Episode 2206 Scott Adams - All The News That's Fit To Sip. Bring Coffee

do do do do do do good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of human civilization let's take it up a notch shall we you ready buckle up all you need is a cup of micro glass attacker Chelsea starting again team geographlask uh vessel Liberty guide fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day the thing makes everything better it's called the simultaneous Epico I hope you are prepared if you were still Brewing shame on you it was time to sip next time a little more punctuality okay well there's a big old storm coming to California it's category one category one can you wake me up when it's a three but apparently it's moving the other direction so um there might actually be some damage I believe some people are evacuating because of rain but it doesn't look like it could be the worst the worst it could be so we'll probably just get some water that's what I think um how many of you would like to see me give a radio interview at uh 4 20 p.m Pacific time tonight say yes say yes yes well many of you just beg you for it yes um okay okay I'll do it I'll do it all right I said I'd do it I said I'd do it I'll do it I promise I will so tonight 4 20 Pacific time that would be 7 20 eastern time I'll be with uh Joel Pollock on Breitbart radio if you're saying to yourself how do I listen to that just Google it um Breitbart radio Joe Pollock and or you can look at my tweet retweet it to this morning you'll find us anyway um you might know that I have not been doing too many interviews but in conjunction with my book reframe your brain which is available so far only on Kindle because Amazon has unspecified possibly technical problems that are preventing the publication of my physical book The book's done is ready to go um but in the independent publishing let's say pipeline there seems to be some kind of a delay for my property it's an unspecific technical hard to explain we just don't know what's going on it's going to take us a little while to look into it kind of a problem that's the kind of problem now if you're saying to yourself Scott this is clearly some kind of messing around with you probably not probably not it's probably just the way everything works let me put this in context pretty much every step of the independent publishing hits some kind of a problem like there's a password that doesn't work there's you know there's just something you can't do and every one of the processes you have to kind of crawl through it and correct and adjust and you know you know you basically you just you're just adjusting as you go it's all about adjusting as you go so in the context of nothing working just sort of in general the most likely explanation is they're busy or there's some technical problem because I've heard a lot of other people have had issues that that don't sound like they're political now let me give you an example of how bad I'm going to call this the national incompetence problem how many of you would agree that there appears to be a national incompetence problem to do anything just most basic services let me give you an idea how bad it is all right this is how bad it is I did something really stupid this week I want you to could you do me a favor and mock me for my stupidity over this just listen to how bad this is I had to take my car in for service and I knew that you know there might be some real issues I was driving kind of funny so I don't know exactly what the problem is but you know it couldn't be one of those expensive ones here's how stupid I am and please mock me get ready get ready I took my car into the dealer for service so ashamed on a Thursday go ahead go ahead I know I know no I deserve it I deserve it I took my car in for service on Thursday it's the dumbest thing everybody ever did do you think I got my car back before the weekend of course not of course not so there's an extra two days but that's not even my point the the dealer I don't have a problem with the dealer so in this story the dealer is you know it's just stuff that takes more than a day so there's nothing wrong with the dealer I brought it in on a Thursday when I knew I wouldn't have it for the weekend unless I rented a car now you're probably going to ask yourself let's see if you know the answer to this why did I not rent a car and while why will I instead spend four to five days trapped in my house I mean I could Uber if I want to but why did I not rent a car go ahead you tell me it's not because of money no why did I not get one not insurance no yep somebody got it under today's current situation I could not imagine literally I can't imagine it renting a car without trouble I couldn't even imagine it I imagine that I would go in there and they'd say uh we don't have the car that you uh you reserved I thought at the very least it would turn it into a Seinfeld episode I know what Uber is you don't have to say Uber every comment can we can we stipulate I've heard of uber everybody you can stop yelling Uber at me I've heard of it it's like a car service where you can take place you can go places right okay I got it okay you don't have to yell turo at me I got it I I don't think I don't think I'm getting through I don't I don't seem to be getting through the lift now you're just really funny apparently I'm not getting through with this point no the the the simple Act of renting a car If This Were five years ago you know what I would have done I would have just rented a car I would have run to the car and I wouldn't have worried that it wouldn't work I actually worry that if I allocate my half a day or whatever to you know going in and picking up a car that it just won't work you know like I won't be able to rent it my credit card will be declined you know I'll be on some do not rent list some damn thing I just don't think there's enough competence left in the system that it ever make sense to take on a new thing if you can avoid it like if your other if your other possibility is just to stay home and be unhappy just stay home and be unhappy sometimes all right don't don't follow my advice about anything all right let's talk about uh my other favorite topic you know I've been saying for years that the future is building cities from scratch uh NPCs you may yell at 15-minute cities now go yell 15 minutes say no no 15 minutes at least oh okay this has nothing to do with 15-minute cities but you need to yell it so please do go ahead wef go ahead and also you need to yell uh tiny homes tiny homes so this has nothing to do with tiny homes but you need to yell it I know you do tiny homes tiny homes go ahead in the comments I've been here before anyway there's a City built from scratch in Kaya that's the pronunciation that's probably exactly right on I think in Guatemala now what's interesting about it is they actually set out to build a city from scratch but what's interesting is they built it like sort of in the architecture of more traditional older looking stuff but you know with the modern twists and I saw some video of it looked amazing looks amazing and it is the streets are are pedestrians Now cars I don't know that that makes it a 15-minute City but if you need to yell about how you're unhappy that the cities could be convenient go ahead and do it so this is uh one example that apparently people are happy with and it came out really well uh but that's the future the future is cities from scratch and there's almost no way around it because it'll be the biggest industry that everybody's you know agrees we need and people who want to live there and there will be lots lots of different ones will will some of these cities be 15-minute cities that Klaus Schwab will take all your freedom and your security and your privacy Maybe but others will be something else all right these Hunter Biden plea deal we're finding out more about it Politico is trying to spin it as uh late payments that nobody goes to jail for being late on their taxes you just work out a payment plan and it would be very unusual to go to jail just because you were late on your taxes so that's what it was right that was the problem was the problem that Hunter was just laid on his taxes but now he's paid now he's paid yeah you know I was once late on my taxes too so I mean same kind of crime now in my case I did not set up a series of international shell companies to hide the fact that what that I was late I didn't do that I just I think I forgot or something I may have forgotten to pay a estimated payment once and I just paid my penalty and paid my money and I didn't go to jail but you know I also didn't have a series of shell companies to run it through so it would be hidden from everybody so there's that um there there of course is some pushback so lawyers never agree on anything some people saying oh it's not that big a deal nobody would have gone to jail for the specific things the hunter did others say uh this is not late this is hiding money from the IRS about the most illegal thing you could possibly do well you know potato potato but there is evidence that the investigation only went forward because of the whistleblowers so pretty much everything you thought about everything was true on the hunter Biden story everything you suspected seems to be true it's pretty it's a pretty interesting model because sometimes you see stories where like you crave if you watch the Ukraine story you're like I don't know that might be true but no way to know yeah maybe probably not but you see the hunter story and now there's a pattern that's developed that no matter how much doubt there is about the story turns out it's true there's nothing you can say about them because they just all turn out to be true all right I would like I would like to challenge that see if I'm wrong do a fact check on me name something that Hunter Biden has been accused of or Joe Biden in relation to Hunter Biden name something that has not been demonstrated to be true Beyond any real doubt can you name anything he was accused of that is not now the the the paintings as a way to launder influence wouldn't say it's proven it's not proven proven it's just obvious you don't need to prove anything about the paintings that's that's that's exactly what it looks like on the surface all right yeah it's pretty consistent if Hunter is accused of it apparently that's usually going to turn out to be true although he's innocent until the proven guilty in terms of the law like everybody else well Wall Street Journal again is hammering on how China's economy is going in the toilet their 40-year boom is over they have plenty of empty buildings so China's big problem is empty buildings uh and over here we've got a lot of homeless but they're not homeless because they don't have homes they're homeless by choice for the most part probably 90 percent um what do you think about China's let's say let's say their chances for the future there are at least two things three things that the United States has going for it that our adversaries or let's say competitors can't match number one we have the option which we have not used of filtering our immigration better in other words we can avoid the demographic crash by becoming the only country that people are fighting to get into and we're taking the you know the ones with the best potential to be good citizens usually education would be the top thing do they have a skill now do you think China could ever match Us in Immigration of you know sucking up the best people from every country now do you think Russia could ever match Us in what we could do with immigration no now here's the weirdest take you're ever going to hear on immigration our complete failure to guard our border is in the short term which might be several years terrible would you agree that on on net there are benefits of immigration even illegal immigration has benefits you know people get jobs Etc but would you agree that so far like the last few years it's more of a net negative because it's just out of control but watch this if you were in another country and you knew that all of the other countries seem to be badasses about immigration and you do that the United States was willing to hurt itself to accept you the United States was willing to hurt itself fairly massively to accept immigration now you can say oh it's politics it's incompetence it's it's this it's you know it's commonly it's not doing the job that's all it is but I'm just saying how how would it be received by the rest of the world so imagine imagine you're in India you grew up in India you just went through the ITT system you're one of the top technical young people in the world because you just went through a system that produces them and you're saying to yourself where do I go do you go to China let's say China said you're welcome and and let's say they put together a an immigration attraction thing to get technical people would you say that I will be welcomed with open arms in China no you wouldn't feel that way how about Russia even if they said they would welcome you would you would you feel like that's the place you want to go maybe not so much now imagine that you had been listening to the news about America and you found out we had these Sanctuary cities and that even though we fought about you know what is the right level of immigration the net effect was that we were the most accidentally accidentally one of the most welcoming countries for immigration and we remain I would say the Melting Pot example for the world even with all of our problems we have somewhat accidentally created a situation from the Statue of Liberty all the way through Sanctuary cities that America is a place that has built into its DNA a a belief that immigration is Central to our existence and our let's say our experience which is not to say let everybody in all the time right we're not talking about the way we're doing it I'm talking about what was somebody in another country feel about the United States when deciding where to bring their high levels of skills to employ it for the rest of their lives I don't think anybody can match us I I think we'll be maybe in better shape than Europe they got a little bit overrun so Europe's got their own problems but in the United States we we still have a recoverable situation I don't know that they do in France or Great Britain might not be recoverable but in the United States it is and I think that if we got let's say a Republican president save a fake just to pick one and he said immigration is good you just got to make sure you're getting the right people clamp down the Border put in some real processes to bring in the best of the best who competes with that so under that scenario China and Russia are not going to have access to high tech at least not directly so we'll have the better Tech better microchips which means that we'll have ai in a functional form much better than any other country which means that we'll be able to attract the best you know immigrants that are really additive there's no way you can compete with that and the most important thing is that we won't have a demographic collapse because we'd be bringing in people to as replacements yeah we would probably have to eliminate the cartels as just part of the plan but Vivek will do that you have the vacuum is talking about slamming their cartels having real immigration to attract the right people all the right stuff there's something shaping up here that would make America the only superpower and would would be really the jewel in in the world more so than it ever has been if it ever has been but well there's a story in the New York Post about the so-called Squad you know aoc's group of politicians that their big old Hypocrites because AOC and the squad spent 1.2 million in campaign cash on private security despite calls to defund the police now you're expecting that I'm going to agree with the New York Post and say hypocrisy hypocrisy right or if you know me better you know that I'm going to say this is an analogy the New York Post is making an analogy between police and private security is that fair no did AOC call for ending private security for public figures no she did not call for ending private security for public figures now she did call for something that's you know as dumb as that but not at least it's not inconsistent so yes she she certainly wanted her own safety but don't pretend that public figures have the same security concerns as average citizens average citizens could have worse problems depending where they live or no problems at all if they live where I live but uh AOC has real security problems and she has the right to have security and I don't want anything to happen to her so yes I'm 100 in favor of her doing what she needs to do to protect herself I don't think that's up for a debate now separately do you want your police to be defunded well nobody has a better alternative to that uh but you don't really need to bring the private security in there I realize it's like a political oh I gotcha but don't we have plenty of things to do gotcha with a squad do you need this one I mean this one just seems like just so small ball politics but I get it it works so I try to I try to avoid the hypocrisy lines you know it's the easiest thing to do oh they said this but they did this that's never an interesting story it's just a political Spin and you've seen it once and you're like ah all right uh I forgot about this but the attorney general for Montana I think it was uh Austin Knudsen actually pushed through and got made into law a ban on Tick Tock in the state and I'm not talking about a ban for state workers which you've seen in other places government workers but a band you just couldn't have it in the state now I don't know how it's I supposedly the app stores could adjust for the the state somehow so maybe that's practical to do but um I love the fact that he did it and he got away with it so I just want to say his name so you've heard it people say he's you know angling for higher office somewhere if he is good for him because you did something useful all right let's say his name again uh attorney general Austin Newton so if you hear this voice if you hear that name in the future just remember he did one good thing I don't know what else he did but he did this one good thing and do you think that the news is covering this correctly no no the news will still say stuff like but Tick Tock said they would put their private data in American some American managed company that's not really the problem it's the brainwashing it's not just the privacy and every time you see the news focus on the Privacy part you know that that's propaganda or they just don't know the news themselves you know but it could mean that the people they're telling the news know the news better than the people we're telling it that's sometimes the case all right uh I saw one report I don't know if this is true but that Newsome is dispatching the National Guard to tackle the drug situation in San Francisco they might confirm that that Newsome is sending or will send the National Guard for San Francisco because I don't I don't think so but maybe maybe but let's say if it is true and I would put a big question mark on that it feels a little I don't know I feel like it would be bigger news or something but I only saw it in one Outlet so this would be if if it's true and that's a real big if in this this story I would say that it's another example that you have to become Trump to run against them you have to become Trump to run against them that's a problem you basically have to adopt his policies after saying they were bad policies forever because once you're in the National stage you just look ridiculous you know it's just more obvious that Trump was right about some stuff the immigration for example um Alex Jones says he has some Source from in TSA that says masks are coming back as a requirement now next story if you argue about this you're in the wrong fight it's just no now we're done we're moving to the next story it's just now no not no maybe not know for a little while not a little bit yes just know no all right um did I mention that my book reframed me brain is number one in the happiness category on Amazon so number one book to give you happiness and it probably is number one book in hypnosis even though it's reframes I present them in the context of as a professional hypnotist you know telling you what works about them so it's not it isn't teaching you hypnosis per se except in the specific form of putting reframes into your own your own Brave and other peoples and it's number one in personal transformation in other words personal growth or success so it's number one in all three categories that um are the ones that matter now don't get too excited being number one in in your category doesn't mean you're number one in the world but it's also not even available except in Kindle so this is the kind of book where I would expect a lot of people are going to wait for the soft cover which could drop any minute um but it's because you're going to want it as a reference it's sort of a book that you're going to read it and then go back to it a bunch of times like oh what was that what was that reframe I remember so lives are already being changed um the the reviews are crazy they're just so good people are finding their entire lives just re reprogrammed you know just with a few uh reframes so I know that I know that these claims seem wildly unlikely but you have to read read the reviews yourself it was written to have that impact and people are saying it has that impact all right RFK Jr had some uh pretty provocative things to say about REM deserveer and about Tony fauci so this is RFK JR says Tony fauci knew that REM deserveer would kill you now what do I say about people knew there's a little bit of mind reading right a little bit of mind reading but if he can back it up with say a document or some other evidence then then I'm going to listen to it so I don't know if he has other evidence but I'm always uncomfortable and you should be too whenever you hear somebody say somebody else knew something often is true but it gets into that mind reading category that you you need to ask more questions when somebody says that so I'm not comfortable just knowing that RFK JR says Tony fauci knew something now he may be right and I would say he has a high likelihood of being right but I need a little more than that I'm not going to go just with somebody thinks somebody knew something that's that's a little weak uh but RFK Jr.

I find quite credible in doing his homework and research and he certainly knows this topic inside out so maybe he does know maybe maybe RFK Jr does know what Tony fauci knows about this specific thing I wouldn't rule it out but it just makes me uncomfortable when I see the Mind reading-ish stuff um and the the ideas that REM Desir has some side effects that would affect things like kidneys in heart Etc and that people having kidney problems it would be a weird virus that killed you with your kidneys but REM deserveer according to RFK Jr might have a side effect that would be you know sort of right on the nose for that side effect so how bad is it Now isn't there also a rumor maybe it's confirmed you'll have to you have to fact check business was Anthony fauci did he have a financial interest in rem deserver at the time of the pandemic financial interest because I've read that he did but I don't know that you can depend on any reporting on this domain yeah I'm going to say I've seen reports of it but I don't know that I would not personally I would not Resort that as fact yeah but maybe it's reported well I'll just say it's reported that way I'm going to stop short of saying fact because it's the sort of thing I'm not sure anybody knows for example would would anybody know if he had sold this stock before the pandemic would we know that I just worry that we don't know because it's not exactly public information all right so again I'm going to call out the incredible benefit we're seeing from the campaign yeah imagine imagine if people have just said well it looks like it's going to be Biden versus Trump you know we'll just live with it but that's not what happened several candidates decided that they not only had a chance to fake has a real chance but that they had something to say Vivek is as much about what he's saying as the fact that he's running he's saying stuff that is reorienting how you feel about stuff how you think about it he's reframing the hell out of us he's really modifying and improving I would say I'd say he's improving the philosophical opinions on the right because have I ever told you the good writing I refer to it as saying what you were thinking by saying it better than you were thinking it that's what Vivek does all day long he says what you're already thinking sort of but you had not thought of it that well and then when he puts it in a sentence you say that's it that that's the sentence I wish that sentence had been in my head now I've taught you in my book reframe your brains just Downton Kindle I taught you that putting words in somebody's ads is how you reprogram people we think in terms of words that's why the llms produce something that looks like intelligence because our internal thought process depends on words and how they fit together and we imagine that that's our thinking but really it's just word patterns that we've seen before and what we've been exposed to so when Vivek puts a different word pattern into your head and he reframes a topic you're being reprogrammed he's actually upgrading your software because if you if you used to say if you used to say whatever let's say De.

Santis said about a topic then maybe you had sort of a corporate e you know his version of saying it but if you replace that with of a vague sentence especially if you remember the actual sentence you're reprogramming yourself to a higher level of argument you know you could debate better using vivek's words and then someone else's words true story so uh so you know Larry Elder is doing great things promoting his beliefs that the family unit has to be strengthened to fix just about everything and you're seeing RFK Jr just ripping the lid off of you know the line from every part of society love that those are those are three candidates who are really making the difference no matter what happens I don't think I could have more respect for those three candidates than I do I mean I have maximum respect because they're doing the I hate to say doing the work they're doing productive things even if they don't win and certainly a few of them don't expect to win so and I just want to say something about uh Larry Elders take you know the family unit and keeping the father there is important I would agree with everything he says about that but I would argue that maybe things have changed and not just in how we financially reward people for not having a father uh but I think we're we're in a situation where I don't think we can go back so it's not that having a family unit doesn't produce better results it seems to very clearly but if you can't go back to it in other words if we're if we're on a one-way journey and you just can't go back because for whatever reason and I don't think it's just Financial um well I'm just going to say it all right I didn't want to say it but I'm just going to say it the reason people don't stay married is that we suck that's it that's it people suck we're not people that you should marry and stay married to we're just not not the men not the women the men are not worth staying with and the women are not we're staying with they're just not worth it now I'm not talking about any individual and I'm not talking about my life because I'm a rich guy nothing applies you know my rich guy getting married in divorce is not like yours right you all know that I can afford to get married I could afford to get divorced so it's different it's different but if if a divorce is the difference between poverty and making it you know that's a whole different world and in that world the benefit of getting married just isn't there because people suck I do believe that people are worse people than they've ever been just in general people are worse than they've ever been to each other in terms of what it would take to be a partner for marriage and we I feel like we can't say that out loud because you know somebody's going to turn it racist of course somebody's going to turn it into sexism of course but you didn't hear me say that right I didn't say it's you know limited just one group because it's not I didn't say it's you know one gender is the bad one because they're not we've just become terrible people so how do you fix that so I think I think the Larry Elder solution of strength the strengthening the families is good as a concept as great as you know maybe a end point or something but I don't know how to get there you can't tell me that marrying somebody who you know is not going to find me a good marriage partner is works for me and keep in mind I'm talking about myself right I'm not I'm not saying you're bad and I'm awesome I've been divorced twice do you think I would be divorced twice if somebody really really liked being married to me I don't think so honestly if I were a better deal somebody would be married to me by now probably and we'd be happy but apparently I'm not a good deal and you know I'm at least transparent about it all right um you know I snore so it's hard it's hard to be in a relationship when you snore that's one of the things people don't talk about they don't talk about how much snoring makes it impossible to be in a relationship uh you you can act like it's not like oh that's just a detail but it's not not just a detail I would bet this snoring is 20 of divorces that's my estimate snoring is 20 of divorces now that's that doesn't mean they'll say that it just means you end up in separate bedrooms and then it all goes to hell so nobody plans it that way all right um yeah I've done I've had my sinuses operated on it doesn't make a difference I've had my septum DVA septum um also so I've had two surgeries to fix my general sinus situation no difference no difference but very painful surgeries but no difference I do breathe better though what was I talking about uh oh so I I love the Larry Elder thing but I think he needs to go back a level and find out what's wrong at the base he's definitely on point about something being economic but there's a much bigger thing we've all become people who are not worth marriage that's a big problem right now here's why here's part of the reason we've become um part of the reason that we've become people we don't want to marry is because we don't have roles when people had roles you could respect anybody who did their role right now you could say it was sexist that's not the argument I'm saying that when the male female roles were clear you could respect the other person for doing the role and even if maybe the lust dissipated you'd say to yourself my God I can't live without that like that's that's a partner that's somebody who values the promise as much as the you know the day-to-day lust and happiness so yeah I think the the loss of Rome uh defined Role Models was simultaneously amazing for some number of women amazing for some number of men amazing for some number of lgbtq that you know maybe got more freedom in that deal but it destroyed the system very good for a lot of people individually but it destroyed the system so I think we have to figure out how to restore the system in the context of we're not so good to each other that we want to marry each other these days we don't add enough value somebody asked me recently you know if I'd want to get married again do you know what my answer is why what would that give me what what possible benefit would that be I couldn't even think of one it has nothing to do with any individual I may or may not fall in love with I just don't see any benefit to it what's the benefit loyalty do you think I could get some loyalty no no because we don't really live in that world anymore and that's not a statement of women this is not a statement about women you can't buy loyalty you can't find it we just sort of live in a cheater society and uh if people don't cheat they might want to change partners yeah now marriage would be ridiculous in my specific situation somebody said it more generally why would a rich person ever get married there's not much reason there really isn't all right um I can tell you why I did it I got married for the benefit of the person I was marrying I mean I was in love in both cases totally in love but to me the marriage was only for the benefit of children you know step kids and it just made somebody else happier but that's why I did it because that felt like my role right my role was to keep people you know safe all right Mark Cuban was tweeting at Elon Musk over this big issue of whether whether blocking will be allowed on Twitter in the future let's call it X and Elon Musk who said that blocking is going to go away Mark Cuban had some things about to say about the algorithm so there are two things going on one is about blocking and then Mark Cuban's conversation about whether Elon Musk has too much influence over the content now when I saw let's talk about them individually so let's talk about the algorithm first so Mark Cuban steak was that uh Twitter or X is now a reflection of one person's sensibilities I hope I'm summarizing that correctly and I I commented back to Mark Cuban and said I'm not seeing I'm not seeing the effect of that you know what what exactly makes you think that it's become you know an Elon Musk sort of thing and that he he responded by showing the Twitter guy I guess there's a Twitter document let's call it X that explains how their algorithm works it is hilarious to read if you want a good laugh you should read the X document that explains how their algorithm works let's just say it's complicated there's so many so many jargony buzzwords in it you really can't tell what it is it's as close to being a hundred percent non-transparent as anything could be wall is trying to be transparent so that the point of it is to show you what they're doing but because they have to use such you know generic jargony words as it's just so dense with jargon you really can't tell what it is yeah no human could read that it's not because I'm not an engineer it's not because I'm you know not an expert in the field it's just written that no nobody could understand in detail what it's doing or not doing but I saw one phrase there that said that uh let's see what was the phrase on the the X document it said they would seek Fair balance of you know contents from different sources that's actually the that was the term used in The X documents that they would seek Fair balance what's that tell you do uh do computers and AI do they know how to figure out what's fair how do you determine what's fair that no there's no objective standard for fair because it doesn't just mean you know the numbers right it's not about just the numbers it's about a judgment fair is only subjective so if the Twitter algorithm has an important component in which somebody or something is determining what a fair balance is of content from different sources that can only be humans now it might be the humans who you know set it up and then they walk away but it's set up by the humans some human had to say I'm going to tweak this or put this filter in because in my my opinion or maybe some few people's opinions this is what Fair looks like would it be fair to have just as much content from something that's obviously conspiracy trash versus something that might have some credibility would it be fair that you get the same amount of it depends right if you're Alex Jones you'd say that is fair because you can't tell what's real and what's not you know maybe he'd say that right if you're somebody else you say that's crazy why would you let you know some 4chan conspiracy theory get the equal weight with a you know a respectable publication so fair is so completely subjective that I had to immediately fold my argument and agree with Mark Cuban that we can never know what's happening with the algorithm but we can know for sure that if Elon Musk doesn't like it he'll change it now that doesn't mean that we're already seeing sort of the Elon Musk version of reality it just means it has to happen over time and as Cuban said Elon Musk won't always be alive and always running it somebody else might have to be the let's say the uh the benevolent dictator I've often said the best form of government by far the best form of government would be a brilliant uh benevolent dictator because the dictator part gets you you know past all the nonsense of arguing about stuff the brilliant part gets you good Solutions or at least somebody who knows you know to test things before they Implement them that's that's pretty good um and the benevolent means that that person is brilliant and working for your interests now we actually have something that feels like that to me you've got the brilliant part Elon Musk you've got the benevolent part which I actually believe I believe he's I believe he really wants free speech in his bones I think that's completely real but that's my opinion I don't know you know if he had some secret evil agenda would I know it no okay I read minds but it feels to me like an ideal situation that's also temporary so I'm going to agree with Mark Cuban no matter what you think of Elon and I have a high opinion he's not going to be there forever but Twitter won't always be the same forever either so by the by the time somebody else runs it maybe everything else has changed you know maybe there's a whole different AI platform or something so I'd keep an eye on that but be aware in my opinion there's no such thing as an algorithm that is not biased and if you had one you couldn't make a business model out of it in other words bias in the design of the algorithm is unavoidable so you know my response to Mark Cuban he certainly made his point yeah the the way the algorithm is you can't avoid the fact that the owner of the company is going to get what he or she wants that's a good that's a good solid point but we don't know if we're seeing it yet and I can't think of any model that would be better can you you know the the obvious thing you think is like oh let's get rid of all moderation do you think that would work do you think you could build a platform with no moderation no do you think you could have a platform in which you're not doing a lot of fact checking and that works out okay no no that's not going to work out okay there are no Solutions so before you criticize the way it is just remember you're not comparing it to anything you're comparing it to some imaginary thing in your mind in which there's both no censorship and it works out fine that's not a possibility that is not even slightly a possibility human beings will exploit every opportunity to be terrible so what's happening now sort of dovetailing this is that so Elon Musk wants to take away the block feature and people are asking me Scott what do you think about this and here's my opinion um I'm one of many millions of Twitter users personally removing the block feature for me and my very specific situation of a you know million followers and I talk about politics and people hate me and people love me and they're all going to be fighting it out in the comments in my very specific situation removing the blocking is all bad but that's not my opinion of whether you should do it because I'm just one person and I'm an elite at least in terms of Twitter users I'm an elite Twitter user because I have a million followers should Elon Musk modify his his rules and his features to satisfy people like me if it's at the expense of everybody else and the answer is I don't think so I'd love to tell you he should satisfy me and let the rest of you you know who have small accounts you know fend for yourself uh but I don't think that's the way you run anything I I think I think not now I'll go further and say if I had as many followers as Elon Musk I wouldn't care about blocking do you understand that if I had uh 20 million followers I wouldn't care about blocking do you know why if you've got 20 million followers you're not looking at comments you wouldn't spend a minute looking at comments because there would be a million of them what are you going to do block three of them oh there's I've got 300 000 people saying I'm a Nazi I'll block three of them ah but I can actually block 100 of my trolls without much effort on any given day there might be fewer than five you know I click things five times a day and I feel good when I click it so my experience is unique there's this little zone of influencers you know some somewhat in the size of my accounts let's say a quarter million to million and a half and there's lots of for that group of people it's all bad the the removing blocking for us Tiny's tiny little sliver of users is all bad and there's no way to argue that does everybody agree that just for our personal enjoyment is just all bad now whether that and I've said it before that I use blocking for mental health that's literally true I'm not making like a weird analogy or anything no my actual physical state of mind is improved by blocking and I can feel it immediately and the inability to block would bother me all day long if something just sat there and I couldn't do anything about it so even though blocking doesn't make other people not see it so much it makes me feel good so I would say that my mental health would absolutely no doubt about it suffer and that muting would not be nearly as satisfying that's my first take however you know what I say about things that can be tested I should not have an opinion because it could be tested it can be reversed so if you can test it and you just find out did it work for me did it work for most people but not me I'd like to know so I would love Elon Musk to show the rest of the country how decisions are made first he said I'm going to do this thing but you have to know in the back your head and I'd like I'd like to hear them say it directly but you know he's thinking this this is one where mind reading is easy because everybody's smart thinks the same way yeah if you can test it and if it's reversible which software is test it so I'm not going to say yes or no just give it a test if it works for everybody but me I'll say go do it you know I'm not I'm not your boss if it works for you I would be happy for you uh honestly I worry that I would quit using X because you know if I have to deal with Ben Garrison comics on my timeline again I don't know if I'd stay I honestly don't because that would be it would make me feel bad every time I logged on but by you know blocking the people who said that I don't see it would muting do as well I doubt it but I'd be willing to see all right um uh let's see what else has happened so the news is that uh De.

Santis is barely trying these days there's a clip in which he's taken a little bit in a context I would say uh unless you you said quote unless you're kissing uh you're talking about Trump he says unless you're kissing his rear end they'll call you a rhino and then he referred to quote listless vessels who follow whatever comes down the pike on Truth social every morning and people said um are you running to get those votes or to alienate Republicans it feels like exactly the wrong approach compared to the smartest guy in the race Vivek he just says good things about Republicans and people in general and and even Trump does anybody hate Vivek because you think he doesn't like you he seems to like people even seem to like the lgbtq reporter who there was a famous viral thing of them having a discussion he seemed to like her he seems to like people that's a real good quality in the president but De.

Santis uh did a little bit of the deplorables mistake I would say he's taken a little bit out of context if you heard it in context it wouldn't hit you the same anacontext it does is more grading in context he's making a point you could argue about it but I think it was a mistake I would say it was a mistake to word it that way certainly mocking people who use truth social is just a big mistake so yeah it doesn't look like he's serious about it I don't know what it I feel like he already knows that he's wasting his time he acts like a person who's smart enough to know none of this will help him all right uh was it the Wall Street Journal I think who's reporting that the war in Ukraine could go on for years because neither side has a clear goal that's attainable so they both have goals but they're not attainable you know Russia is not going to own all of Ukraine Ukraine is not going to get its land back so how do you ever have peace and so the Wall Street Journal is saying could be years of war do you think we're that dumb are we going to do this again if we know we can end it a day and honestly we can now when I say we I think Vivek good I think maybe de Santa is good I think Trump could I don't know how many of the others could but you know maybe maybe Mike Ben's good I don't know but it seems pretty doable to me I'm pretty sure I can do it myself if I were president it looks so doable that I don't believe any of this and and you know you know what's wrong with the framing did you see what's wrong with the framing I'll say the frame again you tell me what's wrong with it that neither Russian or Ukraine have objectives that are both you know clearly stated I want this but also reasonably attainable so they're saying that you know they're they're conflicting objectives are the problem do you see what's wrong with that framing I want to see if it just jumps out to anybody what's wrong with that framing it's pure propaganda personal oh my god it worked oh my god it worked they're they're diverting you from the obvious and it worked oh my God I'm having a moment here where I'm actually horrified I am horrified you're going to be real mad when I tell you when they frame it as Ukraine and and Russia want things but they're having trouble getting them here's the part you're missing who the cares what either of them want who the cares no if the United States wants them to stop fighting we're going to make them stop that's it I don't care if Ukraine wants it I don't care what they want I don't care what Putin wants how did you all miss that was that did they do such a good job of propaganda that every one of you missed that you're you they made you think that you it matters what they think it doesn't matter what they think they did the same thing with Mexico do you remember when uh you know everybody said well the Mexican government's never going to agree to our military going in and operating against the cartels the Mexican government's never going to agree what's wrong with that framing who the cares what the Mexican Government wants it's not up to them they don't have a vote we have the military the United States and we're under attack the Mexican Government zero vote we're wasting our time and treasure in Ukraine and it's costing us big time does Ukraine have a voted now no no they don't vote in the United States does Putin have a vote nope nope not a vote no if we get a president who can actually see past narratives that they can Trump can probably several others can but I'll just mention too you need somebody who can see past that framing and we do have too I don't know if we have more than actually uh RFK Jr we have three candidates who can three see past the propaganda framing but I am horrified that none of you did or at least in the comments you didn't mention it now now that I've mentioned it do you see it am I right you see it right you see that the framing of what they care about is just absolutely it should be a crime the fact that they could even guide your mind in that direction is just crazy now this is a subset of a reframe in my book one of the reframes and reframe your brain available now in Kindle is that you don't know who has the power and we often get lost in an assumption of who has the power Ukraine doesn't have any power Russia doesn't have any power and our government doesn't have any power you do you and I do collectively we can decide what our government does just by answering polls that say don't do that you know if it gets to 80 percent the government can't do it there are very few things your government can do if 80 of the public is against it because they need to get reelected and stuff so the American public has the power but the media has cut you off from it by this kind of narrative this kind of narrative just takes all your power away because you don't know you have the power and you're like arguing about stuff oh you creating this Putin that they're not relevant they are not relevant oh Europe not relevant now the Great Britain was not relevant not relevant military-industrial complex they want well they're relevant unfortunately shouldn't be you can't be serious yeah anyway the citizens do not have the power because they believe they do not so that doesn't seem to be changing so at the moment they don't but it would require only a reframe of how they think before they went and all you would have to do is tell the people you know if the United States wants to end this we could do it tomorrow what do you think do you want to end it you don't think you would get 80 saying well I didn't realize that was an option no it is it's actually an option you just ignore the interests of the other people because you can and they're not relevant to you and then just end it you just tell both sides you'll crush them you'll crush them if they don't stop right now I I think Trump's the only one who can sell it but Vivek can say it I mean maybe he could sell it but Trump could sell it all right yeah what else is going on that's about it I don't think you need much more that's a good solid hour of content that you won't see anywhere else and not too many commercials all right uh I saw that uh the famous Twitter account captured uh was complaining about the blocking feature and Elon Musk blocked him and then Elon tweeted that he's blocking people who are complaining about blocking he said let's see how you like it and I thought you know yeah I love it I love it I I don't even though I don't love the blocking I just love the fact that he blocked people from complaining about blocking so they could see how they feel about being blocked he's helping he's helping the second funny bad thing about that is I blocked the cat turd a long time ago because he's a idiot I don't know maybe maybe you like it maybe you follow him personally he's an idiot that's that's my take and I wouldn't want to see any of his tweets again except that one was funny uh James Wood is making some news uh I saw a video from him that a video of some you know youths attacking cars in Philadelphia and he tweeted the other day this isn't fixable does that sound familiar this isn't fixable now I don't think he follows me well he probably caught the headlines don't you think don't you think James would caught the headlines about my cancellation probably most people did um but it's not fixable where have you heard that before besides me who who is another person who said it's not fixable you have to know when to hold them and know when to fold them right Alice Jones Chris Rock really Chris Rock I don't know about that Alex Jones Bill Mitchell no Tim Poole said it yeah and by the way there's nothing wrong with that there's nothing wrong with that opinion it's not it's not cruel it's just a statement of what you think is happening so I would like you know cities not to fall into Decay I would like everybody to have you know jobs and not walk on on bums in the street but it doesn't look like it's going to happen and I would guess that the future is building new cities as as I said in the beginning and I think the old ones just have to go because um I I think they need to bottom and then probably they'll just turn it into something else but I think cities are probably on a long-term decline and I don't think we should necessarily try to fix them if they're not interested in fixing themselves so I would say get away from cities if you can I should do a podcast with Peter Zayn I don't think he does guests does he I think he just does his own thing he's very interesting but um I noted and I'm glad you mentioned him so I mentioned the other day that Peter Zan said that Russia's real goal with you know all of its aggressive moves were to make sure they controlled the attack points to defend Russia and if you look at them they they line up very well with the most strategic attack points now his take is if you could you know make well I think I'm I'm saying too much about his take I'll say it's my take if that's true then I would suggest there's a way to deal with Russia where you say all right your problem is these these choke points maybe there's some way short of a war that you can get some security and we can get some security and we're not nobody's giving up too much so that would suggest if the Peter Zan view of the world is right it's about those choke points that gives you something to negotiate if the Wall Street Journal is Right which is a totally different take and by the way never mentioned the choke point issue I've never seen it anywhere else actually if it's true that the goals are amorphous and impossible to get then you can't have peace so the Wall Street Journal article looks like an article that was written by the military industrial complex I'm not saying it was but it reads like it would you agree it shows no hope and warns you that the war will take years who benefits from that military-industrial complex maybe the neocons but as much as I think the Wall Street Journal is you know one of the best independent vehicles for news and I'm not going to make an accusation about that specific article but use your own judgment you know there there's another view that would say it's negotiable at least two for use and they acted like because it's amorphous that it can't be negotiated the amorphous part is really not the problem and I don't know if they're just bad at telling you all the context or if they were influenced by the military industrial complex right so those are the questions you would ask about a story like that all right um anybody else got a topic I haven't talked about uh you know one of the things about being a public figure is there any way to be a public figure and to not be accused of being anti-semitic at some point in your career it's like literally unavoidable all right uh yeah China's in trouble 15-minute cities easy to pacify shows everybody everything else at this point as long as the government can turn off your money which they can do anytime they want therefore control already if the government can turn off your money they already have full control will the next hurricane be named Gavin uh e b c d e f g h no it's gonna have to start with the letter I right because they go they go in order it would have to be Lavin yeah Alex Jones I don't know if his I don't I can't imagine lockdowns can't imagine lockdowns I can't imagine another school closing I just can't imagine it um all right Dei all right I think we've talked about it all and uh ladies and gentlemen I'm gonna go talk to the locals people thanks for joining You.

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well there's a big old storm coming to

California it's category one

category one

can you wake me up when it's a three but

apparently it's moving the other

direction so

um there might actually be some damage I

believe some people are evacuating

because of rain but it doesn't look like

it could be the worst the worst it could

be so we'll probably just get some water

that's what I think

um how many of you would like to see me

give a radio interview

at uh 4 20 p.m Pacific time tonight

say yes say yes yes well many of you

just beg you for it yes

um okay okay I'll do it I'll do it

all right I said I'd do it I said I'd do

it I'll do it I promise I will

so tonight 4 20 Pacific time that would

be 7 20 eastern time I'll be with uh

Joel Pollock on Breitbart radio if

you're saying to yourself how do I

listen to that just Google it

um Breitbart radio Joe Pollock and or

you can look at my tweet retweet it to

this morning you'll find us anyway

um you might know that I have not been

doing too many interviews

but in conjunction with my book reframe

your brain which is available so far

only on Kindle because Amazon has

unspecified possibly technical problems

that are preventing the publication of

my physical book The book's done is

ready to go

um but in the independent publishing

let's say pipeline

there seems to be some kind of a delay

for my property

it's an unspecific technical hard to

explain we just don't know what's going

on it's going to take us a little while

to look into it kind of a problem

that's the kind of problem now if you're

saying to yourself Scott

this is clearly some kind of

messing around with you probably not

probably not it's probably just the way

everything works let me put this in

context

pretty much every step of the

independent publishing hits some kind of

a problem like there's a password that

doesn't work there's you know there's

just something you can't do and every

one of the processes you have to kind of

crawl through it and correct and adjust

and you know you know you basically you

just you're just adjusting as you go

it's all about adjusting as you go

so

in the context of nothing working just

sort of in general

the most likely explanation is they're

busy or there's some technical problem

because I've heard a lot of other people

have had issues that that don't sound

like they're political

now let me give you an example of how

bad I'm going to call this the national

incompetence problem

how many of you would agree

that there appears to be a national

incompetence problem

to do anything just most basic services

let me give you an idea how bad it is

all right this is how bad it is I did

something really stupid this week

I want you to could you do me a favor

and mock me for my stupidity over this

just listen to how bad this is I had to

take my car in for service

and I knew that you know there might be

some real issues I was driving kind of

funny so I don't know exactly what the

problem is but you know it couldn't be

one of those expensive ones

here's how stupid I am and please mock

me get ready get ready I took my car

into the dealer for service

so ashamed

on a Thursday

go ahead

go ahead

I know I know no I deserve it I deserve

it I took my car in for service on

Thursday

it's the dumbest thing everybody ever

did

do you think I got my car back before

the weekend of course not

of course not so there's an extra two

days but that's not even my point

the the dealer I don't have a problem

with the dealer so in this story the

dealer is you know it's just stuff that

takes more than a day

so there's nothing wrong with the dealer

I brought it in on a Thursday

when I knew I wouldn't have it for the

weekend unless I rented a car

now you're probably going to ask

yourself let's see if you know the

answer to this why did I not rent a car

and while why will I instead spend four

to five days trapped in my house I mean

I could Uber if I want to

but why did I not rent a car go ahead

you tell me it's not because of money no

why did I not get one

not insurance no

yep somebody got it

under today's current situation

I could not imagine literally I can't

imagine it

renting a car

without trouble

I couldn't even imagine it I imagine

that I would go in there and they'd say

uh we don't have the car that you uh you

reserved I thought at the very least it

would turn it into a Seinfeld episode I

know what Uber is you don't have to say

Uber every comment

can we can we stipulate I've heard of

uber

everybody you can stop yelling Uber at

me I've heard of it it's like a car

service where you can take place you can

go places right okay I got it

okay you don't have to yell turo at me I

got it

I I don't think I don't think I'm

getting through I don't I don't seem to

be getting through the lift now you're

just really funny apparently I'm not

getting through with this point

no the the the simple Act of renting a

car

If This Were five years ago you know

what I would have done I would have just

rented a car

I would have run to the car and I

wouldn't have worried that it wouldn't

work

I actually worry that if I allocate my

half a day or whatever to

you know going in and picking up a car

that it just won't work

you know like I won't be able to rent it

my credit card will be declined you know

I'll be on some do not rent list some

damn thing I just don't think there's

enough competence left in the system

that it ever make sense to take on a new

thing if you can avoid it like if your

other if your other possibility is just

to stay home and be unhappy just stay

home and be unhappy

sometimes all right don't don't follow

my advice about anything

all right let's talk about uh my other

favorite topic you know I've been saying

for years that the future is building

cities from scratch uh NPCs you may yell

at 15-minute cities now go

yell 15 minutes say no no 15 minutes at

least oh

okay this has nothing to do with

15-minute cities

but you need to yell it so please do

go ahead

wef

go ahead

and also you need to yell uh tiny homes

tiny homes so this has nothing to do

with tiny homes

but you need to yell it I know you do

tiny homes tiny homes go ahead in the

comments

I've been here before

anyway there's a City built from scratch

in Kaya

that's the pronunciation that's probably

exactly right on I think

in Guatemala

now what's interesting about it is they

actually set out to build a city from

scratch but what's interesting is they

built it like

sort of in the architecture of more

traditional older looking stuff but you

know with the modern twists and I saw

some video of it looked amazing looks

amazing and it is the streets are are

pedestrians Now cars I don't know that

that makes it a 15-minute City but if

you need to yell about how you're

unhappy that the cities could be

convenient

go ahead and do it

so this is uh one example that

apparently people are happy with and it

came out really well

uh but that's the future the future is

cities from scratch and there's almost

no way around it

because it'll be the biggest industry

that everybody's you know agrees we need

and people who want to live there

and there will be lots lots of different

ones will will some of these cities be

15-minute cities that Klaus Schwab will

take all your freedom and your security

and your privacy Maybe

but others will be something else

all right these Hunter Biden plea deal

we're finding out more about it Politico

is trying to spin it as uh late payments

that nobody goes to jail for being late

on their taxes you just work out a

payment plan and it would be very

unusual to go to jail just because you

were late on your taxes

so that's what it was right that was the

problem

was the problem that Hunter was just

laid on his taxes but now he's paid now

he's paid

yeah you know I was once late on my

taxes too

so I mean same kind of crime now in my

case I did not set up a series of

international

shell companies to hide the fact that

what that I was late I didn't do that I

just I think I forgot or something

I may have forgotten to pay a estimated

payment once and I just paid my penalty

and paid my money and I didn't go to

jail

but you know

I also didn't have a series of shell

companies to run it through so it would

be hidden from everybody

so

there's that

um there there of course is some

pushback

so lawyers never agree on anything some

people saying oh it's not that big a

deal nobody would have gone to jail for

the specific things the hunter did

others say uh this is not late

this is hiding money from the IRS about

the most illegal thing you could

possibly do

well

you know potato potato

but there is evidence that the

investigation only went forward because

of the whistleblowers

so pretty much everything you thought

about everything was true

on the hunter Biden story everything you

suspected seems to be true

it's pretty it's a pretty interesting

model because sometimes you see stories

where like you crave if you watch the

Ukraine story you're like

I don't know that might be true but no

way to know

yeah maybe probably not

but you see the hunter story and now

there's a pattern that's developed

that no matter how much doubt there is

about the story

turns out it's true

there's nothing you can say about them

because they just all turn out to be

true all right I would like I would like

to challenge that see if I'm wrong do a

fact check on me

name something that Hunter Biden has

been accused of or Joe Biden in relation

to Hunter Biden

name something that has not been

demonstrated to be true Beyond any real

doubt can you name anything he was

accused of that is not

now the the the paintings as a way to

launder influence

wouldn't say it's proven

it's not proven proven it's just obvious

you don't need to prove anything about

the paintings that's that's that's

exactly what it looks like on the

surface

all right yeah it's pretty consistent if

Hunter is accused of it

apparently that's usually going to turn

out to be true

although he's innocent until the proven

guilty in terms of the law

like everybody else

well Wall Street Journal again is

hammering on how China's economy is

going in the toilet their 40-year boom

is over

they have plenty of empty buildings so

China's big problem is empty buildings

uh and over here we've got a lot of

homeless but they're not homeless

because they don't have homes they're

homeless by choice

for the most part probably 90 percent

um

what do you think about

China's

let's say

let's say their chances for the future

there are at least two things three

things that the United States has going

for it that our adversaries or let's say

competitors can't match

number one we have the option

which we have not used of filtering our

immigration better

in other words we can avoid the

demographic crash by becoming the only

country that people are fighting to get

into and we're taking the you know the

ones with the best potential

to be good citizens usually education

would be the top thing do they have a

skill

now do you think China could ever match

Us in Immigration of you know sucking up

the best people from every country now

do you think Russia could ever match Us

in what we could do with immigration no

now here's the weirdest take you're ever

going to hear on immigration

our complete failure to guard our border

is in the short term which might be

several years

terrible

would you agree

that on on net there are benefits of

immigration even illegal immigration has

benefits you know people get jobs Etc

but would you agree that so far like the

last few years it's more of a net

negative because it's just out of

control

but watch this

if you were in another country

and you knew that all of the other

countries seem to be badasses about

immigration

and you do that the United States was

willing to hurt itself

to accept you

the United States was willing to hurt

itself fairly massively to accept

immigration

now you can say oh it's politics it's

incompetence it's it's this it's you

know it's commonly it's not doing the

job that's all it is but I'm just saying

how how would it be received by the rest

of the world

so imagine imagine you're in India

you grew up in India you just went

through the ITT system you're one of the

top technical young people in the world

because you just went through a system

that produces them

and you're saying to yourself where do I

go

do you go to China let's say China said

you're welcome and and let's say they

put together a an immigration attraction

thing to get technical people would you

say that I will be welcomed with open

arms in China no you wouldn't feel that

way how about Russia

even if they said they would welcome you

would you would you feel like that's the

place you want to go

maybe not so much

now imagine that you had been listening

to the news about America and you found

out we had these Sanctuary cities

and that even though we fought about you

know what is the right level of

immigration the net effect

was that we were the most accidentally

accidentally one of the most welcoming

countries for immigration

and we remain

I would say the Melting Pot example for

the world even with all of our problems

we have somewhat accidentally created a

situation from the Statue of Liberty all

the way through Sanctuary cities that

America is a place that has built into

its DNA a a belief that immigration is

Central to our existence and our let's

say our experience

which is not to say let everybody in all

the time right we're not talking about

the way we're doing it I'm talking about

what was somebody in another country

feel about the United States when

deciding where to bring their high

levels of skills

to employ it for the rest of their lives

I don't think anybody can match us

I I think we'll be maybe in better shape

than Europe they got a little bit

overrun so Europe's got their own

problems but in the United States we we

still have a recoverable situation I

don't know that they do in France or

Great Britain might not be recoverable

but in the United States it is and I

think that if we got let's say a

Republican president

save a fake just to pick one and he said

immigration is good you just got to make

sure you're getting the right people

clamp down the Border put in some real

processes to bring in the best of the

best

who competes with that

so under that scenario China and Russia

are not going to have access to high

tech at least not directly

so we'll have the better Tech better

microchips which means that we'll have

ai in a functional form much better than

any other country

which means that we'll be able to

attract the best you know immigrants

that are really additive

there's no way you can compete with that

and the most important thing is that we

won't have a demographic collapse

because we'd be bringing in people to as

replacements

yeah

we would probably have to eliminate the

cartels as just part of the plan but

Vivek will do that

you have the vacuum is talking about

slamming their cartels

having real immigration to attract the

right people all the right stuff

there's something shaping up here that

would make America the only superpower

and would would be really the jewel

in in the world more so than it ever has

been if it ever has been

but well there's a story in the New York

Post about the so-called Squad you know

aoc's group of politicians

that their big old Hypocrites because

AOC and the squad spent 1.2 million in

campaign cash on private security

despite calls to defund the police

now you're expecting that I'm going to

agree with the New York Post and say

hypocrisy

hypocrisy right

or if you know me better you know that

I'm going to say this is an analogy

the New York Post is making an analogy

between police and private security

is that fair

no

did AOC call for ending private security

for public figures

no she did not call for ending private

security for public figures

now she did call for something that's

you know as dumb as that but not at

least it's not inconsistent so yes she

she certainly wanted her own safety but

don't pretend that public figures have

the same security concerns as average

citizens average citizens could have

worse problems depending where they live

or no problems at all if they live where

I live but

uh AOC has real security problems

and she has the right to have security

and I don't want anything to happen to

her so yes I'm 100 in favor of her doing

what she needs to do to protect herself

I don't think that's up for a debate

now separately

do you want your police to be defunded

well nobody has a better alternative to

that

uh but you don't really need to bring

the private security in there I realize

it's like a political oh I gotcha

but don't we have plenty of things to do

gotcha with a squad

do you need this one I mean this one

just seems like just so small ball

politics

but I get it it works

so I try to I try to avoid the hypocrisy

lines you know it's the easiest thing to

do oh they said this but they did this

that's never an interesting story

it's just a political Spin and you've

seen it once and you're like ah

all right uh I forgot about this but the

attorney general for Montana I think it

was uh Austin Knudsen

actually pushed through and got made

into law a ban on Tick Tock in the state

and I'm not talking about a ban for

state workers which you've seen in other

places government workers but a band you

just couldn't have it in the state now I

don't know how it's I supposedly

the app stores could adjust for the the

state somehow so maybe that's practical

to do but

um I love the fact that he did it and he

got away with it

so I just want to say his name so you've

heard it people say he's you know

angling for higher office somewhere if

he is good for him because you did

something useful all right let's say his

name again uh attorney general Austin

Newton so if you hear this voice if you

hear that name in the future

just remember he did one good thing I

don't know what else he did but he did

this one good thing

and do you think that the news is

covering this correctly no no the news

will still say stuff like but Tick Tock

said they would put their private data

in American some American managed

company

that's not really the problem it's the

brainwashing

it's not just the privacy and every time

you see the news focus on the Privacy

part you know that that's propaganda or

they just don't know the news themselves

you know but it could mean that the

people they're telling the news know the

news better than the people we're

telling it

that's sometimes the case

all right

uh I saw one report I don't know if this

is true but that Newsome is dispatching

the National Guard to tackle the drug

situation in San Francisco

they might confirm that

that Newsome is sending or will send the

National Guard

for San Francisco

because I don't I don't think so

but maybe

maybe but let's say if it is true and I

would put a big question mark on that it

feels a little I don't know

I feel like it would be bigger news or

something but I only saw it in one

Outlet

so

this would be if if it's true and that's

a real big if in this this story I would

say that

it's another example that you have to

become Trump to run against them

you have to become Trump to run against

them that's a problem

you basically have to adopt his policies

after saying they were bad policies

forever

because once you're in the National

stage you just look ridiculous

you know it's just more obvious that

Trump was right about some stuff the

immigration for example

um

Alex Jones says he has some Source from

in TSA that says masks are coming back

as a requirement

now

next story

if you argue about this

you're in the wrong fight

it's just no

now we're done

we're moving to the next story it's just

now

no

not no maybe not know for a little while

not a little bit yes just know

no

all right

um

did I mention that my book reframed me

brain is number one in the happiness

category on Amazon so number one book to

give you happiness and it probably is

number one book in hypnosis even though

it's reframes I present them in the

context of as a professional hypnotist

you know telling you what works about

them so it's not it isn't teaching you

hypnosis per se except in the specific

form of putting reframes into your own

your own Brave and other peoples

and it's number one in personal

transformation in other words personal

growth or success so it's number one in

all three categories that um

are the ones that matter

now don't get too excited being number

one in in your category doesn't mean

you're number one in the world but it's

also not even available except in Kindle

so this is the kind of book where I

would expect a lot of people are going

to wait for the soft cover which could

drop any minute

um

but it's because you're going to want it

as a reference it's sort of a book that

you're going to read it and then go back

to it a bunch of times like oh what was

that what was that reframe I remember

so lives are already being changed

um the the reviews are crazy

they're just so good

people are finding their entire lives

just

re reprogrammed you know just with a few

uh reframes

so I know that I know that these claims

seem wildly unlikely

but you have to read read the reviews

yourself it was written to have that

impact and people are saying it has that

impact

all right RFK Jr

had some uh pretty provocative things to

say about REM deserveer and about Tony

fauci

so this is RFK JR says Tony fauci knew

that REM deserveer would kill you

now what do I say about

people knew

there's a little bit of mind reading

right a little bit of mind reading but

if he can back it up with say a document

or some other evidence then then I'm

going to listen to it so I don't know if

he has other evidence

but I'm always uncomfortable and you

should be too whenever you hear somebody

say somebody else knew something

often is true

but it gets into that mind reading

category that you you need to ask more

questions when somebody says that so I'm

not comfortable just knowing

that RFK JR says Tony fauci knew

something

now he may be right and I would say he

has a high likelihood of being right but

I need a little more than that I'm not

going to go just with somebody thinks

somebody knew something that's that's a

little weak uh but RFK Jr I find quite

credible in doing his homework and

research and he certainly knows this

topic inside out so maybe he does know

maybe maybe RFK Jr does know what Tony

fauci knows about this specific thing I

wouldn't rule it out

but it just makes me uncomfortable when

I see the Mind reading-ish stuff

um

and the

the ideas that REM Desir has some side

effects

that would affect things like kidneys in

heart Etc and that people having kidney

problems

it would be a weird virus that killed

you with your kidneys but REM deserveer

according to RFK Jr might have a side

effect that would be you know sort of

right on the nose for that side effect

so

how bad is it

Now isn't there also a rumor maybe it's

confirmed you'll have to you have to

fact check business was Anthony fauci

did he have a financial interest in rem

deserver at the time of the pandemic

financial interest

because I've read that he did but I

don't know that you can depend on any

reporting on this domain

yeah I'm going to say I've seen reports

of it but I don't know that I would not

personally I would not Resort that as

fact

yeah but maybe it's reported well I'll

just say it's reported that way I'm

going to stop short of saying fact

because it's the sort of thing I'm not

sure anybody knows for example would

would anybody know if he had sold this

stock before the pandemic

would we know that

I just worry that we don't know because

it's not exactly public information all

right

so again

I'm going to call out the incredible

benefit we're seeing from the campaign

yeah imagine imagine if people have just

said well it looks like it's going to be

Biden versus Trump

you know we'll just live with it

but that's not what happened several

candidates decided that they not only

had a chance to fake has a real chance

but that they had something to say

Vivek is as much about what he's saying

as the fact that he's running

he's saying stuff that is reorienting

how you feel about stuff how you think

about it he's reframing the hell out of

us he's really modifying and improving I

would say I'd say he's improving the

philosophical opinions on the right

because have I ever told you the good

writing

I refer to it as

saying what you were thinking by saying

it better than you were thinking it

that's what Vivek does all day long he

says what you're already thinking sort

of

but you had not thought of it that well

and then when he puts it in a sentence

you say that's it that that's the

sentence I wish that sentence had been

in my head

now I've taught you in my book reframe

your brains just Downton Kindle I taught

you that putting words in somebody's ads

is how you reprogram people

we think in terms of words that's why

the llms produce something that looks

like intelligence

because our internal thought process

depends on words and how they fit

together and we imagine that that's our

thinking but really it's just word

patterns that we've seen before and what

we've been exposed to

so when Vivek puts a different word

pattern into your head and he reframes a

topic you're being reprogrammed

he's actually upgrading your software

because if you if you used to say

if you used to say whatever let's say

DeSantis said about a topic then maybe

you had sort of a corporate e you know

his version of saying it but if you

replace that with of a vague sentence

especially if you remember the actual

sentence you're reprogramming yourself

to a higher level of

argument you know you could debate

better

using vivek's words and then someone

else's words

true story

so uh

so you know Larry Elder is doing great

things promoting his beliefs that the

family unit has to be strengthened to

fix just about everything

and you're seeing RFK Jr just ripping

the lid off of you know the line from

every part of society

love that

those are those are three candidates who

are really making the difference no

matter what happens

I don't think I could have more respect

for those three candidates than I do

I mean I have maximum respect because

they're doing the I hate to say doing

the work they're doing productive things

even if they don't win and certainly a

few of them don't expect to win

so and I just want to say something

about uh

Larry Elders take you know the family

unit and keeping the father there is

important I would agree with everything

he says about that

but

I would argue that maybe things have

changed and not just in how we

financially reward people for not having

a father uh but I think we're we're in a

situation where I don't think we can go

back

so it's not that having a family unit

doesn't produce better results it seems

to very clearly

but if you can't go back to it in other

words if we're if we're on a one-way

journey and you just can't go back

because for whatever reason and I don't

think it's just Financial

um well I'm just going to say it

all right I didn't want to say it but

I'm just going to say it

the reason people don't stay married is

that we suck

that's it

that's it people suck

we're not people that you should marry

and stay married to we're just not not

the men not the women

the men are not worth staying with and

the women are not we're staying with

they're just not worth it

now I'm not talking about any individual

and I'm not talking about my life

because I'm a rich guy nothing applies

you know my rich guy getting married in

divorce is not like yours

right you all know that I can afford to

get married I could afford to get

divorced

so it's different it's different but if

if a divorce is the difference between

poverty and making it

you know that's a whole different world

and in that world the benefit of getting

married

just isn't there because people suck

I do believe that people are worse

people than they've ever been

just in general

people are worse than they've ever been

to each other in terms of what it would

take to be a partner for marriage and we

I feel like we can't say that out loud

because you know somebody's going to

turn it racist of course

somebody's going to turn it into sexism

of course but you didn't hear me say

that right

I didn't say it's you know limited just

one group because it's not I didn't say

it's you know one gender is the bad one

because they're not

we've just become terrible people

so how do you fix that

so I think I think the Larry Elder

solution of strength the strengthening

the families is good as a concept as

great as you know maybe a end point or

something

but I don't know how to get there

you can't tell me that marrying somebody

who you know is not going to find me a

good marriage partner is works for me

and keep in mind I'm talking about

myself right I'm not I'm not saying

you're bad and I'm awesome

I've been divorced twice

do you think I would be divorced twice

if somebody really really liked being

married to me

I don't think so

honestly if I were a better deal

somebody would be married to me by now

probably and we'd be happy but

apparently I'm not a good deal

and you know I'm at least transparent

about it

all right um

you know I snore so it's hard it's hard

to be in a relationship when you snore

that's one of the things people don't

talk about

they don't talk about how much snoring

makes it impossible to be in a

relationship

uh you you can act like it's not like oh

that's just a detail but it's not not

just a detail I would bet this snoring

is 20 of divorces

that's my estimate snoring is 20 of

divorces now that's that doesn't mean

they'll say that it just means you end

up in separate bedrooms and then it all

goes to hell

so nobody plans it that way

all right

um yeah I've done I've had my sinuses

operated on it doesn't make a difference

I've had my septum DVA septum

um

also so I've had two surgeries to fix my

general sinus situation

no difference

no difference

but very painful surgeries but no

difference

I do breathe better though

what was I talking about uh oh so I I

love the Larry Elder thing but I think

he needs to go back a level and find out

what's wrong at the base he's definitely

on point about something being economic

but there's a much bigger thing we've

all become people who are not worth

marriage

that's a big problem

right now here's why here's part of the

reason we've become

um

part of the reason that we've become

people we don't want to marry is because

we don't have roles

when people had roles you could respect

anybody who did their role right now you

could say it was sexist that's not the

argument I'm saying that when the male

female roles were clear

you could respect the other person for

doing the role and even if maybe the

lust dissipated you'd say to yourself my

God I can't live without that

like that's that's a partner

that's somebody who values the promise

as much as the you know the day-to-day

lust and happiness

so

yeah I think the the loss of Rome uh

defined Role Models was simultaneously

amazing for some number of women

amazing for some number of men

amazing for some number of lgbtq that

you know maybe got more freedom in that

deal

but it destroyed the system

very good for a lot of people

individually

but it destroyed the system

so I think we have to figure out how to

restore the system

in the context of we're not so good to

each other that we want to marry each

other these days we don't add enough

value

somebody asked me recently you know if

I'd want to get married again

do you know what my answer is

why

what would that give me

what what possible benefit would that be

I couldn't even think of one it has

nothing to do with any individual I may

or may not fall in love with I just

don't see any benefit to it

what's the benefit loyalty

do you think I could get some loyalty

no no because we don't really live in

that world anymore and that's not a

statement of women this is not a

statement about women

you can't buy loyalty you can't find it

we just sort of live in a cheater

society and uh if people don't cheat

they might want to change partners

yeah now marriage would be ridiculous in

my specific situation somebody said it

more generally why would a rich person

ever get married

there's not much reason

there really isn't

all right

um I can tell you why I did it

I got married for the benefit of the

person I was marrying

I mean I was in love in both cases

totally in love but to me the marriage

was only for the benefit of children you

know step kids and it just made somebody

else happier but that's why I did it

because that felt like my role right my

role was to keep people

you know safe

all right Mark Cuban was tweeting at

Elon Musk over this big issue of whether

whether blocking will be allowed on

Twitter in the future let's call it X

and Elon Musk who said that blocking is

going to go away Mark Cuban had some

things about to say about the algorithm

so there are two things going on one is

about blocking and then Mark Cuban's

conversation about whether Elon Musk has

too much influence over the content

now when I saw let's talk about them

individually so let's talk about the

algorithm first so Mark Cuban steak was

that uh Twitter or X is now a reflection

of one person's sensibilities I hope I'm

summarizing that correctly

and I I commented back to Mark Cuban and

said I'm not seeing

I'm not seeing the effect of that you

know what what exactly makes you think

that it's become you know an Elon Musk

sort of thing and that he he responded

by showing the Twitter guy I guess

there's a Twitter document let's call it

X that explains how their algorithm

works

it is hilarious to read

if you want a good laugh you should read

the X document that explains how their

algorithm works

let's just say it's complicated

there's so many so many jargony

buzzwords in it you really can't tell

what it is it's as close to being a

hundred percent non-transparent as

anything could be

wall is trying to be transparent

so that the point of it is to show you

what they're doing but because they have

to use such you know generic jargony

words as it's just so dense with jargon

you really can't tell what it is yeah no

human could read that it's not because

I'm not an engineer it's not because I'm

you know not an expert in the field it's

just written that no nobody could

understand in detail what it's doing or

not doing

but I saw one phrase there that said

that uh

let's see what was the phrase on the the

X document it said they would seek Fair

balance

of you know contents from different

sources

that's actually the that was the term

used in The X documents

that they would seek Fair balance

what's that tell you

do uh do computers and AI do they know

how to figure out what's fair

how do you determine what's fair

that no there's no objective standard

for fair

because it doesn't just mean you know

the numbers

right it's not about just the numbers

it's about a judgment

fair is only subjective

so if the Twitter algorithm

has an important component in which

somebody or something

is determining what a fair balance is of

content from different sources

that can only be humans

now it might be the humans who you know

set it up and then they walk away but

it's set up by the humans

some human had to say I'm going to tweak

this or put this filter in because in my

my opinion or maybe some few people's

opinions this is what Fair looks like

would it be fair

to have just as much content from

something that's obviously conspiracy

trash

versus something that might have some

credibility

would it be fair that you get the same

amount of it

depends right if you're Alex Jones you'd

say that is fair because you can't tell

what's real and what's not

you know maybe he'd say that

right if you're somebody else you say

that's crazy why would you let you know

some 4chan conspiracy theory get the

equal weight with a you know a

respectable publication

so fair is so completely subjective that

I had to immediately fold my argument

and agree with Mark Cuban that we can

never know what's happening with the

algorithm but we can know for sure that

if Elon Musk doesn't like it he'll

change it

now that doesn't mean that we're already

seeing sort of the Elon Musk version of

reality it just means

it has to happen over time

and as Cuban said

Elon Musk won't always be alive and

always running it

somebody else might have to be the

let's say the uh

the benevolent dictator

I've often said the best form of

government by far the best form of

government would be a brilliant

uh benevolent dictator

because the dictator part gets you you

know past all the nonsense of arguing

about stuff the brilliant part gets you

good Solutions or at least somebody who

knows you know to test things before

they Implement them that's that's pretty

good

um

and the benevolent means that that

person is brilliant and working for your

interests

now we actually have something that

feels like that to me

you've got the brilliant part Elon Musk

you've got the benevolent part which I

actually believe I believe he's I

believe he really wants free speech in

his bones I think that's completely real

but that's my opinion

I don't know you know if he had some

secret evil agenda would I know it no

okay I read minds

but it feels to me like an ideal

situation that's also temporary so I'm

going to agree with Mark Cuban no matter

what you think of Elon and I have a high

opinion

he's not going to be there forever

but Twitter won't always be the same

forever either so by the by the time

somebody else runs it maybe everything

else has changed you know maybe there's

a whole different AI platform or

something

so

I'd keep an eye on that but be aware in

my opinion there's no such thing as an

algorithm that is not biased

and if you had one you couldn't make a

business model out of it

in other words bias in the design of the

algorithm is unavoidable

so

you know my response to Mark Cuban he

certainly made his point yeah the the

way the algorithm is you can't avoid the

fact that the owner of the company is

going to get what he or she wants

that's a good that's a good solid

point

but

we don't know if we're seeing it yet

and I can't think of any model that

would be better

can you you know the the obvious thing

you think is like oh let's get rid of

all moderation

do you think that would work

do you think you could build a platform

with no moderation

no do you think you could have a

platform in which you're not doing a lot

of fact checking

and that works out okay

no no that's not going to work out okay

there are no Solutions

so before you criticize the way it is

just remember you're not comparing it to

anything you're comparing it to some

imaginary thing in your mind in which

there's both no censorship

and it works out fine

that's not a possibility

that is not even slightly a possibility

human beings will exploit every

opportunity to be terrible

so what's happening now sort of

dovetailing this is that so Elon Musk

wants to take away the block feature

and people are asking me Scott what do

you think about this and here's my

opinion

um I'm one of many millions of Twitter

users

personally removing the block feature

for me and my very specific situation of

a you know million followers and I talk

about politics and people hate me and

people love me and they're all going to

be fighting it out in the comments

in my very specific situation removing

the blocking is all bad

but that's not my opinion of whether you

should do it

because I'm just one person

and I'm an elite

at least in terms of Twitter users I'm

an elite Twitter user because I have a

million followers

should Elon Musk

modify his his rules and his features to

satisfy people like me

if it's at the expense of everybody else

and the answer is I don't think so I'd

love to tell you he should satisfy me

and let the rest of you you know who

have small accounts you know fend for

yourself

uh but I don't think that's the way you

run anything

I I think I think not now I'll go

further and say if I had as many

followers as Elon Musk I wouldn't care

about blocking

do you understand that if I had uh 20

million followers

I wouldn't care about blocking do you

know why if you've got 20 million

followers you're not looking at comments

you wouldn't spend a minute looking at

comments because there would be a

million of them

what are you going to do block three of

them

oh there's I've got 300 000 people

saying I'm a Nazi I'll block three of

them ah

but I can actually block

100 of my trolls without much effort on

any given day there might be fewer than

five

you know I click things five times a day

and I feel good when I click it

so my experience is unique there's this

little zone of influencers

you know some somewhat in the size of my

accounts let's say

a quarter million to million and a half

and there's lots of

for that group of people

it's all bad

the the removing blocking for us Tiny's

tiny little sliver of users is all bad

and there's no way to argue that

does everybody agree

that just for our personal enjoyment is

just all bad

now whether that and I've said it before

that I use blocking for mental health

that's literally true I'm not making

like a weird analogy or anything no my

actual physical state of mind

is improved by blocking and I can feel

it immediately

and the inability to block would bother

me all day long if something just sat

there and I couldn't do anything about

it so even though blocking doesn't make

other people not see it so much it makes

me feel good

so I would say that my mental health

would absolutely no doubt about it

suffer and that muting would not be

nearly as satisfying

that's my first take however you know

what I say about things that can be

tested

I should not have an opinion because it

could be tested it can be reversed

so if you can test it

and you just find out did it work for me

did it work for most people but not me

I'd like to know

so I would love Elon Musk to show the

rest of the country

how decisions are made

first he said I'm going to do this thing

but you have to know in the back your

head and I'd like I'd like to hear them

say it directly but you know he's

thinking this this is one where mind

reading is easy

because everybody's smart thinks the

same way

yeah if you can test it and if it's

reversible which software is

test it

so I'm not going to say yes or no just

give it a test if it works for everybody

but me I'll say go do it you know I'm

not I'm not your boss if it works for

you I would be happy for you

uh honestly I worry that I would quit

using X

because you know if I have to deal with

Ben Garrison comics on my timeline again

I don't know if I'd stay

I honestly don't

because that would be it would make me

feel bad every time I logged on

but by you know blocking the people who

said that I don't see it

would muting do as well

I doubt it

but I'd be willing to see

all right

um

uh let's see what else has happened so

the news is that uh DeSantis is barely

trying these days there's a clip in

which he's taken a little bit in a

context I would say uh unless you you

said quote unless you're kissing uh

you're talking about Trump he says

unless you're kissing his rear end

they'll call you a rhino

and then he referred to quote listless

vessels who follow whatever comes down

the pike on Truth social every morning

and people said

um are you running to get those votes or

to alienate Republicans

it feels like exactly the wrong approach

compared to the smartest guy in the race

Vivek

he just says good things about

Republicans and people in general and

and even Trump

does anybody hate Vivek because you

think he doesn't like you

he seems to like people

even seem to like the lgbtq

reporter who there was a famous viral

thing of them having a discussion he

seemed to like her

he seems to like people

that's a real good quality in the

president

but DeSantis uh did a little bit of the

deplorables mistake I would say he's

taken a little bit out of context if you

heard it in context it wouldn't hit you

the same

anacontext it does is more grading in

context he's making a point you could

argue about it but I think it was a

mistake

I would say it was a mistake to word it

that way certainly mocking people who

use truth social is just a big mistake

so

yeah it doesn't look like he's serious

about it

I don't know what it I feel like he

already knows that he's wasting his time

he acts like a person who's smart enough

to know none of this will help him

all right

uh

was it the Wall Street Journal I think

who's reporting that the war in Ukraine

could go on for years because

neither side has a clear goal that's

attainable

so they both have goals

but they're not attainable you know

Russia is not going to own all of

Ukraine Ukraine is not going to get its

land back so how do you ever have peace

and so the Wall Street Journal is saying

could be years of war

do you think we're that dumb

are we going to do this again

if we know we can end it a day and

honestly we can

now when I say we I think Vivek good

I think maybe de Santa is good I think

Trump could

I don't know how many of the others

could but you know maybe maybe Mike

Ben's good I don't know but it seems

pretty doable to me I'm pretty sure I

can do it myself

if I were president

it looks so doable that I don't believe

any of this and and you know you know

what's wrong with the framing

did you see what's wrong with the

framing I'll say the frame again you

tell me what's wrong with it

that neither Russian or Ukraine have

objectives that are both you know

clearly stated I want this but also

reasonably attainable

so they're saying that you know they're

they're conflicting

objectives are the problem

do you see what's wrong with that

framing

I want to see if it just jumps out to

anybody

what's wrong with that framing

it's pure propaganda

personal

oh my god it worked

oh my god it worked

they're they're diverting you from the

obvious and it worked

oh my God I'm having a moment here where

I'm actually horrified

I am horrified

you're going to be real mad when I tell

you

when they frame it as Ukraine and and

Russia want things but they're having

trouble getting them

here's the part you're missing

who the cares what either of them

want

who the cares

no if the United States wants them to

stop fighting we're going to make them

stop

that's it

I don't care if Ukraine wants it I don't

care what they want I don't care what

Putin wants

how did you all miss that was that did

they do such a good job of propaganda

that every one of you missed that

you're you they made you think that you

it matters what they think it doesn't

matter what they think they did the same

thing with Mexico

do you remember when uh you know

everybody said well the Mexican

government's never going to agree to our

military going in and operating against

the cartels the Mexican government's

never going to agree what's wrong with

that framing

who the cares what the Mexican

Government wants

it's not up to them they don't have a

vote

we have the military the United States

and we're under attack

the Mexican Government zero vote

we're wasting our time and treasure in

Ukraine and it's costing us big time

does Ukraine have a voted now no no they

don't vote in the United States does

Putin have a vote nope nope not a vote

no if we get a president who can

actually see past narratives

that they can Trump can probably several

others can but I'll just mention too

you need somebody who can see past that

framing and we do have too I don't know

if we have more than actually

uh RFK Jr

we have three candidates who can three

see past the propaganda framing but I am

horrified that none of you did or at

least in the comments you didn't mention

it now now that I've mentioned it

do you see it

am I right

you see it right you see that the

framing of what they care about is just

absolutely

it should be a crime

the fact that they could even guide your

mind in that direction is just crazy

now this is a subset of a reframe in my

book

one of the reframes and reframe your

brain available now in Kindle is that

you don't know who has the power

and we often get lost in an assumption

of who has the power

Ukraine doesn't have any power

Russia doesn't have any power

and our government doesn't have any

power

you do

you and I do collectively we can decide

what our government does just by

answering polls that say don't do that

you know if it gets to 80 percent

the government can't do it there are

very few things your government can do

if 80 of the public is against it

because they need to get reelected and

stuff

so the American public has the power

but the media has cut you off from it by

this kind of narrative this kind of

narrative just takes all your power away

because you don't know you have the

power and you're like arguing about

stuff oh you creating this Putin that

they're not relevant

they are not relevant oh Europe not

relevant now the Great Britain was not

relevant

not relevant

military-industrial complex they want

well they're relevant unfortunately

shouldn't be

you can't be serious

yeah anyway the citizens do not have the

power because they believe they do not

so that doesn't seem to be changing so

at the moment they don't but it would

require only a reframe of how they think

before they went and all you would have

to do is tell the people you know if the

United States wants to end this we could

do it tomorrow what do you think do you

want to end it you don't think you would

get 80 saying well I didn't realize that

was an option no it is it's actually an

option you just ignore the interests of

the other people because you can and

they're not relevant to you

and then just end it

you just tell both sides you'll crush

them

you'll crush them

if they don't stop right now

I I think Trump's the only one who can

sell it

but Vivek can say it I mean maybe he

could sell it but Trump could sell it

all right

yeah what else is going on

that's about it

I don't think you need much more that's

a good solid hour of

content that you won't see anywhere else

and not too many commercials

all right uh

I saw that uh

the famous Twitter account captured

uh was complaining about the blocking

feature

and Elon Musk blocked him

and then Elon tweeted that he's blocking

people who are complaining about

blocking

he said let's see how you like it

and I thought you know yeah I love it I

love it

I I don't even though I don't love the

blocking

I just love the fact that he blocked

people from complaining about blocking

so they could see how they feel about

being blocked

he's helping he's helping

the second funny bad thing about that is

I blocked the cat turd a long time ago

because he's a idiot

I don't know maybe maybe you like it

maybe you follow him personally

he's an idiot that's that's my take

and I wouldn't want to see any of his

tweets again except that one was funny

uh James Wood

is making some news

uh

I saw a video from him that a video of

some you know youths attacking cars in

Philadelphia

and he tweeted the other day this isn't

fixable

does that sound familiar

this isn't fixable

now I don't think he follows me well he

probably caught the headlines don't you

think don't you think James would caught

the headlines about my cancellation

probably most people did

um

but it's not fixable where have you

heard that before besides me

who who is another person who said it's

not fixable

you have to know when to hold them and

know when to fold them right

Alice Jones Chris Rock really Chris Rock

I don't know about that

Alex Jones Bill Mitchell no Tim Poole

said it

yeah and by the way there's nothing

wrong with that

there's nothing wrong with that opinion

it's not it's not cruel it's just a

statement of what you think is happening

so I would like you know cities not to

fall into Decay I would like everybody

to have you know jobs and not walk on

on bums in the street

but it doesn't look like it's going to

happen and I would guess that the future

is building new cities

as as I said in the beginning and I

think the old ones just have to go

because

um I I think they need to bottom

and then probably they'll just turn it

into something else but I think cities

are probably on a long-term decline

and I don't think we should necessarily

try to fix them if they're not

interested in fixing themselves

so I would say get away from cities

if you can

I should do a podcast with Peter Zayn I

don't think he does guests does he I

think he just does his own thing he's

very interesting but

um I noted and I'm glad you mentioned

him so I mentioned the other day that

Peter Zan said that Russia's real goal

with you know all of its aggressive

moves were to make sure they controlled

the attack points to defend Russia

and if you look at them they they line

up very well with the most strategic

attack points now his take is if you

could you know make well I think I'm I'm

saying too much about his take I'll say

it's my take if that's true then I would

suggest there's a way to deal with

Russia where you say all right your

problem is these these choke points

maybe there's some way short of a war

that you can get some security and we

can get some security and we're not

nobody's giving up too much

so that would suggest if the Peter Zan

view of the world is right it's about

those choke points that gives you

something to negotiate

if the Wall Street Journal is Right

which is a totally different take and by

the way never mentioned the choke point

issue I've never seen it anywhere else

actually if it's true that the goals are

amorphous and impossible to get then you

can't have peace so the Wall Street

Journal article looks like an article

that was written by the military

industrial complex

I'm not saying it was but it reads like

it would you agree it shows no hope and

warns you that the war will take years

who benefits from that

military-industrial complex maybe the

neocons but as much as I think the Wall

Street Journal is you know one of the

best independent vehicles for news

and I'm not going to make an accusation

about that specific article

but use your own judgment

you know there there's another view that

would say it's negotiable

at least two for use and they acted like

because it's amorphous

that it can't be negotiated

the amorphous part is really not the

problem

and I don't know if they're just bad at

telling you all the context

or if they were influenced by the

military industrial complex right so

those are the questions you would ask

about a story like that

all right

um anybody else

got a topic I haven't talked about

uh you know one of the things about

being a public figure is there any way

to be a public figure and to not be

accused of being anti-semitic at some

point in your career

it's like literally unavoidable

all right

uh yeah China's in trouble

15-minute cities easy to pacify

shows everybody everything else

at this point as long as the government

can turn off your money which they can

do anytime they want

therefore control already

if the government can turn off your

money they already have full control

will the next hurricane be named Gavin

uh

e b c d e f g h no

it's gonna have to start with the letter

I right

because they go they go in order

it would have to be Lavin

yeah Alex Jones I don't know if his

I don't I can't imagine lockdowns

can't imagine lockdowns I can't imagine

another school

closing I just can't imagine it

um

all right

Dei

all right I think we've talked about it

all and uh ladies and gentlemen I'm

gonna go talk to the locals people

thanks for joining YouTube

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