Episode 2169 Scott Adams - Musk Pays, Disney Is Dismal, Movies Are Over, Tate Persuades, Tucker Plots

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the best insult I've been testing the sound I told you I was going to test it and now I have an outcome absolutely nobody likes to hear this Bob believes in the news so if you really want to insult somebody you go Bob you believe in the news now I would recommend that you only use this for somebody's name is Bob I don't really have anything that would work with other names but this would work really well if your name is Bob Bob leaves the news and just walk away there's nobody who can respond to that you have to try it out the next time you're debating about something in the news political just look at the person and say so Bob you believe the news and then Bob will say something like well you know I do my own research and and I look at multiple sites and I talk talk to people and then you just look at him say but in the end you believe the news that's it that's the whole technique right there well uh looks like actors and writers are going on strike Hollywood actors and writers first time since 1960.

and so we will not be we will not be gifted with the greatness of their products so you know maybe they won't be making more movies right away and uh I can't tell you how different my life would be if I didn't occasionally have to sit through three hours of that I imagined was going to be good but I was Fooled Again I think the world would be worse without movies I mean I realize this is heretical but I don't think we need them don't think we need them I said the same thing about all the species that were becoming extinct think about your your past week you know out of the past week go for you do you remember that time this past week when you said everything would be good except for you know the dodo was extinct because I was going to have dodo you know barbecue and there's no dodos so my life is ruined because of the animals that have gone extinct now I'm not in favor of animals going extinct if he could stop it that'd be great be great but I just want to point out you you have not missed any animals there's not a single animal that you've said to yourself if only if only those specific animals were still here you know that bird with a funny head things were good when we had that bird but not not anymore no it's like that you would never miss movies if they stopped forever today you would you would miss the habit you would miss the habit but then you would replace it with something healthier hahaha you would not be worse off with no movies so um and by the way I can say that about myself I don't believe that getting canceled in newspapers globally is you know desperately injuring the people who would have been reading it otherwise the entertainment's pretty optional turns out if you have other sources all right um the the funniest news from yesterday which is kind of awesome is that Twitter had started mailing out checks to people who were not expecting any checks so it's the the bigger accounts that we're getting lots of Engagement musk had promised that he would start paying people for engagement because they could run ads in your comments which is a much better place to put an ad because you're not going to see it unless you're you know interested in that comment well some people I saw I saw one tweet of somebody who got over nine hundred thousand dollars Matt Wallace I don't know who Matt Wallace is but is that true maybe maybe it was like a it doesn't seem possible I don't think the math works because how much engagement would you have to have to get that um other people were getting I think 10 pools and he got five thousand dollars krasenstein's got twenty five thousand dollars um I don't I didn't get any notice that I noticed they were all they were all uh tweeting this little notice getting paid I don't think I have but it might also be because I didn't start my subscription service as soon as they did so maybe maybe I get paid uh allegedly I would so here's the funniest thing about this so just when people were going to threads you know the competition to Twitter uh Elon Musk comes up with a plan to monetize your critics that's right the more trolls that come into my Tweet now and they yell at me and call me a racist or whatever they want to call me the more money I make and the funniest thing about this was Mike cernovich's reaction so many of you know Mike cernovich from Twitter and you see one of the biggest bigger accounts he's over a million and uh he's most famous on Twitter for being the most aggressive Blocker of trolls and and he commented you know damn it I have to unblock 25 000 people now so they can help mine me money on Twitter and he coined the term using the trolls to mine money on Twitter I love that I love that term so uh let me remind you that the number one factor in success is just pure luck so certavich decides to make that sort of almost a brand that he blocks people and that it turns out that maybe he could have made a lot more money if he didn't he'll do fine either way because he gets a lot of Engagement but I thought that was funny um I I I'm going to contrast this to you just because it's funny on Twitter someone asked me if I had been doing affirmations about creating a new uh source of cash flow because this just snuck up on me I wasn't expecting it just one day apparently I'm eligible for money that I wasn't expecting and the answer is yes I I only I only have one affirmation going and the affirmation is that a magical source of cash flow would open up one that I was not aware of and that happened yesterday how often does that ever happen to you Have You Ever Had An Unexpected source of cash flow open up this never happened to me I mean not like that so yes that was actually my affirmation that specific thing and it just appeared now let me give you a little background I don't believe affirmations are magic and I don't believe I necessarily authored my environment because it seems to have affected other people too I doubt I did that but um it is the weird coincidences which you appear to have when you're doing an affirmation is just mind-boggling I've been doing it all my life and one coincidence after another we'll just plop into your lap when you're doing affirmations I don't know why it could be because reality is subjective it could be that you literally just imagine a different path in your reality that is no more or less real than the one you were on this is different so maybe it's just that maybe all possibilities exist in the in it like a steady state like every path exists and the only thing that's moving is your consciousness you know weaving through the various four-dimensional reality Maybe maybe I always think of Consciousness like um the control point in a program if you're executing a computer program it doesn't all execute it once right it executes certain you know a logical sequence but I always think that that point of execution if the computer program could be could have feelings like oh I'm now at this point I'm would have Consciousness all you'd have to do is tell the program as a Feeling associated with you know the specific place that it's executing and if it felt different in different parts of that execution it would be conscious all right um Tucker Carlson is reportedly creating a New Media company and trying to raise hundreds of millions of dollars and he would run that Media company on Twitter so Twitter is beefing up its video services and now allows long form for some some bigger accounts I guess and Tucker is looking to build his Media company that would run on Twitter and the reason he would run it on Twitter instead of You.

Tube is censorship censorship so one of the things that Elon Musk has created is a safe place for creators which is also paying them and I also wonder if my incentives will change I feel like they will I feel like they will because I spent much of yesterday you know I couldn't even get out of my head thinking about the worst thing I could tweet that would get the most engagement because now that's monetized and I have to talk myself out of it all morning long I've been talking myself out of it yeah I'm coming back with my full cup of coffee to start the show and I'm thinking of a tweet I think I'm going to say that Taylor and Lorenz is the hottest woman on Twitter just because I don't get a lot of Engagement I barely know what she looks like I just know people are really mad at her right now that's all it would take and but I didn't do it I didn't do it because it's it's not creative you know if you do creative things for a living you have these sort of standards that develop accidentally where you go Ah that's not creative enough so if I were to immediately go out and just do troll bait tweets I would not feel good about myself even if even if I made money because it would be so uncreative to do that however uh I don't know if you noticed that Mr.

Beast who is an enormous social media presence if you're not aware of him uh Mr.

Beast on You.

Tube and Twitter just one of the biggest accounts of all time he's just legendary legendarily gigantic social media presence and he said that he would he would give the money from his engagement this month to whoever had the most engagement on the comments to his tweet so all the people jumped in with you know trying to compete for because if you got one month of Mr.

BEAST's uh Twitter money I don't know what that would be but it's a big number and he makes so many millions a year that he could you know he could give away a million dollars it wouldn't he wouldn't even touch him so I thought damn it I think I can compete for this you know my my competitive juices were just automatically triggered because it's a contest and Mr.

B says 22 million followers 22 million 22 million followers that's a lot anyway uh I decided to enter the contest meaning I made a comment that I hope to get a lot of tweets and uh I got absolutely Smoked by Bill Pulte Bill Pulte just comes in and says he'll donate the money and I'm like oh I can't beat that come on bill so I think his engagement or something like 50 times mine all that all I did was post my Dilbert reborn comic today uh about the outcome of the cage match between Dilbert's CEO and another CEO I won't say it on You.

Tube but let's just say it definitely wouldn't run in a newspaper so you'd have to look at it yourself if you want to see it I took it outside the pay wall just just to compete normally you wouldn't be able to see Dilbert Reborns be on the paywall but if you go to the Mr.

Beast tweet you can find it there possibly the funniest thing I've ever written I actually think that's true that the comic I put under Mr beats Mr.

BEAST's tweet it might be the funniest thing I've ever read it's just me so your mileage will differ um so Tucker Carlson starting this company it looks like they might get some other hosts who who do you think Tucker is going to recruit if Tucker Carlson starts his own you know thing with other hosts who would he recruit you know because because the problem is everybody who is notable already has a pretty good job right you know that the people working at Fox News could they really imagine that they would get a bigger paycheck doing this I don't know and you know other names I hear you say they already have their own thing you know Glenn Greenwald already has his own thing uh Dan bongino his own thing Megan Kelly her own thing so there are there actually aren't that well Herald though there actually aren't that many people who were big name um let's say voices in the political realm who are also looking for a job because one of the thing that makes you that prominent is that you have a platform that's already working so it's gonna be tough it's going to be tough to recruit but wouldn't it be interesting if he recruited Young you know let's say he looked on Twitter and found the people who were just killing it on Twitter but don't have their own platform yet that'll be fun yeah that'd be really fun so we'll keep an eye on that uh Zero Hedge tweeted that the use of threads the competitor to Twitter is down 20 from Saturday and user time spent is down 50 percent now I have not checked threads in a few days I did sign up just to see what it's all about haven't felt any need to check it in two days I've checked Twitter 400 times why the difference well here's a here's the mistake that Zuckerberg made which sounded like the smartest thing he did which might have turned into the dumbest thing he did so one of the features when you sign up for Threads is that you can automatically bring all of your follows over not the people who follow you but the people you follow you can bring over to threads so I brought all the people that I follow because they look good and they have good pictures because that's what I do on Instagram if your pictures are good for whatever reason I follow you maybe it's attractive people I want to look at could be that and so I bring all these people over and then I see what happens when they're forced to produce content that's only text it didn't go well it's some of the worst Tweeting or threading you've ever seen in your life all the people who who look amazing when they have to talk it all just goes it all goes right the away they don't have anything it is so amazingly uninteresting to read the threads from the same people that I I happily follow on Instagram and we'll continue to their Instagram posts are great yeah there was a reason I followed them but boy when they start talking there's nothing to see there there's just nothing there the a typical tweet would be like I don't know if I should wear socks today okay all right all right let's talk about your socks so uh as I tweeted about that it turns out the movie my Instagram followers to threads did not give me the Algonquin Roundtable effect I was hoping to achieve now I'd like to look to the five percent of you who understood that joke for a reaction anybody understand that joke Algonquin Round Table all right some of you got it good the rest of you will just have to Google it the Algonquin Round Table add that add that to your uh snooty vocabulary there's some things that if you know them it sort of signifies you know that you're sort of a well-informed person it's like the use of the word zeitgeist or eponymous eponymous I couldn't even say it if you ever use the word eponymous or a zeitgeist or Algonquin Roundtable or schadenfreude shot in Freud thank you excellent one if you use any of those words in normal conversation you're kind of a douchebag you know talking about myself because I do use them kind of a douchebag because there's a very high likelihood that the person you're talking to doesn't know what those words mean you know in a normal American Circle five percent would know what all those words mean maximum when you say five percent would know all of those terms no more than that so if you learn them oh yeah and uh solemn solipsistic if you learn those little terms you can you can spoof as though you're Highly Educated even if you're not it works every time all right what else is going on uh Disney's business is slumping um of course you're going to say is it because of the fight with De.

Santis and is it because of politics and their wokeness is that why they're having low traffic in their theme parks and their movies from Pixar are not doing well is that why what do you think do you do you think Disney is suffering because of wokeness I'm gonna say no you're gonna say no I'm just going to make a hypothesis what could it be what could it be uh what would cause Disney to slump I I got it I got it I got it they made movies they made movies suck all of them they pretty much all suck and they have a theme park that if you were to put the entire experience of the entire day at the theme park it would be about equal to five minutes of strolling on a smartphone scrolling not scrolling yeah who goes to who goes to a Disney theme park um masochists if you went to a Disney theme park isn't it mostly standing in the sweltering heat waiting for something that wasn't that good in the first place and then when you're done you go wait in the sweltering heat for yet another thing that you didn't want to do in the first place because you have children who in the world does that voluntarily you know this the news should not be that their business is slumping the news should be that somehow they built a business on this now I get in the old days this was pretty interesting stuff Ooh It's a Small World After All are you kidding I didn't know that it's a small world after all and they're singing look look they're animatronic and they're boats and they're singing they're singing oh my God oh my God oh it's not really the thrill it used to be so I would think that Disney's biggest problem is they make nobody wants am I wrong about that your kids enjoy it do you know what kids enjoy kids enjoy anything that's got bright lights and and junk food hey kids I'm going to take you to a place that's got a lot of bright lights and colors and junk food can we eat good healthy food there too nope don't even have any actually they probably do but kids don't want it um yeah kids are delighted to go anywhere that they can run around have a little freedom and eat some junk food so yeah the kids love it they don't love it as much as playing on their i.

Pad but they love it naturally they do probably love it more than their i.

Pad but um I think the direction of Disney is clear unless they do something pretty radical I don't imagine I can't imagine their business model working in the long run unless they change it quite a bit all right uh so a little clip of a congresswoman summer Lee representative summer Lee I would like to first uh compliment summer Lee congresswoman summer Lee for having one of the best names of people who've ever been named you know summer is a pretty good name but Lee is an excellent last name to go his summer Summer League am I wrong that's like one of the best names I've ever heard like I always wonder if that actually affects your life to have a name that people really really like to say like I'll probably say that name like to myself later when I'm thinking about summerly it's like a perfect name anyway so that's not what the story is about summer Lee pointed out in a tweet and I guess she was talking in Congress grilling somebody and said how much does military the military spend on Viagra each year and the director of Defense contract said I don't have that figured out and but summerly did have it figured out and answered her own question 41.6 million dollars spent by the military every year for Viagra and then she pointed out some early did a name I just can't stop saying Summer League do you know how many bridges in my district of Pittsburgh could be repaired with that amount it turns out it's I think it's two Bridges you could fix two Bridges for the amount that the military spends on Viagra and so I introduced the hashtag Bridges not boners we'll see if that Trends Bridges not Motors um and the thing that you should be worried about is uh military our military vulnerability yeah our military boner ability I said it I'm not embarrassed no I said it I said it twice um I stole that one from I stole that one from somebody on Twitter that wasn't my own work and uh I would just I would like to add a Counterpoint the counter point to this that it seems to me that's 42 million dollars well spent because you know what I don't want maybe this is just me I'd like to get a get a feel from the audience I don't really want a military that can't get hard was that just me is anybody with me I'm in a military that's rock hard all the time and ready to rock they'll fight her little you know and if and if you interrupt them after they've taken the Viagra but before they do the thing they want to do well they'll fight I like them angry and urgent harder the better I think that's the best money we're spending I want these guys to be saluting at all times if you know what I mean and I think you know what I mean right so summerly you're awesome however I do like uh I like a hard military is what I'm saying it takes Hard Men Hard Men to fix things sometimes well CNN is directly going after Biden in ways that you would not imagine they would do unless they really don't want him to run for office all right so you don't expect CNN to just directly go after the the Democrat but they did and they're they're it's the kind of story that seems designed to take him out of the office see if you think this is just unbiased news because they're criticizing their own side in a sense is it just unbiased news and and welcome or is it clearly designed to remove him from office right so the article is about how the the big donors are worried that he is not worth the money if you want to kill somebody's campaign run a story on CNN the one that everybody on your team is aware of and tell them that big donors other big donors yeah although I'm not going to name them odd the names of the big donors no I'm not going to give you the names of them but trust me trust me I've talked to people those big donors who I won't name are very hesitant they're looking for somebody else to give money to now if you were a big donor also and you were on the verge of giving Biden a lot of money and you read in CNN that other big donors have decided they might not or are not wouldn't your money feel wasted that's the play the play is to make the other donors think they're wasting their money by saying that there's so much doubt and he might not run he might be replaced and and the big donors when they say big donors do you know what the synonym for that is they don't say it out loud big donor equals what big donor not just victory but no not lobbyist big donor equals smart smart because people assume that the the billionaire class and the big donors are going to do their homework that's the group that's making damn sure they know who to give their money to because it's a lot of money and they're you know smart high high functioning people who are not just guessing they're doing good risk analysis and they know where their money's going so if you say all the if you say oh I don't know if you knew this but the smart big donors the Smart Ones the smart billionaires they've decided not to give money to Joe Biden so I mean you can if you want I mean that's up to you it's a free world you can give your money to anybody you want but the Smart Ones Smart Ones they've already decided not to now you tell me I'm exaggerating I'm you know that's hyperbole the article doesn't go that far but don't you think this article is designed to take him out you know and of course they mentioned you know people are looking at the Alternatives and all that it feels like it's designed only for that purpose it does not feel like news it doesn't even have the the vibe of we just wanted to inform you as a citizen nothing like that it just feels like a play an actual op instead of news all right um let's see what else is going on um Michael schellenberger tweeted this there's a some entity called public I don't know who they are but they some some kind of uh publication or entity but jellenberger is tweeting that Biden and the FBI suggest that domestic terrorism is increasing but it's not and now a new investigation by public whoever they are reveals that the FBI is deliberately stoking domestic extremism and white supremacy in order to paint Republicans as terrorists now I'm not going to say that this is confirmed to the level that I feel comfortable with it but on the other hand schellenberger isn't wrong a lot if at all and I can't think of an example but anyway he thought it was credible enough to retweet it I would put a little Caution on it you know just just put a little skepticism on whether public has the goods but it's a report and it does you know here's the problem I guess here's the problem this has to work both ways it feels too on the nose doesn't it if the politics of this were reversed that's the first thing I tell you that's a little that's like exactly what you suspected isn't that a little on the nose might be true might be exactly true but it has that feel like things that aren't true you know what I mean if you just use pattern recognition it looks like maybe somebody's stretching the story a little bit but it's also possibly completely true so the fact that we don't know if we can trust our FBI to be working for the public or actively against it you know by playing in politics I would call that actively working against the public isn't that weird you act we actually don't know if the FBI is actively working for or against the public that's pretty scary anyway so it does seem to me the white supremacy is the new hoax so maybe I should add that to my hoax list FBI white supremacy hoax what do you think I think we should go away Supremacy a hoax at this point now you know how the argument always goes right the the side that disagrees with you will tell you if there are three white supremacists in a group of 80 million all 80 million are Vice premises right that that's where we go next so next we go there well if you have two or three in that group of 80 million probably probably the whole group's White supremacists and you know where it's going there's not going to be a question but if the rate apparently there's some jiggering with the numbers to make it look like the white supremacy was worse than that was and that maybe that was intentional it's scary but we don't know how much is real so there was a story today about a Republican or representative who is speaking in Congress and he he used the phrase colored people a black woman whose name insisted that that be stricken from and then the the individual who said it realizing that he had missoken said he would like to revise the record from colored people to people of color does that sound reasonable he immediately went up no no no argument no argument he immediately went up and said I'd like to revise that to people of color and then the woman who is challenging it said that's unacceptable she wants to just take it out of the record I don't know why because I feel like amending it would get her more than taking it out because amending the record if there's any record of I don't know if they keep a record of what God amended wouldn't it be better to show the path to show the you said something you misspoke you corrected it move on with your life all right here is my overall opinion on this topic don't care don't care do you know why the reason I don't care is because black Americans have been promoted recently to full citizenship and full respect full respect full citizenship that just happened with the the Africa the affirmative action thing being overturned once you have full full citizenship for the first time in my opinion we don't care about this now it doesn't matter nobody cares nobody cares that you were offended by it do you know why because if a if a white person had been offended in let's say the same fashion nobody give a about that white guy nobody how about an Asian American was offended in the same way I don't give a do you I don't care who got offended by something that was just clearly misspeaking no care at all and the reason I don't care is not because I don't care it's because you've been promoted is is literally because black lives matter I can't agree with you more that you need the full respect of a full citizen take it we're offering it I mean the whole world is offering it just take it you'll love it have you ever seen the uh there were studies I don't know if there's science backs us but I believe I believe it has been studied many times that if you take students and tell them they're good at math they get good grades if you take students and tell them they're bad at math they don't because they think they're bad at math they get bad grades relatively speaking now if that's true then the ending of affirmative action should in the long run have the effect of making everybody think that they could be good at math you know if somebody tells them they're good at math so I think the end of affirmative action is an insanely positive thing for Black America that looks like an insanely bad thing at the moment I get that there are certainly individuals who are maybe counting on you know rules being different and got disappointed and that's a real thing that's a real problem but overall the the full respect of being a full citizen of the United States is way more important that'll get you more in the long run make you feel better make you perform better make everybody like you better it's all good it just doesn't feel like it in the short run well more to this point 13 attorney generals from different states 13 states uh uh sent a message to their states that the affirmative action decision that applied to colleges must also be applied to corporations and businesses and the thinking is that if the Supreme Court found racial preference to be illegal in the context of uh colleges obviously it would be also equally as illegal if businesses were doing exactly the same thing so there's 13 states that just says it's illegal to do anything that even has the effect of affirmative action and specifically in those 13 states Dei is dead because the AG has just turned it off they just made it illegal to have a diversity equity and inclusion Department well you could have the department I suppose but you couldn't actually do anything that changed the mix of people so the Dei couldn't do the job of the Dei I mean the the essential part uh in 13 states that's illegal now goodbye Dei now of course these are you know will be 13 most conservative States I assume I didn't see the list Tendencies on the list I think so that should give you a hints um don't know if more more States will join but I think they might yeah it could stay at 13.

well Biden found some new technical way to cancel a bunch of student debts not all of it but a big old chunk of it has something to do with and this is what you can do by executive order it took me a long time to figure out why an executive order can work when it's not Congress and it's not a law like why can you just say the executive the president can just change stuff you know I saw Congress is the only one who could do that but the details are that if the law allows the the federal government and the the president to manage something then that president can manage that thing as long as it's within the bounds of the law according to you know a number of subjective or different you know technical ways to get it done so the trick is that you have to write your executive order so that it looks like you're just making a technical operational administrative change but it doesn't affect the law itself the law is still the law and you're still obeying it you're just you're just modifying how you're observing it or or implementing it so apparently they found some technicality where people got billed more than they should have or at least you could Define it that way or you could interpret it that way and so they're going to use that technicality to make a bunch of mostly interest payment go away I think I don't know what to think about this because you'd have to see the technical argument and I didn't but if it's true that these people were paying money that obviously they didn't need to well then we need to fix that and then that would be a good thing that he's doing but I don't know if that's the case you know maybe it's just a technicality to make it make you sound like he did more than he did well if you were following social media today you saw some frightened people say that Biden is calling up reserves in the U.S and the worry would be that the reserves are being called up because of Ukraine and that it's a you know a preparation step toward putting boots on the ground American boots in the ground to Ukraine which I think we all think is the worst idea of all time but also I was reading a tweet thread by Joshua Steinman who you should follow really good follow if you want to know what's going on Joshua Steinman and uh he had he had some experience in this domain and explained the you know the different various reserves and who's a who's a weekend reserve and who's a coast guard and National Guard and I don't know so he kind of broke down what all the parts are and how they move and then his takeaway was it probably was not related to Ukraine is more likely related he's speculating but based on his experience which seemed you know directly applicable to the the topic he thinks there's more about Talent retention because the military is having a talent retention problem and he thought that the move might be getting at that although that's unconfirmed but it doesn't look like an obvious thing you would do to get ready to put boots on the ground in Ukraine can we all agree that we're not going to put boots on the ground in Ukraine and when I say let's agree I mean we can stop that from happening right the the public can absolutely stop that from happening if we want to if we don't want to we won't but if we want to we can absolutely stop it it's not up to Biden you know he's going to have to bow to the public if the public is 80 against it it's just not going to happen but you'd probably have to get to about 80 percent all right the 50 50 won't get it done um so I wouldn't worry about World War III just yet uh India is launching a second attempt to put a Rover on the moon boy you know I had not been paying attention to India at all when it comes to space but I don't know if you've heard this this might be the first time you've heard this but there are some good Indian engineers did anybody know that yeah they got really good they got smarter people they got really really good engineers and they launched a rocket I I haven't heard yet if there's any problem with it so far so good I would love to see another Rover on the moon and I would love it to be an ally that would be ideal so keep an eye on India and space and I also think it's important that India might want to you know get a get a foothold on the moon because the moon is going to be a battlefield you know that right the the odds that we're never going to have a war on the moon are pretty low because because the moon's sort of the the ultimate space Attack Base for Earth yeah if you wanted to have like a a military base on the moon someday that feels like it would be a good play you know someday I can imagine them you know a spaceship that does nothing but you know drag giant Boulders you know into our atmosphere from Mars and just release them yeah but figure out where they're gonna land so it's like a rocket if they don't burn up that's the worst idea I've had lately all right I saw on uh I think it was in the hill or something that Trump is less popular than uh Kamala Harris in the whole country do you think that's true do you think Trump is less popular than Kamala Harris might be might be true so do you really want another four years of being called a white supremacist and a monster just because of trump I feel like he's the only candidate that would make his make his supporters look like I mean it happened the first time I mean it was devastating for anybody who supported him they were just demonized as as racist but if you know if Tim Scott is the candidate I have a good four years no matter what happens of good four years if Trump's a candidate I'm going to get a lot of trouble like there's just a lot of trouble to come my way and I'm even endorsing Rama Swami and I'm still if I say anything positive about his persuasion or something I'm still going to give just villainized for all that do I need that I don't really need it but I also object to the fact that the Democrats would make me you know try to support somebody different because they're going to put pressure on me they're going to put pressure on me that's not cool you you can put pressure on the candidate as much as you want they signed up for that but if you come after me because I have a political preference that's not cool at all yeah not cool at all so we'll see what happens um so the conversation about whether we're experiencing something called a woke mind virus I was actually in a conversation with somebody who does a great job of looking at both the left and the right and insists that the woke mind virus is a Illusion by the right that there's no such thing and then I said well do you believe that let's say the trans situation would be exactly the same except for the psychology of the current situation and I didn't get quite a good answer to that but it seems to me it's obviously a woke mind virus and it's and it's operating exactly like a virus in that it you catch it from other people you know they have to talk to you about it and it's spreading so if you get it from other people and it's spreading is that wrong to call that a mind virus it's not a physical virus but obviously it's a mental process that's spreading from one to another it has negative effects I mean I think awoke mind virus fits perfectly and is observable and scientifically measurable and the data supports it to me it's the most obviously true thing in politics you like TDS right but um so I saw a little uh back and forth by I saw at first it was a tweet that Jordan Peterson was um boosted and the Tweet said Megan Fox has three boys Charlize Theron adopted two boys both are woke Hollywood stars both are unmarried white women both have sons identifying as girls and then this tweet said it doesn't take a rocket scientist so in other words it was suggesting that these children would not have made these choices except that their parents are woke White liberals and single and single and you know that the the implication is Dad wouldn't let wouldn't let them do that I don't know about the dad part but uh then I saw a tweet by Jordan Peterson who calculated the odds so he did the odds what are the odds that you would have two non-binaries or you know two kids who think they're in the wrong gender and it's like you know one uh you know hundreds of billions or something like that just crazy odds but I would like to add the following thing um I've talked about the Mc.

Martin School uh preschool case before I think it was 70s or 80s I forget was it 80s or 80s yeah it was in the 80s and the the famous case just to remind you it's well well documented you can see it on Wikipedia is that there was a preschool in which there were allegations that the children were being uh tortured and used in Satanic rituals and that there was a basement under the school in which they took the kids and did all kinds of you know very elaborate rituals and everything and the reason that they were accused of this is that that's what the children said so when the children were interviewed they said oh yeah we're taken underground and these bad things happen and they touched me and you get hurt and blah blah blah and one child after another had a story that had these same satanic elements and so it went to trial they the people who owned the school had to go to trial to defend themselves against being satanists which which they had no connection to whatsoever no connection to Satanism whatsoever but yet they were really Satan satanists and they had a secret basement under the school now think about this they went to trial even after was discovered that the school has no basement pretty much most of the charges involved being taken into the basement which didn't exist and everybody agreed it didn't exist well the good news is that the Meg Martin's school defendants they won you know they won completely because it was literally no physical evidence or anything to back up the children but then you say to yourself but the children are not nothing right you had lots of children and and they were telling similarly terrible stories you can't ignore that right well here's how we figured out how to ignore it intelligently which is uh people who knew what they were talking about people with actual the right kind of skills looked at the videos of the investigators interviewing the children and they they learned very quickly that the investigators who were putting the ideas into the children's minds and at that age and when you put them in this like high pressure situation where they're alone talking to a cop imagine being a little kid alone being interviewed by adults about something pretty important apparently you can get the kids to agree to whatever it is you think that they should be agreeing to and that's what happened so the explanation of the mcbarton school preschool case is that children can be really easily hypnotized brainwashed to saying things that are completely untrue so long as the person asking the questions is leading them so it's not about asking the questions it's about leading them so the difference is would be this so if you didn't leave them you say hey little Bobby um is there anything happening in your school that we should know about you know do you is there anything that worries you have you heard any stories you know something like that might might not be leading them depending on what else they've the kid had heard about the situation right but if you say were you taken into a secret basement and the child says no nobody nobody said why don't you come down here and you know you'll enjoy this no but so the head of the preschool never said to you that we have a place we go you know location a room in which we'd like to take you well you okay yeah yeah and was that the basement yeah yeah yeah those basements and what did you do down there that was satanic what satanic what satanic things did he do in the basement I didn't do any satanic things in the basement well but did anybody put you on a table and have like a you know blood or something well yeah yeah yeah I was put on a table so that's what happens when you when somebody in power uh interviews a very young kid remember this is preschool preschool these are really little kids and those kids just they they will adopt a fantasy as a reality without even really being too aware of the crossover point it's really dangerous children can be hypnotized by their environment they can be hypnotized by questions they can be hypnotized by simply reading the intention of their parents they can be hypnotized by overhearing the conversation that's all it takes they just have to overhear a conversation and a little kid can be completely hypnotized so if you're asking me is the you know sudden spike in number of trans kids and gender confusion is it caused by something in the environment specifically the way people talk about it yes I can tell you I'm an expert in this domain meaning persuasion and it's obvious right um Jordan Peterson is an expert in this domain when he talks about it he's not guessing he's not guessing he does know he literally knows this is not an opinion I mean it's well I mean I suppose you could you could call an opinion but there's no way he's wrong about this this is this is solidly right in the middle of his sweet spot right so if your job is plumber and you're disagreeing with him stop it stop it he's not arguing with you about the plumbing don't argue with him about how brains work that's not smart go fix your plumbing he won't he won't tell you your plumbing is wrong you just don't tell him his cognitive behavior stuff is wrong so yes it's very obvious you know I don't know about these particular Hollywood women I'm not I'm not saying that I know anything about their specific situations but it's very obvious that children are being brainwashed into gender confusion very obvious there may also be other things when RFK Jr talks about maybe something in the environment could be what's that called atrazine there's some chemical in the water that turns frogs into female frogs or something but I would certainly look into that atrazine stuff you know you could imagine that there's an interplay of two forces one force is changing the chemical balance of the children and the other horses the hypnosis and one one makes the other easier very very easy to imagine that that's happening don't know but very easy to imagine it and just a preview in tomorrow's Dilbert reborn which will not be public for only the subscribers will see it see if you can subscribe either on Twitter or the locals platforms.locals.com but anyway tomorrow's Dilbert reborn comic features uh Dilbert CEO who lost a cage match with another CEO and apparently they had a bet and so that boss has to marry the other CEO even though Dilbert's boss is not gay so he's trying to figure out how he can pay off his Bat up and burying the other CEO while not being gay and so dilber recommends atrazine so the CEO trisomatrazine and if you want to know what happens after that you better subscribe there's my commercial for the day uh I saw Jim Jordan tweeting that Joe Biden's FTC wanted Ernst young to punish musk's Twitter in other words the FTC was putting pressure on the accounting firm presumably this was Twitter's accounting firm to to slap him down to basically do something bad to Twitter and if they didn't do something bad to Twitter they'd pay for it later the FTC putting the hammer on the Ernst and Young now I don't know how much of that is right that feels like a a Twitter story meaning like we're not hearing the whole story but it's pretty messed up if it's true I'll just say big if true I suspect there's more to this story so don't buy it completely all right uh uh Joel Pollock was writing about there's a thing coming up in the election that you probably need to pay more attention to in terms of prediction and that's the New Hampshire primary for the Democrats now Joe Biden is going to skip New Hampshire and what's the other State Iowa he's going to do South Carolina because that's a big diverse State yeah so he's going to skip New Hampshire and Iowa partly because he doesn't know he would do well you don't want to go into New Hampshire and lose to somebody on the first one that's a bad look so he's just going to skip it however RFK Jr will not be skipping it and he's pretty popular in that part of the country so if RFK Jr pulls off a whim in the first primary at the same time Biden's you know cognitive decline is happening in the same time that the big donors are saying maybe not could that be enough to swing the momentum toward RFK Journey and I guess the only real answer is it could and even though Joe Biden is skipping New Hampshire because it doesn't represent the country and it's small that's not how people are going to see it people are very trained that New Hampshire matters even if it doesn't you know or in our brains it matters it doesn't matter in the real world you know in terms of its size it's such a small thing but yeah it actually could change the psychology of what's possible and that change could absolutely create a path for RFK Journey so I'm not saying it will I'd bet against it if I had to put a bet on it I bet against it but it's definitely within the realm of I don't know 30 possible a kind of a serious consideration all right um I had a observation about the Andrew Tate lover boy charges in Romania so according to Tate and of course he's not the final Authority in this because he's you know he's selling a version that he wants you to hear but he says that the uh the the only charges that got um put on him by Romania is that he was making girls fall in love with him and it's called the lover boy approach which is by the way not even illegal in a lot of places so but in Romania it is and the idea is that you seduce these women and then when they think they're really just your girlfriend you use your your persuasion to turn them into sex workers and then you take some of their body so that's the Loverboy technique now what Tate did and I think he admits it is that his he had girlfriends fall in love with him and he did in fact create an opportunity for them to do webcam you know sex sex talk stuff now he says he didn't take any of their money I don't know one way or the other that's just what he says the prosecutors say something else but I don't think the girls are complaining so my understanding is there are no Witnesses against them and that there is no victim who is willing to to Define themselves as a victim so after all of this there's not one person in the real world who says he victimized them none there's actually none now now that's his that's his claim right for all I know there could be hundreds of them but his his claim is that there there's nobody but in the Romanian system the Romanian Department of Justice they can declare that the woman is a victim even if she says what are you talking about I'm no victim I I didn't get brainwashed I was offered this opportunity by somebody I care about a lot and then I decided to take the opportunity because it looked good that's what they say now you might ask are they under duress are they being maybe bribed are they afraid are they afraid or are they just in love maybe they're just in love with them so they don't want to say anything bad but it is a weird situation that there's no there's no uh victim and in term at least the victim who admits being a victim so that's kind of a sketchy situation wouldn't you say but here's the thing I realized the charges are basically that he's the one of the most persuasive people in the world because he's not being charged with convincing one woman to be his girlfriend and then turning her into a webcam girl no he's accused of doing it 75 times am I do do a fact check on that but I I think at one point there was worthy he had 75 webcam girls that he had you know got there under at least some number of them under similar circumstance now do you believe that he is so persuasive that he could get dozens of girls to not only fall in love with him presumably had physical encounters with him and then also he convinced them to become sex operators in Romania because he's that he's that persuasive yeah he could do that yep you want a definitive answer yes yes he could do that he does have the talent he has the entire persuasion stack from the the physicality which is you know a good half of what he does right women like tall muscular guys who talk in a confident way and have a lot of money and you know have a lot of swagger so yes he is persuasive enough that he may have convinced 75 people to do something they wouldn't have done otherwise but this is where it gets gets interesting if he's really that persuasive there's no way in the world they're going to beat him in a trial or even you know even if it's just a judge if he's that persuasive he's going to persuade himself out of prison yeah oh I well yeah um so take you said that he got up to do tick tocks not webcam stuff so that that's what he said today separately separately he's said that he had webcam operators so he he said it's not from news reports but it could be it could be that none of the women who are part of the charges were on webcams that's possible it could be that they were only doing Tick Tock it's also possible that they were using Tick Tock as a way to get customers for a webcam business and the prosecutors can't find evidence of the webcam business yeah maybe they just don't have access to those records because if somebody did a bunch of webcams but nobody recorded it and and whoever would have records of that is maybe a company in another country that doesn't want to give you access it's entirely possible that there was like massive webcaming you know sex webcaming but it's impossible to prove because you go to the girls and you say were you webcaming and they go no I was just tick-tocking what do you do if that's their story because probably they don't want to be implicated in anything sketchy either so they might say no I didn't do any of that webcaming how can you prove it can you approve I did some webcaming maybe they can't it feels like they could but maybe they can't anyway so here's the funny part if Tate is as persuasive as the prosecution says then he's also persuasive enough to get out of the charges by literally persuading himself out of jail does he have the talent to actually persuade himself out of jail you know if if he's being targeted and or actually guilty and the answer is yes now I got some pushback on my tweet because somebody says Scott Scott trials are about evidence the evidence will determine whether he's found guilty to which I said I'll get back in your time machine and go back to 1953 because in the world of today no it's not about the evidence if it were about the evidence everybody would have agreed on OJ right if it were about the evidence Biden would be in jail right it's never about the evidence not with high profile stuff it's about persuasion and so the government of Romania is trying to enter a persuasion contest which is what a trial would be a persuasion contest against allegedly one of the most persuasive humans on planet Earth which actually is you know I don't know if he's in top five or top 10 but he's one of the most persuasive human beings on the planet right it's just a fact and how does he lose a how does he lose a jury trial because he also has you know the brains and the strategy he's a chess player I mean he's got the whole thing how does he lose now there are two possibilities one he he really is as persuasive as the Romanians claim if that's true then he'll persuade himself out of jail two he's not very persuasive at all in which case how did he persuade 75 women to move to Romania and do webcams or tick tocks or whatever how do you do that if you're not persuasive so there's sort of a logical problem here if the charges are true he'll go free if the charges are false he's innocent and there's only two possibilities it's true or false and they both get him out of jail is that weird that he has two paths and both of them are getting out of jail unless it's rigged which is a very good possibility unless it's rigged so his his uh suggestion was that maybe Great Britain was trying to suppress him because his message wasn't good for the Youth of Great Britain I think there might be something to that there definitely might be some political a little pressure on Romania to Tamp him down a little bit baby seems reasonable but uh we'll see how that turns out it's probably the most interesting contest in the world because he generally he genuinely is more persuasive than any prosecutor is going to be like I don't know what kind of evidence they have but if that evidence isn't just super airtight with Witnesses with Witnesses who admit they are victims I just don't see how he can be convicted he's just too good at this specifically this we'll see that ladies and gentlemen concludes my amazing live stream the very best thing that's ever happened to any of you is there any topic I missed today that I should have spoke about he does not speak Romanian but that shouldn't shouldn't change the result because whatever persuasion he possesses he can he can just run through his lawyer he basically just tells the lawyer how to handle things and should work out fine you assume a trial no when I say trial I mean a judge will decide are you making a distinction there my understanding is that in Romania it's you talk to judges not a jury of your peer or at least for this case I don't know if it's different for others but but I was I still call that a trial and the rules of persuasion would still apply he would have an easier deal well let me say it this way there isn't the slightest chance a jury of his peers would convict him let me say that flat out flat out if the trial and I think it won't be it'll be a judge or judges but if it were a jury of his peers there isn't the slightest chance there would be a unanimous 12 people conviction none the literally a zero chance it couldn't happen because his powers are just too big he could persuade himself to Ikea he could take out a few a few jurors just easily uh the Nexium cult leader was very persuasive but still received a hundred year sentence now good point that's a good point but do you think he was as persuasive I think there's a level of difference here because I never even heard of Nexium until they got in trouble but the entire planet heard of Tate so I would say the Nexium guy has skills but he was still a b-plus compared to what you're seeing from Tate you know Tate's at the a plus plus level of persuasion yeah by the way I I don't like him personally I just want to make sure you know that don't like him personally personally nothing but I've I've promised I'm going to call balls and Strikes as they say God I hate saying that calling balls and Strikes let's retire in that it's such an NPC thing to say but I told you I'd say when people had good persuasion when they don't and you could probably learn watch his technique and you could probably learn all right um the Nexium guy was too ugly to be persuasive well is that huh uh who's your favorite puppet um please discuss the sound of Freedom no plans to watch it I recommend you don't watch it either not because it isn't great and not because it isn't important it it's like I'm not going to watch things that are going to bring me down I get the topic right if you understand the topic I feel like that's enough all right I'm in the zeitgeist cool pool vacuums I don't I wish I did that's the worst suggestion I've ever heard you make what would be the counter argument give me the counter argument what's the argument for watching it if you if you're aware of the situation let's say you read about let's say you read a review or you read an article what would be the point of suffering through two and a half hours of the worst thing I could imagine what do you get from that you need to be talking about it now I'm out I'm out I'm tapping out I'm not going to do every topic and I'm not gonna I'm not going to turn this live stream into that all right there are plenty of people working on that and doing a great job the the fact that you're begging me to talk about it tells me you already know about it you don't need me right whatever is happening in that domain looks like it's happening exactly the way it should meaning that somebody made a movie it's very persuasive and um it's getting tons of attention you don't need me for this you would need me if it were getting no attention and then I'd probably actually have a different opinion but at the moment I'm not additive I would be just one more person to make me think about bad things and you have enough people making you think about bad stuff so you don't need me so I'm not minimizing the problem and I'm not minimizing the movie I'm saying it's doing fine just the way it is it doesn't need any extra help uh Scott just says it doesn't exist like they say it is have I ever said that no so people on You.

Tube um could you please go to Twitter with the rumors that you're making up about me because I don't think enough people are seeing your comments they're they're kind of wasted over here on on You.

Tube I feel like an idiot like me I mean you really need to tell me off sometimes I just need that sometimes I just need to be put in my place and I know it I know it so if you wouldn't mind the criticisms on You.

Tube were very well intended and very effective and I thank you for them I really think you need a bigger audience for them so I've got a I've got a million uh followers close to the million on Twitter whereas my live streams are you know just in the thousands so if you want that criticism to get the credit that you deserve for really insightful made-up thoughts with no connection to reality I think you deserve a bigger venue you need a bigger platform take that to Twitter it's at Scott Adams says and then under any tweet it doesn't even have to be on topic this is the beauty I could be tweeting about a new building material for your house you can slip in those comments and tell them that I'm just not as angry as pedophiles as I should be and that probably means something doesn't it so slip that in there make sure that it's all caps if you could do me a favor all caps because then I can find it easier I'll be looking through my comments looking for the good ones and I'll be like a bad one bad one better oh that's a that's a good criticism there that is nicely done crisply put together well designed good for you good for you so all caps will draw me to a bigger platform I would like to see you get the credit that you deserve can we all agree on this I believe my critics have not been getting the platform and the credit that they deserve can we all finally agree that I should be criticized far more aggressively please do it right all right thanks for that You.

Tube I'll talk to you tomorrow you're awesome well most of you are bye for now

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oh a bounty it's a bounty of funny news

and interesting news

I don't want to be a spoiler

but it doesn't look like

goodbye

but it doesn't look like we're gonna

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if you're worried about World War III

probably not that's the spoiler all

right let's talk about other things

though

I've developed developed the best insult

for the year 2023. the best insult I've

been testing the sound I told you I was

going to test it and now I have an

outcome

absolutely nobody likes to hear this

Bob believes in the news

so if you really want to insult somebody

you go Bob

you believe in the news

now I would recommend that you only use

this

for somebody's name is Bob

I don't really have anything that would

work with other names but this would

work really well if your name is Bob

Bob leaves the news and just walk away

there's nobody who can respond to that

you have to try it out the next time

you're debating about something in the

news political just look at the person

and say so Bob you believe the news

and then Bob will say something like

well you know I do my own research and

and I look at multiple sites and I talk

talk to people and then you just look at

him say

but in the end

you believe the news

that's it that's the whole technique

right there

well uh looks like actors and writers

are going on strike Hollywood actors and

writers first time since 1960.

and so we will not be

we will not be gifted with the greatness

of their products so you know maybe they

won't be making more movies right away

and uh I can't tell you how different my

life would be

if I didn't occasionally have to sit

through three hours of that I

imagined was going to be good but I was

Fooled Again

I think the world would be worse without

movies

I mean I realize this is

heretical

but I don't think we need them

don't think we need them

I said the same thing about all the

species that were becoming extinct

think about your your past week you know

out of the past week go for you do you

remember that time this past week when

you said everything would be good except

for you know the dodo was extinct

because I was going to have dodo you

know barbecue and there's no dodos so my

life is ruined because of the animals

that have gone extinct now I'm not in

favor of animals going extinct if he

could stop it that'd be great be great

but I just want to point out you you

have not missed any animals

there's not a single animal that you've

said to yourself if only

if only those specific animals were

still here you know that bird with a

funny head

things were good when we had that bird

but not not anymore no it's like that

you would never miss movies

if they stopped forever today

you would you would miss the habit

you would miss the habit but then you

would replace it with something

healthier

hahaha

you would not be worse off with no

movies

so

um and by the way I can say that about

myself

I don't believe that getting canceled in

newspapers globally

is you know desperately injuring the

people who would have been reading it

otherwise the entertainment's pretty

optional turns out if you have other

sources

all right um

the the funniest news from yesterday

which is kind of awesome is that Twitter

had

started mailing out checks to people who

were not expecting any checks

so it's the the bigger accounts that

we're getting lots of Engagement

musk had promised that he would start

paying people for engagement because

they could run ads in your comments

which is a much better place to put an

ad

because you're not going to see it

unless you're you know interested in

that comment

well some people I saw I saw one tweet

of somebody who got over nine hundred

thousand dollars

Matt Wallace

I don't know who Matt Wallace is but is

that true

maybe maybe it was like a

it doesn't seem possible I don't think

the math works because how much

engagement would you have to have to get

that

um other people were getting I think 10

pools and he got five thousand dollars

krasenstein's got twenty five thousand

dollars

um I don't I didn't get any notice that

I noticed

they were all they were all uh tweeting

this little notice getting paid I don't

think I have but it might also be

because I didn't start my subscription

service as soon as they did so maybe

maybe I get paid uh allegedly I would

so here's the funniest thing about this

so just when people were going to

threads

you know the competition to Twitter

uh Elon Musk comes up with a plan

to monetize your critics

that's right the more trolls that come

into my Tweet now and they yell at me

and call me a racist or whatever they

want to call me the more money I make

and the funniest thing about this was

Mike cernovich's reaction so many of you

know Mike cernovich from Twitter and you

see one of the biggest bigger accounts

he's over a million and

uh he's most famous on Twitter for being

the most aggressive Blocker of trolls

and and he commented you know damn it I

have to unblock 25 000 people now so

they can help mine me money on Twitter

and he coined the term using the trolls

to mine money on Twitter I love that I

love that term

so uh

let me remind you that the number one

factor in success is just pure luck

so certavich decides to make that sort

of almost a brand that he blocks people

and that it turns out that maybe he

could have made a lot more money if he

didn't he'll do fine either way because

he gets a lot of Engagement

but I thought that was funny

um

I

I I'm going to contrast this to you just

because it's funny

on Twitter someone asked me

if I had been doing affirmations about

creating a new uh source of cash flow

because this just snuck up on me I

wasn't expecting it just one day

apparently I'm eligible for money that I

wasn't expecting

and the answer is yes

I I only I only have one affirmation

going and the affirmation is that a

magical source of cash flow would open

up one that I was not aware of

and that happened yesterday

how often does that ever happen to you

Have You Ever Had An Unexpected source

of cash flow open up this never happened

to me I mean not like that

so yes that was actually my affirmation

that specific thing and it just appeared

now

let me give you a little background

I don't believe affirmations are magic

and I don't believe I necessarily

authored my environment because it seems

to have affected other people too

I doubt I did that but

um

it is the weird coincidences which you

appear to have when you're doing an

affirmation is just mind-boggling I've

been doing it all my life and one

coincidence after another we'll just

plop into your lap when you're doing

affirmations I don't know why it could

be because reality is subjective it

could be that you literally just imagine

a different path in your reality that is

no more or less real than the one you

were on this is different so maybe it's

just that maybe all possibilities exist

in the in it like a steady state like

every path exists and the only thing

that's moving is your consciousness

you know weaving through the various

four-dimensional reality

Maybe

maybe I always think of Consciousness

like

um the control point in a program if

you're executing a computer program

it doesn't all execute it once right it

executes certain you know a logical

sequence but I always think that that

point of execution

if the computer program could be could

have feelings like oh I'm now at this

point I'm would have Consciousness all

you'd have to do is tell the program as

a Feeling

associated with you know the specific

place that it's executing and if it felt

different in different parts of that

execution

it would be conscious

all right

um

Tucker Carlson is reportedly creating a

New Media company and trying to raise

hundreds of millions of dollars and he

would run that Media company on Twitter

so Twitter is beefing up its video

services and now allows long form for

some some bigger accounts I guess and

Tucker is looking to build his Media

company that would run on Twitter and

the reason he would run it on Twitter

instead of

YouTube

is censorship

censorship

so one of the things that Elon Musk has

created is a safe place for creators

which is also paying them

and I also wonder if my incentives will

change

I feel like they will I feel like they

will because I spent much of yesterday

you know I couldn't even get out of my

head thinking about the worst thing I

could tweet that would get the most

engagement

because now that's monetized

and I have to talk myself out of it all

morning long I've been talking myself

out of it yeah I'm coming back with my

full cup of coffee to start the show and

I'm thinking of a tweet

I think I'm going to say

that

Taylor and Lorenz is the hottest woman

on Twitter

just because I don't get a lot of

Engagement I barely know what she looks

like I just know people are really mad

at her right now that's all it would

take and but I didn't do it I didn't do

it because it's it's not creative

you know if you do creative things for a

living you have these sort of standards

that develop accidentally where you go

Ah that's not creative enough so if I

were to immediately go out and just do

troll bait tweets I would not feel good

about myself even if even if I made

money because it would be so uncreative

to do that

however

uh I don't know if you noticed that Mr

Beast

who is an enormous social media presence

if you're not aware of him uh Mr Beast

on YouTube and Twitter just one of the

biggest accounts of all time he's just

legendary legendarily gigantic social

media presence

and he said that he would

he would give the money from his

engagement this month to whoever had the

most engagement on the comments to his

tweet

so all the people jumped in with you

know trying to compete for because if

you got one month

of Mr BEAST's uh Twitter money I don't

know what that would be

but it's a big number

and he makes so many millions a year

that he could you know he could give

away a million dollars it wouldn't he

wouldn't even touch him so

I thought damn it I think I can compete

for this

you know my my competitive juices were

just automatically triggered because

it's a contest

and Mr B says 22 million followers

22 million

22 million followers

that's a lot anyway

uh I decided to enter the contest

meaning I made a comment that I hope to

get a lot of tweets and uh I got

absolutely Smoked by Bill Pulte

Bill Pulte just comes in and says he'll

donate the money and I'm like oh I can't

beat that come on bill so I think his

engagement or something like 50 times

mine all that all I did was post my

Dilbert reborn comic today uh about the

outcome of the cage match between

Dilbert's CEO and another CEO

I won't say it on YouTube but let's just

say it definitely wouldn't run in a

newspaper so you'd have to look at it

yourself if you want to see it I took it

outside the pay wall just just to

compete normally you wouldn't be able to

see Dilbert Reborns be on the paywall

but

if you go to the Mr Beast tweet

you can find it there

possibly the funniest thing I've ever

written I actually think that's true

that the comic I put under Mr beats Mr

BEAST's tweet it might be the funniest

thing I've ever read it's just me

so your mileage will differ

um so Tucker Carlson starting this

company it looks like they might get

some other hosts

who who do you think Tucker is going to

recruit

if Tucker Carlson starts his own you

know thing with other hosts

who would he recruit

you know because because the problem is

everybody who is notable already has a

pretty good job

right you know that the people working

at Fox News

could they really imagine that they

would get a bigger paycheck doing this

I don't know and you know other names I

hear you say they already have their own

thing you know Glenn Greenwald already

has his own thing uh Dan bongino his own

thing Megan Kelly her own thing so there

are there actually aren't that well

Herald though there actually aren't that

many people

who were big name

um let's say voices in the political

realm who are also looking for a job

because one of the thing that makes you

that prominent is that you have a

platform that's already working

so it's gonna be tough it's going to be

tough to recruit but wouldn't it be

interesting if he recruited Young

you know let's say he looked on Twitter

and found the people who were just

killing it on Twitter but don't have

their own platform yet

that'll be fun

yeah that'd be really fun

so we'll keep an eye on that

uh Zero Hedge tweeted that the use of

threads the competitor to Twitter is

down 20 from Saturday and user time

spent is down 50 percent

now I have not checked threads in a few

days I did sign up just to see what it's

all about

haven't felt any need to check it in two

days I've checked Twitter 400 times

why the difference well here's a here's

the mistake that Zuckerberg made which

sounded like the smartest thing he did

which might have turned into the dumbest

thing he did

so one of the features when you sign up

for Threads is that you can

automatically bring all of your follows

over not the people who follow you but

the people you follow you can bring over

to threads

so I brought all the people that I

follow because they look good and they

have good pictures because that's what I

do on Instagram if your pictures are

good for whatever reason

I follow you maybe it's attractive

people I want to look at

could be that and so I bring all these

people over and then I see what happens

when they're forced to produce content

that's only text

it didn't go well

it's some of the worst Tweeting or

threading you've ever seen in your life

all the people who who look amazing

when they have to talk

it all just goes it all goes right the

away they don't have anything it is

so amazingly uninteresting to read the

threads from the same people that I I

happily follow on Instagram and we'll

continue to their Instagram posts are

great yeah there was a reason I followed

them but boy when they start talking

there's nothing to see there

there's just nothing there the a typical

tweet would be like

I don't know if I should wear socks

today

okay

all right all right

let's talk about your socks

so uh as I tweeted about that it turns

out the movie my Instagram followers to

threads did not give me the Algonquin

Roundtable effect I was hoping to

achieve

now I'd like to look to the five percent

of you who understood that joke for a

reaction

anybody understand that joke

Algonquin Round Table

all right some of you got it good the

rest of you will just have to Google it

the Algonquin Round Table add that add

that to your uh snooty vocabulary

there's some things that if you know

them it sort of signifies you know that

you're sort of a well-informed person

it's like the use of the word zeitgeist

or eponymous eponymous I couldn't even

say it if you ever use the word

eponymous

or a zeitgeist

or Algonquin Roundtable

or schadenfreude shot in Freud thank you

excellent one if you use any of those

words in normal conversation

you're kind of a douchebag

you know talking about myself because I

do use them kind of a douchebag because

there's a very high likelihood that the

person you're talking to doesn't know

what those words mean you know in a

normal American Circle

five percent would know what all those

words mean maximum when you say five

percent would know all of those terms no

more than that so if you learn them

oh yeah and uh solemn solipsistic

if you learn those little terms you can

you can spoof as though you're Highly

Educated even if you're not it works

every time

all right what else is going on uh

Disney's business is slumping

um of course you're going to say is it

because of the fight with DeSantis and

is it because of politics and their

wokeness is that why they're having low

traffic in their theme parks and their

movies from Pixar are not doing well is

that why what do you think

do you do you think Disney is suffering

because of wokeness

I'm gonna say no

you're gonna say no

I'm just going to make a hypothesis

what could it be what could it be uh

what would cause Disney to slump

I I got it I got it I got it they made

movies

they made movies

suck

all of them they pretty much all suck

and they have a theme park

that if you were to put the entire

experience of the entire day at the

theme park it would be about equal to

five minutes of strolling on a

smartphone

scrolling not scrolling yeah

who goes to who goes to a Disney theme

park

um masochists

if you went to a Disney theme park isn't

it mostly standing in the sweltering

heat waiting for something that wasn't

that good in the first place and then

when you're done

you go wait in the sweltering heat for

yet another thing that you didn't want

to do in the first place

because you have children

who in the world does that voluntarily

you know this the news should not be

that their business is slumping the news

should be that somehow they built a

business on this

now I get in the old days this was

pretty interesting stuff Ooh It's a

Small World After All are you kidding I

didn't know that it's a small world

after all and they're singing look look

they're animatronic and they're boats

and they're singing they're singing oh

my God oh my God oh

it's not really the thrill it used to be

so I would think that Disney's biggest

problem is they make nobody wants

am I wrong about that

your kids enjoy it do you know what kids

enjoy

kids enjoy anything that's got bright

lights and and junk food

hey kids I'm going to take you to a

place that's got a lot of bright lights

and colors and junk food

can we eat good healthy food there too

nope don't even have any actually they

probably do but kids don't want it

um yeah kids are delighted to go

anywhere that they can run around have a

little freedom and eat some junk food

so yeah the kids love it

they don't love it as much as playing on

their iPad

but they love it

naturally they do probably love it more

than their iPad but

um I think the direction of Disney is

clear unless they do something pretty

radical I don't imagine I can't imagine

their business model working in the long

run unless they change it quite a bit

all right uh so a little clip of a

congresswoman summer Lee

representative summer Lee I would like

to first uh

compliment summer Lee congresswoman

summer Lee for having one of the best

names

of people who've ever been named

you know summer is a pretty good name

but Lee is an excellent last name to go

his summer

Summer League

am I wrong that's like one of the best

names I've ever heard

like I always wonder if that actually

affects your life

to have a name that people really really

like to say like I'll probably say that

name like to myself later when I'm

thinking about summerly it's like a

perfect name

anyway so that's not what the story is

about summer Lee pointed out in a tweet

and I guess she was talking in Congress

grilling somebody and said how much does

military the military spend on Viagra

each year

and the director of Defense contract

said I don't have that figured out and

but summerly did have it figured out and

answered her own question

41.6 million dollars spent by the

military every year for Viagra and then

she pointed out some early did a name I

just can't stop saying Summer League

do you know how many bridges in my

district of Pittsburgh could be repaired

with that amount it turns out it's I

think it's two Bridges you could fix two

Bridges

for the amount that the military spends

on Viagra

and so I introduced the hashtag Bridges

not boners

we'll see if that Trends Bridges not

Motors

um

and the thing that you should be worried

about is uh

military

our military vulnerability

yeah our military boner ability

I said it

I'm not embarrassed no I said it I said

it twice

um I stole that one from I stole that

one from somebody on Twitter that wasn't

my own work

and uh

I would just I would like to add a

Counterpoint the counter point to this

that it seems to me that's 42 million

dollars well spent

because you know what I don't want

maybe this is just me I'd like to get a

get a feel from the audience

I don't really want a military that

can't get hard

was that just me

is anybody with me I'm in a military

that's rock hard all the time and ready

to rock

they'll fight her little you know

and if and if you interrupt them after

they've taken the Viagra but before they

do the thing they want to do well

they'll fight

I like them angry and urgent

harder the better I think that's the

best money we're spending I want these

guys to be saluting at all times if you

know what I mean and I think you know

what I mean

right

so summerly you're awesome however I do

like uh

I like a hard military is what I'm

saying

it takes Hard Men Hard Men to fix things

sometimes

well CNN is directly going after Biden

in ways that you would not imagine they

would do unless they really don't want

him to run for office

all right so you don't expect CNN to

just directly go after the the Democrat

but they did and they're they're it's

the kind of story that seems designed to

take him out of the office

see if you think this is just

unbiased news because they're

criticizing their own side in a sense is

it just unbiased news and and welcome

or is it clearly designed to remove him

from office

right so

the article is about how the the big

donors are worried that he is not worth

the money

if you want to kill somebody's campaign

run a story on CNN the one that

everybody on your team is aware of and

tell them that big donors other big

donors yeah although I'm not going to

name them odd the names of the big

donors no I'm not going to give you the

names of them but trust me trust me I've

talked to people those big donors who I

won't name are very hesitant they're

looking for somebody else to give money

to now if you were a big donor also

and you were on the verge of giving

Biden a lot of money and you read in CNN

that other big donors have decided they

might not or are not

wouldn't your money feel wasted

that's the play

the play is to make the other donors

think they're wasting their money

by saying that there's so much doubt and

he might not run he might be replaced

and and the big donors when they say big

donors do you know what the synonym for

that is they don't say it out loud

big donor

equals what big donor not just victory

but

no not lobbyist big donor equals

smart

smart because people assume that the the

billionaire class and the big donors are

going to do their homework that's the

group that's making damn sure they know

who to give their money to because it's

a lot of money and they're you know

smart high high functioning people who

are not just guessing

they're doing good risk analysis and

they know where their money's going so

if you say all the if you say oh I don't

know if you knew this but the smart big

donors the Smart Ones the smart

billionaires they've decided not to give

money to Joe Biden

so I mean you can if you want I mean

that's up to you it's a free world you

can give your money to anybody you want

but the Smart Ones

Smart Ones they've already decided not

to now you tell me I'm exaggerating I'm

you know that's hyperbole the article

doesn't go that far but

don't you think this article is designed

to take him out

you know and of course they mentioned

you know people are looking at the

Alternatives and all that it feels like

it's designed only for that purpose it

does not feel like news it doesn't even

have the the vibe of we just wanted to

inform you as a citizen nothing like

that it just feels like a play

an actual op instead of news

all right

um

let's see what else is going on

um

Michael schellenberger tweeted this

there's a some entity called public

I don't know who they are but they some

some kind of uh publication or entity

but jellenberger is tweeting that Biden

and the FBI suggest that domestic

terrorism is increasing but it's not and

now a new investigation by public

whoever they are reveals that the FBI is

deliberately stoking domestic extremism

and white supremacy in order to paint

Republicans as terrorists

now I'm not going to say that this is

confirmed to the level that I feel

comfortable with it but on the other

hand

schellenberger

isn't wrong a lot

if at all and I can't think of an

example but

anyway he thought it was credible enough

to retweet it I would put a little

Caution on it you know just just put a

little skepticism on whether public has

the goods but it's a report

and

it does you know here's the problem I

guess here's the problem this has to

work both ways it feels too on the nose

doesn't it if the politics of this were

reversed that's the first thing I tell

you that's a little that's like exactly

what you suspected isn't that a little

on the nose

might be true

might be exactly true

but it has that feel like things that

aren't true

you know what I mean if you just use

pattern recognition

it looks like maybe somebody's

stretching the story a little bit

but it's also possibly completely true

so the fact that we don't know if we can

trust our FBI to be working for the

public or actively against it you know

by playing in politics I would call that

actively working against the public

isn't that weird you act we actually

don't know

if the FBI is actively working for or

against the public

that's pretty scary

anyway

so it does seem to me the white

supremacy is the new hoax

so maybe I should add that to my hoax

list FBI white supremacy hoax

what do you think

I think we should go away Supremacy a

hoax at this point

now

you know how the argument always goes

right

the the side that disagrees with you

will tell you if there are three white

supremacists in a group of 80 million

all 80 million are Vice premises

right that that's where we go next so

next we go there well if you have two or

three in that group of 80 million

probably probably the whole group's

White supremacists and

you know where it's going there's not

going to be a question but if the rate

apparently there's some jiggering with

the numbers to make it look like the

white supremacy was worse than that was

and that maybe that was intentional

it's scary but we don't know how much is

real

so there was a story today about a

Republican

or representative who is speaking in

Congress and he

he used the phrase colored people

a black woman whose name

insisted that that be stricken from

and then the the individual who said it

realizing that he had missoken said he

would like to revise the record from

colored people to people of color

does that sound reasonable

he immediately went up no no no argument

no argument he immediately went up and

said I'd like to revise that to people

of color

and then the woman who is challenging it

said that's unacceptable she wants to

just take it out of the record

I don't know why because I feel like

amending it would get her more than

taking it out

because amending the record if there's

any record of I don't know if they keep

a record of what God amended

wouldn't it be better to show the path

to show the you said something you

misspoke you corrected it move on with

your life

all right here is my overall opinion on

this topic

don't care

don't care

do you know why

the reason I don't care is because black

Americans have been promoted recently to

full citizenship and full respect

full respect

full citizenship that just happened with

the the Africa the affirmative action

thing being overturned once you have

full

full citizenship for the first time in

my opinion

we don't care about this

now it doesn't matter

nobody cares

nobody cares that you were offended by

it

do you know why

because if a if a white person had been

offended in let's say the same fashion

nobody give a about that white guy

nobody

how about an Asian American was offended

in the same way I don't give a do

you

I don't care who got offended by

something that was just clearly

misspeaking

no care at all and the reason I don't

care is not because I don't care

it's because you've been promoted

is is literally because black lives

matter

I can't agree with you more

that you need the full respect of a full

citizen

take it

we're offering it I mean the whole world

is offering it just take it you'll love

it

have you ever seen the uh there were

studies I don't know if there's science

backs us but I believe I believe it has

been studied many times

that if you take students and tell them

they're good at math

they get good grades

if you take students and tell them

they're bad at math

they don't because they think they're

bad at math they get bad grades

relatively speaking now if that's true

then the ending of affirmative action

should

in the long run have the effect of

making everybody think that they could

be good at math you know if somebody

tells them they're good at math

so I think the end of affirmative action

is an insanely positive thing for Black

America

that looks like an insanely bad thing at

the moment I get that there are

certainly individuals who are maybe

counting on you know rules being

different

and got disappointed and that's a real

thing that's a real problem

but overall

the the full respect of being a full

citizen of the United States is way more

important that'll get you more in the

long run make you feel better make you

perform better make everybody like you

better it's all good it just doesn't

feel like it in the short run

well more to this point 13 attorney

generals from different states 13 states

uh

uh sent a message to their

states that the affirmative action

decision that applied to colleges

must also be applied to corporations and

businesses

and the thinking is that if the Supreme

Court found racial preference to be

illegal in the context of

uh colleges

obviously it would be also equally as

illegal if businesses were doing exactly

the same thing

so there's 13 states that just says it's

illegal

to do anything that even has the effect

of affirmative action

and specifically in those 13 states

Dei

is dead

because the AG has just turned it off

they just made it illegal to have a

diversity equity and inclusion

Department

well you could have the department I

suppose but you couldn't actually do

anything that changed the mix of people

so the Dei couldn't do the job of the

Dei I mean the the essential part uh in

13 states that's illegal now

goodbye Dei now of course these are you

know will be 13 most conservative States

I assume I didn't see the list

Tendencies on the list I think so that

should give you a hints

um don't know if more more States will

join

but

I think they might

yeah it could stay at 13.

well Biden found some new technical way

to cancel a bunch of student debts not

all of it but a big old chunk of it has

something to do with and this is what

you can do by executive order it took me

a long time to figure out

why an executive order can work

when it's not Congress and it's not a

law like why can you just say the

executive the president can just change

stuff

you know I saw Congress is the only one

who could do that but the details are

that if the law allows the the federal

government and the the president to

manage something

then that president can manage that

thing as long as it's within the bounds

of the law according to you know a

number of subjective or different you

know technical ways to get it done

so the trick is that you have to write

your

executive order

so that it looks like you're just making

a technical operational

administrative change but it doesn't

affect the law itself the law is still

the law and you're still obeying it

you're just you're just modifying how

you're observing it or or implementing

it so apparently they found some

technicality where

people

got billed more than they should have or

at least you could Define it that way or

you could interpret it that way and so

they're going to use that technicality

to make a bunch of mostly interest

payment go away I think

I don't know what to think about this

because you'd have to see the technical

argument and I didn't

but if it's true that these people were

paying

money that obviously they didn't need to

well then we need to fix that and then

that would be a good thing that he's

doing but I don't know if that's the

case you know maybe it's just a

technicality to make it make you sound

like he did more than he did

well if you were following social media

today you saw some frightened people say

that Biden is calling up reserves in the

U.S

and the worry would be that the reserves

are being called up because of Ukraine

and that it's a you know a preparation

step toward putting boots on the ground

American boots in the ground to Ukraine

which I think we all think is the worst

idea of all time

but also I was reading a tweet thread by

Joshua Steinman who you should follow

really good follow if you want to know

what's going on Joshua Steinman and uh

he had he had some experience in this

domain

and explained the you know the different

various reserves and who's a who's a

weekend reserve and who's a coast guard

and National Guard and I don't know so

he kind of broke down what all the parts

are and how they move

and then his takeaway was it probably

was not related to Ukraine

is more likely related he's speculating

but based on his experience which seemed

you know directly applicable to the the

topic he thinks there's more about

Talent retention because the military is

having a talent retention problem and he

thought that the move might be getting

at that although that's unconfirmed but

it doesn't look like an obvious thing

you would do to get ready to put boots

on the ground in Ukraine

can we all agree that we're not going to

put boots on the ground in Ukraine and

when I say let's agree I mean we can

stop that from happening

right the the public can absolutely stop

that from happening

if we want to

if we don't want to we won't but if we

want to we can absolutely stop it it's

not up to Biden you know he's going to

have to bow to the public if the public

is 80 against it

it's just not going to happen

but you'd probably have to get to about

80 percent

all right the 50 50 won't get it done

um so I wouldn't worry about World War

III just yet

uh India is launching a second attempt

to put a Rover on the moon

boy you know I had not been paying

attention to India at all when it comes

to space

but I don't know if you've heard this

this might be the first time you've

heard this but

there are some good Indian engineers

did anybody know that yeah they got

really good they got smarter people they

got really really good engineers and

they launched a rocket I I haven't heard

yet if there's any problem with it so

far so good

I would love to see another Rover on the

moon and I would love it to be an ally

that would be ideal

so keep an eye on India and space and I

also think it's important that India

might want to you know get a get a

foothold on the moon

because the moon is going to be a

battlefield you know that right

the the odds that we're never going to

have a war on the moon are pretty low

because because the moon's sort of the

the ultimate space Attack Base for Earth

yeah if you wanted to have like a a

military base on the moon someday

that feels like it would be a good play

you know someday I can imagine them you

know a spaceship that does nothing but

you know drag giant Boulders you know

into our atmosphere from Mars and just

release them

yeah but figure out where they're gonna

land so it's like a rocket if they don't

burn up

that's the worst idea I've had lately

all right

I saw on uh I think it was in the hill

or something that Trump is less popular

than uh Kamala Harris in the whole

country

do you think that's true

do you think Trump is less popular than

Kamala Harris

might be might be true

so

do you really want another four years of

being called a white supremacist and a

monster just because of trump

I feel like he's the only candidate that

would make his

make his supporters look like

I mean it happened the first time I mean

it was devastating for anybody who

supported him they were just demonized

as as racist but if you know if Tim

Scott is the candidate

I have a good four years

no matter what happens of good four

years if Trump's a candidate I'm going

to get a lot of trouble

like there's just a lot of trouble to

come my way and I'm even endorsing Rama

Swami and I'm still

if I say anything positive about his

persuasion or something I'm still going

to give just villainized for all that do

I need that

I don't really need it but I also object

to the fact that the Democrats would

make me

you know try to support somebody

different because they're going to put

pressure on me

they're going to put pressure on me

that's not cool

you you can put pressure on the

candidate as much as you want they

signed up for that but if you come after

me

because I have a political preference

that's not cool at all

yeah not cool at all

so we'll see what happens

um

so the conversation about whether we're

experiencing something called a woke

mind virus I was actually in a

conversation with somebody who does a

great job of looking at both the left

and the right

and insists that the woke mind virus is

a Illusion by the right

that there's no such thing

and then I said well do you believe that

let's say the trans situation would be

exactly the same except for the

psychology of the current situation

and I didn't get quite a good answer to

that but it seems to me it's obviously a

woke mind virus and it's and it's

operating exactly like a virus in that

it you catch it from other people

you know they have to talk to you about

it and

it's spreading

so if you get it from other people and

it's spreading is that wrong to call

that a mind virus it's not a physical

virus but obviously it's a mental

process that's spreading from one to

another it has negative effects

I mean I think awoke mind virus fits

perfectly and is observable and

scientifically measurable and the data

supports it

to me it's the most obviously true thing

in politics you like TDS right

but um

so I saw a little uh back and forth

by I saw at first it was a tweet that

Jordan Peterson was

um boosted and the Tweet said Megan Fox

has three boys

Charlize Theron adopted two boys both

are woke Hollywood stars both are

unmarried white women both have sons

identifying as girls and then this tweet

said it doesn't take a rocket scientist

so in other words it was suggesting that

these children would not have made these

choices except that their parents are

woke White

liberals and single and single and you

know that the the implication is Dad

wouldn't let wouldn't let them do that

I don't know about the dad part

but uh then I saw a tweet by Jordan

Peterson who calculated the odds

so he did the odds what are the odds

that you would have two non-binaries or

you know two kids who think they're in

the wrong gender

and it's like you know one uh you know

hundreds of billions or something like

that just crazy odds

but I would like to add the following

thing

um I've talked about the McMartin School

uh preschool case before I think it was

70s

or 80s I forget was it 80s or 80s yeah

it was in the 80s and the the famous

case just to remind you it's well well

documented you can see it on Wikipedia

is that there was a preschool in which

there were allegations that the children

were being uh

tortured and used in Satanic rituals and

that there was a basement under the

school in which they took the kids and

did all kinds of you know very elaborate

rituals and everything and the reason

that they were accused of this is that

that's what the children said

so when the children were interviewed

they said oh yeah we're taken

underground and these bad things happen

and they touched me and you get hurt and

blah blah blah and one child after

another

had a story that had these same satanic

elements and so it went to trial

they the people who owned the school had

to go to trial to defend themselves

against being satanists which which they

had no connection to whatsoever

no connection to Satanism whatsoever but

yet they were really Satan satanists and

they had a secret basement under the

school now think about this they went to

trial

even after was discovered that the

school has no basement

pretty much most of the charges involved

being taken into the basement which

didn't exist

and everybody agreed it didn't exist

well the good news is that the Meg

Martin's school defendants they won

you know they won completely because it

was literally no physical evidence

or anything to back up the children

but then you say to yourself but the

children are not nothing right you had

lots of children

and and they were telling similarly

terrible stories you can't ignore that

right

well here's how we figured out how to

ignore it

intelligently which is uh people who

knew what they were talking about people

with actual the right kind of skills

looked at the videos of the

investigators interviewing the children

and they they learned very quickly that

the investigators who were putting the

ideas into the children's minds and at

that age and when you put them in this

like high pressure situation where

they're alone talking to a cop

imagine being a little kid alone

being interviewed by adults about

something pretty important

apparently you can get the kids to agree

to whatever it is you think that they

should be agreeing to and that's what

happened so the explanation of the

mcbarton school preschool case is that

children can be really easily hypnotized

brainwashed to saying things that are

completely untrue

so long as the person asking the

questions is leading them so it's not

about asking the questions it's about

leading them so the difference is would

be this so if you didn't leave them you

say hey little Bobby

um is there anything happening in your

school that we should know about

you know do you is there anything that

worries you have you heard any stories

you know something like that

might might not be leading them

depending on what else they've the kid

had heard about the situation right but

if you say

were you taken into a secret basement

and the child says no

nobody nobody said why don't you come

down here and you know you'll enjoy this

no

but

so the head of the preschool never said

to you that we have a place we go you

know location a room in which we'd like

to take you

well you okay yeah yeah

and was that the basement

yeah yeah yeah those basements and what

did you do down there that was satanic

what satanic what satanic things did he

do in the basement

I didn't do any satanic things in the

basement well but did anybody put you on

a table

and have like a you know blood or

something

well yeah yeah yeah I was put on a table

so that's what happens when you when

somebody in power

uh interviews a very young kid

remember this is preschool

preschool these are really little kids

and those kids just they they will adopt

a fantasy as a reality without even

really being too aware of the crossover

point

it's really dangerous children can be

hypnotized by their environment

they can be hypnotized by questions they

can be hypnotized by simply reading the

intention of their parents they can be

hypnotized by overhearing the

conversation

that's all it takes they just have to

overhear a conversation and a little kid

can be completely hypnotized

so if you're asking me is the you know

sudden spike in number of trans kids and

gender confusion is it caused by

something in the environment

specifically the way people talk about

it

yes

I can tell you I'm an expert in this

domain meaning persuasion and it's

obvious

right

um Jordan Peterson is an expert in this

domain

when he talks about it he's not guessing

he's not guessing he does know he

literally knows this is not an opinion

I mean it's well I mean I suppose you

could you could call an opinion but

there's no way he's wrong about this

this is this is solidly right in the

middle of his sweet spot right so if

your job is plumber and you're

disagreeing with him stop it stop it

he's not arguing with you about the

plumbing don't argue with him about how

brains work

that's not smart go fix your plumbing he

won't he won't tell you your plumbing is

wrong you just don't tell him

his cognitive behavior stuff is wrong

so yes it's very obvious you know I

don't know about these particular

Hollywood women I'm not I'm not saying

that I know anything about their

specific situations but it's very

obvious that children are being

brainwashed into gender confusion very

obvious there may also be other things

when RFK Jr talks about maybe something

in the environment

could be

what's that called atrazine

there's some chemical in the water that

turns frogs into female frogs or

something

but I would certainly look into that

atrazine stuff

you know you could imagine that there's

an interplay of two forces one force is

changing the chemical

balance of the children and the other

horses the hypnosis and one one makes

the other easier

very very easy to imagine that that's

happening don't know but very easy to

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uh I saw Jim Jordan tweeting that Joe

Biden's FTC wanted Ernst young to punish

musk's Twitter

in other words the FTC was putting

pressure on the accounting firm

presumably this was Twitter's accounting

firm

to to slap him down to basically do

something bad to Twitter and if they

didn't do something bad to Twitter

they'd pay for it later the FTC putting

the hammer on the Ernst and Young

now I don't know how much of that is

right that feels like a a Twitter story

meaning like we're not hearing the whole

story

but it's pretty messed up if it's true

I'll just say

big if true

I suspect there's more to this story so

don't buy it completely

all right uh uh Joel Pollock was writing

about

there's a thing coming up in the

election that you probably need to pay

more attention to in terms of prediction

and that's the New Hampshire primary for

the Democrats now Joe Biden is going to

skip New Hampshire and what's the other

State Iowa

he's going to do South Carolina because

that's a big diverse State yeah so he's

going to skip New Hampshire and Iowa

partly because he doesn't know he would

do well

you don't want to go into New Hampshire

and lose to somebody on the first one

that's a bad look so he's just going to

skip it

however

RFK Jr will not be skipping it and he's

pretty popular in that part of the

country

so if RFK Jr pulls off a whim in the

first primary at the same time Biden's

you know cognitive decline is happening

in the same time that the big donors are

saying maybe not

could that be enough

to swing the momentum toward RFK Journey

and

I guess the only real answer is

it could

and even though Joe Biden is skipping

New Hampshire because it doesn't

represent the country and it's small

that's not how people are going to see

it

people are very trained that New

Hampshire matters

even if it doesn't you know or in our

brains it matters it doesn't matter in

the real world you know in terms of its

size it's such a small thing but yeah it

actually could change the psychology of

what's possible and that change could

absolutely create a path for RFK Journey

so I'm not saying it will

I'd bet against it if I had to put a bet

on it I bet against it but it's

definitely within the realm of

I don't know 30 possible

a kind of a serious consideration

all right

um I had a

observation about the Andrew Tate lover

boy charges in Romania

so according to Tate and of course

he's not the final Authority in this

because he's you know he's selling a

version that he wants you to hear but he

says that the uh the the only charges

that got

um put on him by Romania is that he was

making girls fall in love with him and

it's called the lover boy approach which

is by the way not even illegal in a lot

of places

so but in Romania it is and the idea is

that you seduce these women and then

when they think they're really just your

girlfriend you use your your persuasion

to turn them into sex workers

and then you take some of their body

so that's the Loverboy technique now

what Tate did

and I think he admits it is that his he

had girlfriends fall in love with him

and he did in fact

create an opportunity for them to do

webcam you know sex sex talk stuff

now he says he didn't take any of their

money

I don't know one way or the other that's

just what he says the prosecutors say

something else but I don't think the

girls are complaining

so my understanding is there are no

Witnesses against them and that there is

no victim who is willing to to Define

themselves as a victim

so after all of this

there's not one person

in the real world who says he victimized

them none

there's actually none

now now that's his that's his claim

right

for all I know there could be hundreds

of them but his his claim is that there

there's nobody but in the Romanian

system the Romanian Department of

Justice they can declare that the woman

is a victim even if she says what are

you talking about

I'm no victim

I I didn't get brainwashed I was offered

this opportunity by somebody I care

about a lot

and then I decided to take the

opportunity because it looked good

that's what they say now you might ask

are they under duress

are they being maybe bribed

are they afraid are they afraid or are

they just in love maybe they're just in

love with them so they don't want to say

anything bad

but it is a weird situation that there's

no there's no uh

victim and in term at least the victim

who admits being a victim so that's kind

of a sketchy situation wouldn't you say

but here's the thing I realized

the charges are basically that he's the

one of the most persuasive people in the

world

because he's not being charged with

convincing one woman

to be his girlfriend and then

turning her into a webcam girl no he's

accused of doing it 75 times

am I do do a fact check on that but I I

think at one point there was worthy he

had 75 webcam girls that he had

you know got there under at least some

number of them under similar

circumstance

now do you believe

that he is so persuasive that he could

get dozens

of girls to not only fall in love with

him presumably had physical encounters

with him and then also he convinced them

to become sex operators in Romania

because he's that he's that persuasive

yeah he could do that

yep you want a definitive answer yes yes

he could do that he does have the talent

he has the entire persuasion stack from

the the physicality which is you know a

good half of what he does right women

like

tall muscular guys who talk in a

confident way and have a lot of money

and you know have a lot of swagger so

yes he is persuasive enough that he may

have convinced 75 people to do something

they wouldn't have done otherwise

but this is where it gets gets

interesting

if he's really that persuasive

there's no way in the world they're

going to beat him in a trial

or even you know even if it's just a

judge

if he's that persuasive he's going to

persuade himself out of prison

yeah oh I well yeah

um

so take you said that he got up to do

tick tocks not webcam stuff

so that that's what he said today

separately

separately he's said that he had webcam

operators so he he said it's not from

news reports but it could be it could be

that none of the women who are part of

the charges were on webcams that's

possible it could be that they were only

doing Tick Tock it's also possible that

they were using Tick Tock as a way to

get customers for a webcam business and

the prosecutors can't find evidence of

the webcam business

yeah maybe they just

don't have access to those records

because if somebody did a bunch of

webcams but nobody recorded it

and and whoever would have records of

that is maybe a company in another

country that doesn't want to give you

access

it's entirely possible that there was

like massive webcaming you know sex

webcaming but it's impossible to prove

because you go to the girls and you say

were you webcaming and they go no I was

just tick-tocking

what do you do

if that's their story because probably

they don't want to be implicated in

anything sketchy either

so they might say no I didn't do any of

that webcaming how can you prove it

can you approve I did some webcaming

maybe they can't it feels like they

could but maybe they can't

anyway so here's the funny part if Tate

is as persuasive as the prosecution says

then he's also persuasive enough to get

out of the charges by literally

persuading himself out of jail

does he have the talent

to actually persuade himself out of jail

you know if if he's being targeted and

or actually guilty and the answer is yes

now I got some pushback on my tweet

because somebody says Scott Scott

trials are about evidence

the evidence will determine whether he's

found guilty

to which I said

I'll get back in your time machine and

go back to 1953 because in the world of

today no it's not about the evidence if

it were about the evidence everybody

would have agreed on OJ

right if it were about the evidence

Biden would be in jail

right it's never about the evidence not

with high profile stuff it's about

persuasion

and so the government of Romania is

trying to enter a persuasion contest

which is what a trial would be a

persuasion contest against allegedly

one of the most persuasive humans

on planet Earth

which actually is

you know I don't know if he's in top

five or top 10 but he's one of the most

persuasive human beings

on the planet

right it's just a fact

and how does he lose a how does he lose

a jury trial

because he also has you know the brains

and the strategy he's a chess player I

mean he's got the whole thing

how does he lose

now there are two possibilities one he

he really is as persuasive as the

Romanians claim if that's true then

he'll persuade himself out of jail

two he's not very persuasive at all

in which case how did he persuade 75

women to move to Romania and do webcams

or tick tocks or whatever

how do you do that if you're not

persuasive

so there's sort of a logical problem

here

if the charges are true he'll go free

if the charges are false he's innocent

and there's only two possibilities it's

true or false and they both get him out

of jail

is that weird

that he has two paths and both of them

are getting out of jail

unless it's rigged which is a very good

possibility unless it's rigged so his

his uh suggestion was that maybe Great

Britain was trying to suppress him

because his message wasn't good for the

Youth of Great Britain I think there

might be something to that

there definitely might be some political

a little pressure on Romania to Tamp him

down a little bit baby seems reasonable

but uh we'll see how that turns out it's

probably the most interesting contest in

the world

because he generally he genuinely is

more persuasive than

any prosecutor is going to be

like I don't know what kind of evidence

they have but if that evidence isn't

just super airtight

with Witnesses with Witnesses who admit

they are victims I just don't see how he

can be convicted he's just too good at

this specifically this

we'll see

that ladies and gentlemen concludes my

amazing live stream the very best thing

that's ever happened to any of you

is there any topic I missed today that I

should have

spoke about

he does not speak Romanian but that

shouldn't shouldn't change the result

because whatever persuasion he possesses

he can he can just run through his

lawyer he basically just tells the

lawyer how to handle things and should

work out fine

you assume a trial

no when I say trial I mean a judge will

decide are you making a distinction

there

my understanding is that in Romania it's

you talk to judges not a jury of your

peer or at least for this case I don't

know if it's different for others

but but I was I still call that a trial

and the rules of persuasion would still

apply

he would have an easier deal well let me

say it this way there isn't the

slightest chance a jury of his peers

would convict him

let me say that flat out

flat out

if the trial and I think it won't be

it'll be a judge or judges but if it

were a jury of his peers there isn't the

slightest chance

there would be a unanimous 12 people

conviction none the literally a zero

chance it couldn't happen because his

powers

are just too big he could persuade

himself to Ikea he could take out a few

a few jurors just easily

uh the Nexium cult leader was very

persuasive but still received a hundred

year sentence

now

good point

that's a good point

but do you think he was as persuasive

I think there's a level of difference

here

because I never even heard of Nexium

until they got in trouble but the entire

planet heard of Tate

so I would say the Nexium guy has skills

but he was still a b-plus

compared to what you're seeing from Tate

you know Tate's at the a plus plus level

of persuasion

yeah by the way I I don't like him

personally I just want to make sure you

know that don't like him personally

personally nothing but I've I've

promised I'm going to call balls and

Strikes as they say

God I hate saying that

calling balls and Strikes let's retire

in that it's such an NPC thing to say

but I told you I'd say when people had

good persuasion when they don't and you

could probably learn

watch his technique and you could

probably learn

all right

um

the Nexium guy was too ugly to be

persuasive well is that

huh

uh who's your favorite puppet um

please discuss the sound of Freedom no

plans to watch it

I recommend you don't watch it either

not because it isn't great and not

because it isn't important

it it's like I'm not going to watch

things that are going to bring me down

I get the topic right if you understand

the topic

I feel like that's enough

all right I'm in the zeitgeist

cool pool vacuums I don't I wish I did

that's the worst suggestion I've ever

heard you make

what would be the counter argument give

me the counter argument what's the

argument for watching it if you if

you're aware of the situation

let's say you read about let's say you

read a review or you read an article

what would be the point of suffering

through two and a half hours of the

worst thing I could imagine what do you

get from that

you need to be talking about it now I'm

out I'm out I'm tapping out I'm not

going to do every topic

and I'm not gonna I'm not going to turn

this live stream into that all right

there are plenty of people working on

that and doing a great job the the fact

that you're begging me to talk about it

tells me you already know about it

you don't need me

right

whatever is happening in that domain

looks like it's happening exactly the

way it should meaning that somebody made

a movie it's very persuasive and

um it's getting tons of attention

you don't need me for this you would

need me if it were getting no attention

and then I'd probably actually have a

different opinion

but at the moment I'm not additive I

would be just one more person to make me

think about bad things

and you have enough people making you

think about bad stuff

so you don't need me

so I'm not minimizing the problem

and I'm not minimizing the movie I'm

saying it's doing fine just the way it

is it doesn't need any extra help

uh

Scott just says it doesn't exist like

they say it is

have I ever said that no so people on

YouTube

um could you please go to Twitter with

the rumors that you're making up about

me

because I don't think enough people are

seeing your comments they're they're

kind of wasted over here on on YouTube

I feel like an idiot like me

I mean you really need to tell me off

sometimes I just need that

sometimes I just need to be put in my

place and I know it I know it so if you

wouldn't mind

the criticisms on YouTube were very well

intended and very effective and I thank

you for them I really think you need a

bigger audience for them

so I've got a I've got a million uh

followers close to the million on

Twitter whereas my live streams are you

know just in the thousands

so if you want that criticism to get the

credit that you deserve for really

insightful made-up thoughts

with no connection to reality I think

you deserve a bigger venue you need a

bigger platform take that to Twitter

it's at Scott Adams says and then under

any tweet it doesn't even have to be on

topic this is the beauty I could be

tweeting about a new building material

for your house you can slip in those

comments and tell them that I'm just not

as angry as pedophiles as I should be

and that probably means something

doesn't it so slip that in there make

sure that it's all caps if you could do

me a favor

all caps

because then I can find it easier I'll

be looking through my comments looking

for the good ones and I'll be like a bad

one bad one better oh that's a that's a

good criticism there that is nicely done

crisply put together well designed good

for you good for you so all caps will

draw me to a bigger platform

I would like to see you get the credit

that you deserve

can we all agree on this I believe my

critics have not been getting the

platform and the credit that they

deserve can we all finally agree that I

should be criticized far more

aggressively

please

do it right

all right

thanks for that YouTube

I'll talk to you tomorrow you're awesome

well most of you are

bye for now