Episode 2214 Scott Adams - Science & Coin-Flipping In Tense Battle For Legitimacy & All News Is Fake
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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization today too. I'm also streaming live on X for the first time, and we're doing it over on the Locals channel where they get a little extra before and after and lots of other extras other times. And of course on YouTube. Welcome…
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View segment →. He, you know, leading the ChatGPT and other billionaire stuff, one of the smartest people on the planet, Sam Altman. And he says something very compatible with something I've said. So he said, quote, in a tweet: "Give yourself a lot of shots to get lucky is even better advice than it appears on th…
View segment →eople are lucky, some people are not, and that's the end of the story. But that's sort of a loser's frame. The truth is that you can make your luck happen by going where there's more of it. So that's your first little lesson. And as Sam Altman says, although he talks about increasing your superlinea…
View segment →And then she says, "Let's go to this one." And you say to yourself, "Wow, that worked pretty well." Now you get in the car. If any of you are married, you can back me on this. So she's chosen one of the two choices. You get in the car, and then she says, right after you start the car, "But you know…
View segment →to you." To connect the two stories: Apparently she's been listening to me. Apparently she paid attention. So what did I say? I said, "Pastas." And then we drove to Pastas and had a perfectly great lunch. So that's your reframe of the day. This one is the most trivial one in the sense that it's ju…
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View segment →hings, etc. So over time it probably does crawl closer to the truth than whatever else we were using. So that's good. I don't recommend getting rid of science. But for new stuff, yeah, new stuff like the straws, that's kind of new. Coin flip. All right. Apparently Canadians aren't allowed to have n…
View segment →by the way, but I'll just tell you what the community note says. The fact that this is real, I'm going to read this. I'm just saying it's from the community notes. I feel like it couldn't be real, but it might be. I'll read it to you. You decide. Community notes: The Canadian government has not for…
View segment →keep in mind that the links were links to drive traffic to the news site. Now that would be advertising, we call it in this country, or marketing. It's advertising or marketing when people from somewhere else are encouraged to go to your product. But now that's not going to happen. It's not illegal…
View segment →s compared to the size of the holes in the mask? No, you'll never see that. Because that is not an argument that smart people make or informed people. If you're uninformed, do you think the virus travels on its own? If the virus left your mouth on its own without any water droplet, it would just fal…
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View segment →t the guy who can't take the free money. I don't want that person anywhere near the White House. Right? So that was a good answer. So I tweeted the link, and it'd be near the top of my tweet feed today or the X feed. And if you'd like to have that link, I recommend keeping it handy. If you're runni…
View segment →Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization today too. I'm also streaming live on X for the first time, and we're doing it over on the Locals channel where they get a little extra before and after and lots of other extras other times. And of course on YouTube. Welcome, everybody. Good to see you all.
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Well, I saw a tweet today from Sam Altman. He, you know, leading the ChatGPT and other billionaire stuff, one of the smartest people on the planet, Sam Altman. And he says something very compatible with something I've said. So he said, quote, in a tweet: "Give yourself a lot of shots to get lucky is even better advice than it appears on the surface. Luck isn't an independent variable but increases superlinearly with more surface area. You meet more people, make more connections between new ideas, learn patterns, etc."
Now, what is my version of that from my book *Reframe Your Brain*? My version of that is that you can make luck happen by going where there's more of it. So if you stay in your little small town and you know three neighbors and that's all you know of the entire world, what are the odds you're going to get lucky? Because there just aren't many things happening. There's not much luck to happen. But if you go somewhere, let's say an exciting industry and an exciting place, and you meet more people and you network and you invite people over and you make more friends, you do all the things to put yourself in a greater energy situation, just more stuff happening, that's where luck happens.
So the reframe is that the old view is that some people are lucky, some people are not, and that's the end of the story. But that's sort of a loser's frame. The truth is that you can make your luck happen by going where there's more of it. So that's your first little lesson. And as Sam Altman says, although he talks about increasing your superlinearly surface area, I just say go where there's more stuff happening. That's the dumb guy's version, my version.
All right, allow me to tell you a story that went over really well on my Man Cave live stream last night on Locals, so I think you'll like it too. It goes like this. There are two stories, and then I'm going to connect them.
Story number one: If you have children, especially teens, you may have had this experience that you think they're not listening to any of your wisdom because you're always trying to drop it in. You know, you're trying to be subtle about it. It's like, well, you know, in this situation it's always a good idea to handle it this way. You know, you just sort of slowly let your magic of your wisdom seep in. But you can never tell if it's working because they're not going to give you feedback. Like, the thing you're not going to hear is, "My goodness, that's the best idea I've heard all day. I've been alive for 10 years already and I don't think I've ever heard a better idea. I'm going to adopt your idea now because it seems so sound." No, that doesn't happen. That doesn't happen. So just keep in mind that sometimes they're listening and absorbing, but you're not going to know right away.
All right, now take that story, put it aside, but don't forget it. It's coming back.
So yesterday I finally got my own copies of my own book, because when you do independent publishing you have to buy your own book. If you do regular publishing, the publisher sends you a box of them you can give to your friends and stuff. But I had to wait for my own book to come, just like you did. Ordered it from Amazon. And I was standing in the kitchen and I was flipping through it, you know, just to make sure it looked the way I wanted it to look, and it looked great. And I sort of randomly picked out a chapter and just started reading it, which is weird because I wrote it, but it's been so long since I wrote it it's actually like a new experience sometimes when I read it.
And the reframe that I was reading about, I'm going to share with you so you get a freebie now. I swear this will change some of your lives in a small way. Right, this one's not going after a big thing. This is going after a small annoyance, and I'm going to completely solve it for you right now. Watch how happy you are when you try this reframe.
And the reframe is to solve the problem of deciding where to eat with your partner. Have you ever had that problem? "Where do you want to eat?" "I don't care. Where do you want to eat?" "How about here?" "No." Right, it's a continuous problem that we all have. There is a solution, and it requires a reframe. If the frame you've adopted is that you're trying to make a decision with somebody who's not good at making decisions or doesn't make them the way you'd like them to.
Now let's take the classic, let's say traditional stereotype situation of a boring, boring heterocouple. They're so boring they bore me. And we'll just use that as an example. Obviously I can't speak for the LGBTQ community. Maybe it's a little different there. I don't know. Wouldn't know, so I won't speak for that. But in the hetero community, generally it goes like this. The guy says, "Hey, do you want to eat at X place?" Because he wants to take charge. Like, guys, even women like it. They say it all the time. Women like it when the man will sometimes make a plan, because women are planning all day and often taking care of kids. So they're kind of planned out, and they kind of like it. It would feel really good if the guy would just say, "Hey, I got a plan. Let's do this."
So if you're a guy, you have two things you need to accomplish. Number one, you have to be the take-charge person who makes a plan for dinner. But also you've got to make sure that you don't do any decision-making on your own, because you're getting clowned in about a minute. You know you're going to get clowned. So you can't make a decision, but also you must make a decision. So that's impossible. How do you make a decision and not make a decision at the same time? That's the only way you can satisfy the situation.
So you reframe it. Instead of saying I'm trying to make an eating decision with a crazy person, for which there is no solution, nobody's ever come up with a solution, you do the Kobayashi Maru Star Trek reference, and you reframe it so that the real problem is you have a puzzle to solve. You're not deciding where to eat. You're solving a puzzle, which is how do you take charge and not take charge at the same time. That's the puzzle.
And here's how you do it. You pick two places you're willing to eat, and you say to your partner, usually the guy saying to the wife in this classic stereotype situation, and you say, "Let's go eat. I suggest one of these two places." Now what you've done is you've taken charge. You've said let's go out. You've narrowed it to two. But still the wife has a choice. Excellent, right? She has a choice.
So then she says, "Oh, that's a good idea. I love it. You're taking charge." She's thinking that, not saying it. And then she says, "Let's go to this one." And you say to yourself, "Wow, that worked pretty well."
Now you get in the car. If any of you are married, you can back me on this. So she's chosen one of the two choices. You get in the car, and then she says, right after you start the car, "But you know, we have eaten at that last place kind of recently. Yeah, you know, it'd be even better than the two choices you gave me would be this third place I've been thinking about."
And then you go for the close. You're the guy. You've given two choices. She said yes to one, and then she's doing an audible in the car. Here's the closer: "Yes, that would be great. I love it." Boom. Problem solved. Woman says he took charge, and yeah, she's still got to eat exactly where she wanted to eat.
Now I've already heard from people who have tried it, and it totally works. Right now, remember this story and put it aside. Hold on. Let's go back to the other story. Now I'm going to insert a third story between the two stories, and then I'm going to connect them together.
I swear this happened. This really happened. This is a real, real thing. As I was reading the part of my own book about how to decide where to eat, my stepdaughter comes walking down the hall, and we had made plans earlier to go out to lunch but I hadn't picked a place. She walks directly up to me as I'm reading the section, and she says, "We could eat at Pastas or the Railroad Cafe. Now it's up to you."
To connect the two stories: Apparently she's been listening to me. Apparently she paid attention. So what did I say? I said, "Pastas." And then we drove to Pastas and had a perfectly great lunch.
So that's your reframe of the day. This one is the most trivial one in the sense that it's just getting rid of a little frustration, but the book is full of ways to change your mental and physical health and your career and everything else, even your view of reality. So that's your funny story of the day.
Let's do backward causation science. Are you ready? So a tweet by William Costello. There's a study out of Harvard that tracked people over 84 years, and what they found was that good relationships are the greatest predictor of happiness. The people with the best relationships have the best happiness. Huh. That's quite a surprising result. I wonder if there's any other way to look at the same set of data.
Oh, whoa. Let's see. You've got a choice of two people to mate with. One is grumpy and unhappy, and one is happy. Who to choose? Who to choose? Who to choose? Grumpy and unhappy all the time or happy all the time? Other things about equal. I don't know. What do you think people do in that situation?
Backward science. Have you ever seen so much backward science in your life? Yeah, here's how you know backward science. Every time somebody says doing something makes you healthier or doing something makes you happier, it's a lie. Because the happy people do those things and the healthy people do those things, and it's not that doing those things makes you those things. It's that people who are those things do those things. Right?
Do you know what being healthy allows me to do? Just take a guess. So I'm in good health now. You know what that allows me to do? Exercise. If you tested me, you'd say, "Hey, he exercises and he's healthy." Well, there is a causation that way, of course there is. But do unhealthy people exercise? I mean, it's kind of hard. So anyway, always look for the backwards causation. Often it's a both-ways equalization, like exercising and being healthy. You know, they cause each other. But don't believe, just don't believe any science on these topics. What makes you happier, healthier, a lot of that's just BS.
All right. Speaking of science, there's a new study that says these eco-friendly straws might be as bad or worse than regular straws, because the eco-friendly ones are adding some chemicals to the environment that we didn't have. But the plastic ones maybe last forever. The microplastics get in the waters. So I've been watching this pitched battle that we've had recently between science on one hand and flipping a freaking coin on the other hand.
Now, when I was young I feel like science was ahead, like it could stay ahead of the coin flip. But I feel like that's at least reversed or maybe drawn even. So whenever you see a study that's a binary, there are two things that are possible. So in this case there are two things possible. Either the eco-straws were an improvement or they were not. You know, you could argue it was exactly the same, but that would be unusual. So they're either an improvement or not.
So do you think that flipping a coin would have gotten you on average a worse result than studying it with your science? Well, you'd love to think that the science would win every time, wouldn't you? But I'm here to tell you it's sort of a really even battle between flipping coins and science when it comes to a lot of stuff.
Now I should be quick to tell you the science starts out shaky, and in a perfect world it improves over time as people reproduce things and find different ways to test things and they get skeptical of things, etc. So over time it probably does crawl closer to the truth than whatever else we were using. So that's good. I don't recommend getting rid of science. But for new stuff, yeah, new stuff like the straws, that's kind of new. Coin flip.
All right. Apparently Canadians aren't allowed to have news. I don't know. Do you even care about the details? Yeah, the summary is Canadians are not allowed to have news. Now, if you're worried that the Canadians were slowly losing their rights, you know, I have to admit I haven't really been super worried about Canada. And the reason is I like Canadians, and I think Canadians are generally speaking quite well-balanced, rational, high-functioning people. So I've been telling myself for a long time, well, the Canadians will work this out, right? We don't need to go help the Canadians. The Canadians are real smart, solid. They've been running this good country for the longest time and doing a good job in my opinion. So you know, they don't need any help from us. You don't need my opinion.
Well, writer Gad Saad is reporting that he had a post blocked by Canadian Facebook for alleged misinformation. But then there was a community note that says it was blocked but maybe not for the reason that he thinks, not for misinformation.
Now the first part of the story is imagine being a pretty famous author, you know, Gad Saad, very famous. Imagine that your work is blocked on social media and you don't even know why, because that's part of the story. The part of the story is not that he's wrong. He said he didn't have a mechanism to know why. Imagine being censored and you don't know why.
All right, here's the reason why, according to a community note. Doesn't mean he's wrong, by the way, but I'll just tell you what the community note says. The fact that this is real, I'm going to read this. I'm just saying it's from the community notes. I feel like it couldn't be real, but it might be. I'll read it to you. You decide.
Community notes: The Canadian government has not forbidden posting news articles but did start requiring social media companies to share revenue when they link to news sites. In response, Facebook made a business decision not to allow display or posting of such links by Canadian users.
Really? Seriously? Seriously that Canada was so dumb that they thought that Facebook would just start sharing the revenue with the news people that people linked to? That wasn't going to happen. Of course that wasn't going to happen. That would be the stupidest thing ever. You can make fun of Zuckerberg all day long for his preferences politically, etc. Yeah, you can make fun of him for looking like an Android. But he's not an idiot. He's not stupid. He knows what a business model looks like. Of course he's not going to do business with Canada under those conditions, at least not the way they want it. Of course not. There's no head of a social media company that would have ever agreed to that.
So imagine this. You're a Canadian using social media, and on Facebook you're not allowed to see news from your own country. You can see news from other countries, but you're not allowed to see your own news. Now keep in mind that the links were links to drive traffic to the news site. Now that would be advertising, we call it in this country, or marketing. It's advertising or marketing when people from somewhere else are encouraged to go to your product. But now that's not going to happen.
It's not illegal, but Canada decided to make it non-economic to look at the news that actually happened in the real world. Canada is making it uneconomical to know what's happening in your country. So all of you Canadians, if you'd like to follow people like me on X, you might find for the first time what's happening in your country. I got some surprises for you. You're not going to like it. I'm just saying. You're not going to like it.
All right, poor Canadians.
Well, flying cars I think are here. Although as somebody said, we should stop calling them flying cars because they're just tiny little personal quadcopters. It's basically like a little helicopter with four little electric motorized things like a drone. So it's not a car, but it's kind of a car. And in the Dilbert comic that you can't see unless you're a subscriber on X or on the Locals community, Dilbert has ordered his own flying car. He was trying to compete with a character named Topper who was bragging that he ordered a Cybertruck. And the Cybertruck would be really, really cool, but it's no flying car, is what I'm saying. So I want to get my Tesla flying car.
Apparently China's got one that's flying around in prototype, and it looks pretty awesome. The only thing that was keeping us from having private aircraft was the power of the battery, which is now sufficient. The processing speed so that you could do a lot of processing to keep it stable, which we've got all that. And I would imagine some kind of GPS we've had for a long time. And then you need the regulators to be okay with it. But basically everything that would be needed to have your own little flying personal vehicle, it's here. There's no technology left to design. It's just productizing it and making it legal.
Now the one I saw, it was kind of hilarious because it looked like the four wings on the quadcopter were external, as in if you walked over to it, it would chop you in half. And they're the kind of low, the same size, the same height as the car. And I'm thinking to myself, I'm positive that I've seen those where the blade thing was protected. I feel like they have to at least add that, right? You know, where there's a casing around the blade. Well, no. No inventor of flying planes or cars.
All right. DeSantis. I guess I missed this during the debate, but DeSantis was proud of it, so he was tweeting it around or X-ing it around. Where at the debate he said, "I'm not going to send troops to Ukraine, but I am going to send them to our southern border. When these drug smugglers bring fentanyl across the border, we're going to leave them cold, stone cold dead." Applause, applause.
Sorry, too weak. Too weak. So weak. You're going to wait for them to come across the border? Seriously? Like if they're standing with one foot on the other side of the border, they're like, "Oh, if only there was something we could do about that guy." Really? That's our plan? We're going to watch the coyotes bringing people to the border and then stopping on their side while the immigrants cross, and we're going to be okay with that? No. We should be dropping them with sniper fire. You don't think that would slow the flow? We should have snipers taking out all the coyotes as soon as we spot them.
Now we can shoot from our side if he wants to be like that. But you know, I'm not going to support, I just can't support anybody who's weak on fentanyl. This is weak. You're going to stay on our side of the border while they're coming over to kill us? No. You go kill them where they're in their sleep. Kill them in their sleep. All right. Bomb their facilities. Make their full-time job trying not to get droned. That should be their full-time job. If you're in the cartel, looking up should be your full-time job, because we should have that whole place blanketed with drones by now. And we should just be raining death on the cartels every single day with no remorse. Anything else is stupid and weak, and we're just asking for what we get.
So as much as I like DeSantis in a lot of ways, I know exactly why I suppose he's maybe tested it or something. It sounded good in a poll. I don't know. I mean, I don't know why you would have this opinion even.
All right. I'm not going to talk a lot about masks. I'm just going to tell you the two worst takes on either side. Okay, so we're not going to talk about what the good take is. I'm just going to tell you the ones I don't want to see anymore.
And the worst take on the pro-mask side is that the data shows that they work. Do you agree? The worst take on masks is that the data shows they work at a population level. At a population level. Because there's no dependable data. There's no dependable data on anything really, but there's no dependable data at a city or a county level that supports it. So saying that there is, I think, is the worst argument.
Now to be clear, I don't know what's true. I just know that the data doesn't support it. So you don't ask citizens to do something that's quite extreme like that, wear masks everywhere. That's pretty extreme. If you can't demonstrate it with unambiguous data, that's a no-go. Because freedom requires that if you're going to take any of it away, you've got to have nailed down absolute incontrovertible science. And we're nowhere near that. Well, in fact, we're not even in an environment in which incontrovertible science would be useful. It's not even useful because there's no credibility or faith or believability from any organization that would create data.
So in a situation in which you can't know what's true, don't tell us that the data says it's true when we don't see it at a city level, and you're taking our freedoms away. So it's a terrible argument that you think they work and therefore I should wear a mask. Sorry. What you think works should have no impact on me. What I think works, that should matter. What you think works? No. No way.
Here's the worst argument on the anti-mask side. I'm completely anti-mask. No mandates. If you want to do it, do it. You know, same with anything. But no mandates. And there's no wiggle room on that. I have no wiggle room. No mandates on masks.
However, I am embarrassed to be on that point of view when I keep seeing people tweeting around this thing that shows the size of a virus versus the size of the holes in the mask. If you don't say, "I intentionally left out the size of the water droplets so that I could fool you into being scientifically illiterate," well, that's missing it.
Let me ask you this. Would you say that Dr. Jordan Peterson is very anti-mask? Yes or no? Dr. Jordan Peterson, is he anti-mask? Yes or no? He's anti-mask. Let me ask you the question. He's very anti-mask. Now, would you say that also he understands the topic better than most people because he's scientific by nature? Would you say he's one of the smartest people around and he's looked into it enough he's got a good take on it, right?
Do you think you'll ever see Dr. Jordan Peterson, who agrees with you completely about no mask mandates, do you think you'll ever see him tweeting that little meme about the size of a virus compared to the size of the holes in the mask? No, you'll never see that. Because that is not an argument that smart people make or informed people. If you're uninformed, do you think the virus travels on its own? If the virus left your mouth on its own without any water droplet, it would just fall to the ground or be dead because it had no water droplet. It'd be dry. I don't know.
So here's the question I ask you. If you were to measure the amount of COVID on the inside of a mask for somebody who had COVID, let's say they had COVID and didn't know it, if you measure the amount of COVID on the inside of the mask, would there be any? Would you borrow a mask from somebody who had COVID if you knew they had COVID? No.
So some of it's on the mask. But clearly it doesn't seem to make any difference at a population level. And probably the reason that masking doesn't work is that we all violated it at home. Did anybody wear a mask at home even if people came over? Even if you had guests, did you wear masks at home during the pandemic? No. No. Did your kids have play dates at your house and nobody wore masks? Yes. Yes. Many play dates, no masks. Yep. No. Obviously the parents had a choice of being in a masked situation, sending their kids to a maskless situation or not. But nobody seemed to have a problem with it.
In Spain, people wear masks at home during Christmas. I'm sorry. I'm sorry about that. Yeah, you can require masks all you want, but we're not going to wear them at home. So good luck with that.
And that's the last time I want to talk about masks until, well, the next time I'll talk about it will be when I'm helping to organize the destruction of the first corporation that requires it. All right. I don't want to go after any healthcare organizations because that's just messed up. They got enough problems. You know, they're trying to fight through a tough situation if there is one. I don't want to go after them. And I'd rather go after people who have customers who have options, like Bud Light. You can decide not to shop at Target. But changing your whole healthcare situation, that's more trouble than the protests would be worth.
So the first time there's a public company that requires masks of the customers, at least you've got to close them down. You've got to put them right out of business. And you've got to make it fast and brutal. And you've got to make sure there's no ambiguity about it. Short of that, you deserve masks. If you want to say what would make us deserve to be masked and be slaves to our overlords, well, not fighting it. So if you don't shut down the first corporation, well, you're asking for it.
All right. There's a bunch of news that I'll call the black and white stuff, meaning black people and white people. I'm supposed to get excited about a shooter because there was a racial element. I'm not. I'm actually surprised that there isn't more racial violence, aren't you? I'm not recommending it, in case anybody was unclear on that. But given the media landscape, I'm surprised there isn't a lot more. And if there is a lot more, that would be kind of predictable, because the news is turning all the stories into black-white stories.
What would be the most obvious outcome of stories which focus on a person of this type kill the person of that type and vice versa? Would be more of it, of course. Because do you know what causes you to act? There's a requirement for action. There's a few requirements, but one of the requirements is that you have a thought. Because we think about the thing we're going to do and then we do it. But if you never thought of something, if it had never been in your mind in the first place, the odds are you doing it are pretty low.
So the news is putting thoughts in our heads of black and white crime with these videos, and then white on black crime with the mass shootings. And then we're doing this weird math where we're competing. All right, did the black people kill more white people? Well, it depends if you're looking at percentages or are you looking at raw numbers. And how often do the white people kill the black people? If you engage in that conversation, then you have been basically owned by the people who like to own minds.
If you want to be an independent thinker, reject the stories. Don't talk about them in the way that they frame them, black and white. There was an individual who killed some other individuals, and it's a huge tragedy. Not greater than any of the other tragedies that happen today. A tragedy. You know, it's a maximum tragedy, but not bigger than all the other ones, right? There are other people who died in terrible ways as well. So I'm just not going to participate in that.
We'll all wait for the other story that I think you're seeing a bunch of. Trump is gaining with black people. And maybe it's because he was unfairly accused. Maybe it's because Biden's not delivering. I don't believe any of it really. And here's why I don't believe any of it. It's not that the polls are inaccurate. I'm not saying that. They might be. It might not be. I wouldn't know. But there's going to be another George Floyd op. So whatever you're thinking about racial relations now, that will be completely transformed with the next George Floyd.
So you know that there could have been George Floyds for four years during Biden, right? Easily there could have been more George Floyds. I'm pretty sure that whatever problems there are between police and the black community, I'm pretty sure they didn't get fixed when Biden became president, right? But the way we treated them, which ones we highlighted, what the news decided was news, you know, probably CIA influence on the news. So there will be guaranteed something that was going to happen on its own. I don't think it would be an op to create a crime, but I think there's some crime that was going to happen on its own. We'll have just the right elements to make it the only thing that's a story, you know, the George Floyd. So it doesn't matter what Trump's numbers are today. Those will be wiped out by the next brainwashing operation. And you could just put it on your calendar practically. It's guaranteed.
All right. Another story about the Maryland schools and I guess the Baltimore schools in particular, in which there are zero people who learned anything in school. That's the summary. And none of the students learned anything in their schools. They're all failures. To which I say, is that a national story? Or is that people getting exactly what they wanted? They keep voting for it. They must want it. If they wanted something different, I imagine they would go get it for themselves.
Do you know why we don't have this problem in my town? So in my town we have pretty highly rated schools by California standards, because people in my town want good schools. That's it. They want it. That's the whole story. They just want it, so they make sure that they get it. Baltimore has no functioning schools as far as I can tell. But every year they vote. They go vote for it, and they vote for more of this apparently. So I don't care about Baltimore's failing schools. They're getting what they ask for. And they asked for it every two to four years. They re-ask for it and they re-ask for it. They know what to do to fix it. They don't want to. I don't know why.
And when I say they don't want to, that never means everybody, right? It means there's not enough people who care. So what should you do about that situation? Should you take some of your money that you earned and maybe try to give it to them? No, that would be crazy. You should just avoid it in any way you can. Just get away. Just go where that's not a problem. Move to my town. My town has good schools. Problem solved.
All right. Yeah, move away. Let the cities fail. The faster the cities fail, the better off we all will be, because they need to hit bottom. And apparently they're not close, so they've got to get a lot worse. So when nobody in Baltimore can read and everybody dies by murder, that would be about the time that something will change.
All right. But I'll tell you what I'm not going to do. I'm not going to make it my problem. Everybody agree with that? I'm not going to make that my problem. If you want your problem to be solved, you need to leave. It's not really the hardest thing in the world to understand what needs to be done. And if you want to leave and you can't, that's something I would put some energy into. If it turns out there were a lot of people who just wanted to get out of their bad situation physically and just go anywhere, just anywhere that there's a real school, I would be behind throwing some energy and money beyond that. But no, I'm not going to fix a place where the people don't want it fixed. That's not going to happen.
All right. I keep seeing this presidential race like The Avengers. And what's interesting is the Democrats are trying as hard as possible to take down Iron Man, let's say that's Trump. But what's different this time is that it's not just one superhero, because the GOP also has a Hulk. They don't just have Iron Man anymore. Now they have a Hulk. If you take Trump down, you think you're going to get DeSantis? Surprise. You're not. You're not going to get DeSantis. If Trump goes down, you're going to get the person who is going to fix it. Do you think that's DeSantis? Has he been talking like somebody who's going to fix it? No. No. There's one person who has the capability and the clear message that that is going to fix it.
Now you say to yourself, but Scott, I've heard before that people are trying to clear the swamp. We've heard this before. Do you know the only way to clear the swamp is the way Vivek is suggesting? And I didn't realize the genius of this until really just yesterday. I figured it out. The only way you can take a corrupt organization and make it less corrupt is to make it go away. And that's what he plans to do. He's going to spread the FBI's functions across other functions. He's going to take the Department of Education and take that money and give it to the states. You have to take away the entire entity if it's that corrupt. And I think we've reached the point where the entity has to go away, but not the function. The function needs to stay, exactly as Vivek wants to do.
So if you have fewer people, you have fewer places that corruption can hide. If you have less complexity, do you know how many people just work in that Hoover building for the FBI? I mean, just filled with people doing complicated things that you don't understand that interact with each other. That's where all corruption hides, in complexity. But if you were just to simplify it, make things more local, make them more on point, the field agents would be working on discrete things in different organizations. You're more likely to find corruption by having fewer people, more simplification, and bringing it closer to the local level. So that's a real plan.
So good luck taking Iron Man down, because you don't want the Hulk. You really don't.
All right. All things being equal, the Democrats have an impenetrable advantage at the moment. Impenetrable. So unless this changes, Democrats will just win everything in 2024. And this has to do with the fact that fear persuasion is the strongest. Fear persuasion just beats everything.
Now the reason that Trump won the first time is that his fear persuasion was excellent. You could say it's inappropriate or immoral or whatever you want to say, but it was effective. Because he said people coming across the border are too many criminals and all that and got people scared. And you know, basically you're scared of everything by the time he was done. I was scared of China.
But right now the Democrats own fear. So they've got climate change fear that doesn't affect Republicans too much, but their base is all about it. They've got the white supremacy fear or just white men fear, which is something that the Republicans can't match. You know, they could try showing lots of social media videos of criminal behavior and stuff, but it doesn't, it's not really getting through. I think the white supremacy message by the mainstream media is pretty strong.
Women losing bodily autonomy, as they would say, over abortion. Imagine if somebody said the state is going to have control over your body. Well, that's what women are imagining right now. You don't have to imagine it. That's actually what the state is saying. And by the way, if you think that I'm giving you my opinion on abortion, that won't be here. I don't do that. I let women take the lead on abortion. Whatever they collectively decide in their state, I back the women. So I'm not backing Republicans or Democrats. I'm not backing pro-abortion or anti-abortion. I'm backing women, because this is an impossible decision and you need to at least make the people with the most skin in the game at least they should have to take a lead.
Now I'm not saying you should give up your vote. If you want to vote, go vote. You have that right. I'm just saying for me, I can't justify being persuasive in this domain. I want to be anti-persuasive on this and let women take the lead anyway. But if you're a woman, that would be one of the scariest things I could imagine. If I put myself in that position, which I'm not, if you told me somebody was going to take away one of my ways to manage my life, and I didn't think that a fetus was a human life, let's say, let's take that assumption, I'd be pretty scared.
So what is it that the Republicans have to offer fear-wise that would match, at least for the voters on the other side? Obviously the Republicans have Republican votes already. But if they want to influence the other side, what do they have? COVID lockdowns? Poverty is too slow-moving. Racism? No, that's what the racism is what the left is using. Zombie cities? I don't know. See, the trouble is the cities don't care about themselves enough. If the cities cared about themselves, they would have already fixed it. So it's hard for me to care about. I don't care about San Francisco honestly. You know, I live near it. It's like a major part of my whole life. But San Francisco wants to be what it is. The moment they decide not to be that, they'll change it. So it's not up to me to tell them that they can't walk in the feces when they go outside if they want to. And obviously this is hyperbole. They don't all want to. Yeah, I get that. But they're acting in the way that gives them one result. If you want to get a different result, act differently. But don't make it my problem. I'm happily living away from San Francisco. So work it out yourself.
So no, that doesn't give me any fear. I think that's just evolution. It's just change. So inflation, you know, if you look at what the Republicans like to push, they push inflation is bad. That's true. Nobody likes inflation. But it doesn't give you a visceral fear. It makes you feel bad, but you're not afraid it's going to come kill you. Climate change, people think is going to actually kill them. White supremacy, if you watch CNN or MSNBC, there's a whole bunch of people who think the white supremacists are arming up and they're coming for you or something. But that's not true. I mean, not at scale anyway.
So keep an eye on that. A really predictive feature is who has the better fear persuasion. And right now that's all Democrats. Big advantage.
There's another story that Kamala Harris tried to talk in public again. Summary: Didn't go well. Yeah, that's the whole story there. Yep. Kamala Harris trying to talk coherently in public didn't go well.
Here's more evidence that the Democrats are an organized crime party. So there's emails now that show that a U.S. attorney Weiss talked to the DOJ to thwart congressional questioning. That's the charge. But once again we have entities in the government, Democrats, who are talking to each other in a way that appears on the surface to be organized and coordinated for illegitimate purposes.
Now as I've said before, the Democrat Party has become an organized crime party, which is not to say that the individuals in it are worse than the individuals who are Republican or independent. So here now, I'm not talking about the voters. I'm talking about the leadership.
Here's what I think is a key difference, just observationally, between the Democrats, the party, and the Republican Party. See if this tracks with your observation. So this is not a science, just observation. It seems to me that when Republicans are pushing, which happens a lot, it's coming from citizens and sometimes boiling up until you'll see somebody in Congress, some of the more controversial ones, that will come out of their mouths. But basically everything from Pizzagate to you name it started with citizens who happen to be Republican. Maybe it was on Reddit or 4chan, and then it bubbles up and then maybe it comes out of somebody's mouth. Right?
But when the Democrats run stuff, it is very clearly organized by the leadership and then trickles down through the news to the rest of us. So one of them is a bottom-up party and the other is a top-down party. And it's very consistent.
So let me give you an example. On the Democrat side, you've got your Russia collusion hoax, coordinated across multiple entities. You've got your Hunter Biden laptop hoax, again coordinated in a sense. The media was in on it. The Democrats were in on it. The intel operations were in on it. You've seen the prosecutions. So the prosecution depends on the organized nature of the crime on the Democrat side.
If it were not an organized approach to take Trump down, what would the news have reported about his perfect phone call to find votes? If it were not an organized attempt, what would the news say if they were just describing it objectively? They would say people question elections all the time. Perfectly legal. Find votes in the context of thinking that an audit would show that he had actually won was just talking. That's what they'd call that. Well, there was a phone call and it involved some talking. That's literally the only thing that happened.
But because it's an organized event, not only do you have the media covering for it, the Democrats covering for it, but you have actual prosecutors who have arrested and indicted the probable next president of the United States on what is clearly an organized op.
And about the Hunter or the let's say the Biden crime family allegations, do you think that the Democrats are coordinated in covering up the importance of that story? Of course it's very coordinated. The media, the Democrats, probably the intel people, all is very coordinated.
But do you see the difference now? Have I sold you that the Democrats organize? They actually plan and execute multi-agency operations that are gaslighting operations. Republicans too gaslight themselves and try to gaslight other people, but it almost always starts on 4chan or Reddit or someplace like that. Many of you believe that because 4chan started a rumor about me that all of my pandemic opinions were reversed by 4chan, and then it caused me this huge problem that people thought my opinions were the opposite of what they are. And that didn't come from the top. That came from just people, just people who run probably 4chan, Reddit and stuff like that, right?
So once you see it, watch how often you see more of it. The Democrats are literally a criminal organized enterprise. It's organized at the top. It's implemented through various agencies, including the news, which as we know is corrupt at this point.
All right. Apparently Tucker Carlson can interview Putin now. Looks like nothing will stop him because he's an independent person now. So won't that be interesting? Yeah, won't that be interesting? Now nothing that Putin says can be trusted, obviously, but I'd love to hear what he has to say.
All right. I told you the other day that one of the things that Vivek does, his campaign, and also Trump did well, and let's see if you can agree with me on this one. One of the things Trump did better than anybody is he could read the room because he was always following social media and he was seeing immediately how people reacted, and then he was riffing off of that.
And so one of the things that happened was that if you had a good idea in the Trump administration, and I've given you examples of this before, I won't do that again. If you had a good idea, it would immediately trickle up to the president of the United States, and he would say, "Oh, that's a pretty good idea," and then he would implement it. It could be an executive action. It could be a campaign change. You saw it all the time. You saw one individual would have an idea, and the next thing you know Trump would have adopted it only because it was a good idea. It didn't matter where it came from. Just good idea is a good idea.
Well, Vivek is the same. And I gave you this example, but now it's implemented. So I was whining and bitching on X that I kept having to explain away his various rumors about him and the WEF and Soros and Big Pharma. You know, all these rumors swirling about him, and I was getting exhausted. And I said you guys just got to put up a page that says what the rumor is, what's your version of the truth, and then I could just link to it. Well, now it exists. So now there is a page for all of those rumors. And I looked. I think he got them all, by the way. I was worried that he might skip a rumor and then you'd say, "Oh, why did you skip this one?" But I think he got them all actually. It would look pretty extensive. And when I read through it I said, okay, those are good answers.
Here's the one I liked the best. That he accepted a Soros scholarship that had no strings attached. What's the only right answer to that accusation? It wasn't George Soros, by the way. It was his dead brother. He said here's the only right answer. And Vivek added, if you're not willing to take free money when it's offered, you shouldn't be anywhere near the White House. Hello. Done.
Who once said that? What does that sound like? Trump during the debate. Mr. Trump, you know you've also donated money, I think it was donating money to politicians. And he said, "No, no, it was Mr. Trump, you've used these tax loopholes or whatever to save your taxes." And Trump says, "Absolutely. Of course I use them. They're legal. They're available. And every one of Hillary's donors uses them too." Can you beat that answer? Of course I use them. They're legal. They're available. And every one of your donors uses them. If you want me not to do it, change the law. How do you beat that? How do you beat that argument?
So Vivek not only found the high ground, you're sort of floating in the clouds above this argument because you're a freaking idiot if you don't take free money, no strings attached. And I think somebody said he already had money. He'd made some money by that time. So do you know how he made money? By not being a dumbass. How about by not being a dumbass? And after he made his money, guess what? He didn't turn into a dumbass when somebody offered him some more free money. He took the free money. I don't want the guy who can't take the free money. I don't want that person anywhere near the White House. Right? So that was a good answer.
So I tweeted the link, and it'd be near the top of my tweet feed today or the X feed. And if you'd like to have that link, I recommend keeping it handy. If you're running into this conversation, just keep it in your notes. Cut and paste it every time you need it. We'll see what happens. But I do love a candidate who responds to a good idea. That was a good idea, right? Am I blowing too much smoke up my own butt? That was just an obvious good idea. Put all the answers in one place.
And I've always said that Trump should do the same. Trump had so many hoaxes against him. It'd be nice just to have a hoax page, wouldn't it? So that every time I get in a conversation, which is like three times a week about the fine people hoax, I just give them the full transcript. Here's the part they always leave out. It's a rhubarb, blah blah. Save us all some time.
All right, ladies and gentlemen, it looks like we have almost 600 people watching live on X right now. And hey people on X, how's the feed? You got good audio? Good sound? Are you happy with what you're seeing in terms of the quality? It's a great feed. Oh, we're getting good technical performance here. Excellent. Good to know. No, there's no microphone, but the iPhone has a good microphone built in. All right. Now I don't know if that might have some impact on one of the other platforms. We'll see.
Is there a chat? Yes, there's chat messages going by, but they're sideways, so they're a little harder for me to read. Loud and clear. Lighting's good too. I think we're nailing it. Look at this. Just nailing it.
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smartest people on the planet Sam Altman and he says something very compatible with something I've said so he said quote in a tweet give yourself a lot of shots to get lucky is even better advice than it appears on the surface luck isn't an independent variable but increases super linearly with more surface area you meet more people make more connections between new ideas learn patterns Etc Now what is my version of that from my book reframe your brain yeah the uh my version of that is that you can make luck happen by going where there's more of it so if you stay in your little small town and you know three neighbors and that's all you know of the entire world what are the odds you're going to get lucky because there just aren't many things happening there's not much luck to happen but if you go somewhere let's say an exciting industry and an exciting place and you meet more people and you network and you invite people over and you make more friends you do all the things you know to put yourself in a greater energy situation just more stuff happening that's where luck happens so the reframe is that the old view is that some people are lucky some people are not and that's the end of the story but that's sort of a loser's frame the truth is that you can make your luck happen by going where there's more of it so that's your first little lesson and as Sam Altman says although he talks about increasing your super linearly surface area I just say go where there's more stuff happening that's the that's the dumb guy's version my version all right allow me to tell you a story that went over really well on my man cave live stream last night on locals so I think you'll like it too it goes like this there are two stories and then I'm going to connect them Story number one if you have children especially teens you may have had this experience that you think they're not listening to any of your wisdom because you're always trying to drop it in you know you you're trying to be subtle about it it's like well you know in this situation it's always a good idea to handle it this way you know you just sort of like slowly letting your magic of your wisdom seep in but you can never tell if it's working because they're not going to give you feedback like the thing you're not going to hear is my goodness that's the best idea I've heard all day I've been I've been alive for 10 years already and I don't think I've ever defined her idea I'm going to adopt your idea now because it seems so sound no that doesn't happen that doesn't happen so just keep in mind that sometimes they're listening and absorbing but you're not going to know right away all right now take that story put it aside but don't forget it it's coming back so yesterday I finally got my own copies of my own book because when you do independent publishing you have to buy your own book if you do regular publishing the publisher sends you a box of them you can you know give them to your friends and stuff but I had to wait wait for my own book to come just like you did order it from Amazon and uh I was standing in the kitchen and I was flipping through it you know just make sure it looked the way I wanted to look and it looked great and I sort of randomly picked out a chapter and just started reading it now which is weird because I wrote it but it's been so long since I wrote it it's actually like a new experience sometimes when I read it and the reframe that I was reading about I'm going to share with you so you get you get a freebie now I swear I swear this will change some of your lives in a small way right this one's not going after a big thing this is going after a small annoyance and I'm going to completely solve it for you right now watch how happy you are when you try this reframe and the reframe is to solve the problem of deciding where to eat with your partner have you ever had that problem where do you want to eat I don't care where do you want to eat how about here or no right it's a continuous problem that we all have there is a solution and it requires a reframe if the frame you're you're you've adopted is that you're trying to make a decision with somebody who's not good at making decisions or doesn't make them the way you'd like them to now let's take the classic uh let's say traditional stereotype situation of a boring boring heterocouple they're so boring they bore me and we'll just use that as an example obviously I can't speak for the lgbtq community maybe stuff maybe it's a little different there I don't know wouldn't know so I won't speak for that but in the hetero community uh generally it goes like this the guy says hey do you want to eat at X place because he wants to take uh he wants to take charge like guys even women like it they say it all the time women like it when the man will sometimes make a plan because women are planning all day and you know often taking care of kids and you know so they're kind of planned out and they're they're kind of like it it would feel really good if the guy would just say hey I got a plan let's do this so if you're a guy you have two things you need to accomplish number one you have to be the take charge person who makes a plan for dinner but also you've got to make sure that you don't do any decision making on your own because you're getting a clowned in about a minute you know you're going to get clowned so you can't make a decision but also you must make a decision so that's impossible how do you make a decision and not make a decision at the same time that's the only way you can satisfy the situation so you reframe it instead of saying I'm trying to make a eating decision with a crazy person for which there is no solution nobody's ever come up with a solution you do the Kobayashi Maru Star Trek reference and you reframe it so that the real problem is you have a puzzle to solve you're not deciding where to eat you're solving a puzzle which is how do you take charge and not take charge at the same time that's the puzzle and here's how you do it you pick two places you're willing to eat and you say to your partner usually the guy saying to the wife in this classic stereotype situation and you say let's go eat I suggest one of these two places now what you've done is you've taken charge you've said let's go out you've narrowed it to two but still still the wife has a choice excellent right she has a choice so then she says oh that's a good idea I love it you're taking charge she's thinking that not saying it and then she says let's go to this one and you say to yourself wow that worked pretty well now you get in the car uh if any of you are married you can back me on this so she's chosen one of the two choices you get in the car and then she says room after you start the car but you know we have Eden at that last place kind of recently yeah you know it'd be even better than the two choices you gave me would be this third place I've been thinking about and then you go for the clothes you're the guy you've given two choices she said yes to one and then she's doing an audible in the car here's the closer yes that would be great I love it boom problem solved ah woman says he took charge and yeah she's still got to eat exactly where she wanted to eat now I've already heard from people who have tried it and it totally works right now remember this story and put it aside hold let's go back to the other story now I'm going to insert a third story between the two stories and then I'm going to connect them together I swear this happened this really happened this is a real real thing as I was reading the part of my own book about how to decide where to eat my stepdaughter comes walking down the hall and we had made plans earlier to go out to lunch but I hadn't picked a place she walks directly up to me as I'm reading the section and she says we could eat a pastas or the railroad Cafe now it's up to you to connect the two stories apparently she's been listening to me apparently she paid attention so what did I say I said pastas and then we drove to pastas and had a perfectly great lunch so that's your reframe of the day that this one is the most trivial one in the sense that it's just getting rid of a you know a little frustration but the book is full of you know ways to change your mental and physical health and your career and everything else even your view of a reality so that's your funny story of the day let's do backward causation science are you ready so a tweet by William Costello there's a study out of Harvard uh that tracked people over 84 years and what they found was that good relationships are the greatest predictor of happiness the people with the best relationships have the best happiness huh that's quite a surprising result I wonder if uh there's any other way to look at the same set of data oh whoa um let's see you've got a choice of two people to mate with one is grumpy and unhappy and one is happy who to choose who to choose who to choose grumpy and unhappy all the time or happy all the time other things about equal I don't know what do you think people do in that situation backwards science have you ever seen so much backward science in your life yeah here's how you know backward science every time somebody says doing something makes you healthier or doing something makes you happier it's a lie because the happy people do those things and the healthy people do those things and it's not that doing those things makes you those things it's that people who are those things do those things right do you know what being healthy allows me to do just take a guess so I'm in good health now you know what that allows me to do exercise if you tested me you say hey he exercises and he's healthy well there is a causation that way of course there is but do unhealthy people exercise I mean it's kind of hard so anyway always look for the backwards causation often it's a both ways Equalization like exercising and being healthy you know they cause each other but don't believe just don't believe any science on these topics what makes you happier healthier a lot of that's just BS all right uh speaking of science there's a new study that says these eco-friendly straws might be as bad or worse than regular straws because the eco-friendly ones are adding some chemicals to the environment that we didn't have but the plastic ones maybe last forever the microplastics get in the orders why so um I've been watching this pitch battle that we've had recently between science on one hand and flipping a freaking coin on the other hand now when I was young I feel like science was ahead like it could stay ahead of the coin flip but I feel like that's at least reversed or maybe drawn even so whenever you see a study that's a binary there are two things that are possible so in this case there are two things possible either the Eco straws were an improvement or they were not you know you could argue it was exactly the same but that would be unusual so they're either an improvement or not so do you think that flipping a coin would have gotten you on average a worse result than studying it with your science well you'd love to think that the science would win every time wouldn't you but I'm here to tell you it's sort of a a really even battle between flipping coins and science when it comes to a lot of stuff now I should uh I should be quick to tell you the science starts out with shaky and in a perfect world it improves over time as people reproduce things and find different ways to test things and they you know get skeptical of things Etc so over time it probably does crawl closer to the truth than whatever else we were using so that's good I don't recommend getting rid of science but for new stuff yeah new stuff like the straws that's kind of new coin flip all right apparently Canadians aren't allowed to have news I don't know do you even care about the details yeah the summary the summary is Canadians are not allowed to have news now now if you're worried that the Canadians were slowly losing their rights you know I have to admit I haven't really been super worried about Canada and the reason is I I like Canadians and I think Canadians are generally speaking quite well balanced rational you know high functioning people so I've been telling myself for a long time well the Canadians will work this out right we don't need to go help the Canadians the Canadians are real you know smart solid they've been running this good country for the longest time and doing a good job in my opinion so you know they don't need any help from us you don't need my opinion well uh writer Gad sad is reporting that uh he had a post blocked by Canadian Facebook for alleged misinformation but then there was a community notes that says it was blocked but maybe not for the reason that he thinks not for misinformation now the first part of the story is imagine being in the pretty famous author you know Gad sad very famous imagine that your work is is blocked on social media and you don't even know why because that's part of the story the part of the story is not that he's wrong he said he didn't have a he didn't have a mechanism to know why imagine being censored censored and you don't know why all right here's the reason why according to a community notes doesn't mean he's wrong by the way but I'll just tell you what the community note says I the the fact that this is real I'm going to read this I'm just saying it's from the community notes I feel like it couldn't be real but it might be I'll read it to you you decide Community notes the Canadian government has not forbidden posting news articles but did start requiring social media companies to share Revenue when they link to news sites what in response Facebook made a business decision decision not to allow display or posting of such links by Canadian users really seriously seriously that Canada was so dumb that they thought that the Facebook would just start sharing the revenue with the new news people that people linked to that wasn't going to happen of course that wasn't going to happen that would be the stupidest thing ever you know you you can you can make fun of Zuckerberg all day long for you know what what he his preferences are politically Etc yeah you can make fun of him for looking like an Android but he's not an idiot he's not stupid he knows what a business model looks like of course he's not going to do business with Canada under those conditions at least not the way they want it of course not there's there's no head of a social media company they would have ever agreed to that so imagine this you're a Canadian using social media and on Facebook you're not allowed to see news from your own country you can see news from other countries but you're not allowed to see your own news now keep in mind that the links were links to drive your traffic to the news site now that would be advertising we call it in this country or marketing it's advertising or marketing when people from somewhere else are encouraged to go to your product but now that's not going to happen it's not illegal but Canada decided to make it non-economic to look at the news that actually happened in the real world Canada is is making it uneconomical to know what's happening in your country so all of you Canadians if you'd like to follow people like me on X you might find for the first time what's happening in your country I got some surprises for you you're not gonna like it I'm just saying you're not gonna like it all right poor Canadians well flying cars I think are here although as somebody said we should stop calling them flying cars because they're just tiny little personal quadricopters it's basically like a little helicopter with you know four little uh electric motorized things like a drone uh so it's not a car but it's kind of a car and uh in the Dilbert comic that you can't see unless you're a subscriber on X or on the locals Community uh Dilbert has ordered his his own flying car he was trying to compete with a character named topper who was bragging that he ordered a cyber truck and the Cyber truck would be really really cool but it's no flying car is what I'm saying so I want to get my Tesla flying car um apparently China's got one that's flying around in Prototype and it looks pretty awesome the only thing that was keeping us from having private uh aircraft was the uh Power of the battery which is now sufficient the processing speed so that you could do a lot of processing to keep it stable which is we got all that and I would imagine some kind of GPS you know we've had for a long time and then you need The Regulators to be okay with it but basically everything that would be needed to have your own little flying personal vehicle it's here there's no technology left to design it's just productizing it and making it legal now the one I saw it was kind of hilarious because it looked like the four wings on the quadcopter were external as in if you walked over to it it would it would chop you in half and they're the kind of low the same size the same height as the the car and I'm thinking to myself I'm positive that I've seen those where the where the blade thing was protected I feel like they have to at least add that right you know where there's a casing around the blade well um no no inventor of flying planes or cars all right De.
Santis I guess I missed this during the uh debate but De.
Santis was proud of it so he was tweeting it around or exiting it around um where he at the debate he said I'm not going to send troops to Ukraine but I am going to send them to our Southern border when these drug smugglers bring fentanyl across the border we're going to leave them cold stone cold dead applause applause sorry too weak too weak so weak you're going to wait for them to come across the border seriously like if they're standing at one foot on the other side of the Border they're like we'll be like oh if only there was something we could do about that guy really that's that's our plan we're going to watch them the coyotes bringing people to the border and then you know stopping on their side while the immigrants across and we're going to be okay with that no we should be dropping them with sniper fire you don't think that would slow the slow of the flow we should have snipers taking out all the coyotes as soon as we spot them now we can shoot from our side if you know he wants to be like that but you know I'm not going to support I just can't support anybody who's weak on fentanyl this is weak you're going to stay on our side of the Border while they're coming over to kill us no you go kill them or they're where they're in their sleep kill them in their sleep all right bomb their facilities take their and make their make their full-time job at trying not to get droned that should be their full-time job if you're in the cartel looking up your full-time job should be looking up because we should have that whole place blanketed with drones by now and we should just be reigning death on the cartels every single day with no remorse anything else is stupid and weak and we're just asking for what we get so as much as I like the census in a lot of ways I know exactly you know I suppose he's maybe tested it or something it sounded good in a poll I don't know I mean I don't know why you would have this opinion even all right I'm not going to talk a lot about Mass I'm just going to tell you the two worst takes on either side okay so we're not going to talk about what the good take is I'm just going to tell you the ones I don't want to see anymore and the worst take on the pro mask is that the data shows that they work do you agree the worst take on masks is that the data shows they work at a population level at a population level because there's no there's no Dependable data there's no Dependable data on anything really but there's no Dependable data at a let's say a city or a county level that supports it so saying that there is I think is the worst argument now to be clear I don't know what's true I just know that the data doesn't support it so you don't ask citizens to do something that's quite extreme like that where it masks everywhere that's pretty extreme if you can't if you can't demonstrate it with unambiguously it's that's a no-go because Freedom requires that if you're going to take any of it away you've got to have nailed down absolute in controvertible science and we're nowhere near that well in fact we're not even in a environment in which incontrovertible science would be useful it's not even useful because there's there's no credibility or faith or believability from any organization that would create data so in a situation in which you can't know what's true don't tell us that the data says it's true when we don't see it at a city level and you're taking your freedoms away so it's a terrible argument that you think they work and therefore I should wear a mask sorry what you think works has no that should have no impact on me you know I should make an impact on me what I think works that's it what I think works should matter well you think works no no boy no here's the worst argument on the anti-mask side I'm completely anti-mask no mandates if you want to do it do it you know same with anything but no mandates and there's no wiggle room on that I have no wiggle room no mandates on masks however I am embarrassed to be on that point of view when I keep seeing people tweeting around this thing that shows the size of a virus versus the size of the holes in the mask if you don't say I intentionally left out the size of the water droplets so that I could fool you into being scientifically illiterate well that's missing let me ask you this would you say that Dr.
Jordan Peterson is very anti-mask yes or no Dr.
Jordan Peterson is he anti-mask yes or no he's anti-mask let me ask you the question he's very anti-mask now would you say that also he understands the topic better than most people because he's scientific by nature would you say he's one of the smartest people around and he's looked into it enough he's got a good take on it right do you think you'll ever see Dr.
Jordan Peterson who agrees with you completely about no mask Band-Aids do you think you'll ever see him tweeting that uh that little meme about the size of a virus compared to the size of the holes in The Mask no you'll never see that because that is not an argument that smart people make or informed people if you're uninformed do you think the virus travels on its own if the virus left your mask on its own without any water droplet it would just fall to the ground or be dead because I had no water droplet it'd be dry down I don't know so here's the question I ask you if you were to measure the amount of covet on the inside of a mask for somebody who had covet let's say they had coveted and didn't know it if you measure the amount of covet on the inside of the Mask would there be any would you borrow a mask from somebody who had covered if you knew they had coveted no so some of it's on the mask but clearly it doesn't seem to make any difference at a population level and probably the reason that masking doesn't work is that we all violated a home did anybody wear a mask at home even if people came over even if he had guests did you wear masks at home during the pandemic no no did you have did your kids have play dates at your house and nobody wore masks yes yes many playdates no masks yep no obviously the parents had a choice of being in a mask sending their kids to a massless situation or not but nobody seemed to have a problem with it in Spain people wear masks at home and during Christmas I'm sorry I'm sorry about that yeah you can you can require Mass all you want but we're not going to wear them at home so good luck with that um and that's the last time I want to talk about masks until well it's the next time I'll talk about it will be when I'm helping to organize the destruction of the first corporation that requires it all right I don't want to go after any health care organizations because that's just messed up they got enough problems you know they're they're trying to fight through a tough situation if there is one uh I don't want to go after them and I'd rather go after people who have customers who have options like Bud Light you can decide not to shop at Target but changing your whole Healthcare situations that's like more trouble than the protests would be worth so the first time there's a public company that requires masks of the customers at least uh you got to close them down you got to put them right out of business and you got to make it fast and brutal and you got to make sure there's no ambiguity about it short of that you deserve masks right if you want if you want to say what would make us deserve to be masked and be slaves to or overlords well not fighting it so if you don't shut down the First Corporation uh well you're asking for it all right there's a bunch of news that I'll call the black and white stuff meaning black people and white people I'm supposed to get excited about a shooter because there was a racial element I'm not um I'm actually surprised that there isn't more racial violence aren't you I'm not recommending it in case anybody was unclear on that but given given the media landscape I'm surprised there isn't a lot more and if there is a lot more that would be kind of predictable because the news is turning all the stories into black white stories what would be the what's the most the most obvious outcome of stories which focus on a person of this type kill the person of that type and vice versa would be more of it of course because do you know what causes you to act there's a requirement for action there's a few requirements but one of the requirements is that you have a thought because we think about the thing we're going to do and then we do it but if you never thought of something if it had never been in your mind in the first place the odds are you doing it are pretty low so the news is putting thoughts in our heads of uh you know black and white crime with these videos and then you know white on black Ryan with the mass shootings and then we're doing this weird math where we're competing all right did the black people kill more white people well it depends if you're looking at percentages are you looking at Raw numbers and how often do the white people kill the black people if you engage in that conversation then you you have been basically owned by the people who like to own minds if you want to be an independent thinker reject the stories don't talk about them in the way that they frame them black and white there was an individual who killed some other individuals and it's a huge tragedy not greater than any of the other tragedies that happen today a tragedy you know it's a maximum tragedy but not bigger than all the other ones right there other people died in terrible ways as well so I'm just not going to participate in the uh that we'll all wait for the uh oh the other story that I think is you're seeing a bunch of uh Trump is going to be gaming with black people and maybe it's because he was unfairly accused maybe it's because Biden's not delivering I don't believe any of it really and here's why I don't believe any of it it's not that the polls are inaccurate I'm not saying that they might be it might not be I wouldn't know but there's going to be another George Floyd uh op so whatever you're thinking about racial relations now that will be completely transformed with the next uh George Floyd so you know that there could have been George Lloyd's for four years during uh Biden right easily there could have been more George Floyd's I'm pretty sure that whatever you know problems there are between police and the black community I'm pretty sure they didn't get fixed when Biden became president right but the way we treated them which ones we highlighted what the news decided was news you know probably you know CIA influence on the news um so there will be guaranteed something that was going to happen on his own I don't think it would be an OP to create a crime but I think there's some crime that was going to happen on his own we'll have just the right elements to make it the only thing that's a story you know the George Floyd it so it doesn't matter what Trump's numbers are today those will be wiped out by the next uh the next brainwashing operation and you it's I mean you could just um you can put it on your calendar practically it's guaranteed all right uh another story about the Maryland schools and I guess the Baltimore schools in particular in which there are zero people who are not learned anything in school that that's the summary and none of the students learned anything in their schools they're all failures uh to which I say is that a national story or is that people getting exactly what they wanted they keep voting for it they must want it if they wanted something different I imagine they would go get it for themselves do you know why do you know why we don't have this problem in my town so in my town we have pretty highly rated schools by California standards because people in my town want good schools that's it they want it that's that's the whole story they just want it so they make sure that they get it Baltimore has no functioning schools as far as I can tell but every every year they vote they go vote for it and they vote for more of this apparently so I don't care about Baltimore's failing Schools they're getting what they ask for and they asked for it every two to four years they re-ask for it and they re-ask for it they know what to do to fix it they don't want to I don't know why and when I say they don't want to that never means everybody right it means there's not enough people who care so what should you do about that situation should you take some of your money that you earned and maybe try to give it to them no that would be crazy you should just avoid it in any way you can just get away just go where that's not a problem move to my town my town has good schools problem solved all right yeah move away let the cities fail the faster the cities fail the better off we all will be because they need to hit bottom and apparently they're not close so they've got to get a lot worse so when nobody in Baltimore can read and everybody dies by murder that would be about the time that something will change all right uh but I'll tell you what I'm not going to do I'm not going to make it my problem everybody agree with that I'm not going to make that my problem if you want your problem to be solved you need to leave it's it's not really the hardest thing in the world to understand what needs to be done and if you want to leave and you can't that's something I would put some energy into if it turns out there were a lot of people who just wanted to get out of their bad situation physically and just go anywhere just anywhere that there's a real school I would be behind throwing some energy and money beyond that but no I'm not going to fix a place where the people don't want it fixed that's not going to happen all right I keep seeing this uh the presidential race like The Avengers and what's interesting is the the Democrats are trying as hard as possible to take down Iron Man let's say that's Trump but what's different this time is that it's not just one superhero because the GOP also has a Hulk they don't just have Iron Man anymore now they have a Hulk if you take Trump down you're going to give a fake you think you're going to get De.
Santis surprise you're not you're not you're not going to guess if Trump goes down you're going to get the person who is going to fix it do you think that's De.
Santis has he been talking like somebody who's going to fix it no no there's one person who has the capability and you know the clear message that that is going to fix it now you say to yourself but Scott I've heard before that people are trying to clear the swamp uh we've heard this before do you know the only way to clear the swamp is the way for vague is suggesting and I didn't realize the genius of this until really just yesterday I figured it down the only way you can take a corrupt organization and make it less corrupt is to make it go away and that's what he plans to do he's going to spread the FBI's functions across other functions he's going to take the Department of Education and take that money and give it to the States you you have to take away the entire entity if it's that corrupt and I think we've reached the point where the entity has to go away but not the function the function needs to stay exactly as the fake wants to do so if you have fewer people you have fewer places that corruption can hide if you have less complexity do you know how many people just work in that JF uh that Hoover building for the I mean just filled with people doing complicated things that you don't understand that interact with each other that's where all corruption hides and complexity but if you were just to simplify it make things more local make them more you know on point you know the the field agents would be working on you know discrete things and different different organizations you're you're more likely to find corruption by having fewer people more simplification and bringing it closer to the local level so so that's a real plan so good luck taking Iron Man down because uh you don't want the Hulk you really don't all right uh all things being equal the Democrats have an impenetrable uh advantage at the moment impenetrable so unless this changed Democrats will just win everything in 2024.
and this has to do with the fact that fear persuasion is the strongest fear persuasion just beats everything now the reason that Trump won the first time is that his fear of persuasion was excellent yeah you could say it's inappropriate or immoral or whatever you want to say but it was effective because he said people coming across the border or you know too many criminals and all that and got people scared and you know you you know basically you're scared of everything by the time he was done I was scared of China um but right now the Democrats own fear so they've got climate change fear that doesn't affect Republicans too much but their base is all about it uh they've got the white supremacy fear or just white men fear which is something that the Republicans can't match you know they could try showing lots of social media videos of you know criminal behavior and stuff but it doesn't it's not really getting through I think the white supremacy message by the mainstream media is pretty strong women losing bodily autonomy as they would say over abortion imagine if somebody said we're gonna the state is going to have control over your body well that's what women are imagining right now you don't have to imagine it that's actually what the state is saying and by the way if you think that I'm giving you my opinion on abortion that won't be here I don't do that I let women take the lead on abortion whatever they collectively decide in their state I back the women so I'm not backing Republicans Or democrats I'm not I'm not backing pro-abortion or anti-abortion I'm backing women because this is an impossible decision and you need to at least make the most the people with the most skin in the game at least they should have to take a lead now I'm not saying you should give up your vote if you want to vote go vote you have that right I'm just saying for me I I can't justify being persuasive in this domain I want to be anti-persuasive on this and let women take the lead anyway but if you're a woman that would be one of the scariest things I could imagine if I put myself in that position which I'm not uh if you told me somebody was going to take away one of my you know ways to manage my life I'd you know and I didn't think that a fetus was a human life let's say let's take that assumption uh I'd be pretty scared so what is it that the Republicans have to offer fear wise that would match at least at least for the voters on the other side obviously the Republicans have Republican votes already but if they want to influence the other side what do they have cried covered lockdowns poverty is too slow moving racism no that's what the racism is what the left is using zombie cities I don't know see the trouble is the cities don't care about themselves enough if the city is cared about themselves they would have already fixed it so it's hard for me to care about I don't care about San Francisco honestly you know I live near it it's like a major part of my whole life but San Francisco wants to be what it is the the moment they decide not to be that they'll change it so it's not up to me to tell them that they can't walk in the feces when they go outside if they want to and obviously this is hyperbole they don't all want to yeah I get that but they're acting they're acting in the way that gives them one result if you want to get a different result act differently but don't make it my problem I'm happily living away from San Francisco so you know work it out yourself so no that doesn't give me any fear I think that's just evolution of you know it's just change so inflation you know if you look at what the Republicans like to push they push you know inflation is bad that's true nobody likes inflation but it doesn't give you a visceral fear it makes you feel bad but you're not like afraid it's going to go come kill you climate change people think is going to actually kill them Right Way Supremacy if you watch CNN or MSNBC there's a whole bunch of people who think the white supremacists are arming up and they're coming for you or something but you know that's not true I mean not a scale anyway so keep an eye on that the a really predictive feature is who has the better fear persuasion and right now that's all all Democrats big advantage uh there's another story that Kamala Harris tried to talk in public again summary didn't go well yeah that's that's the whole story there yep Kamal Harris trying to talk coherently in public didn't go well um here's more evidence that the Democrats are an organized crime party so there's emails now that show that a U.S attorney Weiss uh talked to the doj to thwart Congressional questioning this that's the charge but once again we have entities in the government Democrats who are talking to each other in a way that appears on the surface to be organized and coordinated for a legitimate purposes now as I've said before the Democrat Party has become an organized crime party which is not to say that the individuals in it are worse than the individuals who are Republican or independent so here now um I'm not talking about the the voters talking about the leadership here's a here's what I think is a key difference Just observationally Between the Democrats the party and the Republican Party see if this tracks with your observation so this is not a science just observation it seems to me that when Republicans are pushing which happens a lot it's coming from citizens and sometimes boiling up until you'll see somebody in Congress you know some of the more controversial ones that will come out of their mouths but basically you know everything from pizzagate to you name it started with with citizens who happen to be Republican you know maybe it was on Reddit or 4chan and then it bubbles up and then maybe it comes out of somebody's mouth right but when the Democrats run up it is very clearly organized by the leadership and then trickles down through the news to the rest of us so one of them is a bottom-up party and the other is a top-down party and it's very consistent so let me give you an example on the Democrat side you got your Russia occlusion hoax you know coordinated across multiple entities you've got your Hunter Biden laptop hoax again coordinated in a sense you know the media was in on it the Democrats were in on at the Intel operations were in on it um you've seen the the prosecutions so the prosecution depends on the organized nature of the crime on the Democrat side if if it were not an organized approach to take Trump down what would the news have reported about his perfect phone call to find votes if if it were not an organized attempt what would the news say if they were just describing it objectively they would say people question elections all the time perfectly legal find votes in the context of thinking that an audit would show that he had actually won was just talking that's what they'd call that well there was an example of a phone call and it evolved some talking that's literally the only thing that happened but because it's an organized event not only do you have the media covering for it the Democrats covering for it but you have actual prosecutors who have arrested and indicted the probable next president of the United States on what is clearly an organized op and about the uh the the hunter or the let's say the Biden crime family allegations do you think that the Democrats are coordinated in covering up the importance of that story of course it's very coordinated the media the Democrats probably the Intel people all is very coordinated but do you see the difference now have I sold you that the Democrats organized they actually plan and execute multi-agency operations that are you know gaslighting operations Republicans too Gaslight themselves and try to Gaslight other people but it almost always starts on 4chan or Reddit or someplace like that yeah they many of you believe that because 4chan started a rumor about me that all of my pandemic opinions were reversed by 4chan and then it caused me this huge problem that people thought my opinions were the opposite of what they are and that didn't come from the top that came from just people just people who run probably unfortunate Reddit and stuff like that right so once you see it watch how often you see more of it the Democrats are literally a criminal organized Enterprise it's organized at the top it's implemented through various agencies including the news which as we know is corrupt at this point all right um apparently uh Tucker Carlson can interview Putin now um looks like nothing will stop him because he's a independent person now so won't that be interesting yeah won't that be interesting now nothing that Putin says can be trusted obviously but I'd love to hear what he has to say all right I told you the other day that one of the things that Vivek does his his campaign and also Trump did well and let's see if you can agree with me on this one of the things Trump did better than anybody is he could read the room because he was always following social media and he was seeing immediately how people reacted and then he was you know riffing off of that and so one of the things that happened was that if you had a good idea in the Trump Administration and I've given you examples of this before I won't do that again if you had a good idea it would immediately trickle up to the president of the United States and he would say oh that's a pretty good idea and then he would implement it it could be an executive action it could be you know a campaign change you saw it all the time you saw like one individual would have an idea and the next thing you know Trump would have adopted it only because it was a good idea it didn't matter where it came from just good idea is a good idea well if the VAC is the same and I gave you this example but now it's implemented so I was I was whining and bitching on um on X that I kept having to explain away his various the rumors about him and the wef and sorrows and big Pharma you know all these rumors swirling about him and I was getting exhausted and I said you guys just got to put up a page that says what the rumor is what's we are what's your version of the truth and then I could just link to it well now it exists so now there is a page for all of those rumors and I looked I think he got them all by the way I was worried that he might skip a rumor and then you'd say oh why do you skip this one but I think he got them all actually it would look pretty extensive and what I read through it I said okay those are good answers here's the one I liked the best that he accepted a Soros scholarship that had no springs attached what's the only right answer to that accusation it wasn't George Soros by the way it was his dead brother he said here's the only right answer into vague at it if you're not willing to take free money when it's offered you shouldn't be anywhere near the White House hello done who who is it who once said that what is that what does that sound like Trump during the debate Mr.
Trump you know you've also donated money I think it was donating money to politicians and he said no no it was uh Mr.
Trump you've used these you know these tax loopholes or whatever to save your taxes and Trump says absolutely of course I use them they're legal they're available and every one of Hillary of Hillary's donors uses them too can you beat that answer of course I use them they're legal they're available and every one of your donors uses them if you want me not to do it change the law how do you beat that how do you beat that argument so you know Vivek didn't only find The High Ground you know you're sort of like floating floating in the clouds above this argument because you're you're a freaking idiot if you don't take free money no strings attached and I think somebody said he was already he already had money he'd made some money by that time so do you know how he made money by not being a dumbass how about by not being a dumbass and after he made his money guess what he didn't turn into a dumbass when somebody offered him some more free money he took the free money I don't want the guy who can't take the free money I don't want that person anywhere near the White House right so that was a good answer so um I tweeted the link and it'd be near the top of my tweet feed today or the ex feed and if you'd like to have that link I recommend keeping it handy if you're running into this conversation just just keep it in your notes cut and paste it every time you need it we'll see what happens but I do love I do love a candidate who responds to a good idea that was a good idea right I'm not am I blowing too much smoke up my own butt that was just an obvious good idea put all the answers in one place um and I I've always said that Trump should do the same Trump had so many hoaxes against him it'd be nice just to have a hoax page wouldn't it so that the uh you know every time I get in a conversation which is like three times a week about the fine people hoax I just give them the like here's the full transcript here's the part they always leave out it's a rhubar blah blah save us all some time all right ladies and the gentlemen it looks like we have a almost well 600 people watching uh live on X right now and uh hey people on X how's the feed you got good audio good sound are you happy with what you're saying in terms of the quality it's a great feed oh we're getting we're getting good technical performance here excellent good to know no there's no microphone but the i.
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so good well I saw a tweet today from
Sam Altman
uh he uh you know leading the chat GPT
and other billionaire stuff one of the
smartest people on the planet Sam Altman
and he says something very compatible
with something I've said
so he said quote in a tweet give
yourself a lot of shots to get lucky
is even better advice than it appears on
the surface
luck isn't an independent variable but
increases super linearly with more
surface area you meet more people make
more connections between new ideas learn
patterns Etc
Now what is my version of that from my
book
reframe your brain yeah the uh
my version of that is that you can make
luck happen by going where there's more
of it
so if you stay in your little small town
and you know three neighbors and that's
all you know of the entire world what
are the odds you're going to get lucky
because there just aren't many things
happening there's not much luck to
happen
but if you go somewhere let's say an
exciting industry
and an exciting place and you meet more
people and you network and you invite
people over and you make more friends
you do all the things you know to put
yourself in a greater energy situation
just more stuff happening
that's where luck happens
so the reframe is that the old view is
that some people are lucky some people
are not and that's the end of the story
but that's sort of a loser's frame
the truth is that you can make your luck
happen by going where there's more of it
so that's your first little lesson and
as Sam Altman says although he talks
about increasing your super linearly
surface area
I just say go where there's more stuff
happening
that's the that's the dumb guy's version
my version
all right
allow me to tell you a story that went
over really well on my man cave live
stream last night on locals so I think
you'll like it too it goes like this
there are two stories and then I'm going
to connect them
Story number one if you have children
especially teens you may have had this
experience that you think they're not
listening to any of your wisdom
because you're always trying to drop it
in you know you you're trying to be
subtle about it it's like well you know
in this situation it's always a good
idea to handle it this way you know you
just sort of like slowly letting your
magic of your wisdom seep in
but you can never tell
if it's working
because they're not going to give you
feedback like the thing you're not going
to hear is my goodness that's the best
idea I've heard all day I've been I've
been alive for 10 years already and I
don't think I've ever defined her idea
I'm going to adopt your idea now because
it seems so sound no that doesn't happen
that doesn't happen
so just keep in mind that sometimes
they're listening and absorbing but
you're not going to know right away all
right now take that story
put it aside but don't forget it it's
coming back
so yesterday I finally got my own copies
of my own book because when you do
independent publishing you have to buy
your own book if you do regular
publishing the publisher sends you a box
of them you can you know give them to
your friends and stuff but I had to wait
wait for my own book to come just like
you did order it from Amazon
and uh I was standing in the kitchen
and I was flipping through it you know
just make sure it looked the way I
wanted to look and it looked great and I
sort of randomly picked out a chapter
and just started reading it now which is
weird because I wrote it but it's been
so long since I wrote it it's actually
like a new experience sometimes when I
read it and the reframe that I was
reading about I'm going to share with
you so you get you get a freebie
now I swear I swear this will change
some of your lives in a small way right
this one's not going after a big thing
this is going after a small annoyance
and I'm going to completely solve it for
you right now watch how happy you are
when you try this reframe
and the reframe is to solve the problem
of deciding where to eat with your
partner have you ever had that problem
where do you want to eat I don't care
where do you want to eat how about here
or no right it's a continuous problem
that we all have
there is a solution
and it requires a reframe
if the frame you're you're you've
adopted is that you're trying to make a
decision with somebody who's not good at
making decisions or doesn't make them
the way you'd like them to now let's
take the classic uh let's say
traditional stereotype situation of a
boring boring heterocouple they're so
boring they bore me
and we'll just use that as an example
obviously I can't speak for the lgbtq
community maybe stuff maybe it's a
little different there I don't know
wouldn't know so I won't speak for that
but in the hetero community
uh generally it goes like this the guy
says hey do you want to eat at X place
because he wants to take uh he wants to
take charge like guys even women like it
they say it all the time women like it
when the man will sometimes make a plan
because women are planning all day and
you know often taking care of kids and
you know so they're kind of planned out
and they're they're kind of like it it
would feel really good if the guy would
just say hey I got a plan let's do this
so if you're a guy you have two things
you need to accomplish number one you
have to be the take charge person who
makes a plan for dinner
but also you've got to make sure that
you don't do any decision making on your
own because you're getting a clowned in
about a minute
you know you're going to get clowned so
you can't make a decision but also you
must make a decision
so that's impossible how do you make a
decision and not make a decision at the
same time that's the only way you can
satisfy the situation
so you reframe it instead of saying I'm
trying to make a eating decision with a
crazy person
for which there is no solution
nobody's ever come up with a solution
you do the Kobayashi Maru Star Trek
reference and you reframe it so that the
real problem is you have a puzzle to
solve you're not deciding where to eat
you're solving a puzzle which is how do
you take charge and not take charge at
the same time that's the puzzle
and here's how you do it
you pick two places you're willing to
eat and you say to your partner usually
the guy saying to the wife in this
classic stereotype situation
and you say let's go eat I suggest one
of these two places now what you've done
is you've taken charge you've said let's
go out you've narrowed it to two but
still still the wife has a choice
excellent right she has a choice
so then she says oh that's a good idea I
love it you're taking charge she's
thinking that not saying it and then she
says let's go to this one and you say to
yourself wow that worked pretty well now
you get in the car
uh if any of you are married you can
back me on this so she's chosen one of
the two choices you get in the car and
then she says room after you start the
car
but you know
we have Eden at that last place kind of
recently
yeah
you know it'd be even better than the
two choices you gave me would be this
third place I've been thinking about
and then you go for the clothes you're
the guy you've given two choices she
said yes to one and then she's doing an
audible in the car here's the closer
yes that would be great I love it
boom
problem solved
ah woman says he took charge and yeah
she's still got to eat exactly where she
wanted to eat now I've already heard
from people who have tried it and it
totally works right
now remember this story
and put it aside
hold
let's go back to the other story
now I'm going to insert a third story
between the two stories
and then I'm going to connect them
together
I swear this happened this really
happened this is a real real thing as I
was reading the part of my own book
about how to decide where to eat
my stepdaughter comes walking down the
hall and we had made plans earlier to go
out to lunch but I hadn't picked a place
she walks directly up to me as I'm
reading the section and she says
we could eat a pastas or the railroad
Cafe
now it's up to you to connect the two
stories
apparently she's been listening to me
apparently she paid attention
so what did I say
I said
pastas
and then we drove to pastas and had a
perfectly great lunch
so that's your reframe of the day that
this one is the most trivial one in the
sense that it's just getting rid of a
you know a little frustration but the
book is full of you know ways to change
your mental and physical health and your
career and everything else even your
view of a reality
so that's your funny story of the day
let's do backward causation science are
you ready
so a tweet by William Costello there's a
study out of Harvard
uh that tracked people over 84 years and
what they found was that good
relationships are the greatest predictor
of happiness
the people with the best relationships
have the best happiness
huh
that's quite a surprising result
I wonder if uh there's any other way to
look at the same set of data oh whoa
um let's see you've got a choice of two
people to mate with one is grumpy and
unhappy and one is happy
who to choose who to choose who to
choose grumpy and unhappy all the time
or happy all the time other things about
equal
I don't know what do you think people do
in that situation
backwards science
have you ever seen so much backward
science in your life
yeah here's how you know backward
science
every time somebody says doing something
makes you healthier
or doing something makes you happier
it's a lie
because the happy people do those things
and the healthy people do those things
and it's not that doing those things
makes you those things it's that people
who are those things do those things
right
do you know what being healthy allows me
to do just take a guess so I'm in good
health now you know what that allows me
to do
exercise
if
you tested me you say hey he exercises
and he's healthy
well there is a causation that way of
course there is
but do unhealthy people exercise I mean
it's kind of hard
so anyway always look for the backwards
causation often it's a both ways
Equalization like exercising and being
healthy you know they cause each other
but don't believe just don't believe any
science on these topics what makes you
happier healthier a lot of that's just
BS
all right uh speaking of science
there's a new study that says these
eco-friendly straws
might be as bad or worse than regular
straws
because the eco-friendly ones are adding
some chemicals to the environment that
we didn't have but the plastic ones
maybe last forever the microplastics get
in the orders why so
um
I've been watching this pitch battle
that we've had recently between science
on one hand and flipping a freaking coin
on the other hand now when I was young I
feel like science was ahead
like it could stay ahead of the coin
flip
but
I feel like that's at least reversed or
maybe drawn even
so whenever you see a study that's a
binary there are two things that are
possible so in this case there are two
things possible
either the Eco straws were an
improvement
or they were not you know you could
argue it was exactly the same but that
would be unusual so they're either an
improvement or not
so do you think that flipping a coin
would have gotten you on average a worse
result
than studying it with your science
well you'd love to think that the
science would win every time wouldn't
you
but I'm here to tell you it's sort of a
a really even battle between flipping
coins and science when it comes to a lot
of stuff now I should uh I should be
quick to tell you the science starts out
with shaky
and in a perfect world it improves over
time as people reproduce things and find
different ways to test things and they
you know get skeptical of things Etc so
over time it probably does crawl closer
to the truth than whatever else we were
using so that's good I don't recommend
getting rid of science but for new stuff
yeah new stuff like the straws that's
kind of new
coin flip
all right
apparently Canadians aren't allowed to
have news
I don't know do you even care about the
details
yeah the summary the summary is
Canadians are not allowed to have news
now now if you're worried that the
Canadians were slowly losing their
rights
you know I have to admit
I haven't really been super worried
about Canada and the reason is I I like
Canadians and I think Canadians are
generally speaking quite well balanced
rational you know high functioning
people
so I've been telling myself for a long
time well the Canadians will work this
out right we don't need to go help the
Canadians the Canadians are real you
know smart solid they've been running
this good country for the longest time
and doing a good job in my opinion so
you know they don't need any help from
us you don't need my opinion
well uh writer Gad sad is reporting that
uh he had a post blocked by Canadian
for alleged misinformation but then
there was a community notes that says it
was blocked but maybe not for the reason
that he thinks not for misinformation
now the first part of the story is
imagine being in the pretty famous
author you know Gad sad very famous
imagine that your work is is blocked on
social media and you don't even know why
because that's part of the story the
part of the story is not that he's wrong
he said he didn't have a he didn't have
a mechanism to know why imagine being
censored censored and you don't know why
all right here's the reason why
according to a community notes
doesn't mean he's wrong by the way but
I'll just tell you what the community
note says
I the the fact that this is real I'm
going to read this I'm just saying it's
from the community notes
I feel like it couldn't be real
but it might be
I'll read it to you you decide Community
notes the Canadian government has not
forbidden posting news articles but did
start requiring social media companies
to share Revenue when they link to news
sites
what
in response Facebook made a business
decision decision not to allow display
or posting of such links by Canadian
users
really
seriously
seriously
that Canada was so dumb
that they thought that the Facebook
would just start sharing the revenue
with the new news people that people
linked to that wasn't going to happen
of course that wasn't going to happen
that would be the stupidest thing ever
you know you you can you can make fun of
Zuckerberg all day long for you know
what what he his preferences are
politically Etc
yeah you can make fun of him for looking
like an Android
but he's not an idiot
he's not stupid he knows what a business
model looks like of course he's not
going to do business with Canada under
those conditions at least not the way
they want it
of course not
there's there's no head of a social
media company they would have ever
agreed to that
so imagine this
you're a Canadian using social media
and on Facebook you're not allowed to
see news
from your own country you can see news
from other countries but you're not
allowed to see your own news
now keep in mind that the links
were links to drive your traffic to the
news site
now that would be advertising we call it
in this country or marketing it's
advertising or marketing when people
from somewhere else are encouraged to go
to your product
but now that's not going to happen it's
not illegal but Canada decided to make
it non-economic to look at the news
that actually happened
in the real world Canada is is making it
uneconomical to know what's happening in
your country
so all of you Canadians if you'd like to
follow people like me on X you might
find for the first time what's happening
in your country
I got some surprises for you you're not
gonna like it
I'm just saying you're not gonna like it
all right
poor Canadians
well flying cars I think are here
although as somebody said we should stop
calling them flying cars
because they're just tiny little
personal
quadricopters it's basically like a
little helicopter with you know four
little uh electric motorized things like
a drone
uh so it's not a car but it's kind of a
car and uh
in the Dilbert comic that you can't see
unless you're a subscriber on X or on
the locals Community uh Dilbert has
ordered his his own flying car
he was trying to compete with a
character named topper who was bragging
that he ordered a cyber truck
and the Cyber truck would be really
really cool
but it's no flying car is what I'm
saying
so I want to get my Tesla flying car
um apparently China's got one that's
flying around in Prototype and it looks
pretty awesome the only thing that was
keeping us from having
private uh aircraft
was the uh Power of the battery
which is now sufficient
the processing speed so that you could
do a lot of processing to keep it stable
which is we got all that
and I would imagine some kind of GPS you
know we've had for a long time and then
you need The Regulators to be okay with
it but basically everything that would
be needed to have your own little flying
personal vehicle it's here there's no
technology left to design it's just
productizing it and making it legal
now the one I saw
it was kind of hilarious because it
looked like the four wings on the
quadcopter
were external
as in if you walked over to it it would
it would chop you in half
and they're the kind of low the same
size the same height as the the car and
I'm thinking to myself I'm positive that
I've seen those where the where the
blade thing was protected I feel like
they have to at least add that
right you know where there's a casing
around the blade well
um no no inventor of flying
planes or cars all right DeSantis I
guess I missed this during the uh
debate but DeSantis was proud of it so
he was tweeting it around or exiting it
around
um where he at the debate he said I'm
not going to send troops to Ukraine but
I am going to send them to our Southern
border when these drug smugglers bring
fentanyl across the border we're going
to leave them cold stone cold dead
applause applause sorry too weak
too weak
so weak you're going to wait for them to
come across the border
seriously
like if they're standing at one foot on
the other side of the Border they're
like we'll be like oh if only there was
something we could do about that guy
really that's that's our plan
we're going to watch them the coyotes
bringing people to the border and then
you know stopping on their side while
the immigrants across and we're going to
be okay with that
no we should be dropping them with
sniper fire
you don't think that would slow the slow
of the flow
we should have snipers taking out all
the coyotes as soon as we spot them now
we can shoot from our side if you know
he wants to be like that but you know
I'm not going to support I just can't
support anybody who's weak on fentanyl
this is weak
you're going to stay on our side of the
Border while they're coming over to kill
us no you go kill them or they're where
they're in their sleep
kill them in their sleep
all right bomb their facilities take
their and make their make their
full-time job at trying not to get
droned that should be their full-time
job if you're in the cartel looking up
your full-time job should be looking up
because we should have that whole place
blanketed with drones by now and we
should just be reigning death on the
cartels every single day with no remorse
anything else is stupid and weak and
we're just asking for what we get
so as much as I like the census in a lot
of ways I know exactly you know I
suppose he's maybe tested it or
something it sounded good in a poll I
don't know I mean I don't know why you
would have this opinion even
all right I'm not going to talk a lot
about Mass I'm just going to tell you
the two worst takes on either side okay
so we're not going to talk about what
the good take is
I'm just going to tell you the ones I
don't want to see anymore
and the worst take on the pro mask is
that the data shows that they work
do you agree
the worst take on masks is that the data
shows they work
at a population level
at a population level because there's no
there's no Dependable data there's no
Dependable data on anything really but
there's no Dependable data at a let's
say a city or a county level that
supports it
so saying that there is I think is the
worst argument now
to be clear I don't know what's true
I just know that the data doesn't
support it so you don't ask citizens to
do something that's quite extreme like
that where it masks everywhere that's
pretty extreme if you can't if you can't
demonstrate it
with unambiguously it's that's a no-go
because Freedom requires that if you're
going to take any of it away you've got
to have nailed down absolute
in controvertible science and we're
nowhere near that well in fact we're not
even in a environment in which
incontrovertible science would be useful
it's not even useful because there's
there's no credibility or faith or
believability from any organization that
would create data
so in a situation in which you can't
know what's true
don't tell us that the data says it's
true when we don't see it at a city
level and you're taking your freedoms
away so it's a terrible argument
that you think they work and therefore I
should wear a mask sorry
what you think works has no that should
have no impact on me you know I should
make an impact on me
what I think works that's it what I
think works should matter well you think
works no no boy no
here's the worst argument on the
anti-mask side I'm completely anti-mask
no mandates if you want to do it do it
you know same with anything but
no mandates and there's no wiggle room
on that I have no wiggle room
no mandates on masks
however I am embarrassed to be on that
point of view when I keep seeing people
tweeting around this thing that shows
the size of a virus versus the size of
the holes in the mask
if you don't say I intentionally left
out the size of the water droplets so
that I could fool you into being
scientifically illiterate
well that's missing
let me ask you this would you say that
Dr Jordan Peterson is very anti-mask yes
or no Dr Jordan Peterson is he anti-mask
yes or no
he's anti-mask
let me ask you the question he's very
anti-mask
now would you say that also he
understands the topic better than most
people because he's scientific by nature
would you say he's one of the smartest
people around and he's looked into it
enough he's got a good take on it right
do you think you'll ever see
Dr Jordan Peterson who agrees with you
completely about no mask Band-Aids do
you think you'll ever see him tweeting
that uh that little meme about the size
of a virus compared to the size of the
holes in The Mask no you'll never see
that because that is not an argument
that smart people make
or informed people if you're uninformed
do you think the virus travels on its
own if the virus left your mask on its
own without any water droplet it would
just fall to the ground
or be dead because I had no water
droplet it'd be dry down I don't know
so here's the question I ask you
if you were to measure the amount of
covet on the inside of a mask for
somebody who had covet let's say they
had coveted and didn't know it if you
measure the amount of covet on the
inside of the Mask would there be any
would you borrow a mask from somebody
who had covered if you knew they had
coveted
no
so
some of it's on the mask but clearly it
doesn't seem to make any difference at a
population level and probably the reason
that masking doesn't work is that we all
violated a home
did anybody wear a mask at home
even if people came over even if he had
guests did you wear masks at home during
the pandemic no
no did you have did your kids have play
dates at your house and nobody wore
masks yes
yes many playdates no masks yep
no obviously the parents had a choice of
being in a mask sending their kids to a
massless situation or not but nobody
seemed to have a problem with it
in Spain people wear masks at home and
during Christmas I'm sorry
I'm sorry about that
yeah you can you can require Mass all
you want but we're not going to wear
them at home so good luck with that
um
and that's the last time I want to talk
about masks until well it's the next
time I'll talk about it will be when I'm
helping to organize the destruction of
the first corporation that requires it
all right I don't want to go after any
health care organizations because that's
just messed up they got enough problems
you know they're they're trying to fight
through a tough situation if there is
one uh I don't want to go after them and
I'd rather go after people who have
customers who have options like Bud
Light
you can decide not to shop at Target but
changing your whole Healthcare
situations that's like more trouble than
the protests would be worth
so the first time there's a public
company
that requires masks of the customers at
least uh you got to close them down you
got to put them right out of business
and you got to make it fast and brutal
and you got to make sure there's no
ambiguity about it
short of that you deserve masks
right if you want if you want to say
what would make us deserve to be masked
and be slaves to or overlords well not
fighting it
so if you don't shut down the First
Corporation
uh well you're asking for it
all right there's a bunch of news that
I'll call the black and white stuff
meaning black people and white people
I'm supposed to get excited about a
shooter because there was a racial
element I'm not
um I'm actually surprised that there
isn't more racial violence aren't you
I'm not recommending it in case anybody
was unclear on that but given given the
media landscape I'm surprised there
isn't a lot more
and if there is a lot more that would be
kind of predictable because the news is
turning all the stories into black white
stories what would be the what's the
most
the most obvious outcome
of stories which focus on a person of
this type kill the person of that type
and vice versa would be more of it of
course because do you know what causes
you to act there's a requirement for
action
there's a few requirements but one of
the requirements is that you have a
thought
because we think about the thing we're
going to do and then we do it but if you
never thought of something
if it had never been in your mind in the
first place the odds are you doing it
are pretty low
so the news is putting thoughts in our
heads of uh you know black and white
crime with these videos and then you
know white on black Ryan with the mass
shootings and then we're doing this
weird math where we're competing all
right did the black people kill more
white people well it depends if you're
looking at percentages are you looking
at Raw numbers and how often do the
white people kill the black people if
you engage in that conversation
then you you have been basically owned
by the people who like to own minds
if you want to be an independent thinker
reject the stories don't talk about them
in the way that they frame them black
and white there was an individual who
killed some other individuals and it's a
huge tragedy
not greater than any of the other
tragedies that happen today
a tragedy you know it's a maximum
tragedy but not bigger than all the
other ones right there other people died
in terrible ways as well
so I'm just not going to participate in
the uh that we'll all wait for the uh oh
the other story that I think is
you're seeing a bunch of uh Trump is
going to be gaming with black people and
maybe it's because he was unfairly
accused maybe it's because Biden's not
delivering
I don't believe any of it really and
here's why I don't believe any of it
it's not that the polls are inaccurate
I'm not saying that they might be it
might not be I wouldn't know but there's
going to be another George Floyd uh op
so whatever you're thinking about racial
relations now that will be completely
transformed with the next uh George
Floyd
so you know that there could have been
George Lloyd's for four years during uh
Biden right easily there could have been
more George Floyd's I'm pretty sure that
whatever you know problems there are
between police and the black community
I'm pretty sure they didn't get fixed
when Biden became president right but
the way we treated them which ones we
highlighted what the news decided was
news you know probably you know CIA
influence on the news
um
so there will be guaranteed
something that was going to happen on
his own I don't think it would be an OP
to create a crime but I think there's
some crime that was going to happen on
his own we'll have just the right
elements to make it the only thing
that's a story you know the George Floyd
it so it doesn't matter what Trump's
numbers are today
those will be wiped out by the next uh
the next brainwashing operation and you
it's I mean you could just
um you can put it on your calendar
practically it's guaranteed
all right uh another story about the
Maryland schools and I guess the
Baltimore schools in particular in which
there are zero people who are not
learned anything in school that that's
the summary and none of the students
learned anything in their schools
they're all failures
uh to which I say is that a national
story or is that people getting exactly
what they wanted
they keep voting for it they must want
it
if they wanted something different I
imagine they would go get it for
themselves
do you know why do you know why we don't
have this problem in my town
so in my town we have pretty highly
rated schools by California standards
because people in my town want good
schools
that's it
they want it
that's that's the whole story they just
want it so they make sure that they get
it
Baltimore has no functioning schools as
far as I can tell
but every every year they vote
they go vote for it and they vote for
more of this apparently so I don't care
about Baltimore's failing Schools
they're getting what they ask for
and they asked for it every two to four
years they re-ask for it and they re-ask
for it they know what to do to fix it
they don't want to
I don't know why and when I say they
don't want to that never means everybody
right it means there's not enough people
who care
so what should you do about that
situation
should you take some of your money that
you earned and maybe try to give it to
them
no that would be crazy you should just
avoid it in any way you can just get
away
just go where that's not a problem move
to my town
my town has good schools problem solved
all right yeah move away let the cities
fail the faster the cities fail the
better off we all will be because they
need to hit bottom and apparently
they're not close
so they've got to get a lot worse so
when nobody in Baltimore can read and
everybody dies by murder that would be
about the time that something will
change
all right uh
but I'll tell you what I'm not going to
do I'm not going to make it my problem
everybody agree with that
I'm not going to make that my problem
if you want your problem to be solved
you need to leave
it's it's not really the hardest thing
in the world to understand what needs to
be done and if you want to leave and you
can't that's something I would put some
energy into if it turns out there were a
lot of people who just wanted to get out
of their bad situation physically and
just go anywhere just anywhere that
there's a real school
I would be behind throwing some energy
and money beyond that but no I'm not
going to fix a place where the people
don't want it fixed that's not going to
happen
all right
I keep seeing this uh the presidential
race like
The Avengers
and what's interesting is the the
Democrats are trying as hard as possible
to take down Iron Man
let's say that's Trump
but what's different this time is that
it's not just one superhero
because
the GOP also has a Hulk they don't just
have Iron Man anymore now they have a
Hulk if you take Trump down you're going
to give a fake
you think you're going to get DeSantis
surprise you're not you're not
you're not going to guess if Trump goes
down you're going to get the person who
is going to fix it
do you think that's DeSantis
has he been talking like somebody who's
going to fix it
no no
there's one person who has the
capability
and you know the clear message that that
is going to fix it now you say to
yourself but Scott I've heard before
that people are trying to clear the
swamp
uh we've heard this before do you know
the only way to clear the swamp
is the way for vague is suggesting and I
didn't realize the genius of this until
really just yesterday I figured it down
the only way you can take a corrupt
organization and make it less corrupt is
to make it go away
and that's what he plans to do he's
going to spread the FBI's functions
across other functions he's going to
take the Department of Education and
take that money and give it to the
States you you have to take away
the entire entity
if it's that corrupt and I think we've
reached the point where the entity has
to go away but not the function
the function needs to stay exactly as
the fake wants to do so if you have
fewer people
you have fewer places that corruption
can hide if you have less complexity do
you know how many people just work in
that JF uh that Hoover building for the
I mean just filled with people doing
complicated things that you don't
understand that interact with each other
that's where all corruption hides and
complexity but if you were just to
simplify it make things more local make
them more you know on point you know the
the field agents would be working on you
know discrete things and different
different organizations
you're you're more likely to find
corruption by having fewer people more
simplification and bringing it closer to
the local level
so so that's a real plan
so good luck taking Iron Man down
because uh you don't want the Hulk you
really don't
all right uh all things being equal the
Democrats have an impenetrable uh
advantage
at the moment impenetrable so unless
this changed Democrats will just win
everything in 2024. and this has to do
with the fact that fear persuasion is
the strongest
fear persuasion just beats everything
now the reason that Trump won the first
time is that his fear of persuasion was
excellent yeah you could say it's
inappropriate or immoral or whatever you
want to say
but it was effective because he said
people coming across the border or you
know too many criminals and all that and
got people scared and you know you you
know basically you're scared of
everything by the time he was done
I was scared of China
um but right now the Democrats own fear
so they've got climate change fear that
doesn't affect Republicans too much but
their base is all about it
uh they've got the white supremacy fear
or just white men fear
which is something that the Republicans
can't match
you know they could try showing lots of
social media videos of you know criminal
behavior and stuff but it doesn't it's
not really getting through I think the
white supremacy message by the
mainstream media is pretty strong
women losing bodily autonomy as they
would say
over abortion
imagine if somebody said we're gonna the
state is going to have control over your
body
well that's what women are imagining
right now you don't have to imagine it
that's actually what the state is saying
and by the way if you think that I'm
giving you my opinion on abortion that
won't be here I don't do that I let
women take the lead on abortion whatever
they collectively decide in their state
I back the women so I'm not backing
Republicans
Or democrats I'm not I'm not backing
pro-abortion or anti-abortion I'm
backing women
because this is an impossible decision
and you need to at least make the most
the people with the most skin in the
game at least they should have to take a
lead now I'm not saying you should give
up your vote if you want to vote go vote
you have that right I'm just saying for
me
I I can't justify
being persuasive in this domain I want
to be anti-persuasive on this and let
women take the lead anyway
but if you're a woman that would be one
of the scariest things I could imagine
if I put myself in that position which
I'm not
uh if you told me somebody was going to
take away one of my you know ways to
manage my life I'd you know and I didn't
think that a fetus was a human life
let's say let's take that assumption uh
I'd be pretty scared
so what is it that the Republicans have
to offer fear wise that would match at
least at least for the voters on the
other side obviously the Republicans
have Republican votes already but if
they want to influence the other side
what do they have
cried
covered lockdowns
poverty is too slow moving
racism
no that's what the racism is what the
left is using
zombie cities
I don't know see the trouble is the
cities don't care about themselves
enough
if the city is cared about themselves
they would have already fixed it
so it's hard for me to care about I
don't care about San Francisco honestly
you know I live near it it's like a
major part of my whole life but San
Francisco wants to be what it is
the the moment they decide not to be
that they'll change it so it's not up to
me to tell them that they can't walk in
the feces when they go outside if they
want to
and obviously this is hyperbole they
don't all want to yeah I get that but
they're acting they're acting in the way
that gives them one result if you want
to get a different result act
differently but don't make it my problem
I'm happily living away from San
Francisco so
you know work it out yourself so no that
doesn't give me any fear
I think that's just evolution of you
know it's just change
so inflation you know if you look at
what the Republicans like to push they
push you know inflation is bad that's
true nobody likes inflation but it
doesn't give you a visceral fear
it makes you feel bad
but you're not like afraid it's going to
go come kill you
climate change people think is going to
actually kill them
Right Way Supremacy if you watch CNN or
MSNBC there's a whole bunch of people
who think the white supremacists are
arming up and they're coming for you or
something but you know that's not true
I mean not a scale
anyway so keep an eye on that the a
really predictive feature is who has the
better fear persuasion and right now
that's all all Democrats big advantage
uh there's another story that Kamala
Harris tried to talk in public again
summary
didn't go well
yeah that's that's the whole story there
yep Kamal Harris trying to talk
coherently in public didn't go well
um here's more evidence that the
Democrats are an organized crime party
so there's emails now that show that a
U.S attorney Weiss uh talked to the doj
to thwart Congressional questioning this
that's the charge but once again we have
entities in the government Democrats
who are talking to each other in a way
that appears on the surface to be
organized and coordinated for a
legitimate purposes
now as I've said before the Democrat
Party has become an organized crime
party
which is not to say that the individuals
in it are worse than the individuals who
are Republican or independent
so here now
um I'm not talking about the the voters
talking about the leadership
here's a here's what I think is a key
difference Just observationally Between
the Democrats the party and the
Republican Party see if this tracks with
your observation so this is not a
science just observation
it seems to me that when Republicans are
pushing
which happens a lot it's coming from
citizens and sometimes boiling up
until you'll see somebody in Congress
you know some of the more controversial
ones that will come out of their mouths
but basically
you know everything from pizzagate to
you name it started with with citizens
who happen to be Republican you know
maybe it was on Reddit or 4chan and then
it bubbles up and then maybe it comes
out of somebody's mouth right
but
when the Democrats run up it is very
clearly organized by the leadership and
then trickles down through the news to
the rest of us
so one of them is a bottom-up
party and the other is a
top-down party
and it's very consistent so let me give
you an example on the Democrat side you
got your Russia occlusion hoax you know
coordinated across multiple entities
you've got your Hunter Biden laptop hoax
again coordinated in a sense you know
the media was in on it the Democrats
were in on at the Intel operations were
in on it
um
you've seen the the prosecutions so the
prosecution depends on the organized
nature of the crime on the Democrat side
if if it were not an organized approach
to take Trump down what would the news
have reported about his perfect phone
call to find votes
if if it were not an organized attempt
what would the news say if they were
just describing it objectively
they would say people question elections
all the time perfectly legal
find votes in the context of thinking
that an audit would show that he had
actually won
was just talking
that's what they'd call that
well there was an example of a phone
call and it evolved some talking
that's literally the only thing that
happened
but because it's an organized event not
only do you have the media covering for
it the Democrats covering for it but you
have actual prosecutors
who have arrested and indicted
the probable next president of the
United States on what is clearly an
organized op
and about the uh the the hunter or the
let's say the Biden crime family
allegations
do you think that the Democrats are
coordinated in covering up the
importance of that story of course it's
very coordinated the media the Democrats
probably the Intel people all is very
coordinated
but do you see the difference now have I
sold you that the Democrats organized
they actually plan and execute
multi-agency operations that are you
know gaslighting operations
Republicans too Gaslight themselves and
try to Gaslight other people but it
almost always starts on 4chan or Reddit
or someplace like that yeah they
many of you believe that because 4chan
started a rumor about me
that all of my pandemic opinions were
reversed by 4chan and then it caused me
this huge problem that people thought my
opinions were the opposite of what they
are and
that didn't come from the top
that came from just people
just people who run probably unfortunate
Reddit and stuff like that right so once
you see it watch how often you see more
of it
the Democrats are literally a criminal
organized Enterprise
it's organized at the top it's
implemented through various agencies
including the news which as we know is
corrupt at this point
all right um
apparently uh Tucker Carlson can
interview Putin now
um looks like nothing will stop him
because he's a independent person now
so won't that be interesting
yeah won't that be interesting now
nothing that Putin says can be trusted
obviously
but I'd love to hear what he has to say
all right
I told you the other day that one of the
things that Vivek does his his campaign
and also Trump did well and let's see if
you can agree with me on this one of the
things Trump did better than anybody is
he could read the room because he was
always following social media and he was
seeing immediately how people reacted
and then he was you know riffing off of
that
and so one of the things that happened
was that if you had a good idea in the
Trump Administration and I've given you
examples of this before I won't do that
again if you had a good idea
it would immediately trickle up to the
president of the United States and he
would say oh that's a pretty good idea
and then he would implement it
it could be an executive action it could
be you know a campaign change you saw it
all the time you saw like one individual
would have an idea and the next thing
you know
Trump would have adopted it only because
it was a good idea it didn't matter
where it came from
just good idea is a good idea well if
the VAC is the same and I gave you this
example but now it's implemented so I
was I was whining and bitching on
um on X that I kept having to explain
away his various the rumors about him
and the wef and sorrows and big Pharma
you know all these rumors swirling about
him and I was getting exhausted and I
said you guys just got to put up a page
that says what the rumor is
what's we are what's your version of the
truth
and then I could just link to it well
now it exists
so now there is a page for all of those
rumors and I looked I think he got them
all by the way I was worried that he
might skip a rumor and then you'd say oh
why do you skip this one but I think he
got them all actually it would look
pretty extensive and what I read through
it I said okay those are good answers
here's the one I liked the best
that he accepted a Soros scholarship
that had no springs attached
what's the only right answer to that
accusation
it wasn't George Soros by the way it was
his dead brother
he said here's the only right answer
into vague at it
if you're not willing to take free money
when it's offered you shouldn't be
anywhere near the White House
hello
done
who who is it who once said that
what is that what does that sound like
Trump during the debate
Mr Trump you know you've also donated
money I think it was donating money to
politicians
and he said no no it was uh Mr Trump
you've used these you know these tax
loopholes or whatever to save your taxes
and Trump says absolutely
of course I use them they're legal
they're available and every one of
Hillary of Hillary's donors uses them
too
can you beat that answer of course I use
them they're legal they're available and
every one of your donors uses them
if you want me not to do it change the
law
how do you beat that how do you beat
that argument
so you know Vivek didn't only find The
High Ground
you know you're sort of like floating
floating in the clouds above this
argument because you're you're a
freaking idiot if you don't take free
money no strings attached
and I think somebody said he was already
he already had money he'd made some
money by that time
so
do you know how he made money
by not being a dumbass how about by not
being a dumbass and after he made his
money guess what he didn't turn into a
dumbass
when somebody offered him some more free
money
he took the free money I don't want the
guy who can't take the free money
I don't want that person anywhere near
the White House
right so that was a good answer
so um I tweeted the link and it'd be
near the top of my tweet feed today or
the ex feed and if you'd like to have
that link I recommend keeping it handy
if you're running into this conversation
just just keep it in your notes
cut and paste it every time you need it
we'll see what happens but I do love I
do love a candidate
who responds to a good idea
that was a good idea right I'm not am I
blowing too much smoke up my own butt
that was just an obvious good idea put
all the answers in one place
um and
I I've always said that Trump should do
the same
Trump had so many hoaxes against him
it'd be nice just to have a hoax page
wouldn't it so that the uh you know
every time I get in a conversation which
is like three times a week about the
fine people hoax
I just give them the like
here's the full transcript here's the
part they always leave out it's a rhubar
blah blah
save us all some time
all right
ladies and the gentlemen it looks like
we have a
almost well 600 people watching uh live
on X right now
and uh hey people on X how's the feed
you got good audio good sound
are you happy with what you're saying in
terms of the quality
it's a great feed oh we're getting we're
getting good technical performance here
excellent
good to know no there's no microphone
but the iPhone has a good microphone
built in
all right now I don't know if that that
might have you know some impact on one
of the other platforms we'll see
uh is there a chat uh yes there's chat
messages going by but they're sideways
so they're a little harder for me to
read
loud and clear lighting's good too I
think we're nailing it
look at this
just nailing it
all right ladies and gentlemen I've got
some more things new to go uh talk to
people who promote my book
make some comics
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