies and gentlemen concludes my amazing presentation thanks for joining me on You.

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and Ben and Jerry themselves are very

active and they tweeted this Fourth of

July

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uh Ashley Sinclair

saw that tweet and tweeted it herself

with this comment

you stole the milk from cows to make

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you stole the milk from cows to make

your ice cream

checkmate

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that's as close as you can get to a

perfect joke

it's a perfect joke

and what makes it perfect is it walks

right up to the line of uh of reality

because you know that they're probably

vegetarians right

I'm just guessing I mean I don't know

but Ben and Jerry probably like to

protect the edibles

and here they've been taking the

animal's milk

selling it for profit

hahaha

that's just the best that's just the

best joke of the day

right I'm gonna I

thank you if you feel what I feel

now not in every way of course but uh

this is a Zeitgeist Zeitgeist test all

right the Zeitgeist is that thing that

we all feel but we haven't talked about

it it's the thing you you see forming

there's an energy forming it's in a

certain direction but you haven't

nobody's quite talking about it yet but

it's all in all of our minds

the other day I tweeted uh just a little

video of trump uh insulting Joe Biden in

a speech

just a little tweet

2.9 million views

just just a tweet

did you hear how many people are showing

up at his rallies

the rallies are just lit they're just

insane apparently

yep Can you feel it

Can you feel it

it's happening again

that is doing it again he's

just slowly climbing up the you know

climbing up your mental

I don't know your mental menu until he's

the only thing on the menu

does it exactly I mean but some of it

some of it is the environment is just

serving him up and that's going to be

the theme for today the theme for today

is

the environment just by chance

is serving you up a

another president trump it looks like

that's what it looks like it just feels

like the entire energy of the country is

starting to form around it and it's now

becoming obvious I'll give you some

examples as we go all right we'll just

talk about the headlines but watch how

this

thesis comes together

well here are some things that I think

you would all agree

that Trump looks better today than he

ever did right immigration

as France is burning

do you think Trump is looking good on

immigration

never better

never better he is at the all-time peak

of looking right on immigration he'll

he's never been this high on immigration

before not even close

in my opinion

how about the uh January 6

what about that the staying of January

6th that was over him did that work out

just the way the Democrats hoped

it did not

it did not because we live in a country

where we don't trust that the people who

are rounded up really did something that

deserved it we saw Hunter Biden getting

a sweetheart deal

while January 6 people got the opposite

everybody noticed

everybody noticed do you think the

Democrats didn't notice no they noticed

even the Democrats well actually I have

a uh I believe I have erasmussen poll on

this

uh 67 percent of Voters believe it is

likely the hunter Biden received

favorable treatment from the prosecutors

because of his father

two-thirds of Voters

two-thirds of Voters said Hunter got a

sweetheart deal at the same time the

January 6 people

probably some of them still rotten in

jail for not much

now of course some of them did Terrible

Things nobody nobody ignores that

um

so let's see how many people do you

think uh don't think Hunter got a

favorable treatment and this time I'll

see let's say let's say if you can get

it within three three points three

within three let's see if we can get it

within three

try again you have to get it within

three

uh 28 that is right 28. hey how did how

did you do that that's amazing so many

of you got the right it's 28 percent

good guess

yeah 28 think it was a perfectly

reasonable deal

all right if you're new to the live

stream there's a running joke

that we've been doing for months that

for any important question

25 percent of the respondents will have

the dumbest answer you've ever

seen in your life

or roughly 25 for anything it doesn't

even matter the topic it's not the same

25 percent it's not the same people

I don't know why it's true I just don't

know why it's just very consistent that

25 are just wrong about everything

different 25.

all right

uh let's see what else is going on

um have you noticed that the climate is

is not

the climate is not cooperating with the

CO2

which to me is one of the funniest

things that's happening because even

nature is with the Democrats now

it's like they lost in nature

you know it's bad enough that you lost

67 percent of the General Public

they just lost

nature

remember when Nature was on their side

and the Democrats would say hey it's

getting warmer because of the CO2 and

then you check the temperature

and you'd be like damn

these Democrats got something going on

here this is warmer and then the next

year

they'd say it again you're like well you

can't be right oh wow you're right again

shoot it's getting warmer

and then the last few years didn't

didn't really serve up what people were

expecting

if you if you uh follow the hashtag

climate scam on Twitter

you're going to see a whole bunch of

claims of people who purport to have

data uh claiming that there's no such

warming but at the same time and I say

this so I don't get demonetized there

are experts still claiming at the same

time

that the evidence shows uh warming

exactly like they expect

so there it is there there's your

totally reliable news of the day that if

you look at the data and you listen to

the people who really have looked into

it they'll have completely opposite

opinions of what even the data says

forget about forget about the hypothesis

you put on top of it about warming

forget about that

the experts or at least the Twitter the

Twitter talking experts uh can't even

agree if it's getting warmer

you think that'd be pretty basic is it

getting warmer well we don't know well

how about something easier are the

glaciers melting

staying the same or getting bigger

well as of this morning

the people who looked into it on the

internet can't agree they can't even

agree if the Glaciers are getting bigger

or smaller or anything

so

um I still think that CO2 probably adds

to warming I just don't think the

projections about it are necessarily

credible

however this situation is very Trump

friendly isn't it

imagine if we go another year without

anything that looks like significant

warming

by the way let me say carefully that

would not disprove climate change

you you could have you know five or even

10 years of not much warming or even a

little Cooling and that would not I want

to be very careful about that would not

disprove climate change

it would certainly make you scratch your

head right it would make you look a

little more closely at the other numbers

it would certainly raise a red flag

but it doesn't get quite to the level of

disproving it

because you would need a much longer

time period to do that yeah because even

the the pro CO2 people the people who

are saying it's beyond the warming even

they don't say it's the only Factor

nobody says that

so the other factors could bounce it

around but the idea would be over time

it's definitely going to Trend up even

if a few years is down

I don't know what's true

but in the context we're talking about

it today I will say that that situation

is more friendly to Trump than at any

time in the past would you agree

that there's never been a moment

in modern American let's say last 20

years there's never been a moment

when the external facts were friendlier

to skepticism

is that true would you say that the data

is supporting the Skeptics albeit

temporarily and albeit not proof of

anything not proof of anything

but it just happens to be moving in

their Direction at the moment

so how about Ukraine

about the situation in Ukraine we'll

talk about the false flag but does that

look like it's friendlier to Trump

Administration yes yes it is because

people actually do believe he could end

it in a day

do you think the Democrats believe that

do you think the Democrats believe that

Trump could end the Ukraine war in a day

now I will

um if you remove the hyperbole if you

remove the hyperbole he doesn't

literally mean a day

right he doesn't need 24 hours but he

could he could I I think he's actually

possible

it's within the realm of possibility

that he could do it in one day

because you just have to agree to a

ceasefire and then work out the details

but um I don't think so I mean if I had

to bet on it I wouldn't bet anything

happens in one day ever

you know we don't live in the one day

world

but do you think that Democrats doubt

do you think they doubt that Trump could

end it

I don't think they do

I I think that they I think that they

grudgingly and not all of them of course

right some are so dug in that they would

never say he could do anything but

there's got to be a solid 25 percent of

Democrats who are saying to themselves

well Biden definitely is not getting us

out of this war

that seems clear to everybody Biden is

not getting us out of any wars

but would Trump

you don't know

he might

he would try nobody's trying right now

so you don't think that 25 percent of

Democrats kind of prefer peace

no matter how hypnotized or brainwashed

they are about Ukraine you don't think

25 are solidly holding out with

independent thought and they have an

anti-war bias and they're thinking I

hate Trump I freaking hate Trump

but he might stop this war

everything's going his way right now

like in a very substantial way

how about

Hunter's laptop and the corruption that

we all saw there it just proves

everything about Trump was right right

the hunter laptop story wildly helps

Trump how about the cocaine that was

just found in the White House

all right we'll talk about that more

does that help jump

do you think Trump looks better now that

they found cocaine in the White House

yeah of course it's like one of these

weird not really an important story it's

probably the least important thing

that's happening in the world is a bag

of cocaine in the White House nothing's

less important than that

but in our minds

it just makes the non-drinking non-drug

taking Trump look like a superstar

I mean really you let a bunch of

degenerates in the white house with

their cocaine that's what people are

going to say not me

all right

Wall Street uh

Wall Street Journal and then of course

the abiding himself is decomposing right

in front of our eyes

so everything's looking friendly for

Trump at the moment I think on the

economy

the economy might be a jump ball

I think on the economy people will just

Retreat to their parties because there

is an argument for Biden being good on

the economy

that's not my opinion

the data simply suggests that because

we're coming you know even even

inflation has slightly coming down

but directionally

directionally things look like they're

improving now we do have a potentially

insolvent insurance and banking industry

but I think we'll work our way through

it I think

but anyway neither the situation I think

is ambiguous enough you could argue that

Trump could do better in x-waves and you

could argue that Biden actually did

pretty well given the situation you

could argue that neither president has

anything to do with anything we just

have a strong free market and it handled

it so it wasn't Biden just the free

market did what it does

so I think that economics is going to be

a jump ball

so that's not going to favor uh Trump

substantially

all right here's a story that feeds into

this theme uh the Wall Street Journal is

talking about how the there's a growing

Republican consensus about using the

military against the cartels

here is a sentence from The Wall Street

Journal reporting today quote

there is a simple reason the idea of

military intervention keeps cropping up

it is popular and not just with the

Republicans in an NBC poll taken in Lay

June sending troops to the border to

stop drugs was the single best light of

11 GOP proposals tested with Republican

primary voters hold on hold on

and it was the only one that gained

support from a majority of all

registered voters

all registered voters

I have two words to say about that

two words

you're welcome

how do you like me now

now of course it could turn into a could

turn into a horrible debacle you know

depending on how it gets executed if it

does

but um

there you go so we'll see if it happens

I mean it still requires a Republican

president so that there by no means does

it mean any of this is going to happen

by no means

but the public is on this side

Publix on the side

here's a true anecdote

um recently A friend told me that

another friend of theirs

died from fentanyl overdose

how many of you have heard that story

recently

somebody you know died of a fence a

little overdose tell me just somebody

you know

personally

I have yes yes yes

you know some knows but a lot of yeses

have we reached the point where most of

the country knows somebody who died of

fentanyl

all right you want to have your uh your

brain broken

there's a second part to the story

so I said how many people do you know

who have died of Fentanyl overdose like

for sure died of fentanyl overdose

person said

approximately

10.

10.

and I said 10 in what period of time

two years

two years

ten ten people this person knows well

10.

10 people two years

all right

uh next topic

um

so I guess there's a U.S District Court

just ruled that

this might be a big deal the governments

can't coerce social media to censor news

now I don't know how this will actually

play out in the real world because it's

a little like affirmative action I'm not

sure the government has to has to twist

any arms am I right do they really need

to twist on the arms They Don't Really

they just need to whisper it

hey uh Mark uh you know it'd really be

nice if

if you're a platform I don't know just

had a little less of this or that

and then Mark says oh that's what my

side wants my side wants less of this or

that

is that the government coercing people

or is that just somebody knowing what

TV's on and then he finds out what the

team wants

is that coercion

not really

but yes but not really

but it totally is

but not really

I'm not sure that this really makes any

difference

do you think the ruling will make any

difference at all maybe in the form of

the coercion but not in the coercion the

coercion should be exactly the same

we'll see

we shall see you

um

so uh

where's pagosian

pregosian he's uh he's in Belarus

Belarus is he uh partying it up in

Belarus is anybody having good selfies

as he published a lot of selfies lately

how many of you have figured out that

you need to listen to me to figure out

what the news really is

well you might be alive but he's

definitely under Putin's control

Putin would have been silly to kill him

right away that would have been the

wrong move that's not good dictatoring

good dictatoring is you capture him you

interrogate him you find out who's

working with him and when you're

completely sure that you've tortured him

to the point where he's really given you

everybody then you kill him and a mercy

that would be good dictatoring so we

assume that Putin is a high level

operator in the dictatoring so his

dictatoring probably included this very

obvious move

have you seen the news

embarrassingly admit that they had been

fooled into thinking he went to Belarus

when obviously that never happened

you've seen all those stories correction

we said he went to Belarus but it turns

out it was only his plane as far as We

Know

you see all the corrections right no no

no Corrections how long do we have to

wait without seeing a picture of them

before we can admit he's not in Belarus

how long

all right well you're already here first

all right you probably saw in the news

that uh there's a Ukraine

built

um nuclear power plants that Russia has

control of now so they control that

territory and they control the plant

and the ukrainians say that the Russians

have planted explosives on the top of it

and they're planning uh to blow it up or

to missile it or drone it

it's called The zaparizia Nuclear Power

Plant

oh you all believe that right

do you do you all believe that Russia

will attack

a nuclear power plant on the territory

it controls its own territory

it's going to blow up

a multi-billion dollar asset of Their

Own

one that they use on their own territory

that they've captured

here's the here's what's different in

2023

in 2023 we all know it's a false flag

well literally all of us know that we've

all been trained we finally learned what

it looks like how they do it and how the

news will cover it

and the hilarious thing about this is

that everybody spotted this at the first

minute

it was like zelenski's on TV it's like

well the Russians they've put uh they

seem to have put explosives on the top

of the nuclear power plant no they

didn't you troll you goddamn

bastard they did not do that you

did that we know you did that it's the

Nord stream all over again we've seen

this play don't lie to us you little

troll you know they're not going

to blow up their own nuclear power plant

they didn't blow up their own pipeline

they're not going to blow up their own

nuclear power plant is it a

coincidence that that would be the red

line oh what a coincidence in order to

give the ukrainians massive NATO support

all it would require is for Putin to do

something careless or stupid with a

nuclear asset yes that's all it would

take oh surprise surprise

all right here let me let me just lay

down some

probabilities

if if this thing goes the way it looks

like it's going to go

and there actually is a false flag

attack that that we can all see like we

just assume it's a false flag

it's president Trump

I give you president Trump

just just put him in office tomorrow you

don't need to wait for the election

because first of all the war is over

if Ukraine tries to do that to the

United States give us this false flag

thing or maybe our military you know

maybe it's NATO I don't know whoever it

is but whoever does this the war's over

War's over

right

one way or another

the the

American support will disappear now you

could say wait a minute

that's exactly Putin's plan

Putin's going to do this because they

know that we'll think it's a false flag

and then they'll reduce support

so maybe it's a Putin plan chess player

Putin you never know

well I do think we will know

that's what I think I think we'll know

just like we know the pipeline you know

maybe not on day one on day one we might

not know but we'll know

we're gonna figure it out and we're

going to hold responsible anybody who

was behind it

you're not going to get away with this

like maybe in the short run some way but

no way let me just say if there's any if

there's anybody that's allegedly on our

side allegedly on our side who does that

they have to die

I mean that's got to be a death sentence

you start a war on fake pretense I don't

care if you're the president of the

United States that's a death sentence

you should be it should be I mean with

the courts not not talking about a

revolution

I think the courts and the law they

don't but they should support executing

anybody who do a false flag to start a

nuclear war

I mean that seems basic

all right

um the reparations task force in

California

continues to abuse and they've added to

their claims that they would like to

drop the law

they want to get rid of the law that

makes it a crime to urinate in public

so they would like millions of dollars

per person and they would like to

urinate in public

now we're not quite there but you can

see the logical endpoint here can't you

The Logical endpoint we're almost there

is that the reparations task force would

like to recommend and I feel like

they're just they're sort of crawling up

to it you know cats on the roof they

don't want to break it to us all at once

but what they really want is for

Californians to uh

pay black Californians a massive amount

of money and then let the black

Californians piss on them

so you want to combine those two things

so it's not good enough that you just

give money you want to give money and

then have them piss on you in return and

that's apparently what they're asking

for so right now it's just they want to

urinate on sidewalks I guess but you

know obviously that's

that's going to be you know scaling up

to eventually they'll just be whipping

it out and spraying all passers by

thanks for the reparations hey everybody

thanks for the reparations yeah come on

by thanks for the reparations so it's

gonna be like that I think that's the

end point

all right

um I saw a video from uh Ryan Brian

romelli

he shows an example of AI making a Pixar

Style movie just from a script

now not from Pixar's script I don't

think but just from some other script

and the the animation looked

Pixar quality

now I don't think they're quite at the

point where he could feed a script into

it and a movie comes out the other end

that you'd want to watch

but we're very close

to a Dilbert movie

that requires me to do little or no work

now I don't know if anybody would watch

it

but the the technology to make it just

from a script is very high very high

right now so maybe that'll happen

if I had to guess that's a year away

maybe less maybe less than one year AI

will be able to make a full movie with

you know hitting all the beats and you

know having basically a fully edited

movie

maybe less of the year

um I continue with my prediction

that humans will not want to watch AI

generated art of any kind

is that a contrarian

I don't know if anybody else to say that

and the reason is that we enjoy art made

by humans because of our knowledge it

came from humans if you take away your

knowledge that a human made it it'll

lose all interests

because when we're reading it we're not

just reading it for entertainment

there's some connection with the

creators that's important to the process

like a mental connection you know that

somebody wrote in somebody acted in it

as soon as you take away all the human

elements you would just be watching a

computer's daydream

no interest whatsoever

I I want to see that if I see a movie

that's like ah this is the best movie

I think about the director

I think about the writers I think about

the skill of the actors I even think

about the like the the costume people

so when I see a great movie I'm thinking

about the talent of the humans who put

it together and that's what Thrills me

I'm thrilled by the human Talent even

though I don't necessarily conceptualize

it that way when I'm watching it I'm

just sort of enjoying the jokes

so I've been re-watching in my opinion

the best television show of all time

called Modern Family

ran for many years so I'm starting from

the beginning to to re-watch it and I'm

having that experience as I'm watching

Phil Dunphy

say the funniest things you've ever seen

on television

I'm thinking about the writers

the human writers I'm thinking how did

they how did they come up with that

and that's what makes me like really

engaged if if an AI had written the same

joke

and had a and had a CGI that looked just

like Phil Dunphy the character

um I don't know that I would enjoy it

I think it would just be flat in my mind

even if it was just the same I think it

would be flat so my and I think that'll

be true with music

humor movies and probably books

and I don't know if that's going to

change

it might be that we just lose interest

in all of those forms of entertainment

because people stop doing it and

computer-based stuff isn't interesting

we just might just stop being

entertained in the same way

but we'll see

you know the the most likely place this

will end up is that the same creators

that are creating now like me will just

use the tools

for example

instead of replacing me to make Dilbert

is far more likely that I will use an AI

tool with my art director and we will

slightly animate the comic

so I should be able to very soon say

Wally's at the table with Dilbert

Wally's back to it back is to us and he

says the following things and then watch

it come alive and then Wally talks

you hear it and then he turns around he

gesticulates

So within a year for sure

I should be able to create comment

comics with my art director

but there's still going to be lots of

trial and error try this try this adjust

that adjust that so you can't take the

humans out because the humans are the

only thing telling you if you've done it

right so far

right

the human can say try this try to

destroy this but only the human can tell

you if it's working because they can

feel it computer can't do that

all right

um I saw that there is still an effort

to pack the Supreme Court

and

I thought to myself all right but I

didn't already have a task force on

asking that question and Biden's own

task force said no

did you know that

that Biden actually had a task force or

some some time ago and the task force

came back and said no don't do it don't

pack the court

so it's been asked and answered

but that doesn't mean it's done so I

wanted to see who who is dumb enough and

worthless enough

and terrible enough that they'd be

working on trying to pack the court even

today even after Biden's own people said

don't do it who would actually do that

in our government not in the government

Jerry Nadler

Jerry nadler's on that team trying to

push I mean there's some others as well

but

I'm I'm genuinely curious about that guy

is even

does he wake up in the morning and try

to do the job

of the the people's work

like I don't even know what's going on

with him

because he doesn't even seem slightly

interested in the well-being of the

country

you know you could easily

um

you could defend him by saying well he's

just being a good Democrat and he's

doing what a lot of Democrats want him

to do so he's just serving his base

maybe but it doesn't look like that does

it it looked like it looks like there's

something else going on with him

that's not like other people

it's like he's intentionally picking the

worst possible thing

to support

and I I can't believe that his brain is

so dysfunctional he doesn't know he is

intentionally picking the worst possible

things

he acts as though he's he's in the

pocket of a foreign adversary

am I wrong

and I'm not saying that about AOC

that's not something I just say about

Democrats right I'm not just like

insulting Democrats I don't think AOC

works for China

I think obviously you worked for herself

and I think actually she tries to do

things that her people want and you know

she's at least semi believable even if

you don't like her policies but Nadler

he doesn't look like a real politician

right he looks

he looks like he's not trying AOC looks

like she's trying you know and she can

be get silly sometimes with her

arguments but he doesn't look like he's

trying

he looks like he wakes up trying to hurt

the country

I mean it just looks like that I'm not

I'm not reading his mind and I'm not

even accusing him of anything I'm saying

he acts like somebody who's not even

trying to be on the side of the

Democrats or anybody just anybody he

looks like he's on China's side just

trying to like screw everything over a

little bit

all right well it just looks like that

anyway

um I saw a tweet by uh

uh

uh oh Zion lights that's that's her name

Zion lights

um

and she said

oh hold on I pasted the wrong thing in

there but I remember what it was so if

you look at the UAE

uh the country UAE

yeah apparently they

um they ramped up their nuclear energy

program really fast just a few years

and in just a few years their nuclear

energy production has surpassed other

European countries doing green energy

for you know decades and decades and so

the argument is that if the UAE

can rapidly and apparently economically

ramp up a nuclear power industry we

should be able to do it too

and I think the key is that we always

look at how it was done in the past and

that was done wrong

but I think if you stick with a design

that's proven

and you know Ben and Ben used let's say

pick a design that France has been using

for 20 years

right you don't have to wonder too much

if it works

it's the one that's been working for 20

years

so

it looks like that's the secret you have

to you know it might help to have a

dictator-ish you know leader so you can

get rid of a lot of red tape so I think

if you could get rid of our red tape

standardize on some known designs that

work

um

should be fairly quick I mean there's no

reason that a strong president who

really cared about nuclear energy

there's no reason that that strong

president couldn't just make this work

you know just just sort of force it

through

but I don't I don't see that energy from

Trump

I never saw him being pro-nuclear except

throwing it in a speech or two

and certainly don't see it with Biden

so

I don't know what president it would

take to push nuclear energy harder but

we don't have we don't have the at least

the top two candidates at the moment to

polling wise don't seem to be the right

ones neither them are the right ones for

nuclear energy

on the other hand I would say that both

that the energy Department

under Trump as well as under Biden seems

to be very activist

and doing the right things to Spur

nuclear energy growth

so I think the department of energy

seems like it's been on point through

different two different administrations

but somehow without the support of the

top

I I don't know what that's all about

all right

let's talk about cocaine in the White

House you saw the news cocaine was

discovered in the white house and let me

tell you the order of how the news broke

it went like this

cocaine has been found in the library of

the White House

step two

uh social media reports that everybody

knows there are security cameras in the

library all right here's the two first

part cocaine was found in the library

security cameras should tell us for sure

who is using it

0.3 oh it totally wasn't in the library

it was in the working area

a working area

a working area I'm just going to go out

on a limb and say

I'll bet there are no security cameras

in the

working area

just a guess

I'll bet there are no cameras in the

working or could that be where the

cameras don't work oh oh and and would

it be possible that whoever looks at the

cameras if there is anybody doing it

they fell asleep probably fell asleep

does any of this sound familiar

now

um

my own opinion is that the the cocaine

did not belong to Hunter

right

had it been a laptop

I'd say hunter

but all evidence suggests the hunter

hunter Biden has never left a house that

still had cocaine in it

anybody anybody

never left the house

that still had cocaine in it

all right well that's all I got for you

there

yeah I'm sure it was doc Dr jilsman

been dipping in

um

so let me ask you this question

do you think that authorities don't know

who it belongs to

you think they don't know

it was in a baggie

do you think that whoever handled the

bag he used to use the glove

you know you don't think they're

fingerprints all over that baggie

you don't think every staffer in the

white house has been fingerprinted

how many people how many people would be

able to use a workspace in the White

House just have access to it who had not

been fingerprinted

anybody

about zero I think the answer is zero so

they got the bag they've got the

fingerprints

they know exactly who it belongs to

have you heard the news yet

oh interesting it's not in the news is

it how long does it take to get a

fingerprint

weeks

10 minutes about 10 minutes right

it's about 10 minutes

and once you got your fingerprint

you can tell us if that fingerprint

belongs to Hunter Biden or not

and if it's somebody else you could tell

us that too

do you think you're going to hear that

do you think you're going to see the

video uh videotape of the crime

no no no

no no no

you're not

do you think this story favors Trump

yeah yep

yes it does

now let me be clear

I assume that every every Administration

has its you know a healthy share of

regular drug doers

is that fair to say don't you assume

every Administration has some

pretty cranked up people in it so I'm

not I'm not going to tell you that a

trump White House Would Be Drug Free and

this Biden White House is full of these

degenerate drug users I don't think

that's the case it's just that this

specific story

massively favors one side

massively it just makes you feel a

certain way and if I've taught you

anything the way you feel about it is

going to determine your opinion

you know the the facts are somewhat

irrelevant

and the way you feel about Hunter Biden

having been cleared of all those other

charges or at least has a plea deal that

could get accepted

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if this happened well there are two

things that are bad one would be we

found out for sure it was Hunter Biden

and he brought cocaine into the White

House

that would be really really bad but you

know it would be almost as bad

never getting an answer who of whose uh

it was

that would be

that would be assuming it's Hunters

you'd still make the Assumption and then

you assume that the administration is

corrupt

there's no way they win this they're

either gonna they're either gonna throw

Hunter under the bus Which can't happen

or

they'll go through the administration

under the bus and say it's corrupt

so

am I wrong that things are shaping up to

just hand it to Trump

does it look like that

now remember I'm I'm endorsing Rama

Swami

but

you can't deny what you see and what you

feel

and it looks to me like Trump is rising

to me it looks like Trump is rising

do any of you feel it do you feel the

energy shift

because I'm interested if I'm just

hallucinating here

had anybody noticed it before before I

mentioned it

because I might be influencing you

so so some say they hadn't noticed it

before yeah and Trump just needs to shut

up

yeah when Trump is doing uh nasty

nicknames and stuff

he's definitely the funniest candidate

uh but let's see if he'll stay out of

trouble we'll see I doubt it

all right

um

this is how we read the news in 2023

ready so I'm looking at the headlines

I'm like all right it looks like a false

flag developing in Ukraine

uh we've got the cocaine cover up that's

going to happen in the you know any

moment now

uh we've got the climate scam that's

falling apart it's like when I read the

news now

not only do I assume it's fake

but I know it's very nature

and I know the nature of the fakeness

and even before it happens like the

false flag we know the nature of the

fakeness and we can also predict what's

going to happen

now I do imagine that everybody

immediately seeing it as a false flag

that could ruin the false flagness

right like if you were if you were

actually trying to do a false flag in

Ukraine and everybody saw it before it

happened everybody we all see it

and then you go ahead and do it

I'm not sure that's a good idea

I mean the the fact that we all see it

might actually stop it

might actually stop it because I'm

definitely not in favor of

you know throwing nato in there if

there's a nuclear event

right I'm not no

I mean

not at all

right

um

I would like to say something so

provocative now that the odds of me

being kicked off of YouTube are pretty

good pretty good anybody up for that

anybody want to anyone want to go on a

dangerous Journey

all right now this dangerous Journey

um I believe is well I'm going to

present to you with the hope

that it's signaling something positive

right so there's something positive

happening

that I also sort of feel in the

zeitgeist

but I did a confirmation

it goes like this

I feel like our our feelings about race

are improving

now you might not feel like that because

the news is serving you up the news is

serving you up the opposite right if you

looked at the news it looks like

everything's getting worse but here's

what I'm seeing

there's a willingness to joke about race

there's a little bit more than I've seen

before

there's a little bit more willingness to

joke and I think that until you can get

to full joking you're not a family

right you're not a team you're not a

team until you can joke with each other

you're not a family until you can you

know criticize and joke with each other

and it never leaves that frame

it never leaves the frame that we're a

family joking with each other right I'm

going to give you two jokes that I saw

on Twitter today one you could consider

racist against white people yikes the

other you could consider racists against

black people yikes yikes

I'm going to read you both jokes

yeah I'm going to do that right in front

of you

but the context is this I think they're

both funny

and that's the end of the story

now one of them is is pretty brutal

you'll figure out which one pretty

quickly one of them's got it brutal but

it's still funny

even though it's brutal is funny

so

I want to I want to test this with you

could you accept these jokes as just

funny

because if you can we've really come

somewhere like I would say that's

progress right so the first one was and

I'll just explain it to you so you don't

see it there was a video of a white guy

dancing poorly in I think Times Square

or something that looked like that so

this is dumpy little white guy he's he's

dancing like a lane from Seinfeld sort

of not too elegantly and there was a

black influencer who retweeted that and

added the note White History Month

so the White History Month and this

little nerdy white guy dancing like like

a nerd and I thought to myself okay that

was really funny

yeah this is funny

when I see a black influencer making fun

of white people for dressing poorly

or if we're dancing inelegantly

to me that's just funny

so I had I had no negative not a single

negative feeling about that it was just

funny

all right here's the brutal one

all right I saw maybe you've heard this

before uh this one's pretty brutal right

so I'm not telling you this because of

the joke

uh or because I'm agreeing with it right

I want to see where we are I'm just

testing the temperature all right so

this one was on Twitter and wasn't

banned on Twitter

it said black you you've heard people

say that the slaves

and because and reparations is based on

the fact that the slaves and black

Americans Built America

you've heard that no of course that's

hyperbole but the is part of the

argument for reparations is that black

Americans specifically the slaves Built

America well this joke sort of pushes

back on that idea quite brutally and

says blacks Built America like cows

built McDonald's

okay that's just funny

it's brutal is racist

just like the other joke you know White

History Month is just racist

but it's also funny

are we at the point where we can laugh

at that

did anybody get hurt was anybody injured

do you do you have a you know somehow

lesser opinion of black people because

of this joke

I don't doesn't change anything about my

real opinions in the real world it's

just clever it's just funny

so how do we get here

like how do we do more of this

and again

certainly there would be racial jokes

that are Beyond The Pale right but some

of them are just silly and you know

they're just clever

could we not laugh about that we

couldn't have a good time together like

black and white and just still laugh at

that

I feel like we could

and I feel like there's something that

happened with the affirmative action

ruling

because the affirmative action ruling

did something Beyond

change the Precedence and the law

what it did was it educated the country

of what was happening to Asian Americans

and I don't think people who don't

follow Twitter and don't follow the news

I don't think they do

do you I mean I didn't know I mean I

knew I knew there was a thing there I

knew it was bad

I had no idea how extreme it was no idea

until I saw the data and then I said

whoa things have gone too far

that's just too far and the Supreme

Court agreed they said that's too far

but

I feel like that somehow changed the way

all of us are thinking about everything

in terms of race

it changed everything about how you're

thinking about everything but not in

such an obvious way that you're maybe

conscious of it

I think it just it was just like a

wake-up call so it's just like a little

slap in the face of the country it's

like wake up wake up you can't possibly

think is good to massively discriminate

against Asian Americans wake up wake up

hey hey wake up that can't be good wake

up oh well and like suddenly the country

woke up at the same time

and and looked at that situation and

said what

well I don't want to live in a country

where Asian Americans are just massively

discriminated against for nothing except

you know their ethnicity who wants to

live in that country nobody literally

nobody so I feel like I feel like that

was like a wake-up call where people

understood that good intentions can go

too far

that's the one that solidified it

because we live on stories we don't live

on Concepts

the concept that things have gone too

far

didn't really solidify in your head but

once it's a story

you know it's the Asians getting into

college story now it's a story so you'll

remember that and it'll be influential

forever so I think something changed

I think something changed

and I think that we're moving toward a

understanding

that black Americans need more than

anything strategy

because the Asian-American example if

you're racist you're going to say oh

because they're smart

right if you're racist you say oh the

Asians are smart that's why they do so

well

maybe they are but you don't need you

don't need that assumption

you could look at the strategy

you don't say culture as soon as you say

culture you get in trouble that's why I

say strategy look at the strategy

stay out of jail stay off drugs

study hard

try to get a job that you know will pay

well

start a family stay married

raise the kids get them into college

that's a strategy

are you telling me that black Americans

can't use that same strategy why because

because they started behind the ball or

you know systemic racism that might make

it harder

but unless you're doing those things

nobody wants to hear from you

I think that's the big I think that's a

big takeaway from the affirmative action

ruling

unless you're doing what the Asian

Americans are doing

it the way they're doing it

we don't want to hear from you

didn't that feel like exactly what you

were thinking

if he can't do what the Asian Americans

are doing

I don't even want to have a conversation

honestly I'm just not interested anymore

if if black Americans were trying hard

to do what the Asian Americans are doing

this working

and it wasn't working for black

Americans then I'm completely engaged

let's fix this

what's wrong here let's fix it

but if you're not doing the the strategy

that everybody knows Works everybody

knows it everybody knows it if you're

not trying to do that strategy we don't

want to hear from you

don't make it my problem

definitely not my problem

so something has definitely changed and

I think some of it is positive

in other words we're sort of framing the

things as more of a strategy deficit

and once you approve that the Asian

Americans

basically all of them follow the same

strategy and it worked you know I'm

exaggerating it's not all of anybody but

it's undeniable right we've gotten to

the point where you can't make an

argument that the people who do the

right things get bad outcomes you just

can't make that argument it would sound

ridiculous in 2023. but I think in the

past people made that argument that even

if you're black and you did everything

right it still wouldn't work out for you

does anybody believe that do any of you

believe that if you're black American

you do everything right

you know the stay out of jail study hard

build a skill

unless you have terrible luck like

you're the victim of a drive-by shooting

or something unless you have terrible

luck

know every one of you expect that that

would work

it would probably work really well not

even a little bit just a lot it works

pretty much every time so there there

does seem to be some willingness and I

think the affirmative action thing

caused it a willingness to say get your

strategy right or we can't even tell how

much systemic racism is mattering

I take it as a given the systemic racism

is a is a big variable

but how big

how big I have no idea because I'm you

know not in that situation but if I

looked at people whose strategy was

solid they're doing the right strategy

and they're still not getting it done

then I would say whoa whoa that's then

you gotta look pretty hard at the

systemic racism

but then you sized it right then you

know the size of it could also be you

know something else but unless you get

the strategy the same

we don't want to hear from you

all right

that ladies and gentlemen is my always

risky but positive Take On The World

and how much do you love that I have

free free speech

how much do you love it how many of you

would like to hear me read the Dilbert

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um

and now some of you pay for it your

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all right so this will give you an idea

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why can't I find it in my own fee there

it is all right so it starts out with uh

Dilbert and dogberg to watch the news

and this is a crossover where the news

that they're watching is robots read

news my other comic so this is the first

crossover of my my two comics

so they started out watching the news

and then the the robots talking from the

news so the news says uh Roomba started

offering what some are calling an Uber

for cats and you see the robot he says

the way it works

um and then the robot looks down and

sees that the Chiron says put your

on it and then the robot says I knew it

was a mistake to hire the Chiron guy

from Fox News

then the Chiron says robot

anyway

robot

now there's something I couldn't do in

newspapers yeah

so this brings together the headlines

and two separate comics

you know I'll tell you I'm in I I could

not be

happier creatively

and let me ask you this do you think AI

could have made that comic

do you think there's any time in the

future AI can make that comic no

because AI can't take the risks that I

just took

right

AI would never do what I just did

part of being a humorist

is your is you're putting yourself at

Mortal Danger uh in front of other

people

you know when you mock things you do

open yourself up for Revenge

and you know I get plenty of that

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