Episode 2179 Scott Adams - Is The American Incompetence Crisis Caused By Women Dominating Policy?

do do good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of human civilization that's called coffee with Scott Adams and would you like to take this experience up to levels that even astrophysicists cannot imagine because the universe is too big that didn't even make any sense but it won't matter to the simultaneous sip all you need is a cup of Margaret a glass of tanker chalice or Steiner came to your Joker flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like a coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine day of the day I think it makes everything better it's called the simultaneous simple Tapas now go oh that was perfect I'm pretty sure I nailed it and that's a good sign for the rest of the day how many of you have ever heard of something called it aphantasia it's the ability to see things in your mind I didn't know that people were all over the map on that and apparently people don't there are some people who don't think in the images I don't even know what to think about that because I only do and apparently the test I was just seeing this on Wikipedia or someplace is if I told you to imagine an apple and then I said describe to me what you see in your mind apparently there's a wide range of how clearly people see the Apple now I'm a sort of an artist I'm sort of an artist by profession and I can tell you that I can see the apple as clearly as a photograph how many of you would say that if I imagine it it's just like a photograph yeah usually all the details I can rotate it I can change its color just like a photograph now how many of you would say the opposite and I think it might be like just five percent of people or less or fewer um how many of you would say you can't see the Apple at all is there some who say you can't see it at all it's just sort of a concept of an apple but you don't actually see it so we have some right yeah there's some people saying that that applies to them too you know this I don't think there could be a better example of understanding how differently people are experiencing their reality I I honestly don't even have a way to imagine what it would be like if your imagination didn't reproduce things as well as the real world I don't even know what it would feel like I have no way to even visualize well I can't imagine it I suppose if it were visual I could visualize it so one of the secrets about why I can draw you know let's say a new object is that I'm tracing it it's actually tracing I know you hate me because that makes you sound too easy but I see it first and then I just put the lines on where I see it now if you can't do that and apparently there are a number of you who can't how would you ever learn to draw it feels like if you tried to draw it'd be like stick figures and stuff because the one in your mind you wouldn't know what it looks like in the paper right so I would guess and when I see artists who could do photorealistic drawings I think maybe they're even you know further than I am in terms of being able to see it or actually yeah they do more than seeing it it's like they're seeing it plus something else plus what they're adding I guess now I here's another theory you know affirmations the idea of visualizing your goals I've had good good luck anecdotally not scientifically speaking but anecdotally it seems like when I've when I can visualize what I want really clearly the odds of it happening are so close to 100 percent and there are things that I tell myself I want that even I have trouble visualizing it's more of a concept I don't get those but when I can see myself standing there you know I'm with a person or I got a bag of money or something I really really see damn it it just seems to happen so that's one of the things I've been hypothesizing over a long time is it possible that the more clearly you can imagine something for your for your visualizations and your attainment of your success is it possible that actually determines whether you'll be successful that you can you can draw up a picture in your head because my theory is that brains that's one of the ways you program your brain right if you think your brain is in charge of you and you're just doing what your brain's telling you you're lost you're just wandering around but you should be able to use the executive function of your brain to do something like visualization which should be effectively reprogramming your brain to make it more effective so reality is pretty subjective and maybe that's all that's happening here but it does seem to be that if you could visualize something clearly the odds of it happening are pretty high all right um Twitter has become X so now you're not sending Tweets anymore you're exclaiming somebody sent that on Twitter if I remember to I'd give them credit but I don't remember who I don't think we're going to use that one we're not going to use that it's not going to be exclaiming I think it's still going to be tweeting what do you think I think this is a prince becoming the the symbol you know the the artist formerly known as Prince because I'm going to do the thing formally known as tweeting and then eventually I'm going to stop I'm going to lose the formerly known as and I'm just calling tweeting again so I'm going to say well I was Xing today formerly known as tweeting and I'll start just saying formerly known as tweeting I'll drop the ax and then I'll drop the formerly known as tweeting and I'll be right back to tweeting that's that's how I'm going to play it anybody with me I'm not I'm not going to stop calling it tweeting and I'm pretty sure we could call it whatever we want you know would just make it so make it so as they say are in Star Trek all right I got a context note on a tweet you know how Twitter will add Community notes are there two things is there a community note and a context note or are they really the same thing does anyone know if that's two different things or one thing let's see if anybody knows because most of you haven't seen one or both so how would you know it's the same thing somebody says it's the same so let me just give you uh idea how this worked I'm actually very happy with the community note or maybe it's just reader added context notes I think it's working really well it's imperfect all things are imperfect but I'll give you an example so here's where I got a context note put on my tweet there was a clip uh President Biden um with an evil looking grin on his face subjectively speaking according to me um muttering that he would look into Elon Musk and Twitter to see if there were any crimes there now when I saw him muttering that he was going to look into Twitter to see if any crimes were there I said to myself what since when do you go looking for crimes that's the scariest thing so I tweeted something about it sounded like a uh the plot of a bad movie where there's an alternative America that's been taken over by a dictator because listening to Biden say that he was going to look into musk's purchase of Twitter just to see if there's anything wrong in terms of Homeland Security why would there be why would there be a problem like what would make you even think you need to look and wouldn't that apply to every citizen you know my neighbor Bob I'm not aware of any crimes he's committed but when I talked to him I'm a little bit suspicious and I think maybe we should go you know overturn his finances and see if we got any crimes there nobody would stand for that but there was the the leader of the country standing there saying basically a dictator kind of a statement now that the context note was that this was an old video is that useful was it useful to me to know that this happened around the time of the transaction it did not happen this week is that a good Community note I'd say yes I say yes because that's good context you you need to know when stuff happened to understand it in his fullness so good note but it also went on to say that it was it was more about the the question of the original buying of the company now that doesn't change my tweet would you agree it doesn't invalidate my tweet it just you know takes a little edge off it gives a little context I thought this was all good would you agree this was nothing but good a good context yeah and and the reason I'm bringing it up is it's because it happened to me trust me if you get a context note your first reaction will be negative and to that point one of the things the context note lets you do if you're the Tweeter maybe maybe everybody unless you rate the context note so the context note kind of rates you but then you can rate the context note and my first reaction was damn it and I like I I said it was useless so I gave it a useless grade and then I slept on it and I looked at it the next day and I thought oh maybe I was a little Hasty maybe that maybe that context note is 100 accurate and add something to the understanding of the Tweet okay damn it you're right so I'm going to give you the win you get the win Twitter the company that formerly was known as Twitter all right um let's talk about the summer news I think summer news is so funny so summer news usually is somebody misinterpreting a public figure and then pretending to be really angry about it and that's called Summer news so when Jason Aldean does his Song and people say we see some racist stuff in there that's totally not there they go ah they get all they get all theatrically upset about it but they're not really upset literally nobody cares it's just summer news and of course you know we've talked about Kamala Harris um now she's talking about the Florida um these school lessons for history and she believes that they're teaching kids that uh this slavery had an upside there was something good about slavery of course that's not non-existent right of course if you look for it it wouldn't be there but fake news so they said in Cobble out to do to get to get angry about fake news imagine if you had been elected the vice president of the United States and they're saying okay what what valuable portfolio can we give you so first they give you immigration you know the border control and you do absolutely nothing useful for a few years so all right all right maybe that was just hard so then AI is an existential threat to humanity some say so they give the AI portfolio to to Harris and what did she do to make everything better well nothing nothing so I don't think there's any job you can give her that will result in some kind of positive outcome so while if you had an employee like that you know sort of a Wally employee if you use the the Dilbert analogy if you had a Wally employee and Time After Time the projects don't get done what do you do with them what's the next project you give them if you don't want to fire them or it's too much trouble you give them the least important most job something that only needs to be done so that people know it's being done but has no value to the world has no possible benefit at all and that would be complaining about the Florida Curriculum by imagining what it is and then getting really mad at what she imagined what is not real and that's her current job now do you think she's going out and talking about this topic because that was the thing she came up with on her own oh yeah I think this is where I'll put my time and energy I doubt it to me it looks like an assignment how many of you would agree that her talking about this topic has to be certainly an assignment I don't think the vice presidents just go out and on their own pick a topic and start complaining about it yeah she actually would just just think about this do you believe that the people who assigned or the topic think that the topic is real meaning that Florida is actually teaching kids yeah you know Florida that slavery wasn't all bad do you think that's really happening of course not no there's nobody in the White House who believes it's real they actually assigned her an imaginary job tell me that's not true tell me that's not true Kamala Harris was intentionally assigned an imaginary job because she could not fulfill any real assignment they wallied her she's being wallied right that's what the point here boss does he doesn't want to go through the paperwork of firing Wally so he just gives him uh he usually lends him to another manager who asks for some resources you know uh hey could you maybe lend me an engineer for this project you know somebody would sort of dotted line report to me for a while you know but it'll just be alone and the point of your boss says uh sure you're not only my co-worker manager but you're sort of my competitor in this company because if you get the promotion I can't so I'll be glad to help you because I'm a team player how about Wally you can have them as long as you want yeah so the qualification of the vice president continues I saw a tweet from um somebody named Andy Petro he said this is a great tweet all the imaginary people who think slavery was okay are the worst all the real people who think the imaginary people are real are the second worst summer news you know if anybody takes summer news seriously you're falling into their trap what do you see somebody complaining about any of this stuff just say summer news yeah can't wait for the real stuff all right here's one of my there's a lot of funny news today I mean I think it's all funny um so NPR as a headline talking about the right-wing conspiracy about eating bugs so NPR is essentially demonizing the the right part of the country for saying that the left part of the country is promoting the eating of bugs sometime soon for protein so while NPR is mocking the right wing for imagining there's some conspiracy about eating bugs Stephen Miller on Twitter the formerly the company formerly known as Twitter he uh tweeted yes I'm calling it tweeted he tweeted that he tweeted three headlines from NPR talking about the value of eating bugs so NPR is blaming the right wing for starting this bug eating conspiracy theory at the same time NPR's own headlines there's three of them recently about the possible value of eating all the bugs and I think Stephen Miller asked if NPR reads NPR or listens to does NPR actually listen to NPR or do they know not to oh yeah we produce we produce content but God knows we're not going to listen to it we don't want to get hypnotized so the the the clownishness of the world is the um the macro theme for today so today's theme is American National incompetence how many of you would agree with the statement that there's an incompetence crisis in America how many of you would agree with that statement and then comp a competence crisis basically you could call it incompetence crisis to me it seems obvious and I'm going to talk about that more but notice how the stories are all going to have that quality right we'll talk about the causes that's coming up but but do you notice all the stories in the news they don't really look like something just went wrong they don't really look like we disagree on priorities it's not looking like a difference of priorities or preferences it doesn't look like there was a natural problem and people have Solutions it doesn't look that like that at all it looks like incompetence is the issue let me say this in the cleanest way I can do we have do we have a problem with climate change do we have a problem with inflation do we have a problem with let's say the Ukraine war well on some level you'd say yes but wait a minute could there be one problem that caused all of those problems yes and I don't mean it I don't mean it necessarily caused the war or cause climate change I mean that the way we deal with all of these topics has has left the realm of anything sensible if if ever we were there so we've we've upgraded to a realm of pure incompetence where the incompetence itself becomes the topic so we're only talking about the incompetence we don't have anything going on that's talking about making the problems better right we have an incompetence crisis where we've just we've replaced the topics with talking about our own incompetence because we don't even know how to get out of that loop we're a little bubble of our own incompetence all right so Kamala Harris is obviously an example of an incompetence crisis Joe Biden is clearly an example of all quality competence crisis clearly an example do you know that we've got two candidates the leading candidates who may be running to stay in a jail at least in part right now as much as you might want Trump to be president has he ever done anything that might have technically violated some kind of law I don't know maybe probably do they all do that as someone when you reach a certain level are they all violating technical laws I think so my guess would be they're all violating some technical law that nobody cares about but uh how is it that we've got three I would say three hyper-capable candidates and they're fighting for second place in the primaries they're not even fighting for a second place in the general so RFK Jr clearly more qualified than Biden by a lot fighting for even to be on the ballot and be a second choice right if you look at the Republican side I think Trump is very capable he just causes people to lose their right if I had one problem with jump it's just that it just causes people to lose their right so that's not a competence problem that's you know something that just comes with the whole program I guess but you look at the capability of a vague ramaswamy oh my god do I want that as the model for the future I just want somebody who's just killing it with competence and everybody's watching and your kids are watching they're like did he really do that did he just sit down and play uh concert piano level and then he went off and played tennis at a college level and then he started at uh you know startups and now he's running for president and making a big dent and changing the world is that all the same person it's all the same guy it's like one guy you don't think you want your kids to see that the the talent stack concept brought alive I mean he brings alive the talent stack idea that if you layer enough talents you know by working on those talents you can create something extraordinary from the sum of it quite a basic and I'll say for the De.

Santis lovers highly capable highly capable very admirable you'd love to have a president who just demonstrated that level of skill you know you could disagree about his preferences and his policies and you might like somebody better but is anybody calling De.

Santis incapable nobody right I don't believe there's a single person who says oh that De.

Santis he can't get anything done it's not even part of the question so we do have super capable people who are trying fighting to to get out right I would also say that in the the category that I call the internet dads which includes women I'm just you know sort of using it as a label but the uh the internet dads are showing a level of capability that's just crazy right you know the the Jordan Peterson's uh you know David sacks that Elon musk's um Mike cernovich is you know I can go on but you know who they are you you know who the dads are and you know if you if you read just read a week of cernovich tweets your IQ goes up like Five Points right there's some super qualified people who are getting deeply into the you know the process it's just hard for them to break through past that top crust of okay incapable people yeah talker is another example highly capable all right let's talk more about the same topic through UFOs I saw uh Eric Weinstein that had a tweet thread on the UFO mystery I'll call it the I thought he did a great job of summarizing the frustration of all the smart people so I'm just going to read one part of his thread which was tremendous and I recommend it just just because I think he just does a great job of just summarizing what's going on with the whole UFO mystery all right but here he restated something I guess he said before he goes I stand by my statement something is wildly off and then he gives you the options for what might be happening a are pilots are crazy and or Liars so the pilots who claim they say UFOs are either crazy or Liars so as I go see if any of these makes sense to you B There is a psyop gaslighting our own people you know some kind of government plan to fool us see we are too incompetent to call our own people uh wait we are too incompetent to call our own people is that a typo or does that make sense to you we're too incompetent to call our own people I'm not sure what that one means it must be a typo um D there is a secret long-standing involvement of top scientists in other words a top scientist they know there's something going on but they're not telling you uh e there are some crazy seagull and mylar balloon effects so there's just something up there but it's not UFOs a cult of UFOs has infected the Pentagon so you know a mental problem uh or China and others are taking over our airspace and we're using UFOs as an excuse rather than dealing with a problem so we're telling the public that it's UFOs when it's really Chinese technology or something um and then that he I love his conclusion all right so this is uh Eric Weinstein's conclusion of all this uh confusion he says but this is so stupid to be this far in with so much dot dot dot I'm embarrassed for us I'm with you Eric same page it's literally embarrassing does anybody have that feeling like as an American I'm literally embarrassed that we can't we can't work through this harassment I would say I've removed it from my life as anything that influences me I'm not I'm not bothered by any level of embarrassment and you shouldn't be either if you can learn to be free of embarrassment it's like a freaking superpower um but you but you know what I'm saying it's just not a good look you know it doesn't bother me to my core but you know I'm not proud of it not proud of it I am not proud of being an American based on this you know I I am proud of being an American but not based on this story so I want to add a few hypotheses to his list so he's got a through e or G I didn't understand one of them I think it's typo but I'll add my own take I think it's a combination of the following so it's not one of these things it's a combination of all these things optical illusions we just see some things we didn't know what they were Tech malfunctions in our sensing equipment um or it might be just you know a feature slash bug that doesn't look like a malfunction it could be confirmation bias you know if you're expecting to see something you see it everywhere could be summer summer hosters some not all but some of them might be just literally hoaxers uh then there's cognitive dissonance you got your grifters you've got the effect of money that you know distorts everything and then on top of that on top of the reality or non-reality of these UFOs separately but connected is the timing of when we learn about alleged new stuff I believe the timing is strategic which is independent of whether there are any real UFOs that's a separate question but the timing for when the news stories about UFOs is that's probably political not for sure but it seems like there's always something that's embarrassing for Democrats who are in power when it comes out but the you're working against that theory is as stuff came out during the Trump administration too and I don't recall that that was necessarily timed to any bad Democrat news so I don't I don't think the hypothesis that it's always timed to cover up the news works every time but could it have been done once is there any one time then somebody said you know this would be a good time for this story maybe so I do think that there's a possibility that the media gives it more attention when there's something that they don't want to talk about but that doesn't mean they're necessarily doing it consciously right if Fox news is talking about all the bad behavior of the Democrats and they've got five good stories you know like Hunter's laptop and you know new new whistleblowers they get all that and CNN kind of doesn't want to talk about it at all what do they have right you better talk about UFOs because you want to stay away from that stuff so I think it's a whole bunch of ordinary things I do not think any of the extraordinary explanations are likely right so listen to how many of uh Eric Weinstein's uh potential you know these are ways that could be explained how many of them are extraordinary all right so just see so I gave you a list of possibilities they're all ordinary yeah technology bugs most ordinary thing in the world confirmation bias that's so ordinary is the operating system of human beings that's the most ordinary thing you think it's there but it's not cognitive dissonance all ordinary so everything on my list would explain everything we're seeing hoaxers grifters money media and it wouldn't require any extraordinary anything it wouldn't require any new introduction of any new effects it would purely be explained by all the ordinary stuff but look at Eric's list our Pilots are crazy or Liars well if it were one or two pilots crazier Liars would be a pretty good hypothesis but it seems to be a lot of them right or at least enough that crazy and liar crazy and lying is probably ruled out that would be extraordinary there's a Psy up gaslighting our own people well psyups to Gaslight us we know are common would you agree it's common to have psyops but I don't think that the government would use UFOs for a psyop that would be extraordinary what would not be extraordinary is to say there's a let's say an anonymous source that wouldn't be extraordinary because they do that all the time it wouldn't be extraordinary to say there's a pre-print study that says you should shove masks up your ass to stop cancer right that's ordinary like lying in a pre-print study that's just ordinary or or not being accurate how about we're two in I don't know about the incompetent one that's might be the typo all right there's a secret long-standing involvement of top scientists and no top scientist has talked well that would be extraordinary right not likely there are crazy seagulls and mylar balloon effects well that actually gets to what I was saying that there might be just a technical glitch or optical illusion right so I think that one's more in the ordinary category where there's a cult of UFOs is infected the Pentagon I think that's confirmation bias and the fact that UFOs are fun and everything else is less fun if you're if you're working in the Pentagon name one topic that's more fun than talking about UFOs well we got to find in if there's you know illegal chemical weapons UFOs ah UFOs so you'd expect that people chase fun so they like it so of course there are people in the UFOs in the military who want to talk about UFOs UFOs are fun all right China's and I don't think it's likely that China is taking over our airspace with their advanced advanced machines and we don't know the difference or we don't want to talk about it so so my theory is it's ordinary that the UFO thing is ordinary let me tell you why I think it's ordinary beyond the fact that all of the elements to make it happen are ordinary the history of humankind is one hoax after another like this you know that right there's never a better time in human history where there were not multiple hoaxes that had multiple people saying they were true my favorite one is was it earlier in 20th century when there were all these hoaxes about giant bones all right they were finding skeletons of giant bones and there were a lot of them if you just went by how many there were and you went by how many people told you they saw it with their own eyes and he went by the media reports that they were true and you talked to the scientists who said oh yeah I saw it you would think that was pretty true zero of them were true zero it was just like widespread you know giant bones all over the place but we don't have any the Smithsonian has zero giant bones now how different is the giant bones hoaxes than the UFO story what what part of the giant bones hoax is not 100 common to the story about the UFOs yeah we have better technology but does it matter if you have good technology if you know you're seeing a Tic Tac if you think it's a UFO you know the humans are doing the interpreting now the the diet bones hoax period lasted many years just like the UFOs now you also know I'm not going to name names but uh there are there have been some Modern religions not going to name any names that seem to have lots of people who are direct Witnesses and they'll sell out and you know hundreds maybe maybe millions of people you know join something that was born just a few hundred years ago so people massively believing in something that isn't true including believing they saw it with their own eyes they heard it they experienced it is very common so if you're asking yourself what's common and what's uncommon a gigantic hoax about UFOs that last for years has hundreds of direct eyewitnesses that feel credible has actually technology like radar that seems to be recording it has every sign for being real and even the media suggests it's real none of that has any validity we have a long history of none of that ever mattering do anything it's just Oaks now could I be wrong I hope so wouldn't that be cool I love it yeah well unless you're here to kill us but I would say if you're doing the Carl Sagan analysis the Carl Sagan analysis is this looks like every other hoax why would it be different this is the extraordinary one Maybe but I would say if you're going to put odds on UFOs being real I'd say a hundred to one against it under to one against it based on the fact it looks exactly like every other hoax through Modern History they're all the same they don't look different you know so I asked this question on on the service formerly known as Twitter so I said if you want to figure out let's say the truth about climate change the truth about climate change and you had a choice you could only talk to scientists just scientists or experts on the history of hoaxes experts on the history of media hoaxes especially who would give you a more useful answer the scientists or the people who who know what hoaxes look like through history well I think three quarters of the people who answered that of course were biased in their answer so they said the the media hoaxers and I think that's true I think climate change is so perfectly like a dozen other hoaxes now when I say hoax I don't mean that there's nothing true about it let me be clear I think the basic idea that if all else was equal and you added some CO2 to a closed system it'd probably get warmer I believe that do I believe that um that climate change is not a problem because a million years ago we had more CO2 does anybody think that the climate change is not much of a problem because a million years ago we had more CO2 does that make sense to you does that sound logical to you that a million years ago there was more CO2 and the world was thriving therefore the current level of CO2 is not dangerous you know that's not logical right even Thomas Massey was making this case and I I was I was cringing because Massey is sort of my standard for good behavior you know he's like the standard for a rational scientific approach but I saw him actually a video arguing that CO2 was much higher you know like a thousand parts per million instead of 400 in the distant past does it do you all know what's wrong with that argument now John Kerry tried to defuse it by saying this but people weren't here you know humans weren't here that's a terrible terrible defense would you like to hear the good argument and the good defense well there's no good argument there's no good argument that says a million years ago the CO2 was higher therefore it's not a problem today there's no connecting logic to that do you know why because everything was different a million years ago right the brightness of the sun was different the composition of the atmosphere was different everything was different so if everything's different a high level of CO2 may have been no problem at all maybe it was no problem so John Kerry's correct answer should have been not there were no humans because what is the obviously you say to there were no humans we were teeming with life their life was all over the planet there was probably more life on the planet then than there is now because of the you know Extinction of species so it's a it's a terrible charge you know Massey's claim that it's meaningful that there was more CO2 in the distant past it is just not meaningful is not because all the other variables were also different so it may be that you needed more CO2 in the past because the sun wasn't as warm right that would be a positive CO2 because it was keeping you warm when the sun wasn't doing its job but now this is just an example I'm not I'm not making a claim about the sun I'm using this as an example but suppose the sun got a little warmer in a million years well then you better not have all that CO2 right so the right answer is all the other variables were different you can't compare the past why is it that neither of them could get that right and let me check 100 of you agree right if I convinced 100 of you that I'm right about this I think I it's easy I mean the argument is so plain and simple no all right if you disagree give me one sentence of disagreement go the the one sentence why that why what I said is wrong why is why is the CO2 from a million years ago uh relevant okay you all got quiet when I had to say you all got quiet didn't you here's here's the best argument I have for the other side is this is the best one quote you're vaccinated oh well and then there's always somebody in the comments who's blaming it on the Jews I assume that's satire all right I'm going to give you the benefit of a doubt all right the benefit of a doubt that that was satire right I don't want to say that in the comments otherwise I don't I don't I don't want to say this every day either right can you maybe not do anti-semitic things in the comments like maybe that's just not cool how about a lot less of that huh so you know Free Speech fine but it doesn't belong everywhere it's not satire let me let me take a break here let me take a break so you got a group of people in the world who everybody knows or unusually successful let's call them melbonians and these albonians are really good at going to school and getting Advanced degrees and with their Advanced degrees they have lots of opportunities especially at the higher levels of business and Society so they take their better degrees and they start doing really well so well that they look at what would be the best industry to be in if you could be in any industry so these about albonians that I'm talking about are so well trained they've got such good educations that they could be in Tech they could be in government they could be in Media really they could just call their shots and if you were in Media you do well you might even be the boss after a number of years of you know having experience so once the albonians just sort of work through the system just being the albonians eventually the albonians look to be dominating a lot of important industries now why is it that they dominate the important industries and somebody would say Hollywood too because that influences our minds why why are they all in the why are all these albonians in the important industries and why do they have all this power because they went to school would you like your family to be captains of industry and maybe head up a media company someday how about sending them to school how about if you send your kids to school they can be the CEOs of a media company too how about opening your head and looking at if there's a group of people who are killing it on education and they become your boss maybe you should look at yourself maybe you should check your work right if you've got a boss that's an albonian because they all want to in school and it was their biggest priority and it wasn't your priority they should be your boss you should have worked for albonians the albonias are going to run your country they're going to run your media they're going to run your Hollywood they're going to run your Tech they're going to run every thing that matters why because they went to school is making me crazy all right how is that not obvious how is that not obvious every one of you anti-semitic you don't see that going to school is the main variable can you not see that seriously you can't see that there's a correlation between school and success am I the first person to tell you that like you've never heard that before you never thought of it didn't have that that thought yourself how about it doesn't require any collusion on behalf of Israel for the people who took schooling as their top priority and then execute them right now you're going to say but but Scott they might be talking to each other and preferring they're in group or something yeah so what so what so what you want you want to be on the end group go to school send your kids to school make it a priority all right God that bugs me all right back to back to the main topic here um do you think that AI will create work for humans or reduce work what's your what's your best guess will AI create work um I I'm going to make a prediction that it's going to be more like when we said computers we're going to reduce paper do you remember that the 70s early 80s yeah all these computers are going to reduce paper the current market for computer printers is about 50 billion dollars I I remember when computers came in the first big change was more paper right because you had to print it twice you know you may have to make copies and everything so there's a story about uh at least in some jobs there's one group of people who are looking at uh there's adding well I guess you'd say they're examining articles to see what would be included in their publication and they got a big problem because it used to be humans would write articles they would submit them to their publication they would look at them and say oh okay and they'd pick the good ones now the number of articles that are being submitted is shot through the roof because they're being written by AI and AI can't write for so where they used to have to look at you know maybe I'll just pick up numbers these are I'm just making this up where you might have to look at let's say a few dozen human written articles now you've got a thousand articles that have been submitted written by AI just with a prompt you know so nobody didn't work and they're all bad so now they have to look through a thousand to find that one where they used to look through a few dozen that's a very specific you know industry and situation but I feel like there's going to be a lot more of that for example if you said to me in the pre-ai world I'm in my cubicle and boss comes in and says Scott I need you to do this task now in the old in the old days I would have a certain set of tools and I'd go work on that task and maybe you know I wish I had AI because I I would do it better so I that's just the old way I just go work in the task what's the new way the new way is if I know that there's an AI that could help me I'm gonna have to research it and I'm going to have to learn it and the way the current architecture is you might need two or three different AIS for example you might need one AI that creates a photograph that doesn't exist you use a second AI to animate the photograph into a 3D image you might use a third AI to add a script like a movie script to animate it into an actual movie you might use another app to clean up the lighting and fix the sound so you could end up with you know it might take you a dozen AI apps to do a thing now people might be impressed by your thing it might be great that you did the thing but all of your normal work you're gonna have to pause and do a deep dive into what AI can do and completely re-architect your business process to do the thing you will spend as much time learning the tools to do the thing as it would have taken you just to do it the old way blah blah now I'm not I'm not a troggle that I who wants to stay with the old ways I'm Pro AI you know let's do Ai and the market will sort it out but I think it is completely optimistic to imagine it's not going to add work to the cubicle class as well as at home I think it will make my life at home harder because I'll be continuously trying to find out what tool all right is it this tool but somebody says this tool and got to sign up and this one's not sending us data to the other one and why is the the API isn't working today and all the things that used to be easy there'll be so much better way to do it in this complicated way that you have to spend all your time figuring out how to do it ordinary things that you did the other way now in the long long long run is it going to make everything better Maybe maybe and also in the long long long run there could be fewer computer printers we're I don't think we're there but there could be you know at some point there'll just always be a screen everywhere so you really will never use a piece of paper but that might be a long time away all right uh it was the hill is reporting there was a survey that showed that remote workers the ones working at home some of the time um are more more productive do you believe that that the remote workers are more productive how do you think they uh measured that just guess I I decided not to read the article I read the headline well how do you think they measure the productivity of somebody working at home versus the office would it be I don't know impossible putting it out there is that one of those things that might be impossible to measure yes it is yes it is it is impossible to measure so who do you think might have been behind this result that the remote workers are so much more effective could it be I don't know maybe people who work at home did the survey maybe when you ask people who work at home and prefer it if they're more more effective they say yeah yeah I totally am do you work more hours sure and when you work those hours and you're distracting atmosphere with your dog and your kids and everything are you are you focusing better at home oh yeah oh yeah it's only way better it was way better write that down write that down a way better focus and oh so many more hours weekends sometimes I'm up all night sometimes the work is so appealing I just can't stop do I need to tell you that this certainly is I don't really need to tell you that do I I wouldn't believe anything of this domain now I'm not saying it's not true I'm not saying that I'm saying You couldn't possibly couldn't possibly have accurate information this is sort of like measuring the temperature of the world every time every time somebody says they measure the temperature of the whole world the average I just laugh do you know why I was born in the real world in the real world you can't measure the temperature of the earth and compare it to last year that's no thing who thinks that's a thing who thinks you can do that with well obviously with thermometers the satellite stuff might be a little closer to something that's real but who thinks the thermometers put all over the Earth are giving you some kind of a good answer that's ridiculous do I have to be a scientist to know that you can't measure the temperature of the Earth all right the fact that anybody believes that uh apparently the American Workforce is coming back strong a lot of people in the 25 to 54 year age you're heading the market is that a good thing or a bad thing way more people are entering the lady marketings so they do have openings and more people are going in this is the Wall Street Journal who reported this is that a good thing or a bad thing do you think it would help or hurt the competence of the economy lots more people going to work I think it's good which people didn't have a job already the competent people are the incompetent which ones were already employed do it were employers mostly preferring the incompetent well the highly capable people who were just sitting it out but now they've decided this would be a good time to go back to work I don't think so I think the capable people already had jobs and that the employers are lowering their standards to fill positions just like the military is Right military is doing the same thing so wouldn't you say that this good news that the labor force is really strong and people are going back into it is that as good as it sounds I mean it's good that they get paychecks so it's good for the economy but if you're looking at the competence of the country it should take it down would you agree that that seems like a cause and effect of bringing in people who are not already well employed all right I'm going to give you a little story before I talk about Americans incompetence problem in a little more detail uh I've got a friend who when he was 16 years old and he's in my age range so this was long ago when he was 16.

his father owned a bowling alley and then his father got a you know a better offer better job at a big Corporation so rather than closing or selling the bowling alley uh the 16 year old was asked if he wanted to just manage the bowling alley just run the company u16.

so remember this is many years ago so what did the 16 year old say who basically had been running the company anyway he was like assistant manager he just got running it anyway you said sure sure so it was a whole business you know bowling alley that was managed by a 16 year old kid now in my day in my day when I was a Youngster that wasn't that unusual yeah and if you went back into you know old timey times you know back in the Prairie yeah a 16 year old with the head of the household it wasn't that unusual but do you think a 16 year old should run a company in 2023 I mean there might be some special ones but it's different things look really different now uh I could I I believe I could have run a company of 16.

back in those days you know things were simpler too but I think I could have I felt I was I was ready it wouldn't have been easy but I could have figured it down as I went I could have gotten there now compare that to the design of America at the moment I'm going to read a bunch of statements that just tell me if you think these are true or false and do they contribute to the incompetence of the country so my thesis here is that we have a current design for our country that guarantees incompetence and we didn't always we used to have a design that guaranteed that the competent people would rise and you know take over everything but here's our current situation we've got the teachers union blocking school choice should that make us more capable or less capable over time less right because competition is the only thing that makes anything work and they're getting rid of it and they also maintain teachers who are not good they're hard to fire because the union protects them so certainly the teachers union should make us all stupid by Design I don't see any way around it another one affirmative action do you think affirmative action causes companies who would obviously prefer to have highly qualified employees but also diverse that's what they prefer but unfortunately they have to deal with math which is they can't all get qualified people because there just aren't enough it's just numbers so if you can't get enough but you're being measured on your diversity even more than your profits what are you going to do you can start lowering your standards which has nothing to do with the capabilities of any group right this is not about bigotry this is just math that if you lower your standards because it's the only way you can fill your spots you get less qualified people that's there's no argument there that's a strict definition of cause and effect um how about a tight job market well with lower standards we talked about that how about the fact that in 2023 the media the scientists and the experts in general are all lying to us I don't know how different that is from the past maybe we just know more about it but do you think we're getting Dumber because we're lied to by all the smart people I feel like that has an effect right so I I just gave you the story of you know probably the smartest person in Congress Thomas Massey you might literally like if you gave an IQ test it might be number one and then John Kerry is no slouch right you might disagree with him but he's not dumb he's a real smart guy super smart guy those super smart guys were arguing about CO2 a million years ago like it mattered like I feel like this is somehow Downstream from all the experts stupidity that even smart people are dragged into kind of a conversation that doesn't make sense um how about uh the fact that we have lots of college and lots of people going to college but we have lots of college courses that don't make you smart does college make you smart it used to I'm pretty sure it used to and there are a lot of college majors you know if you pick the right major yeah totally it'll make you smarter but I feel like there's a whole bunch of college majors they're actually designed to make you dumber and that feels new about a few more things that would make us Dumber we've got uh uh a lot of the smart people are retiring what about just retirement do you think we're losing skills because the Boomers the Boomers tend to have a wide range of skills they tend to be Talent stackers I don't know if that's still true so maybe we're losing stuff to retirements um and and there's also a bubble you know since the Boomers were a big bubble just the fact that Boomers had a lot of training and that the group with the most training is also the group that's most retiring again it's just math there's no opinion here the math requires that you have less qualified people when you're done with those retirements how about uh startups sucking all the smart people into areas that by their nature neither 10 are going to fail well it's probably great for startups because you want your smart people in the startups but don't you think the startup um the startup world is now so large that you can suck the best people out of every corporation so when the startup world is small you know it can be your smartest people but you still have plenty of smart people just doing their regular jobs but what happens when all of the smartest people realize that they could be billionaires if they just do a startup and then nine out of 10 fail so you take your smartest people from environments and where most of the time they're succeeding you put them into a startup you know situation where by its nature nine out of 10 fail you're basically putting your smartest people into failure and taking them out of success now I don't know if that's a net bad or good because those smartest people are creating you know Google and apple and you know stuff like that so it might come out positive but it's at least one of those things I look at that might be sucking Talent out of places we need it all right so you put this all together and I there might be something that's making us smarter but I can't think of it the best I could come up with is that you can get online training for just everything but that only applies to people who are willing to go get it right it doesn't it doesn't come to you you got to say all right I'm going to learn this new thing and then you got to really work at it so it seems to me that we have designed the system accidentally so design is the wrong word but we've drifted into a system that guarantees growing incompetence yeah you can throw drugs in there and and addiction everything yeah it actually addiction is a good one let's throw Addiction in there I think there's more addiction so that should take something off your capability as well and also Health what about General Health nobody's as smart or as productive if they have bad Health but our food system is killing us and our big Pharma is you know doing a mixed job so we're making people less effective by their health less effective in their education less effective in their training less effective by filtering you know actually preferring less qualified people because you gotta you gotta fill these spots now what is there anything that all of these forces have in common it's like a whole bunch of things I just talked about making us less capable but Israeli like core like bottom thing that's causing us all because I heard some people say it's obviously the Communists um is Communists so it might be other countries trying to influence us but it's the local marxists and the Communists are doing it do you think that's what's happening all right I'm going to give you uh my hypothesis is women it's women it's all caused by women now when I say it's all caused by women do I mean that every single hold on let me take a break why do you mean every single woman is exactly the same well Dale that's that's not what I mean and anybody with good reading comprehension or has lived in the world for more than a second knows that when people talk about groups they never ever ever mean every person in that group is the same so why are you saying they're all the same okay again I didn't really say that I'm just talking in the normal way that people talk when they talk about the average of a group it's more about an average sort of situation and yet you say everyone is the same Dale can you look at the calendar for me certainly what's today July 24th what season is that summer so are you pretending to be angry about something that you know isn't true because it's the summer and it's just summer news baby Dale go back to where you came from gladly and pause all right so here's what I mean here's what I don't mean I don't mean there's anything wrong with women can I can I put that out there there's nothing wrong with women women are great and there's nothing wrong with individual women individual wound I'm a big fan I I can show you plenty of individual women who are just killing it in the workplace killing it in life killing it with their families awesome people I like women however it is generally true if we can stay under the trans conversation for a moment if you will can I have permission to talk about something that's not related to trans anybody is that okay I don't know if is it legal it's still legal right I can I can talk about a topic without even referencing is it like trans is not Central to the topic okay well I had to check all right so here's what I say about difference between men and women men have more testosterone thank you that's not true what about the trans shut up Dale shut up we're not doing trans today men have more testosterone if you if you take a bunch of people with more testosterone be they trans or be they not are they more likely to develop systems that focus on competition compared to a control group of people with less testosterone what do you think do you think that the testosterone group if they were creating a system would make them competitive such as the free market such as democracy and voting of course I think they would and would that mean that those people who had more testosterone are they the Smart Ones no I'm not saying that I'm saying that if you pump anybody with testosterone they make different decisions than if they have less testosterone it has nothing to do with your brain is literally a chemical that you had nothing to do with it well maybe you boosted it somehow but it's just a chemical all right now the second question if you had a group that you were studying that you knew were lower testosterone what would be the nature and let's say that they had you know female chemistry what is the nature of systems that they're likely to build would they be competitive systems you know Doggy Dog Winner Takes all or are they more likely to be a sharing communal kind of a situation where no one is Left Behind well I mean you know the answer right don't you yeah and is there anything wrong with a Cooperative system that leaves every leaves nobody behind it sounds great it's exactly how you want your family to work right yeah you want your family to work that way that is a family frame you're not going to let the weakest child die right you take care of your whole family but if you take these two groups who are individually and as a group awesome so let's say that women are awesome individually and as a group and let's just be charitable here and say that men are awesome individually and as a group nobody's better nobody's worse but one group has more testosterone and that predicts I believe I believe it predicts a set of actions in general again not every person but in general and I believe that everything we're seeing of this growing incompetence in America and I'll just read you the list again all right as I read you the list ask yourself this if only men had been involved would they have designed these systems so you got the teachers unions run by a woman very dominated by women you've got affirmative action which I'm sure has more women promoting it than men at least really caring because women would be more benef benefiting uh the the job market that takes care of itself how about the media science and experts lying I don't think that has to do with women I I would say that I wouldn't blame that anyone how about uh useless college classes the only reason that useless college classes exist is that people sign up for them and they pay for them who is signing up for the useless college classes the non-stem cell women okay um and again that's an average it's not meant to represent any one woman the people retiring that's just happening on its own and uh startups apps also yeah so some of these are just some of these are just an effect of where we are in the economy but others are clearly clearly uh because women dominate policy do you think that's a true statement that women dominate policy I think it's guaranteed by the nature of men and women that women would eventually would Dominate and the reason is that a lot of these questions are kind of close you know the reason that there's any conversation at all is that reasonable people can disagree on what to do but you know what reasonable people have a hard time doing pissing off women pissing off women if you put me in a situation where I'm just analyzing you know the risks and rewards and which one's better and there's no outside force I probably get the right answer more than not you know oh this one's better than this one but if you put on top of it can you analyze these two forces but let me tell you in advance that if you decide that one of these is better than the others and it's the wrong one you're going to be canceled because women because women exist right which one am I going to choose I'm going to choose the web the one that doesn't get me canceled doesn't give me a fight when I go home right women are very influential without having let's say power on paper PJ says God is terrified of powerful women yeah that's what I'm saying I'm terrified of powerful woman laughs I'm going to use upj as an example of the declining competence in the United States that was not a let's say A Plus comment I'm not sure it was a B minus that was sort of that D Plus barely represented uh human communication do better do better Stefan says in all capital letters I would bet my left nut this guy is single big surprise because I don't have to go home to a wife and explain what I did on a live stream today that's why I'm telling you the truth because I don't have to go explain it to a woman when I'm done do you think I would have done this live stream when I was married oh you poor bastards who can't say what you want to say I'm I just want to make you jealous for a moment I don't like to brag but I'm canceled and single yeah same time I'm canceled and I'm single I can say any thing I want and I'm rich I can say any thing I want to anyone well unless somebody might beat me up so I think you should sit there in the silent jealousy that I have that thing you crave the ability to say what I want yes I think that that the political power of women is destroying the country and I'm not sure I would even change it because who wants to take political power away from you know citizens of the United States I don't have a solution if you're telling me but Scott are you saying going back to the old ways where you know women were property of the men no I don't have a good idea I literally don't have a better idea I'm just describing the current situation if you're trying to understand why we are where we are maybe you understand it better I'd love to see somebody come up with a solution I would say that one solution is Vivek right Vivek ramaswamy is saying directly strongly clearly and with a good argument I'm going to get rid of affirmative action because it's uh counterproductive for everybody and so that's the solution so I get I guess I would promote that and I am I am backing him so um but it's important to understand it you don't have to get mad at each other for that all right uh I saw a tweet by Kenna Anna who said in her tweet it still shocks me that the quote educated class is the easiest manipulated class do you know who knew that that the most educated or the easiest to manipulate well hypnotists and magicians have known it forever so have fraudulent psychics I remember the amazing Randy amazing Randy a magician who used to debunk you know frauds and he was famous for saying that it was easier to fool a scientist than a an average person because the average person is not confident in what they know so they'll look at something and say I don't know that looks sketchy to me I don't know the details but it looks sketchy to me you fool a scientist with a magic trick and the scientists will say something like this well I can see no way that that could be a trick so probably you're talking to Spirits right so in other words you can be trapped by your own discipline and say all right well I've considered every possibility that's not talking to the dad and here's the dead talking to me so I'm gonna have to rule out all the other possibilities because I can think of no hypothesis that would would be an alternative hypothesis given all the controls that you put on here you know given the fact that I got to check the room and you know given the fact that I really really made sure there was no magic trick and then those ghosts were talking I heard it with my own ears so I have to conclude from a scientific perspective having totally controlled the environment and then seen the results of the experiment I have to conclude that the dad do talk to us and I saw it myself now you take you take a non-scientist and put them in that same situation and they're sitting in the room and the psyche is like oh your grandmother is talking to you and the ordinary person says I don't have time for this seriously and they get up and they walk out because the ordinary person is just going to say I don't really have to do a lot of research on this it looks like that's it's kind of like what a lot of you did with the uh with the the pandemic I think it's It's the funniest thing that the experts got everything wrong I mean it feels like the experts just got everything and the non-experts got a lot right not everything probably but a lot and what were the non-experts what was the the rigor that the non-experts were putting into it so you're telling me that this is the only virus in the history of humanity that does not give you natural immunity just this one huh and at the same time that the virus doesn't give you natural immunity which is weird uh there's a Pharma company that spun up a solution in one year after saying it couldn't be done in 30.

one plus one that's uh okay I'm not very smart but he got the one plus the one I think that's two and that was that was like the public and the scientists were saying but but what about that randomized controlled trial paid for by the people who want the answer to come out one way what about that so you can see that the scientists were trapped in their professions right they had to use the tools of their profession to understand reality and the tools of their profession were corrupted by the other people in their profession so they used corrupted tools you know the study using the data that was bad and then they had great confidence because their entire their entire life would be meaningless and their life would be ridiculous if they had been scientists in a world where studies don't mean anything right you the scientists can't live in a world where they realize they've dedicated their whole life to a field in which the data just doesn't mean anything so therefore when scientists were presented with data you know of course they checked to make sure it was peer-reviewed and stuff like that they said well it's probably convincing because it's data so there is a reason there is a reason that the professional class is the easiest to fool now if you said to me I want you to discover some new information that nobody knew before I would talk to the scientists I would not talk to the average person would you agree discovering new things yeah let the experts work on that they're going to get there faster than I am by guessing but once they come up with their you know their Solutions and their policies and you know here's what we ought to do that's when the public is really you know a little bit curious oh so you haven't discovered a new thing rather you've discovered that this thing this thing called the virus is the only thing that doesn't give you natural immunity all right that biased nature that should not have been incredible all right uh RFK Jr uh I love what he's saying so much I'm just going to read it to you uh can I can I go with a great tweet of this but it's from RFK Jr quote um the White House had deployed an army of federal agencies including the CIA FBI DHS and IRS and many others to threaten Facebook Google and Twitter with withdrawing their section 230 immunity which is an existential threat so yes we had free speech but you had the agencies of the government telling the the platforms for our free speech that if they didn't restrict our free speech they would lose their section 230 immunity which would allow them to be sued for misinformation on their platforms so they would be out of business pretty quickly all right so so RFK Jr.

Paints the picture where the government does use this trick of threatening the 230 status of the platforms to make the platforms be their all right so we now have a very direct and documented connection of the government making the platforms that are about the Free Speech there's no question about that now right everybody agrees that is established as a fact the government used threat and coercion to turn the platforms into their Bishops to make them do what they wanted now the platforms if you looked at the communications it sort of looks like the platforms are happy to do it it looks like they also have an incentive to get rid of Bad actors they also would like to have no Chinese trolls on their platform so there's you know the Venn diagram of what's good for the platform and what's good for the country is pretty extensive right neither the platform nor the country wants China to be influencing your opinions on on social media but when it gets to that Free Speech part that's where we go different directions public wants free speech government might think there are some cases where that's a bad idea and so they threaten the platforms effectively they create a way to squelch speech without being looking like the bad guys because you can't you don't see their fingerprints until all this documentation comes out all right so RFK Junior goes on those companies cannot exist without immunity that's that section 230 thing and they were told that if they did not censor the president's opponents and critics of these policies they would lose that immunity um I'm editing a little bit but then he goes on with the intelligence agencies many of them although not all of them are now serving the purpose of enriching the military-industrial complex and expanding its power for some military contractors here's the kill shot my uncle JFK my uncle recognized that the function of the CIA had devolved into providing the military-industrial complex with a constant pipeline of new Wars in order to enrich military contractors and expand the power of the intelligence apparatus that's so well said wow and then he ends with my primary platform is unraveling the War Machine and the National Security State that is bankrupting and destroying the middle class my God he tied it to the middle class and he made it work in our country the ultimate objective is to protect democracy and restore the American middle class is good he's just so good these Kennedys could just do this can't they the Kennedys are they just have the gift to gather or something but I haven't seen anybody ever tie the the military-industrial complex to the decline of the middle class but you can see it you can see it you your your brain connects them as soon as he says it it's just brilliant now I'll say again RFK Jr and I'll throw desensis in there too super capable we're so we're so lucky that they exist all right along those lines I saw a tweet saying that Black.

Rock was going to make a trillion dollars rebuilding Ukraine after after the military-industrial complex and their backers made a trillion dollars destroying Ukraine that our economy is literally designed to destroy countries for profit and then rebuild them for profit with that profit coming from the taxpayers in the middle class sure feels like it no I don't know how much of that is intentional but this is one of those cases and I usually don't say this I usually say that we just got here because the variables you know turned the way they did I usually don't go for the conspiracy theory but it's hard for me to look at Iraq in Afghanistan and Ukraine and imagine that this isn't true it looks exactly like what's happening it looks like the the intelligence agencies start a war that didn't need to be started and then the military contractors clean up they destroy the country and then when you're done another group of bastards make money from the taxpayers to clean it up yeah so could RFK Jr actually uh change that situation probably not without getting assassinated you know I I didn't want to go go there but he is really on he's on the hottest third rail of all third rails there is no third rail that's hotter than this one and he's standing on it with both feet and shouting he's basically saying shoot me and the balls on these Kennedys I saw Bill Maher try to bait RFK Jr into talking about Bill's theory that the Kennedys do risky things they do dangerous stuff you know both for entertainment and in their and then their professional lives well I mean RFK Jr is the perfect example of that his entire career before now was doing really dangerous stuff going up against big Pharma how dangerous is it to go up against big Pharma well he found out he got is canceled as a canceled person could be and he went from canceled to running for president so instead of running away he ran at it like like the pill box is like tearing them apart and he's running at the pill box where they had grenades saying well we'll see how this ends basically to me it looks like it's me or you I he's not saying these words but RFK Jr to me he says he it looks like he said I'm gonna die I'm gonna die doing this I think he just offered his life and seriously I think he seriously offered his life and I think that if he got assassinated doing this he would die happy if it meant that we understood the problem and then maybe did something about it I don't know this is the kind of patriotism I don't think I have ever seen I'm trying to see if there's this is the highest level of pure patriotism I've ever witnessed now I would say that Trump is up there too you know Trump may have some you know other things going on but I think Trump is a patriot and I think that his possibly you know maybe his co-biggest incentive other than you might want to be president I think his co-biggest this incentive is that he's a patriot and he took on enormous risk I mean the size of the risk that Trump took on to enter politics at that level you've got to appreciate the risk he took that's the Patriots that's the real thing so to have two of those in the race two people who I would say literally put their life on the line to make America better literally put their life on the line now I think Vivek is is a patriot at the highest level as well he doesn't have the same risk that these two had but boy does he have a risk to you know he's lucky that he already you know cashed down his company so he got rid of his company risk by his reputational risk is Extreme extreme so these are people who are really putting they're laying it down for the country somebody said on uh on Twitter today that I'm too pessimistic and I think maybe on Twitter it looks that way because the things I tweet tend to be about problems but I'm not that way I'm actually very optimistic I think there are things happening right now in the world that are tremendous and this is right at the top of the list this is the best field of candidates in my lifetime I'm not saying there isn't wasn't you know maybe you like Reagan or something but for a field of candidates this is really impressive all right um new way of making fake news this is also also an RFK Junior story the ties to method if you want to smear somebody you say they have ties to something unsavory so this is what uh who did this to RFK JR this was uh some illegitimate publication some investigative journalists I forget who it was was it uh Rolling Stone somebody will tell me look at the comments but anyway um so RFK Jr was accused of having ties to the Ultra Mega Republicans having ties to them because I would smear him because he has ties to the bad guys do you know what the ties were do you have any idea what those close ties were looks like in some contexts they use the same accounting firm they used the same accounting firm that was the close tie so whenever you hear this somebody has ties to something your your antenna should go up and go oh well that's fake news that's fake news now if they had said um he's working with and he's making policy with maybe you know who knows but if they say his organization has ties to this unsavory group fake news should be your first instinct and then it the article better work pretty hard to talk you out of it they had the same accounts so RFK Jr is uh he says I interrupt my normal Tweed stream for a bit of Comedy it's so ridiculous he goes uh blah blah blah Rolling Stone yeah Rolling Stone and Congressional Democrats are irate about a Kennedy Super PAC having quote ties to Mega Republicans actually the quote ties are that are hired an accounting firm that has also done accounting for other packs including including those of Republicans shocking isn't it I hope they continue this bold investigative journalism they might discover the Discover other ties maybe they use the same janitorial services too I tell you mocking is the way to go that mocking is the way to go so again that was perfectly phrased um Jonathan Turley is writing about all the Democrats who now want to over basically ignore the rulings of the Supreme Court because they don't like them apparently there were two professors a Harvard law professor and a SF State University Professor they were calling on Joe Biden to defy the rulings of the Supreme Court if he considers the rulings mistaken can you believe that this even happened that there are two College professors one from Harvard who are actually saying that the President should ignore the Supreme Court you know the the whole basis for what makes the Constitution work is the separation of powers that you should ignore the separation of powers the single most important thing that keeps the country together the single most important thing and they should endure it and that's like a real thing I do I even I don't need to tell you why it's a bad idea right we can skip the whole counter argument right agreed will you all stipulate stipulate that it's so stupid I don't have to say anything about it but apparently there are a number of Democrats and other people who are backing the same idea that if you don't get what you want you can ignore the Constitution and they're talking about it out loud in public like they're proud of it how did we get here is so dumb this is like they were never they never learned how the Constitution worked but I mean it's a Harvard law professor so clearly they prefer the power over the constitutional system all right speaking of Thomas Massey um he tweeted this he said the Department of Homeland services department Department of Homeland what's the yes Department of Homeland services the S is for what security Department of Homeland Security said that misleading covid-19 narratives inspired domestic terrorists all right so the department homelands security they're protecting us so this is our government protecting us and they're worried that misleading covert information narratives would make more domestic terrorists so as Thomas Massey points out in his tweet what were some of those examples what were some of those so-called narratives that were going to cause some kind of domestic terrorism so we listened natural immunity is real vaccinations don't stop the spread most masks don't work most mess still work I I love Thomas Massey he's the only one smart enough to put the word most the rest of you are like Mass don't work and then then I have a heart attack I go come on you can't say that's not an absolute you tell me if you wore your n95 for a two-minute interaction with your 80 year old grandmother it wouldn't give you anything nothing at all all right I'm anti-mask by the way very anti-mask but I love that Massey is smart enough to say most masks don't work I would have added most Mass don't work you know in 99 of situations but in the in the the narrowest of situations yeah maybe a little bit just not enough to have the mandate mandates are unconstitutional people were saying and the virus came from the Chinese lab so basically five examples of things that the uh the conspiracy theorists got right and they're not random things they're the five most important things aren't they aren't they literally the most important things they got them all right just remember that and how about this Rand Paul is tweeting um that the government quote science that's right a sitting senator just put quotes around the word science and I have no argument with it no argument at all and he goes on government and science published a study purporting that 90 reduction in Death from covid if vaccines if you boost with a vaccine the only problem the authors the study failed to reveal that the uh I think he has a typo here I think he means the unboosted group also added 90 reduction in deaths from all causes in other words the patient group were not equal to begin with and the booster vaccine may or may not have had any effect that's right it might not have had any effect at least based on the data and then Rand Paul goes on and goes this insightful critique is exactly what the FBI and Department of Homeland Security have been attempting to censor only this time it made it into the New England Journal of Medicine so the New England Journal medicine can print that but all the all the other people who said it was obvious they couldn't say it I guess they didn't have enough science backing them but can you imagine that the whole pretty much the whole uh argument for boosting came from people who couldn't read science they didn't know what the study did or said it didn't know how to design it right and even even the author of the study said oops yeah you're right imagine that the author of the study once it was pointed out that it was a ridiculous study said oh yeah well that's true and we set our policy on that we determined our policy on that are you ever going to trust another study about anything amazing so there's another competence problem um and apparently the new news on Hunter Biden is that uh I guess who's the Archer who is the Devin Archer was a partner with Hunter Biden apparently he's going to testify or already has that Hunter Biden uh participated in over two dozen calls in which his father was on the call for these businesses that Joe Biden says he had no knowledge of that's right there are 25 instances or so 24 or so instances of we have good information from Devin Archer that Joe Biden was on the calls 24 times ish and he said he had no idea of what what his son was doing and that they were just overtly you know selling access now of course Devin is facing jail so I would want to be careful that he didn't work out any kind of a deal but I haven't heard that so you don't want Devin Archer testifying about anybody else if he's worked out a deal because that means he might have an incentive to lie so I would be careful about that I would be careful about anybody who's looking at uh jail time for his own work talk about anybody else um but I guess we're going to hear about that pretty soon and then this question of whether Joe Biden fired the prosecutor who was looking after the barisma stuff do you think that Joe Biden fired him just to protect uh Hunter and barisma or did he fire him because the International Community was asking him to fire him because both were true so apparently apparently both were true that it was true that the International Community was asking for that same guy to be fired and it was also true that barisma's Senior Management this is the new information barisma's senior executive at least one of them very much wanted they actually tried and is documented to get Hunter to use his connections to get that guy fired so I'm a little confused if the International Community wanted this guy fired that sounds like it's legitimate and if if Joe Biden did it for any reason at all but also the International Community wanted it done for their good reasons he's in the clear at least on that to me it wouldn't matter that there's also somebody in the company who wanted him gone because you know somebody in the company wants them gone and you know they would try to make it happen if they could so I don't know how to is it possible both are true and what does that tell you it's true that the International Community thought the prosecutor was bad but it may also be true that he's going after somebody that you're protecting so he could be bad but also doing something that wasn't necessarily bad for once it's a little confusing I'm not sure anything is going to hang on this you know the the firing of the prosecutor but it's very sketchy it's very sketchy all right that ladies and gentlemen concludes what must be called the best podcast you've ever oh well that went pretty long all right I didn't know I was going that long uh I I have something blocking my clock I normally don't do that because I'm looking at a clock but there's something in front of it today so sorry I went 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how many of you have ever heard of

something called it aphantasia

it's the ability to see things in your

mind

I didn't know that people were all over

the map on that and apparently people

don't there are some people who don't

think in the images

I don't even know what to think about

that because I only do and apparently

the test

I was just seeing this on Wikipedia or

someplace is if I told you to imagine an

apple

and then I said describe to me what you

see in your mind

apparently there's a wide range of how

clearly people see the Apple

now

I'm a sort of an artist

I'm sort of an artist by profession

and

I can tell you that I can see the apple

as clearly as a photograph

how many of you would say that

if I imagine it it's just like a

photograph

yeah usually all the details I can

rotate it I can change its color

just like a photograph now how many of

you would say the opposite and I think

it might be like just five percent of

people or less or fewer

um

how many of you would say you can't see

the Apple at all

is there some who say you can't see it

at all it's just sort of a concept of an

apple but you don't actually see it so

we have some right yeah there's some

people saying that that applies to them

too

you know this I don't think there could

be a better example

of understanding how differently people

are experiencing their reality

I I honestly don't even have a way to

imagine

what it would be like if your

imagination didn't reproduce things

as well as the real world

I don't even know what it would feel

like I have no way to even visualize

well I can't imagine it I suppose if it

were visual I could visualize it

so one of the secrets about why I can

draw

you know let's say a new object is that

I'm tracing it

it's actually tracing

I know you hate me because that makes

you sound too easy but I see it first

and then I just put the lines on where I

see it

now if you can't do that and apparently

there are a number of you who can't how

would you ever learn to draw

it feels like if you tried to draw it'd

be like stick figures and stuff because

the one in your mind

you wouldn't know what it looks like in

the paper

right so I would guess and when I see

artists who could do photorealistic

drawings I think maybe they're even you

know further than I am in terms of being

able to see it or actually yeah they do

more than seeing it it's like they're

seeing it plus something else plus what

they're adding I guess

now I here's another theory you know

affirmations the idea of visualizing

your goals

I've had good good luck anecdotally not

scientifically speaking but anecdotally

it seems like when I've when I can

visualize what I want really clearly

the odds of it happening are so close to

100 percent

and there are things that I tell myself

I want that even I have trouble

visualizing

it's more of a concept I don't get those

but when I can see myself standing there

you know I'm with a person or I got a

bag of money or something I really

really see

damn it it just seems to happen so

that's one of the things I've been

hypothesizing over a long time

is it possible that the more clearly you

can imagine something for your for your

visualizations and your

attainment of your success is it

possible that actually determines

whether you'll be successful that you

can you can draw up a picture in your

head

because my theory is that brains

that's one of the ways you program your

brain

right if you think your brain is in

charge of you

and you're just doing what your brain's

telling you you're lost you're just

wandering around but you should be able

to use the executive function of your

brain

to do something like visualization which

should be effectively reprogramming your

brain to make it more effective so

reality is pretty subjective and maybe

that's all that's happening here but it

does seem to be that if you could

visualize something clearly the odds of

it happening are pretty high

all right

um Twitter has become X

so now you're not sending Tweets anymore

you're exclaiming

somebody sent that on Twitter

if I remember to I'd give them credit

but I don't remember who I don't think

we're going to use that one we're not

going to use that it's not going to be

exclaiming I think it's still going to

be tweeting what do you think

I think this is a prince becoming the

the symbol

you know the the artist formerly known

as Prince

because I'm going to do the thing

formally known as tweeting

and then eventually I'm going to stop

I'm going to lose the formerly known as

and I'm just calling tweeting again

so I'm going to say well I was Xing

today

formerly known as tweeting

and I'll start just saying formerly

known as tweeting I'll drop the ax and

then I'll drop the formerly known as

tweeting and I'll be right back to

tweeting

that's that's how I'm going to play it

anybody with me

I'm not I'm not going to stop calling it

tweeting and I'm pretty sure we could

call it whatever we want

you know would just make it so make it

so as they say are in Star Trek

all right I got a context note on a

tweet

you know how Twitter will add Community

notes

are there two things is there a

community note and a context note or are

they really the same thing

does anyone know if that's two different

things or one thing

let's see if anybody knows because most

of you haven't seen one or both so how

would you know it's the same thing

somebody says it's the same

so let me just give you uh idea how this

worked I'm actually very happy

with the community note or maybe it's

just reader added context notes I think

it's working really well it's imperfect

all things are imperfect but I'll give

you an example so here's where I got a

context note put on my tweet there was a

clip uh President Biden

um with an evil looking grin on his face

subjectively speaking according to me

um muttering that he would look into

Elon Musk and Twitter to see if there

were any crimes there

now when I saw him muttering that he was

going to look into Twitter to see if any

crimes were there I said to myself what

since when do you go looking for crimes

that's the scariest thing so I tweeted

something about it sounded like a uh the

plot of a bad movie where there's an

alternative America that's been taken

over by a dictator

because listening to Biden say that he

was going to look into

musk's purchase of Twitter

just to see if there's anything wrong in

terms of Homeland Security

why would there be

why would there be a problem like what

would make you even think you need to

look and wouldn't that apply to every

citizen you know my neighbor Bob

I'm not aware of any crimes he's

committed but when I talked to him

I'm a little bit suspicious and I think

maybe we should go you know overturn his

finances and see if we got any crimes

there nobody would stand for that but

there was the the leader of the country

standing there saying basically a

dictator kind of a statement

now that the context note

was that this was an old video

is that useful

was it useful to me to know that this

happened around the time of the

transaction it did not happen this week

is that a good Community note I'd say

yes

I say yes because that's good context

you you need to know when stuff happened

to understand it in his fullness so good

note but it also went on to say that it

was it was more about the the question

of the original buying of the company

now that doesn't change my tweet

would you agree it doesn't invalidate my

tweet it just you know takes a little

edge off it gives a little context I

thought this was all good

would you agree

this was nothing but good a good context

yeah and and the reason I'm bringing it

up is it's because it happened to me

trust me if you get a context note your

first reaction will be negative

and to that point one of the things the

context note lets you do if you're the

Tweeter maybe maybe everybody unless you

rate the context note

so the context note kind of rates you

but then you can rate the context note

and my first reaction was damn it

and I like I I said it was useless

so I gave it a useless grade

and then I slept on it and I looked at

it the next day

and I thought oh

maybe I was a little Hasty maybe that

maybe that context note is 100 accurate

and add something to the understanding

of the Tweet okay damn it you're right

so I'm going to give you the win

you get the win Twitter

the company that formerly was known as

Twitter

all right

um let's talk about the summer news I

think summer news is so funny so summer

news usually is somebody misinterpreting

a public figure and then pretending to

be really angry about it and that's

called Summer news

so when Jason Aldean does his Song and

people say we see some racist stuff in

there that's totally not there

they go ah they get all they get all

theatrically upset about it but they're

not really upset literally nobody cares

it's just summer news and of course you

know we've talked about Kamala Harris

um now she's talking about the Florida

um

these school lessons for history and she

believes that they're teaching kids that

uh

this slavery had an upside

there was something good about slavery

of course that's not non-existent right

of course if you look for it it wouldn't

be there but fake news so they said in

Cobble out to do to get to get angry

about fake news

imagine if you had been elected the vice

president of the United States

and they're saying okay what what

valuable portfolio can we give you

so first they give you immigration you

know the border control

and you do absolutely nothing useful

for a few years

so all right all right maybe that was

just hard

so then AI is an existential threat to

humanity some say so they give the AI

portfolio to to Harris and what did she

do to make everything better

well nothing nothing so I don't think

there's any job you can give her that

will result in some kind of positive

outcome so while if you had an employee

like that

you know sort of a Wally employee if you

use the the Dilbert analogy if you had a

Wally employee

and Time After Time the projects don't

get done what do you do with them

what's the next project you give them if

you don't want to fire them or it's too

much trouble

you give them the least important most

job something that only needs

to be done so that people know it's

being done but has no value to the world

has no possible benefit at all

and that would be complaining about the

Florida Curriculum by imagining what it

is and then getting really mad at what

she imagined

what is not real

and that's her current job

now do you think she's going out and

talking about this topic because that

was the thing she came up with on her

own oh yeah I think this is where I'll

put my time and energy I doubt it

to me it looks like an assignment how

many of you would agree that her talking

about this topic has to be certainly an

assignment I don't think the vice

presidents just go out and on their own

pick a topic and start complaining about

it yeah she actually would just just

think about this do you believe that the

people who assigned or the topic

think that the topic is real meaning

that Florida is actually teaching kids

yeah you know Florida that slavery

wasn't all bad do you think that's

really happening

of course not no there's nobody in the

White House who believes it's real

they actually assigned her an imaginary

job

tell me that's not true

tell me that's not true

Kamala Harris was intentionally assigned

an imaginary job

because she could not fulfill

any real assignment

they wallied her she's being wallied

right that's what the point here boss

does he doesn't want to go through the

paperwork of firing Wally so he just

gives him uh he usually lends him to

another manager who asks for some

resources you know uh hey could you

maybe lend me an engineer for this

project you know somebody would sort of

dotted line report to me for a while you

know but it'll just be alone and the

point of your boss says uh sure

you're not only my co-worker manager but

you're sort of my competitor in this

company because if you get the promotion

I can't so I'll be glad to help you

because I'm a team player

how about Wally

you can have them as long as you want

yeah so the qualification of the vice

president continues

I saw a tweet from

um somebody named Andy Petro

he said this is a great tweet all the

imaginary people who think slavery was

okay are the worst

all the real people who think the

imaginary people are real are the second

worst

summer news

you know if anybody takes summer news

seriously you're falling into their trap

what do you see somebody complaining

about any of this stuff

just say summer news

yeah can't wait for the real stuff

all right here's one of my there's a lot

of funny news today I mean I think it's

all funny

um so NPR

as a headline talking about the

right-wing conspiracy about eating bugs

so NPR is essentially demonizing the the

right part of the country

for saying that the left part of the

country is promoting the eating of bugs

sometime soon for protein

so while NPR is mocking the right wing

for imagining there's some conspiracy

about eating bugs

Stephen Miller on Twitter

the formerly the company formerly known

as Twitter

he uh tweeted yes I'm calling it tweeted

he tweeted that he tweeted three

headlines from NPR talking about the

value of eating bugs

so NPR

is blaming the right wing for starting

this bug eating

conspiracy theory

at the same time NPR's own headlines

there's three of them recently about the

possible value of eating all the bugs

and I think Stephen Miller asked if NPR

reads NPR or listens to does NPR

actually listen to NPR or do they know

not to

oh yeah we produce we produce content

but God knows we're not going to listen

to it we don't want to get hypnotized

so

the the the

clownishness of the world is the

um the macro theme for today so today's

theme is American National incompetence

how many of you would agree with the

statement that there's an incompetence

crisis in America

how many of you would agree with that

statement

and then comp a competence crisis

basically you could call it incompetence

crisis

to me it seems obvious and I'm going to

talk about that more but notice how the

stories are all going to have that

quality

right we'll talk about the causes that's

coming up but but do you notice all the

stories in the news

they don't really look like something

just went wrong

they don't really look like we disagree

on priorities

it's not looking like a difference of

priorities or preferences it doesn't

look like there was a natural problem

and people have Solutions it doesn't

look that like that at all it looks like

incompetence is the issue

let me say this in the cleanest way I

can

do we have do we have a problem with

climate change do we have a problem with

inflation do we have a problem with

let's say the Ukraine war well on some

level you'd say yes

but wait a minute

could there be one problem that caused

all of those problems

yes and I don't mean it I don't mean it

necessarily caused the war or cause

climate change I mean that the way we

deal with all of these topics has has

left the realm of anything sensible if

if ever we were there

so we've we've upgraded to a realm of

pure incompetence

where the incompetence itself becomes

the topic so we're only talking about

the incompetence we don't have anything

going on that's talking about making the

problems better

right we have an incompetence crisis

where we've just we've replaced the

topics

with talking about our own incompetence

because we don't even know how to get

out of that loop we're a little bubble

of our own incompetence all right

so Kamala Harris is obviously an example

of an incompetence crisis Joe Biden is

clearly an example of all quality

competence crisis clearly an example

do you know that we've got two

candidates the leading candidates

who may be running to stay in a jail

at least in part

right now

as much as you might want Trump to be

president has he ever done anything that

might have technically violated some

kind of law

I don't know maybe

probably do they all do that as someone

when you reach a certain level are they

all violating technical laws I think so

my guess would be they're all violating

some technical law that nobody cares

about

but uh

how is it that we've got three

I would say three hyper-capable

candidates and they're fighting for

second place in the primaries they're

not even fighting for a second place in

the general

so RFK Jr clearly more qualified than

Biden by a lot

fighting for even to be on the ballot

and be a second choice right if you look

at the Republican side I think Trump is

very capable he just causes people to

lose their right if I had

one problem with jump it's just that it

just causes people to lose their

right so that's not a competence problem

that's you know something that just

comes with the whole program I guess

but you look at the capability of a

vague ramaswamy

oh my god do I want that as the model

for the future

I just want somebody who's just killing

it with competence

and everybody's watching and your kids

are watching they're like did he really

do that

did he just sit down and play uh concert

piano level and then he went off and

played tennis at a college level and

then he started at uh you know startups

and now he's running for president and

making a big dent and changing the world

is that all the same person

it's all the same guy it's like one guy

you don't think you want your kids to

see that the the talent stack concept

brought alive I mean he brings alive the

talent stack idea that if you layer

enough talents you know by working on

those talents you can create something

extraordinary from the sum of it

quite a basic and I'll say for the

DeSantis lovers highly capable highly

capable very admirable

you'd love to have a president who just

demonstrated that level of skill

you know you could disagree about his

preferences and his policies and you

might like somebody better but is

anybody calling DeSantis incapable

nobody right

I don't believe there's a single person

who says oh that DeSantis he can't get

anything done

it's not even part of the question

so we do have super capable people who

are trying fighting to

to get out right I would also say that

in the the category that I call the

internet dads

which includes women I'm just you know

sort of using it as a label but the uh

the internet dads are showing a level of

capability that's just crazy

right you know the the Jordan Peterson's

uh you know David sacks that Elon musk's

um Mike cernovich is you know I can go

on but you know who they are you you

know who the dads are and you know if

you if you read just read a week of

cernovich tweets

your IQ goes up like Five Points right

there's some super qualified people

who are getting deeply into the you know

the process

it's just hard for them to break through

past that top crust of okay incapable

people

yeah talker is another example highly

capable

all right let's talk more about the same

topic through UFOs I saw uh Eric

Weinstein that had a tweet thread on the

UFO mystery I'll call it

the I thought he did a great job of

summarizing the frustration of all the

smart people

so I'm just going to read one part of

his thread which was tremendous and I

recommend it just just because I think

he just does a great job of just

summarizing

what's going on with the whole UFO

mystery all right but here he restated

something I guess he said before he goes

I stand by my statement something is

wildly off and then he gives you the

options for what might be happening a

are pilots are crazy and or Liars so the

pilots who claim they say UFOs are

either crazy or Liars so as I go see if

any of these

makes sense to you B There is a psyop

gaslighting our own people

you know some kind of government plan to

fool us see we are too incompetent

to call our own people

uh wait we are too incompetent to call

our own people

is that a typo or does that make sense

to you

we're too incompetent to call our own

people

I'm not sure what that one means it must

be a typo

um D there is a secret long-standing

involvement of top scientists in other

words a top scientist they know there's

something going on but they're not

telling you

uh e there are some crazy seagull and

mylar balloon effects

so there's just something up there but

it's not UFOs

a cult of UFOs has infected the Pentagon

so you know a mental problem

uh or

China and others are taking over our

airspace and we're using UFOs as an

excuse rather than dealing with a

problem

so we're telling the public that it's

UFOs when it's really Chinese

technology or something

um

and then that he I love his conclusion

all right so this is uh Eric Weinstein's

conclusion of all this uh confusion he

says but this is so stupid to be this

far in with so much

dot dot dot I'm embarrassed for us

I'm with you Eric

same page it's literally embarrassing

does anybody have that feeling

like as an American I'm literally

embarrassed

that we can't we can't work through this

harassment I would say I've removed it

from my life as anything that influences

me I'm not I'm not bothered by any level

of embarrassment and you shouldn't be

either if you can learn to be free of

embarrassment it's like a freaking

superpower

um

but you but you know what I'm saying

it's just not a good look you know it

doesn't bother me to my core but you

know I'm not proud of it not proud of it

I am not proud of being an American

based on this you know I I am proud of

being an American but not based on this

story

so I want to add a few hypotheses to his

list so he's got a through e or G

I didn't understand one of them I think

it's typo but I'll add my own take

I think it's a combination of the

following so it's not one of these

things it's a combination of all these

things optical illusions we just see

some things we didn't know what they

were Tech malfunctions

in our sensing equipment

um or it might be just you know a

feature slash bug that doesn't look like

a malfunction it could be confirmation

bias you know if you're expecting to see

something you see it everywhere could be

summer summer hosters

some not all but some of them might be

just literally hoaxers uh then there's

cognitive dissonance you got your

grifters you've got the effect of money

that you know distorts everything

and then on top of that on top of the

reality or non-reality of these UFOs

separately but connected is the timing

of when we learn about alleged new stuff

I believe the timing is strategic

which is independent of whether there

are any real UFOs that's a separate

question but the timing for when the

news stories about UFOs is that's

probably political

not for sure

but it seems like there's always

something that's embarrassing for

Democrats who are in power

when it comes out but

the you're working against that theory

is as stuff came out during the Trump

administration too

and I don't recall that that was

necessarily timed to any bad Democrat

news

so I don't I don't think the hypothesis

that it's always timed to cover up the

news

works every time

but could it have been done once

is there any one time then somebody said

you know this would be a good time for

this story

maybe so I do think that there's a

possibility that the media gives it more

attention when there's something that

they don't want to talk about

but that doesn't mean they're

necessarily doing it consciously right

if Fox news is talking about all the bad

behavior of the Democrats and they've

got five good stories you know like

Hunter's laptop and you know new new

whistleblowers they get all that and CNN

kind of doesn't want to talk about it at

all

what do they have

right you better talk about UFOs because

you want to stay away from that stuff so

I think it's a whole bunch of ordinary

things I do not think any of the

extraordinary explanations are likely

right so listen to how many of

uh Eric Weinstein's uh potential you

know these are ways that could be

explained how many of them are

extraordinary all right so just see so I

gave you a list of possibilities they're

all ordinary yeah technology bugs

most ordinary thing in the world

confirmation bias that's so ordinary is

the operating system of human beings

that's the most ordinary thing you think

it's there but it's not

cognitive dissonance all ordinary so

everything on my list would explain

everything we're seeing hoaxers grifters

money media

and it wouldn't require any

extraordinary anything it wouldn't

require any new introduction of any new

effects

it would purely be explained by all the

ordinary stuff but look at Eric's list

our Pilots are crazy or Liars

well if it were one or two pilots

crazier Liars would be a pretty good

hypothesis but it seems to be a lot of

them

right or at least enough that crazy and

liar crazy and lying is probably ruled

out

that would be extraordinary there's a

Psy up gaslighting our own people well

psyups to Gaslight us we know are common

would you agree it's common to have

psyops but I don't think that the

government would use UFOs for a psyop

that would be extraordinary what would

not be extraordinary is to say there's a

let's say an anonymous source

that wouldn't be extraordinary because

they do that all the time it wouldn't be

extraordinary to say there's a pre-print

study that says you should shove masks

up your ass to stop cancer

right that's ordinary

like lying in a pre-print study that's

just ordinary or or not being accurate

how about we're two in I don't know

about the incompetent one that's might

be the typo all right there's a secret

long-standing involvement of top

scientists

and no top scientist has talked

well that would be extraordinary

right not likely

there are crazy seagulls and mylar

balloon effects well that actually gets

to what I was saying that there might be

just a technical glitch or optical

illusion right so I think that one's

more in the ordinary category where

there's a cult of UFOs is infected the

Pentagon I think that's confirmation

bias and the fact that UFOs are fun and

everything else is less fun

if you're if you're working in the

Pentagon name one topic that's more fun

than talking about UFOs

well we got to find in if there's you

know illegal chemical weapons

UFOs ah UFOs so you'd expect that people

chase fun

so they like it so of course there are

people in the UFOs in the military who

want to talk about UFOs UFOs are fun

all right China's and I don't think it's

likely that China is taking over our

airspace with their advanced advanced

machines and we don't know the

difference or we don't want to talk

about it so

so my theory is it's ordinary

that the UFO thing is ordinary let me

tell you why I think it's ordinary

beyond the fact that all of the elements

to make it happen are ordinary

the history of humankind

is one hoax after another like this

you know that right

there's never a better time in human

history where there were not multiple

hoaxes that had multiple people saying

they were true

my favorite one is was it earlier in

20th century when there were all these

hoaxes about giant bones

all right they were finding skeletons of

giant bones and there were a lot of them

if you just went by how many there were

and you went by how many people told you

they saw it with their own eyes and he

went by the media reports that they were

true and you talked to the scientists

who said oh yeah I saw it

you would think that was pretty true

zero of them were true

zero it was just like widespread you

know giant bones all over the place but

we don't have any

the Smithsonian has zero giant bones

now how different is the giant bones

hoaxes than the UFO story

what what part of the giant bones hoax

is not 100 common

to the story about the UFOs yeah we have

better technology

but does it matter if you have good

technology if you know you're seeing a

Tic Tac if you think it's a UFO you know

the humans are doing the interpreting

now the the diet bones hoax period

lasted many years just like the UFOs

now

you also know I'm not going to name

names but uh there are there have been

some Modern religions not going to name

any names

that seem to have lots of people who are

direct Witnesses and they'll sell out

and you know hundreds maybe maybe

millions of people

you know join something that was born

just a few hundred years ago

so

people massively believing in something

that isn't true including believing they

saw it with their own eyes they heard it

they experienced it

is very common

so if you're asking yourself what's

common and what's uncommon a gigantic

hoax about UFOs that last for years has

hundreds of direct eyewitnesses that

feel credible has actually technology

like radar that seems to be recording it

has every sign for being real

and even the media suggests it's real

none of that has any validity

we have a long history of none of that

ever mattering do anything it's just

Oaks

now could I be wrong

I hope so wouldn't that be cool

I love it yeah well unless you're here

to kill us

but I would say

if you're doing the Carl Sagan analysis

the Carl Sagan analysis is this looks

like every other hoax

why would it be different

this is the extraordinary one

Maybe

but I would say if you're going to put

odds on UFOs being real I'd say a

hundred to one against it

under to one against it based on the

fact it looks exactly like every other

hoax through Modern History they're all

the same

they don't look different

you know so I asked this question on

on

the service formerly known as Twitter

so I said if you want to figure out

let's say

the truth about climate change

the truth about climate change

and you had a choice you could only talk

to scientists

just scientists or experts on the

history of hoaxes

experts on the history of media hoaxes

especially

who would give you a more useful answer

the scientists

or the people who who know what hoaxes

look like

through history

well I think three quarters of the

people who answered that of course were

biased in their answer so they said the

the media hoaxers

and I think that's true

I think climate change is so perfectly

like

a dozen other hoaxes

now when I say hoax I don't mean that

there's nothing true about it

let me be clear

I think the basic idea that if all else

was equal and you added some CO2 to a

closed system it'd probably get warmer

I believe that

do I believe that

um

that climate change is not a problem

because a million years ago we had more

CO2

does anybody think that the climate

change is not much of a problem because

a million years ago we had more CO2

does that make sense to you

does that sound logical to you that a

million years ago there was more CO2 and

the world was thriving therefore the

current level of CO2 is not dangerous

you know that's not logical right

even Thomas Massey was making this case

and I I was I was cringing

because Massey is sort of my standard

for good behavior you know he's like the

standard for a rational scientific

approach but I saw him actually a video

arguing

that CO2 was much higher you know like a

thousand parts per million instead of

400 in the distant past does it do you

all know what's wrong with that argument

now John Kerry tried to defuse it by

saying this but people weren't here

you know humans weren't here

that's a terrible terrible defense would

you like to hear the good argument and

the good defense

well there's no good argument there's no

good argument that says a million years

ago the CO2 was higher therefore it's

not a problem today there's no

connecting logic to that do you know why

because everything was different a

million years ago

right the brightness of the sun was

different the composition of the

atmosphere was different

everything was different

so if everything's different a high

level of CO2 may have been no problem at

all

maybe it was no problem

so John Kerry's correct answer should

have been not there were no humans

because what is the obviously you say to

there were no humans we were teeming

with life

their life was all over the planet there

was probably more life on the planet

then than there is now because of the

you know Extinction of species so

it's a it's a terrible charge you know

Massey's claim that it's meaningful that

there was more CO2 in the distant past

it is just not meaningful

is not because all the other variables

were also different so it may be that

you needed more CO2 in the past

because the sun wasn't as warm

right that would be a positive CO2

because it was keeping you warm when the

sun wasn't doing its job but now this is

just an example I'm not I'm not making a

claim about the sun I'm using this as an

example but suppose the sun got a little

warmer in a million years

well then you better not have all that

CO2

right

so the right answer is all the other

variables were different you can't

compare the past

why is it that neither of them could get

that right

and let me check 100 of you agree right

if I convinced 100 of you that I'm right

about this I think I it's easy

I mean the argument is so plain and

simple

no

all right if you disagree give me one

sentence of disagreement go

the the one sentence why that why what I

said is wrong why is why is the CO2 from

a million years ago

uh relevant

okay you all got quiet when I had to say

you all got quiet didn't you here's

here's the best argument I have for the

other side

is this is the best one

quote you're vaccinated

oh well

and then there's always somebody in the

comments who's blaming it on the Jews

I assume that's satire

all right I'm going to give you the

benefit of a doubt all right the benefit

of a doubt that that was satire right I

don't want to say that in the

comments otherwise

I don't I don't I don't want to say this

every day either right can you maybe not

do anti-semitic things in the comments

like maybe that's just not cool

how about a lot less of that huh

so you know Free Speech fine

but it doesn't belong everywhere

it's not satire

let me let me take a break here let me

take a break

so you got a group of people in the

world

who everybody knows or unusually

successful

let's call them melbonians and these

albonians are really good at going to

school and getting Advanced degrees and

with their Advanced degrees

they have lots of opportunities

especially at the higher levels of

business and Society

so they take their better degrees

and they start doing really well so well

that they look at what would be the best

industry to be in if you could be in any

industry

so these about albonians that I'm

talking about are so well trained

they've got such good educations that

they could be in Tech they could be in

government they could be in Media

really they could just call their shots

and if you were in Media

you do well you might even be the boss

after a number of years of you know

having experience

so once the albonians just sort of work

through the system just being the

albonians

eventually the albonians look to be

dominating a lot of important industries

now why is it that they dominate the

important industries

and somebody would say Hollywood too

because that influences our minds why

why are they all in the why are all

these albonians in the important

industries and why do they have all this

power

because they went to school

would you like your family to be

captains of industry and maybe head up a

media company someday

how about sending them to school

how about if you send your kids to

school they can be the CEOs of a

media company too how about

opening your head and looking at if

there's a group of people who are

killing it on education

and they become your boss maybe

you should look at yourself

maybe you should check your work right

if you've got a boss that's an albonian

because they all want to in school

and it was their biggest

priority

and it wasn't your priority

they should be your boss

you should have worked for albonians the

albonias are going to run your country

they're going to run your media they're

going to run your Hollywood they're

going to run your Tech they're going to

run every thing that matters why

because they went to school

is making me crazy all right

how is that not obvious

how is that not obvious

every one of you anti-semitic

you don't see that going to school is

the main variable

can you not see that seriously you can't

see that there's a correlation between

school and success

am I the first person to tell you that

like you've never heard that

before you never thought of it didn't

have that that thought yourself

how about it doesn't require any

collusion on behalf of Israel for the

people who took schooling as their top

priority

and then execute them

right now you're going to say but but

Scott they might be talking to each

other and preferring they're in group or

something yeah so what

so what

so what

you want you want to be on the end group

go to school

send your kids to school make it a

priority

all right

God that bugs me

all right back to back to the main topic

here

um do you think that AI will create work

for humans or reduce work

what's your

what's your best guess will AI create

work

um I I'm going to make a prediction that

it's going to be more like when we said

computers we're going to reduce paper

do you remember that the 70s early 80s

yeah all these computers are going to

reduce paper

the current market for computer printers

is about 50 billion dollars

I I remember when computers came in the

first big change was more paper

right because you had to print it twice

you know you may have to make copies and

everything so there's a story about uh

at least in some jobs there's one group

of people who are looking at uh

there's adding well I guess you'd say

they're examining articles to see what

would be included in their publication

and they got a big problem because it

used to be humans would write articles

they would submit them to their

publication they would look at them and

say oh okay and they'd pick the good

ones

now the number of articles that are

being submitted is shot through the roof

because they're being written by AI and

AI

can't write for so where they used

to have to look at you know maybe I'll

just pick up numbers these are I'm just

making this up where you might have to

look at let's say a few dozen human

written articles now you've got a

thousand articles that have been

submitted

written by AI just with a prompt you

know so nobody didn't work and they're

all bad so now they have to look through

a thousand to find that one where they

used to look through a few dozen that's

a very specific you know industry and

situation but I feel like there's going

to be a lot more of that

for example

if you said to me in the pre-ai world

I'm in my cubicle and boss comes in and

says Scott I need you to do this task

now in the old in the old days I would

have a certain set of tools and I'd go

work on that task

and maybe you know I wish I had AI

because I I would do it better so I

that's just the old way I just go work

in the task what's the new way

the new way is if I know that there's an

AI that could help me I'm gonna have to

research it and I'm going to have to

learn it and the way the current

architecture is you might need two or

three different AIS

for example you might need one AI that

creates a photograph that doesn't exist

you use a second AI to animate the

photograph into a 3D image

you might use a third AI

to add a script like a movie script to

animate it into an actual movie

you might use another app to clean up

the lighting and fix the sound

so you could end up with you know it

might take you a dozen AI apps

to do a thing

now people might be impressed by your

thing it might be great that you did the

thing

but all of your normal work you're gonna

have to pause and do a deep dive into

what AI can do and completely

re-architect your business process to do

the thing you will spend as much time

learning the tools

to do the thing as it would have taken

you just to do it the old way blah blah

now I'm not I'm not a troggle that I who

wants to stay with the old ways I'm Pro

AI you know let's do Ai and the market

will sort it out but I think it is

completely optimistic

to imagine it's not going to add work to

the cubicle class

as well as at home I think it will make

my life at home harder

because I'll be continuously trying to

find out what tool all right is it this

tool but somebody says this tool and got

to sign up and this one's not sending us

data to the other one and why is the the

API isn't working today and all the

things that used to be easy there'll be

so much better way to do it in this

complicated way that you have to spend

all your time figuring out how to do it

ordinary things that you did the other

way

now

in the long long long run is it going to

make everything better

Maybe

maybe and also in the long long long run

there could be fewer computer printers

we're I don't think we're there but

there could be you know at some point

there'll just always be a screen

everywhere so you really will never use

a piece of paper

but that might be a long time away

all right uh it was the hill is

reporting there was a survey that showed

that remote workers the ones working at

home some of the time

um are more more productive

do you believe that that the remote

workers are more productive

how do you think they uh measured that

just guess I I decided not to read the

article I read the headline

well how do you think they measure the

productivity of somebody working at home

versus the office

would it be I don't know

impossible

putting it out there is that one of

those things that might be

impossible to measure

yes it is yes it is it is impossible to

measure so who do you think might have

been behind this result that the remote

workers are so much more

effective

could it be I don't know

maybe people who work at home did the

survey

maybe when you ask people who work at

home and prefer it if they're more more

effective they say

yeah

yeah I totally am

do you work more hours

sure

and when you work those hours and you're

distracting atmosphere with your dog and

your kids and everything are you are you

focusing better at home oh yeah

oh yeah it's only way better it was way

better write that down

write that down a way better focus and

oh so many more hours weekends sometimes

I'm up all night sometimes the work is

so appealing I just can't stop

do I need to tell you that this

certainly is

I don't really need to tell you that do

I I wouldn't believe anything of this

domain now I'm not saying it's not true

I'm not saying that I'm saying You

couldn't possibly couldn't possibly have

accurate information this is sort of

like measuring the temperature of the

world

every time every time somebody says they

measure the temperature of the whole

world the average

I just laugh

do you know why I was born in the real

world in the real world you can't

measure the temperature of the earth and

compare it to last year that's no thing

who thinks that's a thing

who thinks you can do that with well

obviously with thermometers the

satellite stuff might be a little closer

to something that's real but who thinks

the thermometers

put all over the Earth are giving you

some kind of a good answer

that's ridiculous do I have to be a

scientist to know that you can't measure

the temperature of the Earth

all right the fact that anybody believes

that

uh apparently the American Workforce is

coming back strong a lot of people in

the 25 to 54 year age you're heading the

market

is that a good thing or a bad thing way

more people are entering the lady

marketings so they do have openings and

more people are going in this is the

Wall Street Journal who reported this is

that a good thing or a bad thing

do you think it would help or hurt the

competence of the economy

lots more people going to work

I think it's good

which people didn't have a job already

the competent people are the incompetent

which ones were already employed

do it were employers mostly preferring

the incompetent well the highly capable

people who were just sitting it out but

now they've decided this would be a good

time to go back to work I don't think so

I think the capable people already had

jobs

and that the employers are lowering

their standards to fill positions just

like the military is Right military is

doing the same thing so wouldn't you say

that this good news that the labor force

is really strong and people are going

back into it is that as good as it

sounds

I mean it's good that they get paychecks

so it's good for the economy but if

you're looking at the competence of the

country

it should take it down would you agree

that that seems like a cause and effect

of bringing in people who are not

already well employed

all right I'm going to give you a little

story before I talk about Americans

incompetence problem in a little more

detail uh I've got a friend who when he

was 16 years old and he's in my age

range so this was long ago when he was

16. his father owned a bowling alley and

then his father got a you know a better

offer better job at a big Corporation

so rather than closing or selling the

bowling alley uh the 16 year old was

asked if he wanted to just manage the

bowling alley just run the company

u16.

so remember this is many years ago so

what did the 16 year old say who

basically had been running the company

anyway he was like assistant manager he

just got running it anyway

you said sure

sure so it was a whole business you know

bowling alley

that was managed by a 16 year old kid

now in my day in my day when I was a

Youngster that wasn't that unusual

yeah and if you went back into you know

old timey times you know back in the

Prairie

yeah a 16 year old with the head of the

household

it wasn't that unusual

but do you think a 16 year old should

run a company in 2023

I mean there might be some special ones

but it's different

things look really different now

uh I could I I believe I could have run

a company of 16. back in those days you

know things were simpler too but I think

I could have I felt I was I was ready it

wouldn't have been easy but I could have

figured it down as I went I could have

gotten there

now compare that to the design of

America at the moment I'm going to read

a bunch of statements that just tell me

if you think these are true or false and

do they contribute to the incompetence

of the country

so my thesis here is that we have a

current design for our country that

guarantees incompetence and we didn't

always

we used to have a design that guaranteed

that the competent people would rise and

you know take over everything

but here's our current situation we've

got the teachers union blocking school

choice

should that make us more capable or less

capable over time less right because

competition is the only thing that makes

anything work and they're getting rid of

it

and they also maintain teachers who are

not good they're hard to fire because

the union protects them

so certainly the teachers union should

make us all stupid by Design I don't see

any way around it

another one affirmative action

do you think affirmative action causes

companies who would obviously prefer to

have highly qualified employees but also

diverse that's what they prefer

but unfortunately they have to deal with

math

which is they can't all get qualified

people because there just aren't enough

it's just numbers

so if you can't get enough but you're

being measured on your diversity

even more than your profits what are you

going to do you can start lowering your

standards which has nothing to do with

the capabilities of any group right this

is not about bigotry this is just math

that if you lower your standards because

it's the only way you can fill your

spots

you get less qualified people

that's there's no argument there that's

a strict definition of cause and effect

um how about a

tight job market well with lower

standards we talked about that how about

the fact that in 2023 the media the

scientists and the experts in general

are all lying to us

I don't know how different that is from

the past maybe we just know more about

it but do you think we're getting Dumber

because we're lied to by all the smart

people

I feel like that has an effect

right so I I just gave you the story of

you know probably the smartest person in

Congress Thomas Massey

you might literally like if you gave an

IQ test it might be number one

and then John Kerry is no slouch right

you might disagree with him but he's not

dumb he's a real smart guy super smart

guy

those super smart guys

were arguing about CO2 a million years

ago

like it mattered

like I feel like this is somehow

Downstream from all the experts

stupidity that even smart people are

dragged into

kind of a conversation that doesn't make

sense

um

how about uh the fact that we have lots

of college and lots of people going to

college but we have lots of college

courses that don't make you smart

does college make you smart

it used to I'm pretty sure it used to

and there are a lot of college majors

you know if you pick the right major

yeah totally it'll make you smarter but

I feel like there's a whole bunch of

college majors they're actually designed

to make you dumber

and that feels new

about a few more things that would make

us Dumber we've got uh

uh a lot of the smart people are

retiring

what about just retirement do you think

we're losing skills because the Boomers

the Boomers tend to have a wide range of

skills they tend to be Talent stackers

I don't know if that's still true so

maybe we're losing stuff to retirements

um and and there's also a bubble you

know since the Boomers were a big bubble

just the fact that Boomers had a lot of

training and that the group with the

most training is also the group that's

most retiring

again it's just math there's no opinion

here the math requires that you have

less qualified people when you're done

with those retirements

how about uh startups sucking all the

smart people into areas that by their

nature

neither 10 are going to fail

well it's probably great for startups

because you want your smart people in

the startups

but don't you think the startup

um the startup world is now so large

that you can suck the best people out of

every corporation

so when the startup world is small you

know it can be your smartest people but

you still have plenty of smart people

just doing their regular jobs but what

happens when all of the smartest people

realize that they could be billionaires

if they just do a startup and then nine

out of 10 fail

so you take your smartest people from

environments and where most of the time

they're succeeding

you put them into a startup

you know situation where by its nature

nine out of 10 fail you're basically

putting your smartest people into

failure

and taking them out of success

now I don't know if that's a net bad or

good because those smartest people are

creating you know Google and apple and

you know stuff like that so it might

come out positive but it's at least one

of those things I look at that might be

sucking Talent out of places we need it

all right so you put this all together

and I there might be something that's

making us smarter

but I can't think of it the best I could

come up with is that you can get online

training

for just everything

but that only applies to people who are

willing to go get it right it doesn't it

doesn't come to you you got to say all

right I'm going to learn this new thing

and then you got to really work at it

so it seems to me that we have designed

the system accidentally

so design is the wrong word but we've

drifted into a system that guarantees

growing incompetence yeah you can throw

drugs in there and and addiction

everything yeah it actually addiction is

a good one let's throw Addiction in

there I think there's more addiction so

that should take something off your

capability as well

and also Health what about General

Health

nobody's as smart or as productive if

they have bad Health but our food system

is killing us and our big Pharma is you

know doing a mixed job so we're making

people less effective by their health

less effective in their education less

effective in their training less

effective by filtering you know actually

preferring less qualified people because

you gotta you gotta fill these spots now

what is there anything that all of these

forces have in common

it's like a whole bunch of things I just

talked about making us less capable but

Israeli like core like bottom thing

that's causing us all because I heard

some people say it's obviously the

Communists

um is Communists so it might be other

countries trying to influence us but

it's the local marxists and the

Communists are doing it do you think

that's what's happening

all right I'm going to give you uh my

hypothesis

is women

it's women

it's all caused by women

now when I say it's all caused by women

do I mean that every single hold on let

me take a break

why do you mean every single woman is

exactly the same

well Dale that's that's not what I mean

and anybody with good reading

comprehension or has lived in the world

for more than a second knows that when

people talk about groups they never

ever ever

mean every person in that group is the

same

so why are you saying they're all the

same okay again I didn't really say that

I'm just talking in the normal way that

people talk when they talk about the

average of a group it's more about an

average sort of situation and yet you

say everyone is the same

Dale can you look at the calendar for me

certainly

what's today

July 24th

what season is that

summer

so

are you pretending to be angry about

something that you know isn't true

because it's the summer

and it's just summer news baby

Dale

go back to where you came from gladly

and pause all right so here's what I

mean

here's what I don't mean I don't mean

there's anything wrong with women

can I can I put that out there there's

nothing wrong with women

women are great

and there's nothing wrong with

individual women

individual wound I'm a big fan

I I can show you plenty of individual

women who are just killing it in the

workplace killing it in life

killing it with their families

awesome people I like women

however

it is generally true if we can stay

under the trans

conversation for a moment

if you will can I have permission to

talk about something that's not related

to trans

anybody is that okay I don't know if is

it legal

it's still legal right I can I can talk

about a topic without even referencing

is it like trans is not Central to the

topic okay

well I had to check

all right so here's what I say about

difference between men and women men

have more testosterone

thank you

that's not true what about the trans

shut up Dale shut up we're not doing

trans today

men have more testosterone

if you if you take a bunch of people

with more testosterone be they trans or

be they not

are they more likely to develop systems

that focus on competition

compared to a control group of people

with less testosterone

what do you think do you think that the

testosterone group if they were creating

a system would make them competitive

such as the free market

such as democracy and voting

of course I think they would and would

that mean that those people who had more

testosterone are they the Smart Ones

no I'm not saying that I'm saying that

if you pump anybody with testosterone

they make different decisions than if

they have less testosterone it has

nothing to do with your brain is

literally a chemical

that you had nothing to do with it well

maybe you boosted it somehow but

it's just a chemical all right now the

second question

if you had a group that you were

studying that you knew were lower

testosterone what would be the nature

and let's say that they had you know

female chemistry

what is the nature of systems that

they're likely to build

would they be competitive systems you

know Doggy Dog Winner Takes all

or are they more likely to be a sharing

communal kind of a situation where no

one is Left Behind

well I mean you know the answer right

don't you yeah and is there anything

wrong with a Cooperative system that

leaves every leaves nobody behind it

sounds great

it's exactly how you want your family to

work right yeah you want your family to

work that way that is a family frame

you're not going to let the weakest

child die

right you take care of your whole family

but

if you take these two groups who are

individually and as a group awesome

so let's say that women are awesome

individually and as a group

and let's just be charitable here and

say that men are awesome individually

and as a group nobody's better nobody's

worse but one group has more

testosterone

and that predicts

I believe I believe it predicts a set of

actions in general again not every

person but in general and I believe that

everything we're seeing of this growing

incompetence in America and I'll just

read you the list again all right as I

read you the list ask yourself this

if only men had been involved would they

have designed these systems

so you got the teachers unions run by a

woman very dominated by women

you've got affirmative action which I'm

sure has more women promoting it than

men at least really caring because women

would be more benef benefiting

uh the the job market that takes care of

itself how about the media science and

experts lying I don't think that has to

do with women

I I would say that I wouldn't blame that

anyone how about uh useless college

classes

the only reason that useless college

classes exist is that people sign up for

them and they pay for them

who is signing up for the useless

college classes the non-stem cell

women okay

um and again that's an average it's not

meant to represent any one woman the

people retiring that's just happening on

its own and uh

startups apps also yeah so some of these

are just some of these are just an

effect of where we are in the economy

but others are clearly

clearly uh because women dominate policy

do you think that's a true statement

that women dominate policy

I think it's guaranteed by the nature of

men and women

that women would eventually would

Dominate and the reason is that a lot of

these questions are kind of close

you know the reason that there's any

conversation at all is that reasonable

people can disagree

on what to do

but you know what reasonable people have

a hard time doing

pissing off women

pissing off women

if you put me in a situation where I'm

just analyzing you know the risks and

rewards and which one's better and

there's no outside force I probably get

the right answer more than not you know

oh this one's better than this one but

if you put on top of it can you analyze

these two forces but let me tell you in

advance that if you decide that one of

these is better than the others and it's

the wrong one you're going to be

canceled

because women

because women exist right which one am I

going to choose

I'm going to choose the web the one that

doesn't get me canceled doesn't give me

a fight when I go home right women are

very influential

without having

let's say

power on paper

PJ says God is terrified of powerful

women yeah that's what I'm saying I'm

terrified of powerful woman

laughs

I'm going to use upj as an example of

the declining competence in the United

States that was not a let's say A Plus

comment

I'm not sure it was a B minus

that was sort of that D Plus

barely represented uh human

communication

do better do better

Stefan says in all capital letters I

would bet my left nut this guy is single

big surprise because I don't

have to go home to a wife and explain

what I did on a live stream today

that's why I'm telling you the truth

because I don't have to go

explain it to a woman when I'm done

do you think I would have done this live

stream when I was married

oh you poor bastards who can't say what

you want to say

I'm

I just want to make you jealous for a

moment

I don't like to brag

but I'm canceled

and single

yeah same time I'm canceled and I'm

single

I can say any thing I want

and I'm rich

I can say any thing I want to

anyone

well unless somebody might beat me up

so I think you should sit there in the

silent

jealousy

that I have that thing you crave the

ability to say what I want

yes I think that

that the political power of women

is destroying the country

and I'm not sure I would even change it

because who wants to take political

power away from you know citizens of the

United States

I don't have a solution

if you're telling me but Scott are you

saying going back to the old ways where

you know women were property of the men

no

I don't have a good idea I literally

don't have a better idea I'm just

describing the current situation if

you're trying to understand why we are

where we are

maybe you understand it better

I'd love to see somebody come up with a

solution

I would say that one solution is Vivek

right Vivek ramaswamy is saying directly

strongly clearly and with a good

argument I'm going to get rid of

affirmative action

because it's uh counterproductive

for everybody

and so that's the solution

so I get I guess I would promote that

and I am I am backing him so

um but it's important to understand it

you don't have to get mad at each other

for that

all right uh I saw a tweet by Kenna Anna

who said in her tweet it still shocks me

that the quote educated class is the

easiest manipulated class

do you know who knew that that the most

educated or the easiest to manipulate

well hypnotists and magicians have known

it forever

so have fraudulent psychics

I remember the amazing Randy

amazing Randy a magician who used to

debunk you know frauds

and he was famous for saying that it was

easier to fool a scientist than a an

average person

because the average person is not

confident in what they know

so they'll look at something and say I

don't know that looks sketchy to me I

don't know the details but it looks

sketchy to me you fool a scientist with

a magic trick and the scientists will

say something like this well I can see

no way that that could be a trick so

probably you're talking to Spirits

right so in other words you can be

trapped by your own discipline and say

all right well I've considered every

possibility that's not talking to the

dad

and here's the dead talking to me so I'm

gonna have to rule out all the other

possibilities because I can think of no

hypothesis that would would be an

alternative hypothesis given all the

controls that you put on here you know

given the fact that I got to check the

room and you know given the fact that I

really really made sure there was no

magic trick and then those ghosts were

talking I heard it with my own ears so I

have to conclude from a scientific

perspective having totally controlled

the environment and then seen the

results of the experiment I have to

conclude that the dad do talk to us and

I saw it myself

now you take you take a non-scientist

and put them in that same situation

and they're sitting in the room and the

psyche is like oh your grandmother is

talking to you

and the ordinary person says

I don't have time for this

seriously and they get up and they walk

out

because the ordinary person is just

going to say I don't really have to do a

lot of research on this

it looks like that's

it's kind of like what a lot of you did

with the uh with the the pandemic

I think it's It's the funniest thing

that the experts got everything wrong

I mean it feels like the experts just

got everything and the non-experts got a

lot right not everything probably but a

lot and what were the non-experts what

was the the rigor that the non-experts

were putting into it

so

you're telling me that this is the only

virus in the history of humanity

that does not give you natural immunity

just this one

huh

and at the same time that the virus

doesn't give you natural immunity which

is weird

uh there's a Pharma company that spun up

a solution in one year after saying it

couldn't be done in 30.

one plus one

that's uh okay I'm not very smart but

he got the one plus the one

I think that's two

and that was that was like the public

and the scientists were saying but but

what about that randomized controlled

trial paid for by the people who want

the answer to come out one way what

about that

so you can see that the scientists were

trapped in their professions right they

had to use the tools of their profession

to understand reality and the tools of

their profession were corrupted by the

other people in their profession

so they used corrupted tools you know

the study using the data that was bad

and then they had great confidence

because their entire their entire life

would be meaningless and their life

would be ridiculous if they had been

scientists in a world where studies

don't mean anything

right you the scientists can't live in a

world where they realize they've

dedicated their whole life

to a field in which the data just

doesn't mean anything

so therefore when scientists were

presented with data you know of course

they checked to make sure it was

peer-reviewed and stuff like that they

said well it's probably convincing

because it's data

so there is a reason there is a reason

that the professional class is the

easiest to fool

now if you said to me I want you to

discover some new information that

nobody knew before

I would talk to the scientists

I would not talk to the average person

would you agree

discovering new things yeah let the

experts work on that they're going to

get there faster than I am by guessing

but once they come up with their you

know their Solutions and their policies

and you know here's what we ought to do

that's when the public is really

you know a little bit curious oh so you

haven't discovered a new thing rather

you've discovered that this thing this

thing called the virus is the only thing

that doesn't give you natural immunity

all right that biased nature

that should not have been incredible

all right

uh RFK Jr uh I love what he's saying so

much I'm just going to read it to you uh

can I can I go with a great tweet of

this but it's from RFK Jr quote

um

the White House had deployed an army of

federal agencies including the CIA FBI

DHS and IRS and many others to threaten

Facebook Google and Twitter with

withdrawing their section 230 immunity

which is an existential threat

so yes we had free speech

but you had the agencies of the

government telling the the platforms for

our free speech that if they didn't

restrict our free speech they would lose

their section 230 immunity which would

allow them to be sued for misinformation

on their platforms so they would be out

of business pretty quickly

all right so

so RFK Jr Paints the picture

where the government does use this trick

of threatening the 230

status of the platforms to make the

platforms be their all right so

we now have a very direct and documented

connection of the government making the

platforms that are

about the Free Speech there's no

question about that now right everybody

agrees

that is established as a fact the

government used threat and coercion

to turn the platforms into their Bishops

to make them do what they wanted now the

platforms if you looked at the

communications it sort of looks like the

platforms are happy to do it

it looks like they also have an

incentive to get rid of Bad actors they

also would like to have no Chinese

trolls on their platform so there's you

know the Venn diagram of what's good for

the platform

and what's good for the country is

pretty extensive right neither the

platform nor the country wants China to

be influencing your opinions on on

social media but

when it gets to that Free Speech part

that's where we go different directions

public wants free speech

government might think there are some

cases where that's a bad idea and so

they threaten the platforms effectively

they create a way to squelch speech

without being looking like the bad guys

because you can't you don't see their

fingerprints until all this

documentation comes out

all right so RFK Junior goes on those

companies cannot exist without immunity

that's that section 230 thing and they

were told that if they did not censor

the president's opponents and critics of

these policies they would lose that

immunity

um I'm editing a little bit but then he

goes on with the intelligence agencies

many of them although not all of them

are now serving the purpose of enriching

the military-industrial complex and

expanding its power for some military

contractors

here's the kill shot

my uncle

JFK my uncle recognized that the

function of the CIA had devolved into

providing the military-industrial

complex with a constant pipeline of new

Wars in order to enrich military

contractors and expand the power of the

intelligence apparatus

that's so well said

wow and then he ends with my primary

platform is unraveling the War Machine

and the National Security State that is

bankrupting and destroying the middle

class my God he tied it to the middle

class and he made it work in our country

the ultimate objective is to protect

democracy and restore the American

middle class

is good

he's just so good

these Kennedys could just do this

can't they

the Kennedys are they just have the gift

to gather or something

but I haven't seen anybody ever tie the

the

military-industrial complex to the

decline of the middle class but you can

see it

you can see it you your your brain

connects them as soon as he says it it's

just brilliant now

I'll say again

RFK Jr

and I'll throw desensis in there too

super capable we're so we're so lucky

that they exist

all right along those lines I saw a

tweet saying that BlackRock was going to

make a trillion dollars rebuilding

Ukraine

after after the military-industrial

complex and their backers made a

trillion dollars destroying Ukraine

that our economy is literally designed

to destroy countries for profit and then

rebuild them for profit with that profit

coming from the taxpayers in the middle

class

sure feels like it

no I don't know how much of that is

intentional but this is one of those

cases and I usually don't say this I

usually say that we just got here

because the variables you know turned

the way they did I usually don't go for

the conspiracy theory

but it's hard for me to look at Iraq

in Afghanistan

and Ukraine

and imagine that this isn't true

it looks exactly like what's happening

it looks like the the intelligence

agencies start a war

that didn't need to be started

and then the military contractors clean

up they destroy the country and then

when you're done another group of

bastards make money from the taxpayers

to clean it up

yeah

so could RFK Jr actually uh change that

situation probably not without getting

assassinated

you know I I didn't want to go go there

but he is really on he's on the hottest

third rail of all third rails there is

no third rail that's hotter than this

one and he's standing on it with both

feet and shouting

he's basically saying shoot me

and

the balls on these Kennedys

I saw Bill Maher try to bait RFK Jr into

talking about Bill's theory that the

Kennedys do risky things they do

dangerous stuff you know both for

entertainment and in their and then

their professional lives

well I mean RFK Jr is the perfect

example of that his entire career before

now was doing really dangerous stuff

going up against big Pharma

how dangerous is it to go up against big

Pharma well he found out he got is

canceled as a canceled person could be

and he went from canceled to running for

president

so instead of running away he ran at it

like like the pill box is like tearing

them apart

and he's running at the pill box where

they had grenades saying well we'll see

how this ends

basically to me it looks like it's me or

you I he's not saying these words but

RFK Jr to me he says he it looks like he

said I'm gonna die I'm gonna die doing

this

I think he just offered his life

and seriously I think he seriously

offered his life

and I think that if he got assassinated

doing this

he would die happy if it meant that we

understood the problem and then maybe

did something about it

I don't know this is the kind of

patriotism I don't think I have ever

seen

I'm trying to see if there's this is the

highest level of pure patriotism I've

ever witnessed now I would say that

Trump is up there too you know Trump may

have some you know other things going on

but I think Trump is a patriot and I

think that his possibly you know maybe

his co-biggest incentive other than

you might want to be president I think

his co-biggest this incentive is that

he's a patriot and he took on enormous

risk

I mean the size of the risk that Trump

took on to enter politics at that level

you've got to appreciate the risk he

took

that's the Patriots

that's the real thing

so to have two of those in the race

two people who I would say literally put

their life on the line

to make America better

literally put their life on the line

now I think Vivek is is a patriot at the

highest level as well he doesn't have

the same risk that these two had but boy

does he have a risk to you know he's

lucky that he already you know cashed

down his company so he got rid of his

company risk

by his reputational risk is Extreme

extreme

so these are people who are really

putting they're laying it down for the

country

somebody said on uh on Twitter today

that I'm too pessimistic and I think

maybe on Twitter it looks that way

because the things I tweet tend to be

about problems

but I'm not that way I'm actually very

optimistic I think there are things

happening right now in the world that

are tremendous and this is right at the

top of the list

this is the best field of candidates in

my lifetime

I'm not saying there isn't wasn't you

know maybe you like Reagan or something

but for a field of candidates

this is really impressive

all right

um new way of making fake news this is

also also an RFK Junior story the ties

to method if you want to smear somebody

you say they have ties to something

unsavory

so this is what uh who did this to RFK

JR this was uh

some illegitimate publication

some investigative journalists I forget

who it was was it uh

Rolling Stone

somebody will tell me look at the

comments but anyway

um

so RFK Jr was accused of having ties to

the Ultra Mega Republicans

having ties to them because I would

smear him because he has ties to the bad

guys do you know what the ties were

do you have any idea what those close

ties were looks like in some contexts

they use the same accounting firm

they used the same accounting firm

that was the close tie

so whenever you hear this somebody has

ties to something

your your antenna should go up and go oh

well that's fake news that's fake news

now if they had said

um he's working with and he's making

policy with maybe you know who knows but

if they say his organization has ties to

this unsavory group

fake news should be your first instinct

and then it the article better work

pretty hard to talk you out of it

they had the same accounts so RFK Jr is

uh he says I interrupt my normal Tweed

stream for a bit of Comedy it's so

ridiculous

he goes uh blah blah blah Rolling Stone

yeah Rolling Stone and Congressional

Democrats are irate about a Kennedy

Super PAC having quote ties to Mega

Republicans

actually the quote ties are that are

hired an accounting firm that has also

done accounting for other packs

including including those of Republicans

shocking isn't it I hope they continue

this bold investigative journalism they

might discover the Discover other ties

maybe they use the same janitorial

services too

I tell you mocking is the way to go

that mocking is the way to go so again

that was perfectly phrased

um

Jonathan Turley is writing about all the

Democrats who now want to over basically

ignore the rulings of the Supreme Court

because they don't like them

apparently there were two professors a

Harvard law professor and a SF State

University Professor they were calling

on Joe Biden

to defy the rulings of the Supreme Court

if he considers the rulings mistaken

can you believe that this even happened

that there are two College professors

one from Harvard

who are actually saying that the

President should ignore the Supreme

Court

you know the the whole basis for what

makes the Constitution work is the

separation of powers that you should

ignore the separation of powers the

single most important thing that keeps

the country together

the single most important thing and they

should endure it

and that's like a real thing I do I even

I don't need to tell you why it's a bad

idea right we can skip the whole counter

argument right agreed

will you all stipulate stipulate that

it's so stupid I don't have to say

anything about it

but apparently there are a number of

Democrats and other people who are

backing the same idea that if you don't

get what you want you can ignore the

Constitution

and they're talking about it out loud

in public like they're proud of it

how did we get here

is so dumb this is like they were never

they never learned how the Constitution

worked but I mean it's a Harvard law

professor

so

clearly they prefer the power over the

constitutional system

all right

speaking of Thomas Massey

um

he tweeted this

he said the Department of Homeland

services department Department of

Homeland what's the yes

Department of Homeland services

the S is for what security

Department of Homeland Security said

that misleading covid-19 narratives

inspired domestic terrorists

all right so the department homelands

security they're protecting us so this

is our government protecting us and

they're worried that misleading covert

information narratives would

make more domestic terrorists

so as Thomas Massey points out in his

tweet what were some of those examples

what were some of those so-called

narratives that were going to cause some

kind of domestic terrorism so we

listened natural immunity is real

vaccinations don't stop the spread

most masks don't work

most mess still work

I I love Thomas Massey he's the only one

smart enough to put the word most

the rest of you are like Mass don't work

and then then I have a heart attack I go

come on you can't say that's not an

absolute

you tell me if you wore your n95 for a

two-minute interaction with your 80 year

old grandmother it wouldn't give you

anything nothing at all

all right I'm anti-mask by the way very

anti-mask but I love that Massey is

smart enough to say most masks don't

work I would have added most Mass don't

work you know in 99 of situations but in

the in the the narrowest of situations

yeah maybe a little bit just not enough

to have the mandate

mandates are unconstitutional people

were saying and the virus came from the

Chinese lab so basically five examples

of things that the uh the conspiracy

theorists got right

and they're not random things

they're the five

most important things

aren't they aren't they literally the

most important things they got them all

right

just remember that

and how about this Rand Paul is tweeting

um

that the government quote science that's

right

a sitting senator

just put quotes

around the word science

and I have no argument with it

no argument at all

and he goes on government and science

published a study purporting that 90

reduction in Death from covid if

vaccines if you boost with a vaccine the

only problem the authors the study

failed to reveal that the uh I think he

has a typo here I think he means the

unboosted group also added 90 reduction

in deaths from all causes in other words

the patient group were not equal to

begin with and the booster vaccine may

or may not have had any effect

that's right

it might not have had

any effect

at least based on the data

and then Rand Paul goes on and goes this

insightful critique is exactly what the

FBI and Department of Homeland Security

have been attempting to censor

only this time it made it into the New

England Journal of Medicine

so the New England Journal medicine can

print that but all the all the other

people who said it was obvious they

couldn't say it I guess they didn't have

enough science backing them

but can you imagine

that the whole pretty much the whole uh

argument for boosting

came from people who couldn't read

science

they didn't know what the study did or

said it didn't know how to design it

right and even even the author of the

study said oops yeah you're right

imagine that the author of the study

once it was pointed out that it was a

ridiculous study

said oh yeah well that's true

and we set our policy on that

we determined our policy on that

are you ever going to trust another

study about anything

amazing

so

there's another competence problem

um and apparently the new news on Hunter

Biden is that uh I guess who's the

Archer

who is the Devin Archer was a partner

with Hunter Biden apparently he's going

to testify or already has that Hunter

Biden uh

participated in over two dozen calls in

which his father was on the call for

these businesses that Joe Biden says he

had no knowledge of

that's right there are 25 instances

or so 24 or so instances

of we have good information from Devin

Archer

that Joe Biden was on the calls

24 times ish and he said he had no idea

of what what his son was doing and that

they were just overtly you know selling

access

now of course Devin is facing jail

so I would want to be careful that he

didn't work out any kind of a deal

but I haven't heard that so you don't

want Devin Archer testifying about

anybody else if he's worked out a deal

because that means he might have an

incentive to lie

so I would be careful about that I would

be careful about anybody who's looking

at uh jail time for his own work talk

about anybody else

um but I guess we're going to hear about

that pretty soon

and then this question of whether Joe

Biden

fired the prosecutor who was looking

after the barisma stuff do you think

that Joe Biden fired him just to protect

uh Hunter and barisma

or did he fire him because the

International Community was asking him

to fire him because both were true

so apparently

apparently both were true

that it was true that the International

Community was asking for that same guy

to be fired

and it was also true that barisma's

Senior Management this is the new

information barisma's senior executive

at least one of them

very much wanted they actually tried and

is documented to get Hunter to use his

connections to get that guy fired

so I'm a little confused if the

International Community wanted this guy

fired that sounds like it's legitimate

and if

if Joe Biden did it for any reason at

all

but also the International Community

wanted it done for their good reasons

he's in the clear

at least on that

to me it wouldn't matter that there's

also somebody in the company who wanted

him gone because you know somebody in

the company wants them gone

and you know they would try to make it

happen if they could so I don't know how

to is it possible both are true

and what does that tell you it's true

that the International Community thought

the prosecutor was bad

but it may also be true that he's going

after somebody that you're protecting

so he could be bad but also doing

something that wasn't necessarily bad

for once

it's a little confusing I'm not sure

anything is going to hang on this

you know the the firing of the

prosecutor but it's very sketchy it's

very sketchy

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