Episode 2252 Scott Adams - Biden Decides To Do Whatever Trump Would Have Done. And More Craziness
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All right, here's some stuff. Let's see, some sciency stuff that you didn't need to do the science. You should have just asked me. I think this will be my new category: Do we need to do a study, or could we just ask Scott and see what he says?
Apparently being a vegetarian is partly genetic, meaning that there are some people who don't metabolize fat the same and therefore meat doesn't give them the buzz that it gives other people and makes them sick. I'm one of those people. People ask me why I stopped eating meat. I do eat fish these days, but I stopped eating meat because I got a stomach ache every time I did it, like a huge stomach ache. So I might be one of these people. But you didn't really have to ask me if being a vegetarian is genetic. Is there anybody who thought it wasn't? Did anybody think that being a vegetarian was simply a lifestyle preference? Of course it's genetic.
Do you know what else is genetic? Alcoholism. Do you know when I knew that? About 20 years before science knew it, because it was obvious. Do you know when I knew that being a vegetarian, not for everybody, some people do pick it for lifestyle choices I'm sure, but did I know that some people were naturally vegetarians? Yes, I did. To me it was obvious. It's been obvious for decades.
About gay people having a different genetic makeup, was I surprised to learn that? No, because that was obvious for decades before science figured it out. So if you want to wait for science, you can, but it'll be decades after I tell you what's true.
Now, what about alcohol is actually good for you if taken in moderation? Well, science lied to you about that for about 50 years. But if you listened to me from the very start, I said nope, that's just science. There's no way that any of it's good for you, and now we know it's not.
Speaking of science, here's another study. I don't even know why I bother. Science is so ridiculous now. But there's a study by, see the lead author is Professor Wrath. He says that half of the population will develop at least one mental disorder by the age of 75. So in other words, half of Americans will have mental health disorders in their lifetime. Half.
So how do you explain that? Let me explain it. Follow the money. Follow the money. We now have this enormous industry that will give you a pill or give you therapy or make you watch some TikTok videos or something else. So once we monetized mental health disorders, were you going to get more of them or fewer of them? You were going to get a lot more. Yeah, everything you form a group to look for, you're going to find more.
When the ADL was formed to look for bigotry, do you think they found any? Well, there was plenty to find, but do you think they found any that wasn't really there? Oh yes, of course they did. So you're going to find everything that's there and a lot of stuff that isn't there if you're looking.
But on top of that, I do think our entire system makes people mentally ill. There's definitely a difference in mental illness compared to when I was a kid. Or here's the other possibility: If nobody told you you were mentally ill, would you know it? What if we had just as much mental illness before but there were no names for it and we were not all familiar with all the various types?
If you sat me down and said, Scott, make a list of all the potential types of mental illness, I could have a pretty long list. Do you think I could have done that when I was, I don't know, 15? No. I would have thought, let's see, I've heard of schizophrenia and maybe fear of crowds or something, and I wouldn't have even been able to come up with three, I don't think. Depressed? I don't even know if depression was a thing when I was a kid. I don't remember anybody who said they had it, or anxiety, any of it. I don't remember any of it as a kid.
So what if everybody had those problems but if they didn't have a name for it they just thought it was that happens in their head and maybe other people have it in their heads and we're all just different? And I also wonder, if half the country has a mental illness or disorder as they call it, who gets to determine what's normal? You know, where's that line of normal? If half the kids have a mental illness at some point, it just becomes who we are. I mean, aren't we all a little bit crazy one way or another anyway?
I got questions about these numbers, but it does seem like there are more mentally unhealthy people for one reason or another.
So how many of you have seen the clip of Bill Maher? He went on a few different talk shows and he talked about how the Democrats are poorly served by their own news, which is interesting to hear a Democrat or somebody who leans Democrat say that they were poorly served by their own news. The example he gives is that when people were asked what are the odds that you would end up in the hospital if you got COVID, and apparently people on the left, political left, thought it was a really big number, and the real number is you know under 2%. Now that was a really good example of where their news has completely bamboozled them. I mean just wildly.
But is there anything else like that? How about if you were to ask, I'm just guessing, but if you were to ask the Democrats and Republicans if the number of deaths from extreme weather have gone up or down recently? I feel like, I don't know this, but I feel like Democrats would say oh yeah, that extreme weather from all the climate change, so there's more extreme weather because there's more climate change. More extreme weather equals more deaths. Yes, there must be a great increase in the number of deaths. The reality is it's at an all-time low. Do you think they would know that? Yeah.
How about the hoaxes? If I ran through the list of the hoaxes: fine people hoax, the drinking bleach hoax, you know, just go down the list. How many Democrats would recognize those as hoaxes? They wouldn't, because the news told them they were all real. So they wouldn't know any of the hoaxes. They wouldn't know the most important elements of climate change, which is their biggest issue. They wouldn't know about hospitalization for COVID, the biggest thing that happened in the country for years.
And then there's another one. I just saw some statistics. People were asked how many people were killed by police who were black in 2021. So the survey was 2021. Forty percent of liberals thought the number was over a thousand in America per year. Forty percent of liberals, people who were very liberal, thought it was over a thousand. The real number was 11. It was 11 people. And how many of the 11 had it coming, meaning that if you knew the details you would have said to yourself, oh well I can see why they shot those 11? How many of the 11? Probably at least nine or 10. You'd look at it and say yeah, they definitely should have been shot. So the number who were shot who should not have been shot, maybe two out of thousands and thousands and thousands of arrests. Still too many of course.
But conservatives didn't say that. Only 16% of conservatives thought it was over a thousand, which is way too much. What conservative thinks that the number of black people killed by police per year is over a thousand? Sixteen percent of conservatives.
Now if you asked what is their primary news source, what do you think they'd say? Probably not Fox News, probably not Breitbart. They'd probably say, see you that it's probably their primary source of news. There must be a lot of households where you've got a conservative and a liberal in the same house and one of them controls the TV so the other person doesn't see real news. So there might be a whole bunch of conservatives who think they're seeing real news on CNN because their spouse watches it. Just a guess.
So I would like to see a more comprehensive survey to see if people on the left or the right are even informed about the important stuff. You know, other questions you could imagine would be is Generation 3 nuclear energy more or less dangerous than the alternatives? You know, stuff like that. You know conservatives would know that Generation 3, there's never been a death. Never. Those are the new ones that you would build today. If you started today it would either be Generation 3 or 4. Four would be built in a way that it couldn't melt down no matter what happened. Three could, but they've done them so well that none has had a catastrophic problem.
How many would know that?
Some new information about college degrees. The percentage of young adults who said that a college degree is very important is now down to 41%. It was 74% over 10 years ago. This is in the New York Times. So 10 years ago three quarters of the country said oh yeah, college education is important, and today 41%. What changed? What changed in 10 years? College became worthless, that's what. In the last 10 years college went woke and became ridiculous and way too expensive. So the price is going way up, the value you get out of it is way down. Who would want to send their kid to a woke college? Well, woke people I guess, but the rest would not want them to come back all wokenized.
Do you remember the other day I told you Bloomberg had done a study that said after George Floyd was killed that the Fortune 100 companies, their new hires, only 6% of them were white? And it was outrageous because it would look like they were all overcompensating. Do you know how they got that 6% number? Well the Daily Wire did a little deep dive and looked into it. Here's how they got the 6% number: It's something called not knowing how to do math at all. That's the whole story. The numbers are not even close to 6%. It's actually closer to the way it's always been. So the real story is nothing really changed after George Floyd in terms of hiring, which is good news in one sense because there wasn't an overreaction. Now if you think that the baseline was good, that's a separate question, but there wasn't an overreaction. There was some small statistical difference.
So once again we learned that journalists can't do math. We've always learned that scientists can't do statistics. I mean the fact that two highly qualified statisticians, that Martin called off and Nate Silver, are having a total disagreement about the same set of data, they're looking at the same data and they can't decide what it says. Two of the best in the business. So there's almost no data that's useful, and it's really hard to accept that but it is true. Data is almost all motivated. It's motivated by somebody or it's just done wrong. And when it's done wrong it seems to agree with the motivation of the person who did it wrong. That's pretty consistent because otherwise you'd never see it.
But of course at least our climate change science is good, right? There's a new study that says a new study measured how much CO2 is released from rocks into the atmosphere. Rocks, that's right. So if it rains for example there's like a slight bit of erosion from rocks. It turns out that rocks could add as much CO2 to the atmosphere as volcanoes, and currently this process is not included in most climate models. So there's something as big as volcanoes, which are very big in terms of CO2, that are not included because they didn't know about it till now. It's the rocks.
So do you know what the plan is to prevent the rocks from off-gassing the CO2? They're going to bury them. You're going to bury all the rocks under dirt. Now I'm making that up. That's not real. They're not going to bury the rocks. It would just be funny, wouldn't it? Or ban them. Ban the rocks. They're going to make rocks illegal. Get rid of the rocks. Rocks must die. I think it would be hilarious to have a climate protest against rocks. Am I right? What would be funnier than that? Like actually get a permit, invite thousands of people and have them march: No more rocks! No more rocks! I think it'd be funny.
And do you know how much of the CO2 comes from BlackRock? Okay, that's a pun on BlackRock being a big company. Wasn't a very good pun. I just saw it in the comments and stole it. Probably should have held back on that one.
So we didn't include rocks in those models. Is there anybody who's been telling you for a long time the models can't predict the future? Not even a little bit. Not ever. Not in this case, not in any case. Yeah, but we believe they can.
Here's another story about Biden's dementia. So I guess an ex-ESPN host named Sage Steele, I guess she was on Bill Maher's show, the Club Random, and she said that interviewing Joe Biden was quote the saddest thing as he couldn't finish his sentences. So she said, forget about politics, I don't care, I didn't vote for him. Steele told Bill Maher she thinks he's a terrible president but she says however that made me sad, she said of his confusion.
Now another subpart of the story is that the Washington Post is running the story. So the Washington Post, as you know, likes their Democrats, but it's pretty clear that the word is going out that Biden will be pushed out. I think he's going to try to stay in there. I think the entire system is going to try to push him out, but they're going to try it too gently because they can't be too aggressive or too obvious. And I think his stubbornness will be greater than their subtlety. So I think he's going to stay even though his side is going to try really hard to push him out because he's an old demented man and he doesn't want to quit by saying he's demented. If you have dementia the last thing you want to do is say you know I'm going to have to step down because honestly I got a bad case of dementia and it's just getting worse.
So Sage Steele is a great name, isn't it? Your first name makes you sound smart, your last name makes you sound strong. Sage Steele sounds like a superhero name. Yes, Sage Steele. I like it.
All right, so this next category is the things that Trump was right about. Are you ready for this? Things that Trump was right about. I made a prediction in 2021 that the longer Trump was out of office the better he would look. Let's see if there are any examples in the real world of things that make Trump look better than he did.
Well as you might remember Joe Biden was very anti-Saudi Arabia and its leader the Crown Prince for possibly or probably ordering a bone-saw-related murder of a critic, which we consider a bad form. And so Biden was very, very tough on it, said Trump was some kind of a weird traitor for even doing business with that guy. Let's see if there's any news stories. Oh here's a scoop: Senior Biden advisers quietly visited Saudi Arabia last week and met Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to discuss a mega deal.
So Biden's going to do a mega deal with the guy that he said they can never do business with because he's a big old murderer. So I'm going to say that Trump was right, that even if you don't like what MBS has done or will do, that you might need to deal with them. So let's say Trump was right about that.
I saw this question from UnHoodwinked on X: What percentage of woke liberals would rather die by the hands of their publicly promoted ideology, in other words open borders and defunding the police, versus admit they were wrong and then work with the right to fix the problems?
Now what do you think? How many Democrats would literally, now we're talking literally, literally actually die? How many would actually choose a high, well not certainty of death but how many would choose a large percentage chance of dying violently rather than admit they're wrong? It's probably 90%. That's my guess, because that's how cognitive dissonance works. Until their final breath they would still think they were right. There would be no point that would ever change their mind because once you're really, really committed to an opinion you will actually risk your life so you don't have to change it.
You wouldn't take certain death. If I gave you a choice of all right yeah you can hold that opinion but in five days you will be dead for sure and we guarantee it, well that might change somebody's opinion because we have a survival instinct. But if you said there's a really higher chance you're going to get killed, like substantially higher, they would say I know but it's the principle of the thing. So no, I don't think the risk of being killed by their own policies would change their minds. I don't think that's how minds work. We just stick with what we thought was true and we never leave basically.
All right. IBM predicted not long ago, its CEO previously predicted that IBM would have to shed 30% of their workforce because AI would replace too many people. Do you remember what I've been saying? Does anybody remember my prediction about AI and employment? I said it's going to be more like the invention of the printer or the computer. We just find more things for people to do and then we hire them to do those things instead or do them faster.
But IBM now, after its CEO had said they might lose 30% of the employees to AI, says it foresees no layoffs due to AI and the company will hire more workers than it lets go. So it's actually going to grow workers instead of shedding 30%. I'm going to take credit for being right on this tentatively. I mean you'd have to see a lot more time and a lot more companies doing stuff to be sure, but I think AI will not affect overall employment. It will definitely change the mix of jobs like dramatically, but I don't think it'll change the overall employment rate by itself. So that's my contrarian prediction.
The Navy now has print-on-demand parts. So if you're on a ship at sea and something breaks you can't easily take the cruiser back to a port or fly something in easily. Now they can just print a part. They can actually just create a part and install it, and they've already done it once. They installed a crucial piece on one of its nuclear submarines. Now I don't feel comfortable with this. I don't want my nuclear submarines necessarily to have too many 3D printed parts if you know what I mean. It might have been maybe a part that wouldn't accidentally launch a missile so that would be good. Maybe fix the interface a little bit or something. But no I wouldn't want it to be one of the components of the nuclear missiles. So but I don't think we're doing that.
The most important news of the day is that Commander the dog, Joe Biden's dog, no Joe Biden not Biden, just seems like it should be Joe Biden. So that dog will be removed from the White House. I believe it's being accused of being a MAGA domestic terrorist because that's what they do with anything they don't like. And they had a few different ways to handle this but one was to remove the dog completely. But they also considered building a wall around it. Yeah it's called a cage. But they could have built a wall around the dog but they decided to get rid of it.
Now I don't know if you've put together two plus two but in the past week not only has Speaker McCarthy been removed from office but Commander the dog has been removed from the White House and that does leave us with no leadership whatsoever. It's quite a leadership hole we've created here because I'm pretty sure Commander the dog was in charge of domestic policy anyway.
Well let's see. I saw a post by Peter Zeihan on about Ukraine and he said this. He said all administrations have their blind spots. Ukraine is Biden's. So Ukraine is his blind spot. Now I'm thinking where's this going? Where's this going? So Ukraine is Biden's blind spot. But Peter Zeihan says luckily it is easy to make the case that aid for Ukraine is a core American interest. Biden just needs to address the nation just as Clinton did for Kosovo, W. Bush did for Iraq, Bush Senior did for Panama, and Reagan did for the 80s defense buildup.
So it's easy to make the case that aid for Ukraine is a core American interest. Is it? Is that easy? You think I would have heard that argument by now but I haven't. Have you? If any of you heard an argument why Ukraine is America's core interest? I've heard it's the only thing that will keep China from taking over Taiwan which I think is just laughably stupid. It's just laughably stupid. I'm not even going to address that. Would you agree the thought that whatever happens to Ukraine, the thought that that would have anything to do with China's decision about Taiwan? I'm not even going to talk about it. That's just too stupid. That's just too many levels of abstraction.
But the other argument is, let's see, I heard one argument from a politician saying but don't you realize that 30% of the world's wheat comes from Ukraine? To which I say why would that stop? If Ukraine loses the war is Russia going to stop making wheat or is it going to be one year of not as much wheat? I don't know. I'm not sure that that's it. And the problem in the United States wouldn't be people starving. It would be that the wheat cost I don't know 30% more so we would just eat less bread and would eat more vegetables. Is that a core American interest? That there might be let's say one year of low wheat production if something happened in Ukraine? That's a core American interest?
Now what about stopping Putin's war of aggression where if we don't stop him now he'll just keep taking over countries? Don't you think he just makes every decision individually? Or do we believe that he had this one big decision: I must take over everything. I'm just going to take over everything and it doesn't matter what the situation is. I'll take it over if it's bordering my country. Just going to take it over. Is that the way he thinks? Or might he look at every situation individually and his Ukraine opinion is different than his opinion of every place else? I feel like he probably treats them all as individual decisions.
Do you think that he would move on Poland? To me the Ukraine situation showed that his military can't conquer another country even one that he believed to be weak. He certainly can't take a NATO country. So I hear what Peter Zeihan says that it would be easy to make the case but I've never heard the case in a way that sounds even like a little bit plausible.
Now there's a trick that people do in the news all the time which is to imagine that there's only one choice and the choice that they imagine is we either support Ukraine or we give it all to Russia. Is that the only choices? What about the most likely choice? Why would you leave the most likely outcome out of your two choices? The most likely outcome is we say look we don't want to fund Ukraine anymore but we're going to if you don't do a peace deal that negotiates these border regions. The obvious other solution is you negotiate a peace that keeps everybody largely where they are at the moment and then you give some guarantees about the future etc.
But why do we think the choice is to fight forever or surrender when by far the most obvious thing is to say all right it's a draw. You know this should discourage you from invading another country because you can see that we can just stop you. So why don't we just negotiate peace, go back to business as usual?
Here's why you can't make a good case. Because the real case you can't tell the American people. Can you? The real reason they can't say out loud. The real reason is it's an energy war. We don't want Russia to first of all make all the money that our companies could make and second of all to have that much power over people by being in control of their energy. It's a pure energy war. If you made that argument to me, believe it or not I might be persuaded by it. It sounds purely evil but in the real world wars are about resources and usually energy and it's probably just a way to guarantee that America stays the dominant superpower for the next 50 years. Because if Russia got enough money from its energy production and got enough control over Europe you could really easily see how Putin could dominate Europe. It'd be easy to see. So there would be an argument but you'd have to say things that you can't say, which is yes Ukraine is totally corrupt but we'd rather make sure our energy companies get the business that would otherwise go to Putin because if he has the money he's going to do bad stuff with it. But you can't say that out loud because then it's an optional war.
All right of course we're going to talk about the border wall. So the head of Homeland Security, Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who's been very anti-wall as has Joe Biden been anti-wall, but now quote there is presently an acute and immediate need to construct physical barriers and roads. Huh. Physical barriers. What would be an example of a physical barrier? And what would be the way a normal non-jerk would say it? Probably wall. Yeah. But if you're as big a loser as this Mayorkas guy is you got to call it a physical barrier so you don't, it's not as obvious what a weasel you've been and how much damage you've done to the country by not having a border.
So I'm going to put this on the category of things Trump was right about that the other side had to pretend they were against because they could be against whatever he was for. And it couldn't be much more obvious than this one. So I would say that Trump has been right about police and needing more of them and don't defund them. He was right about the border. He was right about China. He was probably right about Iran. He was right about energy. He was right about a lot and it's getting more and more obvious.
So here are some of my predictions just to remind you. I said the Republicans would be hunted and there's a good chance you'll be dead in a year. And we can see the crime wave and people getting killed in cities especially that journalist recently makes us think that it's an unsafe place to live. But how about that Republicans would be hunted? Well the federal government is so concerned about domestic violence that the FBI has created a whole category of extremists and they're called Donald Trump's army of MAGA followers. That's right. The FBI has decided that MAGA people should be followed closely for being domestic terrorists and it's the FBI that will do it.
And my God, this is a Newsweek report. Something leaked. So Biden is trying to defeat domestic terrorism by targeting one political group for political terrorism. Do you think that you would make MAGA people less likely to bomb the Capitol by targeting them unfairly? I'm pretty sure this would radicalize more people than it would defuse. So this seems like the worst idea in the world. But here we are.
So I don't think we can any longer argue that Republicans are not being hunted. Would you all give me that that prediction which is pretty out of left field was right? This is clearly right. The January 6 people were obviously hunted. A number of public figures were cancelled for reasons that sounded like other reasons but really weren't. They were. It was about taking the better voices off the field. Yeah it's as bad as I said it would be.
And when I wrote that tweet I have to say I just felt it. You know I felt it like the moment before I wrote it. I just had this feeling. It's like oh the way they campaigned and talked about Trump it became very obvious that that rhetoric would translate into action that looked like this because they were saying it. They were saying it clearly from the start that MAGA people were terrorists in versions of that. So you could see it coming from a mile away and here it is.
See the FTC is going after Amazon. So apparently they had this special algorithm called Project Nessie that worked by manipulating rivals' weak pricing algorithms. So somehow what I think this means is either their own in-house products were competing against the professional products or maybe there was one they had a greater profit margin from so they would push that instead of the other one. But apparently this was bad behavior according to some people, the FTC, and it led competitors to raise their prices and charge customers more. So that was pretty sketchy. So we'll see if that was all true because it's subject of a court case so maybe it wasn't true. You never know.
So here's the funniest thing. I realized yesterday that, do you remember Adam Schiff wanted to be the next senator from California so he was in the House of Representatives but Gavin Newsom said he was going to promote a black woman to that job and then he did. And I just realized that Adam Schiff was passed over for promotion because he's a white man. Just hold that in your head. Adam Schiff, specifically him, specifically, he was passed over for a promotion because he's a white man. How much do you think he loves his team today? Oh yeah Democrats. Something tells me the next time he goes into the shift he's not going to lie. I think he got a little closer to being a Republican is what I think because that can only happen to you so many times before you start saying hey I don't think the intentions here are really in the right direction.
Yep, Adam Schiff was passed over for promotion because he's a white male. I just like saying that. And it makes me wonder where's the ADL? Shouldn't the ADL be defending him? He is a Democrat. They should be defending him against this discrimination but they're nowhere to be seen. Oh but they are advertising again on the X platform. I think they should have been kicked off the X platform but if they're going to give Elon Musk money I guess that's okay.
Jim Jordan, Representative Jim Jordan, who's been floated as the potential next Speaker of the House, he tweeted this yesterday: Does anyone feel safe in Democrat-run cities? Democrat-run cities. And I thought to myself what an interesting choice of words, Democrat-run cities. Because if I go into the city and I see a Democrat coming toward me I'm going to run. So Democrat-run, run. It's a Democrat-run city. Yeah that's what it's called, a Democrat-run city.
Well speaking of a lack of free speech, apparently Vivek Ramaswamy and Chris Christie had agreed with each other that they would go on a show I think on Fox and debate and the Republican Party shot that down and told them they couldn't do that. To which I say what? When did the Republican Party become the no free speech party? Like I get the Republicans have to act like Republicans and you want to be on the same team and all but seriously, seriously you can't let two people running for president debate each other on your TV show?
And when I first heard that Vivek was going to have a conversation with Chris Christie the first thing I thought was that might be the first time you saw a debate where something like a debate happened. The way the debates are done for the TV audience you know with seven or eight people up there and then the questions, maybe not the questions you would have asked, not really useful. I mean it's a good event, it's a show event but it's not really useful for voters. But to one-on-one where they could spend some time really digging into the other person's point of view, I would watch that all day. But apparently the Republicans won't let it happen. So there's your free speech group right there.
Karl Rove did this big editorial in the Wall Street Journal trying to mock Matt Gaetz for throwing Congress into chaos by outing the Speaker. And I read the whole thing and my only take on it was there's something wrong with Karl Rove. I don't know if I could go further but I read his thing about Matt Gaetz and it was his choice of words, his choice of words very clearly said that his opinion was and it was just some weird political thing that he prefers some, I guess he preferred McCarthy. But I kind of thought he was a straight shooter until I saw his editorial and it was just, it looked like a Democrat wrote it really. And you know what I mean right? It was tons of insults that weren't necessary to the point. You know it's like a little too hyperbolic. So I don't trust anybody but I definitely don't trust anybody who's mad at Matt Gaetz for kicking the Speaker out. You immediately lose my trust when you have a strong opinion that that should not have gone on because we could all see that the current situation wasn't getting us any results.
And we could all keep politics aside. If your Speaker makes a public promise to your own team and then doesn't keep it, it doesn't matter if he was effective in all the other stuff. That is grounds for removal period because it doesn't look like he ever meant to keep that. Maybe he did. Yeah maybe events overtook him so he was either incapable of delivering it or never meant to. So I'm very in favor of Matt Gaetz this week.
The worst attack on him I saw was one other member of Congress saying that prior to his marriage, and this is stated directly, prior to his marriage he once bragged about taking ED meds and slamming power drinks so he could go all night. Oh well I didn't know that he was aggressively, flagrantly heterosexual so that changes everything. He was super heterosexual before he was married so before marriage he had a lot of sex. I don't know I just I can't be okay with all that heterosexual single person sex. I mean that's just too far.
I should note that there are no criminal charges for anything. There are no criminal charges for anything he did but they're going to make fun of him for figuring out which chemicals allow him to have sex all night while you're sitting home eating popcorn with your spouse. So I'm pro-Matt Gaetz for all this stuff.
All right I don't know if this story is true but there's a story of the Ukrainian president Zelensky's wife when they were in New York. She allegedly spent more than a million dollars on Cartier jewelry at the same time Zelensky was asking for money and weapons from the United Nations. Now doesn't that one feel a little too on the nose? Do you think that really happened? It's definitely possible. I wouldn't say it's impossible. Definitely possible. But it's so on the nose right? Could there be a story that you know not since Imelda Marcos and her shoes has there been a story that was like just right on the point like that? Right on the point. I don't know. I'm a little skeptical of it. I'm going to say wait two days on this one. If in two days the story doesn't change it might be real but this one just has that feel about it. It has the feel of fake news just all over it whether it is or not. I don't know. Could be true. I give it two days.
Gallup says that the appetite for a third party is pretty high. Seventy-five percent of self-identified independents support a third party, support creation of a third party, which is weird because we have third parties already. Fifty-eight percent of Republicans endorse the idea and 46% of Democrats. That kind of suggests that RFK Jr. has a path. I always thought he was way more of a dark horse than he's been given credit for. If he goes third party, which I think he's doing primarily so he has freedom of speech so they won't ban him on social media, he actually could win. Yeah let me say it clearly. I'm not predicting a win. Not predicting it. But if he wins I want you to know I said yeah that's, there's a path. He just has a path. There are enough disgruntled people that if the only thing that happened is you saw lots of Trump arguing with Biden, whoever's not Trump arguing with Biden is going to look better every day. Just every day. Because both Biden and Trump will just be dumped on with everything and whoever is just going along and making a little news on the side. I don't like big pharma. Do you? No I don't. Oh well we agree on that. Yeah. I feel like he's just going to stay under the radar, maybe slip in at the end. It's possible. Not probable but it's possible.
And here's another story that I can't believe I think it's true but is it true that Trump's attorney accidentally checked the box that says they don't want a jury trial and that he's not going to get a jury trial because the lawyer checked the wrong box? That was fake news right? But is it a jury trial? So I think it's no jury trial but is the claim that the lawyer made a mistake the reason? That part's fake. So some of this is fake right? Some of the story. All right well I'm just going to say we don't know but that judge Engoron he's a little bit too happy. He seems to enjoy his job too much which makes you feel uncomfortable because he doesn't seem like he's as serious as you'd want him to be. I mean sure he's a nice guy. I mean when I see him I think oh I could hang out with him he'd be fun but he's not really sending a judge vibe that's going to hurt him.
All right and that ladies and gentlemen is my prepared comments. Is there any big story I missed today? What am I forgetting?
So Judge Jeanine said that no conservative would go for RFK Jr. Really? Well he definitely has policies that no conservative could approve but I don't know. I don't know. There may be just bad feelings. Yeah all it would take is Trump to do something that he's not done yet that was some new outrage and RFK Jr. would only be going up against Biden so I think he's got a shot. Has ideas that aren't insane. I don't know about that. RFK Jr. thought a border wall was racist until a month ago. What's the problem? Do you have a problem that there's somebody who changes his mind based on researching it himself and getting better facts? How is that a problem? He was in a bar band. All right fix his voice please. I might be able to do that. It's possible I could.
All right literally ask followers what they want him to fix.
All right ladies and gentlemen do you think Ukraine's in trouble because we won't be able to fund them? What do you think is going to happen in Ukraine? Are they going to get their funding? I think they'll probably be fine but one way or another it's going to be negotiated I think something close to the current border.
Klaus Schwab, what about him? I feel like you want to talk about Klaus Schwab every single day. He hasn't done anything new has he?
Could a judge or jury be better? I don't know. They'll use more advanced weapons if they have them. Dave Rubin says it's true. Well but did Dave Rubin see the form? I mean we're looking at the same stuff aren't we all?
All right secret followers. Oh I guess there's the clips of me with Russell Brand just dropped. The first clip, might be more than one clip, but if you want to see me talking to Russell Brand I guess that just dropped. Forgot the part what should be on YouTube probably Rumble as well. Run out of ammo.
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being a vegetarian is genetic is there anybody who thought it wasn't did anybody think that being a vegetarian was simply a lifestyle preference of course it's genetic do you know what else is genetic alcoholism do you know when I knew that oh about 20 years before science knew it because it was obvious do you know when I knew that being a vegetarian not for everybody some people do pick it for lifestyle choices I'm sure but uh did I know that some people people were naturally vegetarians yes I did to me it was obvious it's been obvious for decades uh about uh that uh gay people have a different genetic makeup was I surprised to learn that no because that was obvious for decades before science figured it out so if you want to wait for science you can but it'll be decades after I tell you what's true now what about alcohol is uh actually good for you if if if uh take it in moderation well science lied to you about that for about 50 years but if you listen to me from the very start I said nope that's just science there's no way that any of it's good for you and now we know it's not uh speaking of science here's another study I don't even know why I bother science is so ridiculous now but uh there's a study by uh see the lead author is Professor wrath he says that uh half of the population will develop at least one disorder mental disorder by the age of 75 so in other words half of Americans will have mental health disorders in their lifetime half so how do you explain that uh let me explain it follow the money follow the money we now have this enormous uh industry that will give you a pill or give you therapy or make you watch some Tik Tok videos or something else so once we monetized uh mental health disorders were you going to get more of them or few of them you going to get a lot more yeah everything you form a group to look for you're going to find more when uh the ADL was formed to look for bigotry do you think they found any well there was plenty to find but do you think they found any that wasn't really there oh yes of course they did so you're going to find everything that's there and a lot of stuff that isn't there if you're looking but on top of that I do think our entire system makes people mentally ill there's definitely a difference in mental illness compared to when I was a kid or here's the other possibility if nobody told you you were mentally ill would you know it what if we had just as much mental illness before but there were no names for it and we were not all familiar with all the various types if you sat me down and said Scott make a list of all the potential types of mental illness I could have a pretty long list do you think I could have done that when I was I don't know 15 no I would have thought um let's see I've heard of schizophrenia um and uh maybe fear of crowds or something and I wouldn't have been able to even I wouldn't have even been able to come up with three I don't think depressed I don't even know if Depression was a thing when I was a kid I don't remember anybody who said they had it or anxiety any of it I don't remember any of it as a kid so what if everybody had those problems but if they didn't have a name for it they just thought it was that happens in their head and maybe other people have in their heads and and we're all just different and I also wonder if half of the country has a mental illness or disorder as they call it who gets to determine what's normal you know where where's that line of normal if half the kids have a mental illness at some point it just becomes who we are I mean aren't we all a little bit crazy one way or another anyway I got questions about these numbers but it does seem like they're more mentally unhealthy people for one reason or another um so how many of you have seen the clip of Bill Mah he went on a few different talk shows and he talked about how the uh Democrats are poorly served by their own news which is interesting to hear a Democrat or somebody who leans Democrat say that that they were poorly served by their own news the example he gives is that when people were ped uh what are the odds that you would end up in the hospital if you got Co and apparently uh people on the left political left thought it was a really big number and the the real number is you know under 2% now that was a really good example of where their news has completely Bamboozled them I mean just wildly but is there anything else like that how about if you were to ask I'm just guessing but if you were to ask the Democrats and Republicans um if the number of deaths from extreme weather have gone up or down recently I feel like I don't know this but I feel like Democrats would say oh yeah that extreme weather from all the climate change so there's more extreme weather because there's more climate change more extreme weather equals more deaths yes there must be a great increase in the number of deaths the reality is it's at an all-time low do you think they would know that yeah how about the hoaxes if I ran through the list of the hoaxes find people hoax the drinking bleach hoax you know just go down the list how many Democrats would recognize those as hoaxes they wouldn't because the news told them they were all real so they wouldn't know any of the hoaxes they wouldn't know the most important elements of climate change which is their biggest issue uh they wouldn't know about hospitalization for coid the biggest thing that happened in the country for years and then there's another one I just saw some statistics um people were asked how many how many people were killed by police who were black in 2021 so the survey was 2021 uh 40% of liberals thought the number was over a thousand in in America per year they 40% of liberals people who were very liberal thought it was over a thousand the real number was 11 it was 11 people and how many of the 11 had it coming meaning that if he knew the details you would have said to yourself oh well I can see why they shot those 11 how many of the 11 probably at least nine or 10 you'd look at it and say yeah they definitely should have been shot so the number who who are shot who should not have been shot maybe two out of thousands and thousands and thousands of arrests still too many of course but conservatives didn't say that only 16% of conservatives thought it was over a thousand which is way too much what conservative thinks that the number of black people killed by police per year is over a thousand 16% of conservatives now if you asked what is their primary news source what do you think they'd say probably not Fox News probably not Breitbart they'd probably say see you that it's probably their primary source of news there must there a lot of households where you've got a conservative and a liberal in the same house and one of them controls the TV so the per the other person doesn't see real news so there might be a whole bunch of conservatives who think they're seeing real news on CNN because their spouse watches it just a guess so I would like to see a more uh more comprehensive survey to see if people on the left or the right are even informed about the important stuff you know other questions you could imagine would be um is Generation 3 nuclear energy more or less dangerous than um the Alternatives you know stuff like that you know conservatives would know that Generation 3 there's never been a death never those are the new ones that you would build today if you if if you started today it would either be generation three or four four would be built in a way that it couldn't melt down no matter what happened three could but they've done them so well that none has none has had a catastrophic problem all right how many would know that um some new information about college degrees the percentage of uh young adults who said that a college degree is very important is now down to 41% it was 74% over 10 years ago this is in the New York Times so 10 years ago three4 of the country said oh yeah college education is important and today 41% what changed what changed in 10 years College became worthless that's what in the last 10 years College went awoke and became ridiculous and and way too expensive so the price is going way up the value you get out of it is way down who would want to send their kid to a woke College well woke people I guess but uh the rest would not want them to come back all woken IED do you remember the uh the other day I told you Bloomberg had done a study that said after George Floyd was killed that um the this The Fortune 100 companies their new hires only six % of them were white and it was outrageous because it would look like they were all overcompensating do you know how they got that 6% number well the daily wire did a little Deep dive and looked into it here's how they got the 6% number is something called not knowing how to do math at all that's the whole story The the numbers are not even close to 6% it's actually closer to the way it's always been so the real story is nothing really changed after George Floyd in terms of hiring which is good news in one sense because there wasn't an overreaction now if you think that the Baseline was good that's a separate question but there wasn't an overreaction there was you know some small statistical difference so once again we learned that journalists can't do math we've always learned that scientists can't do to statistics I mean the fact that two highly qualified statisticians that Martin called off and um Nate silver are having a total disagreement about the same same set of data they're looking at the same data and they can't decide what it says two are the best in the business so there's almost no data that's useful and it's really hard to accept that but it is true data is almost all motivated it's motivated by somebody or it's just you know done wrong and when it's done wrong it seems to agree with the motivation of the person who did it wrong that's pretty consistent because otherwise You' never see it well um but of course at least our climate change science is good right there's a new study that says uh uh new study measured how much CO2 is released from rocks into the atmosphere rocks that's right so if it rains for example there's like a slight bit of erosion from rocks it turns out that rocks could add as much CO2 to the atmosphere as volcanoes and currently this process is not included in most climate models so there's something as big as volcanoes which are very big in terms of CO2 that are not included because they didn't know about it till now it's the Rocks so do you know what the plan is to uh prevent the rocks from off gasing the CO2 they're going to bury them you're going to bury all the Rocks Under dirt now I'm making that up that's not real that's not real they're not going to bury the rocks it would just be funny wouldn't it or ban them ban the Rocks they're going to make rocks illegal get rid of the Rocks rocks must die I think it would be hilarious to have a climate protest against rocks am I right what would be funnier than that like you know actually get a permit invite you know thousands of people and have them March no more rocks no more rocks I think it'd be funny yes and uh do you know how many how much of the CO2 comes from Black Rock okay that's a pun on Black Rock being a big company wasn't a very good pun I just saw it in the comments and stole it probably should have held back on that one yeah so uh we didn't include rocks in those models is there anybody you know who's been telling you for a long time the models can't predict the future not even a little bit not ever not in this case not in any case yeah but we believe they can here's another story about Biden's dementia so I guess a ex ESPN host named Sage Steel I guess she was on uh Bill Mars's show uh the uh Club random and she said that interviewing Joe Biden was quote the saddest thing as he couldn't finish his sentences so she said so forget about politics I don't care I didn't vote for him steel told uh Bill Mah uh she thinks he's a terrible president but she says however uh that made me sad she said of his confusion now another sub part of the story is that the Washington Post is running the story so the Washington Post as you know likes their Democrats but it's pretty clear that uh the word is going out that Biden will be pushed out I think he's going to try to stay in there I I think the entire system is going to try to push him out but they're going to try it too gently because they can't be too aggressive or too obvious and I think his stubbornness will be greater than their subtlety so I think he's going to stay even though his side is going to try really hard to push him out because he's an old demented man and he doesn't want to quit by saying he's demented if you have dementia the last thing you want to do is say you know I'm going to have to step down cuz honestly I got a bad case of dementia and it's just getting worse so s Sage Steel is a great name isn't it your first name makes you sound smart your last name makes you sound strong Sage Ste sounds like a superhero name yes Sage Steel I like it all right so this next uh category is the things that Trump was right about are you ready for this things that Trump was right about um I made a prediction in 2021 that the longer Trump was out of office the better he would look let's see if there are any examples in the real world of things that make Trump look better than he did well as you might remember um Joe Biden was very anti Saudi Arabia and its leader the Crown Prince for uh possibly or probably ordering a uh Bona related murder of a Critic which we consider a bad form and so Biden was very very tough on it said Trump was some kind of a weird Trader for even doing business with that guy uh let's see if there's any news stories oh here's a scoop uh cedor Biden advisers quietly visited Saudi Arabia last week and met Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman to discuss a mega deal so so Biden's going to do a mega deal with the guy that he said they can never do business with because he's a big old murderer so I'm going to say that Trump was right that even if you don't like what uh MBS has done or will do that you might need to deal with them so let's say Trump was right about that um I saw this question uh from un Hoodwink on X what percentage of woke liberals would rather die by the hands of their publicly promoted ideology in other words open borders and defunding the police uh vers ver admit they were wrong and then work with the right to fix the problems now what do you think how many Democrats would literally now we're talking literally literally actually die how many would actually choose a high well not certainty of death but how many would choose a large percentage chance of dying violently rather than admit they're wrong it's probably 90% that's my guess because that's how cognitive dissonance works until their final breath they would still think they were right there would be no point that would ever change their mind because once you're really really committed to an opinion you will actually risk your life so you don't have to change it you wouldn't take certain death if I gave you a choice of all right yeah you can hold that opinion but in five days you will be dead for sure and we guarantee it well that might change somebody's opinion because we have a survival Instinct but if you said there's you know your opinions a really higher chance you're going to get killed like substantially higher they would say I know but it's the principle of the thing so no I don't think the risk of being killed by their own policies would change their minds I don't think that's how minds work we just stick with what we thought was true and we never leave basically all right um IBM uh predicted not long ago at CEO previously predicted that IBM would have to shed 30% of their Workforce because AI would replace too many people do you remember what I've been saying does anybody remember my prediction about Ai and employment I said it's could to be more like the invention of the printer or the computer we just find more things for people to do and then we hire them to do those things instead or do them faster um but IBM now after its CEO had said they might lose 30% of the employees to AI says uh it foresees no l layoffs due to Ai and the company will hire more workers than it lets go so it's actually going to grow workers instead of shedding 30% I'm going to take credit for being right on this pred tentatively I mean you'd have to see a lot more time and a lot more companies doing stuff to be to be uh sure but I think AI will not affect overall employment it will definitely change the mix of jobs like dramatically but I don't think it'll change the overall employment rate by itself so that's my contrarian prediction um the Navy now has print on demand parts so if you're on a ship at Sea and something breaks you can't easily take the you know take the cruiser back to a port or or fly something in easily now they can just print apart they can actually just create a part and install it and they've already done it once they installed a crucial piece on one of its nuclear submarines now I don't feel comfortable with this I don't want my nuclear submarines necessarily to have too many 3D printed Parts if you know what I mean it might have been you know maybe a part that wouldn't accidentally launch a missile so that would be good you know may maybe fix the interface a little bit or something but no I wouldn't want it to be one of the components of the nuclear missiles so but I don't think we're doing that well the most important news the day is that commander of the dog um Joe Joe Bon's dog no Joe Biden not Biden just seems like it should be Joe Biden um so that that dog will be removed from the White House um I believe it's being accused of being a magga domestic terrorist because that's what they do with anything they don't like and they had a few different ways to uh to handle this but one was to remove the dog completely uh but they also considered building a wall around it yeah it's called a cage but uh they could have built a wall around the dog but they decid to get rid of it um now I don't know if you've put together 2 plus two but in the past week not only has speaker Mc.
Carthy been removed from office but Commander the dog has been removed the White House and that does leave us with no leadership whatsoever it's quite a leadership hole we've created here because I pretty sure Commander the dog was in charge of uh domestic policy anyway well let's see um I saw a post by uh Peter xan on about Ukraine and uh he said this he said all administrations have their blind spots Ukraine is Biden's so Ukraine is his blind spot now I'm thinking where's this going where's this going so Ukraine is Biden's blind spot uh so but Peter xan says luckily it is easy to make the case uh to make the case that aid for Ukraine is a core American interest Biden just needs to address the nation just as Clinton did for Kosovo uh W bush did for Iraq Bush Senor did for Panama and Reagan did for the 80s defense buildup so it's easy to make the case that aid for Ukraine is a core American interest is it is that easy you think I would have heard that argument by now but I haven't have you if any of you heard an argument why Ukraine is America's core interest I I've heard it's the only thing that will keep China from taking over Taiwan which I think is just laughably stupid it's just laughably stupid I'm not even going to I'm not even going to address that would you agree the thought that whatever happens to Ukraine the thought that that would have anything to do with China's decision about Taiwan I'm not even going to talk about it that's just too stupid that that's just too many levels of abstraction all right um but the other argument is let's see I heard one argument from a politician saying but don't you realize that 30% of the the world's wheat comes from Ukraine to which I say why would that stop if you if Ukraine loses the war is Russia going to stop making wheat or is it going to be one one year of you know not as much wheat I don't know I'm not sure that that's a and the problem in the United States wouldn't be people starving it would be that the wheat cost I don't know 30% more so we would just eat less bread and would eat more vegetables is that is that a core American interest that there might be let's say one year of low wheat production if something happened in Ukraine that's that's a core American interest now what about uh what about stopping uh Putin's war of aggression where if we don't stop him now he'll just keep taking over countries don't don't you think he just makes every decision individually or or do we believe that he had this one big decision I must take over everything I'm just going to take over everything and it doesn't matter what the situation is I'll take it over if it's bordering my country just going to take it over is that the way he thinks or might he look at every situation individually and his Ukraine opinion is different than his opinion of every place else I feel like I feel like he probably treats them all as individual decisions do you think that he would uh move on Poland uh to me the Ukraine situation showed that his military can't conquer another country uh even one that he he believed to be weak he certainly can't take a a NATO country yeah so I hear what Peter Zan says that it would be easy to make the case but I've never heard the case in what in a way that sounds even like a little bit plausible now there's a trick that uh people do in the news all the time which is to imagine that there's only one choice and the choice that they imagine is we either support Ukraine or we give it all to Russia is that the those are the only choices what about the most most likely Choice why would you leave the most likely outcome out of your two choices the most likely outcome is we say look we don't want to fund Ukraine anymore but we're going to if you don't if you don't do a peace deal that you know negotiates these border regions the obvious other solution is you negotiate a piece that keeps everybody largely where they are at the moment and then you you know give some guarantees about the future Etc but why do we think the choice is to fight forever or Surrender when by far the most obvious thing is to say all right it's a draw you know this should discourage you from invading another country because you can see that we can just stop you so why don't we just negotiate peace go back to business as usual here's why you can't make a good case because the real case you can't tell the American people can you the real reason they can't say out loud the real reason is it's an energy War we don't want Russia to first of all make all the money that our companies could make and second of all to have that much power over people by being in control of their energy it's a pure energy War if you made if you made that argument to me believe it or not I might be persuaded by it it sounds purely evil but in the real world Wars are about resources and usually energy and it's probably just a way to guarantee that America stays the dominant superpower for the next 50 years because if Russia you know got enough money from its energy production and got enough control over the over Europe you could really easily see how Putin could dominate Europe it' be easy to see so there would be an argument but you'd have to say that things that you can't say which is yes Ukraine is totally corrupt uh but we'd rather make sure our energy companies get the business that would otherwise go to Putin because if he has the money he's going to do bad stuff with it but you can't say that out loud because then it's an optional War all right of course we're going to talk about the border wall um so the head of home Homeland Security secretary Al Alejandro mayoras who's been very anti-wall as has Joe Biden been anti-wall but now quote there is presently an acute and immediate need to construct physical barriers and Roads huh physical barriers what would be what would be an example of a physical barrier and what would the what would be the way a normal non jerk would say it probably wall wall yeah but if you're as big a loser as this my Arcus guy is you got to call it a a physical physical barrier so you don't it's not as obvious what a weasel you've been and how much damage you've done to the country by not having a border so uh I'm going to put this on the category of uh things Trump was right about that the other side had to pretend they were against because so they could be against whatever he was for and it couldn't be much more obvious than this one so I would say that Trump has been right about police and needing more of them and don't defund them he was right about the Border he was right about China he was probably right about Iran um he was right about energy he was right about a lot and it's getting more and more obvious so here are some of my predictions just to remind you I said the Republicans would be hunted um and there's a good chance you'll be dead in a year and we can see the crime wave and people getting killed in cities especially that journalist recently makes us think that uh it's an unsafe place to live but how about that Republicans would be hunted well uh the federal government is so concerned about domestic violence that the FBI has created a whole category of extremists and they're called Donald Trump's Army of magga followers that's right the FBI has decided that magga people should be um followed closely for being domestic terrorists uh and it's the FBI that will do it and my God uh this so this is a Newsweek report something leaked um so Biden is trying to defeat domestic terrorism by targeting one political group for political terrorism do you think that you would make magga people less likely to bomb the capital by targeting them unfairly I'm pretty sure this would radicalize more people than it would C hatch so this seems like the worst idea in the world um but here we are so I don't think we can any longer argue that Republicans are not being haunted would you all give me that that that uh prediction which is pretty out of left field was right this is clearly right the the January 6 people were obviously hunted a number of public figures were cancelled for reasons that sounded like other reasons but really weren't they were it was about taking the the better voices off the field yeah it's it's as it's as bad as I said it would be and when I when I wrote that tweet I have to say I just felt it you know the I felt it like the moment before I wrote it I just had this feeling it's like oh the way they're the way that they campaigned and talked about trump it became very obvious that that rhetoric would translate into action that looked like this because they were saying it they were saying it clearly from the start that magga people were terrorists in versions of that so you could see it coming from a mile away and here it is um see the FTC is going after Amazon so apparently they had this special algor called project Nessie that worked by manipulating Rivals weak pricing algorithms so somehow um what I think this means is either their their own in-house products were competing against the professional products or maybe there was one they had a greater profit margin from so they would push that instead of the other one but apparently uh this was bad behavior According to some people the FTC um and it led competitors to raise their prices and charge customers more so that was pretty sketchy so we'll see if that was all true because it's subject of a court case so maybe it wasn't true you never know so here's the funniest thing I realized yesterday that do you remember Adam Schiff um wanted to be the next senator from California so he was in the he was in the house of Representatives but Gavin newon said he was going to promote a black woman to that job and then he did and I just realized that Adam Schiff was passed over for promotion because he's a white man just just hold that in your head Adam Chef specifically him specifically he was passed over for a promotion because he's a white man how much do you how much do you think he loves his team today oh yeah Democrats something tells me the next time he goes into the shift he's not going to lie I think he got a little closer to being a republican is what I think cuz that can only happen to you so many times before you start saying hey I don't think the intentions here are are really in the right Direction yep Adam Schiff was passed over for promotion because he's a white male I me I just like saying that and it makes me wonder where's the ADL shouldn't the ADL be defending him he is a Democrat they should be defending him against this discrimination but they're nowhere to be seen oh but they are advertising again on the xplatform I think they should have been kicked off the xplatform but if they're going to give Elan must money I guess that's okay Jim Jordan representative Jim Jordan who's been floated as the potential uh next speaker of the house he tweeted this yesterday does anyone does anyone feel safe in Democrat run cities Democrat run cities and I thought to myself what an interesting choice of words Democrat run cities CU if I go into the City and I see a Democrat com toward me I'm going to run so Democrat run run it's a Democrat run City yeah that's what it's called a Democrat run City well speaking of a lack of free speech apparently V ramaswami and Chris Christie had agreed with each other that they would go on a show I think on Fox and debate and the the uh Republican party shot that down and told them they couldn't do that to which I say what when did the Republican Party become the No Free Speech party like I get I get the Republicans have to act like Republicans and you want to be on the same team and all but seriously seriously you can't let two people running for president debate each other on your TV show and and when I first heard that VI was going to have a conversation with Chris Christie the first thing I thought was that might be the first time you saw a debate where something like a debate happened the the way the debates are done for the TV audience you know with seven or eight people up there and then the questions maybe not the questions you you would have asked not really useful I mean it's a good event it's a show event but it's not really useful for voters but to oneon-one where they could spend some time really digging into the other person's point of view I would watch that all day but apparently the Republicans won't let it happen so there's your free speech group right there um Carl Ro did this big editorial in the Wall Street Journal uh trying to mock Matt gates for throwing the throwing the Congress into chaos by outing the speaker and I read the whole thing and my only take on it was there's something wrong with Carl Rove I don't know if I could go further but I read his I read his thing about Matt Gates and it was his choice of words his choice of words very clearly U said that his opinion was and it was just some weird political thing that he he prefers some I guess he preferred Mc.
Carthy but I kind of thought he was a straight shooter until I saw his editorial and it was just it looked like a Democrat wrote it really and you can you know what I mean right it it was tons of insults that weren't necessary to the point you know it's like a little too hyperbolic so I don't trust anybody but I definitely don't trust anybody who's mad at Matt Gates for kicking the speaker out you you immediately lose my trust when you have a strong opinion that that should not have gone on because we could all see that the current situation wasn't getting us any results and we could all keep it politics aside if your speaker makes a a public promise to your own team and then doesn't keep it it doesn't matter if he was effective in all the other stuff that is grounds for removal period because it doesn't look like he ever meant to keep that maybe he did yeah maybe events overtook him so he was either incapable of delivering it or never meant to yeah so I'm very in favor of Matt Gates this week the worst attack on him I saw was one other member of Congress saying that prior to his marriage and this is stated directly prior to his marriage uh he once bragged about taking Ed meds and slamming uh Power drinks so he could go all night oh oh well I didn't know he that he was aggressively flagrantly heterosexual so that changes everything he was super heterosexual before he was married so before marriage he had a lot of sex I don't know I just I can't be okay with all that heterosexual single person sex I mean that's just too far I should note that there are no criminal charges for anything there are no criminal charges for anything he did but they're going to make fun of him for figuring out which chemicals allow him to have sex all night while you're sitting home eating popcorn with your spouse so I'm a pro Matt gates for for all this stuff all right I don't know if this story is true but there's a story of the Ukrainian president zeny's wife when they were in New York uh she allegedly spent more than a million dollars on cardier jewelry at the same time zinsky was asking for money and weapons from the United Nations now doesn't that one feel a little too on the nose do you think that really happened it's definitely possible I wouldn't say it's impossible definitely possible but it's so on the nose right could could there be a story that you know not since amelda Marcos In Her Shoes has there been a story that was like just right on the point like that right on the point I don't know I'm a little skeptical of it I'm I'm going to say wait wait two days on this one if in two days the story doesn't change it might be real but this one just has that feel about it it has the feel of fake news just all over it whether it is or not I don't know could be true I give it two days um gallb says that the appetite for a third party is pretty high um 75% of self-identified independents support a third party support creation of a third party which is weird because we have third parties already um 58% of Republicans endorse the idea and 46% of Democrats that kind of suggests that RFK Jr has a has a path I I always thought he was way more of a Dark Horse than he's been given credit for if he goes third party which I think he's doing primarily so he has freedom of speech so they won't ban him on social media uh he actually could win yeah let let me say it clearly I'm not predicting a win not predicting it but if he wins I want you to know I said yeah that's there's a path he he just has a path there are enough disgruntled people that if the only thing that happened is you saw lots of trump arguing with Biden whoever's not Trump arguing with Biden is going to look better every day just every day because both Biden and Trump will just be dumped on with you know just everything and whoever is just going along and making a little news on the side I don't like big Pharma do you no I don't oh well we agree on that yeah I feel like he's just going to stay under the radar maybe slip in at the end it's possible uh not probable but it's possible and and here's another story that I can't believe I think it's true but is it true that Trump's attorney uh accidentally check the box that says they don't want a jury trial and that he's not going to get a jury trial because the lawyer checked the wrong box that was fake news right but is it a jury trial so so the first question is is it a jury trial right so I think it's no jury trial but is the claim that the lawyer made a mistake the reason that parts that so some of this is fake right some of the story all right well I'm just going to say we don't know but that judge uh engeron he's a little bit too happy he seems to enjoy his job too much which makes you feel uncomfortable because he doesn't seem like he's as serious as you'd want him to be I mean sure he's a nice guy I mean when I when I see him I think oh I could hang out with him he'd be fun but he's not really sending a judge Vibe that's going to hurt him all right and that ladies and gentlemen is my prepared comments is there any any uh big story I missed today what am I forgetting uh so judge jine said that no conservative would go for RFK Jr really well he definitely has policies that no conservative could approve but I don't know I don't know there may be just bad feelings yeah all it would take is Trump to do something that he's not done yet that was some new outrage and RFK Jr would only be going up against Biden so I think he's got a shot has ideas that aren't insane I don't know about that uh RFK Jr thought a border wall was racist until a month ago what's the problem do you have a problem that there's somebody who changes his mind based on researching it himself and getting better facts how is that a problem uh he was in a he was in a bar band all right fix his voice please I might be able to do that it's possible I could all right literally ask followers what they want him to fix all right uh ladies and 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see what he
says um
apparently being a vegetarian is partly
genetic meaning that there are some
people who don't don't metabolize fat
the same and therefore meat doesn't give
them the buzz that it gives other people
and makes them
sick uh I'm one of those people people
ask me why I stopped eating meat I do
eat fish these days but I stopped eating
meat because I got a stomach ache every
time I did it like a huge stomach ache
so I might be one of these people but
you didn't really have to ask me if
being a vegetarian is genetic is there
anybody who thought it wasn't
did anybody think that being a
vegetarian was simply a lifestyle
preference of course it's
genetic do you know what else is genetic
alcoholism do you know when I knew that
oh about 20 years before science knew it
because it was obvious do you know when
I knew that being a vegetarian not for
everybody some people do pick it for
lifestyle choices I'm sure but uh did I
know that some people people were
naturally vegetarians yes I
did to me it was obvious it's been
obvious for
decades uh about uh that uh gay people
have a different genetic makeup was I
surprised to learn that no because that
was obvious for decades before science
figured it out so if you want to wait
for science you can but it'll be decades
after I tell you what's true now what
about alcohol is uh actually good for
you if if if uh take it in
moderation well science lied to you
about that for about 50 years but if you
listen to me from the very start I said
nope that's just science
there's no way that any of it's good for
you and now we know it's
not uh speaking of science here's
another
study I don't even know why I bother
science is so ridiculous now but uh
there's a study by uh see the lead
author is Professor wrath he says that
uh half of the population will develop
at least one disorder mental disorder by
the age of 75 so in other words half of
Americans will have mental health
disorders in their lifetime
half so how do you explain
that uh let me explain it follow the
money follow the money we now have this
enormous uh industry that will give you
a pill or give you therapy or make you
watch some Tik Tok videos or something
else so once we
monetized uh mental health disorders
were you going to get more of them or
few of them you going to get a lot more
yeah everything you form a group to look
for you're going to find more when uh
the ADL was formed to look for bigotry
do you think they found any well there
was plenty to find but do you think they
found any that wasn't really there oh
yes of course they did so you're going
to find everything that's there and a
lot of stuff that isn't there if you're
looking but on top of that I do think
our entire system makes people mentally
ill there's definitely a difference in
mental illness compared to when I was a
kid or here's the other
possibility if nobody told you you were
mentally ill would you know
it what if we had just as much mental
illness before but there were no names
for it and we were not all familiar with
all the various types if you sat me down
and said Scott make a list of all the
potential types of mental illness I
could have a pretty long list do you
think I could have done that when I was
I don't know
15 no I would have thought um let's see
I've heard of
schizophrenia um and uh maybe fear of
crowds or something and I wouldn't have
been able to even I wouldn't have even
been able to come up with three I don't
think depressed I don't even know if
Depression was a thing when I was a kid
I don't remember anybody who said they
had it or anxiety any of it I don't
remember any of it as a kid so what if
everybody had those problems but if they
didn't have a name for it they just
thought it was that happens in
their head and maybe other people have
in their heads and and we're all
just
different and I also
wonder if half of the country has a
mental illness or disorder as they call
it who gets to determine what's
normal you know where where's that line
of normal if half the kids have a mental
illness at some point it just becomes
who we are I mean aren't we all a little
bit crazy one way or another anyway I
got questions about these numbers but it
does seem like they're more mentally
unhealthy people for one reason or
another
um
so how many of you have seen the clip of
Bill Mah he went on a few different talk
shows and he talked about how the uh
Democrats are poorly served by their own
news which is interesting to hear a
Democrat or somebody who leans Democrat
say that that they were poorly served by
their own news the example he gives is
that when people were ped uh what are
the odds that you would end up in the
hospital if you got Co and apparently uh
people on the left political left
thought it was a really big number and
the the real number is you know under 2%
now that was a really good example of
where their news has completely
Bamboozled them I mean just wildly but
is there anything else like that how
about if you were to ask I'm just
guessing but if you were to ask the
Democrats and
Republicans um if the number of deaths
from extreme weather have gone up or
down
recently I feel like I don't know this
but I feel like Democrats would say oh
yeah that extreme weather from all the
climate change so there's more extreme
weather because there's more climate
change more extreme weather equals more
deaths yes there must be a great
increase in the number of deaths the
reality is it's at an all-time low do
you think they would know that yeah how
about the
hoaxes if I ran through the list of the
hoaxes find people hoax the drinking
bleach hoax you know just go down the
list how many Democrats would recognize
those as hoaxes they wouldn't because
the news told them they were all
real so they wouldn't know any of the
hoaxes they wouldn't know the most
important elements of climate change
which is their biggest
issue uh they wouldn't know about
hospitalization for coid the biggest
thing that happened in the country for
years and then there's another one I
just saw some
statistics um
people were asked how many how many
people were killed by police who were
black in 2021 so the survey was
2021 uh 40% of liberals thought the
number was over a thousand in in America
per year they 40% of liberals people who
were very liberal thought it was over a
thousand the real number was 11 it was
11 people and how many of the 11 had it
coming meaning that if he knew the
details you would have said to yourself
oh well I can see why they shot those
11 how many of the 11 probably at least
nine or 10 you'd look at it and say yeah
they definitely should have been shot so
the number who who are shot who should
not have been shot maybe
two out of thousands and thousands and
thousands of
arrests still too many of course but
conservatives didn't say that only 16%
of conservatives thought it was over a
thousand which is way too much what
conservative thinks that the number of
black people killed by police per year
is over a
thousand 16% of
conservatives now if you asked what is
their primary news source what do you
think they'd
say probably not Fox News probably not
Breitbart they'd probably say see you
that it's probably their primary source
of news there must there a lot of
households where you've got a
conservative and a liberal in the same
house and one of them controls the TV so
the per the other person doesn't see
real news so there might be a whole
bunch of conservatives who think they're
seeing real news on CNN because their
spouse watches
it just a guess so I would like to see a
more uh more comprehensive survey to see
if people on the left or the right are
even informed about the important stuff
you know other questions you could
imagine would be um is Generation 3
nuclear
energy more or less dangerous
than um the
Alternatives you know stuff like that
you know conservatives would know that
Generation 3 there's never been a death
never those are the new ones that you
would build today if you if if you
started today it would either be
generation three or four four would be
built in a way that it couldn't melt
down no matter what happened three could
but they've done them so well that none
has none has had a catastrophic
problem all right how many would know
that
um some new information about college
degrees the percentage of uh young
adults who said that a college degree is
very important is now down to 41% it was
74% over 10 years ago this is in the New
York Times so 10 years ago three4 of the
country said oh yeah college education
is important and today 41% what
changed what changed in 10
years College became worthless that's
what in the last 10 years College went
awoke and became
ridiculous and and way too expensive so
the price is going way up the value you
get out of it is way down who would want
to send their kid to a woke
College well woke people I guess but uh
the rest would not want them to come
back all woken IED do you remember the
uh the other day I told you Bloomberg
had done a study that said after George
Floyd was
killed that um the this The Fortune 100
companies their new hires only six % of
them were white and it was outrageous
because it would look like they were all
overcompensating do you know how they
got that 6%
number well the daily wire did a little
Deep dive and looked into it here's how
they got the 6% number is something
called not knowing how to do math at all
that's the whole
story The the numbers are not even close
to 6% it's actually closer to the way
it's always been so the real story is
nothing really changed after George
Floyd in terms of
hiring which is good news in one sense
because there wasn't an
overreaction now if you think that the
Baseline was good that's a separate
question but there wasn't an
overreaction there was you know some
small statistical
difference so once again we learned that
journalists can't do
math we've always learned that
scientists can't do to
statistics I mean the fact that two
highly qualified
statisticians that Martin called off and
um Nate silver are having a total
disagreement about the same same set of
data they're looking at the same data
and they can't decide what it says two
are the best in the business
so there's almost no data that's
useful and it's really hard to accept
that
but it is true data is almost all
motivated it's motivated by somebody or
it's just you know done wrong and when
it's done wrong it seems to agree with
the motivation of the person who did it
wrong that's pretty consistent because
otherwise You' never see
it well um but of course at least our
climate change science is good right
there's a new study that says uh uh new
study measured how much CO2 is released
from rocks into the atmosphere
rocks that's right so if it rains for
example there's like a slight bit of
erosion from
rocks it turns out that rocks could add
as much CO2 to the atmosphere as
volcanoes and currently this process is
not included in most climate
models so there's something as big as
volcanoes which are very big in terms of
CO2 that are not included because they
didn't know about it till
now it's the
Rocks so do you know what the plan is to
uh prevent the rocks from off gasing the
CO2 they're going to bury
them you're going to bury all the
Rocks Under
dirt now I'm making that up that's not
real that's not real they're not going
to bury the rocks it would just be funny
wouldn't it or ban them ban the
Rocks they're going to make rocks
illegal get rid of the Rocks rocks must
die I think it would be hilarious to
have a climate protest against
rocks am I right what would be funnier
than that like you know actually get a
permit invite you know thousands of
people and have them March no more rocks
no more
rocks I think it'd be
funny yes and uh do you know how many
how much of the CO2 comes from Black
Rock okay that's a pun on Black Rock
being a big company wasn't a very good
pun I just saw it in the comments and
stole it probably should have held back
on that one yeah so uh we didn't include
rocks in those models is there anybody
you know who's been telling you for a
long time the models can't predict the
future not even a little bit not ever
not in this case not in any
case yeah but we believe they
can here's another story about Biden's
dementia so I guess a ex ESPN host named
Sage
Steel I guess she was on uh Bill Mars's
show uh the uh Club random
and she said that interviewing Joe Biden
was quote the saddest thing as he
couldn't finish his
sentences so she said so forget about
politics I don't care I didn't vote for
him steel told uh Bill
Mah uh she thinks he's a terrible
president but she says however uh that
made me sad she said of his
confusion now another sub part of the
story is that the Washington Post is
running the story so the Washington Post
as you know likes their Democrats but
it's pretty clear that uh the word is
going out that Biden will be pushed out
I think he's going to try to stay in
there I I think the entire system is
going to try to push him out but they're
going to try it too gently because they
can't be too aggressive or too
obvious and I think his stubbornness
will be greater than their
subtlety so I think he's going to stay
even though his side is going to try
really hard to push him out because he's
an old demented man and he doesn't want
to quit by saying he's demented if you
have dementia the last thing you want to
do is say you know I'm going to have to
step down cuz honestly I got a bad case
of dementia and it's just getting worse
so s Sage Steel is a great name isn't it
your first name makes you sound smart
your last name makes you sound strong
Sage Ste sounds like a superhero
name yes Sage Steel I like it all right
so this next uh category is the things
that Trump was right about are you ready
for this things that Trump was right
about um I made a prediction in 2021
that the longer Trump was out of office
the better he would
look let's see if there are any examples
in the real world of things that make
Trump look better than he did well as
you might remember um Joe Biden was very
anti Saudi Arabia and its leader the
Crown Prince for uh possibly or probably
ordering a uh Bona related murder of a
Critic which we consider a bad
form and so Biden was very very tough on
it said Trump was some kind of a weird
Trader for even doing business with that
guy uh let's see if there's any news
stories oh here's a scoop uh cedor Biden
advisers quietly visited Saudi Arabia
last week and met Crown Prince Muhammad
bin Salman to discuss a mega
deal so so Biden's going to do a mega
deal with the guy that he said they can
never do business with because he's a
big old murderer so I'm going to say
that Trump was right that even if you
don't like what uh
MBS has done or will do that you might
need to deal with them so let's say
Trump was right about
that
um I saw this question uh from un
Hoodwink on X what percentage of woke
liberals would rather die by the hands
of their publicly promoted ideology in
other words open borders and defunding
the police uh vers ver admit they were
wrong and then work with the right to
fix the problems now what do you think
how many Democrats would literally now
we're talking literally literally
actually die how many would actually
choose a high well not certainty of
death but how many would choose a large
percentage chance of dying violently
rather than admit they're
wrong it's probably 90%
that's my guess because that's how
cognitive dissonance works until their
final breath they would still think they
were right there would be no point that
would ever change their mind because
once you're really really committed to
an
opinion you will actually risk your life
so you don't have to change
it you wouldn't take certain death if I
gave you a choice of all right yeah you
can hold that opinion but in five days
you will be dead for sure and we
guarantee it well that might change
somebody's opinion because we have a
survival Instinct but if you said
there's you know your
opinions a really higher chance you're
going to get killed like substantially
higher they would say I know but it's
the principle of the thing so no I don't
think the risk of being killed by their
own policies would change their minds I
don't think that's how minds work we
just stick with what we thought was true
and we never leave
basically
all right
um IBM uh
predicted not long ago at CEO previously
predicted that IBM would have to shed
30% of their
Workforce because AI would replace too
many
people do you remember what I've been
saying does anybody remember my
prediction about Ai and
employment I said it's could to be more
like the invention of the printer or the
computer
we just find more things for people to
do and then we hire them to do those
things instead or do them faster um but
IBM now after its CEO had said they
might lose 30% of the employees to AI
says uh it foresees no l layoffs due to
Ai and the company will hire more
workers than it lets go so it's actually
going to grow workers instead of
shedding
30% I'm going to take credit for being
right on this pred
tentatively I mean you'd have to see a
lot more time and a lot more companies
doing stuff to be to be uh
sure but I think AI will not affect
overall employment it will definitely
change the mix of jobs like dramatically
but I don't think it'll change the
overall employment rate by
itself so that's my contrarian
prediction um the Navy now has print on
demand parts so if you're on a ship at
Sea and something breaks you can't
easily take the you know take the
cruiser back to a port or or fly
something in easily now they can just
print apart they can actually just
create a part and install it and they've
already done it
once they installed a crucial piece on
one of its nuclear submarines now I
don't feel comfortable with
this I don't want my nuclear submarines
necessarily to have too many 3D printed
Parts if you know what I mean it might
have been you know maybe a part that
wouldn't accidentally launch a missile
so that would be good you know may maybe
fix the interface a little bit or
something but no I wouldn't want it to
be one of the components of the nuclear
missiles so but I don't think we're
doing
that well the most important news the
day is that commander of the dog um Joe
Joe Bon's dog no Joe Biden not Biden
just seems like it should be Joe Biden
um so that that dog will be removed from
the White
House um I believe it's being accused of
being a magga domestic terrorist because
that's what they do with anything they
don't like and they had a few different
ways to uh to handle this but one was to
remove the dog
completely uh but they also considered
building a wall around it
yeah it's called a
cage but uh they could have built a wall
around the dog but they decid to get rid
of it um now I don't know if you've put
together 2 plus two but in the past week
not only has speaker McCarthy been
removed from
office but Commander the dog has been
removed the White House and that does
leave us with no leadership
whatsoever
it's quite a leadership hole we've
created here because I pretty sure
Commander the dog was in charge of uh
domestic policy
anyway well let's see
um I saw a post by uh Peter
xan on about
Ukraine and uh he said this he said all
administrations have their blind spots
Ukraine is
Biden's so Ukraine is his blind spot now
I'm thinking where's this
going where's this going so Ukraine is
Biden's blind spot uh so but Peter xan
says luckily it is easy to make the case
uh to make the case that aid for Ukraine
is a core American interest Biden just
needs to address the nation just as
Clinton did for Kosovo uh W bush did for
Iraq Bush Senor did for Panama and
Reagan did for the 80s defense buildup
so it's easy to make the case that aid
for Ukraine is a core American
interest is it is that easy you think I
would have heard that argument by now
but I haven't have you if any of you
heard an argument why Ukraine is
America's core
interest I I've heard it's the only
thing that will keep China from taking
over
Taiwan which I think is just laughably
stupid it's just laughably stupid I'm
not even going to I'm not even going to
address that would you agree the thought
that whatever happens to Ukraine the
thought that that would have anything to
do with China's decision about Taiwan
I'm not even going to talk about it
that's just too stupid that
that's just too many levels of
abstraction all right um but the other
argument is let's see I heard one
argument from a politician saying but
don't you realize that 30% of the the
world's wheat comes from Ukraine to
which I say why would that stop if you
if Ukraine loses the
war is Russia going to stop making wheat
or is it going to be one one year of you
know not as much
wheat I don't know I'm not sure that
that's a and the problem in the United
States wouldn't be people starving it
would be that the wheat cost I don't
know 30% more so we would just eat less
bread and would eat more
vegetables is that is that a core
American interest that there might be
let's say one year of low wheat
production if something happened in
Ukraine that's that's a core American
interest now what about uh what about
stopping uh Putin's war of aggression
where if we don't stop him now he'll
just keep taking over
countries don't don't you think he just
makes every decision
individually or or do we believe that he
had this one big decision I must take
over everything I'm just going to take
over everything and it doesn't matter
what the situation is I'll take it over
if it's bordering my country just going
to take it over is that the way he
thinks or might he look at every
situation
individually and his Ukraine opinion is
different than his opinion of every
place else I feel like
I feel like he probably treats them all
as individual
decisions do you think that he would uh
move on
Poland uh to me the Ukraine situation
showed that his military can't conquer
another country uh even one that he he
believed to be weak he certainly can't
take a a NATO
country yeah
so I hear what Peter Zan says that it
would be easy to make the case but I've
never heard the case in what in a way
that sounds even like a little bit
plausible now there's a trick
that uh people do in the news all the
time which is to imagine that there's
only one
choice and the choice that they imagine
is we either support Ukraine or we give
it all to Russia is that the those are
the only choices what about the most
most likely Choice why would you leave
the most likely outcome out of your two
choices the most likely outcome is we
say look we don't want to fund Ukraine
anymore but we're going to if you don't
if you don't do a peace deal that you
know negotiates these border regions the
obvious other solution is you negotiate
a piece that keeps everybody largely
where they are at the moment and then
you you know give some guarantees about
the future Etc but
why do we think the choice is to fight
forever or Surrender when by far the
most obvious thing is to say all right
it's a draw you know this should
discourage you from invading another
country because you can see that we can
just stop you so why don't we just
negotiate peace go back to business as
usual here's why you can't make a good
case because the real case you can't
tell the American people can you the
real reason they can't say out loud the
real reason is it's an energy War we
don't want Russia to first of all make
all the money that our companies could
make and second of all to have that much
power over people by being in control of
their
energy it's a pure energy War if you
made if you made that argument to me
believe it or not I might be persuaded
by
it it sounds purely evil but in the real
world
Wars are about resources and usually
energy and it's probably just a way to
guarantee that America stays the
dominant superpower for the next 50
years because if Russia you know got
enough money from its energy production
and got enough control over the over
Europe you could really easily see how
Putin could dominate Europe it' be easy
to see so there would be an argument but
you'd have to say that things that you
can't say which is yes Ukraine is
totally
corrupt uh but we'd rather make sure our
energy companies get the business that
would otherwise go to Putin because if
he has the money he's going to do bad
stuff with
it but you can't say that out
loud because then it's an optional War
all
right of course we're going to talk
about the border
wall um so the head of home Homeland
Security secretary Al Alejandro mayoras
who's been very anti-wall as has Joe
Biden been anti-wall but now quote there
is presently an acute and immediate need
to construct physical barriers and Roads
huh physical barriers what would be what
would be an example of a physical
barrier and what would the what would be
the way a normal non jerk would
say it probably wall
wall yeah but if you're as big a loser
as this my Arcus guy is you got to call
it a a physical physical barrier so you
don't it's not as obvious what a weasel
you've been and how much damage you've
done to the country by not having a
border so uh I'm going to put this on
the
category of uh things Trump was right
about that the other side had to pretend
they were against because so they could
be against whatever he was for and it
couldn't be much more obvious than this
one so I would say that Trump has been
right about police and needing more of
them and don't defund them he was right
about the Border he was right about
China he was probably right about
Iran um he was right about
energy he was right about a lot and it's
getting more and more obvious so here
are some of my predictions just to
remind you I said the Republicans would
be
hunted um and there's a good chance
you'll be dead in a year and we can see
the crime wave and people getting killed
in cities especially that journalist
recently makes us think that uh it's an
unsafe place to live but how about that
Republicans would be hunted well uh the
federal
government is so concerned about
domestic violence that the FBI has
created a whole category of
extremists and they're called Donald
Trump's Army of magga
followers that's right the FBI has
decided that magga people should be um
followed closely for being domestic
terrorists uh and it's the FBI that will
do it and
my God uh this so this is a Newsweek
report something
leaked um so Biden is trying to defeat
domestic terrorism by targeting one
political group for political
terrorism do you think that you would
make magga people less likely to bomb
the capital by targeting
them
unfairly I'm pretty sure this would
radicalize more people than it would C
hatch so this seems like the worst idea
in the
world um but here we are so I don't
think we can any longer argue that
Republicans are not being
haunted would you all give me that that
that uh prediction which is pretty out
of left field was right this is clearly
right the the January 6 people were
obviously hunted a number of public
figures were cancelled for reasons that
sounded like other reasons but really
weren't they were it was about taking
the the better voices off the
field yeah it's it's as it's as bad as I
said it would
be and when I when I wrote that tweet I
have to say I just felt it you know the
I felt it like the moment before I wrote
it I just had this feeling it's like oh
the way they're the way that they
campaigned and talked about trump it
became very obvious that that rhetoric
would translate into action that looked
like this because they were saying it
they were saying it clearly from the
start that magga people were terrorists
in versions of that so you could see it
coming from a mile away and here it
is um see the FTC is going after Amazon
so apparently they had this special
algor called project
Nessie that worked by manipulating
Rivals weak pricing
algorithms so
somehow um what I think this means
is either their their own in-house
products were competing against the
professional products or maybe there was
one they had a greater profit margin
from so they would push that instead of
the other one but apparently uh this was
bad behavior According to some people
the FTC um and it led competitors to
raise their prices and charge customers
more so that was pretty
sketchy so we'll see if that was all
true because it's subject of a court
case so maybe it wasn't true you never
know so here's the funniest thing I
realized yesterday that do you remember
Adam
Schiff um wanted to be the next senator
from California so he was in the he was
in the house of Representatives but
Gavin newon said he was going to promote
a black woman to that job and then he
did and I just realized that Adam Schiff
was passed over for
promotion because he's a white
man just just hold that in your head
Adam Chef
specifically him specifically he was
passed over for a promotion because he's
a white
man how much do you how much do you
think he loves his team today oh yeah
Democrats something tells me the next
time he goes into the shift he's not
going to
lie I think he got a little closer to
being a republican is what I
think
cuz that can only happen to you so many
times before you start saying hey I
don't think the intentions here are are
really in the right
Direction yep Adam Schiff was passed
over for promotion because he's a white
male I me I just like saying that and it
makes me wonder where's the ADL
shouldn't the ADL be defending him he is
a Democrat they should be defending him
against this
discrimination but they're nowhere to be
seen oh but they are advertising again
on the xplatform I think they should
have been kicked off the xplatform but
if they're going to give Elan must money
I guess that's
okay Jim Jordan representative Jim
Jordan who's been floated as the
potential uh next speaker of the house
he tweeted this yesterday does anyone
does anyone feel safe in Democrat run
cities Democrat run
cities and I thought to myself what an
interesting choice of words Democrat run
cities CU if I go into the City and I
see a Democrat com toward me I'm going
to
run so Democrat run run it's a Democrat
run
City yeah that's what it's called a
Democrat run
City well speaking of a lack of free
speech apparently V ramaswami and Chris
Christie had agreed with each other that
they would go on a show I think on Fox
and
debate and the the uh Republican party
shot that down and told them they
couldn't do
that to which I
say what when did the Republican Party
become the No Free Speech
party like I get I get the Republicans
have to act like Republicans and you
want to be on the same team and all
but
seriously seriously you can't let two
people running for president debate each
other on your TV show
and and when I first heard that VI was
going to have a conversation with Chris
Christie the first thing I thought was
that might be the first time you saw a
debate where something like a debate
happened the the way the debates are
done for the TV audience you know with
seven or eight people up there and then
the questions maybe not the questions
you you would have asked not really
useful I mean it's a good event it's a
show event but it's not really useful
for voters but to oneon-one
where they could spend some time really
digging into the other person's point of
view I would watch that all day but
apparently the Republicans won't let it
happen so there's your free speech group
right
there
um Carl Ro did this big editorial in the
Wall Street Journal uh trying to mock
Matt gates for throwing the throwing the
Congress into chaos by outing the
speaker
and I read the whole thing and my only
take on it was there's something wrong
with Carl
Rove I don't know if I could go further
but I read his I read his thing about
Matt Gates and it was his choice of
words his choice of
words very
clearly U said that his opinion was
and it was just some weird
political thing that he he prefers some
I guess he preferred
McCarthy
but I kind of thought he was a straight
shooter until I saw his editorial and it
was just it looked like a Democrat wrote
it really and you can you know what I
mean right it it was tons of
insults that weren't necessary to the
point you know it's like a little too
hyperbolic so I don't trust anybody but
I definitely don't trust anybody who's
mad at Matt Gates for kicking the
speaker out you you immediately lose my
trust when you have a strong opinion
that that should not have gone on
because we could all see that the
current situation wasn't getting us any
results and we could all keep
it politics aside if your speaker makes
a a public promise to your own team and
then doesn't keep it it doesn't matter
if he was effective in all the other
stuff that is grounds for removal
period because it doesn't look like he
ever meant to keep
that maybe he did yeah maybe events
overtook him so he was either incapable
of delivering it or never meant
to yeah so I'm very in favor of Matt
Gates this week the worst attack on him
I saw was one other member of Congress
saying that prior to his marriage and
this is stated directly prior to his
marriage uh he once bragged about taking
Ed meds and slamming uh Power drinks so
he could go all
night oh oh well I didn't know he that
he
was aggressively flagrantly
heterosexual so that changes everything
he was super
heterosexual before he was married so
before
marriage he had a lot of
sex I don't know I just I can't be okay
with all that heterosexual single person
sex I mean that's just too far I should
note that there are no criminal charges
for anything there are no criminal
charges for anything he did but they're
going to make fun of him for figuring
out which chemicals allow him to have
sex all
night while you're sitting home eating
popcorn with your
spouse
so I'm a pro Matt gates for for all this
stuff all
right I don't know if this story is true
but there's a story of the Ukrainian
president zeny's wife when they were in
New York uh she allegedly spent more
than a million dollars on cardier
jewelry at the same time zinsky was
asking for money and weapons from the
United Nations now doesn't that one feel
a little too on the
nose do you think that really
happened it's definitely possible I
wouldn't say it's impossible definitely
possible but it's so on the nose
right could could there be a story that
you know not since amelda Marcos In Her
Shoes has there been a story that was
like just right on the point like that
right on the point I don't know I'm a
little skeptical of it I'm I'm going to
say wait wait two days on this one if in
two days the story doesn't change it
might be
real but this one just has that feel
about it it has the feel of fake news
just all over it whether it is or not I
don't know could be true I give it two
days um gallb says that the appetite for
a third party is pretty high um 75% of
self-identified independents support a
third party support creation of a third
party which is weird because we have
third parties
already
um 58% of Republicans endorse the idea
and 46% of
Democrats that kind of suggests that RFK
Jr has a has a
path I I always thought he was way more
of a Dark Horse than he's been given
credit for
if he goes third party which I think
he's doing primarily so he has freedom
of speech so they won't ban him on
social media uh he actually could
win yeah let let me say it clearly I'm
not predicting a win not predicting it
but if he wins I want you to know I said
yeah that's there's a path he he just
has a path there are enough disgruntled
people that if the only thing that
happened is you saw lots of trump
arguing with Biden
whoever's not Trump arguing with Biden
is going to look better every
day just every day because both Biden
and Trump will just be dumped on with
you know just everything and whoever is
just going along and making a little
news on the
side I don't like big Pharma do you no I
don't oh well we agree on that yeah I
feel like he's just going to stay under
the radar maybe slip in at the end it's
possible
uh not probable but it's
possible and and here's another story
that I can't
believe I think it's true but is it true
that Trump's attorney uh
accidentally check the box that says
they don't want a jury trial and that
he's not going to get a jury trial
because the lawyer checked the wrong
box that was fake news
right but is it a jury trial
so so the first question is is it a jury
trial right so I think it's no jury
trial but is the claim that the lawyer
made a mistake the reason that
parts that so some of this is fake right
some of the story all right well I'm
just going to say we don't know but that
judge uh engeron he's a little bit too
happy he seems to enjoy his job too much
which makes you feel uncomfortable
because he doesn't seem like he's as
serious as you'd want him to be I mean
sure he's a nice guy I mean when I when
I see him I think oh I could hang out
with him he'd be fun but he's not really
sending a judge Vibe that's going to
hurt
him all right and that ladies and
gentlemen is my prepared
comments is there any any uh big story I
missed
today what am I
forgetting
uh so judge jine said that no
conservative would go for RFK
Jr really well he definitely has
policies that no conservative could
approve
but I don't know I don't know there may
be just bad feelings yeah all it would
take is Trump to do something that he's
not done yet that was some new
outrage and RFK Jr would only be going
up against Biden so I think he's got a
shot has ideas that aren't insane I
don't know about
that uh RFK Jr thought a border wall was
racist until a month ago
what's the problem do you have a problem
that there's somebody who changes his
mind based on researching it himself and
getting better facts how is that a
problem uh he was in a he was in a bar
band all right
fix his voice please I might be able to
do that it's possible I
could all
right literally ask followers what they
want him to
fix all right uh ladies and gentlemen do
you think uh Ukraine's in trouble
because we won't be able to fund them
what what do you think is going to
happen in Ukraine are they going to get
their
funding I think they'll probably be fine
um but one way or another it's going to
be negotiated I think something close to
the current border K CLA Schwab what
about
him I feel like you want to talk about
CLA Schwab every single
day he hasn't done anything new has
he
um could a judge or jury be better I
don't
know they'll use more advanced weapons
if they have
them Dave Rubin says it's true well but
did Dave Rubin see the form I mean we're
looking at the same stuff aren't
we
all
right secret
followers oh I I guess there's a the
clips of me with Russell Brand just
dropped the first clip might be more
than one clip but if you want to see me
uh talking to Russell Brand I guess that
just just
dropped forgot the part what
uh should be on YouTube probably Rumble
as
well the run out of ammo
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